Johnny Mac criticizes Stephen Colbert's involvement in the new Star Trek series, 'Star Fleet Academy,' calling for Colbert's removal from television. Mac also discusses Bill Burr's cancellation of a live podcast taping, expressing concern for Burr's well-being. The episode covers Whitney Cummings' comments on comedians taking Saudi money, and criticism of her misplaced statements. Additionally, Johnny reports on Marc Maron's final podcast episode featuring Barack Obama and reactions to the government shutdown as depicted on SNL. The segment concludes with updates on various comedy industry events and gossip, including the return of 'The Inbetweeners' and auctioning of Joan Rivers' memorabilia.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily Come News. Can
I tell you President Trump is right? Stephen Colbert should
be taking off television and never allowed on television again.
Now what is making you say this, Johnny Mack? Is
this some sort of political stance? No, Stephen Colbert has
signed up with the new Star Trek series Starfleet Academy.
Have you seen this trailer? Complete garbage? Why do comedians
(00:31):
insist on destroying Star Trek? I'm looking at you, Tig Nataro,
I'm looking at you. Patton Oswald has dug the Vulcan
and now Stephen Colbert has sold out to Alex Kurtzman
and this horrible, horrible, horrible crap that they call Star Trek.
I love my Star Trek. You've heard me rant about this, Steven,
What are you doing to me? Why did you do this?
(00:53):
Stephen Colbert will voice Starfleet Academy's digital Dean of students.
According to the press release, He'll begin having daily announcements
to the students and alerting them of anything that needs
their immediate attention. President Trump, get this guy off TV now,
thank you for your attention. Let me just before I
tell you this next story. Let me do a quick
google of Bill Burr. We got to talk about Bill
(01:15):
Burr again. Okay, it is twelve fifty on Monday. I've
been looking for updates on this story. But before I
took the weekend off there I saw fans had said
that Bill Burr had canceled a plan to tape an
episode of the Monday Morning Podcast that would have been
taped in front of a live audience on Saturday. Burr
(01:35):
was supposed to tape a live episode of Monday Morning
Podcast at the Gordina Cinema in Los Angeles. I was
in Los Angeles this week and I could have gone.
So the venue had posted the cancelation for about forty
five minutes. Then, as I understand things, they took it down.
The speculation is that they caught some negative comments about
mister Burr, so they were just like, ah, let's have it.
(01:55):
But fans and the Bill Burr subreddit noticed it. One
fin asked why postpone the show? Bill? Another said, but
I thought Billy blood Money said it was bots. How
can they come to a show if they're bots? Now,
I just looked when I said, let me google Bill
Burr at twelve fifty on Monday, there was no episode
of the Monday Podcast. So first of all, I hope
(02:18):
Bill is okay and everything's okay with his family and
he's healthy. We can disagree on ideas. We don't wish
anything negative on anyone except Stephen Colbert, who should be
taken off television immediately for signing up with the Star
Trek people. So hopefully all is okay with the Burrs,
but just interesting that he canceled the taping and there's
no episode on Monday. Omid Jee Lily wrote a piece
for The Guardian. Omid writes, after fifteen years of turning
(02:40):
down offers to perform stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia
do to the country's human rights record, this time it
took the gig. Why there's a push for change in
Saudi and signs are discernible, yet many from the outside
world would rather comedians in the West state away skipping ahead.
I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was canceled
after nine to eleven simply for being Middle Eastern, as
Arab terrorists were behind the attack on the Twin Towers.
(03:01):
This is despite the fact that I am not Arab
nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist. In
certain circles there have been caused to boycott my UK
tword Manamastay, a show in which I try to explore
their nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.
After explaining the restrictions on performing in Saudi were exactly
the same as in Dubai, basically no jokes about the
royal family, no disrespecting Islam and no humiliation of the government,
(03:24):
a concern friend texted me, I think you're at risk
of invalidting You're right to make jokes about anything important.
