October 4, 2025 • 17 mins
Theo Von addresses a government-related incident that left him paranoid, including receiving threats and a strange offer of extra security.
Saturday Night Live's return is highlighted, covering upcoming hosts and musical guests like Bad Bunny and Doja Cat, and speculations about a potential Taylor Swift appearance.
The episode also delves into SNL's new cast members and Lorne Michaels' evolving casting strategy.
Additional content includes a humorous take on Al Michaels taking ove SNL, Carol Burnett's absence from SNL hosting duties, and the return of Mr. Bill on YouTube. Oh noooooooo.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daily-comedy-news-with-johnny-mac--4522158/support.
Become a premium subscriber! (no ads). For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING and the bonus “DCN8” show.
You also get 25+ other series (it’s only $4.99 a month with a free-trial month)
Contact John at john@thesharkdeck dot com
Media Thoughts is mcdpod.substack.com
dailycomedynews.substack.com
DCN on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@dailycomedynews
https://linktr.ee/dailycomedynews
www.buymeacoffee.com/dailycomedynews
Saturday Night Live's return is highlighted, covering upcoming hosts and musical guests like Bad Bunny and Doja Cat, and speculations about a potential Taylor Swift appearance.
The episode also delves into SNL's new cast members and Lorne Michaels' evolving casting strategy.
Additional content includes a humorous take on Al Michaels taking ove SNL, Carol Burnett's absence from SNL hosting duties, and the return of Mr. Bill on YouTube. Oh noooooooo.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daily-comedy-news-with-johnny-mac--4522158/support.
Become a premium subscriber! (no ads). For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING and the bonus “DCN8” show.
You also get 25+ other series (it’s only $4.99 a month with a free-trial month)
Contact John at john@thesharkdeck dot com
Media Thoughts is mcdpod.substack.com
dailycomedynews.substack.com
DCN on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@dailycomedynews
https://linktr.ee/dailycomedynews
www.buymeacoffee.com/dailycomedynews
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Kalaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hi there, I'm Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.
The news continues to be feisty. I just wanted to
do U, S and L today, but I do need
to cover some THEO Von stories. I'll take out a
little light on Riodd today. I have plenty about Riod
and Sunday Show, and I'll do the late night jokes tomorrow.
But let's get to theo Von. On his podcast this
(00:30):
past weekend, he addressed that whole thing with the DHS
using his clip, and theose comments here get pretty interesting.
I have made edits for both language and pacing, but
listen to theo here.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
My father immigrated here from Nicaraugule, right. Like one of
my prize possessions is I have his immigration papers when
he came here, and I have him in a frame
and him and his siblings when they came here, and
so I have tons of thoughts about him. It was
like on all platforms and stuff. So SOD had me
(01:04):
really kind of paranoid. You know. That had me start
to get kind of paranoid, and you know, like closing,
like you know, I had the curtains in my house
kind of closed I was just like, you know, you're paranoid.
I woke up the next morning to a text from
a high government official saying, Hey, if you need uh
(01:26):
some extra security in your neighborhood or some extra police
cars on patrol, let me know. And I'm like, what
what are you talking about extra security? I don't have any, Like,
you know, I don't even know the code of my
RINGT camera, Like I don't even know how to log
into it. So it's like and then, and like, what,
You're just gonna put police cars in my neighborhood? What
are my neighbors gonna think? Now? They're fearful? Like it
(01:48):
just like I don't know, man, that that like really
kind of shook me. It really kind of shook me.
But you just you keep marching on.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
If you listen to to this podcast early on Saturday morning,
and why wouldn't you you have time yet? THEO will
be the celebrity guest picker on College Game Day today.
Vanderbilt at Alabama will mark Theovan's second appearance on college
Game Day. He previously was on the panel as the
guest picker at the twenty twenty three SEC Championship between
(02:18):
Alabama and Georgia. Saturday Night Live is back tonight, Bad
Bunny as your host, Doja Cat is the musical guest,
next week Amy Poehler on the fiftieth anniversary of the
show proper musical guest role Model, and on the eighteenth,
Sabrina Carpenter will double up as both host and musical guest.
Some people are wondering if Taylor Swift is going to
make an appearance tonight. Here's the theories. She already has
(02:42):
done the Graham Norton Show, She's doing fallon on the
sixth for some inexplicable reason. She's going to do Seth
Meyers on the eighth. I mean, at that point, Taylor
do my podcast. Now Here are some of the clues.
Taylor Swift's official social media team, Taylor Nation, created quote
time Card of a Showgirl, which highlighted all her upcoming
late night appearances on a calendar, as well as the
(03:04):
theatrical release party of the Life of a show Girl yesterday.
