November 4, 2025 • 16 mins
Johnny Mac urges listeners to vote on Election Day while covering various topics in the comedy world. He discusses Hari Kondabolu's endorsement in the New York City mayoral race, highlights from the latest SNL episode featuring Shane Gillis and James Austin Johnson, and controversies involving Michael Che and Joe Rogan. The episode also touches on Jon Stewart's views on social media, Trump's comments on late-night TV, and rumors about Jimmy Kimmel running for president. Johnny ends the episode by teasing weight loss news about Amy Schumer for the next show.
00:33 Hari Kondabolu's Political Involvement
02:02 SNL Recap: Mayoral Debate and Shane Gillis
03:58 James Austin Johnson's Trump Impression
04:49 Colin Jost's Controversial Joke
05:59 Michael Che's Instagram Comments on SNAP Benefits
09:19 Jon Stewart on Trump and Social Media
10:57 Stavros Halkias on Joe Rogan and Politics
12:56 Comedy Specials and Festivals
16:22 Conclusion and Teaser for Tomorrow
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00:33 Hari Kondabolu's Political Involvement
02:02 SNL Recap: Mayoral Debate and Shane Gillis
03:58 James Austin Johnson's Trump Impression
04:49 Colin Jost's Controversial Joke
05:59 Michael Che's Instagram Comments on SNAP Benefits
09:19 Jon Stewart on Trump and Social Media
10:57 Stavros Halkias on Joe Rogan and Politics
12:56 Comedy Specials and Festivals
16:22 Conclusion and Teaser for Tomorrow
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Kalaroga Shark Media busy one today and there is a
pretty large Stephen Colbert interview in GQ. I will cover
that tomorrow because it's election day. And hello, I am
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Please vote today.
I don't care who you vote for. You gotta vote
(00:23):
or I'm gonna yell at you tomorrow if you didn't vote,
So go vote. Hit stop on them. Why are you
even listening to me unless you're on your way to vote?
Go vote. As a big New York City mayoral election today,
Harry Condobolu told nola dot com he doesn't think there's
much of a Condobolu bump, but Harry Condobolu has made
an endorsement in the New York City mayor's race. He
is supporting Zoran Mumdanni. You may be familiar with Mumdanni
(00:47):
from such things as Rama Yusef playing him on Saturday
Night Live. We'll get into that. He's a young dude,
a progressive, making a lot of noise, and will probably
be in New York City's next mayor. Now, if you
don't like mister Mumdanni, go vote and vote for one
of the other candidates see how this works, and then
if you don't vote, you don't get to be mad
about it. Harry Condobolo said, I've known Zoran since he
(01:08):
was like eighteen years old. He went to my alma
mater vote in college in Maine, and his mom asked
me if i'd tell him what the school was like
before he went. During his four years, we kept in touch,
and we kept in touch after that. I did a
fundraiser for him when he was running for assemblymen. I've
known for a while this kid was special, but I'll
be honest, I didn't think he'd be mayor now. Harry's
gotten involved with New York area politics before. He has
(01:29):
told a story about AOC reaching out to him. In
twenty seventeen, she sent the ever so serious Harry condoboulu
who a direct message on Twitter. This was before she
was famous. She shared that she was running a grassroots
progressive campaign to represent Ports of Queens and the Bronx
and would Harry collaborate with her. He wrote back, I'm
pretty busy right now. When he get back to me
(01:49):
next year. He also called her Alexis in the message. Oops,
she won, and he said on the night she won.
He direct messaged her back, you did it. I knew
you'd win. Harry says, when candidates reach out now, I'm
likely to say yes when they're asking me to do it.
Did you watch SNL? It was a pretty good episode,
by far the best of the season. It opened up
with a mock New York City mayoral debate. Miles Taylor
(02:12):
played former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Romy Yusef was
Zoe ram Mandani. He joked, happy to be here, and
I'm ready to spend the next hour hearing my opponents
pronounce my name in ways you couldn't begin to imagine.
I'm probably getting it wrong. And then, shockingly to me,
and people don't seem to be making a big deal
of this, I think this is a big, big deal.
(02:32):
Shane Gillis played Curtis Sliwa. You know, the Guardian Angel
guy with the red beret. If you're from New York City,
you're like, yeah, John, we know. But maybe if you're
in an other part of the country, you don't know
this guy. Back in the eighties, when New York City
was basically hell, the Guardian Angels were like guys that
would ride the subway wearing red berets and would stick
up for you if bad guys were trying to do things.
(02:54):
So Curtis, like to New Yorkers, has been known forever.
