November 9, 2025 • 13 mins
Johnny Mac's daily comedy news covers John Mulaney's surprising appearance at Donald Trump's Supreme Court tariff war hearing.
Nikki Glaser hosted SNL.
Jim Gaffigan discusses his tours on social media, while David Cross criticizes Dave Chappelle's cancel culture comments.
Stavos Halkias shares relationship insights with GQ, emphasizing humor.
Gary Gulman reflects on his comedy journey and the challenges of staying relevant.
Roy Wood Jr. talks about his experience with The Daily Show and the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Jay Leno rides as grand marshal in the Harley-Davidson Love Ride to raise money for chairty. That guy's the worst.
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Nikki Glaser hosted SNL.
Jim Gaffigan discusses his tours on social media, while David Cross criticizes Dave Chappelle's cancel culture comments.
Stavos Halkias shares relationship insights with GQ, emphasizing humor.
Gary Gulman reflects on his comedy journey and the challenges of staying relevant.
Roy Wood Jr. talks about his experience with The Daily Show and the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Jay Leno rides as grand marshal in the Harley-Davidson Love Ride to raise money for chairty. That guy's the worst.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey man, I'm Johnny Mack with his daily comedy news. Now.
You know who was that Donald Trump's Supreme Court hearing
the other day about the tariff war. You know who
was there in the audience, John Mullaney. All right, Why, well,
we're gonna find out. But what a random John Mullaney's sighting,
The Daily Beast reports. Fans speculated Mullaney was invited by
(00:30):
lawyer Neil Cattel, who was arguing on behalf of small
businesses affected by the tariffs. Mullaney had been on his
podcast court Side, where we learned Mullaney as a constitutional
lawn nerd. Neil said, Mullaney texts him all sorts of
questions about random Supreme Court cases all the time, And
I guess Mullaney is really into this if he was there.
(00:50):
Nikki Glazer was your SNL host last night. I'll probably
review that on Tuesday, just to accommodate my production schedule.
They did release this promo leading up to it. Nicky ROAs,
Ashley Padilla, James Austin Johnson, and Cam Patterson. A couple
of notes here. I've trimmed the bleeps because the the
setup is that Nicky is roasting the three of them,
(01:11):
and apparently her roasts are quite vulgar, so that the
bleeps go on forever. So I trimmed those just for pacing.
I understand the pacing upsets the joke, but you don't
want to sit through a beap for ten seconds. There
are also two visual jokes. I'm gonna leave them in.
In one, Ashley Padia throws up and the other James
Austin Johnson dumps gas on his head. You'll get it.
And I think this clip also proves that camp Patterson
(01:33):
not good at Saturday Night Live. I don't get why
Lauren added him to the cast. And again, Louren Michaels
is Lorne Michaels and I'm a guy in a basement,
what do I know? But I still think Camp Patterson's
going to be one and done. Anyway, Here was the
teaser for Nicki Glazer.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So come out.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So great to be here, Hey, Nicki, guy, you're so
excited you're hosting.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It is going to be so fun.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So excited? Was there something else you needed or would
you roast?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Please?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I just I don't think that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You don't want that. I promise you won't hurt our feeling.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Now I started on care tony some completely numb and side.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Okay, me verse me verse, right.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Ashley, you look like you actually look like.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Your dog's period blood. Okay, this is fun. You're right, James,
you nerdy little not there in Tennessee going out there
by the outdoor masthtub, get her nune okay and cav
(02:38):
nice sweater. Hell yeah, no, that's why you're the queen.
That's fine, it's good. I like this is fun. Jim
Gaffigan was on social media again, and as I've pointed
out to you, Jim Gaffigan really only comes on social
media when he wants to sell you something. He wants
to sell you some concert tickets. I have made edits
to this clip.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's Jim gaffer and very exciting that twenty twenty six
shows are on sale. I'm going to New York, I'm
going to Saint Louis, I'm going to Denver, I'm going
all these places out west. I know I need a haircut,
and you know, I think it's cruel that like bald
men or men that are bald and need to get
(03:19):
a haircut, like we should get free haircuts right anyway,
comment below, like, follow, share, perform surgery, whatever you want
to do anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Vanity Fair ask David Cross what he thinks about cancel culture.
