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Hey, John, this is what we call a new top,
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where you take something and you put a new opening
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on it. I had already recorded today's episode to accommodate
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my teaching schedule yesterday, but just there's a few things
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out there that I didn't want to let go another day.
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Krackt wrote a really nice piece about Rob Reiner and
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his influence on comedy. Excerpting from the Cracked piece, they wrote,
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it couldn't have been easy to be the son of
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Carl Reiner, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, comedy
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partner to Mel Brooks, and frequent director of the early
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movies of Steve Martin. But somehow Rob Reiner not only
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met his father's legacy, but arguably surpassed it. It started
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with young Reiner being cast as Hollywood's resident hippie in
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several nineteen sixty sitcoms like The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman, and
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The Long Haired Peace Lover Who Turns Gomer Pyle onto
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the Counterculture. Those roles led to Reiner beating out Richard
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Dreyfus and Harrison Ford for the part of Archie Bunker's
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meadhead son in law Mike Stivick on all in the family.
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I didn't realize those guys were up for it. Wow.
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Rob won two Emmy Awards for delivering liberal counterpunches to
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Archie's bigoted diet tribes. I'm shocked that that hasn't come
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back in modern times. It just seems kind of perfect
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to have an Archie Bunker like character and somebody in
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the mike'stivic role. Maybe it's too much of a shadow
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to cast, but we've brought everything else back. I was
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really surprised before the Biden administration, I'll put it that way,
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that it didn't come back, and I'm kind of surprised
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it's not back now crack rights. For comedy fans, Reiner's
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lasting contribution will be This Is Spinal Tap, the mockumentary
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that cut so close to the satirical bone that many
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early audiences thought the band was the genuine article. The
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director's underrated, deadpan performance as Marty Devergie made him the
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perfect straight man Foyle. Reiner's movie wasn't the first mock documentary,
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but was the most influential, inspiring the Christopher Guest films
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as well as a generation of street to camera sitcoms
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like The Office. On his website. Ricky Gervay says it
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was a big thing for me. When I first saw
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this as spinal Tap in about nineteen eighty three, I
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immediately watched it again. I can't remember a film I've
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done that with before or since. To get so deep
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into the genre that they were spoofing the details of
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human behavior, and then to do it all and someone
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else's native accent just blew me away. There's just a
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few things that go to comedy Heaven. While I've got
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you a few other things in the news. Amy Schumer
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did announce her divorce over the weekend. Really weird statement.
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I'll dive into that tomorrow. I've got some thoughts about it.
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Watch two comedy specials and Boy if you like the
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comedy stock Market segment on Friday, it was on point.
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I had warned you all that I didn't think America
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was ready for Sarah Sherman's Sarah Squirm persona and Boy.
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According to the conversation in the Facebook group Daily Comedy
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News podcast group, people were not feeling Sarah's Squirm. I
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put it on and I was like, this is pretty good.
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What's the problem with everybody? And twenty minutes in it
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just fatigued me. It's just a lot. It's not bad,
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it's not horrific like George Lopez's Amazon special. It's just
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a lot, like a lot coming at you and your
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brain has to work really hard to watch it. And
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then she went into a routine that just dragged for
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me and I have comedy add and I wound up
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pushing that exit button on the remote and watched two
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episodes of the Diplomat. The new season's pretty good. Then
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on Sunday night it was footballed out and I watched
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Robbie Hoffman Special on Netflix. Okay, that one is fantastic.
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I'm not sure it ranks, but it's in the conversation
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in that top tier. So my top tier if you
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listen to Saturday's episode was Maren and then Kevin Hart
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and Matt Rife. Robbie Special is in the conversation with
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Kevin Hart and Matt Rife. Now those two are probably
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pound funnier, but Robbie, same thing I said about Kevin
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Hart Versarah Silverman. Robbie is doing higher art. It might
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be the second best special year. At worst, it's fourth.
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If you haven't watched Robbie Hoffman on Netflix, do it
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all right, So those are new thoughts, and now let's
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join the originally recorded Tuesday episode Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there,
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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Anthony Jill
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spoke with Vulture about his book club that he's starting.
