October 7, 2025 • 16 mins
Johnny Mac once again shares his admiration for sportscaster Al Michaels, recounts a famous prank call involving Michaels and Peter Jennings, and gives the latest update on Jim Gaffigan's bourbon-themed standup shows.
Mac also comments on comedian Gianmarco Soresi's recent photo appearance with Jim Gaffigan and discusses Nate Bargatze's controversial Emmy segment.
Additional highlights include upcoming projects like David Letterman’s new guest Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon’s latest reality series, and the Milwaukee Comedy Festival. The episode wraps up with reflections on the state of the comedy industry and its increasing commercialization.
00:00 Introduction and Al Michaels Anecdote
03:03 Jim Gaffigan's Bourbon-Themed Comedy Set
04:52 Nate Bargatze and the Emmys Controversy
07:06 David Letterman's Upcoming Interview with Adam Sandler
09:05 Jimmy Fallon and the New Reality Competition Series
10:08 Riyadh Comedy Festival
12:08 Paddington Bear Controversy and Scrubs Revival
15:19 Milwaukee Comedy Festival and Conclusion
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Mac also comments on comedian Gianmarco Soresi's recent photo appearance with Jim Gaffigan and discusses Nate Bargatze's controversial Emmy segment.
Additional highlights include upcoming projects like David Letterman’s new guest Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon’s latest reality series, and the Milwaukee Comedy Festival. The episode wraps up with reflections on the state of the comedy industry and its increasing commercialization.
00:00 Introduction and Al Michaels Anecdote
03:03 Jim Gaffigan's Bourbon-Themed Comedy Set
04:52 Nate Bargatze and the Emmys Controversy
07:06 David Letterman's Upcoming Interview with Adam Sandler
09:05 Jimmy Fallon and the New Reality Competition Series
10:08 Riyadh Comedy Festival
12:08 Paddington Bear Controversy and Scrubs Revival
15:19 Milwaukee Comedy Festival and Conclusion
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. As
i'm recording, I'm texting back and forth with Mike Chisholm
from The Letterman podcast. He apparently liked the al Michaels
bit and it just got me thinking about how much
I do like al Michaels. I defend him on Twitter
every Thursday. People are like, he's so old. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
he's great. He knows how to call football. You're watching
(00:30):
the game. You don't need somebody yelling and screaming. Do
you watch Kevin Horland, who's great at basketball and I
love him on NBA two K Do you watch Kevin
Horland call football game and only does his yell and scream,
whereas al Michaels is just in the zone. I know
this isn't why you're here, and I'm bringing all the rules.
I'm gonna tell about him Gafkins Bourbon set in a second.
But al Michaels remember the oj Knight and Captain Jenks
called in and pranked Peter Jennings. I can never think
(00:53):
of that and not laugh. So if you're not familiar
with the story, Peter Jennings is there, and he says, okay,
we have we have a eyewitness on the scene across
from oj Simpson's house. That's say, mister Robert Higgins, mister Higgins,
what do you see now? Captain Jenks went into a
character that I don't want to get canceled, so I'm
not going to do here.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I'm just gonna ask everybody to be quiet for a moment.
We have on the phone with us as well, Robert Higgins,
who lives in the neighborhood and is on the ground
and can see inside the van. Mister Higgins, Oh, yes,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But I'm watching this at home thinking how does Peter Jennings,
the ABC anchor, not know what is happening? Then and
then all of a sudden, you hear the voice of
God here, Peter, this is al Michaels. Lest anyone think
that is a real name. I forget exactly what he said.
That was a completely farcical call. Now, as the years
went on, al Michaels would go on Howard Stern, Billy
(01:44):
West would do al Michaels saying, that's a completely forcical call.
Al Michaels said, I've never used the word farcicle in
my life, but I know what was going on there.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The driveway of Oj Simpson's home in Redwood, clearly an
effort being made to him come out of the vehicle
in the doorway of the house. His friend Al Cowling Peter.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
By the way, just for the record, this is Al Michaels.
So that was a totally farcical call. Lest anybody think
that that was somebody who was truly across the street
that was not. He said something in code at the
end that's indicative of the mentioning of the name of
a certain radio talk show.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Host as a producer. I just imagine myself in the
control room and the hotline ring. So the hot line
is a phone that you only use when you really
need to get through. Like you don't use the hotline
to be like, hey, what should we get for lunch?
