November 5, 2025 • 14 mins
GQ talked with Stephen Colbert about his surprise at the cancellation of his show by CBS, despite its success. Colbert discusses the situation's financial and reputational implications and his experience and relationship with CBS. Other topics include Theo Von's concerns over Department of Homeland Security's misused video, Leslie Jones's contentious interaction with a director during SNL's 50th anniversary, Matt Rife's frustration with Air Canada, Prince Harry's confusing appearance on Hassan Minhaj's podcast, and announcements of upcoming projects, including Eddie Murphy's Netflix documentary and a new film featuring Pete Davidson and Ella Purnell. The segment also briefly discusses Amy Schumer's weight loss and health improvements.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media Hither. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news. Stephen Colbert was interviewed by GQ, who really
wanted us to know that Colbert was poolside when this
took place. The topic the cancelation, Stephen said, Listen, every
show's got ended sometime, and I've been on a bunch
(00:24):
of shows that have ended, sometimes by our lights and
sometimes by the decision of other people. It's just the
nature of show business. You can't worry about it. You
got to be a big boy about that. But I
think we're the first number one show to ever get canceled.
Colbert said he was told by CBS they were getting
out of Late Night because it's no longer profitable. He
called it surprising. I'll editorialize here I have brought us
up in the past. Well, then why did they renew
(00:47):
Taylor Tomlinson at twelve thirty That was announced as a
renewal and then Taylor said she didn't want to do it.
That was the story we were told. So A, is
that story not true? B If it is true that
they renewed it, and then Taylor said no, thanks, Well
why would you renew twelve thirty. Were you going to
have a twelve thirty show with a no. Eleven thirty show,
or were you going to move after midnight to be
(01:07):
before midnight? None of that makes sense. Steven Colbert said,
I can understand why people would have that reaction because
CBS or the parent corporation. I'm not going to say
who made that decision, because I don't know. No one's
ever going to tell us decided to cut a check
for sixteen million dollars to the President of the United
States over a lawsuit that their own lawyers, Paramount's own
lawyers said is completely without merit, and it's self evident
that this is damaging to the reputation of the network,
(01:29):
the corporation, and the news division. So it's unclear to
me why anyone would do that other than the Curry
favor with a single individual. Wow, he is not pulling
his punches here, Colbert said, if people have theories that
associate me with that, it's a reasonable thing to think
because CBS or the corporation clearly did it once. But
my side of the street is clean, and I have
no interest in picking up a broom or adding to
refuse on the other side of the street, not my problem.
(01:52):
Colbert says he has a great relationship with CBS. It's
one of the reasons why this was so surprising and
so shocking that there was no preamble to this, budgets
and everything like that. We've done cuts and stuff like that,
so that's why it was surprising to me, as I said,
But I meant what I said on air the next
night after I found out, because I couldn't sit on it.
They've been great partners, they really have. They've been very supportive.
It took us six to nine months to find our
(02:12):
legs before people watched the show. We didn't quite figure
out what we wanted to do. It didn't come fully
assembled out of the box the way the Colbert Report did.
And they stood by us and they were very supportive,
and they gave us what we needed and we found
it and we delivered for them what we wanted. I
want to do a good job, he said. There is
a sense of relief that he might not have to
put the snorkel on and get into the sewer every day.
He doesn't know how they're going to land the plane,
(02:34):
but he wants to do it gracefully. GQ's opener, house
work super normal, Colbert said, strangely, everything is normal because
the show is never normal. I've got nine months of
shows to do. I can't be thinking about it ending
in May. I've got to think about the show on Monday.
So when you say has the show perfectly normal? Well, yeah,
it wasn't that normal. And I had to tell everybody
at the show was ending. But the next Monday I
had to do a show. Steven, does nine months feel
(02:54):
like a long time or a short time? Colbert said?
The end has a discernible shape, but it still seems
a long way away. Seems like I got feisty here.
As for that discernible shape, GQ, can you describe that shape?