The question was really about Dave Chappelle. Cross said, I
know I'm not stating any obvious that hasn't been stated before,
and it's stating the obvious, but you, Dave Chappelle, have
no credibility. We can't take anybody seriously who complains about
cancel culture while performing in a sold out arena and
getting tens of millions of dollars for a special that's
going to air all over the world. It's batently absurd.
(03:52):
So that kind of stuff's just a waste of time
to argue. It's like two plus two equals five or
black is white. It's not true. It's not a thing
you have been canceled. Vanity Fair ass Cross, they were
all the comedy had gone woke, but then Elon Musk
bought Twitter and declared comedy legally again, what do you
think of that? David Cross said, I mean, it's worth
the discussion, but my feeling about it is there are
words you can use in jokes that offend people and
where does the individual stand up feel comfortable with editing themselves.
(04:14):
I want to keep saying the R word. There are
more directly violent words that I've stopped using, So it's
up to the individual. There are some words I won't
say now just because no, I know, I've had enough discussions,
or I don't think it's hurting my bits to swap
out one word for another. But there are other words
like the R word, and he is saying the R
word in this interview that I'm like, I'm going to
keep using it because it's an easier, better word to
use in my stand ups. Again, it's up to the individual.
(04:35):
All right, David Cross, who do you think is funny
these days? Cross it, there's a lot of great comics
out there, probably a bunch I'm not even aware of.
As for subject matter that's funny, Everything is still funny.
He did not name a single name. It's not that
hard here. I'll go h. I find Chain Gills funny.
Thought about that for one second. That was the name
that popped to mind. I find him funny. Cross said
(04:55):
everything could be certainly funny in the right viewpoint and application.
I have a joke about a rape kit. I know
there'll be some people won't like it. I've already done it,
and I know there's some people that don't like it.
But it's a really funny, clever joke that I'm gonna
keep doing. So look, anything can be funny, it's just
the application. You're probably wondering what does Stavros halky Has
look for in a relationship, Well, he told g Q,
A sense of humor. For me, that's really what my
(05:15):
whole life is based around. You actually want a little
more push back from your girlfriend. You want her to
be like, shut up, you're an idiot. You also have
to be able to make her laugh, and you have
to make her laugh despite her not wanting to. That's
a big one. My favorite audience member is a reluctant
girlfriend at the start of the show becomes a fan
by the end of it. All right, Stavros, what do
you look for in a guy? Friend? Starvros said, My
best friends I've known since I was in Kindergarton, my
producer on the podcast, and my best friend he's my
(05:37):
tour manager. But every five years I tend to pick
up another best friend. I know they're a good person,
and then I can make these incredibly messed up jokes
with them. I don't want somebody who's racist or somebody
who actually doesn't think gay people should get married. I
thinks it's a good time to limit the right to choose.
We do have to line on the big stuff and
may be able to trust you and then do the
funniest jokes in the world, which are really messed up things.
Third Coast Reviews spoke to Gary Goldman, who said I
(05:58):
was fortunate when I did The Great to Pray to
have an audience that was patient and trusted me and
knew I was professional and thoughtful, so they would see
something for me that wasn't my usual show, which was
mainly just observations and some absurdity and some stories. Grand
Delinquent is probably the same amount as personal as The
Great Depress, But with a Great Depress I was able
to get a lot of the deeper stuff out that
wasn't as funny, and a documentary portion of the show,
(06:19):
so essentially I didn't have to be there when the
people weren't laughing. I think as a performer, you're most
vulnerable just being yourself doesn't have to be deep, secret
or private moment. It's very vulnerable to get up there
and say I think this is funny, and I think
you should think this is funny. You don't know whether
they're gonna laugh. But eventually you figure out whether it's
funny and it gets less vulnerable. But with every new audience,
there's always that bit of anticipation and a little bit
of anxiety over that, and it makes it fun. It's
(06:39):
like when I play basketball. If it made every shot,
I think I'd be happy, but in reality and probably
get boring. When you get into a video game or
some set of skill and it gets to the point
where this isn't very challenging, you lose interest. I think
that's the part of the trick to staying interested in
comedy because they're doing it thirty two years now and
it remains challenging. It can be humbling at times, and
I think that's part of the equation. And I think
we all know comedians have been doing the same act
for decades. They burn out or get bored or just
(07:00):
throwing the tannel or whatever that makes sense to me.