The hot line is hey, there's a fake call on
the air, get it off now. It's used for that
kind of thing. It's the batphone. So I'm just picturing
(02:45):
you're in the control room and Al Michael's calls and
he's like, you gotta put me on the air right now,
and you're like, what did you not just see the ojchase?
Why does al Michaels have to be on the air
right now? Anyway, I have totally degressed and broken all
the rules and put a two and a half minute
roadblock at the top of the show. You're not supposed
to do. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Yeah, boy,
Jim Gaffigan, it's today the Bourbon set. We've been looking
(03:07):
forward to this four months, over four shows, Jim Gaffigan
will debut an all new set of Bourbon and whiskey
inspire stand up. You might still be able to get
in because on Monday morning, Jim Gaffigan post it on
Threads the tickets were still available. So I don't know
if the bourbon demand is quite there for Jim gaffigan
bourbon theme sets, but he's doing four of them to
(03:28):
tonight two Thursday, seven and nine thirty. It's at the
Kentucky Center baum Hart Theater, you know, the one on
five oh one West Main Street. Yeah. Now, what he's
really pushing is this really cool after party on Thursday.
That's right. If you've got tickets to the nine to
thirty show, not only do you get a Jim Gaffigan
bourbon themed comedy set. You get exclusive access to the
(03:52):
official after party. The party will feature sponsored bourbon pores,
light bites, and of course, Jim Gaffigan. That after party
doesn't starts eleven pm. So as much as I love
Jim gaffigan bourbon jokes and bourbon, I mean you want
me to start a party at eleven o'clock on a
school night? Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uh, this next part here, I'm not doing a bit, okay,
So let me get the little out of my voice.
I'm just trying to have a fun. It's just a
fun little podcast. But let me get to us for
a second. Over the weekend, John Marcos Saraisi posted a
picture with Jim Gaffigan. Now, I would describe John Marcos
Sarraisi as wiry. If you've seen his comedy special, you
know he's not a big, fat, stocky guy like me.
(04:31):
He's wiry. Anyway, He's in a picture with Jim Gaffigan,
who has said he lost weight using joo. Jim's looking
really thit not like, hey, you lost a lot of weight,
You look good like he's past that. Now. I hope
he's okay. I'm not doing a bit. I'm not trying
to be a jerk hole. But when You're standing next
to John Marco and I'm like you look really thin,
I go, huh, so, I hope everything's okay. There stories
(04:53):
I hadn't got to Nate Brigetzie. Remember the Emmys and
then Jimmy Kimmel got suspended and then we all went
to the Riod Comedy Festival wholl All. Before that, the
story was Naperghetzy tanked on the Emmys. Remember that bit.
Nate on his podcast said he wasn't trying to put
anybody on the spot. I was trying to have a
very giving night. He said he had no ill intent
(05:13):
while planning it out. Well, then, dude, you didn't think
about this at all, Nate said. Reviews did not like
the boys and Girls Club thing, despite it coming from
a real place of heart. In my head, I wasn't
trying to put anybody in spot. I wasn't trying to
make someone donate money. But in my head I kind
of thought, like, make it fun. We're not using the
charities a tool. They asked you to come up with
a way to make everybody go shorter on their speeches.
First of all, why are we trying to go shorter
(05:35):
on their speeches? Like what are we trying to get
to at this point the Sunday night eleven o'clock news.
Who cares? We all have phones? Like what is the race?
Or start the show earlier if you're worried about it
going too late, Nate said, comics, I don't think I'll
get to ask that going shorter, because I'll try to
find a solution. He said, CBS was very happy with
the bit. I think people at home were very happy
they watched it. No, we weren't. I wasn't trying to
(05:56):
overshadow any of their speeches, but yeah, you know some
of these people, well, you work your whole career, you
finally get recognized. You just want to thank your family
and the people you worked with hard, and like, why
are we running a clock? I get we don't want
the seven minutes speeches about issues of the day. I
get that. But if you're up there and you're like, hey,
I just want to think my wife's just been really
great these last thirty years, and my kids are fantastic,
(06:17):
and you know the rest of the crew here, let
people do that. Nate explained on his podcast, he thought
that the shows that won, or Netflix or Apple would
donate the money. It's not like I was expecting that kid,
meaning adolescent star Owen Cooper, who was fantastic in his speech.
