March 15, 2026

Breaking Down Conan O’Brien’s Oscars Monologue PLUS Bert Kresicher's Tour Bus Fire!

Breaking Down Conan O’Brien’s Oscars Monologue PLUS Bert Kresicher's Tour Bus Fire!
Apple Podcasts podcast player badge
Spotify podcast player badge
PocketCasts podcast player badge
Overcast podcast player badge
Castro podcast player badge
RSS Feed podcast player badge
Apple Podcasts podcast player iconSpotify podcast player iconPocketCasts podcast player iconOvercast podcast player iconCastro podcast player iconRSS Feed podcast player icon

Johnny Mac delivers a play-by-play Oscars recap focused on Conan O’Brien’s hosting and monologue, praising the show’s production, the movie-referencing cold open, and specific jokes (including political bits, a rule-of-three example, and a serious statement about global artistry), plus notes on Matt Berry announcing from London and Jimmy Kimmel’s cameo. He says he likes letting non-star winners speak and observes hosts tend to disappear later in the broadcast, then teases covering the second half on Tuesday. He reports Bert Kreischer’s tour bus caught fire on I-94 after a tire blowout, with everyone safe but belongings lost. He also previews Tuesday discussion of a strong SNL episode, praises Harry Styles as host, notes Colbert’s Book of Mormon anniversary segment with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez, shares Vice quotes from Pete Holmes, lists Comedy Gives Back’s Alt Comedy All Stars 2026 lineup, and runs through SXSW comedy events.

00:55 Cold Open Breakdown
02:15 Monologue Fastball
04:11 Jokes Tags And Craft
07:20 Serious Global Moment
08:33 Tech And Matt Berry
09:41 Post Break And Tributes
11:14 Kimmel Cameo And Wrap
12:17 Bert Bus Fire News
13:48 SNL Recap Highlights
14:21 Break And Second Half
14:38 Colbert Book Mormon
16:04 Pete Holmes Interview
17:32 Comedy Gives Back
18:25 SXSW Comedy Listings
 

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daily-comedy-news-with-johnny-mac-a-daily-briefing-on-comedians-and-the-comedy-industry--4522158/support.

Daily Comedy News is the number one comedy news podcast, delivering daily coverage of standup comedy, late night television, comedy specials, tours, and the business of comedy.

COMEDY SURVIVOR in the facebook group.

Contact John at John@thesharkdeck dot com 

For Uninterrupted Listening, use the Apple Podcast App and click the banner that says Uninterrupted Listening.  $4.99/month 

John's Substack about media is free.

This is the animal sanctuary mentioned in the February 10 episode.

WEBVTT

1
00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:12.000
Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

2
00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.160
daily comedy news. Take a minute here. We'll walk through

3
00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:18.239
the Oscars kind of slowly, kind of lower energy than

4
00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.879
my normal delivery. It's about nine to thirty on Sunday night.

5
00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:24.320
My body feels like it's later because I've been watching

6
00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.440
this thing for two and a half hours and taking

7
00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:29.600
a break here while the Knicks are in halftime. I

8
00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:31.600
also have the baseball game on. I have three things

9
00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.240
going on TV, so let's talk about the Oscars. And

10
00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:37.119
I really want to break down Conan's monologue from a

11
00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:40.960
comedy standpoint. My headline here at nine point thirty. Unless

12
00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:43.479
something goes sideways, you never know somebody might slap someone.

13
00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.560
What a well produced Oscars. I'm really really impressed by

14
00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.399
this broadcast. I'm a production snob among a comedy snob

15
00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.880
and a star trek snob and all the other things I snob.

16
00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:55.520
But this is really well produced.

17
00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:55.960
All right.

18
00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.240
We start with a fun cold open Conan O'Brien dressed

19
00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.079
as Aunt Glass from Weapons. I'll stop there. I kept

20
00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:04.920
notes as the show went along, and I was wondering,

21
00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.760
have Normy's seen these movies and I'm not shading any

22
00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:10.280
of the movies. I just don't know if any of

23
00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:14.359
these cut through. I personally didn't know the Aunt Gladys reference.