I met him once when Bob Grant's time WOR Radio ended,
Curtis came by to help Bob Grant move boxes. This
is the only time I met Curtis Leiba on that
particular day. He was cool, But I digress. Shane Gillis
on SNL like it's nothing. You may recall he was
on the cast and then not on the cast. That's
(03:16):
the thing that happened. So I don't understand why the
world was like, oh yeah, Shane Gillis was on SNL,
like that's a big deal. Also a big deal. Now
here's the opening sketch. We've got Keenan Thompson as the moderator,
and just Keenan proves Saturday Night he is the glue.
I know, we all know this, but he's so good
at everything, steady, reliable, keeps the trains on time. So
(03:37):
he's the moderator. And then we have in the three
shiny spots the guest toast okay, that's fine, and two
people that aren't on SNL, and I'm sure somebody could
do a Curtis Sliwa. It's not like Shane Gillis nailed
the Curtis Sliwa impression, So the whole thing is weird
to me. Laurene Michaels, do you not trust your cast
because you're not using them? Towards the end of the sketch,
(03:59):
j Sames Austin Johnson came out doing his increasingly drifting
Donald Trump impression. He actually addressed his Trump impression with
The Hollywood Reporter recently and said the Sands shift he
used to be not as terrifying when he had moderate
people around him who were trying to stop him. Now
they're all gone, and his enemies are powerless and paralyzed
to stop any of it, which all comes across as
super dark. How do you find what's funny within that?
(04:21):
James said, I'm just trying to find new things happening
with his speech and his brain and definitely the darkness,
which is not easy with a guy who's been dominating
every single day for almost ten years. He says, the
subtlety is where the secret to his impression lies. He
explains Hamlet is not saying I'm gonna kill myself because
I suck. He says he's thinking about rivers and bones
and ghosts. Amid all the soliloquies, you pick up on
an undercurrent of really complex moral struggle. I don't want
(04:44):
to call what I'm doing Shakespeare, but I'm trying to
find the deeper forms of Trump, Who's a rich text.
People were upset with Colin Jost once again. Colin told
a joke about the President and wife Milania walking out
to the White House's Halloween festivities playing the song Thriller.
Joe said, my favorite part is when Trump and Millennia
made a grand entrance to the song Michael Jackson's Thriller
(05:05):
just the perfect soundtrack to lore kids to a famous mansion.
Some wonder if that's a joke joke. Others wonder if
that's some sort of Epstein commentary. I didn't write the joke,
ask SNL Like I said. Good episode. Miles Teller was
really good. The Property Brothers sketch was really good, and
James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump was really good. In
case you missed it, Miles Teller played both Jonathan and
(05:27):
Drew Scott. The Property Brothers stars of the HGTV show
Property Brothers. In the sketch, they were helping Donald Trump
build his new White House ballroom. There was also a
very funny NHL sketch based upon that there are three
teams in the NHL. One is the Rangers, one is
the Kings, and the other is Predators, and a lot
of the humor came from Predators. I don't want to
(05:48):
spoil it too much, but that's the setup and you
should watch the sketch. They're all online. I set them
out to my family on Sunday night when I finally
caught up with the episode between Football and More Football,
and I thought it was a pretty good episode. ALRP said, up,
Michael Jay. Now this wasn't on SNL. This was on
Instagram and Chay was commenting on snap benefits, which you
may know as food stamps. Chay wrote, this, Snap Freeze
(06:09):
is really fed up and I keep seeing a lot
of racist videos celebrating mostly black families not being able
to buy groceries. There's this weird idea that's in some
people have taken advantage of welfare benefits in the hood.
Nobody should receive help at all. Jay continued this country's
built on greedy mf ors, taking shortcuts and gaming of
the system to their benefit. But for some reason, when
poor people find a way to turn nickel into a dime,
(06:30):
they're judged more severely, especially blacks. I know the whole
hustle is to hate each other here, so we can
fight in the comments and upburn engagements, but let's draw
the line to feeding the poor. I grew up on
free cheese and powdered milk and waiting for your friends
to leave the store so they won't see me pay
with stamps. That's not as glamorous as it sounds, I promise. Yes,
we are very political today it is election day, and
I put all the politics things in today's show, and
(06:51):
then tomorrow no politics. So that's why I moved the
Colbert thing to tomorrow. Now, as you listen to the show, May,
I could understand if you were, like, you know, John,
sometimes I don't think you're down with President Trump. Well,
I have newsview. Sometimes President Trump and I are quite aligned.
For example, President Trump posted on social media about Late
Night with Seth Myers. Why does NBC waste its time
(07:12):
and money on a guy like this? I agree? Why
does that show exist. Who's it for? Who's watching it?
