September 29, 2025 • 9 mins
Johnny adds Sebastian Maniscalco to his 'Legion of Cool Comedians' for promoting Frigidaire's stone-baked pizza ovens and mentions Maniscalco's upcoming tour dates, including an appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
The podcast also highlights Jessica Kirson's performance at the same festival, touching on her advocacy for free speech in comedy.
Additionally, news about Bill Burr potentially joining Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Network 2' cast is shared. T Burr is just back from the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
And the berve of that guy Jay Leno. He;s out there oding chairty events 3D-printing a toilet seat for Harrison Ford. He's the worst!
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The podcast also highlights Jessica Kirson's performance at the same festival, touching on her advocacy for free speech in comedy.
Additionally, news about Bill Burr potentially joining Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Network 2' cast is shared. T Burr is just back from the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
And the berve of that guy Jay Leno. He;s out there oding chairty events 3D-printing a toilet seat for Harrison Ford. He's the worst!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daily-comedy-news-with-johnny-mac--4522158/support.
Become a premium subscriber! (no ads). For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING and the bonus “DCN8” show.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. I thought Sunday's episode was a lot
of fun, and also the bonus episode that went out
yesterday with Julie Seaball. She's the producer of the Mark
Maron documentary Are We Good? In case you missed that, Hello,
I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Let me
calm down here, let's ease into today. It's just been
(00:25):
so much strife with the new stories. Did you hear
the news stories yesterday? So let's just do something fun.
I've got a new member of the Legion of Cool
Comedians now, the Legion of Cool Comedians, which I established
over the weekend. They are Jim Gaffigan with his bourbon business,
Tom Poppa, you know, he's doing some breadmaking accessories. I'm
going to add a couple of people this week, so
I'm adding to the Legion of cool Comedians. When you're like,
(00:46):
you know, who's doing like really cool stuff that you
look at and you go, yeah, man cool? Well Sebastian Manascalco,
who by the way, is going to be appearing at
the Rioned Comedy Festival. But that's not what I'm here
to talk about. I'm here to tell you about frigid
ere up with Sebastian Maniscalco to sell you stone baked
pizza ovens. That's right, they had a big event and
the Nocturnal tells us it was in a loft that
(01:08):
couldn't have felt more inviting. The space was bright, industrial
and alive with the scent of fresh sauce and baked dough.
Exposed brick, high ceilings natural light created the perfect setting
for frigidators. Big debut of the Gallery range with stone
baked Pizza mode. Chef Adam was there teaching everyone how
to make pizza. And what could make this even more
(01:29):
fun would be Sebastian Manuscalco getting in in appearance before
heading over to the Riod Comedy Festival, getting some time
with the regular folks. He stopped in and demonstrated the
stone baked pizza oven and shared laughs with attendees, and
we're told made the experience both educational and highly entertaining.
Sounds like a fun event. Good of Sebastian to come by.
(01:52):
You know, he probably got a couple bucks for it.
He needs the money. I mean, there are some lists
that have him as the top touring comedian, But what
do I know? I'm a guy in the basement recording podcast. Hey,
if you'd like to see Sebastian Manuscalco, He's on TOURIO
be in Las Vegas. He's at the WIN, Las Vegas
on October third. He's doing two shows. Pete Corielli the
Gator is his opening act. There also two shows on
(02:13):
the fourth. Then on the eighth he'll be in Abu
Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. That was just added.
And then on the ninth he'll be at the sef
Arena as part of the RIONDD Comedy Festival. No opener
mentioned there, so it doesn't look like Pete Corielly the
Gator will be part of the RIOD Comedy Festival. And
then on October seventeenth, Sebastian Maniscalko will be in Temecula, Californians.
(02:35):
He's got some other dates on his website if you
want to check that out. Always got some merch. Let's
say he's got a hoodie. It's a black hoodie with
really tiny print that says it ain't right. Let's say
I'm gonna order myself a large here, forty five dollars
not completely unreasonable. You know you could put that on.
Sit by the fireplace, eat some Tom Pop of bread
and have some Jim Gaffigan bourbon. Trying to stay calm
(02:56):
on this Monday. Guys. You know where this is heading eventually,
don't you. Jimmy Kimmel. We never talk about him on
this program. His name never comes up. He's in Brooklyn
this week. A lot of big guests, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Johnson,
comel On, Johnny, guys from The Bear. I still haven't
watched that, Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert. Musical guests, Public Enemy, Renee,
(03:16):
Rap Geese, and Living Color. Those guys were still around.
