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July 20, 2025 11 mins
Johnny Mac covers Katt Williams' basketball anecdotes, Tom Segura's "controversial" statement about FSU's championship, Roy Wood Jr.'s baseball memories and thoughts on the Hall of Fame, and a Weird Al concert recap. Additional highlights include Gabe Iglesias receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Leanne Morgan's new sitcom, Cameron Diaz's return to comedy in 'Bad Day,' and a review of the LA Daily News’ top picks from the Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival, which showcased a variety of delicious Asian cuisine.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Cat William was on the seven pm
in Brooklyn podcast and started talking a little basketball. Cat said,
in basketball, I'm five to five, so there's a whole
realm of basketball I can't experience. I don't have any

(00:24):
of the above rim experience. On the other hand, I'm
not Angel Reese. I'm ninety nine percent of in my
layups because I can't afford to miss a layup. My
layup is my dunk. Host Cormelo Anthony cracked a smile
but knew it was a joke and would not affect
his family's relationship with the star of the Chicago Sky
Angel Reese. Stick to sports, okay. Tom Sigora says FSU's

(00:46):
title winning touchdown was better than fatherhood. Sigora was on
the Glory Days DAZ podcast hosted by former quarterback Johnny Manziel.
Remember that guy, Sigora said, this is one of those
things that's gonna get me in trouble in a few years.
Bert Krascher, who's an alum, was like, do you want
to go to the National Championship Game? And I go, yeah.
We ended up sitting in different sections. He's like, my
ticket's over here, yours is over there. So I'm just

(01:06):
sitting next to some guy. When Kelvin Benjamin caught that pass,
I grabbed the guy's shirt and I started going, Ah,
it's one of those things where you go, that's what
you can't get at home. In a previous interview, Sigore
had told ESPN, I went to the game and the
emotions just to go over. I couldn't control myself. Winston
drives down the field and throws a touchdown. I punched
three guys in the face. Punching people in the face
is not funny, Johnny Mack, what are you laughing at?

(01:29):
Stick to sports, okay. Roywood Junior talked to GQ about
the Cubs and some of his favorite Cubs memories. He said,
there was Toughy Roads three homers on opening Day that
always stands out. Remember that. I remember that. He's like
the Barry Bonds of Japan. He's the man. He doesn't
pay for anything in Japan. Over here, he's main cabin,
middle seat. No one cares. But if I get just

(01:51):
watch one baseball home run over and over and over again,
it would be the Joe Carter World Series home run.
GQ asked about the steroids era, how do we handle that?
Royce said, I don't know how you can completely discredit it.
It's interesting to see both of those guys post career.
The guys in question are Barry Bonds and a Rod.
I think what Barry started to figure out that A
Rod figured out sooner is how much your attitude plays

(02:13):
a role, not necessarily being likable, but just being accessible.
If I a vote, I would vote for Barry Bonds
and a Rod Hall of Fame. I absolutely would. Okay,
well you cheated, you got caught doing something you weren't supposed
to do. Fine, but how do we wipe everything off
the books? That's the part I think is very difficult
to get into the Hall of Fame. It's not just
solely statistics. There's intangibles of likability, just being real. You

(02:33):
can't tell me that Barry Bonds and his relationship with
the baseball writers over the course of his career will
not play a role. The Hall of Fame is like
the award shows, where they have a special category basically
for the ones we got wrong at the time. I
think Barry maybe ends up on that met him briefly.
By briefly, I mean twenty seconds in Birmingham last year
at the Willie Mays game they did with the whole
Negro League's tribute. The fact that Barry was even paraphrasing

(02:54):
talking with Derek Jeter and Big Poppy, Huge Barry made
himself accessible and spoke with people, and I thought it
was really cool. I felt like Barry was feeling the love.
You can tell he's still excited about the game. He
still loves this game. He gave it his heart and soul,
and he give us a hell of a show for
a long time. I think if you put on a show,
there's got to be a space for you somewhere in Cooperstown. Now,
if we want to call it the special Wing over here,
whatever you got in trouble for steroids a couple of times,

