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September 27, 2025 11 mins
Late-night hosts humorously discussed the President's escalator mishap at the UN. Jordan Klepper, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon made jokes about the incident. Johnny also mentions Taylor Swift's upcoming appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Louis CK's appeared on Theo Vaughn's podcast, where Louis CK openly discusses his past sexual misconduct and how sharing his story has helped others.

The Riyadh Comedy Festival featuring big-name comedians like Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, and others is also covered, including some controversy over performers accepting Saudi money. The script ends with details about upcoming comedy festivals and shows, including Gina Yashere's sold-out performance in Toronto and Adam Palley’s comedy special on HBO.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news. So other stuff goes on in late night.
Sometimes an episode of late night television is just an
episode of late night television. The Late night guys had
fun with the President's adventures on the escalator the other
day at the un Did you see that the president

(00:24):
stepped on an escalator and it immediately stopped? And some
people are saying there's a big conspiracy. Jordan Klepper said,
are we going all in on the president being a
victim of escalator sabotage because the deep state wants him
to get his steps in? That's a great joke, Jimmy
Kimmel said, So to recap. Trump will not release the
Epstein files, but we will be doing a thorough investigation
into who stopped his escalator. Jimmy Fallon said, the White

(00:46):
House is now looking into who would have a grudge
against Trump, and so far they've narrowed it down to
one hundred and eighty nine countries. It could rip fallon,
but sometimes the stuff's really good fallon again. I mean,
the whole thing was a headache for Trump, but even worse,
he couldn't take any tail and all done. Jimmy Fallon
for the win. Speaking of Jimmy Fallon for the win,
guess who was going to be on The Tonight Show
starring Jimmy Fallon on October sixth, Taylor Swift. Very exciting

(01:12):
late night heating up. That will do quite the number.
It's been a busy week. I didn't get to tell
you about Louis c K appearing on THEO Vaughn's podcast,
THEO Vaughn, apparently not the best interviewer in the world.
Theovaughn said, you had, like, you know, this is when
things had gotten kind of crazy in your career with
accusations and all types of stuff and accurate accusations. Yeah,

(01:33):
they're accurate, he admitted it. Even Louis c K laughed
at that question and said, accurate accusations. You may recall
in twenty seventeen, Louis c K admitted multiple sexual miscontact
allocations against him were true. C K admitted he had
done some self happiness in front of women. Many of
the women were in a disadvantage power situation with c K,

(01:56):
who admitted at the time, the power I had over
these women is that they admired me. And I wielded
that power irresponsibly. C K Teltiolevonne he felt free when
it came to light. I haven't been able to listen
to Theo's podcast yet, it's been super busy with the
Kimmel stuff. Luis c K explained, when life's that up
for you, when it gets torn up, it's relief. That's
why I felt free, because I try to manage these

(02:17):
problems I hadn't sighed me for so many years. You're
trying to piece together that broken mirror and cutting your fingers.
That's beautiful, it's true. And when lifet up for you,
when it gets torn up, it's relief. That's why I
felt free, you know, because I try to manage these
problems I had in sided me for so many years,
and I try to feel like I was a normal person.
I thought of as a good person. But I was
doing stuff in the background of my life that I
was ashamed of. I was hurting other people and trying

(02:38):
to tell myself I wasn't. You know those things on
the edge, like using another person but you got their
permission first. You're still using another person. You're not being
with them, you're using them. That took me a long
time to learn about that stuff. But you're doing that
stuff and creating more and more problems. They just keep
getting bigger and bigger. And then the worst thing is
if you're having a good life that's successful, because you're
feeling this like incredible rift between like the way you're
representing yourself and who you really are, and it's getting

(03:00):
really and I used to try. I think some of
the early versions of talking on stage really honestly, we're
me trying to get out and say I'm corrupt. I
want everyone to know it, right, I'm a corrupt file
all that like, you can't manage it. And so when
you're in front of the world and that's going on
side of you, it's like, hell, I look at that
as like God's hands or whatever you want to call it.
That was just like a good caring thing that said, dude,
you need to stop. You need out of all this.