My show in Riod had a lot of material about
the Saudis themselves. The perception that we as comedians were
all being paid to be silent was as laughable as
the idea that Dave Chappelle, a hugely successful comic with
an estimated worth of seventy million dollars, was doing his
show and Riod for the money skimming ahead julily writes
(03:45):
the comedy guide Shortal erroneously reported that the pay was
between three seventy five and one point six million for
those doing solo shows. One thing East and West can
agree on is you don't talk about your fee publicly
because it is likely to cause consternation among the other performers,
most of whom rereceived a significantly smaller amount than the
American podcaster was purportedly set to receive. I assume that
means Tim Dillon, which is where the three seventy five
(04:07):
number comes from. Again, skipping ahead here, Julily writes, if
I had an inkling that changes similar to those emerging
in Saudi Arabia right now where are happening inside Iran?
And a comedy festival were taking place in Tehran and
pigs were flying. He adds, I can assure you I
would be on the first pig over long piece here
in the Guardian. Let me just wrap up here where
he rates. And the gigs were great, packed houses, young crowds, popcorn, standing, ovations,
(04:28):
even heckling. About eighty percent of the audiences were locals,
many of whom had never seen a live comedy gig.
Whitney Cummings on her podcast said, by the way, any
comic that has ever worked with live nation, which is
all of them, has taken Saudi money. But keep up
with your little rants when you get a second Google
Saudi Arabia Live Nations, so you can be informed on
the fact that anyone who has worked with Live Nation,
(04:49):
every stand up comic has taken Saudi money or bought
a ticket through Live Nation, went to a Live Nation event.
All the actors who were represented by William Morris Agency,
which is all of them if you want to send
them notes too. All right, let's google Saudi Arabia Live Nation.
I had this. I'm doing this real in real time.
I haven't done this before. The first thing that comes
(05:09):
up is from Music Business Worldwide, which as Saudi Wealth
Fund exits Live Nation steak. The second story, also from
twenty twenty four, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund sells Live
Nation steak, and scrolling down from April twenty twenty, Forbes
reported Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund buys five hundred million
dollars steak. Her point may be valid between twenty twenty
(05:32):
and twenty twenty four, but it doesn't seem to be
presently valid or a valid prior to it. And I'll
remind you there was a pandemic in twenty twenty, so
I don't know how many comedy tickets you bought in
twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You may not be
as guilty as Whitney Cummings says. She said, though I'm
trying to help you sound less racist. She then discussed
napple babies. People whose dads have points on huge television
(05:52):
shows are like, I have a backup plan, a huge
trust fund. You're a sellout for making money, And then
I have a major, major problem with this next thing.
She said. The same people who were like, if they
found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly
throw a party. That is not cool, Whitney, that is
not true that you're a jerk hole for saying that.
(06:13):
I really don't think any comedian would be like, oh cool,
a Fox journalist was murdered. That's just terrible. Also, the
same people who are like, if they found out a
Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.
How dare you? John Marcos Serresi spoke to Current Affairs
dot org and said, the numbers that I've heard floid
at the top were like one point six million, and
(06:33):
I would imagine easily that if not more. I don't
think George Carlin would have ever performed at the REDD
Comedy Festival, but he was also never asked. These comedians
used to not enter the sphere of influence, and now
because of podcasting, the fact that comedians were kind of
on the front end of that and social media has
allowed our voices to expand their new questions. What are we?
What is our role in America, let alone globally. It's complicated.
(06:54):
I performed in places whose governments I did in align with. However,
I do think you can make distinctions, and the distinction
should be made at the gouvern is funding this a
government that you know has this history of human rights abuses.
It's easy for me to stand hi because I wasn't
invited to Riod Trump didn't ask to go on my podcast,
neither did Kamalaw. But I think we need to re
establish what our expectation is. If a comedian like Theo
(07:14):
Vaughn is going to go on his podcast and cried
tears over Palestinian suffering and then two weeks later have
JD vance on and joke about how he's going to
go hang out at his poolhouse. I hope that we
cultivate an audience that goes, Hey, THEO, what the F
that's bs, I don't buy this. I hope that the
stinkedestri Odd Comedy Festival is great enough that some comedians
are forced to confront where they stand and what the
(07:34):
responsibility is to themselves and to their audiences. Hopefully we
can move on from this subject. I didn't want to
talk about it today, but there were all those stories
I just told you about what should have been the
lead is. Mark Maron wrapped up his podcast his final
guest on Monday, former President Obama. Maren was asked why
Obama for the final guest. Mark Maren said, the first
(07:55):
time was an important turning point, certainly for me personally.
