Marc Maron Slams Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz and Theo Von

Marc Maron says Rogan, Schultz, and Theo Vaughn were “used by the right” in pushing an anti-woke agenda. Nikki Glaser opens up about her eating disorder and credits Tom Brady with changing her mindset. Leanne Morgan talks authenticity, Sebastian Maniscalco recalls Pete Correale’s “gator” nickname, and Vulture lists 2025’s best comedy specials so far. Plus, Eric Idle shares Monty Python memories and his distrust of AI.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Don't go calling what Mark Maren does
an interview show? Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with a robust
Sunday edition of Daily Comedy News. More from Maren with
the Hollywood Reporter. Maren's as it's not an interview show.
I needed to be in that show, and it was

(00:23):
instinctial to insert myself into the conversations. It took some
people a little time to adjust to that. They were
used to interview shows, and I've never ever seen it
as an interview show. They asked if Maren envies any
of the one hundred million dollar plus deals that some
other folks have gotten. Maren said, we did all right, definitely,
well enough for us to live the rest of our lives.
But those kind of deals come with extreme responsibility. Why

(00:44):
would I want to start scrambling now? The Holly Reporter
writes he'll mock the podcast industrial complex, but Maren's also
happy to play the mayor. Between a meeting in July
and a phone call two weeks later, Maren guessed that
on no fewer than nine podcasts, the conversation changes to
you unnamed podcasters. But the Holly Reporter says, there's little
doubt he's talking about Rogan Schultz and THEO Vaughn. Maren says,

(01:07):
how they became the orbiters of what comedy shood or
shouldn't be as an effing nightmare. This anti woke idea
around free speech with comedians is bs. Whether they knew
it or not, they were being used by the right
to push this anti woke agenda which is now disassembling
every progressive policy. They're responsible. I can't let them off
the hook for that, even if some of them are
kind of backpedaling now. As for the future, maren says,

(01:27):
my social life has really been the podcast, mostly in
comedy clubs. I'll probably go back to AA meetings for
a bit of support to not spiral out with the isms,
as they call it. But I don't do dinner parties.
No one invites me anywhere. I don't vocation with friends.
I need to nourish more relationships. Does he want to
be invited out more? Yeah? I won't want to do it,
but once I'm there, I'll be good. I think that
some people like to have me around. Maybe this is
all the change talking. Maybe I'm just an old man

(01:49):
yelling at the burning sky helf. Cosmetics is catching heat
for including Matt Rife in their latest campaign. People are
bringing up Matt Rife's domestic violence joke from his twenty
twenty three Netflix special I will be honest here. I
had forgotten about that joke. People on social media are
mad at ELF Cosmetics for including Matt Rife, who they
claim does not respect women. One person wrote, bruh, not

(02:12):
matt Rife. I love y'all as a brand, but Matt
Rife is not a good person. Nicki Glazer told Variety
that society glamorized not eating. Nicki said, the most notable
thing you could do was to not eat or follow diet,
and I was like, Okay, finally I'm good at something.
But it started killing me. This next part's pretty serious.
In college, she said, I didn't want to get better.
I didn't have any reason to because I was like,
my life sucks. I kind of went off to college

(02:33):
to die. Was my path to suicide pretty much, because
I look so freakish. I just turned my personality up
real high because I needed to make friends. I was
more funny, more outgoing and always telling stories. I was
louder than I've ever been in my life. She started
to get feedback about how funny she was. There was
a poster for a stand up showcase. A friend took
the sign and ran into my dorm room, slammed it
on my desk and said, you're doing this. She started

(02:55):
doing research, came across Sarah Silverman. Glazer said, she gets
to be yourself and you want to be friends with her,
and she also seems like a nice person, but then
she gets to say these really weird, out of context,
terrible things, and he still like her. That fascinated me.
She eventually winds up on Last Comic Standing and says,
I thought I had arrived. I thought things were starting
to come in, and they didn't. I had to move
back home with my parents. She did smaller rooms, appeared

(03:17):
on some podcasts, started participating in roasts and said I
didn't want to do another roast because I was approaching
forty and I don't want to get called an old
horse faced horror over and over. It hurt my feelings
every time I did a roast previously. Then she heard
about the Tom Brady roast and away we go. She
pitched herself as the Tom Brady of roasting and says,
I don't even know what that meant, but I stand
by it now because as I researched Tom Brady, I

(03:38):
learned how he was kind of underrated. He was good,
but like the one hundred and fifth draft pick. But
he trained perfectly and optimized every moment of his life
to make sure that when he stepped down on the
field he could be as good as possible, and he
didn't take any shortcuts. I always thought that talent was
something you were born with or not, but I've learned
you can be great at things if you just work
harder than anyone else. Not sure that's true. Part of it.