(03:21):
Cek explains how sharing his story in Sex and Love
Addicts Anonymous has helped other peoples seek. Said, when I
go into meeting in person, there's a guy who's really hurting,
his life's fed up, and I approach him and he's
not sure about being in the program and he goes, oh,
I ruined my life, and I go, do you know
who I am? And he goes yeah, and I go,
I'm doing pretty good, buddy. The fact that my wreckage
could be a mountain for folks to lean on take

(03:42):
a little load off, that's a beautiful gift. So that's
a must listen, right. That's on this past weekend with
Theo Vaughn. And if you want to go see Louis
c k he'll be performing at the re Odd Comedy
Festival alongside many of your other favorite comedians. Bill Burr
opened up the Reodd Comedy Festival last night. Dave Bell's
going to be there, a lot of people going to
be there. The Telegraph wrote about the Rio To Comedy Festival,

(04:06):
and they wrote much about the festival will be surreal.
Many of the comics have made a virtue of saying
the unsayable. Jimmy Carr has described himself as a free
speech absolutist, while Dave Chappelle once said comedians have responsibility
to speak recklessly. The Telegraph says even the setting is odd.
It takes place in Riodd's Boulevard City Entertainment District, a
soulless ersatz version of New York with a Times Square

(04:27):
inspired piazza given the creative name of Square. The Telegraph
points out, despite their public boasting of being willing to
say the unsayable, the highest profile comics on the Bill
appear uncharacteristically reluctant to publicize the fact that they're taking
the Saudi money. Let me go to Bill Burr dot com.
I'm actually recording this prior to Bill's appearance. I'm on
Bill Burr dot com. Let's see. We've got a nice

(04:50):
picture of Bill Burr playing looks like Fenway, Yes, definitely
Fenway Park. Here we've got a little embedded version of
his podcast. Let's see on the bottom here tour dates.
Let me click on the tour day. Well, to be
fair to Bill Burr, he's got two dates listed. One
of them is the Reod Comedy Festival. So Bill Burr's
not hiding it, just trying to be fair here, The
Telegraph says, neither Jimmy Carr nor Jack Whitehall have mentioned

(05:11):
that they're going to be in the Middle East on
their touring websites or social media accounts. Let me go
to see Jimmy Carr's website. I'm a big fan of
Jimmy Carr. Jimmy Carr official website. So there's a pull
down menu for Laughs Funny Tour, and it has four
things I could click on. Australia and New Zealand. Well,
Riodd's not there, Usa, Riodd's not there, UK and Ireland

(05:32):
Riodd's not there, and Europe Riodd's not there. Which of
these would he have his date in? I guess Europe
would be the closest. Let me click on that. Jimmy's
got some dates in June of twenty twenty six listed,
So yeah, I mean maybe Jimmy thinks it's a little
far and his fans won't be able to make it
all the way to Reodd. Who knows. Here's a session
called deep Dive, some sort of blog. This is the

(05:54):
car Tail Carr hyphen tail telling you everything about Jimmy Carr.
Let's see the posts here at the Fackham Hall release date,
Penguin Obsession, William Florida, Michael Malice twenty twenty five when
Heckle's backfire. Nope, I'm not seeing it anyway. I digress.
The telegraphs say some comics on the B list and
below have been more forthcoming. Pete Davidson told Theovon this week.

(06:17):
Oh I missed this. I'm learning this as you're learning this.
Pete Davidson told Theovon this week he had been getting
a little bit of flack for performing in Riod just
because my father died. On nine to eleven, Pete explained,
I get the routing and I see the number meaning
the fee, and I go, I'll go all right. If
Pete's okay with it, I'm okay with it. Shane Gillis
said he turned down a significant fee. Shane's logic is
you don't nine to eleven your friends, Jim Jeffries telling

(06:40):
Theovon last month. Now people have been going, oh, how
dare you go over there? After they killed a reporter
that was the big one. There's been a reporter who
they killed. You don't think our governments bump people? Oh?
I think Jeffrey Epstein was bumped off. The Telegraph says
although the comics have been willing to talk about going
to Saudi, have been coy about whether their material will
be vetted. There are signs that the Saudi regime does
not want and it's paid for comics to dive too

(07:01):
far into controversial topics, Tim Dillon being disinvited being a
possible example of that. A Middle East expert spoke to
the Times of London and I said, I don't think
the Saudis will explicitly tell the comedians what not to
joke about, but they would assume they have the sense
not to make fun of God or the monarch or
say something very sexually explicit. The expert says, at worst,