But there's a blank space on October fourth, which is today.
There's a punch hole on a time card with one
word stand by. So that's not stand by, that's stand by.
Is that a hint of you might want to be
on the standby list for Saturday Night Live tonight. This
(03:24):
if it was stand by, that would be two words,
would it not? Oh? There is more. The punch card
suggests something might be happening around seven pm today on Saturday. Now,
you know what usually happens around seven pm on Saturday.
The Saturday Night Live standby line opens. You see what
we're doing here? Yeah? Now, bad Bunny, who's the host
of SNL tonight recently was in Happy Gilmour Too, that
(03:47):
awful Adam Sandler comedy. You know who else was in that?
Travis Kelcey, who is Taylor Swiss fiance? Do you see
this conspiracy?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Now? A TikToker pointed out that an Instagram pro for
SNL released on October first features the voices of people
close to Taylor Swift. Some people think you can hear
Travis Kelsey's voice saying let's start the show. Others think
you can hear Selena Gomez saying get the host on
the stage for the monologue. And it also sounds like
Taylor herself maybe saying standby in the clip. The color
(04:20):
scheme in the SNL promo clip is a very tailor
swifty Orange. So we will see and I will tell
you about that on Monday, because I'm not staying up
to one in the morning to record Sunday's episode. Deadline
talk to a bunch of insiders about the various hirings
and firings at SNL and what it means for the show.
One source told Deadline, I think what you're seeing right
now is SNL operating in a new era. Is that
(04:42):
another clue where the talent has more of a voice
than ever before. In previous years, when you would hire
a cast member, it would be a total discovery. This year,
I think it's the first we're all for. The comedians
they've picked have fairly sizable, kind of ish, but dedicated
audiences they've already built on their own. Lorden Michaels at
the Emmy said the show was always people in from
different ages and different generations, and that's how it revives itself.
(05:03):
It's always hard when people leave, but there's a time
for that in our audience, as I've always stayed relatively young,
and more so now TikTok and change is good. The
people were bringing in. I'm really excited about the new
cast members. Jeremy Colehyne, described as an improv sketch comedian
in the traditional mold. Veronica Slowakowska. You may recognize her
from Shane Gillis's Tires show. She has a substantial following
(05:26):
on TikTok and Insta. Tommy Brennan was a twenty twenty
three just for Laughs new face. One source jokes that
he looks like every white dude, meaning he might be
in a lot of the everyman sketches. And Cam Patterson
you know him from Kill Tony regular appearances on Kill Tony.
Also Ben Marshall from the Please Don't Destroys he gets
bumped up. Insider say the hiring process at SNL all
(05:48):
started in August with showcases in LA New York and Chicago,
followed by screen tests and an unusually large round of
final meetings with Lorne Michaels, who met around ten comics.
A source compared the casting to a wide rather than
the usual clarity, saying it felt more like a Sports
League draft with I almost said al Michaels. Lorne Michaels
ultimately see al Michaels calls football. Did you see the
(06:11):
forty nine Ers win that game? I don't know how
they won that game? How did they win that game? Rams?
You had that three times. I'm a Niners fan, I
can't believe the Niners won that game. With Lorne Michaels
ultimately picking the best talent available on the board, Insiders
say Lorn was leaning away from hiring stand ups. One
said snl at one point was openly saying says he's
done hiring stand ups. He wants to take a break
(06:32):
from hiring stand ups. Another insider said, I must set
al Michaels again. Boy, Lorne Michaels. You know what, al
Michaels should take over Saturday Night Live for a year.
I would watch that. I'm not sure wre Lorne Michaels
would be good at Thursday Night Football, but I would
watch an al Old Michael's produce show. I like al Michaels.
He's very personable. Lorne Michaels and team have smartly covered
the bases in their casting for this season. The insider
(06:55):
says it makes sense to reach out to different circles
because if you're building a show for everyone, then you
pick me from every sort of comedy circle. They also
point out that Marcelo Hernandez who has broken out, particularly
with his Domingo character. Yes, his wonderful Domingo character. He's
really good at that. And the seventeen variants on that
exact same character that he does show me some range
tonight Marcelo. But they say Marcelo has broken out, even
(07:18):
if there have been some whiffs with newer talent. They
say the sheen is off a little bit. That Pete Davidson,
who will yesterday, was just at THERIODD Comedy Festival. His
father's called a nine to eleven. Pete was atriodd. He's
the last example of someone that quote everyone wanted a
piece of People coming off the show are not getting
propelled into the comedy sky in the same way. Things
are just different. They put their time and energy and
(07:39):
hard work, and the platform just doesn't have the same
weight that it used to. Insiders. Again, I think five
years ago, if you asked any young comic if they
wanted to go all out and make a tapes to
audition for us and l the automatic answer would be yes. Now,
it's a difficult process. It's obviously hard to get on
the show that I feel a lot of people are split.
