Johnny Mac discusses David Cross's critical post on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, expressing disdain for comedians participating in the event due to the Saudi regime's human rights abuses. Featured festival comedians include Gabe Iglesias, and Jimmy Carr.
Additionally, Conan O'Brien shares heartfelt advice on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, while Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump's release of the Earhart files. The script also touches on Theo Von's jittery performance and Marc Maron's past conflict with Louis CK. Upcoming comedy specials by Sarah Sherman, Mike Kaplan, and Leslie Jones are highlighted, along with Pete Davidson's appearance on Shark Tank to promote his sock brand, Double Soul.
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Additionally, Conan O'Brien shares heartfelt advice on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, while Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump's release of the Earhart files. The script also touches on Theo Von's jittery performance and Marc Maron's past conflict with Louis CK. Upcoming comedy specials by Sarah Sherman, Mike Kaplan, and Leslie Jones are highlighted, along with Pete Davidson's appearance on Shark Tank to promote his sock brand, Double Soul.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. David Cross posted on social media and
on his website a rather long piece titled my thoughts
on the Riodd Comedy Festival. David Cross writes, I've been
asked for my opinion on the re Odd Comedy Festival,
(00:23):
and rather than answer the same question twenty three times,
I'll just put this out there. Oh and I should
preface this with the fact that I was not offered
the gig, but it should go without saying that there's
not enough money for me to help these depraved, awful
people put a fun face on their crimes against humanity.
Here goes, what do you think? I think? I am
disgusted and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing. The
people I admire with unarguable talent would condone this totalitarium
(00:46):
fiefdom for what a fourthouse, a boat more sneakers. We
can never again take seriously anything these comedians complain about,
unless it's complaining that we don't support enough torture and
mass executions of journalists and LGBQT piece activists here in
the States, or that we don't terrorize enough Americans by
flying plane and our buildings. I mean, that's it. You
have a funny bit about how you don't like Yankee
candles or airport lounges. Okay, great, but you're cool with
(01:06):
murder and or the publicating of women who were raped
and by having the audacity to be raped, we're guilty
of engaging in adultery. Got any bits on that. These
are some of my heroes and he put heroes in
all caps. David Cross continues, Now, look, some of you
folks don't stand for anything, so you don't have any
credibility to lose. But my god, Dave and Louis and
Bill and Jim clearly that you guys don't give a
(01:27):
shit about what the rest of us think. But how
can any of us take any of you seriously? Ever? Again?
All you're bitching about cancel culture and freedom of speech
and all that shit done, You don't get to talk
about it ever again. By now we've all seen the
contract you had to sign. You're performing for literally the
most oppressive regime on earth. They have slaves, for f's sake,
slaves and all caps. I don't understand how being rich
(01:49):
can make someone such a whore poor people desperate to
improve or their famili's lives. Sure, still not acceptable, but
I can understand the desperation of put food on the table.
But this, I mean, it's not like this is I'm
commercial for a wireless service or betting app. This is
truly the definition of blood money. You might as well
do commercials for Lockheed Martin or Zyklon B. Holy shit,
I remember the backlash I got for appearing in Alvin
(02:11):
and the Chipmunks. He would have thought I'd taken money
from a bunch of people responsible for funding al Qaeda.
Unless you open your sets with this is dedicated to
all the widows and widowers and kids orphaned by this bloodthirsty,
oppressive regime, especially from the zany Shenanigans on nine to eleven.
Never forget mfr's all right, so it's great to be here.
I'm gonna be killing it tonight, but in the good way.
Straight up, no nbs. Then your hypocrisy will never not
(02:33):
be noted. Signed David. David adds a PS for anyone
who actually wants to spend their money on something worthwhile.
The Human Rights Foundation does amazing work. Learn more and
donate at HRF dot org at the riadd Comedy Festival tonight.