It has about seven more viewers than I have listeners.
I don't know what this is for. So if you're
like Johnya never backed Trump on anything, I'm backing him
up on this. Trump declared that Seth Myers may be
the worst to perform live or otherwise. Again, sometimes the
(07:33):
President and I are aligned, sometimes we're not, the President continued,
I watched the show the other night for the first
time in years. In it, he talked endlessly about electric
catabults on aircraft carriers, which I complained about is not
being as good as much less expensive steam catapults on
an Anyway, it truly deranged, lunatic. I don't think Seth
Myers is deranged, and I'm not an expert on aircraft
(07:54):
carrier catapults, so I'm not able to comment on that.
The President continued, Why does NBC waste its time money?
And I like this no talent, no ratings, one hundred
percent anti Trump, which is probably illegal. I'm not a lawyer.
I'm just a guy in the basement with a podcast.
I don't think it is illegal at all to be
anti Trump. Radar online sourcing Rob Shutter, who has a
(08:16):
sub stack. They're suggesting friends of Jimmy Kimmel would like
Jimmy Kimmel to run for president. That would be all
sorts of interesting politics aside, just as somebody who hosts
a podcast in their basement about comedians please do now.
I am familiar with Radar Online because when I'm not
doing this, I write for the Palace Intrigue podcast, and
I find that Radar Online tends to be more gossipy
(08:40):
than some other websites Anyway. Supposedly, insiders say that Hollywood
elites see Jimmy Kimmel as a fearless contender for the
twenty twenty eight presidency. A source says they're pitching him
as smart, funny, fearless, but it's a tiny bubble casting
this role, not thinking about real voters. Another insider said
of Jimmy Kimmel, he's starting to believe maybe they're right,
(09:01):
But to real Americans, Jimmy Kimmel and the White House
sounds more like a late night punchline than a serious plan.
It is election day. Did I mention that why are
you still listening to me when you should be voting?
And then you know you could be like, yes, we
need more of this or less of this, and you
could do something about it. Do not sit home today.
I will scold you. Recently, John Stewart did that live
(09:21):
conference with David Remnick from The New Yorker. They shared
a full transcript. Remnick asked John Stewart, why do you
think Trump won? Stewart said, because of the dissatisfaction of
an analog system. In a digital world, the distance between
how you feel about the world and the actual world
has never been larger. We're victims of the circadium rhythms
of social media, and social media is incentivized to what
(09:42):
not to connect us. I've seen the Facebook commercial, and yes,
it's true, if you do like a certain kind of cat,
there'll be other people who like that certain kind of cat,
and you will connect with one another. But the purpose
of social media to keep you on his platform. That's it.
That's all these companies care about. They want you on
that platform. They want you there as long as they
can possibly have you. And the way they've rigged our
brains to figure out is that outrage and anger and
hate and hostility are much stronger drivers of engagement than
(10:03):
anything else. On the flip side of that, won't answer here.
By jud Stewart, we have a political system designed as
an analog. What is the Senate? It's the cooling saucer
of democracy. And what's Twitter? That's the thing that makes
you want to rip people's eyes out. You put those
together and it's not a good mix. And so Trump
was able to harness the anger and catastrophizing of that
as a way of taking over the other things that
we have. Remnick asked, and he didn't find Biden and
(10:25):
Harris a good remedy for that. John laughed and said,
I thought they were great. Stuart said, Look what's going
on with Zorain Maundani. You finally got a guy in
New York City who's getting people to vote in the
affirmative for his positions, which is inspiring people and giving
a certain amount of leadership. And what is the general
status call the Democratic Party do with that? That guy's
a communist like the party goes along with the characterture
(10:45):
of this man. Look, we're in a bad situation. It's
not just the crappiness of Trump. It's the passivity of
the Democratic Party to stick with a status quo that
most people felt were not working. It was a Legenday,
did you vote yet? We are political today, Yes, we are.
Stavros Halkias with Vulture. They were recapping the episode of
Stave's World with guest Caleb Hearin. That was the one
where Stavey said he was shocked and disappointed that Joe
(11:07):
Rogan endorsed Donald Trump. Alkias said, what surprised me about
Joe in particular is I do think we align on
a lot. I don't think he's a far right guy.
It was just shocking because he's an avatar for a
regular dude. A lot of people do swing wildly. He
liked Bernie like Trump. There's a lot more people in
America that are like that. To me, it was like, WHOA,
what the f How did Democrats allow this kind of
thing to happen? Because listen, I get being like, I
(11:28):
hate both these candidates. That was my position. I got
not liking Kamala Harris, but I did not, in any way,
shape or form understand being a free speech guy and
then being like Trump's my guy. That was really the
crux of it, and it was worse than even thought
obviously with these he said something quite unfavorable about Ice.