For sitting president to come to my little garage at
my house was a big deal, and I think it
was a big game changing episode for podcasting in general
in terms of the attention it brought to the medium.
I was happy to see him again and talk about
the current administration and the world we're living in now,
but also, you know, to honor my show. The Times
was curious any conditions for the interview. No, neither time.
(08:17):
There were no conditions, no vetting of questions, and no
request for a pre edit. Mark anythink it went last time?
There was a morticaid, a secret service in many staff involved,
and he was still disarming and grounded and present. This
time it was more casual, just me and him in
his office, so I know it would be even better,
and that turned out to be true. He was very
aware that he was our last guest and the last
episode meant something to me, and culturally, I guess at
(08:39):
some point in September and October, this podcast or reached
a point where I just can't avoid the politics of
it all. So jump in the pool here. Obama said,
if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence. Let
me start right there. Please vote whoever you vote for.
Whoever you vote for, that's up to you. But please vote.
Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence.
If you're a Hispanic man and you're frustrated inflation, and
(09:00):
so he decided, you know what, all that rhetoric about
Trump doesn't matter. I'm just mad about inflation. And now
your sons are being stopped in LA because they look
at Latino and maybe without the ability to call anybody
might just be locked up. Well, that's a test. It'd
be great if we weren't tested. This way, but you
know what, we probably need to be shaken out of
our complacency. Maren used the line he used in a
special We've annoyed the average American into fascism. Obama responded,
(09:22):
you just can't be a scold all the time. You
can't constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you've got some
blind spots too. And life's messy. I listened to about
a third of it this morning. I was founded very compelling.
I just had to get to work and didn't have
time and to listen to more of it. But that's it.
That's a rap. And at the end of the program,
he thanked a few people and said that his Thursday
(09:43):
show was actually the goodbye episode. But that's a wrap
on Mark Maren for now. Anyway. I have not yet
seen Saturday Night Live, but the Department of Homeland Security
did any cold open. Amy Poehler reunited with Tina Fay
to play Attorney General Pam Bom and Secretary of Homeland
Security Christy Noam. Tina Faye's character said, I'm here to
(10:05):
tell you this Democrat government shutdown needs to end now.
By the way, you know what, I don't care I'm
telling you this because this blew my mind. So I
was out in California on the weekend and there was
a National forest and I wanted to check it out,
and I wanted to know, like, do I have to
pay it and get in the forest. This is for real.
You can look at this right now. This is on
the US Forest Service web page. This is the phrasing. Again,
(10:27):
what if your politics your politics, But here's the phrasing
on a government website, the radical left Democrats shut down
the government. This government website will be updated periodically during
the funding lapse from mission critical functions. President Trump has
made it clear he wants to keep the government open
and support those who feed fuel and clothed the American people.
I mean, just at a government website has the phrase
the radical left Democrats. And now maybe you think the
(10:49):
Democrats are the radical left. Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
It's not why we're here. My point is, I can't
believe we're using language like that. I digress. In a
statement shared with Edgyentertainment Weekly, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said,
SNL's absolutely right, the Democrats shutdown does need to end gossip.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Conna Spoons in the Street, Gossip Connor, Bobby Bobby Gossip Conna,
where the meeting with Johnny mag It's only the Trees.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
On Gossip Corner. Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skeens and girlfriend Libby
Dunn were at LSU attending the football game. They were
seen hanging out with famous comedian Theo Vaughn Levy. Dunn
posted a picture of the three of them on her
Instagram story. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla
YouTube channel, It's Jessica Curson's No Material crowd Work special.
(11:50):
Jessica has been in the news lately. I don't know
if you heard about this. She was recently at the
ri Odd Comedy Festival. Jessica said, I hope that this
festival could help LGBTQ plus people in Saudi Arabia feel
seen and valued. I'm grateful that I was able to
do precisely that, to my knowledge, on the first openly
gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia.
Received messages from attendees sharing how much event to them.
(12:11):
To participate in the gayffirming event. At the same time,
I deeply regret participating under the auspices of the Saudi government.