Gabe Iglesias, nickname Fluffy, he has from California. He charms
audiences with his impressions and storytelling. He's created stand up
(02:54):
routines for Comedy Central and Netflix, and has also earned
the accolade this is a funny description and has also
earned the accolade of being one of the top ten
highest paid comedians in the world. Also there, Ohma Jellily,
You can prepare for a night of sharp satsire and
global humor as British Iranian comedian Oma Jellily headlines Thread
Comedy Festival with his critically acclaimed show Nama Stay. Known
(03:17):
for his whipsmore takes on culture, politics and identity, Omen
has long been a staple on the international comedy circuit.
Conan O'Brien was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
He reminded Stephen of some advice he had given. Conan said,
just as I was leaving my late night show, it
took you and all the other late night hosts, how
remember this. I took you to a wonderful sizzler restaurant.
(03:37):
We all had our trays and I told you, guys,
take care of Late Night. If you take care of
Late Night, we'll take care of you. I said, don't
do anything to ruffle any feathers. Remember I said that.
And I said, whatever you do, don't speak truth to power.
I said, Cowardice is the way. Conan said in the
twenty eight years of hosting Late Night, he never read
the news. I had a masturbating bear and a plastic dog.
I didn't even know who was president. Conan then got serious,
(03:58):
telling Stephen Colbert, I have, of course adore you. I
love you. I know he's a person and also as
a comedic force. And I, like a lot of people,
am very sad that this chapter's ending. But I also
want to say that you're gonna do amazing things. You're
gonna have a lot of fun. And the connection you
have and this isn't just you, it's mister Kimmel and
Fallon all these guys. It's very special. The connection you
have with the audience you're taking with you. No one
else owns that that's yours for the rest of your life.
(04:19):
Conan actually sat behind the desk at one point, which
is kind of a cool photo. Jimmy Kimmel was doing
his show in Brooklyn, last night, Kimmel and Colbert were
going to go on each other's shows. We'll talk about
that tomorrow because I want to like relax with the
bonus episodes. Kimmel's monologue made front of Trump, including Trump's
decision to release the Earhart files. Kimmell said, the President's
(04:40):
been hard at work coming up with all sorts of
nonsense to distract us from the Epstein files. Unless her
final flight was to Epstein's island, no one cares. At
least they made it to the ease in the files.
That's progress. Taylor Swift, she'll be on Fallon on is
it Monday? Yes, Monday. She'll also be on Seth Myers
on Wednesday. Why sorry, did I say that out loud?
(05:02):
Taylor will be the solo guest on Seth Myers. I
guess Taylor wants to reach like nine hundred thousand people.
Does Taylor have some weird alliance with NBC? Speaking of
late night, Latenighter dot Com has a wonderful oral history
of David Letterman's top ten list. A little too busy
this week to get to that. I'll get to that
at some point. I haven't even gotten to the Vulture interview.
With David Letterman that came out before Kimmelgate. I've been
(05:25):
sitting on that. I've had it in the script several
days in a row, and I keep bumping it because
there's so much going on. For example, THEO Vonn's performance
the other night, people are worried about THEO Vaughn. Vanity
Fair had someone at that show, and they say THEO
seemed jittery after briefly taking the stage once he had
been on the set and started over, only to pick
a member of the audience to be kicked out and
start over again. Vanity Fair rights wasn't clear from their seat,
(05:48):
nor from the heated discussion that played out afterwards in
the THEO Reddit form why that happened. A representative for
Theovon didn't return her quest for comments, says a Vanity
Fair from the stage, THEO said a lot of white
people in here, Vanity Fair tells us as THEO settled in,
he did chunks on racism his childhood. One of the
jokes I'm sure told much better than I will. But
reading the text here, we didn't have any Jews growing up,
(06:09):
couldn't afford a jew, Vanity Fair said, for all the
hours of podcasting and stand up, Vaughn has maintained an elusiveness.
It was difficult to imagine him processing on stage the
influence and soft power he's acquired. Instead, as he approached
the end of his set, he returned to a now
familiar mode of troubled vulnerability. Vaughn said, sometimes the only
way I can feel is in front of other people.