24
00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.640
Maybe everyone else does. My wife came by. She didn't

25
00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:19.640
want to watch the Oscars because she didn't know any

26
00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.359
of the movies. My daughter, who's a theater kid and

27
00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.680
who performed off off Broadway earlier in the day, she

28
00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:28.239
wasn't watching because she didn't know the movies. So I

29
00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:30.760
thought that was interesting. Anyway, Coda comes out dresses Aunt

30
00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.280
Gladys from Weapons. He runs through various Oscar nominated scenes,

31
00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:37.000
and again, I wonder if your average American knew what

32
00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:39.040
they were referencing. There doesn't mean it's bad. It was

33
00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.519
still high energy and a lot of fun. Conan was

34
00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.920
dressed in an orange wig and halface makeup, just like

35
00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.959
the villain from Weapons. He goes on to invade a

36
00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.640
ping pong scene from Marty Supreme. I think that cut

37
00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.719
through to the mainstream interrupts the play from Hamnet. I

38
00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.680
think a lot of people don't even know what Hamnet

39
00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.680
is because of the weird name. Rode Shutgun with Benisio

40
00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:00.799
del Toreo on one battle after another. That's one of

41
00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:02.879
the few films I did see because it was streamed

42
00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.439
on Netflix question Mark. I became animated for a K

43
00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.280
pop demon Hunter is a bit okay fine, and then

44
00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.759
asked to be lett inside the Duke joint from Sinners.

45
00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.439
All Right, that one I think landed as well. A lot,

46
00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.479
a lot of fun. Okay, Let's break down the monologue

47
00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:21.240
here Conan, as I shared in the Facebook group Daily

48
00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.520
Comedy News Podcast Group, you want a professional hosting these things,

49
00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.840
and I think Conan nailed it. Now Here he jokes

50
00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:29.919
that he's going to be the last human host.

51
00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:33.840
I am Conan O'Brien, and I'm honored to be the

52
00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.400
last human host of the Academy Award.

53
00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:38.520
Yeah.

54
00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.879
Yeah, next year it's going to be a way mow

55
00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:44.520
in a tous so check that out.

56
00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:48.360
And I was surprised Conan got somewhat political. Maybe not

57
00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.919
by name, but he got the points in several times.

58
00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.479
Here's sort of a political joke.

59
00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:55.919
No, it's great to be back hosting the Oscars. Last

60
00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:00.560
year when I hosted Los Angeles was on fire, but

61
00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.120
this year everything's going great.

62
00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.599
Here at a minute five and was monolog he had

63
00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:06.719
a good Challa made joke.

64
00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.680
Security is extremely tight tonight. I just got to mention that, Yeah,

65
00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.719
I'm told there's concerns about attacks from both the opera

66
00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:15.039
and ballet communities.

67
00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:26.400
They're just magg you left out jazz.

68
00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:35.159
I should warn you tonight could get political, okay, and

69
00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.639
if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate oscars being

70
00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:39.680
hosted by Kid Rock.

71
00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:43.240
Yeah, it's at the Dave and Busters down the street.

72
00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:45.719
At that point I wrote down that Conan immediately had

73
00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:47.919
his fastball. Now last year it took him a minute

74
00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.280
to find it, but he came out throwing heat this week,

75
00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.599
and then he did get it political a few more times.

76
00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.159
This joke really didn't get much of a reaction.

77
00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:00.120
In Hamnett, William Shakespeare's wife Agnes gives birth by herself

78
00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.960
in the woods. Whereas we call that here in America

79
00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:04.199
affordable healthcare.

80
00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:09.680
Now you're real for you, huh?

81
00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:10.039
All Right?

82
00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.000
As we dive deeper into the art of a monologue,

83
00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.759
pay attention to the tag on this joke about F

84
00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:18.519
one F one.

