November 27, 2025 • 13 mins
Johnny Mac delivers the Thanksgiving edition highlighting comedian Jonathan Kite's spot-on Anthony Bourdain impressions on social media. Sebastian Maniscalco reflects on his love for cooking and its similarities to comedy, while Fortune Feimster shares amusing anecdotes from her tour and her culinary preferences. Jim Gaffigan and Kathleen Madigan discuss their families' roles in their comedy, with Gaffigan touching on parenting and social media. Stephen Colbert debates the relevance of late-night TV and its sense of community. Additionally, Lorne Michaels donates his vast archive to the Harry Ransom Center, featuring memorabilia from his storied career.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga shark media heavy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Jonathan Kite
has been doing these impressions of Anthony Bourdaine. He posted
them on threads at Jonathan Kite. He goes to actual locations,
he dresses up like Boardane. He does a great Boordaine impression.
He's got the body type to pull it off too.
I was watching this one that I'm about to play
for you, and I was like, even if I did
(00:31):
a great Boardine, I don't have the right body type
at all. I could never pull off toll and Lean.
But Jonathan Kite has this thing down. I'm gonna go
a little longer with this one than I normally do
because it is Thanksgiving themed, and you know Kite's putting
He's up on social media, so I don't think he's
really trying to monetize them. I come in peace, really
like your work. But here's Jonathan Kite as Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Welcome to America's Endless Harvest and the Feast of all
you can eat Golden Corral, where Pilgrim's progress meets the
Age of consumption. Because here Thanksgiving isn't a holiday. It's
a lifestyle, a face style. So buckle up, throw on
your stretchy pants. This is manifest destiny. It's the United
Plates of America, and at sixteen ninety nine ahead you
(01:16):
get liberal portions at conservative prices. As is tradition, we
begin with the bird, our annual sacrifice. The golden butter
soap turkey glistens under heat lamps that could tan a corpse,
and like Travis Kelcey's dating history, you can enjoy both
white and dark meat. The first Thanksgiving was a fragile
truce between worlds to survive the Hunger Games of sixteen
(01:39):
twenty one. Today we gather with loved ones just trying
to survive each other. Left wing, right wing. It's all
the same bird.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Absolutely fantastic. Jonathan Kite is his name, Give him a follow.
Sebastian Manuscalco, he spoke with us weekly. He had a
cooking show, remember that it was called Well Done with
Sebastian manusuks Alco on Food Network. And now in hindsight,
I'm realizing I didn't make nearly as much fun of
that as I should have. I should almost go back.
If we ever have another pandemic and I need a
(02:10):
bit like George Lopez Tacos. Maybe I'll just critique well
done with Sebastian Manascalco on Food Network. But hopefully we
won't have another pandemic and I won't have to do that.
But as you know, it's this is a food story
and it's Thanksgiving. I do put these shows together. A
Sebastian said, I became passionate about cooking around the time
I met my wife. I like cooking because it's similar
(02:30):
to comedy and that you're doing it alone and making
stupid faces for no reason. If it sucks, it's your fault.
If it's great, it's your fault. Same thing with stand up.
It's very therapeutic for me to go into the kitchen
and get lost in the sauce. I do a beautiful
French toast. The next thing I want to master is pizza.
Switching to comedy. You have to live in everyday life
to extract humor, and that's why I'm an active parent.
I drop my kids off at school, I go to
the soccer games. I'm taking my kid to gymnastics. You
(02:51):
find a lot of humor in those things. You do
have to be cautious about talking about some of the
fancy things you do. I went to the Oscars, but
my Oscar story is not one of fame and fortune.
