George Clooney Praises Adam Sandler, Tom Segura's Surf Fight, TJ Miller and TJ Hooker

George Clooney commends Adam Sandler's dramatic acting skills. Tom Segura recounts a physical altercation over a wave while surfing. Marc Maron discusses his podcast experience, Bill Burr talks about comedy bits online, and Matt Rife reflects on selling out Madison Square Garden. The episode shifts to various TV show updates, including the revival of 'TJ Hooker' and Chance The Rapper's upcoming album inspired by Dave Chappelle's advice. Other highlights include Jay Leno's charity efforts, Michael Rappaport's show cancellation, and new streaming specials by comedians like TJ Miller.

 
00:26 George Clooney on Adam Sandler's Acting
01:44 Tom Segura's Surf Fight Story
02:17 Marc Maron's Podcast Highlights
03:32 Jimmy Fallon and Other Comedians' Book Clubs
04:39 Bill Burr's Thoughts on Comedy and Politics
06:10 Matt Rife's Madison Square Garden Achievement
07:09 TJ Hooker Reboot and Chance the Rapper's Album
07:53 TJ Miller's Comedy Philosophy
11:36 Gossip Corner: Jimmy Carr and Jay Leno
14:27 Michael Rappaport's Canceled Show

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Daily Comedy News. Now George Clooney. You respect George Clooney, don't. Yeah,
I'm often mistaken for him on the street. People will
be like, hey, you're that guy, and I'm like, yeah,
Daily comedyis and they're like, no, no, you're the guy
from Er George something, and I'm like, no, no, that's

(00:23):
not me. But we're often confused for each other. He
spoke to Vanity Fair about wonderful dramatic actor Adam Sandler,
and I respect the heck out of George Clooney because
he speaks the truth here and I'm excited. Clooney is
working with Sandler on a film called Jay Kelly, and
Clooney says of Sandler's performance, this film, more than any
film Adam has done, shows what a beautiful, heartfelt, soulful

(00:47):
actor he is. So we're getting more dramatic Adam Sandler,
which I love. I think he's one of the best.
He's terrible at comedy. All his comedy movies are really awful.
But dramatic actor Adam Sandler, I'm in. Clooney said it,
kept telling the cast don't call him Sandman. Don't talk
to him like he's just some goofy comedian. He's actually
a really beautiful, wonderful actor. And I agree, no sarcasm.

(01:09):
You've heard me say this before. Now this next paragraph.
I'm reading the text here, and it depends on the spin.
Stay with me, Coloney said, because of what his paycheck is,
which is doing big goofy comedies, when he does these
other beautiful, uncut gems kinds of movies, it reminds people
of that. And in the phrase, I don't know where
to put the verbal spin on it. I would read
it as he's not just a good comedian, but I

(01:30):
suspect Coloney said it he's not just a good comedian.
But no anyway. Jake Kelly in Theater is November fourteenth,
streaming on Netflix December fifth. From surfer dot com You're
home for comedy news, Tom Sigora apparently was in a
surf fight. The source for this Tom Sigora, who says
I got into a surf fight, pretty good source. He explains.

(01:52):
It was over a wave. I was going to take
a wave and this guy was like, that's mine. I go,
what are you talking about? I go to paddle out
to it, and he flipped out. He pulled out a
swim blade. He swung at me with it, scraped the
side of my face. I hit him. I don't think
he surfed away. He kind of floated for a minute,
and then I left. Wife Christina was wondering if the
guy's dead, so Gore said, I guess I didn't see
anything in the paper. He had a switchblade in his shorts.

(02:13):
Did this story happen exactly like that? I don't know.
Mark Maron was on The Bad Friends podcast with Andrew
Santino and Bobby Lee. Maren started talking about somebody from Austin, Texas.
I don't know who he could have possibly meant, maybe
some sort of podcaster, perhaps a guy that likes Mma.
Who knows who he was even talking about, because Maren

(02:35):
did not say who he was referring to, So let's
see if we can parse Maren's words here on the
Bad Friends podcast. Maren on his own feed last week
dropped that appearance at the ninety second Street Y with
Jim Gaffigan. At the time of this recording, I'm about
halfway through it. Listen to it while walking the dog
the other night. Maren was great and Jim is fine.