85
00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.560
I loved F one a popcorn movie. It was great.

86
00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:26.079
F one is terrific. Yeah. F one is up for

87
00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:26.759
Best Picture.

88
00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.040
It's the story of a race car driver who finally

89
00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.199
wins after deciding to go faster.

90
00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.079
Yeah. Yeah.

91
00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.360
F one received four nominations. F one did so well,

92
00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:52.839
they're making a sequel, caps lock. Some of these I

93
00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:53.680
do for myself.

94
00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.800
This next one here, involving Rose Byrne, is what we

95
00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:57.519
call a joke.

96
00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:57.839
Joke.

97
00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:00.319
I was in a movie this year. Yeah, I was

98
00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:09.680
in a movie with the lovely Roseburn. My co star

99
00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.240
Rose byrn is nominated for Best Actress. And if I

100
00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:13.319
had legs, i'd kick you.

101
00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:15.680
Yeah.

102
00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.639
Yeah, it's hard to act in a scene with someone

103
00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:21.120
you've always had a massive crush on.

104
00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.199
But Rose, you did a fantastic job.

105
00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:26.800
I don't want to spoil this next one, but I

106
00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.560
actually wrote down wow about this one.

107
00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:33.720
It's the first time since twenty twelve, first time since

108
00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:37.319
twenty twelve that there are no British actors nominated for

109
00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:43.040
Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah, British spokesperson said, yeah,

110
00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.600
well at least we arrest our pedophiles.

111
00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:47.360
So you got that going.

112
00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.399
So Conan was following the basic and so and so

113
00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:52.360
was here, Like I don't know if it was me

114
00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:54.399
and Mike Chisholm from the Letterman podcast was there, I'd

115
00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:56.879
be like you know, Mike for the Letterman podcast is here,

116
00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:58.879
and then I'd say something about him being Canadian or

117
00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.800
something basic. And that was what Conan was doing as

118
00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:02.879
he was checking and driving.

119
00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.639
Leonardo DiCaprio was here, sir, good to see you. I

120
00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:06.120
about you.

121
00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.560
He's the star of so many movies and the king

122
00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:12.160
of memes.

123
00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.959
He's the king of memes. This guy.

124
00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.879
Let's make a new meme with Leo right now. That

125
00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:31.519
feeling when you didn't agree to this, they'll pull that

126
00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:32.519
up in editing.

127
00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:34.600
Live.

128
00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.480
Here is a good example of the comedy rule of three.

129
00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:42.079
This is not the most hilarious joke. It's pretty basic,

130
00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.680
but it's the one two three rule of comedy.

131
00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:49.240
Tonight's oscars are being watched by more than a billion

132
00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:50.959
people around the world.

133
00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.839
Yeah, let's let's say hi to some of them. If

134
00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:58.720
you're watching from Spain, Oh.

135
00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:07.240
That's so, I corner Brians. If you're seeing us in Argentina, Ola,

136
00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:13.240
so I called Rabrian. Yes, from and to our friends

137
00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.800
in Los Angeles, Ola, so.

138
00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:16.560
I called Lebrian.

139
00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.319
And then Conan did get pretty serious for about a minute.

140
00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:24.199
Let's let this rule.

141
00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.839
If I can be serious for just a moment, everyone

142
00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.519
watching right now around the world is all too aware

143
00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:36.399
that these are very chaotic, frightening times. Okay, it's at

144
00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.920
moments like these that I believe that the Oscars are

145
00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:42.160
particularly resonant.

146
00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:43.199
Check it out.

147
00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:48.720
Thirty one countries across six continents are represented this evening,

148
00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:55.360
and every film, every film, yeah, every film we salute,

149
00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.319
is the product of thousands of people speaking different languages,

150
00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.839
working hard to make something of beauty. We pay tribute tonight,

151
00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:13.040
not just a film, but to the ideals of global artistry, collaboration, patience, resilience,

152
00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.720
and that rarest of qualities today, optimism.

