November 10, 2025 • 13 mins
Johnny Mac recaps Nikki Glaser's recent appearance on Seth Meyers and her upcoming SNL monologue. John Mulaney offers tips for first-time LA visitors and reflects on his time in New York. Stephen Colbert discusses his journey from the Colbert Report to The Late Show and the impending end of his show. Adam Sandler is praised for his dramatic role in Uncut Gems and critiques his past films. The Moontower Comedy Festival lineup is announced, including notable comedians like Albert Brooks and Mark Maron. Additionally, the New York Comedy Festival features shows by John Starks, Mark Normand, and Joe List. Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Berins make charitable efforts through food banks, and Stephen Colbert reflects on the end of his late-night show career.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Nicki Glazer was your SNL host. I'll
do a recap of that tomorrow. Prior to her appearance,
she went on Late Night with Seth Myers. I guess
she figured passing out flyers that the car wash would
reach just about as many people. But you know you
(00:25):
might get wet, so you might as well go on
Seth Meyers show. She told Seth and the sixteen people
that watch that show for the monologue, it's like rehearse, rehearse, rehearse,
running around town at different clubs. That's the one I
can have control over, Seth Meyers said. And they're so
happy that you're coming and you have your own monologue.
It's the hardest thing to write for a host. So
when you have somebody who's like, I know my voice
and I'm really good at it, and here I am,
I'm gonna crush, they're thrilled. Glazier's Jad told her, don't
(00:49):
read the cue cards. Nicki said, he doesn't understand. You
kind of have to. John Mulaney tell Travel in Leisure.
I've always admired that Chicago's happiest at five on a Friday.
It's like we did enough days that we can build
up to this moment to do it again. He was
kind of half out promoting years his partnership with the
non alcoholic beer. Mulaney says, it feels like what you
have at a cooler in Michigan in July that isn't fancy,
(01:10):
but he's a great pilsner. I'm so happy there's something
in the non alcoholic world that you can drink a
bunch of crumble up and throw all right, I get it.
I play trivia on Wednesday nights at the brewery, and
I honestly there are times that like I'm just drinking
socially that I wish they had another option. If they
sold me a non alcoholic beer, they could actually sell
me water with food coloring in it, and I would
(01:30):
order it and pay the seven bucks. I just want
to hang and sometimes I don't want to come home
and feel like U. I remember, Johnny Mack does tell
you two beers, not eight, But Johnny Mack also tells
you two beers plus a cheese steak and some fries.
That's when you come home feeling like ugh. John m'laney's
advice to first time visitors of Los Angeles don't give up.
It can't possibly make sense at first. I would get
(01:52):
a map of Los Angeles, not to get lost, but
just to have a sense of it, or else you
will be constantly wondering if you're leaving LA. When you're not.
He explains, LA is left landmarks and more neighborhoods. There's
never going to be a Times Square or Washington Square Park.
Just drive around listening to the Chinatown soundtrack. There's a
reason it's a quintessential LA movie. It really sinks up.
As for New York City, John says I can't imagine
(02:13):
visiting New York and not liking it. His tip is
to take the subway. He says, I'm not saying it's nice,
but you don't want to sit in Manhattan traffic. That
is true, He explained. New York is like spending a
week with a great, fascinating, exciting person and then he
moved in with that person and they punch you in
the stomach right away. Suddenly the steps that you jumped
up so effortlessly or higher, and it feels unfriendlier, but
then it clicks. Landey says, I did all of New York,
(02:34):
from the grimiest to the Ritzias, Like I went to
a black tie party in the Rainbow Room for the
SNL fortieth, and I bought drugs on the worst riverside
spots in Williamsburg, up and down. It's great for all
of it. At the New Yorker Conference, David Remnick asked
John Stewart about being on Joe Rogan. You did Joe
Rogan a couple of times. John said, yes, Well, what
do you think of that experience? John Stewart Duett said,
I enjoyed being on Rogan. I think he's an interesting interviewer.
(02:56):
You know, there are right wing weaponized commentators who's sole
purposes to pnipulate things to the benefit of the Steve
Bannon project or Project twenty twenty five. Rogan's not that guy.
Rogan is a curious comic who fell in this thing
that got enormous. His opinions all over the political spectrum,
but his tendencies that for the people on the left
do not fit the esthetic. Stewart said, go on the
show like it's not acceptable. Just say well I don't
(03:17):
like what he does, then do it better. Beat them
at their own game. We have to be relentless, tenacious.