Ice people with mass and no due process in America,
(11:50):
and that's your freedom of speech. Guy. He was suing
journalists he didn't like before this. I just thought it
was a simplistic view of freedom of speech. That's like, essentially,
we shouldn't be able to say any slurs. They're not
worthy of it. Take him back. I would like du
process and bleeping out a couple effing words. Stavro says
also endorsed this Zooran Mamdani guy in the Mayor oal race.
Vulture was curious why Starvar said, I got not liking
(12:11):
either candidate in the twenty four presidential election because I
do think the Democratic Party does not offer anything right now.
Mamdani represents something that is exciting to a lot of
young people. Democratic leadership is like, how do we get
people excited after running the most bs consultant driven campaigns possible,
Whereas Mamdani is a guy who's effing thirty three and
who has just excited people. But the Democrats don't want
(12:31):
that because they're also bought and paid for. Starvo said,
I don't think they needed me. His campaigns really well run.
But that's where I'll be like, hey, if I can
make a difference in any way. Even if this helps
this much, I'll help candidates I believe in, or causes
I believe in, or fundraise for things I believe in.
But I'm not going to have the politics hour every
week on my podcast. That must be nice. I'm trying
not to, and I'm doing it twice a week now
(12:53):
at least. To go vote Please out Today On Netflix,
Leanne Morgan's Unspeakable Things. LeAnn Morgan takes on topics including motherhood,
trying CBD for the first and last time, navigating fame,
and the less glamorous side of family vacations. Jimmy Fallon
has a new Tuesday Night segment as part of the
(13:13):
NBA on NBC. This debut last week, but today's Tuesday,
and there's basketball on NBC tonight. The segment is called
the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot. I was thinking about
Jimmy over the weekend. He's a survivor. You know, that
Cobert rating story came out and I was like, you know,
Fallon doesn't have the ratings and he also doesn't have
the respect. You've heard me. I stick up for Jimmy
(13:35):
more often than not, but he definitely doesn't have the
respect at all. It's just a weird spot to have
the Tonight Show in third place. And it's not like
people are like, yeah, the host of the Tonight Show.
But I guess Jay Leno didn't have that either, right,
but Jay Leno was in first anyway. The Tonight Show
One Shot Jackpot combines live game energy with the NBC
(13:56):
Late Night Show's classic audience participation vibe. Each week, as
Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave, one audience member
will get the chance to make a half court basketball
shot for ten thousand dollars. The jackpot rolls over if
no one sinks it. Last week, Maggie from Long Beach
was the contestant. She told Jimmy Fallon she does not
play basketball. She took a shot, the crowd cheers, she missed.
(14:19):
She got a consolation prize, a Tonight Show sweatshirt signed
by Jimmy Fallon and Atlanta Hawk star Trey Young, who
is there as part of this. Fallon said more money
will be added to the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot
for next week. Next week is now, so somebody's gonna
take their shot out today. On the eight hundred Pound
Gorilla YouTube channel, it is Michael Yo's Snack Daddy, and
(14:41):
I never thought it's a double feature by Michael Yo.
The three to one to two Festival has kicked off.
Patrick war Button, that's Puddy. He's at Zani's Rosemont tonight
at seven a preview of three one two. The Chicago
Theater will have some of the bigger shows including Fortune
Fiemster there on the eighth, Ralph Barbosa there on the seventh.
Dusty Slay, one of my current favorites, also part of
(15:02):
the festival, So we'll start breaking that out every day
and then later in the week. It's the New York
Comedy Festival. Three one two was launched in twenty twenty three.
I thought it was around longer than that. I guess
I am wrong. It was launched by Outback Presents and
Outback's president Andrew Farewell said Chicago is a great market
for comedy. Yes it is. He said, comedy is hotter
(15:23):
than it's ever been. There are so many great acts,
such diversity, and we're really proud to bring so many
types of comedy across all the different sized venues, from
larger theaters to smaller clubs and everything in between. There's
a lot of great places to see comedy in Chicago.
One of the performers will be Pete Holmes, which is
interesting because he's also playing in New York. Pete will
be at the Riviera Theater at the Chicago Fest on
November eighth. Pete said, I'm very excited consider myself to
(15:46):
start in Chicago and hope I'm still in the fold
of Chicago comedy. It's always great to come back and
perform there and to be in this venue for the
first time at a city I love so much. Chicago
has always been a great comedy city because it's just
filled with smart people with sensitive of humor. You can't
ask for better than that. Oh, I'll ask for better
than that. You know what's better than that? The Chicago
Bears Miracle cover. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett got
(16:06):
me in this football pool and I had the Bears
and the Bears blew it lately and I was like, ah,
I'm not getting that one right. And then the Bears
pulled out a miracle victory. And more importantly the cover,
did Dallas win last night? Because if they did, I
won the week. If they didn't, I didn't. And that's it.