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Now we'll get into that tomorrow because I like when
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comedians mix it up. The question here for jessel Nick
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was what do you think about Bill Burr's year? Now,
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that's interesting, phrazing, because I said on Sunday's podcast, right,
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I think Bill Burr had the worst year in comedy.
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So it's interesting that that's out there beyond just me
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saying it. Vulture said, I think he's taking the biggest
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hit out of the Rion Comedy Festival thing. Jessl Nick said, Oh,
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I've been really surprised by how much he kept talking
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about it. I was shocked to see his name on it.
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I got offered this thing way in the beginning, and
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I just saw the name of the rules and was like, Nope,
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absolutely not. I was not thinking this would be a
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real thing. I was thinking, this isn't gonna happen. Why
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would you say yes to this? And then I saw
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the announcement realized everyone said yes to this. Everyone seems embarrassed.
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But Burr is doubling and tripling down, whereas Pete Davidson
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was just like I said, I'd go and I saw
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the money and then people leave him alone. But with Burr,
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it's insane to me that he would be so dumb.
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It's just shocking that he didn't know what would come
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for him, and then to be fighting with everyone screaming
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at Mark Marrin publicly, it's just wild to me. I
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haven't talked with him at all, but I just been stunned.
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He's the one name that stuns me. No one's like, oh,
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Kevin Hart Wow. And it wasn't just defensive. He came
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out and was like, they're just like us. They've got
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the chimberlaind and the Applebee's. He was doing as much
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pr for them after the fact as he possibly could,
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which was like, what did you think the money was for?
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It wasn't just for the event. Esa Neck revealed how
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much he was offered to do it, and it seems
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like this is a real number because it's the same
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number Tim Dillon gave Justin Nick said it was a
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lot of money. I want to say it was around
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three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and listen, I bought
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a house. I could have used it. But it doesn't matter.
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If it was three hundred and fifty million dollars, I
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couldn't have done it. Comedy is so capitalistic, and I
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think the people that have podcast just didn't want to
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miss out on that money on the table, and then
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they didn't realize how big a thing it was going
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to be. And it's a lot of money, but not
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that much money, you know, not enough that you couldn't
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make it up in two shows. For Burr, it seems
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like he's trying to set up going back like an
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annuale once a year. I performed there part of his tour.
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That's repulsive, jess On, I continued. I thought that two
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weeks later no one would care, but when I mentioned
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the Rion Comedy Festival on stage, people go nuts. They
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love it as a punchline. They want your opinion. I
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don't I think that's going away anytime soon. People who
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have no idea about the journalist killed just want to
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hear about this stupid cash grab. I wonder how long
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it lasts, and I'll be surprised if Burr's Neck Special
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isn't addressing most of it awesome. I hope Burr Fire's back.
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Johnny Mack likes when the comedians mix it up. Sketch
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Fast coming up January fifteenth through February first. They've announced
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some new editions. Bob Odenkirk, We'll join the cast of
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Kids in the Hall for the Brain Candy thirtieth Anniversary
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Live Read, a special stage performance featuring live music that
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celebrates the cult classic and the humor fans of love
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for decades. Norah Dunn and Melanie Hutzel will join Ellen Cleghorn,
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Rachel Dratch, Robin Duke and a guest Iyar, Lorraine Newman,
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Cherry O Terry and Julius Sweeney in the Women of
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SNL Tribute, a special program honoring the groundbreaking performers who
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shape the show's comedy legacy. Some of the folks previously
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announced include Joel Kim Booster, Jennine Ruffalo, The Groundlings, John Hodgman,
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Eugene Merman, Adam Pally, Chelsea Peretti, Kristin Shawl, Jenny Slate,
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Robert Smigel, Paul F. Tompkins, the UCB, and many others.
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Michelle Wolf was on The Good One podcast. She talked
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about putting clips on Instagram and said, yeah, I used
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to get paid thousands of dollars to do these shows.
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Now more people watch them and I get zero. But
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I understand I do it in the hopes that I
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gained people who are like I like her comedy. If
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you like this joke, then hopefully you buy a tickety,
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watch a special whatever else I might be doing next.