(03:58):
You got to have the charisma. I got to have
the look. I'm not sure I agree there, Nicki Glazer.
Nicki says Tom Brady changed my life. The next day
I started seeing headlines, started being recognized everywhere. Things went
back to normal within three days. But it was twenty
years to being an overnight success. Yep, you hear that
a lot with comedians. Glazer says, there's a lot more
interest in me from the industry over the past couple
of years. Now I'm in a position where people want

(04:20):
to develop things around me. One of her dreams is
to be on White Lotus. Leanne Morgan tell's time people
want authenticity and they want to learn who somebody really is.
I think that's my advantage. People accuse her of doing
a fake accent because they can't pinpoint where it's from.
Her first husband had suggested she get diction lessons. She says,
I know it's thick, but I think it's made me

(04:40):
stand out. Nate Pergetzi says her accent is her accent,
and that adds the flavor. As recently as twenty eighteen,
club owners were turning her way. She says. Club owner said,
we love her. She doesn't get drunk and fight in
the parking a lot, but we're not having her back.
She can't sell a ticket. She's happy that she got
famous in her fifties, but I'm too tired. Something awful.

(05:02):
Billboard talked to Sebastian Manascalgo about Pete Corielly the Gator.
Pete hates that nickname. Jim Brewer had tagged Pete with
that nickname when Pete was the co host on Jim
Brewer unleashed paraphrasing here, it's because Pete has big teeth
and he would all of a sudden come out of
nowhere and bite you with. He was like a sniper
on the show. Jim would tell ten twelve minute stories

(05:22):
and Pete would come in and say one line and
get the bigger laugh. Pete's fantastic, Sebastian said, we've been
doing the Pete and Sebastian Show about twelve years. We
started it out of the sheer enjoyment of calling one
another on the phone and laughing. I said, you know what,
we should record these phone conversations because if we're cracking up,
I'm sure other people would crack up. Pete's more of
a beer and peanuts Neanderthal, and I'm more of a

(05:43):
wan and cheese guy who likes the finer things in life.
That's a great description of Pete Corielly. At first we
were just doing audio. He'd be in a car inside
of Starbucks, ripping Wi Fi off the Starbucks, and I'd
be in a hotel room in Denver. It's not guest driven.
We've had maybe twelve or thirteen guests on our show
over the course of twelve years. It was just two
guys talking. We're not making a dime, but it's always
been a passion project for us. Yelly Times talked to

(06:05):
Charlie Day about shaving off his beard for a gag
in the current season, it's always sunny. It's having a renaissance.
It's like they turned back time. This feels like a
vintage season. I don't know what happened. A lot of
people think it's because they did the podcast and it
got them revisiting the earlier seasons. But you know, I
wonder what we have to season seventeen, the Ireland season
was off but COVID and last year was okay. There

(06:27):
were a couple funky seasons, but this season's On point
of shaving, Charlie Day said, it was horrible just to
see how old the man is under the beard. Once
you take off the eyebrows, that's when it really starts
to look freaky. We had that idea, and we knew
we had to shoot at last, because if I was
gonna shave, that'd be the last thing we're gonna shoot.
Right after we wrapped, I went on a little vacation
with my wife and son and I rarely got recognized,
which is funny. Every now and then people were fans

(06:48):
of the movie Pacific Rim because I didn't have a
beard in those movies, they'd be like, Hey, where you been?
Were you not working? The funny thing is I couldn't
unlock my cell phone with that look because I look
so different. All right, let's click on this. Vulture did
a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty
five so far. This was last updated on August six.