I'm going to tell you about Amy Schumer's weight loss.
Tomorrow has that for a really exciting tease. You're just
gonna sit around for twenty four hours and be like,
(16:27):
oh man, I can't believe it didn't tell us about
Amy Schumer's weight loss. I'm just gonna sit here by
my phone hitting refresh until he drops another episode. No, yes,
all right, see Tomorrow. Go vote
Kalaroga Shark Media busy one today and there is a
pretty large Stephen Colbert interview in GQ. I will cover
that tomorrow because it's election day. And hello, I am
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Please vote today.
I don't care who you vote for. You gotta vote
(00:23):
or I'm gonna yell at you tomorrow if you didn't vote,
So go vote. Hit stop on them. Why are you
even listening to me unless you're on your way to vote?
Go vote. As a big New York City mayoral election today,
Harry Condobolu told nola dot com he doesn't think there's
much of a Condobolu bump, but Harry Condobolu has made
an endorsement in the New York City mayor's race. He
is supporting Zoran Mumdanni. You may be familiar with Mumdanni
(00:47):
from such things as Rama Yusef playing him on Saturday
Night Live. We'll get into that. He's a young dude,
a progressive, making a lot of noise, and will probably
be in New York City's next mayor. Now, if you
don't like mister Mumdanni, go vote and vote for one
of the other candidates see how this works, and then
if you don't vote, you don't get to be mad
about it. Harry Condobolo said, I've known Zoran since he
(01:08):
was like eighteen years old. He went to my alma
mater vote in college in Maine, and his mom asked
me if i'd tell him what the school was like
before he went. During his four years, we kept in touch,
and we kept in touch after that. I did a
fundraiser for him when he was running for assemblymen. I've
known for a while this kid was special, but I'll
be honest, I didn't think he'd be mayor now. Harry's
gotten involved with New York area politics before. He has
(01:29):
told a story about AOC reaching out to him. In
twenty seventeen, she sent the ever so serious Harry condoboulu
who a direct message on Twitter. This was before she
was famous. She shared that she was running a grassroots
progressive campaign to represent Ports of Queens and the Bronx
and would Harry collaborate with her. He wrote back, I'm
pretty busy right now. When he get back to me
(01:49):
next year. He also called her Alexis in the message. Oops,
she won, and he said on the night she won.
He direct messaged her back, you did it. I knew
you'd win. Harry says, when candidates reach out now, I'm
likely to say yes when they're asking me to do it.
Did you watch SNL? It was a pretty good episode,
by far the best of the season. It opened up
with a mock New York City mayoral debate. Miles Taylor
(02:12):
played former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Romy Yusef was
Zoe ram Mandani. He joked, happy to be here, and
I'm ready to spend the next hour hearing my opponents
pronounce my name in ways you couldn't begin to imagine.
I'm probably getting it wrong. And then, shockingly to me,
and people don't seem to be making a big deal
of this, I think this is a big, big deal.
(02:32):
Shane Gillis played Curtis Sliwa. You know, the Guardian Angel
guy with the red beret. If you're from New York City,
you're like, yeah, John, we know. But maybe if you're
in an other part of the country, you don't know
this guy. Back in the eighties, when New York City
was basically hell, the Guardian Angels were like guys that
would ride the subway wearing red berets and would stick
up for you if bad guys were trying to do things.
(02:54):
So Curtis, like to New Yorkers, has been known forever.
I met him once when Bob Grant's time WOR Radio ended,
Curtis came by to help Bob Grant move boxes. This
is the only time I met Curtis Leiba on that
particular day. He was cool, But I digress. Shane Gillis
on SNL like it's nothing. You may recall he was
on the cast and then not on the cast. That's
(03:16):
the thing that happened. So I don't understand why the
world was like, oh yeah, Shane Gillis was on SNL,
like that's a big deal. Also a big deal. Now
here's the opening sketch. We've got Keenan Thompson as the moderator,
and just Keenan proves Saturday Night he is the glue.