153
00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.480
So let us please celebrate. Let us celebrate.

154
00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:29.720
Let us celebrate not because we think all as well,

155
00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.480
but because we work and hope for better in the

156
00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:33.080
days ahead.

157
00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.360
You're announcer Matt Berry. They said he was doing it

158
00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:39.200
from London. I shot a note to a friend who's

159
00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:41.320
a broadcaster and I'm like, remember, we used to have

160
00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:44.399
to like order specific phone lines three weeks in advance,

161
00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.519
and now we're like just cowboying. The Oscars. Announcer sitting

162
00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.480
at a booth in London, and the Oscars are in

163
00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:53.200
la So that's eight time zones. So no matter how

164
00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.080
good your tick. The speed of light is still a thing.

165
00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.320
If you do a broadcast from LA to London, there

166
00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.320
is a delay. There's nothing you can do about that.

167
00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:02.679
I don't care how good your tech is. So I'm

168
00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.320
impressed they did that. So Matt Berry just I don't know.

169
00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:06.600
He was like, sure, I'll do it, but I'm not

170
00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.440
going to LA for that. I mean kind of fascinating,

171
00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.240
but anyway, let's listen to Matt Berry with his wonderful pronunciations.

172
00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.159
The set up here as Conan is fantasizing about winning

173
00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:23.080
an Academy Award. The nominees for Best Achievement ah Antonio Bendadras.

174
00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:29.000
Then he's done with the Benzel Washington, Clenn Close.

175
00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:41.639
And Conan O'Brian handel. Winner is Conan O'Brian. We come

176
00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.960
back from the first break. Conan had a couple more jokes.

177
00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.559
Welcome back, We're coming to you live from that has

178
00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:48.679
a small penis theater.

179
00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:51.799
Let's see him put his name in front of that.

180
00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.080
I was really happy watching the non stars win, like

181
00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:00.759
the animators of the costume people like I just let

182
00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.799
them have their moment. I hate when they play people off. Look,

183
00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:06.679
what are we racing to get to the eleven o'clock news,

184
00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:09.480
who gears Just let it roll, you know, within reason.

185
00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:11.879
If somebody goes ridiculously long, okay, play them off, but

186
00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:15.440
let people have their moment. Conan then starts to disappear.

187
00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.360
That's not a dig at him. You see that on

188
00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:19.240
almost every award show that you get a lot of

189
00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.200
the host upfront and then they kind of disappear and

190
00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:23.879
occasionally just show in to move the show along. And

191
00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.320
if you listen to Saturday's podcast, Conan had talked about

192
00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.759
how that is the role onto the Rob Reiner tribute.

193
00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:33.320
I'm not crying, you're crying. Wow, I'm getting choked up

194
00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.080
right now thinking about it. Billy Crystal nailed that. Now

195
00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.279
I wanted to pull the audio. I have a program

196
00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.639
called audio Hijack, which we'll record all the out on

197
00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:44.080
in your computer. I was watching on the Big TV

198
00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:47.120
and then I had YouTube TV playing on the laptop.

199
00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:49.639
But I was just hijacking the audio, as they say,

200
00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:51.519
and I went to pull the Billy Crystal and I

201
00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:54.879
saw that, oh, too many of my children logged into

202
00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.159
dad's YouTube TV account and mine got kicked off for

203
00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.080
the too many screens. So I don't have the christ

204
00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:03.440
the audio, but it's fantastic. Around nine pm, Conan did

205
00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.600
a bit about reaching the younger audience. I thought it

206
00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.480
was okay. My daughter, unprompted, texted me and said that

207
00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.399
she really really liked that bit, so it worked touchdown

208
00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:17.080
for Conan. There, Jimmy Kimmel shows up around nine to fifteen.

209
00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:19.360
Let's listen to Jimmy. I did edit this clip for

210
00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.159
pacing Jimmy.

211
00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:25.320
Kimmel and Welcome to the ninety eighth Annual Academy Awards.