I think he's fifteen. I mean that show was great.
He's great, but his speech was fantastic. I wasn't expecting
that kid to give money. In my head, I pictured
(06:39):
as they could speak long but then be a hero,
so it was a win win. Then the night becomes
about love and you're giving to these kids that are
there and all the stuff. I don't know if I
just didn't explain enough in the room. I had it
in my head one way, it came out another way.
But the reasoning was there. I wasn't gonna give that
money at the end. I wasn't thinking I was going
to have it, But the way it went, it was like,
I can't. I wonder if they'll have him back. So
friend of the show Jason Zinniman pointed out the ratings
(07:00):
were up, but I don't know. I feel like that's
a jokoy one and done. I can't see rolling him
back out. David Letterman, Yes, I'm finally getting to a
David Letterman story. Because all the crazy news has calmed down,
he has announced his next guest on My Next Guest
needs no introduction. He's already taped it at New York University.
(07:20):
It is with the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, hopefully.
Letterman asked him a lot of questions about Adam's fine
dramatic films, Uncut, Gems, Space movie one about basketball, and
this upcoming Ja Kelly won that apparently Adam Sandler dramatic
actor is fantastica and I'm looking forward to hearing Dave
interview Adam Sandler about dramatic acting. No date yet for that.
(07:44):
It's scheduled to air later this year. Let me guess
Jay Kelly comes out December fifth, maybe around then. There
is a lot of Oscar buzz around dramatic actor Adam Sandler.
Sandler told people that's real cool. Nice of everybody to say.
I'm just happy I got to be in it. Sandler's
seems like a pretty cool guy. I mean, he addresses
worse than I do, and his attempts at comedy are terrible,
but he does seem like a really cool guy. Jimmie
(08:07):
Fallon had Taylor Swift on last night, we'll talk about that.
I did talk about Taylor Swift's new album on the
DCN eight bonus podcast on the feed on Apple Podcasts.
So I haven't done a DCN eight in a few
weeks because of all the regular bonus episodes. But anyway,
if you were a paid subscriber, and you can become
a paid subscriber by opening up the Apple podcast app
(08:29):
and clicking Uninterrupted Listening, and then for five bucks a month,
you'll get this show and then just about everything else
on the network commercial free. So you get five good
news stories which I host, you get that commercial free.
In Palace Intrigue and all the other stuff, the trivia show,
you get all that without ads. But also to show
my appreciation and to get some things out of my system,
(08:50):
I started this thing called DCN eight where it's me,
but I'm not talking about comedy, and I'm not putting
any rules on that. I'm not saying how long it is,
I'm not saying how often it comes out. Just if
you're pay subscriber, every now and then you get a
DC and eight, And there's a DC and eight in
the feed right now. Fallon was catching some crap last
week because he said he's keeping his head down during
(09:11):
all this political stuff. Fallon told CNBC, our show's never
really been that political. We hit both size equally. We
try to make everybody laugh. Our monologue has been the
same in doing since Johnny Carson was doing this night show.
So I really just keep my head down to make
sure the jokes aren't funny. We're trying to make the
best show we possibly can and entertain everybody. Fallon also
has that new show On Brand with Jimmy Fallon, a
(09:32):
reality competition series that puts ten creative minds of the
test as they craft real campaigns for real brands. Jimmy
Fallon said, we wanted everybody to get in on the action,
so NBC's doing cool thing. They're going to hold a
contest where you get to create an original design for
an on brand billboard. We've teamed up with Canva to
do this, so anyone can enter. The winner will get
their billboard on Sunset Boulevard in LA and win a
(09:53):
trip to New York City and two tickets to see
the Tonight Show. What if I win, I live in
New Jersey, I get a trip to New York City.
I try to avoid going to New York City, just
like I've tried to avoid talking about the Riodd Comedy
Festival for ten minutes or so, but times up. Bill
Maher criticized Dave Chappelle for Dave Chappelle's comments downplaying free
(10:13):
speech in America. This happened on Real Time with Bill Maher.
That was the episode Louis c K was on. Bill
Moore told c K Dave Chappelle was in the press
today saying you can speak more freely over here than
in America. C K said, I don't know if that's true.