I know, we all know this, but he's so good
at everything, steady, reliable, keeps the trains on time. So
(03:37):
he's the moderator. And then we have in the three
shiny spots the guest toast okay, that's fine, and two
people that aren't on SNL, and I'm sure somebody could
do a Curtis Sliwa. It's not like Shane Gillis nailed
the Curtis Sliwa impression, So the whole thing is weird
to me. Laurene Michaels, do you not trust your cast
because you're not using them? Towards the end of the sketch,
(03:59):
j Sames Austin Johnson came out doing his increasingly drifting
Donald Trump impression. He actually addressed his Trump impression with
The Hollywood Reporter recently and said the Sands shift he
used to be not as terrifying when he had moderate
people around him who were trying to stop him. Now
they're all gone, and his enemies are powerless and paralyzed
to stop any of it, which all comes across as
super dark. How do you find what's funny within that?
(04:21):
James said, I'm just trying to find new things happening
with his speech and his brain and definitely the darkness,
which is not easy with a guy who's been dominating
every single day for almost ten years. He says, the
subtlety is where the secret to his impression lies. He
explains Hamlet is not saying I'm gonna kill myself because
I suck. He says he's thinking about rivers and bones
and ghosts. Amid all the soliloquies, you pick up on
an undercurrent of really complex moral struggle. I don't want
(04:44):
to call what I'm doing Shakespeare, but I'm trying to
find the deeper forms of Trump, Who's a rich text.
People were upset with Colin Jost once again. Colin told
a joke about the President and wife Milania walking out
to the White House's Halloween festivities playing the song Thriller.
Joe said, my favorite part is when Trump and Millennia
made a grand entrance to the song Michael Jackson's Thriller
(05:05):
just the perfect soundtrack to lore kids to a famous mansion.
Some wonder if that's a joke joke. Others wonder if
that's some sort of Epstein commentary. I didn't write the joke,
ask SNL Like I said. Good episode. Miles Teller was
really good. The Property Brothers sketch was really good, and
James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump was really good. In
case you missed it, Miles Teller played both Jonathan and
(05:27):
Drew Scott. The Property Brothers stars of the HGTV show
Property Brothers. In the sketch, they were helping Donald Trump
build his new White House ballroom. There was also a
very funny NHL sketch based upon that there are three
teams in the NHL. One is the Rangers, one is
the Kings, and the other is Predators, and a lot
of the humor came from Predators. I don't want to
(05:48):
spoil it too much, but that's the setup and you
should watch the sketch. They're all online. I set them
out to my family on Sunday night when I finally
caught up with the episode between Football and More Football,
and I thought it was a pretty good episode. ALRP said, up,
Michael Jay. Now this wasn't on SNL. This was on
Instagram and Chay was commenting on snap benefits, which you
may know as food stamps. Chay wrote, this, Snap Freeze
(06:09):
is really fed up and I keep seeing a lot
of racist videos celebrating mostly black families not being able
to buy groceries. There's this weird idea that's in some
people have taken advantage of welfare benefits in the hood.
Nobody should receive help at all. Jay continued this country's
built on greedy mf ors, taking shortcuts and gaming of
the system to their benefit. But for some reason, when
poor people find a way to turn nickel into a dime,
(06:30):
they're judged more severely, especially blacks. I know the whole
hustle is to hate each other here, so we can
fight in the comments and upburn engagements, but let's draw
the line to feeding the poor. I grew up on
free cheese and powdered milk and waiting for your friends
to leave the store so they won't see me pay
with stamps. That's not as glamorous as it sounds, I promise. Yes,
we are very political today it is election day, and
I put all the politics things in today's show, and
(06:51):
then tomorrow no politics. So that's why I moved the
Colbert thing to tomorrow. Now, as you listen to the show, May,
I could understand if you were, like, you know, John,
sometimes I don't think you're down with President Trump. Well,
I have newsview. Sometimes President Trump and I are quite aligned.
For example, President Trump posted on social media about Late
Night with Seth Myers. Why does NBC waste its time
(07:12):
and money on a guy like this? I agree? Why
does that show exist. Who's it for? Who's watching it?
It has about seven more viewers than I have listeners.
I don't know what this is for. So if you're
like Johnya never backed Trump on anything, I'm backing him
up on this. Trump declared that Seth Myers may be
the worst to perform live or otherwise. Again, sometimes the
(07:33):
President and I are aligned, sometimes we're not, the President continued,
I watched the show the other night for the first
time in years. In it, he talked endlessly about electric
catabults on aircraft carriers, which I complained about is not
being as good as much less expensive steam catapults on
an Anyway, it truly deranged, lunatic. I don't think Seth
Myers is deranged, and I'm not an expert on aircraft
(07:54):
carrier catapults, so I'm not able to comment on that.
The President continued, Why does NBC waste its time money?
And I like this no talent, no ratings, one hundred
percent anti Trump, which is probably illegal. I'm not a lawyer.