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And I'd be quite honest how at this point, I'm
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just trying to a massive following, and sometimes I put
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up jokes and people like, ugh, unfollow and I'm like, good,
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get out, it's not for you. I want my audience
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to be people that like my comedy. They don't have
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to love every joke I do, but I don't want
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to have to edit myself for my followers. She talked
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about the time she hosted the White House Correspondence Dinner
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and said, I think if I could do it all
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over again, I would have been meaner. I would have
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gone harder. The jokes I said about Sarah Sanders weren't
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actually mean. Everyone said I made fun of her appearance.
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I definitely did not. I complimented her makeup and said
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she told lies, which she does. I knew the points
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I was making, and I was very happy to make
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those points. But I also feel like I was fairly restrained.
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Had I known what the reaction was going to be
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and how strongly people would have reacted, I would have
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gone harder. If you're gonna get mad at me for joke,
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then let them actually be mean jokes. As far as
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roast goes, what I said about Sarah Sanders was very
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team well. If continued in a normal correspondence dinner, the
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community makes fun of the president, and the president gets
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up and makes fun of everybody, including the comedian. But
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that didn't happen, which is me up there making fun
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of Sarah Sanders, who was there in place of the president.
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I'd much rather tell jokes to someone's face than behind
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their back. John Oliver poked fun at President Trump's three
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hundred million dollar ballroom. Oliver was an event that highlights
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the twelve million children in the United States that grew
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up in poverty each year. Oliver said at the Comic
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Relief Live event in New York City, it's wild to
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get a news alert saying that President Donald Trump just
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demolished the East wing of the White House thirty years ago.
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Every element of that sentence would have sounded completely insane.
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Nobody gives a hoot about ballrooms, apart from people who
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like ballrooms, who were all chirke holes. He some alternate
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language there, Sarah Sherman. Boy, she's out there promoting things
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like she's almost like a Kevin Hart levels of like, Okay,
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tap the brakes, your special come out to talk to everybody. Relax.
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She spoke to grub Street and said, I wake up
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at ten am and I forced my boyfriend to make
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coffee at gunpoint, and then she wrote, yeah boyfriend. Sorry, ladies,
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I have two cups before realizing I haven't had any water,
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so I fill up a Stanley cup and drink the
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entire thing in one sitting. I don't love Stanley cups,
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but bow and Yang gave me a wicked one he
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got for being in the movie. And if Bowen gives
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me something, it becomes one of my most prized possessions.
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On this particular day, she was off from Snell and
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not touring, which made her happy. She explains, at work,
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I eat approximately eighty five pounds of chips, and die
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coke every five seconds. By noon, I drink approximately one
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hundred more cups of coffee and only realize I've had
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too much once I start feeling a crazy panic attack
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coming on. Not a capital P capital a panic attack,
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just a small, low gray Jewish one. I usually have
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about three to four small Jewish panic attacks a day.
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I'm starving, so I eat some weird overnight oats thing.
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I found out a fancy supermarket called Mush that ran
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only has fifteen grams of protein in it. Why are
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all the girl he's addicted to protein all of a sudden?
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Did everyone become a bodybuilder overnight? What am I missing here? Her?
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Jimmy Carr revealed that his mother's death left him with
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an unhealthy relationship with food and how the fear of
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dying young drives his obsession with dieting and weight. Jimmy Carr,
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who is fifty three, was very close to his mother, Nora.
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She passed away at age fifty seven after a battle
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with pancreatitis. Jimmy explained, my mother didn't look after herself,
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was maybe a little bit overweight. She was unhealthy, and
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then she got sick and then she died and That's
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not lost on me in terms of I'm very particular
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about trying to keep myself trim. I don't think I
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have an eating disorder, but I certainly have a strange
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relationship with food. Jimmy says he does not exercise as
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much as I could. I'd like to do more, but
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it's finding the time. Jimmy's playing an arena show in
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Manchester tonight. He says he's looking forward to spending Christmas
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with his family. He explains, I've got little kids and stuff,
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so it's kind of joyful. It's a great time of year.
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I'm worry that people are a bit isolated, but Christmas
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brings those little interactions. You go to the carol service,
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you go to the midnight Mass. Doesn't matter whether you