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October 17, 2025 18 mins
Johnny Mzc discusses Joe Rogan’s comments about Marc Maron behavior towards other comedians, particularly his jealousy and public criticism. Issues surrounding Bill Burr’s appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival are also highlighted, with opinions from Andrew Schultz. Additionally, Amy Poehler faces criticism for not addressing Aziz Ansari's participation in the Riyadh Comedy Festival on her podcast. Other topics include Eric Idle dropping controversial songs from his tour, upcoming Broadway comedy performances, and insider comedy gossip involving comedians like John Stewart and Mark Marin. Finally, the show mentions new comedy specials and events, including Tiffany Haddish’s LA show and a fun-filled 24-hour comedy event in Cincinnati.

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

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jess.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
When I thought I was out, hey, pull me backing.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hello. Oh I'm Johnny Mack and I know that's a
hackey clip to play, but that's how I feel. Oh
and welcome to today's daily Comedy News. You know, Thursday
had a nice, normal show. Got to talk about some
other stuff. But nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, We've got
to talk about the Rion Comedy Festival and all the
spill back and all of it. Let's start with Joe Rogan.
His guest is Brian Callon. The discussion goes to Mark

(00:38):
Maren because you remember Maren called some people out, and
as we're going to learn today, some comedians seem to
have problems with Mark Maren. Alrighty, this first clip I
have made edits for language and for pacing. I have
left some s words in or the clip just won't work.
It's just the way Joe Rogan speaks. So if you're
offended by the S word, go do something else. But

(00:59):
you're probably a okay with it. Here's Joe Rogan, Mark Marron,
don't say it. I mean, I don't get it. You know,
I'm like I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I get it. He's sad. He's sad. He wants other
people to hurt. That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's just not well.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
It's also he's patho logically jealous, like he's been path
he's like literally mentally ill. Like do you understand Mark
when he first started, when he was just first coming up,
was friends with Mitch Hepburg, and then Mitch Hedberg hit
and he couldn't be friends with him anymore. Really, yep,
stop being his friend. Same thing with Louis c K.
Louis c K and him were tight. Louis blew up,

(01:34):
Mark didn't. He he had to hate him, and he
turned on him, talked shit about him, talked about him openly,
and then he became successful. And the years where Mark
was successful were the best years of Mark because Mark
was fun. Like I've had ups and downs with Mark.
I've gone through this with him, like three or four
different times where we he gets upset at me and

(01:57):
then we talk and then are we good. We're good.
Like he likes to do that. He likes to talk
shit about you and then you confront him and he says,
you're right.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Joe, and then talked about when his own podcast began
to take off.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
And with me, Mike, my relationship with him was really
complicated because when I was an open micer, I was
twenty one years old and I was just starting out.
Mark gave me a compliment once that really helped me.
He came up to me in gainsay, Man, you're really funny.
He just keep doing what you're doing. Don't listen to
anybody else, just keep doing what you're doing. I was like, Wow,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's his best side.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's a good side, and.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
He's not all bad. And he was a young guy
back then, right, so he was just being cool. And
then over time, obviously I became more famous than him
and more successful than him, and he does not like that.
He hates that. And the only time we were cool
was Mark was number one. So Mark the podcast took off,
and you got to realize it took off when he

(02:48):
was deep into his forties, right, and it was the
number one podcast in the country, and he was on
Rolling Stone magazine, and you know, he had his own
show on IFC, The Marin Show. And he was great.
He was cool to hang with. He was fun because
he didn't have to compare himself to anybody anymore because
he was a success, like he could look at his

(03:08):
own success. He was doing a television show, he had
his podcast. Everything was great and we were cool, like
we're friends.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
And and Rogan got into the trump of it all.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I started getting more successful, and then my podcast passed his.
Then my podcast became number one, and then the Spotify deal,
and that's when he started talking about me. So he
started talking about me long before all this Trump stuff.
This Trump stuff is just the most recent iteration of
this bizarre thing that he does with people. And the

(03:40):
first thing was he had decided that I was an asshole,
like just because the podcast took off, but it was
not a big deal. It was like I'd heard people
say that he was saying things. But then after the
Spotify deal, the Spotify deal was a real problem, and
that's when he started coming after me. And it was

(04:01):
about vaccines, Like so he was talking about me on
stage about vaccines.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Shout out to Dylan from the Facebook group which is
Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us.
He let me know that. Andrew Schultz talked about the
Red Comedy Festival on The Flagrant podcast for about forty minutes. Now,
I went to pull clips and boy, Dylan, I don't
know how you do it. I get that this show
is popular, but I find these guys really really annoying