(03:14):
put that on the plaque. Stick to Sports. Johnny Mack okay,
Li's a trigger, says her goal every summer is to
find a body of water. But I'm not a snob.
I'll public pool, i'll hotel, I'll pay for day pass,
I'll hang with a friend, I'll bring something, I'll pay
for something. But that's always my goal. That's not sports,
Johnny Mack, let me finish the story, Lisa said. Also,

(03:34):
I haven't gone to a baseball game this summer. That's
a goal as well. See, I know what I'm doing.
It's not my first daily comedy news gave Iglesias is
getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gabe said,
I spent my life entertaining on the road, not in Hollywood.
I guess someone was watching. This was never a goal
or something I thought was possible. The Hollywood Walk of
Fame was established in nineteen sixty and has awarded more

(03:56):
than twenty eight hundred stars over the last sixty five years.
Leanne Morgan is excited about her sitcom. She says it's
a throwback to the nineteen nineties style comedy things like
Roseanne Barr Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Drew Carey Martin, Lawrence Ray Romano.
Morgan says that was my goal being my age, coming
up and stand up and loving television. That was my
dream Netflix Comedy had. Tracy Pecosta says, on the stand

(04:19):
up side, we work with best in class comedians from
all over that reach very different audiences, pointing out they've
had success with Shane Gillis's Tires and want of Sykes
of the Upshaws, and the upcoming Bert Krascher sitcom Free
Bert Tracy says, and as we all know from back
in the day when these type of shows were more
popular and resonated, when you find somebody that is a
very specific, authentic voice and makes sense to lean in

(04:40):
and leanne is absolutely one of those talents. Weird Al
play the Gordon last weekend. I love weird Al, but
like MSG is just too big for me to go.
Weird Al is closing in on Billy Joel's record of
one hundred and fifty shows at Madison Square Garden. Al
told the crowd just one hundred and forty nine more
and I'll be all t side up with Billy Joel.

(05:01):
Al got a little emotional, got serious, told the crowd,
Oftentimes the really big moments in your life come and
go so quickly you can't really enjoy them when you're
in them. That is very, very true, Sir Consequence says.
The Bigger and Weirder Tour feels like a victory lap.
The first third featured only one parody, the opener Taki,
along with style parodies. So yeah, to break down weird al.

(05:21):
There's these straight up parodies, you know, eat it, beat it.
There are the style parodies. My favorite is dogg Eat Dog,
which is in the style of talking heads. And then
there are the weird al originals, which are also great.
So let's say the first third featured one parody, Tacky
the opener, and then style parodies the Crosby Stills, Nash
and Young style mission statement that's good, and they might

(05:43):
be giants styled everything you know is wrong? Oh yeah,
pocas paulk is a fourth category of weirdowse sorry that
he did a PoCA. Then Al dressed up as Kurt
Cobaine for smells like Nirvana. The band put on yellow
hazmat suits and red dome hats for deer to be stupid.
A medley included party the cia O to a superhero,
eat it and like a surgeon, word crimes and more.

(06:04):
Consequence talks about Al playing fat and writes something you
could never write in twenty twenty five. Why not? Can
we not make fun of anything? Here are the lyrics.
Who's offended? Your butt is wide, well mine is too.
Just watch your mouth or I'll sit on you. The
word is out better treat me right, because I'm the
king of cellulite. Are you offended yet? Ham On, ham On,
ham On whole wheat? All right? My zipper's bust, my

(06:27):
buckles break. I'm too much man for you to take
the pavement cracks when I fall down. I've got more
chins than Chinatown. Is that the lyric we're going to
get offended by? Well, I've never used a phone booth
and I've never seen my toes. When I'm going to
the movies to take up seven rows because I'm fat,
Don't you call me pudgy, portle or stout. Just tell
me once again who's fat? When I walk out to
get my mail, it measures on the Richter scale down

(06:47):
at the beach. I'm a lucky man. I'm the only
one who gets a ten. If I have one more
pie ala mode, I'm gonna need my own zip code.
When you're only having seconds, I'm having twenty thirds. Personally,
that's my favorite weird al line of any weird oul line.
When I go to get my shoes, shine, I got
to take their word because I'm fat, really really fat.
A lot of lyrics to this, and my shadow weighs
forty two pounds. Let me tell you once again, who's fat?