Colbert said? The image I have as a man walking
towards me in the dusk, and he's got something in
his hand. I don't know whether it's a knife or
an ice cream cone, but he is asking me if
(03:14):
I'd like a lick. Now, this is a transcript. I
don't know exactly what Colbert's tone was here, but this
is interesting, GQ said, I can't tell if this is
a bit or if this is real. Colbert, what are
you talking about? Why would this be a bit. By
the way, it's hard to tell whether things are real
or a bit. Sometimes to me, every day you have
to come up with a bit about something that was real.
So after a while it's hard to tell what's a
bit and what's real because you see other people engaging
(03:35):
in performative behavior all the time, and it's hard to
know if they're sincere about it. And at a certain
point it doesn't matter if they're sincere about it because
their behavior has an effect. Interesting again, the interview. I
know I'm going along here, but the interview continues to
seemingly go sideways. GQ. You've been attaching your mouth to
the exhaust pipe of news for I don't know. And
then there's a dash and Colbert's answer is that sounds
vaguely suicidal. You've been running your car in the closed
(03:57):
garage of media for twenty years. Or you're getting a
little woozy. Yeah, I'm getting a little woozy. Listen, It's
possible that George Cheeks, who was at the time the
co CEO of Paramount, saved my life. I'll get a
little oxygen back into my brain. I love what we
do and I love the grind. You can only do
one of these shows, do the jokes every night, year
after the year, for twenty years if you give a
damn at all about what you're talking about. And I do,
but there's a sense of relief that I might not
(04:18):
have put on the storkel. All right, let me pick
up more on that tomorrow. A heck of a lot
more there. Via TMZ. THEO Vaughn once against addressed the
Department of Homeland Security using a video of him to
promote deportations. THEO told guest Andrew Santino, it was scary
seeing how much hate THEO god After the promo video
made its rounds. THEO points out the government chair of
(04:39):
the clip not long after Charlie Kirk was murdered, and
he was therefore paranoid. Sindju Post has a transcript. They
have it as Santino saying, talk about pulling that out
of context. They're so good at that, dude. They just
took something that had nothing to do with something else.
You're making a joke and they're like, he's our spokesperson.
You're like, what, I didn't sign up for that, bro.
THEO then talked about being paranoid following the Charlie Kirk murder. THEO,
(05:01):
you know, I started getting real paranoid at home. I
was paranoid about the show. If there could be somebody
in the audience, you know. The conversation then talks to
THEO Vaughan's Netflix special taping, which sources who are there
say didn't go so well. THEO said, yeah, so that
was happening. And then there were just too many cooks
in the kitchen on the set, and then during it,
it was all kind of too much, I think to
get the show off as best as I could, and
I left there thinking I couldn't remember where the next
(05:22):
joke kind of went more from that. In the upcoming
day's full hour interview there and they talked about a
whole bunch of things. The New York Post had a
feisty story involving Leslie Jones. This took place at the
SNL fiftieth anniversary celebration. Apparently there was some director that
she doesn't like, Leslie told Vulture's Good One podcast. First
(05:43):
of all, I don't like him. He comes over to me,
and you know, I don't like him, she says. The
director said that he wanted a photo with Leslie and
that Paul Rudd was going to take the picture. She says,
Paul Rudd sees that I don't like him, so Paul's like, oh,
I'm enjoying this, and the guy goes, I want to
take a picture with you. I'm not taking a picture
with you. You're a piece of crap. I'm not going
to take a picture with you. Rud snapped the photo.
Jones said, I wanted to kill him. Get your hand
(06:05):
off me. Jones revealed that her hatred of the man,
who she has described as a narcissistic penis head, that
her hatred peaked after he wouldn't leave her following a
long day on set back in February. On the Tore podcast,
Leslie said, the guy who would direct to some SNL
pieces was an fing a hole And I don't give
(06:26):
an f If you see this, you still are probably
an fing d head, an e fing narcissistic d head.