I know when I do this pod, I try and
mix up the subjects. You know, there were times when
all right, we're gonna talk about Kimmel for a week
or whatever. But I do try and you know, change
the tone, bring recurring bits back, rest recurring bits. I
try not to talk about the same comedians every day,
but when somebody's out there doing a lot of press,
(07:21):
you know, I'll talk about somebody for five days in
a row. But did you try to mix it up?
That makes sense to me. Roywood Junior just spoke to
Rolling Stone. He talked about touring the country, performing in
the South. Being a road comedian gives you a different
perspective on the voters of the country because you don't
see a Republican party. To see a person and they
voted Republican. There's a difference when you're viewing Republicans through
grafts and pie charts and gallopoles versus you being in
a comedy club on a Thursday in a red state
(07:42):
and telling jokes to voters who would never vote for
your interests and there being some degree of synergy and understanding.
It puts in a perspective that most people in this
country are voting to preserve themselves, and that's what politicians
tap to do. That's what Trump did. Trump went into
Middle America and looked under the rocks, found a couple
of votes over here, found a couple of votes over there,
and here we are. So Junior talked about his time
at The Daily Show, and he said, one of the
(08:02):
main things I learned is that there's always a third
side or another angle to the issue that's not being considered.
I'm grateful my first comedy special didn't come out until
after I started working there. I think also watching Trevor
Noah and how he did interviews with adversarial guests. You
seek to understand, don't necessarily seek to be right. Sometimes
you can talk to people into not agreeing with themselves
if you've got enough time to take a long enough walk.
(08:23):
He talked about hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner in
twenty twenty three and said it was the most stressed
I've been as a performer. Next to the Apollo Theater,
Amateur Night of the Apollo, that's the peak of anxiety.
Roy said, I'd take one thousand correspondents dinners before amateur
Night at the Apollo. That's not to be played with
with the Correspondent's dinner. No matter what after, room's gonna
love the joke. You just don't know when you don't
know which joke the apollo. There's a chance everyone will
(08:46):
hate your guts and unison and there's no recovery. All right,
Jay Leno, do you know who this is? He hosted
The Tonight Show for like twenty two years. Thinks you
know stuff about late night comedy. That guy, he's the worst.
You know what he's doing today? He's the Grand Marshall
at the Harley Davidson Love Yeah Things starts off in Glendale,
finishes northwest of la at Castaic Lake. It's a charity
(09:07):
ride in support of the Wounded Warrior Project and Adopt
the Arts. Founded in nineteen eighty four, it's raised more
than twenty five million dollars and Jay Leno is going
to be the Grand Marshal today. Jay said, I've written
her alongside thousand. It's a love ride for years. I'm
looking forward to doing it again. Cheers to making Love
Ride thirty four a memorable one.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I wanted to tell you about the New York Comedy Festival,
but their website doesn't want to load, so they're gonna
go second. Today I'll tell you about the three one
to two Comedy Festival seven o'clock today at Zany's Downtown.
Heather Shaw at Zany's and Rosemont. I think I've been
to that one. I think the Rosemont one. I'm pretty
sure that was a rainy like Wednesday night and it
was Hannibal Burris and Gaff again and Mad again. It
(09:44):
was a great show. John Deloni will be there at seven,
Kevin Bridges at the Riviera Theater at seven thirty, and
Earthquake at the vic Theater, a great venue at eight o'clock.
And that's a wrap on the very cool three to
one to two Comedy Festival. Nice job, guys. And now
let's see if the other website has loaded yet. It
has not. I might actually have to pause, but that's
(10:05):
not fun. Oh yeah, we're gonna have to do a
different story. It completely broke my browser. Come on near
Comedy Festival. All right, let's see what happens. Tell you
about something else. In the meantime. Sultan Kasas he's gonna
debut his hour long comedy special London Fog on his
YouTube channel today. In London Fog causes wrestles with anxiety,
explores the many modern pass apparently, and reflects on growing
(10:25):
up with a single immigrant mother, all while trying not
to let success change him. He filmed it at the
Neptune Theater in Seattle. He says, this is my first
special in the theater, which was very scary but exciting
at the same time. I'm really happy with how it
all came out. Let's try Chrome. Maybe the New York
Comedy Festival website will load. Oh yeah, much more responsive
on Chrome. Interesting not Safari fans at the New York
(10:48):
Comedy Festival. I won't read everything, but some fun shows.