It's me sitting up at the third balcony while everybody
from Greenbrook is accepting the Oscar. When I was announced
on the red carpet, it was a bathroom break for
the photographers. They were cleaning their lenses. Ryan Seacrest was
there with his camera guy in lights on a pedestal,
and they take me all the way down to the
(03:12):
guy who's a one man shop with his iPhone and
is from the Ecuador Times. So four dot com spoke
to Fortune Femmester about taking care of Biscuits. That's the
name of her tour. She said it came to me
as something that lets people know they're in for a good,
silly time. She said, Now, at all the cities I
go to, people are dropping biscuits off, and I'm grateful,
but I'm like, oh, I'm gonna have to name my
next tour taking care of Salads, because it's a lot
(03:33):
of biscuits right now. One Instagram video showed Fortune in
her green room. The room was filled with biscuits from
heart Ease Biscuit shaped pillows custom merch. She said that
was all a surprise. My writer is so boring. I
literally asked for water, ice and a cup. I used
to have big, extravagant green rooms, but then I was
never hungry, and I felt like I was being super
wasteful because normally I either eat before or after. The
(03:55):
show asked for her biscuit preferences. Her favorites are a loaded, savory,
yummy biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese, and a little honey,
or just the opposite, just a jelly biscuit. I'm trash,
so I love grape jelly. If Fortune Feamster could only
eat one thing twenty four seven three sixty five, it
would be pad thaie. She says, I went to Thailand
and ate pad tie for a week and a half
(04:16):
straight and did not get tired of it. I love
it so much, I think I could do it. I
could just eating it forever. I usually get it with chicken,
but if I were gonna eat it every day, I'd
try to switch it up, try some shrimp or tofu
or bounce back and forth. All right, Fortune was the
first thing you learned how to cook grilled cheese. But
I learned by doing it wrong. I was babysitting and
the kid won a grilled cheese to turn the oven on.
And he was like, why are you turning the oven on?
And I said, I don't know baking it. He told
(04:38):
me just throw in a pan or the toaster oven.
It was too much for me. You don't need to
go throw that for a grilled cheese. But he was right.
I was pretty old to learn that. Like sixteen more
food stories from Fortune. It's Thanksgiving, you know, she said.
Grilling is brand new for me. I never had a
grill until I got this house, and it came with
a grill, and I was determined to learn how to
use it. Getting beef to the right temperature is the
trickiest part. You don't want it to be too rare
or red or too cooked and dry. I'm learning the
(05:00):
happy medium there. And there's an editor's note pun intended.
Fortune told Savor I'm a dessert gal. I have such
a sweet tooth. I'm near a cheesecake factory. I will
hit up that Adam's peanut buttercup fudge rippled cheesecake. That's
a real treat. Any foods from your childhood that you
liked Grandma's chicken and dumplings, so comforting and classic. Biggest
flex to impress guests. Fortune said, I love some good
(05:22):
scented candles. They're inviting warm then all you eat is
good food. I don't have a signature scent yet, but
I love holiday candles all the time, so we're getting
closed to the holidays. I'm pumped because the ones that
I love smell like Christmas trees. Jim Gaffigan spoke to
The Today Show. They were curious how Jim's wife and
kids feel about being in his comedy. Jim joked, I
don't care. Then he got a little more serious and said,
(05:43):
the good news is that my children all the things
I say, I don't have to feel guilty because they
have no interest in my comedy. I'm more concerned about
accidentally posting a photo where they appear in it on
Instagram than me saying something in my stand up. Obviously,
I try to be respectful, and I think anyone who's
apparent is aware. We've all made mistakes. But parenting is
you try your best and then as a parent, become
their septacle for all the blame. Kathleen Madigan spoke to
the La Times about her family and the stuff they
(06:06):
bring over. She's proud of the chicken salad or stuff
they bring over like tunicast roles, and they're very into
hardy grandma type food, meaning fattening, which I'm all in on.
She talked about a Midwestern sensibility and said everybody's got
their little things, like I would have a big fight
about their corn being better than anyone else's stupid stuff.