(02:55):
But I've brought this up before, especially when he's hawking
the bourbon. Jim on stage performing written material clearly funny.
Any other environment, Jim's not that funny, and he doesn't
even sound that much fun Listen to him with Maren.
You can hear Maren. I think you could wake up
at three in the morning and Maren's just funny. I'm
not sure if you woke up Jim at three in

(03:16):
the morning, he would nail it. It's fine, there's nothing
wrong with that. It just is. And I'm observing it
because I have a podcast. I'm in the basement. So
we've got Jim gaffigan super cool bourbon thing, the John
Mulaney book Club, which is even more cool. And now
Jimmy Fallon is bringing back his book club, which is
called Fallon book Club. They worked on that for hours

(03:39):
to come up with that title. Fallon went on social
media and posted Fallon book Club is back and I'm
looking for your suggestions comment below hashtag Fallon book Club. Now.
Fallon started his super cool book club back in twenty
twenty one, so John Mulaney's is a total ripoff. Back then,
fans voted on a final pick from a list of
six contenders. In June, Stephen Colbert, whose show was canceled

(04:03):
probably because of this, launched the Late Show book Club.
I wouldn't get too attached to the Late Show book
Club because I doubt CBS is going to keep that around.
Mlanie's book club is titled Malanie Reads, which is somehow
an even worst title. I almost had a breakdown there
my computer. All of a sudden, it was like audio
in put not working and the mic wasn't working. So

(04:25):
I restarted the computer and then I brought this file
back up that you're listening to now, and it was blank.
And I was like, are you kidding me? Because I
just did six minutes and now turn out at Bilt Burr,
Come on, computer, you gotta work. Anyway, the file was
still there. That's the six minutes you just heard. This
is session two. Bill Burr was on Vulture probably two
weeks ago now, and I'm still picking away of that.

(04:46):
Such a good interview. Bert said, one of the funniest
things ever is that so many of my bits are online,
which is great promotion to sell tickets, but the names
of the jokes they name them like, that's not the
name of the joke. That's not the perspective of the joke.
I've seen people teach comedy classes saying, you see what
he's doing here. Bothered me at first. Then I'm just like,
you know what, what I care? The songs I listened
to for forty years and I thought they were about something.
To hear the artists go like, no, wasn't. I just

(05:07):
saw something. I don't know if it's true, but that
Buffalo Springfield song that goes, stop children, what's that sound?
Everybody thought it was about Vietnam and the band goes, no,
it's just sort of about this little rock club in LA,
And it's like, oh, I thought your song was about
what I cared about the topic turn Two political candidates
appearing on podcasts first said, I remember the first time
I saw President go on the Tonight Show. I thought
it was cheapening the office. They never did that. They

(05:29):
used to run for office that have the debates, and
they wouldn't even go and meet the press. But now
I feel like everybody is a camera, so it's all
over the place. I think the landscape of it has changed.
All I can say is personally, I'd never do it.
I'd never have somebody come on, who's running for president? Now?
With my intelect I'm not going to sit there and
be like, so, what's your foreign policy. I'd be like,
within three minutes, dude, what's your favorite super Bowl? And
then people watch it go I like that super Bowl too.
I'm going to vote for that guy. It's just so

(05:51):
far behind my wheelhouse. Somebody once said to me, Bill,
you're a really smart guy, and I go, yeah, it
is a sports bar. You put me in a sports
bar and you want to talk to me about seventies
and eighty sports. I'm scoring very high. He put me
in that forum where I have to interview somebody who's
gonna run for president, and then, as the sports bar guy,
you're gonna say, yeah, this guy did go to summer
school a lot. Matt Rife, you're the youngest comedian to

(06:13):
sell out two nights at Madison Square Garden. Any thoughts
Billboard was curious? Rife said, a lot of times, these
kind of accomplishments and accolades are art to process in
the moment because everything's been happening so fast. A lot
of the shows at broken records and venues, and I go, oh,
that's really cool, But not until two or three months
later to go, wow, that happened. When you're first starting
out on an open mic, the dream is the Garden.