He was just one of the white boys that thought
he was doing Shakespeare. No, this is an effing sketch
and you're not funny and you're not creating anything beautiful.
You're just being an a hole with this tedious fing s.
Leslie talked about being on the cast. He said, there's
going to be good times, there's going to be bad times,
there's going to be stressful times. It's any job now.
(06:48):
SNL is a big stress Yes, it's mentally and physically hard.
That's why you gotta be ready when you go in there,
because it's a foundation, it's a machine, it's an institution.
The thing I had to realize is like, oh, I'm
not going to be able to change SNL. Matt Wright
is upset with the airlines. He posted on social media
to Air Canada, F you. I hate your guts. So
(07:08):
your website crashes and won't allow me to check in,
So upon arrival to the airport, I'm told, yeah, you
weren't checked in on time. We can't give you a
boarding pass because of your website. Absolutely nothing stopping me
from making it onto the plane, Plenty of time to
make it to the gate, not even an issue. You
just won't let the person who bought a ticket get
their ticket because of your system. Go f yourself, never
flying with y'all again, and I hope nobody does. Around
(07:31):
three hours later, the airline replied, Hey, Matt, sorry about
your experience. The issue you've encountered was not caused by
our website. Please dm us and be happy to have
a conversation about the issue. Apparently Matt Rife has gotten
into it with the airlines before. One report says in
twenty twenty three, Matt Rife posted on X how long
is too long? A rose flight attendants in my new
show now. During Matt's Netflix comedy special Natural Selection, there
(07:55):
was a lengthy segment on flight attendants who insist on
enforcing the rules? Is that a bad thing? You realize
we're in a middle tube five miles high? That segment
was not reviewed well. A review in Cracked magazine said
the most off putting segment of the specials is less
bit a long time tried about a flight attendant who
assisted Rife Stowe's bag under the seat. It's a long
story that starts out defensive and then gets more defensive. Yeah, dude, Stull,
(08:18):
your bag, relax, dude. Rolling Stone said Rife is a
garden variety strain of American contempt, cheap, lazy, and sure
to fine broad agreement. Vulture called the flight of attendant
rants unfunny, saying it notably lacks the kind of humorous
reframing or conscious construction that would make any of it
into material if it'd given more thought to it. The
realization that he comes off as an enormous a hole
(08:39):
might have been an exciting opportunity to twist the story
in new directions. At the thirty one to two Comedy
Festival in Chicago today seven o'clock stand up on the
Spot at Downtown and John goblecon he's at Zani's Downtown
at nine point fifteen. Prince Harry I talk about him
all the time on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I don't
know if you heard about form MILLI. Prince Andrew boy,
(09:00):
we've been doing bonus episods and everything. That's been keeping
me busy while watching football Sunday. I think I spent
about six hours writing Prince Andrew's scripts while also watching
football and absolutely crushing listener Scott Beckett in the football pool.
I warned him when he invited me. I was like,
I'm really good at this. You understand what you're bringing
into your little playhouse there, and he was like, no, no, no,
you're not the good I'm like, oh no, I'm very
(09:20):
good at football picks. And now Scott Beckett has seen
the light I'm happy to take his money. I digress.
Hassan Minaj has a podcast. Yeah, I totally forgot this
was a thing. First of all, I totally forgot that
Hassan Minhaj was out there, you know, doing stuff. Apparently
he's got a podcast. Boy, he would have been the
host of the Daily Show. Think about that. I mean,
(09:42):
it was no brainer to hire that guy to host
the Daily Show. He was next anyway. Now he's got
a podcast, which I have a podcast. I mean, it's
not that impressive. And I bet you if we add
up Hassan's listeners and my listeners, we have more people
paying attention to us than say, Late Night with Seth Myers,
which is a thing that exists for some reason. I
digress again. Prince Harry was on Hassan Minhaj's podcast. Hassan
(10:04):
asked Prince Harry about a supposed feud between Taylor Swift
and Charlie xc X, because when you have Prince Harry there,
that's what you would ask him about, right, people say.