I saw them at Fordham University in nineteen eighty seven,
before anybody had heard of them. They were fantastic. I
ran out and bought their album. I've been a fan since.
True Story they opened for Joan Jet. The Internet will
probably prove that true if you look that up. Why
would I make that up? Why would Johnny Mack be like,
you know what, I want to seem cool? I'm gonna
tell people I saw Joone Jett and Living Color at
(03:38):
Fordham University in nineteen eighty seven. Well I did, maybe
it was eighty eight. I went there in the fall
of eighty seven. I don't actually remember when it was,
but I believe it was freshman year. See now I
need to prove it to myself. I just talked myself
into a corner. If you want me yelling at screaming,
that was Sunday's episode. I'm trying to be calm. Well,
I don't want to spend three hours of this, but
I could tell you here on setlist FM, I see
(04:00):
they played in Schenectady in May of nineteen eighty seven. Oh,
maybe I can just go through Jon Jet's set list.
Hold on, No, I'm can't find anything. I did to
go down a rabbit hole there and I made an edit.
There's been five minutes looking so what you know what?
You just sit home and be like Johnny Mack just
wants to sound cool and make it sound like he
saw Joe jetted forty University nineteen eighty seven. He's probably
making that up. Where were we were talking about Jimmy Kimmel.
(04:22):
Howard Stern not listed as a guest. Some people think
that is weird. Anyway, let's get to it today. It's
the re Odd Comedy Festival performing is Jessica Kerson. We're
told that Jessica Cerson brings whirlwind energy and razor sharp
honesty to the re Odd Comedy Festival. Now in twenty
twenty one, Jessica Kerson, who's at the Reod Comedy Festival today,
(04:44):
I spoke to Forbes, and Forbes said George Carlin said,
comics are modern day philosophers, your truth tailors and whistleblowers.
How are you seeing that in your career and the industry,
And in twenty twenty one, Jessica Curson told Forbes, I'm
seeing that more than ever. The country needs us right now.
We're say everything that a lot of people want to say,
but they can't. People can't go into their jobs and
(05:05):
say the things that I'm saying on stage. They get
fired that day. Seems like Jessica is very passionate about
being able to say whatever you want to say, and
free speech is pretty important. Jessica went on to say,
I mean, I have a joke where I say I
have kids and I'm gay. See, I'm trying to educate
people in a funny way and show how ridiculous people are.
(05:25):
We are truth tellers. But if you silence what we say,
what's the line. The line apparently is whatever you're being
paid tonight. Jessica, Sorry, I disgressed. Did I say that
out loud? I should have said that out loud. I
have to remember to edit that out. I don't want
to leave that in, Jessica said, I listened to the
comics where I want to vomit. The things they say
make me sick. But do I think they shouldn't be
(05:47):
able to say it? No? Okay, sounds great. I look
forward to your set tonight at the Riod Comedy Festival,
Jessica Curson. Now, I wanted to tell you what venue
Jessica is at, but here I am on Jessica Curson
dot dot as a record this on Friday, September twenty
sixth to twenty pm Eastern Time, and she has listed
as her tour dates new Haven on the twenty sixth,
(06:07):
and then the next date listed was October second at
the New York Comedy Club. She's not listing the arena
on the Riodd Comedy Festival where she's performing tonight, Free
Speech Advocate and I want you guys to know what
arena she's playing. Luckily, visit saudi dot com has the
information for us. This is, of course, the world's largest
comedy festival. A lot of you are favorite comedians, including
(06:28):
Jessica Curson playing there. Dave Chappelle was there recently. Gabe
glacis there tomorrow night. Now, this is interesting. The graphic
says September twenty ninth. Everything I've read says September twenty ninth.
A box here says September twenty eighth. I'm still unable
to figure out where this is other than it's at
the re Odd Comedy Festival. Right have clicked through to
buy tickets. Oh, it's at the Mohammed al Ali Theater.
(06:52):
Looking for to Jessica said tonight or maybe it was
last night. I don't run the website. I don't know.