It's not enough to complain to the guy as a
platform and say, don't platform that guy. There's no one
in the world right now that isn't platformed. Stephen Colbert
talked about his old Colbert Rapport character and said, we
like the idea that the character didn't know he was
on a comedy channel because he took himself very seriously
and he really was changing the course of human history
(03:38):
with the tractor beam of his own justice. As for
the Late Show coming to an end, GQ asked if
Colbert has wrapped his head around that. He said, not
at all. No. I mean I've accepted it. I've wrapped
my head around that, But in terms of how I
feel about it, no, I don't know. Because the shows
go on, I don't necessarily know how I'll feel about
it until I'm not doing it anymore, because it's all consuming. Listen,
every show's got ended some time, and I've been on
(03:59):
a bunch of shows that have been I did sometimes
by our lights and sometimes by the decisions of other people,
and that's the nature of show business. You can't worry
about that. You got to be a big boy about that,
but I think we were the first number one show
to ever get canceled. I called a friend of mine
who's also in Late Night Interesting. I was trying to
work out my feelings and I said, you got any
thoughts on this? And he goes, no, no one's ever
gonna have thoughts on this. No one's ever been the
number one show for nine years in a row and
(04:19):
then been canceled. When I signed my twenty twelve contract
for The Cobert Report, I went to my assistant and
I said, Hey, what's our last show of twenty fourteen.
She goes, it looks like December eighteenth, and I said, oh,
good to know. And I started writing that last show myself. Basically,
the entirety of that last show was something that I
thought of really in the next month, and then I
thought I was going to leave that and go I've
been an actor of my entire career. I had a
whole show that I'd planned out what I was going
(04:41):
to do, and it was actually going to involve that
old character in a new job, and he'd be like
a central figure, but he wouldn't be the only character
in it, and I might still do it someday but
that was my plan, and then taking over for Letterman
fell in my lap. But I had a plan how
to end it. I knew the songs we were going
to sing, I knew the jokes we were going to do.
I knew how I wanted to shot everything. This is
not my choice, so I don't know how we're gonna land
this plane. But people have asked me, well, what do
(05:02):
you think you're gonna do next? And the cleanest and
really fullest answer I can give you not that I
don't have thoughts, but the honest answer is I just
want to land this plane gracefully in a way that
I find satisfying given how much effort we've put into
it for the last ten years. I appreciate the people
at far Out Magazine because they understand the great actor
Adam Sandler. Far Out wrote when I first watched Uncut Gems,
(05:24):
which as listeners to this program know, is the best
Adam Sandler movie by a mile, I left the theater
with more questions than answers. Why did I feel so dizzy?
What's the strongest sedative I can buy? And was that
really Adam Sandler? I just watched As I watched the
mirrored shot of Sandler's character lying on the floor with
a gunshot wound in his head. I waited, for baited
breath for either David Spade or Kevin James to bust
in that shot and pull the rug from under the
(05:45):
whole thing. To say, the whole film was one elaborate ruse,
a satsire of high browse cinema that would swiftly be
undercut by an ending that involved those three members of
the Sandler alumni. But that never happened, and the film concluded.
I left the cinema like many others that year, both
baffled and encouraged by this return to drama. For Sandler,
this was a renaissance that eclipsed McConaughey's from just under
(06:06):
a decade earlier, simply for how awful were the run
of films that Sandler released before Uncut Gems, My Boy,
Grown Ups, Blended, Jack and Jill all came out in
the chapter before Uncut Jims. While the latter film Jack
and Jill represented the true bottom of the barrel. Amen, brother,
you've heard me talk about that. I forbade my children
from renting it and told them I would rather light
(06:27):
the five dollars on fire. Far Out said to us
it hinted towards a state of career complacency from Sandler
that the today's of his own scrappy ideas being developed
on a shoestring budget were long gone and instead replaced
by half baked comitta crap served on a silver platter
of big studio distribution. Sandler was fully aware of that. However,
he knew the movies he was creating in the Spell
of Mediocrity were there to serve one purpose, and one
(06:49):
purpose only finance. And this is the point of the
article Sandler's take on what the worst Sandler movie is.
To Sandler admit that it's Jack and Jill know. He
thinks it's the remake of The Longest, which on paper
should have worked, but the Burt Reynolds version is much better.