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with two sources that the
Human Rights Coalition has received the entirety of Jessica's fee. Anyway,
if you enjoy Jessica's comedy, the No Material CrowdWork Special
is out on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. Today,
(12:34):
Jimmy Kimmel won the September ratings, the first time he's
actually won the time slot. Apparently, according to Late Night
or if I read the story correctly, Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel
is teaming up with Jimmy Fallon. It's that TV show
on Brand with Jimmy Fallon. It apparently is some sort
of football season marketing challenge involving Captain Morgan. On on Brand,
we see Fallon and Kimmel introducing contestants to the episode's task,
(12:59):
developing an ad campaign built around bringing crews together on
and off the field. Are you familiar with the British
teen comedies sitcom The in Betweeners? A fantastic show that, oh,
it's probably fifteen twenty years ago. I found this thing
on cable whatever. It's fantastic. There was an American remake
that was okay, but the British version is fantastic. The
show's creators have a deal to bring it back. Is
(13:21):
unclear how it will come back or where are you
going to be able to watch it? Is it a reboot?
Is it a retake? It is believed it revolves around
the original characters, who've got to be at least in
their forties now, I would guess. The in Betweeners originally
was broadcast on E four in the UK between twenty
eight and twenty nineteen. It followed the misadventures of suburban
(13:42):
teenager Will McKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland
and Jay Cartwright as they navigated school life, friendship, mail bonding,
lad culture and failed sexual encounters. Two hit movies followed
in twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. I Welcome That Back,
I Will Watch That and The Jone Rivers Estate has
auctioned off over three hundred pieces of memorabilia once owned
(14:04):
by Joan Rivers. They included some of her wigs, X
rays of her dogs, Spikes, Thorax, and some royal family
related keepsakes. Melissa Rivers, Jones's daughter said the timing felt right.
I'm finally emotionally ready to let go Joan passed away.
In twenty fourteen, two X rays of Spikes Thorax went
for five hundred and seventy six dollars. They came with
(14:27):
a manila envelope from Spike's VET. A copy of the
May twenty six, nineteen eighty six issue of People with
John Rivers and Spike on the cover sold for nineteen
hundred and twenty dollars. Two of the wigs sold for
fifty seven sixty and twenty eight eighty two Voodoo dollars
went for for forty eight And that is your comedy
use for today, right listen? It was fun at the end.
(14:48):
I know I got a little feisty in the middle.
And Stephen Colbert must be removed from television immediately. President Trump,
what are you doing? If you can create piece in
the Middle East? Certainly you could save Star Trek? Can
you do that? Can we make Star Trek right again?
You want to impress me? Do that? See tomorrow
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily Come News. Can
I tell you President Trump is right? Stephen Colbert should
be taking off television and never allowed on television again.
Now what is making you say this, Johnny Mack? Is
this some sort of political stance? No, Stephen Colbert has
signed up with the new Star Trek series Starfleet Academy.
Have you seen this trailer? Complete garbage? Why do comedians
(00:31):
insist on destroying Star Trek? I'm looking at you, Tig Nataro,
I'm looking at you. Patton Oswald has dug the Vulcan
and now Stephen Colbert has sold out to Alex Kurtzman
and this horrible, horrible, horrible crap that they call Star Trek.
I love my Star Trek. You've heard me rant about this, Steven,
What are you doing to me? Why did you do this?
(00:53):
Stephen Colbert will voice Starfleet Academy's digital Dean of students.
According to the press release, He'll begin having daily announcements
to the students and alerting them of anything that needs
their immediate attention. President Trump, get this guy off TV now,
thank you for your attention. Let me just before I
tell you this next story. Let me do a quick
google of Bill Burr. We got to talk about Bill
(01:15):
Burr again. Okay, it is twelve fifty on Monday. I've
been looking for updates on this story. But before I
took the weekend off there I saw fans had said
that Bill Burr had canceled a plan to tape an
episode of the Monday Morning Podcast that would have been
taped in front of a live audience on Saturday. Burr
(01:35):
was supposed to tape a live episode of Monday Morning
Podcast at the Gordina Cinema in Los Angeles. I was
in Los Angeles this week and I could have gone.
So the venue had posted the cancelation for about forty
five minutes. Then, as I understand things, they took it down.
The speculation is that they caught some negative comments about
mister Burr, so they were just like, ah, let's have it.