But to us, it's what's happening. It's what we're talking
(06:26):
about sports. Everybody's got their thing with the packers and
that kind of stuff, but it's not anything we were given,
like the ocean, the mounts of Colorado. Don't know, we
don't have that either. That's why when people say, oh,
do you like where you're from, or always like, yeah,
it's fine. We know it's not great, but it's not horrible.
It's fine. I love when people say Saint Louis is
that kind of by Chicago, well kind of four and
a half hours down the road to find kind of pie.
(06:48):
That's what I say about my coastal friends. It's what
they've been given. I mean, someone made it all the
way out there, so I give those people credit, but
the Midwest is like, you're gonna get bored driving around Kansas, Nebraska.
At least in Missouri. When you get south of Saint Louis,
we start to get big ills. We called them out,
and it's a hill. We have good lakes. Coastal people
don't like lakes because so like, yeah, that water is
a little still. I'm like, yeah, and there's snakes in
it too. She is hilarious, all right. No amount of
(07:10):
food stories. Uh. Stephen Colbiert had spoken to GQ. This
one is a bit of a leftover in the spirit
of Thanksgiving. They were curious, does he think the late
night format makes sense anymore? Do you think the times
for these shows has passed? Have you ever felt that
while doing your show, Stephen Colbert, He said, no, not
doing the show. I do the show with gratitude. We
have a really great time. We love doing the show
with each other. We love all pulling on the same rope.
(07:30):
I love being there with those four hundred fifty people
and the Ed Sullivan Theater, in a Broadway theater. We've
done our best to deliver something that the network can
monetize in some way. I thought we were successful at that,
so all things must pass. I think if there's a
business reason for this. I know there's been a change
in ad rates since the strike, and I know that's
really never recovered for that, so all that makes sense
to me. And I also know that these late night
shows are kind of like symphony orchestras. They need a
certain amount of personnel to do them. You can't relate
(07:52):
to a show and the Ed Sullivan Theatre eleven thirty
five on CBS with a band and sketches and field
shooths and stuff like that for the cost of a podcast.
And if you look and say, oh, well look, this
is what a podcast makes, and this is what these
shows make, then you're keeping these shows on because you'll
love the form. Why would shows like mine continue and
exist or Kimmel or Jimmy or whatever. Well, we're like
your friend who at the end of the day paid
attention to what happened today more than you did, and
(08:12):
we curate that back to you at the end of
the day. But it's really more about how we feel
about or I as the person who's the vehicle for that,
how we felt about it today. Boy, that speaks to
me as someone who does this show, Like, presumably at
some level you just kind of enjoy my voice and vibe, right, Like,
I don't think you're like this is the only place
I can get comedy news. But you know, we have
this relationship, you and I. You listener, me host, and yeah,
(08:35):
I feel what's Stephen selling here? He says. I share
those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they
don't laugh, and there's a sense of community there. Quick
time out, it's a holiday, We've got time. I was
teaching my class one week ago today, and I was
teaching the college class about the concept of tribes and
building community around shows. And I started to explain to
(08:55):
the class how I almost always refer to one comedian
as dramatic actor Adam Sandler. You're in on the bit,
I'm in on the bit, and always saying dramatic actor
Adam Sandler reinforces the thought there with me as the
leader lowercase L of this tribe of comedy fans who
have gathered around this podcast and in the Facebook group
(09:16):
Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, please join us anyway. One
of the students starts agreeing with me and goes on
for like seven minutes about Adam Sandler is good in punch,
drunk Glove and in uncut gems. And I just stood
there mugging for the camera, making eye contact with students,
and just gesturing over at the student who just kept
(09:36):
going on and on proving my point of the power
of the tribe and of the community. And I high
five the student. I was like, you just proved my point.
So I get what Colbert is selling here. He says,
there's a sense of community and there are fewer, fewer.
I don't know who coined this term, but there are
fewer and few of what you would call third spaces
in our life. Have you heard this term three spaces?