Sandler said, they were doing it and it was cool,
and I was like, if they're doing it as well,
be in it. Compared to the first one, not even close.
(07:09):
It ended up doing all right, paid for some things
in our house. It made no sense on NBC proper today.
It's the paper, you know, the office spin off of sorts.
I got through like six or seven of them. Fight
your way through the first one or two. Then it
gets better. It's at no point funny, but it's nice
company while you just the TV's on and you're playing
on your phone. It's that kind of show. I don't
(07:31):
know if I've laughed at all. But the characters an't
nice enough. The main two were nice enough. I don't
know about the ensemble. Part of the ensemble is Alex Edelman,
who told Variety why he was attracted to it. He said,
seemed really fun. He used the word fun a lot
because it's an important value in entertainment. It seems silly,
but it's a good metric for whether a show was
all right. He was asked to audition for the series,
then labeled untitled Greg Daniels and Michael Corman Project. He
(07:54):
received dummy sides of fake scenes that never showed up
in the show. It explains the paper in the Office
or totally different shows. His take is our shows in
a little more parks and wreck than The Office, in
my opinion. Angela from the Original Office spoke with grub
Street and she said her call time for the nine
years film in the Office was five thirty am. Was
barely daylight when I'd arrive for hair and makeup, some
(08:15):
of the casts would bring their own breakfast into the
hair and makeup room and eat while they were quote
in the works, which means holding your food in your
lap and trying to sneak in a bite of eggs
while you're getting your hair curled or your eye makeup done.
Angela said, I would inevitably spill something on myself, so
my first real meal would be hot snack. To this day,
I still dream about hot snack every day. At exactly
ten thirty, our assistant director would announce hot snack. You
(08:37):
never knew what was gonna be, but it's always a feast. Ramen, dumplings, tacos,
hot dogs, chili, fried rice, shrimp, skewers, you name it.
I once had the nickname snacks Kinzie. She says, I'm
a big believer in packing snacks. Today in my back
back I have a mixed berry granola bar, fruit wraps,
a cheese and salami snack tray from the airport's store,
and a ziplock of peanuts. The Moontower Comedy Festival has
(09:00):
announced their lineup now. The festival is not till April
eighth through the nineteenth. Pretty impressive lineup and it's at
least right there with this New York Comedy Festival, if
not bigger names. They announced the first seventy five performers.
A press release tells us there'll be stand up sets,
unhinged podcast recordings, musical comedy, and sketch badness. There's a
(09:21):
club series you purchase the Badge, and then there's four
days of shows with more than one hundred comics within
walking distance downtown that you can see. So far announced.
Do you want me to read seventy five names? I
don't think I want to. Let's see names that you
would recognize. How about I'll do that? An evening with
Albert Brooks, Beth Stelling, Brad Williams, Cristella Alonso, Doug Benson,
(09:43):
Emo Wakeem, Ivan Decker, The Sclar Brothers, Jay Jorden, Jeremiah Watkins,
John Goblet, con Boy, his name's all over the place.
John Rudnitsky, he was on SNL for a year and
I saw him a new faces. He was great up there.
Kathy Griffin, Leslie Jones, Mark Marin, Matt Bronger, Nish Kumar,
viwerd Oz and others. Okay, so you get a Bestie
(10:06):
Badge promo that offers twenty five dollars off each badge
and a group of two or more already too complicated.
The big show tonight at the New York Comedy Festival
is Stand Up for Heroes. John Stewart, Mike Berbiglia, Jim
mcgaffigan and Moore. It's the nineteenth edition of Stand Up
for Heroes. It raises awareness and funding for the Bob
woodra Foundation, whose mission is to ensure that our nation's veterans,
(10:28):
service members, and their families have stable and successful futures
and interesting back to back at the Grammarcy Theater, Mark
Norman is there with Matt Ruby's Stick or Treat. Comedians
dress up and impersonate other comics that are alive, performing
stand up sets completely in character. That's fun. I remember
twenty years ago Jim Brewer hosting Comedy Covers nights and
(10:49):
people getting up and doing Mitch Hebburg. Now. What's interesting
about the scheduling to me is Mark Norman is one
half of Tuesdays with Stories, and right after Mark Norman show,
also at the Grammacy Theater, Joe Lift the other host
of Tuesdays with Stories his show is Joe List and Friends.