Harry looked visibly confused and said he had no idea
what Minhaj was talking about, which would have been my
reaction as well. Columnist Roba Shutter said Harry's team didn't
vet Hassan Minhaj before agreeing to the appearance. A Hollywood
(10:26):
publicist told Shutter's website, Harry walked into this blind. His
team didn't vet the host at all. Prince Harry also
attempted an American accent, joking about ordering breadsticks with ranch
at Applebee's, which actually sounds pretty tasty. Last week, the
hockey players on the Seattle Crack End dressed up as
Adam Sandler characters. They went to go see Adam Sandler's
(10:47):
stand up comedy tour. One of the Fords and the
goalkeeper when as characters from You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
One of the defensemen and two Fords were the iconic
white cutoff cable knit sweaters from Billy Madison. Sandler came
by the crack and locker room. They presented him with
a sign Jersey. Sandler posted on his Instagram account and
called the outfits by the hockey players hilarious. Netflix will
(11:11):
have that documentary about Eddie Murphy next week November twelve.
The trailer's out. The whole thing is called Being Eddie.
In Being Eddie, Eddie Murphy himself opens up his home
and heart, reflects on a career that captivated multiple generations,
and reveals the inner life that has long driven his
unique ambition and charisma. I use a lot of AI.
I think AI wrote that sentence. Captivate is a word
(11:33):
that AI loves to use anyway. Featuring a star studded
lineup of fellow comedians and industry peers, including Chris Rock,
Dave Chappelle who's just back from the Riod Comedy Festival,
Jerry Seinfeld, and Kevin Hart who also performed at the
Riod Comedy Festival. Not sure if they talk about that
in this documentary, Probably not, would be my guess. Being
(11:53):
Eddie explores how Eddie Murphy navigated fame, stayed grounded, and
remained at the top of his game for over four decades.
The documentary is expected to explore Eddie's deep relationship with
his late brother Charlie, who passed away in twenty seventeen.
It's been that long. I remember doing an episode about that. Wow.
The doc also features footage from Murphy's days on SNL,
which were great. I was having a conversation with one
(12:15):
of my students the other day, who's a big fan
of SNL. Now the Eddie Murphy years or well before
his time. I mean I was a teenager then, So
hopefully he'll watch this and appreciate them. Now here's a premise.
This thing promoting the Eddie Murphy documentary says there would
be no Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, or Adam
Sandler without Eddie Murphy. So do we have Eddie Murphy
(12:37):
to blame for all these horrible, horrible movies? That's terrible.
I used to like Eddie Murphy being Eddie. Netflix, November twelve.
Pete Davidson and Ella Pernell have signed on to star
in That Time We Met. The Time We Met follows
a new couple that discovers their unborn child is destined
to save the future of humanity. The only problem is
(12:58):
they've just had their first date and now they hate
each other, which sounds like it would actually be I'm
not being a jokey here. That would be a good
Adam Sandler role. He'd be really good at that. Pete
Davidson in that role, I'll tell you right now, that's
gonna be terrible. Write that down. That's gonna be one
of the comedy stock Market picks on Friday. Pete's not
going to be good in that role. Adam Sandler, the
(13:18):
great dramatic actor, he could nail that. And you may
recall yesterday I was like, Eh, I'm not gonna say
about Amy Schumer's weight loss, and you've been sitting around
for twenty four hours now waiting for me to talk
about it. Well, I will talk about it now. Amy
Schumer posted on Instagram she was wearing a black and
white Valentino dress. Amy posted, I'm feeling strong and like myself.
(13:38):
I'm enjoying how I look, But man, it's all about
how you feel. So grateful to be pain free, thanks
to my trainer who has helped strengthen me since my
back surgery, and some sort of company that she was
promoting or thinking for lifting all the endometriosis out of
my body. In the photos, Amy Schumer poses around the
house in a split black and white neat length dress
(14:00):
with a plunging neckline and black pointed to pumps. In
one of the photos, she also wears a silky, pale
pink dress and posed in a lounge chair. You've heard
me say this before. Every now and then, Amy Schumer
wants us to talk about her, so okay, we will.