David Simms in the Atlantic says, what could signal a
meaningful change are the show's newcomers. It's notable how me
(08:00):
new SNL cast members can now be evaluated by the
public thanks to the Internet and dopes in their basement
with podcasts. I don't think David said quite that, but
you know what I mean. For most of the show's existence,
Lauren Michaels and his team would gather folks from around
the country's most acclaimed improv troops and sketch comedy feeders,
Second City grand Ling's UCB. The SNL diehards would gather
information about the upcoming performers live acts. Most of this
(08:23):
year's editions have resumes that reflect the collective shift of
comedy production in recent years. They found their footing not
on stage but on podcasts, TikTok and streaming platforms. David
then breaks down the cast members we were ready did
that today and points out that Cam Patterson's most popular
material includes lots of tacit admiration for Trump and casual
use of slurs in front of guests. Until now, Lauren
(08:45):
Michaels has almost entirely avoided recruiting performers of that elk.
Perhaps he was discouraged by the firestorm that erupted after
he hired Shane Gillis. Six years later, Michael seems ready
to take another swipe but the hot stove. Kate mccannon
she was on Saturday Night Live for while and was
pretty good at it. She spoke to CBS News about
comedy in today's world. Kate McKinnon says, political sattire is
(09:07):
a very important part of a functioning society. I also
think that just goofiness and laughter are vital, not only art,
but in between people. It is healthy. And I think
just kindness and joy and laughter are such important things
and just the reason we're live. And so that's what
I like to bring to people. She misses SNL, but
I really love going to bed early, and that's what
I've been doing more of, and I really enjoy it.
I missed the people so much. I hear you that
(09:28):
forty nine ers gave the other night Johnny Mack was
up till eleven twenty on a school night. Are you crazy?
Carol Burnett has never hosted Saturday Night Live. Carol was
recently profiled in the New Yorker. I want to dive
in on that at some point it's been busy around
these parts. She was asked why she thinks Laurene Michaels
has never asked her to host Saturday Night Live. Here's
my question. Has al Michaels ever asked Carol Burnett to
(09:52):
be the guest analyst on Thursday Night Football? And if not,
why not? But I digress. Carol Burnett, asked about Lauren Michaels, said,
I don't know what I did upset that?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Man?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you think it's misogynistic? The New Yorker says, elm,
I'm leaving that in. I'm leaving it in. The New
Yorker said Lauren Michaels declined to comment. Response, I'm not
even doing a bit now. To be fair here, I
didn't think this was weird until someone brought it up,
meeting The New Yorker or Carol Burnette. So Carol Burnett
(10:21):
in her heyday. The Carol Burnett Show ran from nineteen
sixty seven to nineteen seventy eight on CBS, So okay,
it makes sense. I guess that Carol Burnett didn't host
Saturday Night Live those first few years when she had
her own show on CBS. Plus. Think of Carol Burnett
who's in her nineties now, as a different generation than
say Dan Ackroyd. So I don't think that's crazy that
(10:43):
they didn't have Carol Burnett host then. And then as
SNL became more establishment and programming, Carol Burnette really hasn't
been in the public eye, and so the last few
years when she started showing up on things like Better
Call Saul. I mean, we all love Carol Burnett. I
worked with Carol Burnette ten twelve, fifteen. I don't know
how long ago it is years We did a thing
(11:04):
at Sirius XAM when they were promoting a Carol Burnett
DVD box set Question work Anyway, I got to meet
miss Burnett and she was fantastic. Gamy Schumer hosted that.
I'm sure you can find some clips online somewhere. But
I don't think it's crazy that Carol Burnett never hosted SNL,
and I think it would be awesome if she hosted
(11:25):
it now, although she is in her nineties. Does Carol
Burnett want to do that? She says no, I don't
think I would maybe, like twenty years ago or whatever,
but that ship is sailed. Remember, mister Bill, you got
to be old to remember mister Bill. But if you're
old like me, you remember mister Bill and how awesome
mister Bill was. Mister Bill is back. Oh no, mister
Bill tonight at eleven thirty on YouTube. Interesting timing there,
(11:48):
I mean, guys, put it out at eleven. What are
you doing going head to head with SNL? This new
show is mister Bill's Saturday Night Mattene, a new weekly
variety show Tonight eleven thirty Eastern, hosted by mister Bill
from his cozy apartment in the Hollywood Hills. The new
series features restored public domain comedy clips reimagined in Bill Vision,
vintage commercials, surprise guests, and yes, the mister Bill classic
(12:13):
SNL shorts that started at all. Mister Bill started as
a no budget home movie sent in by Walter Williams.