Probably a safe bet that Mark Norman hangs around, considering
he's already in the building. Let me see who else
(11:11):
is playing there. My goal before I wrap up this
show thirty years from now is that somebody will create
a comedy festival website where it's easy to see who's
playing on a particular day. Someone will eventually crack that code.
Scientists are working on it as I speak and scroll
this minuscule little toolbar to get to the Monday shows.
(11:31):
Tod Glass again, is he playing every night? I don't know, John,
you're the one hosting the show. Now, this is an
interesting one in here, Nickstown. It's Paul's Best Podcast with
Nick's legend John Starks at the Gotham Comedy Club at
seven o'clock. Okay, at Union Hall at seven thirty, the
interestingly titled Peton Dix Horny, A night of comedy, smut
and crushes, Interesting, and a bunch of smaller shows throughout
(11:52):
the day. Jimmy Kimmel and crew decided to help people
out who were suffering with the snap benefit cuts. Kim
Will and the show have opened a food donation center
in la with the title The Jimmy Kimmel Live, Big
Beautiful Food Bank. The press release, Kimmel Show said, cutting
snap benefits creates uncertainty for American children, seniors, and families.
To support our community members in need, We're starting a
(12:13):
donation center in our Hollywood back lot. Donations taken two
Kimmel's Big Beautiful Food Bank go to two different area nonprofits,
the LA Regional Food Bank and Saint Joseph Center. They're
asking for low sodium soups, chili stews, low sugar cereals, tuna, chicken, salmon,
protein bars, pasta, and rice. They could also use personal
care items like wipes, diapers, deodorant, soap, oral hygiene and
(12:35):
feminine products. Food Bank's open from nine to five sixty
nine oh one Hawthorn Avenue, LA. A nice job by
Charlie Brenz. He showed up at a holiday food drive
event in Milwaukee that was supporting Feeding America. Eastern Wisconsin.
Students from Brookfield Central and Wisconsin Hills Middle School filled
hundreds of boxes inside a warehouse, joined by Charlie Morenz.
(12:58):
He's known for his standup comedy that makes fun of
things in Wisconsin. Charlie said, reach a little deeper into
the pocket. You know, sometimes like the paper falls at
the bottom, actually the change falls at the bottom, So
don't go straight to the bottom. Float up a little
bit to like where the big bills are. Baron said,
it's Thanksgiving. It feels good to give. They've done studies
on it feels good to give. I'm not sure who
did the studies. I'm not sure they're real studies, but
(13:18):
we're gonna go with it feels good to give. Some
just give. And that's your comedy news for today. I'll
see you tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Nicki Glazer was your SNL host. I'll
do a recap of that tomorrow. Prior to her appearance,
she went on Late Night with Seth Myers. I guess
she figured passing out flyers that the car wash would
reach just about as many people. But you know you
(00:25):
might get wet, so you might as well go on
Seth Meyers show. She told Seth and the sixteen people
that watch that show for the monologue, it's like rehearse, rehearse, rehearse,
running around town at different clubs. That's the one I
can have control over, Seth Meyers said. And they're so
happy that you're coming and you have your own monologue.
It's the hardest thing to write for a host. So
when you have somebody who's like, I know my voice
and I'm really good at it, and here I am,
I'm gonna crush, they're thrilled. Glazier's Jad told her, don't
(00:49):
read the cue cards. Nicki said, he doesn't understand. You
kind of have to. John Mulaney tell Travel in Leisure.
I've always admired that Chicago's happiest at five on a Friday.
It's like we did enough days that we can build
up to this moment to do it again. He was
kind of half out promoting years his partnership with the
non alcoholic beer. Mulaney says, it feels like what you
have at a cooler in Michigan in July that isn't fancy,
(01:10):
but he's a great pilsner. I'm so happy there's something
in the non alcoholic world that you can drink a
bunch of crumble up and throw all right, I get it.
I play trivia on Wednesday nights at the brewery, and
I honestly there are times that like I'm just drinking
socially that I wish they had another option. If they
sold me a non alcoholic beer, they could actually sell
me water with food coloring in it, and I would
(01:30):
order it and pay the seven bucks. I just want
to hang and sometimes I don't want to come home
and feel like U. I remember, Johnny Mack does tell
you two beers, not eight, But Johnny Mack also tells
you two beers plus a cheese steak and some fries.