(04:29):
to listen to. And also, uh, Andrew and co host guy,
could you please get through one sentence without dropping an
F bomb. You're adults, learn how to speak. They discussed
Bill Berg catching grief for playing the Reod Comedy Festival.
Lots of edits here, all caps, lots of edits. So
if Schultz and Frantz think this is an edited clip
and I'm throwing them under the bus, I'm not throwing

(04:49):
you under the bus. But yes, I made many edits
to this clip because you guys can't get through a
sentence without an F bomb.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Well, that's the reason why we don't have any pushbag,
barely any pushbag, is because we've never been the virtue
signaling type. We've never been the ones out here like
there are people that are getting pushed back and like
based on some shit that they had said in the past.
I kind of get it, Like I'll be honest, you know,
like Berger's getting all his pushback and he's like the
first time I've seen his career, him not like aware

(05:17):
of why it's happening, like as I'm on Cone and
again it's a clip, so I don't want to take
clips out of contest. But he's like, all these people
are like sanctimonies. Bro, you did say that Beyonce sold
out for blood money for going to like an oil state. Yeah,
and then you went to an old state. So like,
now the criticism for that comes from other things. They're
just using this as as a as a tool of

(05:37):
leverage against him because they're upset at him for other things.
But they're not wrong. That is hypocritical to call Beyonce
one thing and then you go do the same thing.
So at the end of that clip, though, he goes,
but if I got the offer, maybe I'd do the
same thing exactly.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
So that's if they cut it out, Like oh really, yeah,
I'm almost positive that's the clip I heard.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
At the very end, he's like, yeah, but who knows.
If they gave me that, we'll see.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Then they too talked about Mark Marin. Apparently they are
not fans.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Mark maren come on this pod, let me chop you up.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
You asked, you asked him, wud come on? But he
would never come on, no.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
I asked him nicely. Now come on, I'll chop you
up like you Jamalka. Come on, come to the embassy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, if you're intimidated by don't worry.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
I got you.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
That is. I know you're probably not used to talking
to people of color at your shows, but.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Just come talk to one.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
And then we'll handle Mark Marin acting like he didn't
also have a president on his podcast.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh but I'm sure he asked him about the y
I'm sure he asked him about drawn strikes.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
All the con do fact check this.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
But I've heard Mark Maren hasn't had a single trans
person on this podcast.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Oh my god, those people. He cares so deep.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
But you've been doing this pod.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Maren don't care about nobody but himself, and anybody inside
comedy knows this. It's the people outside of comedy. They
are like unaware of it.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, but like the whole ship with John Stewart, oh yeah,
they had.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now let's have fun, so it looks fun while we're
talking shit, because he's been going on every pod talking shit.
John Stuart to Mark Maron in New York decades ago
were like comedy purists hated all kinds of shit, like
they were like, we love stand up, we love this.
Johnsward gets a job with MTV hosting a show. Mark
Maron is like, fuck you like to his face, makes
John feel so bad about it affects their relationship.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
John ends up leaving the show for whatever reason. I
don't remember if it was a moral thing or he
had not.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
You get the opportunity to do like I got a
better opportunity to guess who takes over that show. No,
Mark Maren not Mark the principles Oh, Mark the principled guy.
And then he tried to act like nothing happened with John.
John was like no, no, no, you don't get to
be my friend after that. Then decades later, they try
to chop it up, or they try to patch it up,
and John is like Marcus like, hey, I would love

(07:53):
for you to come on the podcast and talk about this.
John is like, look, if you want to mend the friendship,
I'm moving to it, but I'm not doing it to
give you podcast stuff like let's just talk person and
we'll have it out.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Mark Maron never contacts him again.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Exactly, but it's like, and I understand why outsiders wouldn't
know this about him, but like anybody on inside.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Knows, Amy Pohlar catching some grief, she had a z's
I'm sorry on her podcast. She apparently did not ask
disease anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival. As I mentioned
the other day, I have not listened to the episode.
I have no plans to listen to it. But I
searched the transcript for the word Riod, the word Saudi,
and the word festival. Only the word festival came up,
but in context of a film festival. But that makes

(08:30):
me think that my search was fair, and that Apple
podcast transcript search was working, and that Amy did not
ask Asease, I'm sorry about the Odd Comedy Festival. Amy
shares her podcast on YouTube. One comment I wrote, man,
you think a comedian would know a thing of two
about signing. Many people said they would be skipping the

(08:50):
unsorry episode. If you google the words polar and a
z's as a combination, you'll find all kinds of things.
The Daily Mail called it Amy's tone deaf. One comment
I wrote, I'm going to assume this was recorded months
ago for neither of you to have mentioned Saudi Arabia,
but you should have at least done a quick insert
at the start of the pod stating how you feel
about it because you all should have known every one