Glad you're looking great and feeling great, and that's your
comedy news for today, See tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media Hither. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news. Stephen Colbert was interviewed by GQ, who really
wanted us to know that Colbert was poolside when this
took place. The topic the cancelation, Stephen said, Listen, every
show's got ended sometime, and I've been on a bunch
(00:24):
of shows that have ended, sometimes by our lights and
sometimes by the decision of other people. It's just the
nature of show business. You can't worry about it. You
got to be a big boy about that. But I
think we're the first number one show to ever get canceled.
Colbert said he was told by CBS they were getting
out of Late Night because it's no longer profitable. He
called it surprising. I'll editorialize here I have brought us
up in the past. Well, then why did they renew
(00:47):
Taylor Tomlinson at twelve thirty That was announced as a
renewal and then Taylor said she didn't want to do it.
That was the story we were told. So A, is
that story not true? B If it is true that
they renewed it, and then Taylor said no, thanks, Well
why would you renew twelve thirty. Were you going to
have a twelve thirty show with a no. Eleven thirty show,
or were you going to move after midnight to be
(01:07):
before midnight? None of that makes sense. Steven Colbert said,
I can understand why people would have that reaction because
CBS or the parent corporation. I'm not going to say
who made that decision, because I don't know. No one's
ever going to tell us decided to cut a check
for sixteen million dollars to the President of the United
States over a lawsuit that their own lawyers, Paramount's own
lawyers said is completely without merit, and it's self evident
that this is damaging to the reputation of the network,
(01:29):
the corporation, and the news division. So it's unclear to
me why anyone would do that other than the Curry
favor with a single individual. Wow, he is not pulling
his punches here, Colbert said, if people have theories that
associate me with that, it's a reasonable thing to think
because CBS or the corporation clearly did it once. But
my side of the street is clean, and I have
no interest in picking up a broom or adding to
refuse on the other side of the street, not my problem.
(01:52):
Colbert says he has a great relationship with CBS. It's
one of the reasons why this was so surprising and
so shocking that there was no preamble to this, budgets
and everything like that. We've done cuts and stuff like that,
so that's why it was surprising to me, as I said,
But I meant what I said on air the next
night after I found out, because I couldn't sit on it.
They've been great partners, they really have. They've been very supportive.
It took us six to nine months to find our
(02:12):
legs before people watched the show. We didn't quite figure
out what we wanted to do. It didn't come fully
assembled out of the box the way the Colbert Report did.
And they stood by us and they were very supportive,
and they gave us what we needed and we found
it and we delivered for them what we wanted. I
want to do a good job, he said. There is
a sense of relief that he might not have to
put the snorkel on and get into the sewer every day.
He doesn't know how they're going to land the plane,
(02:34):
but he wants to do it gracefully. GQ's opener, house
work super normal, Colbert said, strangely, everything is normal because
the show is never normal. I've got nine months of
shows to do. I can't be thinking about it ending
in May. I've got to think about the show on Monday.
So when you say has the show perfectly normal? Well, yeah,
it wasn't that normal. And I had to tell everybody
at the show was ending. But the next Monday I
had to do a show. Steven, does nine months feel
(02:54):
like a long time or a short time? Colbert said?
The end has a discernible shape, but it still seems
a long way away. Seems like I got feisty here.
As for that discernible shape, GQ, can you describe that shape?
Colbert said? The image I have as a man walking
towards me in the dusk, and he's got something in
his hand. I don't know whether it's a knife or
an ice cream cone, but he is asking me if
(03:14):
I'd like a lick. Now, this is a transcript. I
don't know exactly what Colbert's tone was here, but this
is interesting, GQ said, I can't tell if this is
a bit or if this is real. Colbert, what are
you talking about? Why would this be a bit. By
the way, it's hard to tell whether things are real
or a bit. Sometimes to me, every day you have
to come up with a bit about something that was real.