That's when you come home feeling like ugh. John m'laney's
advice to first time visitors of Los Angeles don't give up.
It can't possibly make sense at first. I would get
(01:52):
a map of Los Angeles, not to get lost, but
just to have a sense of it, or else you
will be constantly wondering if you're leaving LA. When you're not.
He explains, LA is left landmarks and more neighborhoods. There's
never going to be a Times Square or Washington Square Park.
Just drive around listening to the Chinatown soundtrack. There's a
reason it's a quintessential LA movie. It really sinks up.
As for New York City, John says I can't imagine
(02:13):
visiting New York and not liking it. His tip is
to take the subway. He says, I'm not saying it's nice,
but you don't want to sit in Manhattan traffic. That
is true, He explained. New York is like spending a
week with a great, fascinating, exciting person and then he
moved in with that person and they punch you in
the stomach right away. Suddenly the steps that you jumped
up so effortlessly or higher, and it feels unfriendlier, but
then it clicks. Landey says, I did all of New York,
(02:34):
from the grimiest to the Ritzias, Like I went to
a black tie party in the Rainbow Room for the
SNL fortieth, and I bought drugs on the worst riverside
spots in Williamsburg, up and down. It's great for all
of it. At the New Yorker Conference, David Remnick asked
John Stewart about being on Joe Rogan. You did Joe
Rogan a couple of times. John said, yes, Well, what
do you think of that experience? John Stewart Duett said,
I enjoyed being on Rogan. I think he's an interesting interviewer.
(02:56):
You know, there are right wing weaponized commentators who's sole
purposes to pnipulate things to the benefit of the Steve
Bannon project or Project twenty twenty five. Rogan's not that guy.
Rogan is a curious comic who fell in this thing
that got enormous. His opinions all over the political spectrum,
but his tendencies that for the people on the left
do not fit the esthetic. Stewart said, go on the
show like it's not acceptable. Just say well I don't
(03:17):
like what he does, then do it better. Beat them
at their own game. We have to be relentless, tenacious.
It's not enough to complain to the guy as a
platform and say, don't platform that guy. There's no one
in the world right now that isn't platformed. Stephen Colbert
talked about his old Colbert Rapport character and said, we
like the idea that the character didn't know he was
on a comedy channel because he took himself very seriously
and he really was changing the course of human history
(03:38):
with the tractor beam of his own justice. As for
the Late Show coming to an end, GQ asked if
Colbert has wrapped his head around that. He said, not
at all. No. I mean I've accepted it. I've wrapped
my head around that, But in terms of how I
feel about it, no, I don't know. Because the shows
go on, I don't necessarily know how I'll feel about
it until I'm not doing it anymore, because it's all consuming. Listen,
every show's got ended some time, and I've been on
(03:59):
a bunch of shows that have been I did sometimes
by our lights and sometimes by the decisions of other people,
and that's the nature of show business. You can't worry
about that. You got to be a big boy about that,
but I think we were the first number one show
to ever get canceled. I called a friend of mine
who's also in Late Night Interesting. I was trying to
work out my feelings and I said, you got any
thoughts on this? And he goes, no, no one's ever
gonna have thoughts on this. No one's ever been the
number one show for nine years in a row and
(04:19):
then been canceled. When I signed my twenty twelve contract
for The Cobert Report, I went to my assistant and
I said, Hey, what's our last show of twenty fourteen.
She goes, it looks like December eighteenth, and I said, oh,
good to know. And I started writing that last show myself. Basically,
the entirety of that last show was something that I
thought of really in the next month, and then I
thought I was going to leave that and go I've
been an actor of my entire career. I had a
whole show that I'd planned out what I was going
(04:41):
to do, and it was actually going to involve that
old character in a new job, and he'd be like
a central figure, but he wouldn't be the only character
in it, and I might still do it someday but
that was my plan, and then taking over for Letterman
fell in my lap. But I had a plan how
to end it. I knew the songs we were going
to sing, I knew the jokes we were going to do.
I knew how I wanted to shot everything. This is
not my choice, so I don't know how we're gonna land
this plane. But people have asked me, well, what do
(05:02):
you think you're gonna do next? And the cleanest and
really fullest answer I can give you not that I
don't have thoughts, but the honest answer is I just
want to land this plane gracefully in a way that
I find satisfying given how much effort we've put into
it for the last ten years. I appreciate the people
at far Out Magazine because they understand the great actor
Adam Sandler. Far Out wrote when I first watched Uncut Gems,
(05:24):
which as listeners to this program know, is the best
Adam Sandler movie by a mile, I left the theater
with more questions than answers. Why did I feel so dizzy?
