What if Jim Gaffigan performed the material J.D. Vance bombed with?

'South Park' humorously targets Saudi funding for a Turkey trot, and Vice President Vance's turkey jokes flop with the troops. Amy Schumer fuels divorce rumors by appearing without her wedding ring. Louis CK faces a complicated place in comedy with sold-out shows despite his controversial past. Kevin Hart hints at a potential comedy project with Kat Williams and Mike Epps. Jim Gaffigan enjoys a bourbon-sponsored special, and his recent video reaches 3.4 million views. The Just for Laughs Vancouver festival announces its lineup, and comedian Leanne Morgan shares her pre-show superstitions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caalaroga Shark Media.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
We'll start a little political today. A couple things that
caught my eye and made me chuckle. South park was back,
and you see, the people of South Parker were having
trouble finding funding for their annual turkey trot race, and
they decided to turn to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
for help. One resident noted the Saudis were giving money

(00:32):
to just about everybody lately. Cartman and Token got into
a little bit. Token told Cartman he doesn't feel right.
He doesn't want them to pay America for sports rather
than hacking up reporters or paying Pete Davidson to do comedy. Meanwhile,
the Vice President visited the troops and he got ripped
for a comedy routine he did. Now I'll play some
of the material from Vice President Vance, and then I

(00:55):
have some thoughts about this.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Who really likes be honest with yourself? Who really like turkey?
Nobody does it because turkey doesn't actually taste that good.
But on Thanksgiving, on the most American holiday, I got
a fan over here, on the most American holiday, we
are gonna cook a turkey, by God, because that's what
Americans do. We cook this gigantic American bird, and we

(01:18):
do all kinds of crazy things to make it taste good.
And look, here's the thing. If you've got to deep
dry something to make it taste good, it probably isn't
that good.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So that was the vice president at Fort Campbell, Kentucky,
last Wednesday. Now the material, he doesn't know how to
do it. But as I looked at the material, I
kept imagining Jim Gaffigan doing this exact same material and
getting laughs. It's all in the timing and the pacing.
And I'm not a stand up comedian. I've never performed
stand up comedy. I'm a dude in a basement recording

(01:49):
a podcast. But if you can do this and in
your head Gaffigan voice, and slow it down and go
think about turkey, be honest with yourselves. Who really likes turkey? Right?
You take a pause there, nobody does because turkey doesn't
actually taste good. And then Gaffigan, we would get a
laugh for that. And then this is a very gaff again.

(02:09):
Ask tag, if you've got to deep fry something to
make it taste good, it probably isn't that good? Do
that in your Jim Head voice? All right, Amy Schumer.
I'm struggling with this story because, as I mentioned last
time this came up, I'm here to have fun. I'm
here to be rascally. I'm here to make fun of
things that deserve to be made fun of. Say you
have a bourbon business and you've lost your mind and
you're going all in on that, or you think you're

(02:31):
gonna open a successful theme park in Nashville. That's why
I'm here. So I don't come to make fun of
whatever is going on with Amy Schumer, but it is
increasingly in the news. The Daily Mail shared some Instagram
photos of Amy Schumer, and they said Schumer looked leggy
in a Cleveland boasting beige Valentino mini dress featuring a
strip of ruffles and bows with black slingback pumps. But

(02:53):
they noticed Amy Schumer was not wearing her wedding band
in the post, and that her husband Chris isn't always
seen with is on as well. So that has a
fuel the speculation onto what's going on in their marriage.
Now I'm going to tell you I was not wearing
a wedding ring for quite a while At one point.
You know why, because I played beach volleyball and it
was really hurting my hand when the ball would hit

(03:16):
my ring on my finger, and my hands were swelling.
So I took my ring off for a little bit.
My wife knows we're married. I don't leave the house.
Maybe once a week I go see the trivia guys.
That's it. I'm not doing anything. I'm in the basement
of recording a podcast, so I want to just like
not have everybody freak out because you take a ring off.
Sometimes your finger is a little fat or maybe and
I'm not being a jerky here Amy lost weight. Maybe

