Ricky Gervais and Tom Segura announce late December Netflix specials

Ricky Gervais' new stand-up special 'Mortality' will be on Netflix on December 30th, but its late release means it won't make year-end lists. Tom Segura's fifth special, 'Teacher,' drops on Netflix December 24th, also missing list deadlines. In other news, comedian Nate Bargatze is exploring the feasibility of building a 100-acre amusement park in Nashville, with plans to potentially start in 2026. John Mulaney discussed the Austin comedy scene and shared his thoughts on Texas and AI in comedy. The '30th Anniversary Celebration of Everybody Loves Raymond' airs, featuring reunions with the cast and creators. Patton Oswalt criticizes Trump and discusses late-night TV. Finally, Jim Gaffigan reveals he lost 50 pounds using the diabetes drug Manjaro.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Just looking ahead all week including Thanksgiving
on the holiday weekend, normal episodes. There's just so much
news going on. I didn't have to do like Holidy Filler,
Adam Sandler's fifteen Worst Movies and anything like that, all
normal regular media episodes. Among the things I haven't been

(00:26):
able to tell you about Ricky Gervays. His next stand
up special will be on Netflix December thirtieth. Now, Johnny
Mack's not happy with that release date because I like
to do the top twenty five specials of the yearless
and if you wait till December thirtieth, it's not gonna
be on it. I got a hand in the homework
to the I gotta make the shows. I gotta hand
the stuff in for my substack and for the publicist.

(00:47):
I can't wait till December thirtieth. Anyway. It's called Mortality.
It's the hour. Ricky Gervase has been touring since twenty
twenty four. Filmed earlier this year at the London Palladium.
It's his fourth stand up special. The Lazy Netflix copywriter
promises no topic is off limits on as Ricky closes
out the year with his best show yet. The official
log line is a little bitter written. It says Gervaise

(01:07):
takes on his own mortality in a brutally honest and
darkly funny stand up special about his life, death, and
the state of the world. Ricky said, I think Mortality
is my most honest and confessional show so far, and
also my favorite tour. I still can't believe what a
privilege it is to fly around the world making people laugh.
Now that news made me realize. At some point, I
had this Tom Sagora story in my little notebook here

(01:30):
that I work with for the show, and it got
dropped and I don't know what happened to it, because
I don't think I've told you that Tom Sigora Teacher
will be out on Netflix December twenty fourth. Yeah, Tom
Sagora has got a new special and it's called Teacher,
and as I told you, it'll be out December twenty fourth.
Also not good for year endlists or publicists or homework
or substacks. Deadline says no word yet on what Sigora

(01:51):
covers in the hour. It's his fifth special for Netflix.
Nate BRIGATSI. I still think he's out of his mind.
He was at the International Association of Amusement Parks and
Attractions Industry conference, the IAAPAXPO. Nate showed up at this
thing and announced that his company is partnering with Storyland Studios,
a SoCal based themed entertainment, architecture and design firm. Together,

(02:15):
they will explore the concept and feasibility of a Napurghetsy
theme park in Nashville. I'm telling you, if I'm still
doing this podcast in ten years, I'm going to one
day for holiday filler. Be like remember the time Naperghetzi
was going to open a theme park. Whatever happened to that.
I mean, just do a bourbon or something. This is crazy.
The feasibility study is set to be completed in the

(02:36):
first quarter of twenty twenty six. Fall goes well, they'll
have a shovel on the ground in five to six years. Hmmm.
I don't know anything about musement parks, but the word
boondoggle just went into my brain. I don't know what
to do with the word boon doggle. I don't know
what kind of sentence to use the word boondoggle in.
Maybe It has nothing to do with this story at all,
but the word boondoggle did pop into my brain. Here's

(02:59):
the plan. They want build a one hundred plus acre
amusement park. Now I'm from New York City. I have
no idea how big an acre is. Sounds pretty big,
and one hundred of them sound huge, but I don't know.
I'm a city boy. The amusement park will include amenities
like retail, dining, and even a hotel. At Nateland. The
project is being handled by the Experiences Division, which is
also responsible for such things as a Nateland themed cruise

(03:23):
setting sale via Norwegian Cruise Line early next year. Hey,
you want to go on the themed cruise? Dusty Slave's
going to be there. I don't know for a fact
Dusty's going to be there. I'm doing a bit. I
don't even know that Nate's going to be there. I'm
finding this out as you do. You think i'd pre
read these stories? Are you crazy? Anyway? You want to
go on the Nateland cruise? That sounds fun. Other divisions
at Nateland are focused on stand up movies, TV, merch,

(03:44):
and an incubation lab for new talent. I look forward
to the opening of Nateland many years from now, John
mullaney was in Texas. While in town, mullaney did a
one on one with Austin based filmmaker Noah Hawley. You
may know him from such things as Fargo, Legion and
Alien in Earth. Mullaney said, the satisfaction of being on
stage in Austin The audience can see me, but I'm

(04:05):
not blown up on the screen, and I'm getting a
laugh with the slightest shrug. That's a really powerful feeling.
The festival mainly focuses on politics. One attendee ask John mullaney,
why are you here? Now? I'm picturing the attendee as
KHN and the attendee going now, tell me why are
you here? Did you watch Star Trek two? Great film?