Mar said, oh, it's not true. At the Read Comedy
Festival today, Jack Whitehall brings Polish, British banterer and gleeful
self mockery, sharpening stories with a quick snap. He's honed
(10:37):
on arena tours. Moa Maher is there. He'll discuss fatherhood, fame,
and identity with the same candid, culturally charged storytelling that
made him a household name. Expect brutally honest observations, unexpected tenderness,
and explosive punchlines delivered with charisma and bite. Interesting copy.
There and Wayne Brady, he brings quick fire improv and
(10:59):
music Comedy to the Rio Comedy Festival, challenging the fearless
energy that made him a multi hyphenate star. On whose
line is it anyway? Broadway and TV expect genre hopping
riffs and the kind of on the spots songcraft that
turn suggestions into showstoppers. Be careful, Wayne. So as I
put the show together today, I actually excluded a few things.
(11:22):
There's one comedian on Instagram showing off their weight loss,
and I'm like, you know what, I just don't want
to talk about that. And it's just comedy thinking. Everything's
just been so angsty ltely and it's starting to make
me like, not like some of these people that we
talk about all the time. I feel like comedy has
become a business with a capital B, and it's all
(11:45):
feeling icky. And I don't just mean re odd. I
feel like you can just see the industry, meaning Hollywood
and the two big agencies going, here's who we're pushing now,
here's who the hot comedian is right now, and let's
get as much press out there, and let's get them
big TV gigs and let's put them in front of everybody.
We're going to make this person a star and there
are at least two people have done that with this year,
and it's all just feeling like icky to me right now.
(12:08):
I'd prefer to talk about fun things like this whole
thing with Paddington Bear. Studio Canal which produces the Paddington movies,
and Paddington Bear's holders are suing Avalon. They didn't like
the recent episode of Spitting Image. That episode depicted Paddington
as a foul mouthed podcast host. In the sketch, Paddington said,
(12:29):
I don't really talk like Ben Wishlaw. I'm from Peru.
M Effers, I am Paddington Bear from Peru. During a
sketch Prince Harry and Paddington interview Elon Musk, they also
read ads for guns and robot sex dolls. Scrubs revival
looks like everybody's back. Over the weekend, I started watching
Scrubs again from season one, episode one. Boy, that show
(12:52):
has aged well. I was laughing out loud. It's on Hulu.
Oh wait, no, I mean I was watching my dvdsuse
so if I watched Hulu that would mean I support fascism. Now,
I of course canceled Disney Plus and Hulu and don't
watch anything on ABC because I support Jimmy Kimmel and
free speech, just like you canceled all that stuff too.
So I misspoke there. I was not watching it on Hulu.
(13:14):
I would not do that. I do not support fascism.
I went upstairs and got my DVDs, which are real
things I own. I'll post a picture of me with
a DVD to prove it, and I am going to
do that on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast
Group after I shower. See this is why I hate
the video podcast. You know, it's midday on Monday, and
I might still be wearing a hat and last night's clothes.
(13:35):
That's the beauty of being an audio podcaster. But once
I like shower and shave, you'll see me with my
scrubs DVDs. I wasn't watching Hulu. I don't support fascism.
ABC has added nine guest starring cast members. The new
interns include Ava Bonnis Serena, Jacob Dudman as Asher, David
Gridley is Blake, Leila Mouhammadi as Amara, and Amanda Morrow
(13:57):
as Dashana. They joined Zach Raft, Donald Faison and Sarah
Chalk as the three leads Judy Reis is back as Carla,
John C. McGinley as Doctor Cox. I can't get enough
of Doctor Cox ever, I would watch a Doctor Cox
spin off. All right, here's the description. J D and
Turk scrub in together for the first time in a
long time. Medicine has changed, in turns have changed, but
(14:18):
their romance has stood the test of time. Characters new
and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter
heart and some surprises along the way. I'm still curious
if you watch season nine and I have the DVDs,
I don't support fascism. The original Sacred Heart Hospital was gone.