(06:33):
So to get to play twice sold out before the
age of thirty, it meant everything to me. I'm so
grateful for my fans, my team, my friends, and my
family and everybody who's helped me get to this point.
Right now, it feels very surreal, you know. I know
it's trendy to hate on Matt Rife, but his special
is funny. In every interview I read with him, he
seems like he's a cool guy. Sorry if he looks nice,
and that makes some people annoyed. He's got a thing

(06:54):
going on. Doesn't seem like a jerk man. How would
you grade your Garden run? He said, Oh, that's a
tough one. To give them both an A, not a plus,
but A. I really had a good time at those shows,
and I felt like the audience did as well. That's
not always the case. Sometimes I feel like the crowd
had a good time and I didn't. For some reason,
they're bringing back t J Hooker, remember that one the
other William Shantner show. He was a Policeman ran from

(07:15):
nineteen eighty two to nineteen eighty six. Netflix is bringing
it back. The thought is it'll be kind of a
goof the way twenty one. Jump Street was not sure
why we're making that, but okay. Chance the rapper is
finally putting out his album star Line, and he said
he got advice from Dave Chappelle, who said to approach
the project as representing a moment in time. Chance said

(07:37):
Dave told them rap albums they're like yearbook photos. It's
not the full story of who you are. It's just
who you are in the moment. It's important to take
that snapshot and put it out there so you have
documentation of what that moment felt like. The album will
be out August twenty second, out today early access on
the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla. TJ. Miller is the philosophy Circus. TJ.
Miller recently spoke to The Spokesman Review and spoke Hanne.

(07:59):
He gave them the business about what they named their restaurants.
He said, the city's like a functioning alcoholic with restaurant
names like twenty four Taps Burgers and Brews, or Soulful
Soups and spirits. TJ said, do you understand that looks insane?
Anybody who doesn't live here. You don't seem to. You're
totally okay with it. He shared a conversation he had
with Amy Schumer. Amy asked TJ if he was working

(08:20):
on a special. TJ said, I think one's coming together,
but that's not my directive because I like improvising. He
asked Amy if she was working on a special. She said, no,
I'm just trying to love the time that I'm spending
with the audience. Miller said, I thought that was wonderful.
You're never going to see me and go, well, I
guess I'll see all this online. Everybody's gonna even go wow,
that was just for us. He says he wants every
night of his current Crowd Sorcerer tour to feel like that.

(08:43):
TJ says, my whole focus is trying to keep it
light now more than ever, more importantly, I'm trying to
have the audience walk away every single show saying, no
one's ever going to see that. That was very, very unique.
I understand what you mean there, but things cannot be
very unique. They're either unique or not. Pet peeve of mine.
We are getting long here, all right, So I'm kicking
four stories to tomorrow. Let's talk about the trailer for

(09:05):
the paper, The Office semi spinoff. People seem to like it.
I'll be honest, I didn't make it to the end
of it. Let me tell you about it. The paper
is a mockumentary from Greg Daniels and Michael Korman set
in the same universe as the US Office, which I
guess is set in the same universe as the UK Office,
right because we saw Ricky in the hallway. Anyway, the

(09:25):
documentary crew that made the dunder Mifflin documentary now they're
at a newspaper, a Toledo newspaper called The Truth Teller.
I kind of hate that they called it the truth
Teller and not like the Toledo Tribune, Toledo Sun, Toledo
News Gazette or something. The Truth Teller just seems hacky
to me. But okay, so I'm all Gleeson. You remember him.
He was the cartoonish villain in the Star Wars sequels,

(09:50):
not Kylo Wrenn, the other guy that worked for the Empire. Well,
Gleason's doing an American accent as Ned Samson, who's hired
as the struggling paper's new editor in chief. We see
a trailer. It looks a lot like the UK office.
The way it's shot and even the font they're using
it feels like the office. The co lead I forget
her name. It's the woman who worked the desk at

(10:12):
the Italian season of White Lotus. A lot of the
jokes are coming in, at least in the trailer, coming
from her not speaking English as well as maybe somebody
else does. That's not my kind of humor. I don't
hate this thing. I'm sure I will watch it, but
I also didn't make it to the end of the trailer,
so I wasn't like, oh, my goodness, this is great.
I also don't understand what Peacock is doing with it.
I've talked about this before. It'll premiere September fourth, with

(10:35):
four episodes on Peacock Up against the Night one of NFL,
and it's not like you can't watch it later. But
I'm pretty sure there's an NFL game the first Friday
as well. I feel like the Chiefs or somebody are
in Brazil, and then Sunday, of course, is all NFL.
So I don't know why they put it there, it
might get lost, and then they're doing two episodes every

