Dec. 21, 2025

Daily Comedy News 2025 Unwrapped - These comedians were mentioned this most

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In this episode of 'Daily Comedy News 2025 Unwrapped,' Johnny Mac humorously reviews the most mentioned comedians and comedy trends of the year. The AI-generated data reveals Bill Burr as the most mentioned comedian with 135 mentions, followed by John Mulaney and Shane Gillis. SNL dominated the discussion of shows with 227 mentions. According to the data, podcasts were the most frequently mentioned topic in comedy, highlighting their significance in the industry. The show wraps up with key takeaways such as the lasting impact of SNL, the rise of podcasts, and the influence of controversial figures like Trump and Jay Leno.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News

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at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the

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comedy industry. Which is a free someone would say if

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they were trying to train these Spotify transcription algorithm to

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rank their show higher, and don't forget follow the show

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on Spotify. Welcome to Daily Comedy News twenty twenty five, unwrapped,

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Johnny Mack. Did you need an extra episode? Is the

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news a little light heading into Christmas holidays? No? What

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are you kidding? I worked for hours on this. You're

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acting like I exported an XML file and threw it

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in a chat EPT and it spit out a script.

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You're crazy because if it spit out a script, I

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would be saying words like what's up? Comedy fans, Welcome

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to a very special episode of Daily Comedy News. I'm

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Johnny Mack, and today we're doing something different. See now,

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that's that's what would happen if I did such a thing.

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I worked for days, maybe months on this. All right,

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here's what happened. I went through three hundred and eighty

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eight episodes between January first and the December eighteenth, episodes

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and pulled the data to see what I talked about

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the most. I'm not sure I agree with all this data,

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but it makes for a good conversation starter, and you,

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the listener, can weigh in or not. Here are the

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comedians that were mentioned the most in twenty twenty five. Now,

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if you put an iced coffee on my head and

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we're like, I'm gonna pour this on you if you

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don't answer quickly, I don't know. I would have guessed

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Sandler somebody like that. But according to the AI, the

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most mentioned comedian of the year was Bill Burr with

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one hundred and thirty five mentions, Malaney with one hundred

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and twenty one, Shane Gillis with one twelve, Sandler only

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ninety nine times seems low, Nikki Glazer at ninety six,

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Conan at ninety five, Marin at ninety two, Kimmel at

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ninety one, Jim Kaffigan it only eighty two seems low,

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and the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno with

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eighty one mentions. So let's analyze of the list Bill Burr.

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I guess Riodd came up a lot, and Bill did

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have a special that I didn't think was good and

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then Bill did a couple late night appearances that weren't

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that great, and I mentioned I think Bill had the

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worst year in comedy, so maybe that does make sense. Mulaney,

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I'm sure I mentioned Malanie a lost, especially in the

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first half of the year when he had the Netflix show.

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Shane Gillis third. That seems absurdly high, doesn't it. I

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don't feel like I mentioned Shane that much, but maybe

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I do because he tests well for Seo Sadlor. I

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feel like I mentioned Saylor five times an episode, so

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that seems low. Nikki Glazer, that feels right. Conan, that

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feels right. Marin, Yeah, because I probably didn't talk about

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Marin a lot except around the time when he was

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hanging it up, and then he probably came up a lot.

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But on the two sides of that, not so much.

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Jimmy Kimmel at ninety one mentions, well, for like two weeks,

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I was doing a bonus Jimmy Kimel episode every day,

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so yeah, that makes sense. Jim Gaffigan at only eighty two,

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I feel like I'm making fun of his bourbon twice

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a show. And the worst person who ever lived. Jay

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Leno at eighty one mentions. I'm sorry. I apologize to

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the audience that I would mentioned such a person. I

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mean this guy, he's got opinions on late night comedy

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as if he knows anything about hosting a late night

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talk show. Plus he helps his wife with their dementia.

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What a horrible person, Jay leto Yeah, I can't even

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believe I mentioned him. Some more people mentioned a lot.

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Pete Davidson, Okay, I mentioned Pete yesterday. Seventy nine mentions

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seems low. Dave Chappelle with seventy two, and it wasn't

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a big Chappelle year. That's probably right. Joe Rogan with

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seventy two. One of the tricks of the show is

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every now and then I need another story and I

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google the words Joe and Rogan so I can throw

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Joe Rogan experience in the episode title. So that tracks.

