November 2, 2025 • 10 mins
Despite many of his fans and peers making Marge Simpson Face at him, Bill Burr's reflects on his experience at the Riyad Comedy Festival and his critics, Marc Maron's insights into his time in morning radio, and updates on Netflix's podcast additions. The segment also touches on comedian Stavros Halkias's potential career moves and Jay Leno's decision to avoid buying Ferraris due to dealership practices.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey there, Johnny mac Take two Today's Daily Comedy News.
So the first story is Bill Burr talking about the
Reodd Comedy Festival on his podcast. And I got like
two minutes into it and I realized my half ass
Burr I wasn't enunciating enough of the way Burr does
when he's doing his angry slow burn. Again, if you're
new to the program, I'm not an impressionist. No really, John,
we can't tell my half assed impressions are just I'm
(00:31):
trying to capture someone's cadence, not the voice, but just
the cadence. Bill said, I'm still thinking about that BS
from a few weeks ago. It's a bunch of crap.
That was one of the hardest things I ever to
keep my mouth shut not trash every one of those.
And then there's asterisks there. I'm guessing he said a
holes would be my guess. You may recall people like
Mark Maron, David Cross, Johnny Mack and others criticized Bill Burr.
Burr said, I'm looking forward to running a few people. Hey,
(00:53):
what's the latest you cared about? It's weird all of
a sudden, you don't care anymore. What happened? You're waving
your arms up and down. What happened? What should cause
this month? To help sell whatever project you're on. Let's
talk some Bretta Canty and a circus that I don't
go to because of the way they treat the animals.
And I have a special coming out. I'm gonna find
the right thing to get sanctimonious about it, to mock
all of them. Yeah, everything must have cleared up, because
there's no more chatter. Must have fixed everything. Oh, it's
(01:13):
gonna be passive, it's gonna be aggressive. So if you
ever get sick of Hollywood bs and people trying to
cancel your stand up back. That was the funniest thing too.
Trumper's acting like they give a hoot about human rights.
Half assed. Burs A little off today because the voice
is thin, because I already did an episode. It's the weekend,
going back to back here voice wears out. Mark Maron
was on the Bullseye podcast. I haven't listened to the
(01:35):
whole thing yet, but I did pull the transcript and
I pulled some clips here. Now, what I found interesting
was Mark Maron talked about his time doing morning radio
now earlier in my career in the nineties, I produced
morning radio in New York City. The hours are horrible.
Let's listen to Mark Maron talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I always like doing morning radio. If it's a good crew,
it's great and it's fun. And I knew that going
into America that there are certain morning crews that I
would do, you know, every year, where I mean, it
was hard to get up, but if they were in
it and they were kind of like not trying to
undermine me, getting into the groove with a good morning
(02:16):
crew is a blast because and what I learned from
doing it is that there's so much writing on it.
You don't you don't want someone to come in there
and kind of like crap out your show and comedians
buying large. You don't have a great reputation for doing
morning radio because they've been up all night, or they're exhausted,
or they don't care. So a lot of these hosts
(02:36):
are a little kind of tenuous about how it's going
to go. But I can talk, so if they're jiving
on something and we get going, I thought it was
completely engaging and a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I know, for me, that's when I've always been heavy.
That's when I really put on weight because you're so miserable.
You're just up and you're fueling yourself on crap. And
he used to work with this guy Bobby. And Bobby
would look over at me at seven thirty in the
morning and go cheeseburger, and I would say yes, because
I'd been up since three thirty three am was the
absolute minimum time I could set the alarm, jump in
(03:12):
a shower, get dressed, hop in my car at a
press pass so I could actually park on the street.
In New York City, it would take me thirteen minutes
to get from Queens to basically Times Square, the city
that never sleeps. It does sleep between four and five am.
I mean thirteen minutes from Queens to Times Square. You
can't do that except at four am. Park in front
(03:34):
of the building. Then I had to go find newspapers.