So after a while it's hard to tell what's a
bit and what's real because you see other people engaging
(03:35):
in performative behavior all the time, and it's hard to
know if they're sincere about it. And at a certain
point it doesn't matter if they're sincere about it because
their behavior has an effect. Interesting again, the interview. I
know I'm going along here, but the interview continues to
seemingly go sideways. GQ. You've been attaching your mouth to
the exhaust pipe of news for I don't know. And
then there's a dash and Colbert's answer is that sounds
vaguely suicidal. You've been running your car in the closed
(03:57):
garage of media for twenty years. Or you're getting a
little woozy. Yeah, I'm getting a little woozy. Listen, It's
possible that George Cheeks, who was at the time the
co CEO of Paramount, saved my life. I'll get a
little oxygen back into my brain. I love what we
do and I love the grind. You can only do
one of these shows, do the jokes every night, year
after the year, for twenty years if you give a
damn at all about what you're talking about. And I do,
but there's a sense of relief that I might not
(04:18):
have put on the storkel. All right, let me pick
up more on that tomorrow. A heck of a lot
more there. Via TMZ. THEO Vaughn once against addressed the
Department of Homeland Security using a video of him to
promote deportations. THEO told guest Andrew Santino, it was scary
seeing how much hate THEO god After the promo video
made its rounds. THEO points out the government chair of
(04:39):
the clip not long after Charlie Kirk was murdered, and
he was therefore paranoid. Sindju Post has a transcript. They
have it as Santino saying, talk about pulling that out
of context. They're so good at that, dude. They just
took something that had nothing to do with something else.
You're making a joke and they're like, he's our spokesperson.
You're like, what, I didn't sign up for that, bro.
THEO then talked about being paranoid following the Charlie Kirk murder. THEO,
(05:01):
you know, I started getting real paranoid at home. I
was paranoid about the show. If there could be somebody
in the audience, you know. The conversation then talks to
THEO Vaughan's Netflix special taping, which sources who are there
say didn't go so well. THEO said, yeah, so that
was happening. And then there were just too many cooks
in the kitchen on the set, and then during it,
it was all kind of too much, I think to
get the show off as best as I could, and
I left there thinking I couldn't remember where the next
(05:22):
joke kind of went more from that. In the upcoming
day's full hour interview there and they talked about a
whole bunch of things. The New York Post had a
feisty story involving Leslie Jones. This took place at the
SNL fiftieth anniversary celebration. Apparently there was some director that
she doesn't like, Leslie told Vulture's Good One podcast. First
(05:43):
of all, I don't like him. He comes over to me,
and you know, I don't like him, she says. The
director said that he wanted a photo with Leslie and
that Paul Rudd was going to take the picture. She says,
Paul Rudd sees that I don't like him, so Paul's like, oh,
I'm enjoying this, and the guy goes, I want to
take a picture with you. I'm not taking a picture
with you. You're a piece of crap. I'm not going
to take a picture with you. Rud snapped the photo.
Jones said, I wanted to kill him. Get your hand
(06:05):
off me. Jones revealed that her hatred of the man,
who she has described as a narcissistic penis head, that
her hatred peaked after he wouldn't leave her following a
long day on set back in February. On the Tore podcast,
Leslie said, the guy who would direct to some SNL
pieces was an fing a hole And I don't give
(06:26):
an f If you see this, you still are probably
an fing d head, an e fing narcissistic d head.
He was just one of the white boys that thought
he was doing Shakespeare. No, this is an effing sketch
and you're not funny and you're not creating anything beautiful.
You're just being an a hole with this tedious fing s.
Leslie talked about being on the cast. He said, there's
going to be good times, there's going to be bad times,
there's going to be stressful times. It's any job now.