They were the new ones. So does the new scrubs
take place at the new Sacred Heart, which at this
point is like twenty years old. I don't know. I
(14:40):
remember I saw somewhere over the weekend the Todd is
back as well, which is good news. The only person
I haven't seen is if Neil Flynn is coming back
as the janitor new topic. For some reason, FX Wait,
who owns fx FX is Hulu? Oh, we're gonna have
to support fascism again. Boy, Well, if you do suppor fascism,
(15:01):
FX is for some reason making very young Frankenstein This
based on mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, Zach Galifanakis, Dontlly Well,
Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, come ol On Jeohnny and Carrie
Elwis a star on the pilot. It's some sort of
prequel I assume from the title why we're making this
I don't know. And kicking off today the Milwaukee Comedy
(15:22):
Festival celebrating twenty years presenting live comedy today through the
twelfth more than thirty comedians performing across nine shows at
different venues. Comedians in Clue, The Very Funny, Aparna Nurla,
The Very Funny, Sean Patten, Patton Oswald who ruined, Star
Trek Has, Doug the Vulcan, and Punky Johnson. That's a
pretty good lineup. You should go hackle Patton Oswald and
be like, why did you play Doug the Vulcan seven
(15:43):
o'clock tonight at Parna and some others are at the
Lakefront Brewery. Sean Patten tomorrow at seven thirty. Patten Thursday
night if you want to heckle him, Punky Johnson on Friday,
and a bunch of other shows. Looks like at Nice Festival.
And that is your comedy News for Today. Become a
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(16:04):
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Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. As
i'm recording, I'm texting back and forth with Mike Chisholm
from The Letterman podcast. He apparently liked the al Michaels
bit and it just got me thinking about how much
I do like al Michaels. I defend him on Twitter
every Thursday. People are like, he's so old. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
he's great. He knows how to call football. You're watching
(00:30):
the game. You don't need somebody yelling and screaming. Do
you watch Kevin Horland, who's great at basketball and I
love him on NBA two K Do you watch Kevin
Horland call football game and only does his yell and scream,
whereas al Michaels is just in the zone. I know
this isn't why you're here, and I'm bringing all the rules.
I'm gonna tell about him Gafkins Bourbon set in a second.
But al Michaels remember the oj Knight and Captain Jenks
called in and pranked Peter Jennings. I can never think
(00:53):
of that and not laugh. So if you're not familiar
with the story, Peter Jennings is there, and he says, okay,
we have we have a eyewitness on the scene across
from oj Simpson's house. That's say, mister Robert Higgins, mister Higgins,
what do you see now? Captain Jenks went into a
character that I don't want to get canceled, so I'm
not going to do here.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I'm just gonna ask everybody to be quiet for a moment.
We have on the phone with us as well, Robert Higgins,
who lives in the neighborhood and is on the ground
and can see inside the van. Mister Higgins, Oh, yes,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But I'm watching this at home thinking how does Peter Jennings,
the ABC anchor, not know what is happening? Then and
then all of a sudden, you hear the voice of
God here, Peter, this is al Michaels. Lest anyone think
that is a real name. I forget exactly what he said.
That was a completely farcical call. Now, as the years
went on, al Michaels would go on Howard Stern, Billy
(01:44):
West would do al Michaels saying, that's a completely forcical call.
Al Michaels said, I've never used the word farcicle in
my life, but I know what was going on there.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The driveway of Oj Simpson's home in Redwood, clearly an
effort being made to him come out of the vehicle
in the doorway of the house. His friend Al Cowling Peter.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
By the way, just for the record, this is Al Michaels.
So that was a totally farcical call. Lest anybody think
that that was somebody who was truly across the street
that was not. He said something in code at the
end that's indicative of the mentioning of the name of
a certain radio talk show.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Host as a producer. I just imagine myself in the
control room and the hotline ring. So the hot line
is a phone that you only use when you really
need to get through. Like you don't use the hotline
to be like, hey, what should we get for lunch?
The hot line is hey, there's a fake call on
the air, get it off now. It's used for that
kind of thing. It's the batphone. So I'm just picturing
(02:45):
you're in the control room and Al Michael's calls and
he's like, you gotta put me on the air right now,
and you're like, what did you not just see the ojchase?
Why does al Michaels have to be on the air
right now? Anyway, I have totally degressed and broken all
the rules and put a two and a half minute
roadblock at the top of the show. You're not supposed
to do. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Yeah, boy,
Jim Gaffigan, it's today the Bourbon set. We've been looking
(03:07):
forward to this four months, over four shows, Jim Gaffigan
will debut an all new set of Bourbon and whiskey
inspire stand up. You might still be able to get
in because on Monday morning, Jim Gaffigan post it on
Threads the tickets were still available. So I don't know
if the bourbon demand is quite there for Jim gaffigan
bourbon theme sets, but he's doing four of them to
(03:28):
tonight two Thursday, seven and nine thirty. It's at the
Kentucky Center baum Hart Theater, you know, the one on
five oh one West Main Street. Yeah. Now, what he's
really pushing is this really cool after party on Thursday.