No internet in the nineteen nineties, kids and anyway, So oh,
you know, you'd be always tired, always miserable, and Bobby
would go cheeseburger and I would say yes and get
a cheeseburger and fries. Now you're like, that's not a
healthy breakfast, John, And I'm not saying it is a
healthy breakfast, because breakfast was the bagels that the rest
of the crew would get around eight thirty eight forty
five no, no, no, no. Cheeseburger and fries was fourth meal,
(03:57):
and that's how you put twenty pounds on.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You do kind to adjust to the schedule, but never
really adjust to it. And I really had to blast
my brain, you know, with sugar and caffeine, and that
went on every day. I don't know what kind of
damage I did to myself, but it was really just
M and m is and Dunkin Donuts coffee.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So I mentioned I would have to find the newspapers. Now,
ostensibly we had the newspapers delivered, but if they didn't come,
I had to go out on the streets of Times Square,
New York City in the nineties, which wasn't quite a
fun zone that it is now, and find a newspaper
because otherwise how would we know what was happening. I mean,
we had wire services in all, but if you wanted
to really have the vibe for New York City, you
needed a newspaper. And then sometime between four and five am,
(04:35):
I'd have to quickly read the newspaper, cut out articles
and leave them for my hosts so he would know
what's going on. All this happening before five am. So
it was just just a miserable time. Here's Maren.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We were getting up much earlier than like just average
morning crews because we had to, you know, kind of
correalate the news. So we were getting up at two
thirty track, you know, getting there by three sometimes, and
you know, and I was overwhelmed because I'm not a wonk,
I'm a little out of the loop. I learned a
lot there. I literally showed up at Air America with
(05:09):
a Democracy for Dummies book because I felt like I
was at a disadvantage. And that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I did want to talk about this one. This came
up during the week, but you know, the week gets
busy with the news and there's a little more breathing
room on the weekends. Deadline wrote about Netflix adding some podcasts.
They're writing a bunch of shows from the Ringer. The
ringer is Bill Simmons Company. They're adding the Bill Simmons Podcast,
which is owned by Spotify, so this is a deal
with Spotify, and Deadline noticed that the announcement doesn't include
(05:38):
a single comedy title, given Netflix's long established affinity for comedy,
Deadline Rights. Kill Tony, the self proclaimed number one live
podcast in the world, lended on Netflix earlier this year
as part of a three special deal. The first special,
Kill Tony, Killer Be Killed outperformed nearly every other standup
special released on Netflix in the first half of twenty
twenty five. According to data pulled from Netflix's recent and
(06:00):
What We Watched report, eight point eight million views in
the first three months of the platform. Deadline compared the
eight point eight to a number like Jimmy Kimmel, who
averages one point eight five million viewers, or Jimmy Fallon
one point two to three. Deadline Rights data we pulled
on the last ten episodes of YouTube's Killed Tony shows
two point seventy four million viewers an episode. Deadline points
(06:22):
out that is also far greater viewership than achieved by
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. Interesting, now, staying with me
for this next part Deadline Rights. Historically, Spotify has offered
no transparency to the public on viewership, but we were
able to look at the Ringers podcast reach because the
company just recently changed its polse, starting to display plays
on episodes, reaching an audience of fifty thousand or more
(06:45):
for their website. Spotify's play metric reflects the total number
of times people have actively listened to or watched an episode.
Deadline Rights, it's unclear what actively means. The writer says
that bring this up because half of the first late
of podcasts coming to Netflix not have a publicly available
Spotify play clount, indicating they reach fewer than fifty thousand
plays on each of their ten most recent episodes. They
(07:08):
also point out that the deal does not include a
good hang with Amy Poehler, despite that routinely cracking a
million plays on Spotify and well over five hundred thousand
views on YouTube. Interesting. We'll see what happens there. Vulture
is a good one. Caught up with Stavros Halkias, who's
everywhere lately. Vulture said, when someone starts getting heat, their
team starts thinking of all the other directions they can
take them. Yep, that does happen. Stavros, Do you have
(07:30):
any interest in some of the following question Number one
major brand partnership? Stavro said, it depends. I won't do gambling.
I want to do crypto. There are things that I
was advertising and I was like, why am I doing this?
I hate this stuff, but if it aligns, I'm open
to it. All right. How about a book? Stavra said,
before even started doing stand up, I actually really wanted
to be a writer. I like the personal essay a lot.
I'd want to do it if it's not a pure
cynical cash grab. I want to sit in a cabin
(07:52):
with a typewriter and a card. Again, I want to
do the whole thing, but it's not at the top
of my list. How about hosting SNL. Yeah, for sure,
without question. It's still for some how many people? Your
first entry to comedy. How about a Marvel movie? Nah,
I don't think so. How about an Award show. I've
actually had that thought, and the stress again my chest
means I should do it. The reason I'm scared of
it is because I'd be so good at it, and
I'm like, I don't want to learn a new thing.