Williams is part of this new project and says these
are the shows that inspired mister Bill in the first place,
The Three Stooges, Harold Lloyd, the Beverly Hillbillies restored and
reimagined for a new generation. But don't worry, there's still
plenty of pain and destruction of waiting our host. In
(12:34):
recent months, mister Williams has taken a social media to
challenge Lorne Michael's long standing dismissal of the character of
mister Bill. There's a quote in the recent Susan Morrison
biography in which Lorne Michaels said the Mister Bill films
carried quote a certain kind of racial tension. Now, I
can't tell you the last time I saw a Mister
(12:54):
Bill sketch. My brain is going it is And maybe
I'm tone deaf, or maybe I was set years old
and didn't notice it. I don't remember that. I just
remember a Plato character kind of get messed up. So
I'm sorry if I'm self canceling right now. I'll as
soon as I finished recording here, I'm gonna go watch
some Mister Bill and refresh my memory. But I don't
(13:14):
remember it that way at all. Say, mister Bill, where
are you going? I'm on, I went to a big
Hollywood Bertie and Kenning Barby's.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Gee, shut up to your jell.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
We'll hop out some count first to help get you
in the mood. Well, i'd rather ignorre it. Soda. You
know I've been trying to.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Cut it down on my sweets.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, here comes your agent, slug O and he says
Holly has his coat. Williams called the allegation hurtful and disappointing,
and said if Lauren had been concerned about racial tension,
he was the only human who could have stopped them.
I made twenty five Mister Bill films over the first
five years, and Lawren seemed quite pleased with the success
and kept ordering more. William said neither he nor mister
(13:53):
Bill were invited to SNL's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. And while
we're talking about this, mister Bill had never appeared on
Thursday Night Football. What is Al Michael's problem with mister Bill?
What's going on there? I would watch that right So
it's I don't know, a Jaguars game. Al Michaels is
there with Kerk kurb Street, Trevor Lawrence throws an interception
(14:14):
that's clearly going to be a pick six. Al Michaels
goes quiet, Mister Bill goes, oh, no, come on, that
would be awesome television. And the kids today say, I
told you I had a lot of SNL, but I
had to get to THEO Vonn thing. The kids today
are watching SNL. No, they're not sitting in front of
the television like US old people, and US old people
are going to bed and just watching clips on Sunday morning, honestly,
(14:35):
but Saturday Night Live. This shocked as a little strong
surprised me. Saturday Night Live was the number one US
YouTube channel by reach over the first six months of
twenty twenty five. SNL's YouTube channel reached thirty eight point
six million US users between January first and June thirtieth,
outpacing things like ABC News, NBC News I, GNCNN, ESPN, Netflix,
(14:58):
and the NFL. Another SNL article, The La Times, was
curious about how President Trump might react to it. You know,
President Trump has a lot of opinions on shows that
air at eleven thirty. Back in twenty nineteen, the President
tweeted nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on fake
news NBC. Question is, how do the networks get away
with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for
(15:21):
many other shows, very unfair and should be looked into.
This is the real collusion. We'll see if mister Trump
enjoys James Austin Johnson and or Bad Bunny Tonight. Mister
Trump didn't like Alec Baldwin's impression. In March twenty nineteen,
Trump wrote SNL continues knocking the same person me over
and over without so much of a mention of the
other side. Mister Trump was upset about a rerun that night,
(15:45):
like an advertisement without consequences, The Daily Beast said. Trump
reportedly asked advisors and lawyers in early twenty nineteen what
the FCC, the court system, and even the Department of
Justice could do to look into SNL. Another late night
comedy figures who had my tim again? Kind of a
funny news story in twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty five,
(16:05):
that's really interesting, right, the President has commented on Loren Michaels,
saying that Lauren is angry and exhausted, the show even
more so. Was once good, never great, but now like
the late night losers who have lost their audience but
have no idea why it's over for USNL a great
thing for America now. A Google search of Trump and
al Michaels did not turn up any comments from the President,
(16:27):
but al Michaels back in twenty seventeen was responding to
comments by mister Trump. Mister Trump had told a crowd
that an NFL player who disrespects her flag should be fired.