(07:09):
Let's just fly through it real quick and see what
they're into. Mark Maren Panic. Yep, but I have that
at the top my list for this year. Steph Tolev's
filth Queen didn't do it for me. Let's go at
Kotska's father was okay. I liked your previous special better,
Mike Berbiglia The Good Life. I just don't enjoy the
Mike Berbiglia specials. I liked it twenty five years ago

(07:29):
when he just did stand up. But I get if
people like Burbiglia, Brent Weinebox popular culture is on YouTube,
I've not seen that one. Vulture writes for every new
cohort of clubby Punchline comedians and truth telling trauma explorers,
somewhere a weirdo rises. In this case, it's Wineboch doing
a bizarre smattering of impressions. With no coherent design except
that they're all odd mashups and off center angles, regularly

(07:50):
designed as setups with little payoffs. That sounds like my
kind of special. I will have to get to that.
I also have to watch Borbosa. I also have to
watch Jim Jeffries on Dropout, Cameron Esposito's Four pill I
haven't seen that because it's on Dropout. I do like Cameron.
They have Bill Burr's Dropped Dead Years on Hulu. I
didn't think that was good at all. Rosebud Baker's The
Mother Load on Netflix. I didn't enjoy that one because

(08:13):
of the back and forth between the two different sets.
I get the gimmick, but it didn't do it for me.
Roy Wood Junior Lonely Flowers. That's way back in January.
That one was pretty good, right all right? So that's
Vulture's list of the best so far. I might as
well open up mine real quick, since we're talking about
it all right ready. Top Tier, Mark Twain, Price Cut
On O'Brien, Shing, Gillis, ESPN Monologue, Tom Sigorre Bad Thoughts,

(08:35):
Mark Marin, Four Tires five, Justin Willman, Magic Lover, Dusty
slay Bert Krascher, Brett Goldstein, Sarah Silverman Voice Mag's been
talking to folks at the fringe. Susan Harrison said the
fringe has definitely gotten bigger and more expensive as the
years have gone on. That means my approach has been
to wait for six years until I could afford it
again financially, but also in terms of energy and time

(08:56):
spent preparing and self producing. I keep saying this every
time I do these fringe stories, inches sounds like a nightmare.
Why does anyone go? It just sounds terrible. You're staying
in like hovels, spending all your money. I don't get it.
For what I mentioned on the back end of a
summer Sunday Daily Comedy News episode, is it worth it?
Her show? Is? Should I still be doing this? At
the Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower PIP at seven point forty,

(09:19):
Eric Idols spoke to The Guardian. They think in the
Python TV shows and movies he seems to be enjoying
himself the most. Eric Idle said some things in Python
were very enjoyable and some were not. Holy Grail was
cold and miserable sometimes that makes it funny. One of
the worst things you could have in comedy is enough money.
Python was quite a lot of arguing and fights, and
good work is often like that. The best thing about

(09:40):
show business is when it's over. I think if you're
enjoying yourself, then you're non acting or giving. You're just
having a good time. Well that's not funny. What was
his favorite project? The Ruddles and spam Alot were both
just fabulous times. One of the things I talk about
in the show I call mock and roll because we're
all the same generation. The art school kids went into
music when we went into comedy. My theory is that
Python is the first group of mock and roll because

(10:02):
we ended up in the Hollywood Bowl just like the Beatles.
And I think the second group in mock and roll
was SNL. On the first show I hosted, John Belushi,
impersonated Joe Cocker to his face. They sang together, there's
something magical about that. Eric Idol, are you happy to
be captured by AI for posthumous performances and royalties? Idol
said they don't pay royalties. I always felt we ought
to protect our images. After I saw that tacky commercial

(10:23):
with Fred Astaire and the vacuum cleaner, feel very bad
about that. So I felt that the pythons ought have
done something to protect our image in a way that's appropriate.
But I don't think there's a way that's appropriate. I
have had my image done on one of those extraordinary
machines where forty cameras captured from every angle, was for
a film they wanted to make. But it worries me.
I don't trust AI. I mean, look how many times
you have to correct a word it completely misreads you.
Chat GPT writing essays really bothers me. The point is

(10:45):
to find out what we think, not what the machine thinks.
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