(03:37):
the ring is too big on her finger. Now I'm
not being jerky there, I'm being dead serious. The Daily
Mail quotes a close friend is telling them on November thirteenth,
Amy is one hundred percent getting divorced. She got skinny,
She's over it. Chris is mostly out of the house
at this point. They've listed two homes down Brooklyn and
New Orleans. She deleted Chris from Instagram, then deleted everything else.
She's gonna file soon, but it's over done, the Daily

(03:59):
Mail ell says, shortly before wiping her Instagram account. Amy
had instant story that Chris and I are still married,
while also praising Hulu's new show about divorce attorneys, called
All's fair. Louis c K. I know we think he's canceled.
He's not canceled. He got a nice profile on The
New Yorker because you know, he wrote a book, and
you know some stuff happened a couple years ago, and
I'm sure he played the Rio Comedy Festal don't worry

(04:21):
about any of that, because Louis c K plays nice
with the media, and we'll give you an interview. The
New Yorker writes, these days, c K occupies a strange
place in the culture. He's in a cancelation limbo, joined
by the likes of Chris Brown and Andrew cuomo. Ck
isn't too canceled to perform several sold out shows at
the Beacon, but he's canceled enough that if you managed
to snag a ticket, you might not want to brag
about it to your co workers. He's canceled enough that

(04:42):
if the show's one of his strongest stand up routines
in year, you might write about it, but not without
mentioning that he's disgraced. They quote some of c K's material,
including I've lived too long to give an f about
a sunny day, and shares the experience of putting his
father in a nursing home, quoting ck, you know what
this place does. You know what they do? You give
them money and they take your father. See Kay enjoys
dating women his age that it's interesting to talk to

(05:04):
them about their lives. The line, apparently is nobody gets
to fifty eighth single without a horrible leffing life, and
you get to hear about it every day. It's the best.
Kevin Hart's got the second best special of the year.
That's on Netflix. You should watch it. It's very funny.
Kevin is lightly talking about collaborating with Kat Williams and
Mike Epps. They were in early talks about a possible
ensemble comedy project with echoes of Harlem Nights. Kevin told

(05:26):
the seven PM in Brooklyn podcast, we all got older,
and I think our conversation has gotten better. You know me,
Mike Cat there's always a little ruffle in the water
for quite some time, but picking up the phone does
a lot. As for the roots of their frustrations, it
was about the idea of what we felt. It possibly
felt that we should be doing together and that we
weren't because we weren't. Assumptions were made and feelings developed,
and animosity comes in. So amending whatever the problems were

(05:47):
in our days of old allows this generation to see
like we're not afraid to do that, and it alleviates
the future world of conflict for them. I feel like
we're much better today than we were yesterday. When I
checked around noon on Monday, the Jim Gaffigan video was
up to three point four million views. In case you
skipped the weekend episodes, Jim posted live from Old Forester
the Bourbon Set on YouTube. Jim got a big profile

(06:08):
on The Wall Street Journal thanks to Scott Beckett for
sending that over. We learned that during the pandemic, Jim
collected a bourbon from every state. The Journal met up
with Jim at the Great Jones Distillery in New York City.
Jim says, we should probably eat. I have to go
to my son's basketball game after this. I don't want
to recreate the scene from Hoosier's. They were enjoying a
flight of four whiskies. As for the Old Forester set,

(06:29):
we learned that the company became a title sponsor of
the special. The company covered production costs. Jim asked the
team to throw in a case of whiskey into the bargain.
Jim asked for a King of Kentucky, the company's oldest
and rarest bourbon, which sells and stores for over two
thousand dollars a bottle. Jim said, that was the moment
where I had this realization, Oh, I'm being paid with
a case of bourbon. Out today on the eight hundred

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Boundarilla YouTube channel, Matt McCusker is the speed of light.
If you missed yesterday's show, we now are in the
opening nominations phase of Comedy Survivor. Go to the Facebook group,
which is daily Comedy news podcast group. There's a little
cartoon there of a Comedy Survivor. Thurger names in there.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna put sixteen comedians
on a hypothetical island. Every week the Facebook group will

(07:11):
vote one person off. Hopefully we'll get some jokes and
bits along the way. The boys in the group are
debating the artwork. Hey man, that's what Ai Drew? Does
Joe Coy look like? Jimmy Kimmel. He kind of does.
A lot of people could be nominated, So jump in
the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and get
your nominations in. We'll start taking a look at that
later in the week. Just for last Vancouver celebrating its