212
00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.600
Oh wait, am I not hosting the show? Well, this

213
00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:32.240
is embarrassing.

214
00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:36.559
Actually, Conan went outside to get some mayor inadvertently exposed

215
00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.559
his face to the sun and was incinerated. So I

216
00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.000
will be finishing out the rest of the program. I

217
00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.639
am here to present the Oscars for Documentary Films. We

218
00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:48.919
hear a lot about courage at shows like this, but

219
00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.840
telling a story that could get you killed for telling

220
00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.000
it is real courage. As you know, there are some

221
00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:59.080
countries whose leaders don't support free speech. I'm not at

222
00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:03.120
liberty to say wit, let's just leave it at North

223
00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:04.519
Korea and CBS.

224
00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:14.720
Fortunately, so whatever happens in the second half of the

225
00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.720
Oscars we'll talk about that on Tuesday's podcast. Now, while

226
00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:21.200
we're here, I was online all night, you know, I'm

227
00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.320
in the Facebook group, I'm on Twitter. I'm just saying

228
00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.200
what's happening in the news. I just saw this one

229
00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.840
come in. I'm reading this cold. Bert Kreischer said his

230
00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.480
tour bus went up in flames on I ninety four

231
00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:34.080
between tour stops on Sunday. Bert shared a photo of

232
00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.919
the burnt bus. He said after the fire, we're all

233
00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.879
counting our blessings today. In an Instagram Stories post, he said,

234
00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:42.559
we would have all been on at asleep, we would

235
00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:45.879
have been dead. Bert told people his team avoided being

236
00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:47.840
on the bus at the time of the fire because

237
00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:50.519
around midnight after a show in North Dakota, the tour

238
00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.120
buses front right tire blew out on nine ninety four.

239
00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:55.480
Bert said, it was a fluke accident. We hit nothing

240
00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:56.759
and it was a no fault of the driver. We

241
00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.039
waited outside for a couple hours. They decided to leave

242
00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.080
the bus on the highway and split into the other

243
00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.720
two crew buses. The bus that caught fire waited fixing

244
00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.399
around eleven am on Sunday. The bus driver who stayed

245
00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.480
behind heard a pop come from the roof. Within a

246
00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.120
matter of seconds, the bus was filled with smoke. The

247
00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.000
driver exited the bus. The driver's okay. The bus went

248
00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:19.799
up in flames. That's all really weird. I'm glad everyone's okay.

249
00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.440
Bert said he and his team lost many belongings in

250
00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:24.559
the fire, including their clothing and other things they had

251
00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:29.000
left behind. In another insta post, Bert posed outside of

252
00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.600
Dick's Sporting Goods where they went to buy new clothes,

253
00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.080
and he captioned it my current and only outfit. He

254
00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:37.639
told people, me, the other comedians, my assistant, my trainer

255
00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.279
are all very lucky. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

256
00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:41.919
As annoyed as we were to blow out a tire

257
00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.720
on a highway and a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere,

258
00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:45.759
we're all counting our blessings today that we weren't on

259
00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:47.440
the bus when the fire broke out. I'm sure I

260
00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.879
litte more about that on Tuesday's pod SNL was really good.

261
00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:53.639
We'll talk about more on Tuesday was the best episode

262
00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:57.759
of the season. Marcelo Hernandez did his Sebastian manascalco. I'll

263
00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.919
break that apart. On Tuesday's episode, I'll so new cast

264
00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:04.519
member Jeremy Colhayne did an awesome sucker Carlson. We'll talk

265
00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.159
about that. And I continue to feel that Keenan Thompson

266
00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.039
continues to be the glue on that show. And I

267
00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.279
was really impressed by Harry Styles. I sent to a

268
00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:15.360
couple friends. Some people are just stars. Harry was a

269
00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:19.159
great host, very comfortable hosting, obviously a great musical performer.

270
00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.960
Looks great. That guy's just a star. Okay, we'll take

271
00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.519
the break here. There is a second half of the podcast.