(06:30):
Mark Maren had jud abbatow on Monday Show. I actually
blew it off because I was like, I got enough
in my phone. I'm never going to get to that one.
But apparently Maren did a clip show of sorts and
looked back on previous episodes. We I'm going to go
back and listen to this. Apparently they got into Maren's
relationship with Louis c K. You may recall Louis c
K admitted to sexual misconduct back in twenty seventeen or so,
(06:51):
let's not get into that today. Maren recalled on the
podcast that c K felt betrayed because Maren described the
behavior as boundary shattering and TRAUMAIZ, insisting there was no
way to justify it. Ck didn't take kindly to being
called out by Maren. Maren said on Monday's podcast, c
K reached out to see if c K cout him
on the show and explain himself. Maren agreed in theory,
(07:14):
but told c K he had no interest in revisiting
his own condemnation. C K saw no point in appearing
without addressing that and then declined to come on. Maren
noted when he's run in to Ck on the comedy scene,
CK's been cordial, but doesn't sound like there's anything warm there.
Jimmy Carr, He's going to be appearing at the READD
Comedy Festival. He also will have a new show on
(07:35):
Comedy Central UK with the title Am I the A Hole?
That'll be out on Monday, October twenty seventh at nine pm,
based on the reddits of the same name. A panel show.
Jimmy and two other judges look at some questionable characters
and there are questionable choices. I have an idea for
(07:57):
an episode, Jimmy, if you want to hear it, shoot
me a I'll tell you on the side what we
could look at people do make questionable choices. I think
this is a great idea for a show. Each episode
sees the three judges delve into a series of jaw
dropping admissions, shocking family fallouts, and moments of pure social chaos.
As they asked the all important question is this person
really an a hole? With sharp wit and zero toalents
(08:19):
for nonsense, the panel debates the gray areas of human behavior,
sometimes relatable, sometimes ridiculous, and ultimately deliver the verdict, and
it's Jimmy Carr who casts the deciding vote, are they
an a hole? The series starts October twenty seventh on
Comedy Central UK, the next day on Paramount Plus. And
if you'd like to see Jimmy Carr live, he'll be
at the ri On Comedy Festival. He's co headlining with
(08:41):
Louis c K October sixth at the ANB Arena. For
some reason, everybody except you and me, I didn't announce one,
but everybody else announced a comedy special. Sarah Sherman will
have her debut comedy special at HBO. I'm hoping this
is an HBO special and not one of those HBO
Max specials they run on Friday night, and I'm hoping
this is a proper Saturday night one, but they haven't
(09:02):
given a date yet. It is called Sarah Squirm Live
Plus in the flesh. We're sold. Sarah Sherman as Sarah Squirm,
rips off the strait jacket. Unleash is a festering hour
of bodily fluids, open wound confessionals, and jokes that will
leave skid marks on your soul. There's a description. Sarah
Sherman cautions us word to the wise, don't watch while eating.
(09:24):
Nina Rosenstein, who's the EVP of HBO Programming but not
good at giving fun quotes, said, Sarah's first special is
so distinctly her own. She's hysterically funny, wildly creative, and
has a kind of fearless audacity that makes this special
truly unforgettable. Thank you for the safe quote, Nina Rosenstein,
VP of HBO Programming for late Night and Specials, appreciate you.
Mike Kaplan will have a comedy special this one called
(09:46):
Reenie r I NI that'll be on Blonde Medicines YouTube
channel November seventeenth and as an album December twelfth. Reenie
is the name of his girlfriend. They've been in a
relationship for twenty years. We're told. The Specials a d
deeply personal project created by the duo Equal parts of
comedy special and a thesis on love. The show was
performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. Mike Kaplan offers advice to
(10:09):
his past dumb self while discussing his evolving thoughts on
traditional marriage, polyamory, quantum physics, psychedelics, music, god and more.
Kaplan says, of Reeny, I'm a better person because of her.