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Nate Pergatzi with sixty eight seems a little low, but

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maybe not. What shows got mentioned according to Daily Comedy,

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Who's Unwrapped as generated by AI number one show Saturday

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Night Live with two hundred and twenty seven mentions. I

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guess because SNL fifty fell in the first half of

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the year. So yeah, maybe nat FILEX at number two

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with one seventy one. A generic mention of just late

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night as a thing with seventy four came in third.

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Now I looked at that and I went no way.

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But as we'll get to in a minute or two,

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I have the breakouts of people who hosted late night shows,

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and of course I talked about late night a lot.

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HBO came in fourth with thirty four, beating out Hulu

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with thirty one. Now, Hulu publicist, I would mention your

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platform there a little bit more if you sent me

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some information or let me log into your press screener website,

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or connected with me on LinkedIn, or maybe even sent

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me a screener kameil and Anjianni special. Is it good?

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Is it bad? I don't know. I watched The Knicks

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on Friday night, and last night I watched movies on Netflix.

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Didn't even touch the Hulu button. Plus I had that

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whole you know, three months there where I wasn't watching

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Hulu at all because I didn't support fascism. But now

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that you guys made it clearly you don't support fascism,

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I have the opportunity to push the green button on

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the Roku and watch Scrubs without going all the way

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upstairs to get the DVDs. But I didn't watch Kamil

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and Ajianni send me a screener, guys, and The Daily

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Show with twenty two mentions, that seems slow. Maybe not

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most covered topics. So this is the AI skimming through

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the words. The number one most mentioned word was podcast

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twenty seventeen times a I says that's more than five

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times per episode on average, and hear from the script

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that I'm supposed to read why because podcasts are comedy.

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Now every comedian has won. Every piece of comedy news

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seems to happen on a podcast first Joe Rogan's podcast,

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Mark Marin's podcast, theo Van's podcast, podcasts or where comedians

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break news, where they have their beefs, where they do

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their long form interviews podcasts or the new hour Special

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and Special was the number two mentioned, with three hundred

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and forty eight That makes sense Tour thirty one hundred

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and six Trump at ninety five, Move on John, Move

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on Okay controversy at number sixty one, Move on John,

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Cancel with fifty seven, Move on John, Stop cut it out?

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Are you gotta get people uset, They're not gonna listen

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to your show. Emmys with thirty one mentions, Golden Globes

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with twenty seven, which reminds me one time Joe Coy

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hosted the Golden Globes and he wasn't even doing a

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holiday filler episode. He was being straight. He was hosted

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the Golden Globes and he made this terrible, horrible Joe

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about Taylor Swift. Here, let's listen.

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As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

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The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

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On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of

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Taylor Swift.

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Oscars with twenty seven mentions and Roast with twenty seven mentions.

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Continuing Daily Comedy, Who Was twenty twenty five unwrapped late

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night host coverage. According to the AI break down of

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the show, Conan O'Brien mentioned ninety five times Jimmy Kimmel

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ninety one, the worst person who ever lived? Jay leno

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eighty one mentions, Boy, what was it? What did he

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have like an opinion about late night television? Like he

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knows anything about it? What he host the tonight show?

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What twenty two years. Big deal, I'm supposed to be impressed.

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Then he's helping his wife nerve of that guy. Jimmy

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Fallon mentioned fifty seven times, which was more than Stephen

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Colbert with fifty four mentions. David Letterman mentioned forty seven times,

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probably mostly since September. Seth Myers mentioned forty four times,

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and John Stewart, Boy, I'm doing a terrible job if

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I'm mentioning Seth Meyers more than John Stewart. I think

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the President needs to get on my case to make

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twelve thirty great again. Now the AI is telling me

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I'm supposed to read this. So what does all this

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tell us about comedy? In twenty twenty five Key Takeaways,

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SNL still dominates after fifty years podcasts of the new format.

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Bill Burr had a monster hear, Shane Gillis completed his

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Redemption arc. Trump still drives comedy, The Rose format is back.

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Controversy still drives conversation. So there you have it. Daily

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Comedy News twenty twenty five unwrapped three hundred and eighty

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eight episodes covering the business, culture, and chaos of comedy.

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Thank you for listening this year. Thank you for making

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the show part of your morning routine. We'll be back

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tomorrow with regular comedy news. You enjoyed this episode, share

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has been daily comedy news. I'm Johnny Mack. Keep laughing,

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stay informed. We'll see you tomorrow