272
00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.639
I recorded it Friday afternoon for this very scenario of

273
00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:29.360
let me do the oscar's up top and then some

274
00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:31.519
other stuff after the break. I don't even remember what

275
00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:34.240
I was talking about. So come back after the break

276
00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:37.039
and there's something there. I'm just a little tired, and

277
00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.159
I gotta put the show together. Now, coming up at

278
00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.440
newon Eastern today, the results of Comedy Survivor. Can't Wait.

279
00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.559
Check back on the feed. Then Stephen Colbert Tonight on

280
00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.360
his program will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Book

281
00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:53.120
of Mormon's Broadway debut. It's been more than fifteen years.

282
00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:56.200
I saw that in previews. Is that number right?

283
00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:57.200
Yeah?

284
00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:01.120
Wikipedia said the Eugene O'Neill Theater on March twenty fourth,

285
00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.159
twenty eleven. Well, I saw it in previews and it

286
00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.399
was great. I've seen it a few times. Wonderful show

287
00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.919
if you've never seen it. Tonight, on Colbert's program, you'll

288
00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.840
welcome guests Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez, the

289
00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.799
trio responsible for the music, lyrics and book. That's interesting

290
00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.720
that Trey and Matt are doing stuff they usually don't

291
00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.080
want to. Way back when the Book of Mormon was launching,

292
00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.120
we had Trey and Matt up to celebrate the musical

293
00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.840
at Sirius. I forget exactly what we did, but I

294
00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:30.919
do remember that Trey and Matt did not want to

295
00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:34.600
engage with anyone. I would not describe them as friendly.

296
00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:38.440
Also on Colbert Tonight, Andrew Reynolds and Josh Gadd, the

297
00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:40.399
original leads in the show. Those are the guys that

298
00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.200
I saw way back when. Apparently in twenty eleven, the

299
00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.519
Lighted Show will also host a performance by the current

300
00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.240
Broadway cast of the Book of Mormon. It is currently

301
00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.919
the tenth longest running show on Broadway and the longest

302
00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:52.799
running show in the one hundred year history of the

303
00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:57.039
Eugene O'Neil Theater, nine time Tony Award winner. The Book

304
00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:59.559
of Mormon follows a mismatched pair of Mormon sent on

305
00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:01.360
a mission to a place that's about as far from

306
00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.679
Salt Lake City as you can get. Uganda Wece caught

307
00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:06.360
up with Pete Holmes. I feel like there's been a

308
00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:10.000
Pete Holmes renaissance. I definitely have gotten a lot of

309
00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.000
nice words about and thank you Pete Holmes for coming

310
00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:16.039
on this program two weeks ago, and I am reminded

311
00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.679
Pete's special hasn't even hit YouTube yet. I spent the

312
00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.759
ten bucks to watch it, so I think we're going

313
00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:23.960
to continue to see a Pete Holmes renaissance. Vice asked

314
00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:27.840
Pete Holmes have comedy crowds changed since Pete Holmes first started? Now,

315
00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:30.399
I not a performer, would have said yes, but Pete

316
00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.519
Holmes says not one bit. Johnny Mack finds that surprising.

317
00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:35.919
Pete says, I think audiences have gotten more sophisticated and

318
00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:38.519
never broader understanding of comedy, which of course helps immensely.

319
00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.240
The one change I've noticed is people think the comedian

320
00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.200
wants to talk to the crowd. So yeah, Pete, they

321
00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.600
have changed. That's what I would have said. That's because

322
00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.840
of Instagram. Everybody posts their crowd work clips because they

323
00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.720
don't want to post material. I get it, but it's

324
00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:51.840
making people shout out more. That's fine, But I always

325
00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.000
think my act is better than me just asking one

326
00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.679
guy what he does for a living. Weiss was curious

327
00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.360
about would there be a Crashing movie m HBO bring

328
00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.440
Crashing back to wrap things up. Pete said, no. I

329
00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.960
love the way Crashing ended. If Pete the character went

330
00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.200
on to find success, which is where it probably would

331
00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:10.440
have gone, it wouldn't be crashing, it would be flourishing.