(01:55):
But fans and the Bill Burr subreddit noticed it. One
fin asked why postpone the show? Bill? Another said, but
I thought Billy blood Money said it was bots. How
can they come to a show if they're bots? Now,
I just looked when I said, let me google Bill
Burr at twelve fifty on Monday, there was no episode
of the Monday Podcast. So first of all, I hope
(02:18):
Bill is okay and everything's okay with his family and
he's healthy. We can disagree on ideas. We don't wish
anything negative on anyone except Stephen Colbert, who should be
taken off television immediately for signing up with the Star
Trek people. So hopefully all is okay with the Burrs,
but just interesting that he canceled the taping and there's
no episode on Monday. Omid Jee Lily wrote a piece
for The Guardian. Omid writes, after fifteen years of turning
(02:40):
down offers to perform stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia
do to the country's human rights record, this time it
took the gig. Why there's a push for change in
Saudi and signs are discernible, yet many from the outside
world would rather comedians in the West state away skipping ahead.
I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was canceled
after nine to eleven simply for being Middle Eastern, as
Arab terrorists were behind the attack on the Twin Towers.
(03:01):
This is despite the fact that I am not Arab
nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist. In
certain circles there have been caused to boycott my UK
tword Manamastay, a show in which I try to explore
their nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.
After explaining the restrictions on performing in Saudi were exactly
the same as in Dubai, basically no jokes about the
royal family, no disrespecting Islam and no humiliation of the government,
(03:24):
a concern friend texted me, I think you're at risk
of invalidting You're right to make jokes about anything important.
My show in Riod had a lot of material about
the Saudis themselves. The perception that we as comedians were
all being paid to be silent was as laughable as
the idea that Dave Chappelle, a hugely successful comic with
an estimated worth of seventy million dollars, was doing his
show and Riod for the money skimming ahead julily writes
(03:45):
the comedy guide Shortal erroneously reported that the pay was
between three seventy five and one point six million for
those doing solo shows. One thing East and West can
agree on is you don't talk about your fee publicly
because it is likely to cause consternation among the other performers,
most of whom rereceived a significantly smaller amount than the
American podcaster was purportedly set to receive. I assume that
means Tim Dillon, which is where the three seventy five
(04:07):
number comes from. Again, skipping ahead here, Julily writes, if
I had an inkling that changes similar to those emerging
in Saudi Arabia right now where are happening inside Iran?
And a comedy festival were taking place in Tehran and
pigs were flying. He adds, I can assure you I
would be on the first pig over long piece here
in the Guardian. Let me just wrap up here where
he rates. And the gigs were great, packed houses, young crowds, popcorn, standing, ovations,
(04:28):
even heckling. About eighty percent of the audiences were locals,
many of whom had never seen a live comedy gig.
Whitney Cummings on her podcast said, by the way, any
comic that has ever worked with live nation, which is
all of them, has taken Saudi money. But keep up
with your little rants when you get a second Google
Saudi Arabia Live Nations, so you can be informed on
the fact that anyone who has worked with Live Nation,
(04:49):
every stand up comic has taken Saudi money or bought
a ticket through Live Nation, went to a Live Nation event.
All the actors who were represented by William Morris Agency,
which is all of them if you want to send
them notes too. All right, let's google Saudi Arabia Live Nation.
I had this. I'm doing this real in real time.
I haven't done this before. The first thing that comes
(05:09):
up is from Music Business Worldwide, which as Saudi Wealth
Fund exits Live Nation steak. The second story, also from
twenty twenty four, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund sells Live
Nation steak, and scrolling down from April twenty twenty, Forbes
reported Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund buys five hundred million
dollars steak. Her point may be valid between twenty twenty
(05:32):
and twenty twenty four, but it doesn't seem to be
presently valid or a valid prior to it. And I'll
remind you there was a pandemic in twenty twenty, so
I don't know how many comedy tickets you bought in
twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You may not be
as guilty as Whitney Cummings says. She said, though I'm
trying to help you sound less racist. She then discussed
napple babies. People whose dads have points on huge television
(05:52):
shows are like, I have a backup plan, a huge
trust fund. You're a sellout for making money, And then
I have a major, major problem with this next thing.
She said. The same people who were like, if they
found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly
throw a party. That is not cool, Whitney, that is
not true that you're a jerk hole for saying that.