That's right. If you've got tickets to the nine to
thirty show, not only do you get a Jim Gaffigan
bourbon themed comedy set. You get exclusive access to the
(03:52):
official after party. The party will feature sponsored bourbon pores,
light bites, and of course, Jim Gaffigan. That after party
doesn't starts eleven pm. So as much as I love
Jim gaffigan bourbon jokes and bourbon, I mean you want
me to start a party at eleven o'clock on a
school night? Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Uh, this next part here, I'm not doing a bit, okay,
So let me get the little out of my voice.
I'm just trying to have a fun. It's just a
fun little podcast. But let me get to us for
a second. Over the weekend, John Marcos Saraisi posted a
picture with Jim Gaffigan. Now, I would describe John Marcos
Sarraisi as wiry. If you've seen his comedy special, you
know he's not a big, fat, stocky guy like me.
(04:31):
He's wiry. Anyway, He's in a picture with Jim Gaffigan,
who has said he lost weight using joo. Jim's looking
really thit not like, hey, you lost a lot of weight,
You look good like he's past that. Now. I hope
he's okay. I'm not doing a bit. I'm not trying
to be a jerk hole. But when You're standing next
to John Marco and I'm like you look really thin,
I go, huh, so, I hope everything's okay. There stories
(04:53):
I hadn't got to Nate Brigetzie. Remember the Emmys and
then Jimmy Kimmel got suspended and then we all went
to the Riod Comedy Festival wholl All. Before that, the
story was Naperghetzy tanked on the Emmys. Remember that bit.
Nate on his podcast said he wasn't trying to put
anybody on the spot. I was trying to have a
very giving night. He said he had no ill intent
(05:13):
while planning it out. Well, then, dude, you didn't think
about this at all, Nate said. Reviews did not like
the boys and Girls Club thing, despite it coming from
a real place of heart. In my head, I wasn't
trying to put anybody in spot. I wasn't trying to
make someone donate money. But in my head I kind
of thought, like, make it fun. We're not using the
charities a tool. They asked you to come up with
a way to make everybody go shorter on their speeches.
First of all, why are we trying to go shorter
(05:35):
on their speeches? Like what are we trying to get
to at this point the Sunday night eleven o'clock news.
Who cares? We all have phones? Like what is the race?
Or start the show earlier if you're worried about it
going too late, Nate said, comics, I don't think I'll
get to ask that going shorter, because I'll try to
find a solution. He said, CBS was very happy with
the bit. I think people at home were very happy
they watched it. No, we weren't. I wasn't trying to
(05:56):
overshadow any of their speeches, but yeah, you know some
of these people, well, you work your whole career, you
finally get recognized. You just want to thank your family
and the people you worked with hard, and like, why
are we running a clock? I get we don't want
the seven minutes speeches about issues of the day. I
get that. But if you're up there and you're like, hey,
I just want to think my wife's just been really
great these last thirty years, and my kids are fantastic,
(06:17):
and you know the rest of the crew here, let
people do that. Nate explained on his podcast, he thought
that the shows that won, or Netflix or Apple would
donate the money. It's not like I was expecting that kid,
meaning adolescent star Owen Cooper, who was fantastic in his speech.
I think he's fifteen. I mean that show was great.
He's great, but his speech was fantastic. I wasn't expecting
that kid to give money. In my head, I pictured
(06:39):
as they could speak long but then be a hero,
so it was a win win. Then the night becomes
about love and you're giving to these kids that are
there and all the stuff. I don't know if I
just didn't explain enough in the room. I had it
in my head one way, it came out another way.
But the reasoning was there. I wasn't gonna give that
money at the end. I wasn't thinking I was going
to have it, But the way it went, it was like,
I can't. I wonder if they'll have him back. So
friend of the show Jason Zinniman pointed out the ratings
(07:00):
were up, but I don't know. I feel like that's
a jokoy one and done. I can't see rolling him
back out. David Letterman, Yes, I'm finally getting to a
David Letterman story. Because all the crazy news has calmed down,
he has announced his next guest on My Next Guest
needs no introduction. He's already taped it at New York University.
(07:20):
It is with the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, hopefully.