This is John talking. My daughter taught me about the
(09:57):
sea off home, work, and then somewhere else you go.
For me, it's the brewery on trivia night, where I
see my friends every now and then. I'm tired. A
couple weeks ago, the night we want Actually, I was
kind of tired and I said to my wife, I go,
I have to show up or I won't have friends anymore.
I need to be with the guys. So that's my
third space. Colbert says, we need third spaces in our life,
(10:18):
not your home, not your work, but some other place
we get together, and these late night shows are for
millions of Americans a third space to come together and
think about the day. Switching to politics, Colbert said, people
perceive me as the sort of lefty figure. I think
I'm more conservative than people think. I just happened to
be talking about a government and extremists. What I'm giving
to you is my reaction video to the day, and
my reaction video is like the scream. So that makes
(10:40):
me perceived as more left necessarily than I am, because
I'm not sure what other reaction would be a an
honest one. I was having a side text with a
friend of the show who appreciated that he's not entirely
sure which side of the aisle I'm on. Again, this
is not a political show. I'm not sure what you think.
I'm not even sure what I'm telegraphing might actually be accurate. Again,
and I'm not playing a role. But like I like
(11:02):
to say, the President and I don't agree on all
the issues we agree on twelve thirty, we don't agree
on other things. With previous presidents. I agreed on some things,
didn't agree on other things with the next president. I'll
agree on some things, I won't agree on some things.
I think that's how most people are, right, Colbert said,
we broadcast to a general audience. There's no entrance fee,
there's no subscription. You don't have to look for us
except on Channel five or wherever you are. And we
(11:24):
have a variety of different guests. It's a variety show.
It is Thanksgiving, and I hope you're all having a
nice Thanksgiving. I do want to give a shout out
to one particular member of the audience. That's Mike Chisholm.
He hosts The Letterman Podcast, and I don't know if
you know this. He's Canadian. So hey, Mike, hope you
enjoyed October twelfth, or whenever Canadian Thanksgiving was. I assume
(11:44):
you have to work today. Sucks to be you. The
rest of us Turkey and football enjoy my friend. Love you.
A new episode of The Letterman Podcast tomorrow, probably, I
don't know. I don't know if Mike's skipping week. He
usually puts out an episode on Friday. If not, you
haven't listened to them all. Listen to on an old one.
He's got this guy Johnny that goes on there every
now and then anyway, Mike good Joy work today, I'll
be getting even fatter. Lauren Michaels has donated his five
(12:07):
hundred box archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the
University of Texas at Austin. The exhibit is called Live
from New York, The Lurne Michael's Collection. It is stuff
going all the way back to nineteen seventy five, boasters,
newspaper clippings, photos, Lauren's work with Lily Tomlin, Phyllis Diller
and Rowan, and Martin's laugh in his other stuff Three Amigos,
(12:27):
Mean Girls, thirty Rock Portlandia, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,
and Late Night with Seth Myers. You can walk past
that exhibit and be like, Kah, this isn't interesting at all,
and just keep going. There are posters, annotated scripts, Make
twelve thirty Great Again, costumes, production materials, and newspaper clippings
from these projects. Guest curator Steve Wilson's exhibit labels provide
(12:48):
excellent in depth guides the entire exhibit. Various network memos
on display reveal the inevitable behind the scenes battles of
musical tastes. Network execs like the classic rock. The youngsters
like some different kinds of music. Also, apparently some memos
discussing the departures of Norm MacDonald and the great dramatic
actor Adam Sandler. Before email, the show regularly got mail,
(13:09):
fan letters, complaints, sketching job pitches, scribbling on everything from
scratchbats to toilet papers. There's a nineteen seventy eight letter
from one of the writers describing the frustration of having
to respond to the relentless barrage of unsolicited comedy materials.
She wrote, no matter how funny you think it is,
we cannot read, evaluate, or use any of your stuff.