(07:22):
I think he can accuse some of the comedians of hypocrisy.
They criticized for their freedom of speech. Beat kurtailed in
their eyes while taking money from regime. The Curtail's freedom
of speech for both its population and those visiting. Dustin
rolls for Pajeeba rights. When Shing Gillis takes the high
road over Bill Burr dot dot dot, Dustin says, I'm
not sure why I direct most of my iy are
at Bill Burr, who opened the festival on Friday night,

(07:44):
over the other comedians attending the Riad Comedy Festival, which
includes Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Jeff Ross, Bobby Lee, Chris Tucker,
Tom Segura, Jessica Kurson, Hannibal Burr's as heasin' sorry, Pete
Davidson and Whitney Cummings and some others skipping ahead. I
think that is choosing to accept a huge page to
help whitewash the Saudi royal family feels more antithetical to
Bill Burr's ethos. Here's a guy who regularly blasts the

(08:07):
hypocrisy of both sides of the political spectrum, but apparently
doesn't hesitate to take money from a country responsible for
egregious human rights violations. For a festival that starts this weekend,
there's been surprisingly little coverage, which is probably you know,
these comedians prefer it final night of JFL Toronto, just
for laughs Toronto, the Toronto Comedy Festival. So after tonight,

(08:28):
if we want to see our favorite comedians, we might
have to go to Riod, but tonight we can just
go to Toronto. Even Finance is at seven o'clock. Fabruzzio
Capano also at seven. That show is in Spanish, Maria
Bamford in English at the Bluma Appel Theater at seven.
Pat Thornton is at the Comedy Bar Cabaret at eight thirty,
and I see his headshot. He's wearing headphones, not even AirPods,

(08:48):
but actual headphones. Genius Sheer at nine o'clock. You remember
she was in the news recently. The Standard, a British newspaper,
had published on sixteen September. They wrote, Genius Shears said
that the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot
in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University quote

(09:09):
got what he had advocated for because he opposed gun controls.
Genius Shears show tonight is sold out. Most of the
shows I've spoken about, I've only seen one or two
full on sold outs, But Genius Sheer at the Bluer
Comedy Bar tonight at nine pm is sold out. And
then at ten o'clock Pat Thornton, whose headshot shows him

(09:29):
still wearing headphones. And that is the Toronto Comedy Festival.
Adam Pally will debut his first ever comedy special in
Intimate Evening with Adam Pally HBO nine o'clock Friday, October seventeenth. Right,
I'm learning here, So the Friday night HBO slot seems
where the Caleb hearings and the Adam Pally's go and
is not the prestige traditional Saturday ten PM slot that

(09:53):
say a mark Marin would get. So we'll see if
this is a kin to a YouTube special, which is
how I felt about Caleb's or what this is anyway.
And the special, which is said to be equal parts
stand up documentary and rock concert Adam Pally plays with
the Truth and his guitar and a one time only performance.
Pally said the specials made out of a deep desire
to make something anything at all, and he couldn't be

(10:14):
prouder of it, and grateful to HBO for giving me
an incredible platform to make people laugh, play music, and
tell some Bubba meeisters. And the show is super serious
in the first half, So let's do something goofy. Speaking
of goofyreltor dot com it took a look at Adam
Sandler and they say Adam Sandler has turned his goofy
personality and extremely great dramatic acting into an estimated four

(10:36):
hundred and forty million dollar fortune. Says the guy recording
a podcast in his basement. Realtor dot Com must have
typed Adam Sandlor into the AI, which spit out a
biography of sorts. We learn of at least some of
Sandler's holdings in two thousand and one. Adam Sandler bought
a three point one million dollar, three thousand square foot
home in Malibu, built in nineteen forty seven. Both three bedrooms,

(10:58):
three bathrooms, and an enclosed that fits up to one
hundred guests. That's a big deck one hundred guests. There
are also twenty five foot glass walls that offer panoramic
views of the ocean. So if I were Adam Sailor,
I'd be making a happy Gilmore three. But in twenty
twenty two, the Sailors bought another Pacific Baalisades home, this
one for four point eight million dollars. Realtor dot com

(11:19):
tells us that one three bedrooms, two bathrooms, It's on
a cul de sac. It's a ranch with wood shingles,
blue shutters, and crown molding. Sounds nice, But I'd hang
out with the Malibu place, wouldn't you. Yeah? Anyway, that's
your comedy news on a Saturday, and sure your weekend
back in the morning or you never know when a
bonus episode breaks out, But I don't have any plans
to do one. You never know, see you tomorrow, I guess.
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