I'm a better comedian because of her. We created this
show about our relationship together on artistic collaboration, about our
own romantic collaboration. Leslie Jones will have a comedy special,
(10:30):
Leslie Jones Life Part Two on Peacock Friday, October twenty fourth.
In Life Part two, Leslie Jones tackles aging relationships, fame,
and life's unexpected twist with the kind of honesty and
fire only Leslie Jones can bring out. Today, The eight
hundred Pound Gerilla has Jeff Innocent, Smart Casual that is
a comedy exports premiere. Head on over to the eight
(10:50):
hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. Now, let's check in with
that guy, Jay Leno. You know this guy, he'll weigh
in on late night comedy like he has any idea
what he's talking about. Well, listen to this Jay Leno's garage,
Jay Leno got behind the wheel of a nineteen ninety
Mercedes Benz one ninety e EVO two. Jay called it
one of the primo cars of the nineteen nineties. Yeah,
(11:10):
back when he was on late night television, he said
this was the BMW killer. He apparently wanted to drive
one for more than thirty years. Jay Leno said, this
is a car that has eluded me since the day
came out. After admit I was a bit of a snob.
I bet you were, Jay Leno. He was looking down
on the car. It's four cylinder engine, but then he
started reading about it and suddenly he was interested. And
(11:30):
he said by the time I got interested, they were gone. Well,
only five hundred of them were made, and Jay couldn't
get his hands Now. Jay Leno saying, the more I
drive this, the more I like this. It's actually a
lot of fun. Surprised he didn't weigh on late night
television while I was driving his car. Guy's the worst.
Pete Davison, who's going to be at the Riodd Comedy
Festival on Friday. He was on Shark Tank. He was
there as a celebrity investor backing sock brand Double Soul.
(11:55):
So you know, when you're drinking your Jim Gaffigan bourbon
and with a some Tom Pop of bread, maybe you're
having a ben still or soda, put on some Pete
Davison socks. I mean, these comedians are just unbelievably cool.
Pete Davison his father was killed at nine to eleven.
He'll be at the Riodd Comedy Festival on Friday and said,
I get sent a lot of crap, and I usually
give it to my cousins. I got sent double Soul
socks a couple of years ago and I had to
(12:17):
meet the team, and I wanted to be involved immediately.
Pete invested one million dollars for a ten percent ownership
stake and signed on as the brand's creative director in
twenty twenty four. The brand markets itself on three pillars
self expression, comfort and sustainability. And that is your comedy
news for today. We'll see what happens in the next
twenty four hours and we'll meet back here tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. David Cross posted on social media and
on his website a rather long piece titled my thoughts
on the Riodd Comedy Festival. David Cross writes, I've been
asked for my opinion on the re Odd Comedy Festival,
(00:23):
and rather than answer the same question twenty three times,
I'll just put this out there. Oh and I should
preface this with the fact that I was not offered
the gig, but it should go without saying that there's
not enough money for me to help these depraved, awful
people put a fun face on their crimes against humanity.
Here goes, what do you think? I think? I am
disgusted and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing. The
people I admire with unarguable talent would condone this totalitarium
(00:46):
fiefdom for what a fourthouse, a boat more sneakers. We
can never again take seriously anything these comedians complain about,
unless it's complaining that we don't support enough torture and
mass executions of journalists and LGBQT piece activists here in
the States, or that we don't terrorize enough Americans by
flying plane and our buildings. I mean, that's it. You
have a funny bit about how you don't like Yankee
candles or airport lounges. Okay, great, but you're cool with
(01:06):
murder and or the publicating of women who were raped
and by having the audacity to be raped, we're guilty
of engaging in adultery. Got any bits on that. These
are some of my heroes and he put heroes in
all caps. David Cross continues, Now, look, some of you
folks don't stand for anything, so you don't have any
credibility to lose. But my god, Dave and Louis and
Bill and Jim clearly that you guys don't give a
(01:27):
shit about what the rest of us think. But how
can any of us take any of you seriously? Ever? Again?