(06:48):
SNL is a big stress Yes, it's mentally and physically hard.
That's why you gotta be ready when you go in there,
because it's a foundation, it's a machine, it's an institution.
The thing I had to realize is like, oh, I'm
not going to be able to change SNL. Matt Wright
is upset with the airlines. He posted on social media
to Air Canada, F you. I hate your guts. So
(07:08):
your website crashes and won't allow me to check in,
So upon arrival to the airport, I'm told, yeah, you
weren't checked in on time. We can't give you a
boarding pass because of your website. Absolutely nothing stopping me
from making it onto the plane, Plenty of time to
make it to the gate, not even an issue. You
just won't let the person who bought a ticket get
their ticket because of your system. Go f yourself, never
flying with y'all again, and I hope nobody does. Around
(07:31):
three hours later, the airline replied, Hey, Matt, sorry about
your experience. The issue you've encountered was not caused by
our website. Please dm us and be happy to have
a conversation about the issue. Apparently Matt Rife has gotten
into it with the airlines before. One report says in
twenty twenty three, Matt Rife posted on X how long
is too long? A rose flight attendants in my new
show now. During Matt's Netflix comedy special Natural Selection, there
(07:55):
was a lengthy segment on flight attendants who insist on
enforcing the rules? Is that a bad thing? You realize
we're in a middle tube five miles high? That segment
was not reviewed well. A review in Cracked magazine said
the most off putting segment of the specials is less
bit a long time tried about a flight attendant who
assisted Rife Stowe's bag under the seat. It's a long
story that starts out defensive and then gets more defensive. Yeah, dude, Stull,
(08:18):
your bag, relax, dude. Rolling Stone said Rife is a
garden variety strain of American contempt, cheap, lazy, and sure
to fine broad agreement. Vulture called the flight of attendant
rants unfunny, saying it notably lacks the kind of humorous
reframing or conscious construction that would make any of it
into material if it'd given more thought to it. The
realization that he comes off as an enormous a hole
(08:39):
might have been an exciting opportunity to twist the story
in new directions. At the thirty one to two Comedy
Festival in Chicago today seven o'clock stand up on the
Spot at Downtown and John goblecon he's at Zani's Downtown
at nine point fifteen. Prince Harry I talk about him
all the time on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I don't
know if you heard about form MILLI. Prince Andrew boy,
(09:00):
we've been doing bonus episods and everything. That's been keeping
me busy while watching football Sunday. I think I spent
about six hours writing Prince Andrew's scripts while also watching
football and absolutely crushing listener Scott Beckett in the football pool.
I warned him when he invited me. I was like,
I'm really good at this. You understand what you're bringing
into your little playhouse there, and he was like, no, no, no,
you're not the good I'm like, oh no, I'm very
(09:20):
good at football picks. And now Scott Beckett has seen
the light I'm happy to take his money. I digress.
Hassan Minaj has a podcast. Yeah, I totally forgot this
was a thing. First of all, I totally forgot that
Hassan Minhaj was out there, you know, doing stuff. Apparently
he's got a podcast. Boy, he would have been the
host of the Daily Show. Think about that. I mean,
(09:42):
it was no brainer to hire that guy to host
the Daily Show. He was next anyway. Now he's got
a podcast, which I have a podcast. I mean, it's
not that impressive. And I bet you if we add
up Hassan's listeners and my listeners, we have more people
paying attention to us than say, Late Night with Seth Myers,
which is a thing that exists for some reason. I
digress again. Prince Harry was on Hassan Minhaj's podcast. Hassan
(10:04):
asked Prince Harry about a supposed feud between Taylor Swift
and Charlie xc X, because when you have Prince Harry there,
that's what you would ask him about, right, people say.