What's the strongest sedative I can buy? And was that
really Adam Sandler? I just watched As I watched the
mirrored shot of Sandler's character lying on the floor with
a gunshot wound in his head. I waited, for baited
breath for either David Spade or Kevin James to bust
in that shot and pull the rug from under the
(05:45):
whole thing. To say, the whole film was one elaborate ruse,
a satsire of high browse cinema that would swiftly be
undercut by an ending that involved those three members of
the Sandler alumni. But that never happened, and the film concluded.
I left the cinema like many others that year, both
baffled and encouraged by this return to drama. For Sandler,
this was a renaissance that eclipsed McConaughey's from just under
(06:06):
a decade earlier, simply for how awful were the run
of films that Sandler released before Uncut Gems, My Boy,
Grown Ups, Blended, Jack and Jill all came out in
the chapter before Uncut Jims. While the latter film Jack
and Jill represented the true bottom of the barrel. Amen, brother,
you've heard me talk about that. I forbade my children
from renting it and told them I would rather light
(06:27):
the five dollars on fire. Far Out said to us
it hinted towards a state of career complacency from Sandler
that the today's of his own scrappy ideas being developed
on a shoestring budget were long gone and instead replaced
by half baked comitta crap served on a silver platter
of big studio distribution. Sandler was fully aware of that. However,
he knew the movies he was creating in the Spell
of Mediocrity were there to serve one purpose, and one
(06:49):
purpose only finance. And this is the point of the
article Sandler's take on what the worst Sandler movie is.
To Sandler admit that it's Jack and Jill know. He
thinks it's the remake of The Longest, which on paper
should have worked, but the Burt Reynolds version is much better.
Sandler said, they were doing it and it was cool,
and I was like, if they're doing it as well,
be in it. Compared to the first one, not even close.
(07:09):
It ended up doing all right, paid for some things
in our house. It made no sense on NBC proper today.
It's the paper, you know, the office spin off of sorts.
I got through like six or seven of them. Fight
your way through the first one or two. Then it
gets better. It's at no point funny, but it's nice
company while you just the TV's on and you're playing
on your phone. It's that kind of show. I don't
(07:31):
know if I've laughed at all. But the characters an't
nice enough. The main two were nice enough. I don't
know about the ensemble. Part of the ensemble is Alex Edelman,
who told Variety why he was attracted to it. He said,
seemed really fun. He used the word fun a lot
because it's an important value in entertainment. It seems silly,
but it's a good metric for whether a show was
all right. He was asked to audition for the series,
then labeled untitled Greg Daniels and Michael Corman Project. He
(07:54):
received dummy sides of fake scenes that never showed up
in the show. It explains the paper in the Office
or totally different shows. His take is our shows in
a little more parks and wreck than The Office, in
my opinion. Angela from the Original Office spoke with grub
Street and she said her call time for the nine
years film in the Office was five thirty am. Was
barely daylight when I'd arrive for hair and makeup, some
(08:15):
of the casts would bring their own breakfast into the
hair and makeup room and eat while they were quote
in the works, which means holding your food in your
lap and trying to sneak in a bite of eggs
while you're getting your hair curled or your eye makeup done.
Angela said, I would inevitably spill something on myself, so
my first real meal would be hot snack. To this day,
I still dream about hot snack every day. At exactly
ten thirty, our assistant director would announce hot snack. You
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never knew what was gonna be, but it's always a feast. Ramen, dumplings, tacos,
hot dogs, chili, fried rice, shrimp, skewers, you name it.
I once had the nickname snacks Kinzie. She says, I'm
a big believer in packing snacks. Today in my back
back I have a mixed berry granola bar, fruit wraps,
a cheese and salami snack tray from the airport's store,
and a ziplock of peanuts. The Moontower Comedy Festival has
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announced their lineup now. The festival is not till April
eighth through the nineteenth. Pretty impressive lineup and it's at
least right there with this New York Comedy Festival, if
not bigger names. They announced the first seventy five performers.