I love the title of this one. At three o'clock
at Littlefield, y'all gay with Ali Clayton and Ever Maynard.
That's just a fun title. Ucb's The Business Casual Show
at the UCB at four thirty. Gotta love the early
shows on the weekend, right, Josh Sharp's an hour of
crowd working the Round at the Billhouse at four thirty.
Dan pool Zello is recording a live album. He's doing
(11:11):
two shows, but they're both at five o'clock. You know,
New York Comedy Festival. I don't think you guys really
scrubbed this website too well. So if you want to
see Dan, you can see him at the five o'clock
show or at the instantaneously simultaneous five o'clock show. It
also the website doesn't tell us where that show is.
All right, then late afternoon there's a bunch of people
you probably haven't heard of. Six o'clock. Todd Glass is
(11:33):
at Second City Ismo at town Hall at seven. Seven o'clock.
Genius and Poison presents the Magicians of Magic. That sounds fun.
That's at the hard Rock in Finance is in Brooklyn
at seven. But I'm scrolling down here looking for like
headliner headliners, and the New York Comedy Festival doesn't seem
to have that this year. Eight o'clock at New York
Comedy Club on four Street. Chris red like he's nice
(11:56):
and all, but is that a comedy show headliner? I'm
looking for, like a name. I'm scrolling down here for
names you would know. I guess you know Veronica Slowakoska
now because she's on SNL. She's a grammar sya. At
nine thirty, Chris Fleming spoke to the Stranger. Chris said,
so much of comedy survival it's like putting anything in
the cannon. Was it World War One when they had
to turn tires and a bolt or something. That's how
(12:17):
I view it. We're only given so many tools, and
whatever gets us through on stage, we got to use
and hope for the best. Chris, what's it like when
you perform for people that you know kind of don't
know the act? Chris said, Oh, it could be such
a bloodbath. I mean, you wouldn't believe the extremes. It
can literally be like burn the Witch. I had to
recently perform for big crowds that weren't quite my own,
and they wanted to kill me. They absolutely wanted to
(12:38):
kill me. It's being seen by crowds that do see
you so much better. I mean, trust me, you can
be held to completely eat it's up there, but then
it clarifies what you want to do. Tourist audiences, whatever
can navigate a lot of performances to the middle to survive.
I think it's better to gamble on what you truly
want to do and occasionally completely bomb than it's to
(12:59):
self correct to a piece people you would just see
at the airport. Follow up question, did it take a
long time to develop a thick skin? Answer? Oh, I
don't have a thick skin, and that's your how many
news for today, see you tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey man, I'm Johnny Mack with his daily comedy news. Now.
You know who was that Donald Trump's Supreme Court hearing
the other day about the tariff war. You know who
was there in the audience, John Mullaney. All right, Why, well,
we're gonna find out. But what a random John Mullaney's sighting,
The Daily Beast reports. Fans speculated Mullaney was invited by
(00:30):
lawyer Neil Cattel, who was arguing on behalf of small
businesses affected by the tariffs. Mullaney had been on his
podcast court Side, where we learned Mullaney as a constitutional
lawn nerd. Neil said, Mullaney texts him all sorts of
questions about random Supreme Court cases all the time, And
I guess Mullaney is really into this if he was there.
(00:50):
Nikki Glazer was your SNL host last night. I'll probably
review that on Tuesday, just to accommodate my production schedule.
They did release this promo leading up to it. Nicky ROAs,
Ashley Padilla, James Austin Johnson, and Cam Patterson. A couple
of notes here. I've trimmed the bleeps because the the
setup is that Nicky is roasting the three of them,
(01:11):
and apparently her roasts are quite vulgar, so that the
bleeps go on forever. So I trimmed those just for pacing.
I understand the pacing upsets the joke, but you don't
want to sit through a beap for ten seconds. There
are also two visual jokes. I'm gonna leave them in.
In one, Ashley Padia throws up and the other James
Austin Johnson dumps gas on his head. You'll get it.