(07:32):
tenth anniversary. I guess that's the JFL portion of Vancouver
because there was a Vancouver Comedy Festival, and I don't
know is ten right because I feel like I was
at serious when it was JFL Vancouver and I haven't
been at serious in over ten years. It's back February
twelfth to the twenty second names announced so far. James A. Caster,
Otsko at Kotska, Laura Romoso, Phil Rosenthal, Rene Vaka, Michelle Botteou,

(07:54):
Namesh Patel, Brent Buttz, Connor wood, Ismo, Drew Lynch Ruffi,
Bastos Cristella, al Mary Beth Baron, Ed Gamble, Lucy Darling.
I'm tempted to go, and I'm tempted to hook up
with Mike from the Letterman podcast. He lives out that way,
and I'm like, yuh, we get supportable recorders, we could
probably do some podcasting damage there. So I don't know.
I'll see how My schedule is I do teach at colleges.

(08:15):
I have to see you know, it can't always run
out of town. But comedy festivals tend to be on
the weekend. But also, Vancouver's a bit of a hike
from here, so I'll take a look at it. I
kind of want to go. I like Vancouver a lot.
Billy Gardell spoke with Parade Magazine. Billy said, during my
second show, Bob Hart's Abashchola, I thought maybe I'm done
with stand up. Then he got a weird twitch and

(08:37):
he said his wife knew immediately you're going back to
stand up. Billy says he's not here to bash the youngins.
They're dealing with stuff we never dealt with. Look, I'm
from gen X. We were feral cats and we were
over compensated and raised a generation of housecats. Now we
can't be upset that they're not great dealing with stuff.
No politics, and he says, when you give an opinion,
you're just lecturing somebody, But when you share experience, now
you're including somebody. If Jay Leno said that you guys

(09:01):
would do bad, Hey, Leanne Morgan, are you superstitious at all?
Before you get on stage. Do you have any rituals,
she telled the Hollywood Reporter, I kind of am. It
sounds crazy, but if I don't have on a heel,
I don't feel like I'm gonna put on as good
as a show I've tried, because they hurt. You're standing
up there for an hour and a half. My psciatica
starts barking at me. Some my styles will get me
a cute tennis shoe, but I feel like I'm not
gonna have a good show. She's trying to put me

(09:21):
in suits, which would probably be more modern and hip
and cute. But I don't feel right. I don't feel
like myself, which is looney. And I say a prayer
before every show and I take deep breaths in What
are you nervous about, Leanne Morgan? It's not the material.
The nerves do go away. I think what I get
nervous about now is when I jump to arenas. Arenas
are a whole different thing, and every arena is different.
Some of them feel like you're in a cavern. People
can't even see you. I hope I got to do
more of those things, but I'm not used to it.

(09:42):
If somebody like Oprah's coming, It's on my team. Don't
tell me if I know Oprah's coming or someone like that.
I'm sitting there thinking, because Oprah think I'm dumb? Am
I using the correct grammar? And the Scolar Brothers caught
up with stlp R. They were talking about their podcast,
Dumb People Town. We take three stories, usually from the
state of Florida. Some guy rabs a house with his cat.
I'm gonna break on an entire story. If some woman
decides to drive around town with her kids and a

(10:03):
baby pool on top of her car. She's trying to
be mother of the year. It's an exploration of dumb behavior,
and we're trying to fight back against the wave of
dumb in this world. With comedy and Vulture did their
list of comedians you should and will know. One of
them is CP. All right, CP, what's the best and
worst comedy advice you ever received? Best? Just enjoy the
moments where you're getting to be what you always wanted
to be. I think when you let money, status, fame

(10:25):
and all those different things play a part, and how
much you validate your progress loses a bit of the magic.
Worst advice hold on a material the more you hold
on a material, the more you stifle your creativity. Your
brain needs to be flowing like a freeway. I'm always
working on new material because my job is to be
a comedian. My job is not to say one set
for the rest of my life. I want to have
as much fun as I can and I want to
enjoy my days on this earth, living in my purpose

(10:46):
of bringing laughter to the world and leaving my mark.
Those are good words there, and that is your comedy
news for today. Right hit the Facebook group, nominate some people,
and I'll see it tomorrow.