We never use outside material, and we're not looking for
(13:30):
any new writers at this time. Really cross my heart
and hope to die, which I may do soon if
I have to write any more letters like this one.
And that is your Thanksgiving comedy news for the day,
normal episodes all weekend. I got plenty even from this show.
I bumped four stories. It's not one of those weeks
where I'm like, oh, what am I going to talk about?
I got plenty. Enjoy your Turkey, Mike, enjoy work. See tomorrow.
Callaroga shark media heavy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Jonathan Kite
has been doing these impressions of Anthony Bourdaine. He posted
them on threads at Jonathan Kite. He goes to actual locations,
he dresses up like Boardane. He does a great Boordaine impression.
He's got the body type to pull it off too.
I was watching this one that I'm about to play
for you, and I was like, even if I did
(00:31):
a great Boardine, I don't have the right body type
at all. I could never pull off toll and Lean.
But Jonathan Kite has this thing down. I'm gonna go
a little longer with this one than I normally do
because it is Thanksgiving themed, and you know Kite's putting
He's up on social media, so I don't think he's
really trying to monetize them. I come in peace, really
like your work. But here's Jonathan Kite as Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Welcome to America's Endless Harvest and the Feast of all
you can eat Golden Corral, where Pilgrim's progress meets the
Age of consumption. Because here Thanksgiving isn't a holiday. It's
a lifestyle, a face style. So buckle up, throw on
your stretchy pants. This is manifest destiny. It's the United
Plates of America, and at sixteen ninety nine ahead you
(01:16):
get liberal portions at conservative prices. As is tradition, we
begin with the bird, our annual sacrifice. The golden butter
soap turkey glistens under heat lamps that could tan a corpse,
and like Travis Kelcey's dating history, you can enjoy both
white and dark meat. The first Thanksgiving was a fragile
truce between worlds to survive the Hunger Games of sixteen
(01:39):
twenty one. Today we gather with loved ones just trying
to survive each other. Left wing, right wing. It's all
the same bird.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Absolutely fantastic. Jonathan Kite is his name, Give him a follow.
Sebastian Manuscalco, he spoke with us weekly. He had a
cooking show, remember that it was called Well Done with
Sebastian manusuks Alco on Food Network. And now in hindsight,
I'm realizing I didn't make nearly as much fun of
that as I should have. I should almost go back.
If we ever have another pandemic and I need a
(02:10):
bit like George Lopez Tacos. Maybe I'll just critique well
done with Sebastian Manascalco on Food Network. But hopefully we
won't have another pandemic and I won't have to do that.
But as you know, it's this is a food story
and it's Thanksgiving. I do put these shows together. A
Sebastian said, I became passionate about cooking around the time
I met my wife. I like cooking because it's similar
(02:30):
to comedy and that you're doing it alone and making
stupid faces for no reason. If it sucks, it's your fault.
If it's great, it's your fault. Same thing with stand up.
It's very therapeutic for me to go into the kitchen
and get lost in the sauce. I do a beautiful
French toast. The next thing I want to master is pizza.
Switching to comedy. You have to live in everyday life
to extract humor, and that's why I'm an active parent.
I drop my kids off at school, I go to
the soccer games. I'm taking my kid to gymnastics. You
(02:51):
find a lot of humor in those things. You do
have to be cautious about talking about some of the
fancy things you do. I went to the Oscars, but
my Oscar story is not one of fame and fortune.