(06:13):
I really don't think any comedian would be like, oh cool,
a Fox journalist was murdered. That's just terrible. Also, the
same people who are like, if they found out a
Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.
How dare you? John Marcos Serresi spoke to Current Affairs
dot org and said, the numbers that I've heard floid
at the top were like one point six million, and
(06:33):
I would imagine easily that if not more. I don't
think George Carlin would have ever performed at the REDD
Comedy Festival, but he was also never asked. These comedians
used to not enter the sphere of influence, and now
because of podcasting, the fact that comedians were kind of
on the front end of that and social media has
allowed our voices to expand their new questions. What are we?
What is our role in America, let alone globally. It's complicated.
(06:54):
I performed in places whose governments I did in align with. However,
I do think you can make distinctions, and the distinction
should be made at the gouvern is funding this a
government that you know has this history of human rights abuses.
It's easy for me to stand hi because I wasn't
invited to Riod Trump didn't ask to go on my podcast,
neither did Kamalaw. But I think we need to re
establish what our expectation is. If a comedian like Theo
(07:14):
Vaughn is going to go on his podcast and cried
tears over Palestinian suffering and then two weeks later have
JD vance on and joke about how he's going to
go hang out at his poolhouse. I hope that we
cultivate an audience that goes, Hey, THEO, what the F
that's bs, I don't buy this. I hope that the
stinkedestri Odd Comedy Festival is great enough that some comedians
are forced to confront where they stand and what the
(07:34):
responsibility is to themselves and to their audiences. Hopefully we
can move on from this subject. I didn't want to
talk about it today, but there were all those stories
I just told you about what should have been the
lead is. Mark Maron wrapped up his podcast his final
guest on Monday, former President Obama. Maren was asked why
Obama for the final guest. Mark Maren said, the first
(07:55):
time was an important turning point, certainly for me personally.
For sitting president to come to my little garage at
my house was a big deal, and I think it
was a big game changing episode for podcasting in general
in terms of the attention it brought to the medium.
I was happy to see him again and talk about
the current administration and the world we're living in now,
but also, you know, to honor my show. The Times
was curious any conditions for the interview. No, neither time.
(08:17):
There were no conditions, no vetting of questions, and no
request for a pre edit. Mark anythink it went last time?
There was a morticaid, a secret service in many staff involved,
and he was still disarming and grounded and present. This
time it was more casual, just me and him in
his office, so I know it would be even better,
and that turned out to be true. He was very
aware that he was our last guest and the last
episode meant something to me, and culturally, I guess at
(08:39):
some point in September and October, this podcast or reached
a point where I just can't avoid the politics of
it all. So jump in the pool here. Obama said,
if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence. Let
me start right there. Please vote whoever you vote for.
Whoever you vote for, that's up to you. But please vote.
Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that's a consequence.
If you're a Hispanic man and you're frustrated inflation, and
(09:00):
so he decided, you know what, all that rhetoric about
Trump doesn't matter. I'm just mad about inflation. And now
your sons are being stopped in LA because they look
at Latino and maybe without the ability to call anybody
might just be locked up. Well, that's a test. It'd
be great if we weren't tested. This way, but you
know what, we probably need to be shaken out of
our complacency. Maren used the line he used in a
special We've annoyed the average American into fascism. Obama responded,
(09:22):
you just can't be a scold all the time. You
can't constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you've got some
blind spots too. And life's messy. I listened to about
a third of it this morning. I was founded very compelling.
I just had to get to work and didn't have
time and to listen to more of it. But that's it.
That's a rap. And at the end of the program,
he thanked a few people and said that his Thursday
(09:43):
show was actually the goodbye episode. But that's a wrap
on Mark Maren for now. Anyway. I have not yet
seen Saturday Night Live, but the Department of Homeland Security
did any cold open. Amy Poehler reunited with Tina Fay
to play Attorney General Pam Bom and Secretary of Homeland
Security Christy Noam. Tina Faye's character said, I'm here to
(10:05):
tell you this Democrat government shutdown needs to end now.
By the way, you know what, I don't care I'm
telling you this because this blew my mind. So I
was out in California on the weekend and there was
a National forest and I wanted to check it out,
and I wanted to know, like, do I have to
pay it and get in the forest. This is for real.