All you're bitching about cancel culture and freedom of speech
and all that shit done, You don't get to talk
about it ever again. By now we've all seen the
contract you had to sign. You're performing for literally the
most oppressive regime on earth. They have slaves, for f's sake,
slaves and all caps. I don't understand how being rich
(01:49):
can make someone such a whore poor people desperate to
improve or their famili's lives. Sure, still not acceptable, but
I can understand the desperation of put food on the table.
But this, I mean, it's not like this is I'm
commercial for a wireless service or betting app. This is
truly the definition of blood money. You might as well
do commercials for Lockheed Martin or Zyklon B. Holy shit,
I remember the backlash I got for appearing in Alvin
(02:11):
and the Chipmunks. He would have thought I'd taken money
from a bunch of people responsible for funding al Qaeda.
Unless you open your sets with this is dedicated to
all the widows and widowers and kids orphaned by this bloodthirsty,
oppressive regime, especially from the zany Shenanigans on nine to eleven.
Never forget mfr's all right, so it's great to be here.
I'm gonna be killing it tonight, but in the good way.
Straight up, no nbs. Then your hypocrisy will never not
(02:33):
be noted. Signed David. David adds a PS for anyone
who actually wants to spend their money on something worthwhile.
The Human Rights Foundation does amazing work. Learn more and
donate at HRF dot org at the riadd Comedy Festival tonight.
Gabe Iglesias, nickname Fluffy, he has from California. He charms
audiences with his impressions and storytelling. He's created stand up
(02:54):
routines for Comedy Central and Netflix, and has also earned
the accolade this is a funny description and has also
earned the accolade of being one of the top ten
highest paid comedians in the world. Also there, Ohma Jellily,
You can prepare for a night of sharp satsire and
global humor as British Iranian comedian Oma Jellily headlines Thread
Comedy Festival with his critically acclaimed show Nama Stay. Known
(03:17):
for his whipsmore takes on culture, politics and identity, Omen
has long been a staple on the international comedy circuit.
Conan O'Brien was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
He reminded Stephen of some advice he had given. Conan said,
just as I was leaving my late night show, it
took you and all the other late night hosts, how
remember this. I took you to a wonderful sizzler restaurant.
(03:37):
We all had our trays and I told you, guys,
take care of Late Night. If you take care of
Late Night, we'll take care of you. I said, don't
do anything to ruffle any feathers. Remember I said that.
And I said, whatever you do, don't speak truth to power.
I said, Cowardice is the way. Conan said in the
twenty eight years of hosting Late Night, he never read
the news. I had a masturbating bear and a plastic dog.
I didn't even know who was president. Conan then got serious,
(03:58):
telling Stephen Colbert, I have, of course adore you. I
love you. I know he's a person and also as
a comedic force. And I, like a lot of people,
am very sad that this chapter's ending. But I also
want to say that you're gonna do amazing things. You're
gonna have a lot of fun. And the connection you
have and this isn't just you, it's mister Kimmel and
Fallon all these guys. It's very special. The connection you
have with the audience you're taking with you. No one
else owns that that's yours for the rest of your life.
(04:19):
Conan actually sat behind the desk at one point, which
is kind of a cool photo. Jimmy Kimmel was doing
his show in Brooklyn, last night, Kimmel and Colbert were
going to go on each other's shows. We'll talk about
that tomorrow because I want to like relax with the
bonus episodes. Kimmel's monologue made front of Trump, including Trump's
decision to release the Earhart files. Kimmell said, the President's
(04:40):
been hard at work coming up with all sorts of
nonsense to distract us from the Epstein files. Unless her
final flight was to Epstein's island, no one cares. At
least they made it to the ease in the files.
That's progress. Taylor Swift, she'll be on Fallon on is
it Monday? Yes, Monday. She'll also be on Seth Myers
on Wednesday. Why sorry, did I say that out loud?
(05:02):
Taylor will be the solo guest on Seth Myers. I
guess Taylor wants to reach like nine hundred thousand people.