It's me sitting up at the third balcony while everybody
from Greenbrook is accepting the Oscar. When I was announced
on the red carpet, it was a bathroom break for
the photographers. They were cleaning their lenses. Ryan Seacrest was
there with his camera guy in lights on a pedestal,
and they take me all the way down to the
(03:12):
guy who's a one man shop with his iPhone and
is from the Ecuador Times. So four dot com spoke
to Fortune Femmester about taking care of Biscuits. That's the
name of her tour. She said it came to me
as something that lets people know they're in for a good,
silly time. She said, Now, at all the cities I
go to, people are dropping biscuits off, and I'm grateful,
but I'm like, oh, I'm gonna have to name my
next tour taking care of Salads, because it's a lot
(03:33):
of biscuits right now. One Instagram video showed Fortune in
her green room. The room was filled with biscuits from
heart Ease Biscuit shaped pillows custom merch. She said that
was all a surprise. My writer is so boring. I
literally asked for water, ice and a cup. I used
to have big, extravagant green rooms, but then I was
never hungry, and I felt like I was being super
wasteful because normally I either eat before or after. The
(03:55):
show asked for her biscuit preferences. Her favorites are a loaded, savory,
yummy biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese, and a little honey,
or just the opposite, just a jelly biscuit. I'm trash,
so I love grape jelly. If Fortune Feamster could only
eat one thing twenty four seven three sixty five, it
would be pad thaie. She says, I went to Thailand
and ate pad tie for a week and a half
(04:16):
straight and did not get tired of it. I love
it so much, I think I could do it. I
could just eating it forever. I usually get it with chicken,
but if I were gonna eat it every day, I'd
try to switch it up, try some shrimp or tofu
or bounce back and forth. All right, Fortune was the
first thing you learned how to cook grilled cheese. But
I learned by doing it wrong. I was babysitting and
the kid won a grilled cheese to turn the oven on.
And he was like, why are you turning the oven on?
And I said, I don't know baking it. He told
(04:38):
me just throw in a pan or the toaster oven.
It was too much for me. You don't need to
go throw that for a grilled cheese. But he was right.
I was pretty old to learn that. Like sixteen more
food stories from Fortune. It's Thanksgiving, you know, she said.
Grilling is brand new for me. I never had a
grill until I got this house, and it came with
a grill, and I was determined to learn how to
use it. Getting beef to the right temperature is the
trickiest part. You don't want it to be too rare
or red or too cooked and dry. I'm learning the
(05:00):
happy medium there. And there's an editor's note pun intended.
Fortune told Savor I'm a dessert gal. I have such
a sweet tooth. I'm near a cheesecake factory. I will
hit up that Adam's peanut buttercup fudge rippled cheesecake. That's
a real treat. Any foods from your childhood that you
liked Grandma's chicken and dumplings, so comforting and classic. Biggest
flex to impress guests. Fortune said, I love some good
(05:22):
scented candles. They're inviting warm then all you eat is
good food. I don't have a signature scent yet, but
I love holiday candles all the time, so we're getting
closed to the holidays. I'm pumped because the ones that
I love smell like Christmas trees. Jim Gaffigan spoke to
The Today Show. They were curious how Jim's wife and
kids feel about being in his comedy. Jim joked, I
don't care. Then he got a little more serious and said,
(05:43):
the good news is that my children all the things
I say, I don't have to feel guilty because they
have no interest in my comedy. I'm more concerned about
accidentally posting a photo where they appear in it on
Instagram than me saying something in my stand up. Obviously,
I try to be respectful, and I think anyone who's
apparent is aware. We've all made mistakes. But parenting is
you try your best and then as a parent, become
their septacle for all the blame. Kathleen Madigan spoke to
the La Times about her family and the stuff they
(06:06):
bring over. She's proud of the chicken salad or stuff
they bring over like tunicast roles, and they're very into
hardy grandma type food, meaning fattening, which I'm all in on.
She talked about a Midwestern sensibility and said everybody's got
their little things, like I would have a big fight
about their corn being better than anyone else's stupid stuff.
But to us, it's what's happening. It's what we're talking
(06:26):
about sports. Everybody's got their thing with the packers and
that kind of stuff, but it's not anything we were given,
like the ocean, the mounts of Colorado. Don't know, we
don't have that either. That's why when people say, oh,
do you like where you're from, or always like, yeah,
it's fine. We know it's not great, but it's not horrible.