I don't want to do all that work. But yes,
(08:13):
I'm definitely interested in doing that. And how about a
reboot of my big fat Greek wedding? He said, Hell
effing yeah, get me the rights. I'm ready to shoot
five right now. I got the idea in my head.
I don't even want to reboot. This would be the
next one in the franchise. Graham Norton has been named
Alumni Ambassador to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe thirty five years
(08:34):
ago he launched his career there. In nineteen ninety one
he performed Mother Teresa of Calcutta's Grand Farewell Tour at
the Pleasants Attic. He is now an Ambassador, joining the
French Society's Honorary President Phoebe waller Bridge to act as
an advocate for the Festival. Gabe Gibbs will have his
debut musical comedy special Pick a Lane on Veeps November twelfth.
(08:56):
That's six West nine East, filmed a Dynasty Typewriter in
La the special sies, Gibbs sing with two pianos, one
for comedy and the other four dramatic little boys. He
goes back and forth between the two and explores topics
like Fort's Wieners and the downfall of Jared Letto. There
is a trailer. I pulled the audio and it's too dirty.
(09:17):
It's about eating body parts in not the first two
or three body parts you thought of the other one
that's not gonna fly on this show. How do we
dust that off? Let's talk to Jay Leno. You know
that guy, you remember, Jay Leno? He used to host
the Tonight Show for like what was it like one
two twenty two years and the guy like thinks you
know something about late night. This guy, he's the worst.
He was talking about why his collection of two hundred
(09:38):
cars doesn't even include a Ferrari. I mean, come on, Jay,
what are you doing. I host a podcast in my
basement and I own two Ferraris. Jay Leno said, I
just never liked dealing with the dealers. I don't want
to give a guy twenty five grand in an envelope.
Now what does that mean? Apparently there are a lot
of hoops for customers to jump through. Some people say
Ferrari limits who can buy special models, and allegedly blacklist
(09:59):
people who speak publicly against the brand. So sounds like
no Ferrari for Jay Leno. But you can borrow one
of mine. And that is your comedy news for today.
My voice is giving out. I gotta wrap up. See
you tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey there, Johnny mac Take two Today's Daily Comedy News.
So the first story is Bill Burr talking about the
Reodd Comedy Festival on his podcast. And I got like
two minutes into it and I realized my half ass
Burr I wasn't enunciating enough of the way Burr does
when he's doing his angry slow burn. Again, if you're
new to the program, I'm not an impressionist. No really, John,
we can't tell my half assed impressions are just I'm
(00:31):
trying to capture someone's cadence, not the voice, but just
the cadence. Bill said, I'm still thinking about that BS
from a few weeks ago. It's a bunch of crap.
That was one of the hardest things I ever to
keep my mouth shut not trash every one of those.
And then there's asterisks there. I'm guessing he said a
holes would be my guess. You may recall people like
Mark Maron, David Cross, Johnny Mack and others criticized Bill Burr.
Burr said, I'm looking forward to running a few people. Hey,
(00:53):
what's the latest you cared about? It's weird all of
a sudden, you don't care anymore. What happened? You're waving
your arms up and down. What happened? What should cause
this month? To help sell whatever project you're on. Let's
talk some Bretta Canty and a circus that I don't
go to because of the way they treat the animals.
And I have a special coming out. I'm gonna find
the right thing to get sanctimonious about it, to mock
all of them. Yeah, everything must have cleared up, because
there's no more chatter. Must have fixed everything. Oh, it's
(01:13):
gonna be passive, it's gonna be aggressive. So if you
ever get sick of Hollywood bs and people trying to
cancel your stand up back. That was the funniest thing too.
Trumper's acting like they give a hoot about human rights.
Half assed. Burs A little off today because the voice
is thin, because I already did an episode. It's the weekend,
going back to back here voice wears out. Mark Maron
was on the Bullseye podcast. I haven't listened to the
(01:35):
whole thing yet, but I did pull the transcript and
I pulled some clips here. Now, what I found interesting
was Mark Maron talked about his time doing morning radio
now earlier in my career in the nineties, I produced
morning radio in New York City. The hours are horrible.