Does Taylor have some weird alliance with NBC? Speaking of
late night, Latenighter dot Com has a wonderful oral history
of David Letterman's top ten list. A little too busy
this week to get to that. I'll get to that
at some point. I haven't even gotten to the Vulture interview.
With David Letterman that came out before Kimmelgate. I've been
(05:25):
sitting on that. I've had it in the script several
days in a row, and I keep bumping it because
there's so much going on. For example, THEO Vonn's performance
the other night, people are worried about THEO Vaughn. Vanity
Fair had someone at that show, and they say THEO
seemed jittery after briefly taking the stage once he had
been on the set and started over, only to pick
a member of the audience to be kicked out and
start over again. Vanity Fair rights wasn't clear from their seat,
(05:48):
nor from the heated discussion that played out afterwards in
the THEO Reddit form why that happened. A representative for
Theovon didn't return her quest for comments, says a Vanity
Fair from the stage, THEO said a lot of white
people in here, Vanity Fair tells us as THEO settled in,
he did chunks on racism his childhood. One of the
jokes I'm sure told much better than I will. But
reading the text here, we didn't have any Jews growing up,
(06:09):
couldn't afford a jew, Vanity Fair said, for all the
hours of podcasting and stand up, Vaughn has maintained an elusiveness.
It was difficult to imagine him processing on stage the
influence and soft power he's acquired. Instead, as he approached
the end of his set, he returned to a now
familiar mode of troubled vulnerability. Vaughn said, sometimes the only
way I can feel is in front of other people.
(06:30):
Mark Maren had jud abbatow on Monday Show. I actually
blew it off because I was like, I got enough
in my phone. I'm never going to get to that one.
But apparently Maren did a clip show of sorts and
looked back on previous episodes. We I'm going to go
back and listen to this. Apparently they got into Maren's
relationship with Louis c K. You may recall Louis c
K admitted to sexual misconduct back in twenty seventeen or so,
(06:51):
let's not get into that today. Maren recalled on the
podcast that c K felt betrayed because Maren described the
behavior as boundary shattering and TRAUMAIZ, insisting there was no
way to justify it. Ck didn't take kindly to being
called out by Maren. Maren said on Monday's podcast, c
K reached out to see if c K cout him
on the show and explain himself. Maren agreed in theory,
(07:14):
but told c K he had no interest in revisiting
his own condemnation. C K saw no point in appearing
without addressing that and then declined to come on. Maren
noted when he's run in to Ck on the comedy scene,
CK's been cordial, but doesn't sound like there's anything warm there.
Jimmy Carr, He's going to be appearing at the READD
Comedy Festival. He also will have a new show on
(07:35):
Comedy Central UK with the title Am I the A Hole?
That'll be out on Monday, October twenty seventh at nine pm,
based on the reddits of the same name. A panel show.
Jimmy and two other judges look at some questionable characters
and there are questionable choices. I have an idea for
(07:57):
an episode, Jimmy, if you want to hear it, shoot
me a I'll tell you on the side what we
could look at people do make questionable choices. I think
this is a great idea for a show. Each episode
sees the three judges delve into a series of jaw
dropping admissions, shocking family fallouts, and moments of pure social chaos.
As they asked the all important question is this person
really an a hole? With sharp wit and zero toalents
(08:19):
for nonsense, the panel debates the gray areas of human behavior,
sometimes relatable, sometimes ridiculous, and ultimately deliver the verdict, and
it's Jimmy Carr who casts the deciding vote, are they
an a hole? The series starts October twenty seventh on
Comedy Central UK, the next day on Paramount Plus. And
if you'd like to see Jimmy Carr live, he'll be
at the ri On Comedy Festival. He's co headlining with
(08:41):
Louis c K October sixth at the ANB Arena. For
some reason, everybody except you and me, I didn't announce one,
but everybody else announced a comedy special. Sarah Sherman will
have her debut comedy special at HBO. I'm hoping this
is an HBO special and not one of those HBO
Max specials they run on Friday night, and I'm hoping
this is a proper Saturday night one, but they haven't
(09:02):
given a date yet. It is called Sarah Squirm Live
Plus in the flesh. We're sold. Sarah Sherman as Sarah Squirm,
rips off the strait jacket. Unleash is a festering hour
of bodily fluids, open wound confessionals, and jokes that will
leave skid marks on your soul. There's a description. Sarah
Sherman cautions us word to the wise, don't watch while eating.