It's fine. I love when people say Saint Louis is
that kind of by Chicago, well kind of four and
a half hours down the road to find kind of pie.
(06:48):
That's what I say about my coastal friends. It's what
they've been given. I mean, someone made it all the
way out there, so I give those people credit, but
the Midwest is like, you're gonna get bored driving around Kansas, Nebraska.
At least in Missouri. When you get south of Saint Louis,
we start to get big ills. We called them out,
and it's a hill. We have good lakes. Coastal people
don't like lakes because so like, yeah, that water is
a little still. I'm like, yeah, and there's snakes in
it too. She is hilarious, all right. No amount of
(07:10):
food stories. Uh. Stephen Colbiert had spoken to GQ. This
one is a bit of a leftover in the spirit
of Thanksgiving. They were curious, does he think the late
night format makes sense anymore? Do you think the times
for these shows has passed? Have you ever felt that
while doing your show, Stephen Colbert, He said, no, not
doing the show. I do the show with gratitude. We
have a really great time. We love doing the show
with each other. We love all pulling on the same rope.
(07:30):
I love being there with those four hundred fifty people
and the Ed Sullivan Theater, in a Broadway theater. We've
done our best to deliver something that the network can
monetize in some way. I thought we were successful at that,
so all things must pass. I think if there's a
business reason for this. I know there's been a change
in ad rates since the strike, and I know that's
really never recovered for that, so all that makes sense
to me. And I also know that these late night
shows are kind of like symphony orchestras. They need a
certain amount of personnel to do them. You can't relate
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to a show and the Ed Sullivan Theatre eleven thirty
five on CBS with a band and sketches and field
shooths and stuff like that for the cost of a podcast.
And if you look and say, oh, well look, this
is what a podcast makes, and this is what these
shows make, then you're keeping these shows on because you'll
love the form. Why would shows like mine continue and
exist or Kimmel or Jimmy or whatever. Well, we're like
your friend who at the end of the day paid
attention to what happened today more than you did, and
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we curate that back to you at the end of
the day. But it's really more about how we feel
about or I as the person who's the vehicle for that,
how we felt about it today. Boy, that speaks to
me as someone who does this show, Like, presumably at
some level you just kind of enjoy my voice and vibe, right, Like,
I don't think you're like this is the only place
I can get comedy news. But you know, we have
this relationship, you and I. You listener, me host, and yeah,
(08:35):
I feel what's Stephen selling here? He says. I share
those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they
don't laugh, and there's a sense of community there. Quick
time out, it's a holiday, We've got time. I was
teaching my class one week ago today, and I was
teaching the college class about the concept of tribes and
building community around shows. And I started to explain to
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the class how I almost always refer to one comedian
as dramatic actor Adam Sandler. You're in on the bit,
I'm in on the bit, and always saying dramatic actor
Adam Sandler reinforces the thought there with me as the
leader lowercase L of this tribe of comedy fans who
have gathered around this podcast and in the Facebook group
(09:16):
Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, please join us anyway. One
of the students starts agreeing with me and goes on
for like seven minutes about Adam Sandler is good in punch,
drunk Glove and in uncut gems. And I just stood
there mugging for the camera, making eye contact with students,
and just gesturing over at the student who just kept
(09:36):
going on and on proving my point of the power
of the tribe and of the community. And I high
five the student. I was like, you just proved my point.
So I get what Colbert is selling here. He says,
there's a sense of community and there are fewer, fewer.
I don't know who coined this term, but there are
fewer and few of what you would call third spaces
in our life. Have you heard this term three spaces?
This is John talking. My daughter taught me about the
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sea off home, work, and then somewhere else you go.
For me, it's the brewery on trivia night, where I
see my friends every now and then. I'm tired. A
couple weeks ago, the night we want Actually, I was
kind of tired and I said to my wife, I go,
I have to show up or I won't have friends anymore.
