Dave Chappelle on Republicans “Weaponizing” Trans Jokes; Nikki Glaser’s Image Shift; Kevin Hart's new Netflix show

0:03 Callaroga Shark MEDIAO. Twenty To those who celebrate, I don't, but I don't judge. I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy. He was a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Now, somebody who I think does celebrate the day is Dave Chappelle. Dave gave a full interview to NPR. In it, he called out Republicans, accusing members of the Republican Party of weaponizing transgender jokes. Dave told NPR's newsmakers, I did resent that the Republican Party ran on transgender jokes. You know, I felt like they were doing a weaponized version of what I was doing. That's not what I was doing. I'll give you an example. Before I learned the phrase I respectfully decline, I was on Capitol Hill and everybody ran up to take pictures with me, from every congressional office.

0:50 I just to take pictures with whoever asked. I didn't ask how the voter, what their voting record is. At first it was CBC people. Then here comes Lauren Bobert. She said, can I get a picture? And I already taken forty pictures. I didn't I want to say no in front of everybody, but I know the phrase, I respectfully declined, So I just took the picture, and then she posted the picture. Before I could even get from there to the show, she says something to the effect of just two people that know that it's just two genders, just instantly like weaponized or politicized. So I got to the arena and I lit her ass up for doing that, and she should never do that to a person like me. Dave said, I'm not even mad people take issue with my work, good, fine, who cares. What I take issue is with the idea that because they don't like it, I'm not allowed to say it. Art is a nuanced endeavor. I have a belief that they're trying to take nuance out of speech in American culture, that they're making people speak as if they're either on the right or the left.

1:33 Everything seems absolute in any opinion I respect is way more nuanced than those binary choices that keep putting in front of us. I don't see the world in red or blue. Dave was asked does he find the President of the United States funny? Dave said, maybe if he wasn't president. I think it was funny or maybe times as I do think you know that that's wearing thin. There are funny things about him, like if I were talked to him, it would be funny. But I think what he does is so consequential and so much of these things you know, in my lifetime, I've never seen anything of a phenomenon quite like it. I'm not trying to people it, but it's remarkable. I don't know, I don't know how funny it is. Chappelle also went on Michelle Obama's podcast We know this because it was recorded at the new home of WYSO Radio in Yellow Springs. I told you last week about how Chappelle helped them with their new studio, We Are told. The conversation covered many topics, such as why Dave Chappelle lives in Yellow Springs.

2:20 While I was looking for it, I noticed Michelle Obama has been talking to a lot of comedians. Conan was on that show, and last week she had on Jimmy Kimmel. And speaking of Jimmy Kimmel out on Hulu today, It's four by twenty Quick Hits, an anthology series executive produced by Jimmy Kimmel, highlighting cannabis and the people who love it All four twenty minute films. Get It to Yeah All, four twenty minute film stream today four twenty Jimmy Kimmel said, Christmas as a whole cable channel dedicated to holiday programming for four to twenty, we made four twenty minute long documentaries for those who celebrate with trees of a different kind. Jimmy Kimmel previously was the ep for High Hopesay, Hulu reality series about two brothers trying to take their marijuana dispensary to New Heights. Also out today on Netflix, It's Funny af with Kevin Hart, a comedy competition unfolding over three weeks building towards two live episodes on Netflix. Viewers around the world vote in real time to decide who takes home the title. The Netflix folks put out some FAQs.

3:19 FAQ number one, all right, what's on today? Well, episodes one through four. Next week you get episodes five and six, and then live episodes on May fourth and May fifth. That's when you get to vote. You can't vote on something that's already recorded. On May fourth, six semi finalists selected in episode six will compete for a spot in the finale. Then the next night, the final four contestants will perform and viewers will once again vote in real time. Who can vote. Any Netflix member watching the show live can vote from anywhere in the world. How do you vote? You will vote directly on your TV using your remote or through the Netflix Bubble app. Voting opens during specific moments in each live episodes and remain open for limited times, so you have to watch live to participate. The series features a rotating panel of comedy stars who joined Kevin Hart, who help evaluate the contestants. The special guest judges include Keegan, Michael Key, Tom Sigora, Camille Nan Gianni, Chelsea Handler, and the very soon to be really really overexposed Nicki Glazer.

4:18 Will get to that. Contestants from around the country will face challenges design and mirror of the real life grind of comedy, including brutal open mic sets, bomb performances, last minute rewrites on the pressure of performing on big stages. Moving on to Nicki Glazer, got a lot of Nikki to talk about today. I think someone is trying to reshape her image. I have floated this theory on the program before, and now I am totally convinced that they're trying to get her out of being like you know, the roast comic talks about sex and repositioner as one of the elites. I've got a quote from Chris Rock here that you're just we'll get to that. My head's exploding. But it's going to be a big week for Nicki Glazer, who has her special coming out on Friday. But we've also learned that on Thursday, Nicki Glazer will host the twenty twenty six Time one hundred Gala. For the first time, the red carpet ahead of the event will be live streamed, allowing fans all over the world to be part of the legendary nights. One of the one hundred most influential people in the world is your host, Nicki Glazer. Now listen to this quote from Chris Rock. In the print edition of The one hundred, each person is honored by somebody else who speaks about them. In Nicki Glazer's case, it is Chris Rock who says that Nicki Glazer has all the tools for comedic stardom okay, but has the potential to go far beyond that. Quoting Chris Rock, I hope she realizes she has the potential to not just a great comedian, but a great artist who uses the power that comes with this moment to approach her career like Madonna where Leonardo Dicabrio and work with only the best.