(09:11):
of the comments we're going to be speaking about it.
I understand that he's your friend, but friends should be
held accountable for their fops. Another wrote, love you, Amy,
but having guests willing to take money from that saudy
butcher is incredibly tone deaf. Not watching this garbage. Cracked
dot Com asks the question does Amy Poehler deserve blaam
for not grilling Aseasin'm sorry? Subheader good hang will never

(09:33):
be the place for tough questions? The not so canceled
ase's and sorry now he's not so canceled twice now,
just so we're keeping track. And some people think he's
a douchebag. You've heard me mention that on the podcast.
Some people think of he'sin' sorry's a complete douchebag. He
was on THEO Vaughan's podcast again. I used Apple Podcasts
transcript search. I searched for the words riod, Saudi, and festival.

(09:54):
Those turned up nothing. I searched for the word comedian
to make sure search was working. That did show up.
I did not listen to THEO yet and kind of
burnt out on THEO. As I shared in the Facebook
group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, this is Hollywood doing
what they do. It's a big club. Like George Carlin said,
it's a big club, and you ain't in it. The celebrities,
they all take care of each other, go along to

(10:15):
get along. If you take shots, you're Mark Maron and
you're out there on Mark Maron Island, and he seems
fine on Mark Maron Island, but you go along to
get along. But these were all Hollywood people with the
right agents. Theovant slightly an outsider, but he's in the
club now. I did listen to Bill Burr's appearance on
Conan O'Brien once it went out from Beyond the pay Wall.
Well discussed go back and listen to some previous episodes.

(10:37):
But Bill Burr does sound very defensive and not very
likable in the episode. I also have some production notes
for Team Coco there one. The audio was terrible for
the first twenty minutes, I mean just unacceptable, Conan sounding hollow.
There are ways to fix the audio. Send me a
note if you need tips on that. I can tell
you how to fix the audio. I don't know how
you guys put that out and to some producer needs

(11:00):
to tell ConA next time you do a live event,
you can't have Sona on Mike. She cackles during the
entire bill segment. And it's too much. It's too much
Sona and the other guy you know, in small doses
during a live read. Sure, ConA needs to talk to
somebody at the beginning of the end of an episode. Sure,
but when you've got Bilburr there for half an hour

(11:20):
and she says, cackling, that was misproduced. Coming to Broadway
All Out Comedy about Ambition by Simon Rich. It'll be
at the Neederlander Theater in New York City starting December twelfth.
Much like they did last year, this will have rotating
groups of comedians and others in groups of four over
a twelve week limited run. The groups will read Simon

(11:42):
Rich's laugh out Loud stories, this time tackling ambition, ego, envy, greed, and,
as the official press release jokes, basically just New York
is in general. All right, here's who's going to be
doing this, Get out of pen. You're gonna know these names.
First group Eric Andre, Abby Jacobson, John Stewart and Jim Gaffigan.
They all start December twelfth. They exit at various times,

(12:05):
so there'll be some overlaps in different groups, but that's
the initial group Stewart, Abby Jacobson, Gaffigan and Eric Andre.
Then some of the people that will sub in Ben
Schwartz on December twenty second, Wayne Brady and Cecily Strong.
On the twenty ninth, boy Cecily and Wayne on stage together.
That's a great combo for Bigley on the thirteenth, Then
on the twentieth, it looks like we got a full
swap Heidi Gardner, Jason Manzukas, Craig Robinson, and Sarah Silverman.

(12:30):
I kind of lost respect for Craig Robinson after that,
I'm quitting comedy stunt. And then February seventeenth, Nicholas Braun,
Ashley Park and Ray Romano will be part of the cast.
And it looks like this wraps up on March eighth,

(12:52):
Comedy stock markens. Does it ever reveal to you who
that voice is? Okay, I will tell you now. It
is a fit licensed Ai Burt Reynolds. Yes, yes, so
one of the services I use made Burt Reynolds available,
I'm like, okay, I'll use Burt Renolds. That's fun. On
the comedy stock market. If you're a new listener, what
we do is we try and make some hypothetical money

(13:14):
by selling high on comedians at their peak and buying
low on comedians on their way up. And you know,
we get some seals and some buys in the mix.
Here this week, pay attention, we're going to buy Tim Robinson.
Have you watched The Chair Company on HBO? Why don't
you hit pause right now on this podcast and go
watch The Chair Company and then come back. I have

(13:34):
a feeling that is going to be a very buzzy show.
The first episode is fantastic. So we're going to buy
Tim Robinson. We're also going to make a long term
buy here. We're gonna start scooping up stock in the
Sprubs reboot. I have been watching Scrubs, of course on DVDs.
I don't support fascism. I do not watch Disney Plus
or Hulu. I support Jimmy Kimmel. I'm against fascism. I

(13:57):
go upstairs and I get the DVD and I put
them in the PlayStation, and that's how I consume my
Scrubs anyway, they're working on the reboot. It's definitely happening.
I've seen pictures of the cast at a table read,
and I'll tell you, for a comedy snob like me
who has the Emperor of Rome syndrome where I don't laugh,
I've been laughing out loud at Scrubs. It has aged fantastically.
I cannot get enough of John c McGinley as Doctor Cox.