Al Michaels said, once the President made those remarks in
Alabama at that particular point, it was just like throwing
a match into a gas tank during the offseason. Both
sides have to sit down and figure out a way
to make this situation where it doesn't overwhelm the conversation
(16:49):
about the NFL. This same article I'm reading from the
Washington Post says al Michaels discussed a comment he had
made during Sunday Night Football in which he joked that
the Giants are coming off off a worse week than
Harvey Weinstein. Later in that telecast, al Michaels apologize, saying
I was trying to be a little flip about somebody
obviously very much in the news all over the country,
and was not meant in that manner. Live television is
(17:11):
a tightrope. It's amazing it doesn't happen more often. Once
in a while, you're gonna say something you wish you
could reel back in. The one thing about our business
is we don't have take two. You heard me talk
about this recently with a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm,
who hosts the Letterman Podcast that I've said. You say
enough things into the microphone, you will say something you
wish he had phrased better, or you wish he had
never said. And I probably did today. And that is
(17:34):
your comedy news. Saturday Night Live, eleven thirty. Also mister
Bill on YouTube at eleven thirty. See you tomorrow,
Kalaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hi there, I'm Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.
The news continues to be feisty. I just wanted to
do U, S and L today, but I do need
to cover some THEO Von stories. I'll take out a
little light on Riodd today. I have plenty about Riod
and Sunday Show, and I'll do the late night jokes tomorrow.
But let's get to theo Von. On his podcast this
(00:30):
past weekend, he addressed that whole thing with the DHS
using his clip, and theose comments here get pretty interesting.
I have made edits for both language and pacing, but
listen to theo here.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
My father immigrated here from Nicaraugule, right. Like one of
my prize possessions is I have his immigration papers when
he came here, and I have him in a frame
and him and his siblings when they came here, and
so I have tons of thoughts about him. It was
like on all platforms and stuff. So SOD had me
(01:04):
really kind of paranoid. You know. That had me start
to get kind of paranoid, and you know, like closing,
like you know, I had the curtains in my house
kind of closed I was just like, you know, you're paranoid.
I woke up the next morning to a text from
a high government official saying, Hey, if you need uh
(01:26):
some extra security in your neighborhood or some extra police
cars on patrol, let me know. And I'm like, what
what are you talking about extra security? I don't have any, Like,
you know, I don't even know the code of my
RINGT camera, Like I don't even know how to log
into it. So it's like and then, and like, what,
You're just gonna put police cars in my neighborhood? What
are my neighbors gonna think? Now? They're fearful? Like it
(01:48):
just like I don't know, man, that that like really
kind of shook me. It really kind of shook me.
But you just you keep marching on.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
If you listen to to this podcast early on Saturday morning,
and why wouldn't you you have time yet? THEO will
be the celebrity guest picker on College Game Day today.
Vanderbilt at Alabama will mark Theovan's second appearance on college
Game Day. He previously was on the panel as the
guest picker at the twenty twenty three SEC Championship between
(02:18):
Alabama and Georgia. Saturday Night Live is back tonight, Bad
Bunny as your host, Doja Cat is the musical guest,
next week Amy Poehler on the fiftieth anniversary of the
show proper musical guest role Model, and on the eighteenth,
Sabrina Carpenter will double up as both host and musical guest.
Some people are wondering if Taylor Swift is going to
make an appearance tonight. Here's the theories. She already has
(02:42):
done the Graham Norton Show, She's doing fallon on the
sixth for some inexplicable reason. She's going to do Seth
Meyers on the eighth. I mean, at that point, Taylor
do my podcast. Now Here are some of the clues.
Taylor Swift's official social media team, Taylor Nation, created quote
time Card of a Showgirl, which highlighted all her upcoming
late night appearances on a calendar, as well as the
(03:04):
theatrical release party of the Life of a show Girl yesterday.
But there's a blank space on October fourth, which is today.
There's a punch hole on a time card with one
word stand by. So that's not stand by, that's stand by.
Is that a hint of you might want to be
on the standby list for Saturday Night Live tonight. This
(03:24):
if it was stand by, that would be two words,
would it not? Oh? There is more. The punch card
suggests something might be happening around seven pm today on Saturday. Now,
you know what usually happens around seven pm on Saturday.
The Saturday Night Live standby line opens. You see what
we're doing here? Yeah? Now, bad Bunny, who's the host
of SNL tonight recently was in Happy Gilmour Too, that
(03:47):
awful Adam Sandler comedy. You know who else was in that?