5:46 I hope this is just the beginning of an incredible, multifaceted Steve Martin esque career. Chris Rock, Chris you there, Chris Rock? Are you listening? Tap the breaks? Dude? You sound insane? Madonna, Leo, Steve Martin, Nicki Glazer? Should we play? Which one of these does not belong? Nicki's wonderful and all? Or what a year out from Who's Nicki Glazer to? She's on the Tom Brady Roast and his host of the Golden Globes Tap the brakes. I'm not saying she's bad, but relax before you put her in the Hall of Fame. Of Hall of Fame. My kudos to Nicki Glazer's PR team and the agents and whoever is behind this. But because boy, they are just getting the messaging out. Times article is titled Nicki Glazer is saying Yes to it all.

6:30 We're told if Nicki Glazer is ever in legal trouble, she will call Kim Kardashian. The two just wrapped a movie together, So you see what I'm saying here. We are moving Nicki away from Roast Comedian and you know, Golden Globes following up for Joe Coy. Like this is now establishment, Nikki Glazer Hollywood Insider Nicki Glazer is what's going on here? It's neither good nor bad. I just want to call everyone out on it, Like I see what's going on here? Nicki Glazer says, I'm proud to say that I have Kim Kardashian's phone number and she would take my call at any time of night. She went to law school. She's smart and calculating in a really brilliant way, and I know she would go to bad for me on almost anything. And the next week I might be scared to text her, but right now I feel like it's a solid connection. We then go through Nicki Glazer's resume Dancing with the Stars, MESK, singer, f Boy, Island, blind date. I think we're going to try and like forget about that stuff. Even time admits it.

7:24 They say she was for a long time not exactly a list. Nicki says, I don't have as many famous friends as you think through all comics you don't know. Then we go through the roast of Tom Brady and the Golden Globes. Then she talks about the movie and says, in Hollywood, you try so hard to be in things, and then you reach a certain level of fame and they're just like here you go, and you're like, but I haven't proven myself to you yet, Nikki. They have decided you're the one. Enjoy the ride, We're told Nicki glazers now rereading Tina Fey's and memoir Bossy Pants. She just has a way of her distinct voice coming off the page. You get approached about books and they're like, to you a ghostwriter, and it's like, that's just not an option for a comic. Nicki says, I want to write a really great rom and do it before I'm totally aged out of rom com status. She talks about leveling up her career. If something has to give, it has to be personal relationships, ever having children, romantic love.

8:10 That's so sad. I don't know if she wanted to have children up, but if she's giving it up for the career, that is sad to me. Nicki said, I've always dreamed of having this kind of success, and I really didn't think it was going to happen for me, and I had accepted that. I was at peace with it. So I feel like I've just been given this opportunity to do exactly what I've always dreamed of. So I have to say yes to everything, skipping ahead, and maybe Johnny Mackey is not crazy. Nicki Glazier said, it used to worry me more that I'm like the sex comic, and then I'm not going to be family friendly. They're not going to let me on network TV. I'm not going to be able to be in movies because they've heard too much about my graphic sex life. I realized that people can really separate you into different spaces. Time tells us Glazer may now be a Hollywood insider. There they said it, but she actually does her best work in Saint Louis. She explains, I'm a workaholic, and if I live in New York or LA, I'll be doing a podcast every day. I'll say yes to a stand up spot every night. I compared to being an alcoholic.

8:58 Going to Saint Louis is like locking up the liquor because there's no work for me in Saint Louis. This is quite length. They will get into a little more later in the week because I have some clips from Nicki Glazer herself. She caught up with Fox News Digital. In the first clip, she talks about her relationship with her fans. I mean, honestly, they're everything. I feel like. It's I sometimes get tired of artists. Saying like I have the best fans. It's like, of course they love you, like that's obviously, but you know, you really, the longer you are in this career, you realize like it's the people that saw something in you whenever. Maybe it was when you you know, some people discovered me on the Tom Brady Roast and that was like most people. Then there's people that have discovered me when I was on the last time I Standing twenty five years ago, and so it's but they all I feel like whenever they discover me and see something in me that they like, it feels like as a comedian that puts everything out there and really puts myself into my art, like I feel like my fans, I like know them and they know me.