Harry looked visibly confused and said he had no idea
what Minhaj was talking about, which would have been my
reaction as well. Columnist Roba Shutter said Harry's team didn't
vet Hassan Minhaj before agreeing to the appearance. A Hollywood
(10:26):
publicist told Shutter's website, Harry walked into this blind. His
team didn't vet the host at all. Prince Harry also
attempted an American accent, joking about ordering breadsticks with ranch
at Applebee's, which actually sounds pretty tasty. Last week, the
hockey players on the Seattle Crack End dressed up as
Adam Sandler characters. They went to go see Adam Sandler's
(10:47):
stand up comedy tour. One of the Fords and the
goalkeeper when as characters from You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
One of the defensemen and two Fords were the iconic
white cutoff cable knit sweaters from Billy Madison. Sandler came
by the crack and locker room. They presented him with
a sign Jersey. Sandler posted on his Instagram account and
called the outfits by the hockey players hilarious. Netflix will
(11:11):
have that documentary about Eddie Murphy next week November twelve.
The trailer's out. The whole thing is called Being Eddie.
In Being Eddie, Eddie Murphy himself opens up his home
and heart, reflects on a career that captivated multiple generations,
and reveals the inner life that has long driven his
unique ambition and charisma. I use a lot of AI.
I think AI wrote that sentence. Captivate is a word
(11:33):
that AI loves to use anyway. Featuring a star studded
lineup of fellow comedians and industry peers, including Chris Rock,
Dave Chappelle who's just back from the Riod Comedy Festival,
Jerry Seinfeld, and Kevin Hart who also performed at the
Riod Comedy Festival. Not sure if they talk about that
in this documentary, Probably not, would be my guess. Being
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Eddie explores how Eddie Murphy navigated fame, stayed grounded, and
remained at the top of his game for over four decades.
The documentary is expected to explore Eddie's deep relationship with
his late brother Charlie, who passed away in twenty seventeen.
It's been that long. I remember doing an episode about that. Wow.
The doc also features footage from Murphy's days on SNL,
which were great. I was having a conversation with one
(12:15):
of my students the other day, who's a big fan
of SNL. Now the Eddie Murphy years or well before
his time. I mean I was a teenager then, So
hopefully he'll watch this and appreciate them. Now here's a premise.
This thing promoting the Eddie Murphy documentary says there would
be no Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, or Adam
Sandler without Eddie Murphy. So do we have Eddie Murphy
(12:37):
to blame for all these horrible, horrible movies? That's terrible.
I used to like Eddie Murphy being Eddie. Netflix, November twelve.
Pete Davidson and Ella Pernell have signed on to star
in That Time We Met. The Time We Met follows
a new couple that discovers their unborn child is destined
to save the future of humanity. The only problem is
(12:58):
they've just had their first date and now they hate
each other, which sounds like it would actually be I'm
not being a jokey here. That would be a good
Adam Sandler role. He'd be really good at that. Pete
Davidson in that role, I'll tell you right now, that's
gonna be terrible. Write that down. That's gonna be one
of the comedy stock Market picks on Friday. Pete's not
going to be good in that role. Adam Sandler, the
(13:18):
great dramatic actor, he could nail that. And you may
recall yesterday I was like, Eh, I'm not gonna say
about Amy Schumer's weight loss, and you've been sitting around
for twenty four hours now waiting for me to talk
about it. Well, I will talk about it now. Amy
Schumer posted on Instagram she was wearing a black and
white Valentino dress. Amy posted, I'm feeling strong and like myself.
(13:38):
I'm enjoying how I look, But man, it's all about
how you feel. So grateful to be pain free, thanks
to my trainer who has helped strengthen me since my
back surgery, and some sort of company that she was
promoting or thinking for lifting all the endometriosis out of
my body. In the photos, Amy Schumer poses around the
house in a split black and white neat length dress
(14:00):
with a plunging neckline and black pointed to pumps. In
one of the photos, she also wears a silky, pale
pink dress and posed in a lounge chair. You've heard
me say this before. Every now and then, Amy Schumer
wants us to talk about her, so okay, we will.
Glad you're looking great and feeling great, and that's your
comedy news for today, See tomorrow.
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