Travis Kelcey, who is Taylor Swiss fiance? Do you see
this conspiracy?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Now? A TikToker pointed out that an Instagram pro for
SNL released on October first features the voices of people
close to Taylor Swift. Some people think you can hear
Travis Kelsey's voice saying let's start the show. Others think
you can hear Selena Gomez saying get the host on
the stage for the monologue. And it also sounds like
Taylor herself maybe saying standby in the clip. The color
(04:20):
scheme in the SNL promo clip is a very tailor
swifty Orange. So we will see and I will tell
you about that on Monday, because I'm not staying up
to one in the morning to record Sunday's episode. Deadline
talk to a bunch of insiders about the various hirings
and firings at SNL and what it means for the show.
One source told Deadline, I think what you're seeing right
now is SNL operating in a new era. Is that
(04:42):
another clue where the talent has more of a voice
than ever before. In previous years, when you would hire
a cast member, it would be a total discovery. This year,
I think it's the first we're all for. The comedians
they've picked have fairly sizable, kind of ish, but dedicated
audiences they've already built on their own. Lorden Michaels at
the Emmy said the show was always people in from
different ages and different generations, and that's how it revives itself.
(05:03):
It's always hard when people leave, but there's a time
for that in our audience, as I've always stayed relatively young,
and more so now TikTok and change is good. The
people were bringing in. I'm really excited about the new
cast members. Jeremy Colehyne, described as an improv sketch comedian
in the traditional mold. Veronica Slowakowska. You may recognize her
from Shane Gillis's Tires show. She has a substantial following
(05:26):
on TikTok and Insta. Tommy Brennan was a twenty twenty
three just for Laughs new face. One source jokes that
he looks like every white dude, meaning he might be
in a lot of the everyman sketches. And Cam Patterson
you know him from Kill Tony regular appearances on Kill Tony.
Also Ben Marshall from the Please Don't Destroys he gets
bumped up. Insider say the hiring process at SNL all
(05:48):
started in August with showcases in LA New York and Chicago,
followed by screen tests and an unusually large round of
final meetings with Lorne Michaels, who met around ten comics.
A source compared the casting to a wide rather than
the usual clarity, saying it felt more like a Sports
League draft with I almost said al Michaels. Lorne Michaels
ultimately see al Michaels calls football. Did you see the
(06:11):
forty nine Ers win that game? I don't know how
they won that game? How did they win that game? Rams?
You had that three times. I'm a Niners fan, I
can't believe the Niners won that game. With Lorne Michaels
ultimately picking the best talent available on the board, Insiders
say Lorn was leaning away from hiring stand ups. One
said snl at one point was openly saying says he's
done hiring stand ups. He wants to take a break
(06:32):
from hiring stand ups. Another insider said, I must set
al Michaels again. Boy, Lorne Michaels. You know what, al
Michaels should take over Saturday Night Live for a year.
I would watch that. I'm not sure wre Lorne Michaels
would be good at Thursday Night Football, but I would
watch an al Old Michael's produce show. I like al Michaels.
He's very personable. Lorne Michaels and team have smartly covered
the bases in their casting for this season. The insider
(06:55):
says it makes sense to reach out to different circles
because if you're building a show for everyone, then you
pick me from every sort of comedy circle. They also
point out that Marcelo Hernandez who has broken out, particularly
with his Domingo character. Yes, his wonderful Domingo character. He's
really good at that. And the seventeen variants on that
exact same character that he does show me some range
tonight Marcelo. But they say Marcelo has broken out, even
(07:18):
if there have been some whiffs with newer talent. They
say the sheen is off a little bit. That Pete Davidson,
who will yesterday, was just at THERIODD Comedy Festival. His
father's called a nine to eleven. Pete was atriodd. He's
the last example of someone that quote everyone wanted a
piece of People coming off the show are not getting
propelled into the comedy sky in the same way. Things
are just different. They put their time and energy and
(07:39):
hard work, and the platform just doesn't have the same
weight that it used to. Insiders. Again, I think five
years ago, if you asked any young comic if they
wanted to go all out and make a tapes to
audition for us and l the automatic answer would be yes. Now,
it's a difficult process. It's obviously hard to get on
the show that I feel a lot of people are split.
David Simms in the Atlantic says, what could signal a
meaningful change are the show's newcomers. It's notable how me
(08:00):
new SNL cast members can now be evaluated by the
public thanks to the Internet and dopes in their basement
with podcasts. I don't think David said quite that, but
you know what I mean. For most of the show's existence,
Lauren Michaels and his team would gather folks from around
the country's most acclaimed improv troops and sketch comedy feeders,
Second City grand Ling's UCB. The SNL diehards would gather
information about the upcoming performers live acts. Most of this
(08:23):
year's editions have resumes that reflect the collective shift of
comedy production in recent years. They found their footing not
on stage but on podcasts, TikTok and streaming platforms. David
then breaks down the cast members we were ready did
that today and points out that Cam Patterson's most popular
material includes lots of tacit admiration for Trump and casual
use of slurs in front of guests. Until now, Lauren
(08:45):
Michaels has almost entirely avoided recruiting performers of that elk.
