Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart played the Apollo Theater

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi. I'm
Johnny Mack with a podcast called Daily Comedy

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News. But I gotta be honest, I've been doing this. It'll be

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five years next week, and this
might be the slowest news day I've seen,

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you know, other than something like
Christmas or something. Now. Normally,

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when I put together the show,
I'll google words like comedy and comedian.

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There's a couple of websites I hit. I went through all that.

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I have one real story for you, and the rest is filler. Another

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thing I'll do is i'll give you
an example. So last week there were

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a bunch of articles about Sam Marrill. Sometimes I'll take half the article and

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i'll take the other half and I'll
push it into the future, because you

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don't want to hear me talking about
the same comedians every day. So I'll

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take say half the samurial article and
put it three weeks from now on a

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weekend, and use that to pad
out a weekend episode. But for today,

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I've got one real story and I
had to pull everything else up.

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I'll walk you through it as we
do it. The big news over the

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weekend. I don't know if you
heard President Biden not running for reelection.

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Now, as I record this on
Monday afternoon, nobody from Late Night has

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done a show yet. John Oliver
got caught with his pants down. They

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pretty openly record last week Tonight on
Saturday Night, and the news broke Sunday

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at about one forty six pm Eastern, So Oliver got stuck with this immediately

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dated show before it even airs.
Ouch. I feel your pain. As

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for me, I was in the
pool at one forty five and I came

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out and I checked my phone and
I saw the news and I was like,

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oh, I have to get to
work, and I got to work

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on the Ballot podcast. So if
you would like some snarky late night commentary,

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check out Ballot wherever you get your
shows. From a comedy standpoint,

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John Stewart put out a one sentence
statement that said, legend and the other

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thing everyone's talking about is Maya Rudolph
hypothetically returning to SNL to play Kamala Harris.

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I think that would be a smart
six week sprint for both the show

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and Maya. All Right, the
one piece of actual news. On Saturday

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Night, John Stewart and Dave Chappelle
did a show together at the Apollo Theater,

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and I was stunned to see this
because I do prep this show.

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Maybe there'll be a day where I
don't jump on the internet. Like Saturday,

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I went to the beach. But
I pretty much keep up on everything

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six days a week anyway, and
Chappelle is definitely a name I googled daily

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to see if there's any news.
I saw nothing of this, but they

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played the Harlem's Apollo Theater on Saturday
night like any show involving Chappelle, yonder

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pouches, put your phone away and
all that, But somebody has reported on

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it. The Hollywood Reporter said John
Stewart was in great form as he dropped

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his unfiltered and very funny takes on
Biden's debate performance in candidacy and Trump's Trumpiness.

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The Hollywood Reporter writes, there's something
about that moment when Dave Chappelle grabs

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a mic, stands or sits on
stage before live audience and just riffs.

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Some of the best gags of the
night came early in his set, when

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you explain that fame is like running
up a hill with bullets constantly whizzing past

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your ear, a reference to Trump's
recounting of the assassination attempt, and he

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joked about Sean Combe, saying,
oh, they got puffed daddy, in

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a reference to mister Combe's legal issues, which include accusations of assault and sex

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trafficking. Some of Chappelle's topics were
told included Trump, Biden, Fame,

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Ohio's men, and Gaza. On
politics, Chappelle pointed out how the entire

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process is a snake eating its own
tail. He also joked at twenty twenty

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four is the first year that white
voters got to feel as hopeless about no

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good candidates as blacks do every year. CHR says the set grew unpredictable at

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times, with Chappelle's shouting back at
Heckler's who had beefs with Dave? I

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wonder what that's about, Hopefully Morall
coming about that. I wonder if that's

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about Gaza or why would you accidentally
wind up at the Apollo Theater seeing Dave

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Chappelle if you don't like Dave Chappelle. The two comics were on stage together

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to close out the show. No
details and what they talked about there.

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As I mentioned Slow News Day,
I pulled some stories up from future weekends.

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David Cross spoke to Entrepreneur magazine about
staying motivated, and Cross said,

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sometimes it's tough. I'm tired.
We were out until two in the morning

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and we had to get up and
go to Spokane and make it connecting flight

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to Oklahoma City and you don't get
into late and it's just needing free doos.

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But I mean it's professionalism. You
have to figure out how to get

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yourself ready to go, whether it's
doing a bunch of bush ups or whatever.

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One thing I pride myself on is
I give one hundred percent every time

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I'm up there, and even if
the crowd sucks, which doesn't happen that

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much anymore. I always imagine a
sixteen year old kid in the balcony who's

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at his first comedy show. That's
stolen from Joe Demaggio. Joe Demaggio said

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that there might be a kid who's
seeing me play for the first time.

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I know your trick's David Cross.
Cross says, all he or she wants

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to do is stand up. I
want to do the show for that kid

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because I was that kid at one
point. As for taking criticism, Cross

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says, the people whose criticism I
always listen to or my wife Amber,

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Bob Odenkirk, and a handful of
people including John Benjamin, when they give

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me a compliment. I know it's
not bs and I know it comes from

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an intellectual place, but some people
like my stuff way too much, and

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some people just hate my stuff.
I try not to listen to those extremes.