(09:24):
Nina Rosenstein, who's the EVP of HBO Programming but not
good at giving fun quotes, said, Sarah's first special is
so distinctly her own. She's hysterically funny, wildly creative, and
has a kind of fearless audacity that makes this special
truly unforgettable. Thank you for the safe quote, Nina Rosenstein,
VP of HBO Programming for late Night and Specials, appreciate you.
Mike Kaplan will have a comedy special this one called
(09:46):
Reenie r I NI that'll be on Blonde Medicines YouTube
channel November seventeenth and as an album December twelfth. Reenie
is the name of his girlfriend. They've been in a
relationship for twenty years. We're told. The Specials a d
deeply personal project created by the duo Equal parts of
comedy special and a thesis on love. The show was
performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. Mike Kaplan offers advice to
(10:09):
his past dumb self while discussing his evolving thoughts on
traditional marriage, polyamory, quantum physics, psychedelics, music, god and more.
Kaplan says, of Reeny, I'm a better person because of her.
I'm a better comedian because of her. We created this
show about our relationship together on artistic collaboration, about our
own romantic collaboration. Leslie Jones will have a comedy special,
(10:30):
Leslie Jones Life Part Two on Peacock Friday, October twenty fourth.
In Life Part two, Leslie Jones tackles aging relationships, fame,
and life's unexpected twist with the kind of honesty and
fire only Leslie Jones can bring out. Today, The eight
hundred Pound Gerilla has Jeff Innocent, Smart Casual that is
a comedy exports premiere. Head on over to the eight
(10:50):
hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. Now, let's check in with
that guy, Jay Leno. You know this guy, he'll weigh
in on late night comedy like he has any idea
what he's talking about. Well, listen to this Jay Leno's garage,
Jay Leno got behind the wheel of a nineteen ninety
Mercedes Benz one ninety e EVO two. Jay called it
one of the primo cars of the nineteen nineties. Yeah,
(11:10):
back when he was on late night television, he said
this was the BMW killer. He apparently wanted to drive
one for more than thirty years. Jay Leno said, this
is a car that has eluded me since the day
came out. After admit I was a bit of a snob.
I bet you were, Jay Leno. He was looking down
on the car. It's four cylinder engine, but then he
started reading about it and suddenly he was interested. And
(11:30):
he said by the time I got interested, they were gone. Well,
only five hundred of them were made, and Jay couldn't
get his hands Now. Jay Leno saying, the more I
drive this, the more I like this. It's actually a
lot of fun. Surprised he didn't weigh on late night
television while I was driving his car. Guy's the worst.
Pete Davison, who's going to be at the Riodd Comedy
Festival on Friday. He was on Shark Tank. He was
there as a celebrity investor backing sock brand Double Soul.
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So you know, when you're drinking your Jim Gaffigan bourbon
and with a some Tom Pop of bread, maybe you're
having a ben still or soda, put on some Pete
Davison socks. I mean, these comedians are just unbelievably cool.
Pete Davison his father was killed at nine to eleven.
He'll be at the Riodd Comedy Festival on Friday and said,
I get sent a lot of crap, and I usually
give it to my cousins. I got sent double Soul
socks a couple of years ago and I had to
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meet the team, and I wanted to be involved immediately.
Pete invested one million dollars for a ten percent ownership
stake and signed on as the brand's creative director in
twenty twenty four. The brand markets itself on three pillars
self expression, comfort and sustainability. And that is your comedy
news for today. We'll see what happens in the next
twenty four hours and we'll meet back here tomorrow.
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