Perhaps he was discouraged by the firestorm that erupted after
he hired Shane Gillis. Six years later, Michael seems ready
to take another swipe but the hot stove. Kate mccannon
she was on Saturday Night Live for while and was
pretty good at it. She spoke to CBS News about
comedy in today's world. Kate McKinnon says, political sattire is
(09:07):
a very important part of a functioning society. I also
think that just goofiness and laughter are vital, not only art,
but in between people. It is healthy. And I think
just kindness and joy and laughter are such important things
and just the reason we're live. And so that's what
I like to bring to people. She misses SNL, but
I really love going to bed early, and that's what
I've been doing more of, and I really enjoy it.
I missed the people so much. I hear you that
(09:28):
forty nine ers gave the other night Johnny Mack was
up till eleven twenty on a school night. Are you crazy?
Carol Burnett has never hosted Saturday Night Live. Carol was
recently profiled in the New Yorker. I want to dive
in on that at some point it's been busy around
these parts. She was asked why she thinks Laurene Michaels
has never asked her to host Saturday Night Live. Here's
my question. Has al Michaels ever asked Carol Burnett to
(09:52):
be the guest analyst on Thursday Night Football? And if not,
why not? But I digress. Carol Burnett, asked about Lauren Michaels, said,
I don't know what I did upset that?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Man?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you think it's misogynistic? The New Yorker says, elm,
I'm leaving that in. I'm leaving it in. The New
Yorker said Lauren Michaels declined to comment. Response, I'm not
even doing a bit now. To be fair here, I
didn't think this was weird until someone brought it up,
meeting The New Yorker or Carol Burnette. So Carol Burnett
(10:21):
in her heyday. The Carol Burnett Show ran from nineteen
sixty seven to nineteen seventy eight on CBS, So okay,
it makes sense. I guess that Carol Burnett didn't host
Saturday Night Live those first few years when she had
her own show on CBS. Plus. Think of Carol Burnett
who's in her nineties now, as a different generation than
say Dan Ackroyd. So I don't think that's crazy that
(10:43):
they didn't have Carol Burnett host then. And then as
SNL became more establishment and programming, Carol Burnette really hasn't
been in the public eye, and so the last few
years when she started showing up on things like Better
Call Saul. I mean, we all love Carol Burnett. I
worked with Carol Burnette ten twelve, fifteen. I don't know
how long ago it is years We did a thing
(11:04):
at Sirius XAM when they were promoting a Carol Burnett
DVD box set Question work Anyway, I got to meet
miss Burnett and she was fantastic. Gamy Schumer hosted that.
I'm sure you can find some clips online somewhere. But
I don't think it's crazy that Carol Burnett never hosted SNL,
and I think it would be awesome if she hosted
(11:25):
it now, although she is in her nineties. Does Carol
Burnett want to do that? She says no, I don't
think I would maybe, like twenty years ago or whatever,
but that ship is sailed. Remember, mister Bill, you got
to be old to remember mister Bill. But if you're
old like me, you remember mister Bill and how awesome
mister Bill was. Mister Bill is back. Oh no, mister
Bill tonight at eleven thirty on YouTube. Interesting timing there,
(11:48):
I mean, guys, put it out at eleven. What are
you doing going head to head with SNL? This new
show is mister Bill's Saturday Night Mattene, a new weekly
variety show Tonight eleven thirty Eastern, hosted by mister Bill
from his cozy apartment in the Hollywood Hills. The new
series features restored public domain comedy clips reimagined in Bill Vision,
vintage commercials, surprise guests, and yes, the mister Bill classic
(12:13):
SNL shorts that started at all. Mister Bill started as
a no budget home movie sent in by Walter Williams.