Letterman asked him a lot of questions about Adam's fine
dramatic films, Uncut, Gems, Space movie one about basketball, and
this upcoming Ja Kelly won that apparently Adam Sandler dramatic
actor is fantastica and I'm looking forward to hearing Dave
interview Adam Sandler about dramatic acting. No date yet for that.
(07:44):
It's scheduled to air later this year. Let me guess
Jay Kelly comes out December fifth, maybe around then. There
is a lot of Oscar buzz around dramatic actor Adam Sandler.
Sandler told people that's real cool. Nice of everybody to say.
I'm just happy I got to be in it. Sandler's
seems like a pretty cool guy. I mean, he addresses
worse than I do, and his attempts at comedy are terrible,
but he does seem like a really cool guy. Jimmie
(08:07):
Fallon had Taylor Swift on last night, we'll talk about that.
I did talk about Taylor Swift's new album on the
DCN eight bonus podcast on the feed on Apple Podcasts.
So I haven't done a DCN eight in a few
weeks because of all the regular bonus episodes. But anyway,
if you were a paid subscriber, and you can become
a paid subscriber by opening up the Apple podcast app
(08:29):
and clicking Uninterrupted Listening, and then for five bucks a month,
you'll get this show and then just about everything else
on the network commercial free. So you get five good
news stories which I host, you get that commercial free.
In Palace Intrigue and all the other stuff, the trivia show,
you get all that without ads. But also to show
my appreciation and to get some things out of my system,
(08:50):
I started this thing called DCN eight where it's me,
but I'm not talking about comedy, and I'm not putting
any rules on that. I'm not saying how long it is,
I'm not saying how often it comes out. Just if
you're pay subscriber, every now and then you get a
DC and eight, And there's a DC and eight in
the feed right now. Fallon was catching some crap last
week because he said he's keeping his head down during
(09:11):
all this political stuff. Fallon told CNBC, our show's never
really been that political. We hit both size equally. We
try to make everybody laugh. Our monologue has been the
same in doing since Johnny Carson was doing this night show.
So I really just keep my head down to make
sure the jokes aren't funny. We're trying to make the
best show we possibly can and entertain everybody. Fallon also
has that new show On Brand with Jimmy Fallon, a
(09:32):
reality competition series that puts ten creative minds of the
test as they craft real campaigns for real brands. Jimmy
Fallon said, we wanted everybody to get in on the action,
so NBC's doing cool thing. They're going to hold a
contest where you get to create an original design for
an on brand billboard. We've teamed up with Canva to
do this, so anyone can enter. The winner will get
their billboard on Sunset Boulevard in LA and win a
(09:53):
trip to New York City and two tickets to see
the Tonight Show. What if I win, I live in
New Jersey, I get a trip to New York City.
I try to avoid going to New York City, just
like I've tried to avoid talking about the Riodd Comedy
Festival for ten minutes or so, but times up. Bill
Maher criticized Dave Chappelle for Dave Chappelle's comments downplaying free
(10:13):
speech in America. This happened on Real Time with Bill Maher.
That was the episode Louis c K was on. Bill
Moore told c K Dave Chappelle was in the press
today saying you can speak more freely over here than
in America. C K said, I don't know if that's true.
Mar said, oh, it's not true. At the Read Comedy
Festival today, Jack Whitehall brings Polish, British banterer and gleeful
self mockery, sharpening stories with a quick snap. He's honed
(10:37):
on arena tours. Moa Maher is there. He'll discuss fatherhood, fame,
and identity with the same candid, culturally charged storytelling that
made him a household name. Expect brutally honest observations, unexpected tenderness,
and explosive punchlines delivered with charisma and bite. Interesting copy.
There and Wayne Brady, he brings quick fire improv and
(10:59):
music Comedy to the Rio Comedy Festival, challenging the fearless
energy that made him a multi hyphenate star. On whose
line is it anyway? Broadway and TV expect genre hopping
riffs and the kind of on the spots songcraft that
turn suggestions into showstoppers. Be careful, Wayne. So as I
put the show together today, I actually excluded a few things.
(11:22):
There's one comedian on Instagram showing off their weight loss,
and I'm like, you know what, I just don't want
to talk about that. And it's just comedy thinking. Everything's
just been so angsty ltely and it's starting to make
me like, not like some of these people that we
talk about all the time. I feel like comedy has
become a business with a capital B, and it's all
(11:45):
feeling icky. And I don't just mean re odd. I
feel like you can just see the industry, meaning Hollywood
and the two big agencies going, here's who we're pushing now,
here's who the hot comedian is right now, and let's
get as much press out there, and let's get them
big TV gigs and let's put them in front of everybody.