I'm just a guy in the basement with a podcast.
I don't think it is illegal at all to be
anti Trump. Radar online sourcing Rob Shutter, who has a
(08:16):
sub stack. They're suggesting friends of Jimmy Kimmel would like
Jimmy Kimmel to run for president. That would be all
sorts of interesting politics aside, just as somebody who hosts
a podcast in their basement about comedians please do now.
I am familiar with Radar Online because when I'm not
doing this, I write for the Palace Intrigue podcast, and
I find that Radar Online tends to be more gossipy
(08:40):
than some other websites Anyway. Supposedly, insiders say that Hollywood
elites see Jimmy Kimmel as a fearless contender for the
twenty twenty eight presidency. A source says they're pitching him
as smart, funny, fearless, but it's a tiny bubble casting
this role, not thinking about real voters. Another insider said
of Jimmy Kimmel, he's starting to believe maybe they're right,
(09:01):
But to real Americans, Jimmy Kimmel and the White House
sounds more like a late night punchline than a serious plan.
It is election day. Did I mention that why are
you still listening to me when you should be voting?
And then you know you could be like, yes, we
need more of this or less of this, and you
could do something about it. Do not sit home today.
I will scold you. Recently, John Stewart did that live
(09:21):
conference with David Remnick from The New Yorker. They shared
a full transcript. Remnick asked John Stewart, why do you
think Trump won? Stewart said, because of the dissatisfaction of
an analog system. In a digital world, the distance between
how you feel about the world and the actual world
has never been larger. We're victims of the circadium rhythms
of social media, and social media is incentivized to what
(09:42):
not to connect us. I've seen the Facebook commercial, and yes,
it's true, if you do like a certain kind of cat,
there'll be other people who like that certain kind of cat,
and you will connect with one another. But the purpose
of social media to keep you on his platform. That's it.
That's all these companies care about. They want you on
that platform. They want you there as long as they
can possibly have you. And the way they've rigged our
brains to figure out is that outrage and anger and
hate and hostility are much stronger drivers of engagement than
(10:03):
anything else. On the flip side of that, won't answer here.
By jud Stewart, we have a political system designed as
an analog. What is the Senate? It's the cooling saucer
of democracy. And what's Twitter? That's the thing that makes
you want to rip people's eyes out. You put those
together and it's not a good mix. And so Trump
was able to harness the anger and catastrophizing of that
as a way of taking over the other things that
we have. Remnick asked, and he didn't find Biden and
(10:25):
Harris a good remedy for that. John laughed and said,
I thought they were great. Stuart said, Look what's going
on with Zorain Maundani. You finally got a guy in
New York City who's getting people to vote in the
affirmative for his positions, which is inspiring people and giving
a certain amount of leadership. And what is the general
status call the Democratic Party do with that? That guy's
a communist like the party goes along with the characterture
(10:45):
of this man. Look, we're in a bad situation. It's
not just the crappiness of Trump. It's the passivity of
the Democratic Party to stick with a status quo that
most people felt were not working. It was a Legenday,
did you vote yet? We are political today, Yes, we are.
Stavros Halkias with Vulture. They were recapping the episode of
Stave's World with guest Caleb Hearin. That was the one
where Stavey said he was shocked and disappointed that Joe
(11:07):
Rogan endorsed Donald Trump. Alkias said, what surprised me about
Joe in particular is I do think we align on
a lot. I don't think he's a far right guy.
It was just shocking because he's an avatar for a
regular dude. A lot of people do swing wildly. He
liked Bernie like Trump. There's a lot more people in
America that are like that. To me, it was like, WHOA,
what the f How did Democrats allow this kind of
thing to happen? Because listen, I get being like, I
(11:28):
hate both these candidates. That was my position. I got
not liking Kamala Harris, but I did not, in any way,
shape or form understand being a free speech guy and
then being like Trump's my guy. That was really the
crux of it, and it was worse than even thought
obviously with these he said something quite unfavorable about Ice.
Ice people with mass and no due process in America,
(11:50):
and that's your freedom of speech. Guy. He was suing
journalists he didn't like before this. I just thought it
was a simplistic view of freedom of speech. That's like, essentially,
we shouldn't be able to say any slurs. They're not
worthy of it. Take him back. I would like du
process and bleeping out a couple effing words. Stavro says
also endorsed this Zooran Mamdani guy in the Mayor oal race.
Vulture was curious why Starvar said, I got not liking
(12:11):
either candidate in the twenty four presidential election because I
do think the Democratic Party does not offer anything right now.