(07:08):
If you see me coming your way, bet it, give
me plenty of space. If I tell you that I'm hungry,
then won't you feed my face? Because I'm fat? When
I sit around the house, I really sit around the house,
you know, all by myself from a crowd. I'm me
tell you once again, I'm fat, and the whole world
knows I'm fat, and I'm proud. Just tell me once again,
who's fat? Who's getting offended? There are people of Chinese
ancestry getting offended at the Chinatown line. Is that why

(07:30):
we couldn't write that? In twenty twenty five, Consequence writes
with the lack of anything from UHF felt odd. There
was the extra cover of Paul Simons you can call
me Al, continuing Al's recent tradition of sticking un ironic
covers in the middle of his sets. Things closed out
with eBay, White and Nerdy and Almash Paradise, the encore
of We All Have Cell Phones sounds like it was

(07:51):
a great show at the Montreal Comedy Festival Today. Three
French language shows at three o'clock Wow, five o'clock Sunday night.
Improv also at five, Roast Battle Canada, the Nightly Culture
Show at seven, JFL Live Sessions at seven. Usually those
are album tapings. There's a lot of stuff for Sunday.

(08:12):
Roast Battle Canada again at eight o'clock, Derek Sageen at
eight thirty. Life of leisures the name of that show,
The Nightly Nasty Show at nine thirty, Roast Battle Canada
again at ten thirty, and Midnight Surprise at midnights. All right,
if we were there, I guess we do improv at five,
Derek Sagein at eight thirty, and we go to the

(08:34):
late Roast Battle and then you can do the midnight
show by yourself. Three shows is enough for me tonight
and I will be looking for bid. Cameron Diaz is
back into comedy. She's a starring role in the upcoming
action comedy Bad Day. Cameron Diaz will star as a
single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her
daughter on the absolute worst day of her life. And
since it's a Sunday, I like doing quirky stuff. The

(08:56):
LA Daily News looked at the six best things they
ate at the Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival last weekend.
During that fest, which featured over twenty restaurants showcasing some
of the best Asian cuisine around La. This has nothing
to do with comedy other than it was the comedy
and Food festival. This is just food. The comedians included
Hassan Minhaj command On, Johnny and Marcaret show. The La

(09:19):
Daily News liked Debriana Kabab House's Chicken Tika Masala with
rice and samosa. They tell us that chicken was marinated
in a bright, creamy tomato sauce that was sweet but
a spicy kick. Each bite paired perfectly with the rice.
People apparently were buzzing about the Kanamwan Tai Gelato and
Dessert Cafes Mango Sticky Rice Sunday. The Sticky Rice Sunday

(09:44):
is sold out within two hours on the first day.
The La Daily News says the hype was well earned.
They take a traditional mango sticky rice dessert with coconut
sticky rice white rice with dork ripe mangoes and elevates it.
They also liked the Bopo Mofo Cafes beef Noodle sandwich,
which combines elements of beef noodle soup and a French dip.

(10:06):
It consists of a homemade Chinese breezed beef shank stacked
on a toasted with melted havardi and crispy green onions.
The La Daily News says, let me tell you it
was love at first dip. Also getting a good review
of the Hermanos empanadas, the Halapano cheese and panada. One
bite in and my eyes turned to cartoon hearts. The
cheese was perfectly melted in the holopano added just the

(10:28):
right amount of kick. Julian modern cay popcorn chicken had
a crispy texture on the outside and didn't lose its
flavor in the deep fry once it into the outer coat.
The chicken inside was juicy, reveal of even more flavor
and chef to a Vietnamese tierram a sou. The bass
layer was made of bisc off cookies combined with a
pasteurized egg batter, condensed milk, lady fingers, soaked and slip

(10:50):
Vietnamese coffee, and dusted with cocoa powder. A decadent dessert heaven.
That festival sounds really awesome. And that is your comedy
and food news on a Sunday. See you tomorrow.
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