A press release tells us there'll be stand up sets,
unhinged podcast recordings, musical comedy, and sketch badness. There's a
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club series you purchase the Badge, and then there's four
days of shows with more than one hundred comics within
walking distance downtown that you can see. So far announced.
Do you want me to read seventy five names? I
don't think I want to. Let's see names that you
would recognize. How about I'll do that? An evening with
Albert Brooks, Beth Stelling, Brad Williams, Cristella Alonso, Doug Benson,
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Emo Wakeem, Ivan Decker, The Sclar Brothers, Jay Jorden, Jeremiah Watkins,
John Goblet, con Boy, his name's all over the place.
John Rudnitsky, he was on SNL for a year and
I saw him a new faces. He was great up there.
Kathy Griffin, Leslie Jones, Mark Marin, Matt Bronger, Nish Kumar,
viwerd Oz and others. Okay, so you get a Bestie
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Badge promo that offers twenty five dollars off each badge
and a group of two or more already too complicated.
The big show tonight at the New York Comedy Festival
is Stand Up for Heroes. John Stewart, Mike Berbiglia, Jim
mcgaffigan and Moore. It's the nineteenth edition of Stand Up
for Heroes. It raises awareness and funding for the Bob
woodra Foundation, whose mission is to ensure that our nation's veterans,
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service members, and their families have stable and successful futures
and interesting back to back at the Grammarcy Theater, Mark
Norman is there with Matt Ruby's Stick or Treat. Comedians
dress up and impersonate other comics that are alive, performing
stand up sets completely in character. That's fun. I remember
twenty years ago Jim Brewer hosting Comedy Covers nights and
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people getting up and doing Mitch Hebburg. Now. What's interesting
about the scheduling to me is Mark Norman is one
half of Tuesdays with Stories, and right after Mark Norman show,
also at the Grammacy Theater, Joe Lift the other host
of Tuesdays with Stories his show is Joe List and Friends.
Probably a safe bet that Mark Norman hangs around, considering
he's already in the building. Let me see who else
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is playing there. My goal before I wrap up this
show thirty years from now is that somebody will create
a comedy festival website where it's easy to see who's
playing on a particular day. Someone will eventually crack that code.
Scientists are working on it as I speak and scroll
this minuscule little toolbar to get to the Monday shows.
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Tod Glass again, is he playing every night? I don't know, John,
you're the one hosting the show. Now, this is an
interesting one in here, Nickstown. It's Paul's Best Podcast with
Nick's legend John Starks at the Gotham Comedy Club at
seven o'clock. Okay, at Union Hall at seven thirty, the
interestingly titled Peton Dix Horny, A night of comedy, smut
and crushes, Interesting, and a bunch of smaller shows throughout
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the day. Jimmy Kimmel and crew decided to help people
out who were suffering with the snap benefit cuts. Kim
Will and the show have opened a food donation center
in la with the title The Jimmy Kimmel Live, Big
Beautiful Food Bank. The press release, Kimmel Show said, cutting
snap benefits creates uncertainty for American children, seniors, and families.
To support our community members in need, We're starting a
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donation center in our Hollywood back lot. Donations taken two
Kimmel's Big Beautiful Food Bank go to two different area nonprofits,
the LA Regional Food Bank and Saint Joseph Center. They're
asking for low sodium soups, chili stews, low sugar cereals, tuna, chicken, salmon,
protein bars, pasta, and rice. They could also use personal
care items like wipes, diapers, deodorant, soap, oral hygiene and
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feminine products. Food Bank's open from nine to five sixty
nine oh one Hawthorn Avenue, LA. A nice job by
Charlie Brenz. He showed up at a holiday food drive
event in Milwaukee that was supporting Feeding America. Eastern Wisconsin.
Students from Brookfield Central and Wisconsin Hills Middle School filled
hundreds of boxes inside a warehouse, joined by Charlie Morenz.
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He's known for his standup comedy that makes fun of
things in Wisconsin. Charlie said, reach a little deeper into
the pocket. You know, sometimes like the paper falls at
the bottom, actually the change falls at the bottom, So
don't go straight to the bottom. Float up a little
bit to like where the big bills are. Baron said,
it's Thanksgiving. It feels good to give. They've done studies
on it feels good to give. I'm not sure who
did the studies. I'm not sure they're real studies, but
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we're gonna go with it feels good to give. Some
just give. And that's your comedy news for today. I'll
see you tomorrow.
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