Let's listen to Mark Maron talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I always like doing morning radio. If it's a good crew,
it's great and it's fun. And I knew that going
into America that there are certain morning crews that I
would do, you know, every year, where I mean, it
was hard to get up, but if they were in
it and they were kind of like not trying to
undermine me, getting into the groove with a good morning
(02:16):
crew is a blast because and what I learned from
doing it is that there's so much writing on it.
You don't you don't want someone to come in there
and kind of like crap out your show and comedians
buying large. You don't have a great reputation for doing
morning radio because they've been up all night, or they're exhausted,
or they don't care. So a lot of these hosts
(02:36):
are a little kind of tenuous about how it's going
to go. But I can talk, so if they're jiving
on something and we get going, I thought it was
completely engaging and a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I know, for me, that's when I've always been heavy.
That's when I really put on weight because you're so miserable.
You're just up and you're fueling yourself on crap. And
he used to work with this guy Bobby. And Bobby
would look over at me at seven thirty in the
morning and go cheeseburger, and I would say yes, because
I'd been up since three thirty three am was the
absolute minimum time I could set the alarm, jump in
(03:12):
a shower, get dressed, hop in my car at a
press pass so I could actually park on the street.
In New York City, it would take me thirteen minutes
to get from Queens to basically Times Square, the city
that never sleeps. It does sleep between four and five am.
I mean thirteen minutes from Queens to Times Square. You
can't do that except at four am. Park in front
(03:34):
of the building. Then I had to go find newspapers.
No internet in the nineteen nineties, kids and anyway, So oh,
you know, you'd be always tired, always miserable, and Bobby
would go cheeseburger and I would say yes and get
a cheeseburger and fries. Now you're like, that's not a
healthy breakfast, John, And I'm not saying it is a
healthy breakfast, because breakfast was the bagels that the rest
of the crew would get around eight thirty eight forty
five no, no, no, no. Cheeseburger and fries was fourth meal,
(03:57):
and that's how you put twenty pounds on.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You do kind to adjust to the schedule, but never
really adjust to it. And I really had to blast
my brain, you know, with sugar and caffeine, and that
went on every day. I don't know what kind of
damage I did to myself, but it was really just
M and m is and Dunkin Donuts coffee.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So I mentioned I would have to find the newspapers. Now,
ostensibly we had the newspapers delivered, but if they didn't come,
I had to go out on the streets of Times Square,
New York City in the nineties, which wasn't quite a
fun zone that it is now, and find a newspaper
because otherwise how would we know what was happening. I mean,
we had wire services in all, but if you wanted
to really have the vibe for New York City, you
needed a newspaper. And then sometime between four and five am,
(04:35):
I'd have to quickly read the newspaper, cut out articles
and leave them for my hosts so he would know
what's going on. All this happening before five am. So
it was just just a miserable time. Here's Maren.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We were getting up much earlier than like just average
morning crews because we had to, you know, kind of
correalate the news. So we were getting up at two
thirty track, you know, getting there by three sometimes, and
you know, and I was overwhelmed because I'm not a wonk,
I'm a little out of the loop. I learned a
lot there. I literally showed up at Air America with
(05:09):
a Democracy for Dummies book because I felt like I
was at a disadvantage. And that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I did want to talk about this one. This came
up during the week, but you know, the week gets
busy with the news and there's a little more breathing
room on the weekends. Deadline wrote about Netflix adding some podcasts.
They're writing a bunch of shows from the Ringer. The
ringer is Bill Simmons Company. They're adding the Bill Simmons Podcast,
which is owned by Spotify, so this is a deal
with Spotify, and Deadline noticed that the announcement doesn't include
(05:38):
a single comedy title, given Netflix's long established affinity for comedy,
Deadline Rights. Kill Tony, the self proclaimed number one live
podcast in the world, lended on Netflix earlier this year
as part of a three special deal. The first special,
Kill Tony, Killer Be Killed outperformed nearly every other standup
special released on Netflix in the first half of twenty
twenty five. According to data pulled from Netflix's recent and
(06:00):
What We Watched report, eight point eight million views in
the first three months of the platform. Deadline compared the
eight point eight to a number like Jimmy Kimmel, who
averages one point eight five million viewers, or Jimmy Fallon
one point two to three. Deadline Rights data we pulled
on the last ten episodes of YouTube's Killed Tony shows
two point seventy four million viewers an episode. Deadline points
(06:22):
out that is also far greater viewership than achieved by
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. Interesting, now, staying with me
for this next part Deadline Rights. Historically, Spotify has offered
no transparency to the public on viewership, but we were
able to look at the Ringers podcast reach because the
company just recently changed its polse, starting to display plays
on episodes, reaching an audience of fifty thousand or more
(06:45):
for their website. Spotify's play metric reflects the total number
of times people have actively listened to or watched an episode.