Williams is part of this new project and says these
are the shows that inspired mister Bill in the first place,
The Three Stooges, Harold Lloyd, the Beverly Hillbillies restored and
reimagined for a new generation. But don't worry, there's still
plenty of pain and destruction of waiting our host. In
(12:34):
recent months, mister Williams has taken a social media to
challenge Lorne Michael's long standing dismissal of the character of
mister Bill. There's a quote in the recent Susan Morrison
biography in which Lorne Michaels said the Mister Bill films
carried quote a certain kind of racial tension. Now, I
can't tell you the last time I saw a Mister
(12:54):
Bill sketch. My brain is going it is And maybe
I'm tone deaf, or maybe I was set years old
and didn't notice it. I don't remember that. I just
remember a Plato character kind of get messed up. So
I'm sorry if I'm self canceling right now. I'll as
soon as I finished recording here, I'm gonna go watch
some Mister Bill and refresh my memory. But I don't
(13:14):
remember it that way at all. Say, mister Bill, where
are you going? I'm on, I went to a big
Hollywood Bertie and Kenning Barby's.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Gee, shut up to your jell.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
We'll hop out some count first to help get you
in the mood. Well, i'd rather ignorre it. Soda. You
know I've been trying to.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Cut it down on my sweets.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, here comes your agent, slug O and he says
Holly has his coat. Williams called the allegation hurtful and disappointing,
and said if Lauren had been concerned about racial tension,
he was the only human who could have stopped them.
I made twenty five Mister Bill films over the first
five years, and Lawren seemed quite pleased with the success
and kept ordering more. William said neither he nor mister
(13:53):
Bill were invited to SNL's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. And while
we're talking about this, mister Bill had never appeared on
Thursday Night Football. What is Al Michael's problem with mister Bill?
What's going on there? I would watch that right So
it's I don't know, a Jaguars game. Al Michaels is
there with Kerk kurb Street, Trevor Lawrence throws an interception
(14:14):
that's clearly going to be a pick six. Al Michaels
goes quiet, Mister Bill goes, oh, no, come on, that
would be awesome television. And the kids today say, I
told you I had a lot of SNL, but I
had to get to THEO Vonn thing. The kids today
are watching SNL. No, they're not sitting in front of
the television like US old people, and US old people
are going to bed and just watching clips on Sunday morning, honestly,
(14:35):
but Saturday Night Live. This shocked as a little strong
surprised me. Saturday Night Live was the number one US
YouTube channel by reach over the first six months of
twenty twenty five. SNL's YouTube channel reached thirty eight point
six million US users between January first and June thirtieth,
outpacing things like ABC News, NBC News I, GNCNN, ESPN, Netflix,
(14:58):
and the NFL. Another SNL article, The La Times, was
curious about how President Trump might react to it. You know,
President Trump has a lot of opinions on shows that
air at eleven thirty. Back in twenty nineteen, the President
tweeted nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on fake
news NBC. Question is, how do the networks get away
with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for
(15:21):
many other shows, very unfair and should be looked into.
This is the real collusion. We'll see if mister Trump
enjoys James Austin Johnson and or Bad Bunny Tonight. Mister
Trump didn't like Alec Baldwin's impression. In March twenty nineteen,
Trump wrote SNL continues knocking the same person me over
and over without so much of a mention of the
other side. Mister Trump was upset about a rerun that night,
(15:45):
like an advertisement without consequences, The Daily Beast said. Trump
reportedly asked advisors and lawyers in early twenty nineteen what
the FCC, the court system, and even the Department of
Justice could do to look into SNL. Another late night
comedy figures who had my tim again? Kind of a
funny news story in twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty five,
(16:05):
that's really interesting, right, the President has commented on Loren Michaels,
saying that Lauren is angry and exhausted, the show even
more so. Was once good, never great, but now like
the late night losers who have lost their audience but
have no idea why it's over for USNL a great
thing for America now. A Google search of Trump and
al Michaels did not turn up any comments from the President,
(16:27):
but al Michaels back in twenty seventeen was responding to
comments by mister Trump. Mister Trump had told a crowd
that an NFL player who disrespects her flag should be fired.
Al Michaels said, once the President made those remarks in
Alabama at that particular point, it was just like throwing
a match into a gas tank during the offseason. Both
sides have to sit down and figure out a way
to make this situation where it doesn't overwhelm the conversation
(16:49):
about the NFL. This same article I'm reading from the
Washington Post says al Michaels discussed a comment he had
made during Sunday Night Football in which he joked that
the Giants are coming off off a worse week than
Harvey Weinstein. Later in that telecast, al Michaels apologize, saying
I was trying to be a little flip about somebody
obviously very much in the news all over the country,
and was not meant in that manner. Live television is
(17:11):
a tightrope. It's amazing it doesn't happen more often. Once
in a while, you're gonna say something you wish you
could reel back in. The one thing about our business
is we don't have take two. You heard me talk
about this recently with a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm,
who hosts the Letterman Podcast that I've said. You say
enough things into the microphone, you will say something you
wish he had phrased better, or you wish he had
never said. And I probably did today. And that is
(17:34):
your comedy news. Saturday Night Live, eleven thirty. Also mister
Bill on YouTube at eleven thirty. See you tomorrow,
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.