I can only tell you what's in front of me.
I would have loved to pull the information up from
Esca Curson dot com to give you the information correctly. John,
Is this why you opened up with a story about
pizza ovens? Did you want to ease into this today?
Is that what is going on here? Bill Burr, who
was at the Reod Comedy Festival on Friday, is in
(07:12):
talks to join the cast of Aaron Sorkin and Sony
Pictures the Social Network too. Jeremy Alan White will play
a Wall Street reporter. Jeremy Strong is said to be
playing Mark Zuckerberg. Bill Burr is said to be playing
a character that is fictional or an amalgamation. According to sources,
I caused enough trouble in the first half. I'm going
(07:33):
to a head for a home here. Like I said,
I'm recording this on Friday. It's been a long week.
It's actually eighty degrees out in September. I just want
to go on in the backyard and take a nap
and maybe listen to Mark Malcoff with whitez and act
or Louis c. K on the Theovon's podcast, or Pete Davidson,
who's coming to the Red Comedy Festival. He explained his
reasoning the Theovaughn on Theovon's podcast. So Theo's had a
(07:54):
lot of good guests. Let's see, let's do a couple
of things here just to give you a full episode
and get out of here. On the eight hundred Pound
Channel today, David GABORI is good birth of a nation. Oh,
I know what I'll do. Let's talk about the worst
person who ever lived. What's his name, saying with me,
that's right, Jay Leno, How dare j Leto comment on
late night television? What does he know about it? The
(08:14):
nerve of this guy, It just it infuriates me when
Jay Leno talks about late night comedy as if he's
some sort of expert in late night comedy. What does
he know? Remember that story a couple of weeks ago
where Jay Leno had the nerve to help Harrison Ford
with a three D printed toilet seat. Well, jay Lenel
told the story. Now where did he tell this story?
He was at one of his little charity events that
(08:36):
Jay does. This is the Love Ride Foundation. Yeah, Jay
Leno out there doing charity talking about toilet seats. Jay
Leto said, in Harrison Ford's office in Wyoming, he's got
some sort of unusual toilet with an unusual toilet seat,
and he couldn't find a toilet seat replacement. So they
called me and said, can you three D print me one?
And I said, yeah, bring me the old one. So
he brought me the old one and we three D
printed it. That's the story. And then he said Harrison
(08:58):
Ford was stunned how good it turned out? And then
Jay said anybody needs a three D printed toilet seat,
Let me know. Oh, I will let you know. Mister,
I know something about Late Night. How dare you no
bonus episode today? I think I'm not planning on doing one.
I have no intention of doing one. I just want
to chill out and relax. That's your comedy news for today,
(09:19):
See you tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media. I thought Sunday's episode was a lot
of fun, and also the bonus episode that went out
yesterday with Julie Seaball. She's the producer of the Mark
Maron documentary Are We Good? In case you missed that, Hello,
I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Let me
calm down here, let's ease into today. It's just been
(00:25):
so much strife with the new stories. Did you hear
the news stories yesterday? So let's just do something fun.
I've got a new member of the Legion of Cool
Comedians now, the Legion of Cool Comedians, which I established
over the weekend. They are Jim Gaffigan with his bourbon business,
Tom Poppa, you know, he's doing some breadmaking accessories. I'm
going to add a couple of people this week, so
I'm adding to the Legion of cool Comedians. When you're like,
(00:46):
you know, who's doing like really cool stuff that you
look at and you go, yeah, man cool? Well Sebastian Manascalco,
who by the way, is going to be appearing at
the Rioned Comedy Festival. But that's not what I'm here
to talk about. I'm here to tell you about frigid
ere up with Sebastian Maniscalco to sell you stone baked
pizza ovens. That's right, they had a big event and
the Nocturnal tells us it was in a loft that
(01:08):
couldn't have felt more inviting. The space was bright, industrial
and alive with the scent of fresh sauce and baked dough.
Exposed brick, high ceilings natural light created the perfect setting
for frigidators. Big debut of the Gallery range with stone
baked Pizza mode. Chef Adam was there teaching everyone how
to make pizza. And what could make this even more
(01:29):
fun would be Sebastian Manuscalco getting in in appearance before
heading over to the Riod Comedy Festival, getting some time
with the regular folks. He stopped in and demonstrated the
stone baked pizza oven and shared laughs with attendees, and
we're told made the experience both educational and highly entertaining.