And I think this clip also proves that camp Patterson
(01:33):
not good at Saturday Night Live. I don't get why
Lauren added him to the cast. And again, Louren Michaels
is Lorne Michaels and I'm a guy in a basement,
what do I know? But I still think Camp Patterson's
going to be one and done. Anyway, Here was the
teaser for Nicki Glazer.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So come out.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So great to be here, Hey, Nicki, guy, you're so
excited you're hosting.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It is going to be so fun.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So excited? Was there something else you needed or would
you roast?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Please?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I just I don't think that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You don't want that. I promise you won't hurt our feeling.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Now I started on care tony some completely numb and side.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Okay, me verse me verse, right.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Ashley, you look like you actually look like.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Your dog's period blood. Okay, this is fun. You're right, James,
you nerdy little not there in Tennessee going out there
by the outdoor masthtub, get her nune okay and cav
(02:38):
nice sweater. Hell yeah, no, that's why you're the queen.
That's fine, it's good. I like this is fun. Jim
Gaffigan was on social media again, and as I've pointed
out to you, Jim Gaffigan really only comes on social
media when he wants to sell you something. He wants
to sell you some concert tickets. I have made edits
to this clip.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's Jim gaffer and very exciting that twenty twenty six
shows are on sale. I'm going to New York, I'm
going to Saint Louis, I'm going to Denver, I'm going
all these places out west. I know I need a haircut,
and you know, I think it's cruel that like bald
men or men that are bald and need to get
(03:19):
a haircut, like we should get free haircuts right anyway,
comment below, like, follow, share, perform surgery, whatever you want
to do anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Vanity Fair ask David Cross what he thinks about cancel culture.
The question was really about Dave Chappelle. Cross said, I
know I'm not stating any obvious that hasn't been stated before,
and it's stating the obvious, but you, Dave Chappelle, have
no credibility. We can't take anybody seriously who complains about
cancel culture while performing in a sold out arena and
getting tens of millions of dollars for a special that's
going to air all over the world. It's batently absurd.
(03:52):
So that kind of stuff's just a waste of time
to argue. It's like two plus two equals five or
black is white. It's not true. It's not a thing
you have been canceled. Vanity Fair ass Cross, they were
all the comedy had gone woke, but then Elon Musk
bought Twitter and declared comedy legally again, what do you
think of that? David Cross said, I mean, it's worth
the discussion, but my feeling about it is there are
words you can use in jokes that offend people and
where does the individual stand up feel comfortable with editing themselves.
(04:14):
I want to keep saying the R word. There are
more directly violent words that I've stopped using, So it's
up to the individual. There are some words I won't
say now just because no, I know, I've had enough discussions,
or I don't think it's hurting my bits to swap
out one word for another. But there are other words
like the R word, and he is saying the R
word in this interview that I'm like, I'm going to
keep using it because it's an easier, better word to
use in my stand ups. Again, it's up to the individual.
(04:35):
All right, David Cross, who do you think is funny
these days? Cross it, there's a lot of great comics
out there, probably a bunch I'm not even aware of.
As for subject matter that's funny, Everything is still funny.
He did not name a single name. It's not that
hard here. I'll go h. I find Chain Gills funny.
Thought about that for one second. That was the name
that popped to mind. I find him funny. Cross said
(04:55):
everything could be certainly funny in the right viewpoint and application.
I have a joke about a rape kit. I know
there'll be some people won't like it. I've already done it,
and I know there's some people that don't like it.
But it's a really funny, clever joke that I'm gonna
keep doing. So look, anything can be funny, it's just
the application. You're probably wondering what does Stavros halky Has
look for in a relationship, Well, he told g Q,
A sense of humor. For me, that's really what my
(05:15):
whole life is based around. You actually want a little
more push back from your girlfriend. You want her to
be like, shut up, you're an idiot. You also have
to be able to make her laugh, and you have
to make her laugh despite her not wanting to. That's
a big one. My favorite audience member is a reluctant
girlfriend at the start of the show becomes a fan
by the end of it. All right, Stavros, what do
you look for in a guy? Friend? Starvros said, My
best friends I've known since I was in Kindergarton, my
producer on the podcast, and my best friend he's my
(05:37):
tour manager. But every five years I tend to pick
up another best friend. I know they're a good person,
and then I can make these incredibly messed up jokes
with them. I don't want somebody who's racist or somebody
who actually doesn't think gay people should get married. I
thinks it's a good time to limit the right to choose.