(14:20):
Let's buy some scrub stock, only one cell this week.
We're going to sell Whitney Cummings for her just tasteless, terrible.
How dare you comment saying that some comedians would be
happy if a Fox journalist were murdered? Just how dare you, Whitney.
I'm I'm truly I'm not doing a bit. I'm truly
truly offended by her comment. Let's sell all our Whitney
Cummings stock and that is your comedy stock market for

(14:41):
this week. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was in Columbus.
He stopped by the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Why to shoot
some hoops, It's what he does. He was there visiting
Ohio State. He spent some time with the Buckeyes and
their home Arena, took some photos with coach Diebler. He
did a brief inter you with the local paper after

(15:01):
his show, and he said, tell everybody I love them.
I love Columbus. Eric Idol has dropped one of Monty
Python's most controversial songs from his upcoming farewell tour. Idol said,
sometimes I'll ask my daughter or a goddaughter. I'll say
can I say these things? And they'll say, yeah, that's
okay or not. But I don't worry about being canceled.
I'm not saying terribly controversial things. I'm just trying to

(15:21):
make them laugh. They don't laugh, and that's a failure.
Eric Idol says, you can't sing some of my songs now.
He points out particularly you can't sing I Like Chinese.
You can't do that anymore. So there's one or two songs.
But I write new ones, which is quite a nice challenge.
Now what do I do here? Do I tell you
what the offensive lyric is and get myself canceled? Or

(15:41):
can I do this under the guise of news. I
Like Chinese is from nineteen eighty and it contains a
lyric pair I Like Chinese. They only come up to
your knees. Eric Idol is no longer performing that song
out today. Audio version of Craig Ferguson's I'm So Happy
out today. Audio version of Luke Hegge's Have That also

(16:05):
out today. Audio version of Ki Humphrey's Mischief also also
out today. The hour long special, Downey wrote that on Peacock,
Downey wrote that dives into the sketches, contributions, and enduring
influence of one of the most impactful comedy writers in
the history of Saturday Night Live, Jim Downey, described as
the show's behind the scenes comedic architect for over three decades.

(16:27):
He was actually in the cast in nineteen eighty. That's
the season Nobody talks about. Some folks in this special
include Fred Ormison, Dana Carvey, Daryl Hammond, David Letterman, Lovett's
Seth Myers, Garrett Morris, John m'laney, Loraine Newman, Conan Odin, Kirk,
Laurence O'Donnell. For some reason, Maya Rudolph Molly, Shannon Martin, Short,

(16:49):
Smigel Spade, Ben Stiller, Keenan Thompson, and Lauren Michaels. He
didn't think this thing was happening without Lauren Michaels plussing,
did you are you in Cincinnati? Why don't you go hit?
Fun Filled the twenty four Hour Comedy Revival. It starts
tonight at nine o'clock. It goes until tomorrow night at
nine o'clock at the Hofner Pub. Fun Filled will showcase

(17:10):
nearly two dozen local improv and entertainment acts like comedy, sports,
smoke and queers, burlesque, and the members of Holy Canoli.
They are hosting this and they were also the twenty
twenty four winners of the Cincinnati Improv Competition. So in
last year's competition, the group's final surprise challenge was to
perform until five thousand dollars was raised for charity, or
for twenty four hours straight. Craig said, when we first

(17:32):
did it, we had no time to plan with something.
We were told like, last minute, this is what you're doing.
And we've been planning at this point, planning for like
two months and we still have it months ago. So
we were like, all right, what if we could do
the twenty four hour challenge again, but at three months
to actually really really make it something special. Proceeds for
the event will go to the Esperanza Latino Center. Sounds
like a fun event. Tiffany Hatish announced a show at

(17:54):
the Orpheum Theater in La Saturday, December sixth. We're told
it is the first program of its kind fusing live
entertainment and impact. Echo Entertainment is proud to stand at
the intersection of culture and climate action. See that's that's interesting.
I'm a big climatista, and that is your comedy news
on a feisty Friday. Tomorrow is going to be a

(18:15):
little political, some political stories and put them all together
back to back to back. And I don't know what
Sunday is yet, but let's meet back here in about
twenty four hours after you listen to me, right now,
come back around then and there'll be an episode. See then,
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