Sounds like a fun event. Good of Sebastian to come by.
(01:52):
You know, he probably got a couple bucks for it.
He needs the money. I mean, there are some lists
that have him as the top touring comedian, But what
do I know? I'm a guy in the basement recording podcast. Hey,
if you'd like to see Sebastian Manuscalco, He's on TOURIO
be in Las Vegas. He's at the WIN, Las Vegas
on October third. He's doing two shows. Pete Corielli the
Gator is his opening act. There also two shows on
(02:13):
the fourth. Then on the eighth he'll be in Abu
Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. That was just added.
And then on the ninth he'll be at the sef
Arena as part of the RIONDD Comedy Festival. No opener
mentioned there, so it doesn't look like Pete Corielly the
Gator will be part of the RIOD Comedy Festival. And
then on October seventeenth, Sebastian Maniscalko will be in Temecula, Californians.
(02:35):
He's got some other dates on his website if you
want to check that out. Always got some merch. Let's
say he's got a hoodie. It's a black hoodie with
really tiny print that says it ain't right. Let's say
I'm gonna order myself a large here, forty five dollars
not completely unreasonable. You know you could put that on.
Sit by the fireplace, eat some Tom Pop of bread
and have some Jim Gaffigan bourbon. Trying to stay calm
(02:56):
on this Monday. Guys. You know where this is heading eventually,
don't you. Jimmy Kimmel. We never talk about him on
this program. His name never comes up. He's in Brooklyn
this week. A lot of big guests, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Johnson,
comel On, Johnny, guys from The Bear. I still haven't
watched that, Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert. Musical guests, Public Enemy, Renee,
(03:16):
Rap Geese, and Living Color. Those guys were still around.
I saw them at Fordham University in nineteen eighty seven,
before anybody had heard of them. They were fantastic. I
ran out and bought their album. I've been a fan since.
True Story they opened for Joan Jet. The Internet will
probably prove that true if you look that up. Why
would I make that up? Why would Johnny Mack be like,
you know what, I want to seem cool? I'm gonna
tell people I saw Joone Jett and Living Color at
(03:38):
Fordham University in nineteen eighty seven. Well I did, maybe
it was eighty eight. I went there in the fall
of eighty seven. I don't actually remember when it was,
but I believe it was freshman year. See now I
need to prove it to myself. I just talked myself
into a corner. If you want me yelling at screaming,
that was Sunday's episode. I'm trying to be calm. Well,
I don't want to spend three hours of this, but
I could tell you here on setlist FM, I see
(04:00):
they played in Schenectady in May of nineteen eighty seven. Oh,
maybe I can just go through Jon Jet's set list.
Hold on, No, I'm can't find anything. I did to
go down a rabbit hole there and I made an edit.
There's been five minutes looking so what you know what?
You just sit home and be like Johnny Mack just
wants to sound cool and make it sound like he
saw Joe jetted forty University nineteen eighty seven. He's probably
making that up. Where were we were talking about Jimmy Kimmel.
(04:22):
Howard Stern not listed as a guest. Some people think
that is weird. Anyway, let's get to it today. It's
the re Odd Comedy Festival performing is Jessica Kerson. We're
told that Jessica Cerson brings whirlwind energy and razor sharp
honesty to the re Odd Comedy Festival. Now in twenty
twenty one, Jessica Kerson, who's at the Reod Comedy Festival today,
(04:44):
I spoke to Forbes, and Forbes said George Carlin said,
comics are modern day philosophers, your truth tailors and whistleblowers.
How are you seeing that in your career and the industry,
And in twenty twenty one, Jessica Curson told Forbes, I'm
seeing that more than ever. The country needs us right now.
We're say everything that a lot of people want to say,
but they can't. People can't go into their jobs and
(05:05):
say the things that I'm saying on stage. They get
fired that day. Seems like Jessica is very passionate about
being able to say whatever you want to say, and
free speech is pretty important. Jessica went on to say,
I mean, I have a joke where I say I
have kids and I'm gay. See, I'm trying to educate
people in a funny way and show how ridiculous people are.