(10:56):
Thursday through September twenty fifth and then we're done. So
even if this thing is it's like, oh have you
seen the paper, It's amazing, it'll be come and went
in three weeks. Why would he do that? Why didn't
you just put out one a week for ten weeks
and get some water cooler going. Yeah, no, I guess not.
Gossip Connor whispers in the street.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Gossip con probably MOPI gossip conn where the rumors meet
with Johnny Mac.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's always a tree.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Gossip Connor whispers tree, gossip con probably gossip Conne were
the room with me with Johnny Mac doling the tree?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Thank you AI songmakers on Gossip Corner. From the Daily Mail,
we found out how much money Jimmy Carr is making.
They say accounts File that Companies House have revealed that
his firm R and I Futures Limited made four point
eight million pounds in the year two September twenty twenty four.
I'm not sure the structure of that sentence, what exactly

(11:55):
that means. Whatever the timeline four point eight million pounds,
The Daily Mail says, Jimmy set the company up two
years ago and is earning nearly one hundred thousand pounds
per week. Not bad. Good news too. Last One Laughing,
which I loved, is coming back for a second season,
Jimmy said him so pleased people had as much fun
watching the first season as we had making it. Can't

(12:16):
wait to bask in the reflected glory of the next
ten comedy legends taking on the challenge. Speaking of Jimmy
Carr on the fourteenth, Jimmy Carr Laughing and Joking is
on the eight hundred Pound Guerrillas YouTube channel at seven Central.
That's cool now, as people have been saying, as you know,
Jay Leno is the worst person in the world because
he had an opinion on late night television. Yeah, what

(12:38):
a terrible guy Jay Leno is, which makes it even
more shocking that he raised seventy thousand dollars for the
Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Community Center. The donation came
from Jay Leno's July ninth through the twelfth performances at
a brewery. Heather Hoole Strout is the executive director of
the MLK Community Center and said, we are thrilled with
this donation. Jay Leno, who you know is the worst

(12:59):
person in the world, Well, because he had opinion on late
night television. I mean, what does Jay Leno know about
late night television? Right? Jay Leno and Newport Craft presented
an incredible opportunity for our community to support the MLK
and our community shut up in full force. The funds
will support the center's food pantry and mobile food pantry,
stock vegetables for the weekly Protos to the People program
at the center. The money will also sustain wellness programs,

(13:21):
including free yoga, chi and cooking classes. Director Strout said,
Jay who you know, was the worst person in the
world because he had opinion on late night TV? And
who's Jay Leno to talk about hosting eleven thirty show?
What does he know about it? Jay cave his time
and talent for four sold out shows. Jay Leno doesn't
just live in Newport, he shows up for Newport. This
generosity will help in so many ways. We'll help keep

(13:42):
our food in our pantry and mobile food pantry and
more stock veggies, et cetera, et cetera. I told you
about that already. Nice job, Jay Leno. Friend of the Show,
Dan Boobletz Junior and Big Laugh LLC have announced Live
in Loveland, now streaming on tub filmed at the two
the Five's taproom and Lounge. Dan said, it's a great
feeling knowing that a project that was filmed here in
Loveland will be seen across the world. Words can't describe

(14:05):
how good it feels to have a hand in highlighting
comedy in Colorado and beyond. The comedy special features comedians
Luke Gaston, who's a regular at the Comedy Fort in
Fort Collins, Cam Kiernan, Thomas Nichols, who was a finalist
at the Seattle International Comedy Competition, and of course for
end of the show, Dan Boobletz Junior. Live in Loveland
available to stream free on the two. B app Nice

(14:26):
job there. Hey, I've got a follow up that Michael
Rappaport story I told you the other day. It turns
out it was a beautiful day and he went for
a walk in the park and petted some Golden Retriever
puppies and had a great Oh no, no, it wasn't
that at all. Bruce Errs, who's the founder of the
comedy club Stardome, which canceled Michael Rappaport's shows, told al
dot Com the venue had received a flood of messages

(14:49):
and emails urging organizers to cancel said performance. Aerrs says
after discussions with Rapp Reports management team and the Hoover
Police Department, he decided the best thing to do is
to cancel the show. He said, I'm not taking sides.
That's just trying to book a comedy show. I didn't
want a big protest outside and somebody getting hurt. I'm
here to do comedy, make people laugh. There's nothing political
about it anyway. I was just trying to put on

(15:11):
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people that really wanted to come. It's just unfortunate the
way it came down. And you know what, as I
record this on Friday afternoon, it is like seventy nine degrees,
the humidity's like zero, and the sun is out. So
I'm gonna wrap it up here because some other day
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