I need to be with the guys. So that's my
third space. Colbert says, we need third spaces in our life,
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not your home, not your work, but some other place
we get together, and these late night shows are for
millions of Americans a third space to come together and
think about the day. Switching to politics, Colbert said, people
perceive me as the sort of lefty figure. I think
I'm more conservative than people think. I just happened to
be talking about a government and extremists. What I'm giving
to you is my reaction video to the day, and
my reaction video is like the scream. So that makes
(10:40):
me perceived as more left necessarily than I am, because
I'm not sure what other reaction would be a an
honest one. I was having a side text with a
friend of the show who appreciated that he's not entirely
sure which side of the aisle I'm on. Again, this
is not a political show. I'm not sure what you think.
I'm not even sure what I'm telegraphing might actually be accurate. Again,
and I'm not playing a role. But like I like
(11:02):
to say, the President and I don't agree on all
the issues we agree on twelve thirty, we don't agree
on other things. With previous presidents. I agreed on some things,
didn't agree on other things with the next president. I'll
agree on some things, I won't agree on some things.
I think that's how most people are, right, Colbert said,
we broadcast to a general audience. There's no entrance fee,
there's no subscription. You don't have to look for us
except on Channel five or wherever you are. And we
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have a variety of different guests. It's a variety show.
It is Thanksgiving, and I hope you're all having a
nice Thanksgiving. I do want to give a shout out
to one particular member of the audience. That's Mike Chisholm.
He hosts The Letterman Podcast, and I don't know if
you know this. He's Canadian. So hey, Mike, hope you
enjoyed October twelfth, or whenever Canadian Thanksgiving was. I assume
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you have to work today. Sucks to be you. The
rest of us Turkey and football enjoy my friend. Love you.
A new episode of The Letterman Podcast tomorrow, probably, I
don't know. I don't know if Mike's skipping week. He
usually puts out an episode on Friday. If not, you
haven't listened to them all. Listen to on an old one.
He's got this guy Johnny that goes on there every
now and then anyway, Mike good Joy work today, I'll
be getting even fatter. Lauren Michaels has donated his five
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hundred box archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the
University of Texas at Austin. The exhibit is called Live
from New York, The Lurne Michael's Collection. It is stuff
going all the way back to nineteen seventy five, boasters,
newspaper clippings, photos, Lauren's work with Lily Tomlin, Phyllis Diller
and Rowan, and Martin's laugh in his other stuff Three Amigos,
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Mean Girls, thirty Rock Portlandia, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,
and Late Night with Seth Myers. You can walk past
that exhibit and be like, Kah, this isn't interesting at all,
and just keep going. There are posters, annotated scripts, Make
twelve thirty Great Again, costumes, production materials, and newspaper clippings
from these projects. Guest curator Steve Wilson's exhibit labels provide
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excellent in depth guides the entire exhibit. Various network memos
on display reveal the inevitable behind the scenes battles of
musical tastes. Network execs like the classic rock. The youngsters
like some different kinds of music. Also, apparently some memos
discussing the departures of Norm MacDonald and the great dramatic
actor Adam Sandler. Before email, the show regularly got mail,
(13:09):
fan letters, complaints, sketching job pitches, scribbling on everything from
scratchbats to toilet papers. There's a nineteen seventy eight letter
from one of the writers describing the frustration of having
to respond to the relentless barrage of unsolicited comedy materials.
She wrote, no matter how funny you think it is,
we cannot read, evaluate, or use any of your stuff.
We never use outside material, and we're not looking for
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any new writers at this time. Really cross my heart
and hope to die, which I may do soon if
I have to write any more letters like this one.
And that is your Thanksgiving comedy news for the day,
normal episodes all weekend. I got plenty even from this show.
I bumped four stories. It's not one of those weeks
where I'm like, oh, what am I going to talk about?
I got plenty. Enjoy your Turkey, Mike, enjoy work. See tomorrow.
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