332
00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.079
And I think the struggle of years are the funniest

333
00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.319
and most interesting. No one wants to see Pete get

334
00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.519
a bid dat in an espresso machine. We want to

335
00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.799
see him. Good question here for Pete Holmes. Between the

336
00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:20.960
TBS show, on the podcast, You've interviewed a lot of

337
00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.200
different people. Does anyone stand out? His answer, Interviewing Conan

338
00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.880
O'Brien on both was the dream come true. Conan was

339
00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:29.039
and is such a kind and good hearted champion of

340
00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:31.160
younger comics, and interviewing him instead of the other way

341
00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:35.400
around was a delight and slightly terrifying. Comedy Gives Back

342
00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.200
is the nonprofit working to provide a safety net for

343
00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.720
the comedy community. They have set the lineup for Alt

344
00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.079
Comedy All Stars twenty twenty six that has a benefit

345
00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.319
show to be the mantabamb Theater in Los Angeles on

346
00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:50.680
April twenty second. Your lineup Bob Odenkirk, Star trek Ruiner,

347
00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.119
Patton Oswald, Mary Lynn, Rice Cup you remember her from

348
00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.400
twenty four and more. In the press release, Star trek

349
00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.200
Ruiner Patton Oswald called stand Up this weird, wonderful path

350
00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.559
where each generation learns from the ones who came before.

351
00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:03.720
You grind it out in the clubs, you bomb, you

352
00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.680
get better, and somewhere along the way, community forms events

353
00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.720
like All Comedy All Stars. A minus that we're all

354
00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.160
part of the same ecosystem and supporting Comedy Gives Back

355
00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:14.359
means helping that ecosystem survive. Bob Bonenkirk said it, as

356
00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.200
a proud member of the comedy community, I want to

357
00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.240
support comedians in need. Mary Lynn gave a quote two

358
00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:22.000
Comedy Gives Back does incredible work supporting comedians when they

359
00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.000
need it most time. Proud to lend my Voice, et cetera,

360
00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:27.720
et cetera. South By Southwest Comedy hung a Monday. That's

361
00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:29.839
rare for a festival to go through the weekend and

362
00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.680
hang the extra day Creak in the Cave. Six o'clock

363
00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.640
south By Southwest Comedy presents unsponsored apparently Dylan Carlino, Freddie Chanell,

364
00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:41.640
Tone Bell, Vanessa Gonzales and Jake Cornell eight fifteen Creaking

365
00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.839
the Cave. The Dropout Improv does a pretty flower interesting title.

366
00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:50.039
I'll click, We're told Kurt Maloney, Jacob Osaki, Vick Michaels,

367
00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:53.519
Oscar Montoya and Scott Pasarella from Dropout TV take on

368
00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.319
long form improv in this special live show. And there's

369
00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:59.559
a warning. Folks, Please note that the programming descriptions are

370
00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.720
generation by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions

371
00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:06.759
of south By Southwest. All right, relax, let me know

372
00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.319
what everybody found offensive in that show description. Geeze eight

373
00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:13.839
o'clock at Estra's Folly's It's Chaos with Chelsea Pretti, Natasha

374
00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:17.240
Lazio and Sabrina Jaelly's drop Out as another show at nine,

375
00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:19.680
this one called crowd Control at the Creek in the Cave.

376
00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.839
In this one, the audience is the main material, okay.

377
00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:25.640
And then if you're up late at eleven, the Creek

378
00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.799
in the Cave has another south by. Southwest Comedy presents

379
00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.440
an unsponsored show again. Gavin Mattz, Casey Bousche and Alex

380
00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.240
English are your performers. And that is your comedy news

381
00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:38.559
for today. All right, come back newon Eastern Comedy Survivor

382
00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:40.920
we'll find out who was voted off Comedy Island seeing

383
00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:41.559
a couple hours