We do have to line on the big stuff and
may be able to trust you and then do the
funniest jokes in the world, which are really messed up things.
Third Coast Reviews spoke to Gary Goldman, who said I
(05:58):
was fortunate when I did The Great to Pray to
have an audience that was patient and trusted me and
knew I was professional and thoughtful, so they would see
something for me that wasn't my usual show, which was
mainly just observations and some absurdity and some stories. Grand
Delinquent is probably the same amount as personal as The
Great Depress, But with a Great Depress I was able
to get a lot of the deeper stuff out that
wasn't as funny, and a documentary portion of the show,
(06:19):
so essentially I didn't have to be there when the
people weren't laughing. I think as a performer, you're most
vulnerable just being yourself doesn't have to be deep, secret
or private moment. It's very vulnerable to get up there
and say I think this is funny, and I think
you should think this is funny. You don't know whether
they're gonna laugh. But eventually you figure out whether it's
funny and it gets less vulnerable. But with every new audience,
there's always that bit of anticipation and a little bit
of anxiety over that, and it makes it fun. It's
(06:39):
like when I play basketball. If it made every shot,
I think I'd be happy, but in reality and probably
get boring. When you get into a video game or
some set of skill and it gets to the point
where this isn't very challenging, you lose interest. I think
that's the part of the trick to staying interested in
comedy because they're doing it thirty two years now and
it remains challenging. It can be humbling at times, and
I think that's part of the equation. And I think
we all know comedians have been doing the same act
for decades. They burn out or get bored or just
(07:00):
throwing the tannel or whatever that makes sense to me.
I know when I do this pod, I try and
mix up the subjects. You know, there were times when
all right, we're gonna talk about Kimmel for a week
or whatever. But I do try and you know, change
the tone, bring recurring bits back, rest recurring bits. I
try not to talk about the same comedians every day,
but when somebody's out there doing a lot of press,
(07:21):
you know, I'll talk about somebody for five days in
a row. But did you try to mix it up?
That makes sense to me. Roywood Junior just spoke to
Rolling Stone. He talked about touring the country, performing in
the South. Being a road comedian gives you a different
perspective on the voters of the country because you don't
see a Republican party. To see a person and they
voted Republican. There's a difference when you're viewing Republicans through
grafts and pie charts and gallopoles versus you being in
a comedy club on a Thursday in a red state
(07:42):
and telling jokes to voters who would never vote for
your interests and there being some degree of synergy and understanding.
It puts in a perspective that most people in this
country are voting to preserve themselves, and that's what politicians
tap to do. That's what Trump did. Trump went into
Middle America and looked under the rocks, found a couple
of votes over here, found a couple of votes over there,
and here we are. So Junior talked about his time
at The Daily Show, and he said, one of the
(08:02):
main things I learned is that there's always a third
side or another angle to the issue that's not being considered.
I'm grateful my first comedy special didn't come out until
after I started working there. I think also watching Trevor
Noah and how he did interviews with adversarial guests. You
seek to understand, don't necessarily seek to be right. Sometimes
you can talk to people into not agreeing with themselves
if you've got enough time to take a long enough walk.
(08:23):
He talked about hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner in
twenty twenty three and said it was the most stressed
I've been as a performer. Next to the Apollo Theater,
Amateur Night of the Apollo, that's the peak of anxiety.
Roy said, I'd take one thousand correspondents dinners before amateur
Night at the Apollo. That's not to be played with
with the Correspondent's dinner. No matter what after, room's gonna
love the joke. You just don't know when you don't
know which joke the apollo. There's a chance everyone will
(08:46):
hate your guts and unison and there's no recovery. All right,
Jay Leno, do you know who this is? He hosted
The Tonight Show for like twenty two years. Thinks you
know stuff about late night comedy. That guy, he's the worst.
You know what he's doing today? He's the Grand Marshall
at the Harley Davidson Love Yeah Things starts off in Glendale,
finishes northwest of la at Castaic Lake. It's a charity
(09:07):
ride in support of the Wounded Warrior Project and Adopt
the Arts. Founded in nineteen eighty four, it's raised more
than twenty five million dollars and Jay Leno is going
to be the Grand Marshal today. Jay said, I've written
her alongside thousand. It's a love ride for years. I'm
looking forward to doing it again. Cheers to making Love
Ride thirty four a memorable one.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I wanted to tell you about the New York Comedy Festival,
but their website doesn't want to load, so they're gonna
go second. Today I'll tell you about the three one
to two Comedy Festival seven o'clock today at Zany's Downtown.