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If the criticism is something like you're
offensive or you shouldn't talk about that,

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those things aren't really criticisms. But
if somebody has a critical take on

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a bit and I can see their
point and where they're coming from, that's

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a criticism I'll take and acknowledge.
Whether I choose to do anything about it,

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it's a different story. Sometimes I
do, sometimes I don't. He

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also cleared up any confusion about the
end at times. Dave A. Cross

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said, aliens are not going to
be the cause of the apocalypse. We're

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in a very very very very very
slow, yet absolutely real apocalypse. Apocalypse

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doesn't necessarily mean a bunch of fireballs
to send on planet Earth and in seven

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seconds we're wiped out. And now
we're going through the apocalypse right now,

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in real time. My plan go
out on tourstell some merch and then just

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invest in fresh water. The Hollywood
Reporter had done a round table with a

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bunch of comedians and they were asked, do you guys have a third rail?

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Taylor Tomlinson said, I don't do
jokes about people in my family,

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are friends of mine, or people
I'm dating without running it past them,

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because I just don't think it's worth
destroying relationships for ninety seconds. When I

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was twenty one, I was like, burn it all down to be a

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legend. But then you get older
and you're like, oh, I'm alone.

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Mike Birbiglia told The Hollywood Reporter in
his twenties he wanted to be a

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star. Then at thirty, I
was given my own sitcom at CBS and

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they shot the pilot and Bob Odenkirk, by the way, if you're playing

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Bob Odenkirk bingo today Drink played my
brother and Nick Kroll played my cousin.

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And was like, Oh my god, I can't believe it. And then

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by the time it went through the
factory, that is, the studios and

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the networks, it just wasn't my
life. It wasn't my creative vision,

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and it didn't get picked up to
air and thank god I went back to

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New York. I made Sleepwalk with
me. Nathan Lane put his name in

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a reputation behind it, and it
changed my life. Otsco at Costco was

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recently in Manila. She wrote a
jeepney for the first time during her visit,

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and an Instagram post she shared a
video of that experience and said,

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what's up, guys, I'm in
a jeepney. That's pretty much their public

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transportation a bus. You ever been
in a bus where the windows are all

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open? Hole? You ever been
in a bus there's a hole in the

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back. Welcome to the Philippines.
She compared the jeepney to a roller coaster

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that's more than just a ride,
and said, this is like a roller

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coaster, except it gets you to
work. Come on, how fun is

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that? Slow? News Day,
John Slow Newsday listener. So this would

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have been the lead story it was. David Letterman was scheduled to do a

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fundraiser for Joe Biden. I guess
he's not going to do it anymore unless

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he's doing it for Harris or other
candidate. The Mortha's Vineyard Gazette had announced

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the event as part of the Biden
victory fund as President Biden makes his bid

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for a second term later this year, invites to the event hinged on donations

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of twenty five hundred to twenty five
thousand dollars. Interesting that Letterman was going

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to do that, and I assume
now it's not happening. I'll let you

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know if I hear more. As
a deep dove of looking for things to

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tell you about today, I type
the words Adam and Sandler into Google,

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and I'm kind of glad I did
because I saw this one from film critic

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Mick Lea sal in the San Francisco
Chronicle, who was doing a Q and

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A and one of the cues asked
him about mister Sandler, and film critic

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Miklasal from the SF Chronicle said,
I used to think Adam Sandler was one

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of the worst things on earth,
not just one of the worst actors or

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comedians, but one of the worst
things period. Now, let me clear

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something up. A lot of people
think I am secretly Miklasal from the San

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Francisco Chronicle. I'm not. We're
two different people with apparently the same opinion.

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Mick said, not just one of
the worst actors or comedians, but

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one of the worst things period.
Not quite up there with the most horrible

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things like war or femine, but
still one of those awful nuisances that are

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impossible to escape, like the flu. But then there's a twist. Mick

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lasl San Francisco Chronicle Film critic rights, but I started liking him with click

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with click, and my positive opinion
of him was solidified by funny people,

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and just go with it. In
retrospect, I must have, at least

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in part, been wrong about the
guy. But he also changed. He

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went from being a comic to the
person who gets laughed by reacting to other

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people being funny. His talent is
not to be lu Costello, but to

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be Bud Abbott. He's an excellent
straight man, maybe the best out there.

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One of the not so great aspects
of being a film critic is being

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forced to watch movies made by people
you don't like. But the flip side

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is that seeing everything allows you to
not get stuck in an opinion. Hmmm,

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I don't know about that. I
mean, Adam Saylor movies are inherently

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terrible, except for uncut gems,
the basketball one, what's that called Hustle?

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The Spaceman one that came out last
year, wasn't terrible and the ones

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with Drew barrymore everything else complete garbage. Frankie French's new special is out today.

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It's called let Me Be Frank with
a key at the end. There

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you'll find it on YouTube. The
description We've all heard tales of just how

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unpredictable and wild the Big Apple can
be, and New Yorker Frankie French fully

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embraces that in her new special,
Let Me Be Frank, particularly when she

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weaves a colorful yarm about a man. Num. I guess I could say

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this pleasuring himself. Whatever you think
that means. Maybe was having a slice

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of pizza, going hmm, this
is good. I'm glad I bought myself

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a slica pizza. Anyway, whatever
the man's doing, he was doing it

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on the subway, and you shouldn't
eat on the subway. I mean,

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that's something. Just do it at
a restaurant. Word belongs. Frank's emphatic

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delivery and keen, comedic timing bring
her jokes to the next level. And

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it short doesn't hurt that she's got
an amazing singing voice as well. And

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that's what passes for your comedy news
today. Hopefully we'll have something tomorrow.

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Now, What's good for Me is
as stretchy as that was. I didn't

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burn my Sam murl story, so
I'll save that for another rainy day.

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See you tomorrow. Go listen to
Ballot. Bye,