We're going to make this person a star and there
are at least two people have done that with this year,
and it's all just feeling like icky to me right now.
(12:08):
I'd prefer to talk about fun things like this whole
thing with Paddington Bear. Studio Canal which produces the Paddington movies,
and Paddington Bear's holders are suing Avalon. They didn't like
the recent episode of Spitting Image. That episode depicted Paddington
as a foul mouthed podcast host. In the sketch, Paddington said,
(12:29):
I don't really talk like Ben Wishlaw. I'm from Peru.
M Effers, I am Paddington Bear from Peru. During a
sketch Prince Harry and Paddington interview Elon Musk, they also
read ads for guns and robot sex dolls. Scrubs revival
looks like everybody's back. Over the weekend, I started watching
Scrubs again from season one, episode one. Boy, that show
(12:52):
has aged well. I was laughing out loud. It's on Hulu.
Oh wait, no, I mean I was watching my dvdsuse
so if I watched Hulu that would mean I support fascism. Now,
I of course canceled Disney Plus and Hulu and don't
watch anything on ABC because I support Jimmy Kimmel and
free speech, just like you canceled all that stuff too.
So I misspoke there. I was not watching it on Hulu.
(13:14):
I would not do that. I do not support fascism.
I went upstairs and got my DVDs, which are real
things I own. I'll post a picture of me with
a DVD to prove it, and I am going to
do that on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast
Group after I shower. See this is why I hate
the video podcast. You know, it's midday on Monday, and
I might still be wearing a hat and last night's clothes.
(13:35):
That's the beauty of being an audio podcaster. But once
I like shower and shave, you'll see me with my
scrubs DVDs. I wasn't watching Hulu. I don't support fascism.
ABC has added nine guest starring cast members. The new
interns include Ava Bonnis Serena, Jacob Dudman as Asher, David
Gridley is Blake, Leila Mouhammadi as Amara, and Amanda Morrow
(13:57):
as Dashana. They joined Zach Raft, Donald Faison and Sarah
Chalk as the three leads Judy Reis is back as Carla,
John C. McGinley as Doctor Cox. I can't get enough
of Doctor Cox ever, I would watch a Doctor Cox
spin off. All right, here's the description. J D and
Turk scrub in together for the first time in a
long time. Medicine has changed, in turns have changed, but
(14:18):
their romance has stood the test of time. Characters new
and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter
heart and some surprises along the way. I'm still curious
if you watch season nine and I have the DVDs,
I don't support fascism. The original Sacred Heart Hospital was gone.
They were the new ones. So does the new scrubs
take place at the new Sacred Heart, which at this
point is like twenty years old. I don't know. I
(14:40):
remember I saw somewhere over the weekend the Todd is
back as well, which is good news. The only person
I haven't seen is if Neil Flynn is coming back
as the janitor new topic. For some reason, FX Wait,
who owns fx FX is Hulu? Oh, we're gonna have
to support fascism again. Boy, Well, if you do suppor fascism,
(15:01):
FX is for some reason making very young Frankenstein This
based on mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, Zach Galifanakis, Dontlly Well,
Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, come ol On Jeohnny and Carrie
Elwis a star on the pilot. It's some sort of
prequel I assume from the title why we're making this
I don't know. And kicking off today the Milwaukee Comedy
(15:22):
Festival celebrating twenty years presenting live comedy today through the
twelfth more than thirty comedians performing across nine shows at
different venues. Comedians in Clue, The Very Funny, Aparna Nurla,
The Very Funny, Sean Patten, Patton Oswald who ruined, Star
Trek Has, Doug the Vulcan, and Punky Johnson. That's a
pretty good lineup. You should go hackle Patton Oswald and
be like, why did you play Doug the Vulcan seven
(15:43):
o'clock tonight at Parna and some others are at the
Lakefront Brewery. Sean Patten tomorrow at seven thirty. Patten Thursday
night if you want to heckle him, Punky Johnson on Friday,
and a bunch of other shows. Looks like at Nice Festival.
And that is your comedy News for Today. Become a
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(16:04):
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