You can look at this right now. This is on
the US Forest Service web page. This is the phrasing. Again,
(10:27):
what if your politics your politics, But here's the phrasing
on a government website, the radical left Democrats shut down
the government. This government website will be updated periodically during
the funding lapse from mission critical functions. President Trump has
made it clear he wants to keep the government open
and support those who feed fuel and clothed the American people.
I mean, just at a government website has the phrase
the radical left Democrats. And now maybe you think the
(10:49):
Democrats are the radical left. Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
It's not why we're here. My point is, I can't
believe we're using language like that. I digress. In a
statement shared with Edgyentertainment Weekly, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said,
SNL's absolutely right, the Democrats shutdown does need to end gossip.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Conna Spoons in the Street, Gossip Connor, Bobby Bobby Gossip Conna,
where the meeting with Johnny mag It's only the Trees.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
On Gossip Corner. Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skeens and girlfriend Libby
Dunn were at LSU attending the football game. They were
seen hanging out with famous comedian Theo Vaughn Levy. Dunn
posted a picture of the three of them on her
Instagram story. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla
YouTube channel, It's Jessica Curson's No Material crowd Work special.
(11:50):
Jessica has been in the news lately. I don't know
if you heard about this. She was recently at the
ri Odd Comedy Festival. Jessica said, I hope that this
festival could help LGBTQ plus people in Saudi Arabia feel
seen and valued. I'm grateful that I was able to
do precisely that, to my knowledge, on the first openly
gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia.
Received messages from attendees sharing how much event to them.
(12:11):
To participate in the gayffirming event. At the same time,
I deeply regret participating under the auspices of the Saudi government.
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with two sources that the
Human Rights Coalition has received the entirety of Jessica's fee. Anyway,
if you enjoy Jessica's comedy, the No Material CrowdWork Special
is out on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. Today,
(12:34):
Jimmy Kimmel won the September ratings, the first time he's
actually won the time slot. Apparently, according to Late Night
or if I read the story correctly, Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel
is teaming up with Jimmy Fallon. It's that TV show
on Brand with Jimmy Fallon. It apparently is some sort
of football season marketing challenge involving Captain Morgan. On on Brand,
we see Fallon and Kimmel introducing contestants to the episode's task,
(12:59):
developing an ad campaign built around bringing crews together on
and off the field. Are you familiar with the British
teen comedies sitcom The in Betweeners? A fantastic show that, oh,
it's probably fifteen twenty years ago. I found this thing
on cable whatever. It's fantastic. There was an American remake
that was okay, but the British version is fantastic. The
show's creators have a deal to bring it back. Is
(13:21):
unclear how it will come back or where are you
going to be able to watch it? Is it a reboot?
Is it a retake? It is believed it revolves around
the original characters, who've got to be at least in
their forties now, I would guess. The in Betweeners originally
was broadcast on E four in the UK between twenty
eight and twenty nineteen. It followed the misadventures of suburban
(13:42):
teenager Will McKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland
and Jay Cartwright as they navigated school life, friendship, mail bonding,
lad culture and failed sexual encounters. Two hit movies followed
in twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. I Welcome That Back,
I Will Watch That and The Jone Rivers Estate has
auctioned off over three hundred pieces of memorabilia once owned
(14:04):
by Joan Rivers. They included some of her wigs, X
rays of her dogs, Spikes, Thorax, and some royal family
related keepsakes. Melissa Rivers, Jones's daughter said the timing felt right.
I'm finally emotionally ready to let go Joan passed away.
In twenty fourteen, two X rays of Spikes Thorax went
for five hundred and seventy six dollars. They came with
(14:27):
a manila envelope from Spike's VET. A copy of the
May twenty six, nineteen eighty six issue of People with
John Rivers and Spike on the cover sold for nineteen
hundred and twenty dollars. Two of the wigs sold for
fifty seven sixty and twenty eight eighty two Voodoo dollars
went for for forty eight And that is your comedy
use for today, right listen? It was fun at the end.
(14:48):
I know I got a little feisty in the middle.
And Stephen Colbert must be removed from television immediately. President Trump,
what are you doing? If you can create piece in
the Middle East? Certainly you could save Star Trek? Can
you do that? Can we make Star Trek right again?
You want to impress me? Do that? See tomorrow
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