9:53 And to be honest with you. I've modeled my career a lot after being a Swifty, and I want my fans to feel the same way I feel as a Swifty, like understood, and like I know this person whether or not I know her or not, and that I know. That she likes and appreciates me. So I always try to like, you know, I always try to remember that as like a fan of people, I want my fans to feel the same way. In this glip, Nikki Glazier talks about the roosts, I. Think the line is always changing. There's always like a different vibe in the room. There's always different headlines that maybe are it's too soon, and then maybe it's too soon two days before the Globes and I don't want to do that joke. And then two days later no one's talking about that anymore. So it's like, okay, I can joke about it. So the line's constantly moving. I think every year I get a little bit more room to go harder, and that it becomes almost not a point of pride, but almost the celebrities want it because they know that I'm not going to say something so scathing it's going to ruin their evening that it's almost like I've heard that it's an honor that when I roast people like people like it, and I know some people don't like it, and I try to feel that out, but that means everything to me that someone would ever even want me to make fun of them.

10:55 Interestingly enough, she is not taking part in the roost of Kevin Hardy, even though she'll be at the Netflix is a Joe comedy festival, which is part of my theory that they are trying to reposition her career. Okay, Nicki Glazer has the line in Comedy Moved, I. Am not a comedian. That's like, I'll never apologize. I have made some really bad choices in my life in terms of like what I thought was funny at the time, And obviously things change over time, and so you look back twenty years at jokes you were doing on stage and you're like, I would never say that now, and I shouldn't have said it then even But I was just kind of an idiot and young and feeling out this business and maybe hanging around the wrong crowds that were giving me the wrong feedback for what works. And so I am always willing to apologize for something I said, if it truly hurts someone's feelings, even if I think the joke is funny, I might stand by it and go it's funny, but I will I'll.

11:41 I've pulled back on so many. Jokes that I didn't do that were the funniest jokes I've ever written because they would hurt someone's feelings. I think that comes first, and it should. Coming up at noon Eastern today, we will find out if Nicki Glazer is the winner of Comedy Survivor. Coming up at noon Eastern the winner of Comedy Survivor is it Nicky Glazer or Sarah Silverman. Then on Thursday, it's the twenty twenty six Comedy Draft. This has come out really well. We have five comedy teams representing different mindsets like industry comics, the ALTI comics, and each team drafted a lineup of five performers. It came out really well.

12:22 That will be Thursday's episode. Why Thursday, That's when the NFL Draft is and I needed to pretape an episode this week. I watched Trevor Noah's special. At first, I was like, this is my favorite special the year, and then I checked my notes and I'm like oh, No, Chris Fleming Special. Chris Fileming Special is going to be really hard to beat. Probably winds up as the number one just because it's so different and awesome and hilarious. But I really really liked Trevor's special because it's mostly of a piece. Now his Closer is almost like a separate show and a different vibe. But that first I don't know what is forty eight minutes, I'll guess is all of a piece, and he's talking about hosting the Grammys and I'm taking a shot at him and some other political stuff, and it's just fantastic. Really really impressed by Trevor Noah Special. I enjoyed it a lot. Back to the time. One hundred most influential people on that list is Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan being endorsed by TV's Mike Rowe. I've met Mike a million years ago. Was a cool guy, Mike row said. I'd like to tell you I enjoyed every moment of my interview with Joe Rogan, but that wouldn't be entirely true. Never mind podcasting, Joe Rogan has changed broadcasting. His conversations have moved markets, influenced elections and introduced millions of people to countless subjects that they didn't know they were interested in. He has defied our short attention spans and given his guests, for better or worse, enough time to reveal their true selves. In other words, by letting people talk, he's changing the way we listen. Billy Crystal returning to Broadway. He'll have a one man show. Eight sixty. Eight sixty was the address of the home Billy Crystal lost in the twenty twenty five Palisades fire. Billy says, we lived there for forty

13:54 six years. I invite you to come inside eight sixty and I'll tell you all the funny and touching things that happened there, not only in my career, but to our family. It's a joyous, heartfelt visit about how with the love of family and friends and you're inner strength, you can get through tough times. I look forward to returning to Broadway and welcoming audiences to eight sixty. Previews begin in October, then a limited twelve week engagement at the Schubert Theater in New York City. And we're getting a little long here today. A quick hit from the Sydney Comedy Festival. Richard Gadd, that's the guy from Baby Reindeer. He has canceled his appearance at the Sydney Comedy Festival. He was supposed to appear at the Sydney Opera House, a beautiful building. You've heard of it, well, I've been inside it. It is awesome. Richard Gadd was going to perform there on Monday May eleventh for a one night only live on stage conversation. That show has now been canceled.

14:39 At the time of this recording, a reason has not been given. The Sydney Opera House said, we regret to inform you that in conversation with Richard Gadd will not proceed. Hmmm. That is your comedy news for today, all right, coming up at noon, it is the finale, the reveal who is the comedy Survivor. I'll catch up with you guys in a bit.