(05:25):
We are truth tellers. But if you silence what we say,
what's the line. The line apparently is whatever you're being
paid tonight. Jessica, Sorry, I disgressed. Did I say that
out loud? I should have said that out loud. I
have to remember to edit that out. I don't want
to leave that in, Jessica said, I listened to the
comics where I want to vomit. The things they say
make me sick. But do I think they shouldn't be
(05:47):
able to say it? No? Okay, sounds great. I look
forward to your set tonight at the Riod Comedy Festival,
Jessica Curson. Now, I wanted to tell you what venue
Jessica is at, but here I am on Jessica Curson
dot dot as a record this on Friday, September twenty
sixth to twenty pm Eastern Time, and she has listed
as her tour dates new Haven on the twenty sixth,
(06:07):
and then the next date listed was October second at
the New York Comedy Club. She's not listing the arena
on the Riodd Comedy Festival where she's performing tonight, Free
Speech Advocate and I want you guys to know what
arena she's playing. Luckily, visit saudi dot com has the
information for us. This is, of course, the world's largest
comedy festival. A lot of you are favorite comedians, including
(06:28):
Jessica Curson playing there. Dave Chappelle was there recently. Gabe
glacis there tomorrow night. Now, this is interesting. The graphic
says September twenty ninth. Everything I've read says September twenty ninth.
A box here says September twenty eighth. I'm still unable
to figure out where this is other than it's at
the re Odd Comedy Festival. Right have clicked through to
buy tickets. Oh, it's at the Mohammed al Ali Theater.
(06:52):
Looking for to Jessica said tonight or maybe it was
last night. I don't run the website. I don't know.
I can only tell you what's in front of me.
I would have loved to pull the information up from
Esca Curson dot com to give you the information correctly. John,
Is this why you opened up with a story about
pizza ovens? Did you want to ease into this today?
Is that what is going on here? Bill Burr, who
was at the Reod Comedy Festival on Friday, is in
(07:12):
talks to join the cast of Aaron Sorkin and Sony
Pictures the Social Network too. Jeremy Alan White will play
a Wall Street reporter. Jeremy Strong is said to be
playing Mark Zuckerberg. Bill Burr is said to be playing
a character that is fictional or an amalgamation. According to sources,
I caused enough trouble in the first half. I'm going
(07:33):
to a head for a home here. Like I said,
I'm recording this on Friday. It's been a long week.
It's actually eighty degrees out in September. I just want
to go on in the backyard and take a nap
and maybe listen to Mark Malcoff with whitez and act
or Louis c. K on the Theovon's podcast, or Pete Davidson,
who's coming to the Red Comedy Festival. He explained his
reasoning the Theovaughn on Theovon's podcast. So Theo's had a
(07:54):
lot of good guests. Let's see, let's do a couple
of things here just to give you a full episode
and get out of here. On the eight hundred Pound
Channel today, David GABORI is good birth of a nation. Oh,
I know what I'll do. Let's talk about the worst
person who ever lived. What's his name, saying with me,
that's right, Jay Leno, How dare j Leto comment on
late night television? What does he know about it? The
(08:14):
nerve of this guy, It just it infuriates me when
Jay Leno talks about late night comedy as if he's
some sort of expert in late night comedy. What does
he know? Remember that story a couple of weeks ago
where Jay Leno had the nerve to help Harrison Ford
with a three D printed toilet seat. Well, jay Lenel
told the story. Now where did he tell this story?
He was at one of his little charity events that
(08:36):
Jay does. This is the Love Ride Foundation. Yeah, Jay
Leno out there doing charity talking about toilet seats. Jay
Leto said, in Harrison Ford's office in Wyoming, he's got
some sort of unusual toilet with an unusual toilet seat,
and he couldn't find a toilet seat replacement. So they
called me and said, can you three D print me one?
And I said, yeah, bring me the old one. So
he brought me the old one and we three D
printed it. That's the story. And then he said Harrison
(08:58):
Ford was stunned how good it turned out? And then
Jay said anybody needs a three D printed toilet seat,
Let me know. Oh, I will let you know. Mister,
I know something about Late Night. How dare you no
bonus episode today? I think I'm not planning on doing one.
I have no intention of doing one. I just want
to chill out and relax. That's your comedy news for today,
(09:19):
See you tomorrow.
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