(04:26):
Malleni said, went in a city. I like to see
as many sides of it and take part and as
much of it as I can. I was very lucky
that this was happening at the same time the half
assed Millennie's coming along. I'm working on it again. The
key to it is you have to do the French Schneider.
It's as big as a whale, and that's how you
get into your half assed Millennium'm slightly zoning in on it,
so you got the SCHNEIDERSM and then I realized mulleny
over enunciates working on it again. Not an impression, it's

(04:50):
a half ass impression. The discussion went to Mulanie's recent
appearance at the Supreme Court hearing zone Revember fifth. Mulleny
recalled that Justice Alito seemed to get poor of his
own hypotheticals and Justice Thomas looks like he struggles to
stay awake. M'laney said they seem to get along with
each other in a way you might not think there
was a lot of collegiality. If you and nine co

(05:10):
workers had to sit out a panel, you'd eventually lean
over and do jokes to each other. Talked about the
Austin comedy scene, saying a lot of comedians were moving
to Austin, Texas and made it seem like this big move.
I was like, Austin's a huge city. Go to Gavelston.
I like my houses, like I like my chimpanzees on stilts.
Then mulanie was asked, well, AI ever be funnier than
a comedian? Millenney said, AI will never shrug and the

(05:32):
shrug is the highest form of intelligence. Mlaney also spoke
with The Texas Standard. They were curious, what's your takeaway
of Texas. Milleniy said, I think of Texas as his
father with like a bunch of different sons that are
his cities. And you know, Dallas is trying to do
everything right and run the family business and is responsible
with money. In Houston does a good job, but it's
just boring as hell. Austin is more like the more
emo kid at the end of the table. It's like,

(05:52):
what did you do today, Austin. He's like, I colored
a sort of artistic libertarian son at the end of
the table that does whatever he wants. As for Sayatonio,
I love san Antonio. San Antonio is like the kid
that just always fine but doesn't visit a lot. On
your TV tonights. It is the thirtieth anniversary celebration of
Everybody Loves Raymond. Are you feeling old yet? Yeah? CBS

(06:14):
eight o'clock. Now you might be like, CBS, aren't those
the guys that eliminate the Late Show? If I watch
this thing, am I supporting fascism? That's a great question.
I'm gonna say no, because as you know, Colbert was
canceled over budget reasons. It had nothing to do with
fascism or anti fascism or pseudo fascism. It was all
about budget. So I'm gonna tell you you're okay if

(06:35):
you want to watch this thing tonight. Okay, just if
you're watching Scrubs, go get the DVDs. Don't push that
Hulu button on the rokop. You gotta stand strong support
Jimmy Kimmel. But Colbert, that was all budget. You can
watch the Raymond special. It will feature appearances from Ray Romano,
I would hope, so you know, you don't want to
do this thing without Ray, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, and

(06:56):
the others. It will include a tribute to late cast
members Dors, Robert It's and Peter Boyle, who played the Parents.
Series creator Phil Rosenthal and Ray Romano sat down with
tv Line. Phil said, I've been trying to get this
done for ten years. Ray said, he told me about it,
and I said, I'm game. Then he took it to
CBS and Phil says, I'd see other show's doing reunions
that think we have funny stories and we have nice remembrance.
We want to do it. Ray said, people were asking

(07:18):
about reboots. We agreed we would never do a reboot,
so we'll do a reunion. We like reunions, but ten
years ago CBS wasn't into it. Five years ago they
weren't into it. This year knew people are there and
they were into it, So here we go. TV Line
points out, Hey, this is being built as the thirtieth anniversary.
The show premiered in nineteen ninety six. Technically this is
your twenty ninth anniversary. What's the story there? Phil was like,

(07:39):
it's technically the thirtieth anniversary since the show got going.
We filmed the pilot in the spring of ninety six.
We were on the air and fall in ninety six.
But Ray and I met in ninety five right for
the special. They recreated the living room set hottson Field.
Being on that set again, Ray said, first of all,
the work they did to rebuild it was amazing. The
only thing that was original was the couch, which I
took home with me in two thousand and five and