Deadline Rights, it's unclear what actively means. The writer says
that bring this up because half of the first late
of podcasts coming to Netflix not have a publicly available
Spotify play clount, indicating they reach fewer than fifty thousand
plays on each of their ten most recent episodes. They
(07:08):
also point out that the deal does not include a
good hang with Amy Poehler, despite that routinely cracking a
million plays on Spotify and well over five hundred thousand
views on YouTube. Interesting. We'll see what happens there. Vulture
is a good one. Caught up with Stavros Halkias, who's
everywhere lately. Vulture said, when someone starts getting heat, their
team starts thinking of all the other directions they can
take them. Yep, that does happen. Stavros, Do you have
(07:30):
any interest in some of the following question Number one
major brand partnership? Stavro said, it depends. I won't do gambling.
I want to do crypto. There are things that I
was advertising and I was like, why am I doing this?
I hate this stuff, but if it aligns, I'm open
to it. All right. How about a book? Stavra said,
before even started doing stand up, I actually really wanted
to be a writer. I like the personal essay a lot.
I'd want to do it if it's not a pure
cynical cash grab. I want to sit in a cabin
(07:52):
with a typewriter and a card. Again, I want to
do the whole thing, but it's not at the top
of my list. How about hosting SNL. Yeah, for sure,
without question. It's still for some how many people? Your
first entry to comedy. How about a Marvel movie? Nah,
I don't think so. How about an Award show. I've
actually had that thought, and the stress again my chest
means I should do it. The reason I'm scared of
it is because I'd be so good at it, and
I'm like, I don't want to learn a new thing.
I don't want to do all that work. But yes,
(08:13):
I'm definitely interested in doing that. And how about a
reboot of my big fat Greek wedding? He said, Hell
effing yeah, get me the rights. I'm ready to shoot
five right now. I got the idea in my head.
I don't even want to reboot. This would be the
next one in the franchise. Graham Norton has been named
Alumni Ambassador to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe thirty five years
(08:34):
ago he launched his career there. In nineteen ninety one
he performed Mother Teresa of Calcutta's Grand Farewell Tour at
the Pleasants Attic. He is now an Ambassador, joining the
French Society's Honorary President Phoebe waller Bridge to act as
an advocate for the Festival. Gabe Gibbs will have his
debut musical comedy special Pick a Lane on Veeps November twelfth.
(08:56):
That's six West nine East, filmed a Dynasty Typewriter in
La the special sies, Gibbs sing with two pianos, one
for comedy and the other four dramatic little boys. He
goes back and forth between the two and explores topics
like Fort's Wieners and the downfall of Jared Letto. There
is a trailer. I pulled the audio and it's too dirty.
(09:17):
It's about eating body parts in not the first two
or three body parts you thought of the other one
that's not gonna fly on this show. How do we
dust that off? Let's talk to Jay Leno. You know
that guy, you remember, Jay Leno? He used to host
the Tonight Show for like what was it like one
two twenty two years and the guy like thinks you
know something about late night. This guy, he's the worst.
He was talking about why his collection of two hundred
(09:38):
cars doesn't even include a Ferrari. I mean, come on, Jay,
what are you doing. I host a podcast in my
basement and I own two Ferraris. Jay Leno said, I
just never liked dealing with the dealers. I don't want
to give a guy twenty five grand in an envelope.
Now what does that mean? Apparently there are a lot
of hoops for customers to jump through. Some people say
Ferrari limits who can buy special models, and allegedly blacklist
(09:59):
people who speak publicly against the brand. So sounds like
no Ferrari for Jay Leno. But you can borrow one
of mine. And that is your comedy news for today.
My voice is giving out. I gotta wrap up. See
you tomorrow.
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