Mamdani represents something that is exciting to a lot of
young people. Democratic leadership is like, how do we get
people excited after running the most bs consultant driven campaigns possible,
Whereas Mamdani is a guy who's effing thirty three and
who has just excited people. But the Democrats don't want
(12:31):
that because they're also bought and paid for. Starvo said,
I don't think they needed me. His campaigns really well run.
But that's where I'll be like, hey, if I can
make a difference in any way. Even if this helps
this much, I'll help candidates I believe in, or causes
I believe in, or fundraise for things I believe in.
But I'm not going to have the politics hour every
week on my podcast. That must be nice. I'm trying
not to, and I'm doing it twice a week now
(12:53):
at least. To go vote Please out Today On Netflix,
Leanne Morgan's Unspeakable Things. LeAnn Morgan takes on topics including motherhood,
trying CBD for the first and last time, navigating fame,
and the less glamorous side of family vacations. Jimmy Fallon
has a new Tuesday Night segment as part of the
(13:13):
NBA on NBC. This debut last week, but today's Tuesday,
and there's basketball on NBC tonight. The segment is called
the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot. I was thinking about
Jimmy over the weekend. He's a survivor. You know, that
Cobert rating story came out and I was like, you know,
Fallon doesn't have the ratings and he also doesn't have
the respect. You've heard me. I stick up for Jimmy
(13:35):
more often than not, but he definitely doesn't have the
respect at all. It's just a weird spot to have
the Tonight Show in third place. And it's not like
people are like, yeah, the host of the Tonight Show.
But I guess Jay Leno didn't have that either, right,
but Jay Leno was in first anyway. The Tonight Show
One Shot Jackpot combines live game energy with the NBC
(13:56):
Late Night Show's classic audience participation vibe. Each week, as
Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave, one audience member
will get the chance to make a half court basketball
shot for ten thousand dollars. The jackpot rolls over if
no one sinks it. Last week, Maggie from Long Beach
was the contestant. She told Jimmy Fallon she does not
play basketball. She took a shot, the crowd cheers, she missed.
(14:19):
She got a consolation prize, a Tonight Show sweatshirt signed
by Jimmy Fallon and Atlanta Hawk star Trey Young, who
is there as part of this. Fallon said more money
will be added to the Tonight Show One Shot Jackpot
for next week. Next week is now, so somebody's gonna
take their shot out today. On the eight hundred Pound
Gorilla YouTube channel, it is Michael Yo's Snack Daddy, and
(14:41):
I never thought it's a double feature by Michael Yo.
The three to one to two Festival has kicked off.
Patrick war Button, that's Puddy. He's at Zani's Rosemont tonight
at seven a preview of three one two. The Chicago
Theater will have some of the bigger shows including Fortune
Fiemster there on the eighth, Ralph Barbosa there on the seventh.
Dusty Slay, one of my current favorites, also part of
(15:02):
the festival, So we'll start breaking that out every day
and then later in the week. It's the New York
Comedy Festival. Three one two was launched in twenty twenty three.
I thought it was around longer than that. I guess
I am wrong. It was launched by Outback Presents and
Outback's president Andrew Farewell said Chicago is a great market
for comedy. Yes it is. He said, comedy is hotter
(15:23):
than it's ever been. There are so many great acts,
such diversity, and we're really proud to bring so many
types of comedy across all the different sized venues, from
larger theaters to smaller clubs and everything in between. There's
a lot of great places to see comedy in Chicago.
One of the performers will be Pete Holmes, which is
interesting because he's also playing in New York. Pete will
be at the Riviera Theater at the Chicago Fest on
November eighth. Pete said, I'm very excited consider myself to
(15:46):
start in Chicago and hope I'm still in the fold
of Chicago comedy. It's always great to come back and
perform there and to be in this venue for the
first time at a city I love so much. Chicago
has always been a great comedy city because it's just
filled with smart people with sensitive of humor. You can't
ask for better than that. Oh, I'll ask for better
than that. You know what's better than that? The Chicago
Bears Miracle cover. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett got
(16:06):
me in this football pool and I had the Bears
and the Bears blew it lately and I was like, ah,
I'm not getting that one right. And then the Bears
pulled out a miracle victory. And more importantly the cover,
did Dallas win last night? Because if they did, I
won the week. If they didn't, I didn't. And that's it.
I'm going to tell you about Amy Schumer's weight loss.
Tomorrow has that for a really exciting tease. You're just
gonna sit around for twenty four hours and be like,
(16:27):
oh man, I can't believe it didn't tell us about
Amy Schumer's weight loss. I'm just gonna sit here by
my phone hitting refresh until he drops another episode. No, yes,
all right, see Tomorrow. Go vote
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