(08:00):
gave it back to them for the special. I love
that Ray Romano had the couch for twenty years. That's amazing.
You couldn't tell the difference. If you told me this
was the exact set, I'd believe it. It was emotional.
I'll say that. Ray recently rewatched all nine seasons. He
told TV Line. Which struck me the most was the acting.
I mean, I knew it was good back then, but
now I wasn't as critical. I'm not saying I didn't
remember every show I did, but I remember what was

(08:22):
going to happen next, and I saw little things that
I appreciated more, the nuances of each actor, how good
they were. I think I just appreciated them, the cast,
and the writing more. Back then, it was hard for
me not to be critical of myself. What's funny is
I'd see myself without a shirt on in an episode
then and be like, what the hell am I doing?
What am I doing showing this to the world. When
I watch it now, I was like, no, I was
in shape back then. Good question from TV lines, sitcoms,

(08:43):
Off and Juggle, AB and C storylines, Raymond was always
focused on one. Was that a rule? Phil said yes.
I thought if a story's worth telling, it's worth telling
for the twenty one minutes we have. Ray said yeah,
But we didn't perfectly say we can't do that, because
that's a bet story. It wasn't the dynamic of the
world we were in. Pat Oswalt was on the last
last podcast. They start talking about Kimmelgate and the video
Patten had sheared from the airport. I had played that

(09:05):
in one of the bonus episodes. You know what was
the deal with that? Batton Oswald, who said, well, it
was one of those moments when what was being done
was so blatant and so petty, and it was just
such an absolute misuse of power, and I wanted to
get something out there. Not that I have any kind
of massive platform or swam culture, but I could already
fast forward to the way the pro Trump people were
going to start to try and rationalize this. There's now
a scary legion of people out there whose job is

(09:26):
to make the abnormal seem normal and reasonable. This from
the guy who played Dug the Vulcan. All right, Patton,
you want to talk about making something abnormal seem normal?
You played Dug the Vulcan as a trekkie. I'm still
furious about this. You can hear the rage coming out
during this podcast. Patton said, all of you people to
keep saying Trump is bringing America back. Whatever he's bringing back,

(09:46):
it's not America. He's bringing back twelve thirty. Patton Oswalt.
The President and I are aligned. Make twelve thirty great again.
Let's get back to the golden age of Letterman and
Conan and even Craig Ferguson. We need better twelve th shows,
Patton Oswald said. But I think from the beginning of
time there's this overall mediocrity that wants a foothold in life.
And it hates excellence. Oh, you're teeing yourself up here, Paton.

(10:09):
And it hates people that actually craft their job and
care about their job. They just want loud, sloppy spectacle.
For example, the musical episode of Strange New Worlds, the
Star Trek series on which you played Dug the Vulcan.
Like that kind of nonsense, not going for greatness. Yeah,
that Patton said, And it'll even flow, and it'll flare
up and it'll die down. Right now, we're looking at
a massive flare up. We've got to be better about

(10:30):
calling that stuff out when it's happening. Yes, say somebody
plays a crappy character on Star Trek Strange New Worlds,
call that actor out and tell him, no, you are
destroying Star Trek. Patton said, it's very tempting to think
there's this big, loud, frightening guy. If you're just nice
to him and do what he says, I'll make your
life comfortable. Now, Luckily for us in this case, Trump
doesn't even know how to make his worshippers lives comfortable.

(10:51):
This does feel like a bad virus, bad flu, some
kind of bacterial infection that we just have to write out.
Then I used some language that I think doesn't translate. Well,
I'm not going to read it. I don't want to
a visit from men in sunglasses. I'm a line with
the president. Make twelve thirty great again. Okay, you calm down, Dug.
The Vulcan Daniel Tosh was on his podcast announcing Tour

(11:12):
d Eights for next year. He got to Toledo and
said Toledo is a gem and then compared it to Tacoma,
Washington by saying, why do you guys live here when
there's other great cities nearby? That's how I feel about Toledo.
The other great cities are just slightly less crappy. Tosh continued,
Toledo's bad. You know it's bad Toledo. And I'm not
gonna sit here and act like it's a great city
and I want you to come out and support me. Okay,

(11:32):
but the city's bad. Tosh clarified, the people could be fine.
I'm talking about the city itself bad. Jim Gaffigan told
people that he has lost fifty pounds now with the
help of Munjaro, a drug used to treat type two diabetes.
Jim told people, I feel good. I'm just grateful because
it's a better life. Gaffigan said he had gotten up
to two hundred and seventy pounds. Jim said, I had

(11:55):
very low expectations because I didn't know someone that had
tried it and they were like, oh, I was nauseous
for a week, and I thought my true joy of
eating would overpower anything. That is your comedy news for today.
I'll see you tomorrow.