Heather Shaw at Zany's and Rosemont. I think I've been
to that one. I think the Rosemont one. I'm pretty
sure that was a rainy like Wednesday night and it
was Hannibal Burris and Gaff again and Mad again. It
(09:44):
was a great show. John Deloni will be there at seven,
Kevin Bridges at the Riviera Theater at seven thirty, and
Earthquake at the vic Theater, a great venue at eight o'clock.
And that's a wrap on the very cool three to
one to two Comedy Festival. Nice job, guys. And now
let's see if the other website has loaded yet. It
has not. I might actually have to pause, but that's
(10:05):
not fun. Oh yeah, we're gonna have to do a
different story. It completely broke my browser. Come on near
Comedy Festival. All right, let's see what happens. Tell you
about something else. In the meantime. Sultan Kasas he's gonna
debut his hour long comedy special London Fog on his
YouTube channel today. In London Fog causes wrestles with anxiety,
explores the many modern pass apparently, and reflects on growing
(10:25):
up with a single immigrant mother, all while trying not
to let success change him. He filmed it at the
Neptune Theater in Seattle. He says, this is my first
special in the theater, which was very scary but exciting
at the same time. I'm really happy with how it
all came out. Let's try Chrome. Maybe the New York
Comedy Festival website will load. Oh yeah, much more responsive
on Chrome. Interesting not Safari fans at the New York
(10:48):
Comedy Festival. I won't read everything, but some fun shows.
I love the title of this one. At three o'clock
at Littlefield, y'all gay with Ali Clayton and Ever Maynard.
That's just a fun title. Ucb's The Business Casual Show
at the UCB at four thirty. Gotta love the early
shows on the weekend, right, Josh Sharp's an hour of
crowd working the Round at the Billhouse at four thirty.
Dan pool Zello is recording a live album. He's doing
(11:11):
two shows, but they're both at five o'clock. You know,
New York Comedy Festival. I don't think you guys really
scrubbed this website too well. So if you want to
see Dan, you can see him at the five o'clock
show or at the instantaneously simultaneous five o'clock show. It
also the website doesn't tell us where that show is.
All right, then late afternoon there's a bunch of people
you probably haven't heard of. Six o'clock. Todd Glass is
(11:33):
at Second City Ismo at town Hall at seven. Seven o'clock.
Genius and Poison presents the Magicians of Magic. That sounds fun.
That's at the hard Rock in Finance is in Brooklyn
at seven. But I'm scrolling down here looking for like
headliner headliners, and the New York Comedy Festival doesn't seem
to have that this year. Eight o'clock at New York
Comedy Club on four Street. Chris red like he's nice
(11:56):
and all, but is that a comedy show headliner? I'm
looking for, like a name. I'm scrolling down here for
names you would know. I guess you know Veronica Slowakoska
now because she's on SNL. She's a grammar sya. At
nine thirty, Chris Fleming spoke to the Stranger. Chris said,
so much of comedy survival it's like putting anything in
the cannon. Was it World War One when they had
to turn tires and a bolt or something. That's how
(12:17):
I view it. We're only given so many tools, and
whatever gets us through on stage, we got to use
and hope for the best. Chris, what's it like when
you perform for people that you know kind of don't
know the act? Chris said, Oh, it could be such
a bloodbath. I mean, you wouldn't believe the extremes. It
can literally be like burn the Witch. I had to
recently perform for big crowds that weren't quite my own,
and they wanted to kill me. They absolutely wanted to
(12:38):
kill me. It's being seen by crowds that do see
you so much better. I mean, trust me, you can
be held to completely eat it's up there, but then
it clarifies what you want to do. Tourist audiences, whatever
can navigate a lot of performances to the middle to survive.
I think it's better to gamble on what you truly
want to do and occasionally completely bomb than it's to
(12:59):
self correct to a piece people you would just see
at the airport. Follow up question, did it take a
long time to develop a thick skin? Answer? Oh, I
don't have a thick skin, and that's your how many
news for today, see you tomorrow.
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