Aug. 25, 2026

DCN Live - Rosie O’Donnell Late-Night Talk Show Idea Is Insane

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Johnny Mac discusses a Variety article suggesting Rosie O’Donnell could get a late-night show after guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, arguing there’s little market for it and noting a White House spokesperson issued a statement criticizing O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland. He also covers comedian Nate Bargatze launching a new company, No Pictures, for “edgier content” while keeping Nateland as family-friendly, and reports Nateland is developing an animated project called Nateville compared to King of the Hill. Finally, he highlights the Fastball Comedy Festival at Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona, on October 17–18, headlined by Dave Chappelle and Tom Segura, and described as a phone-free event.

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I'm Johnny Mack with the Afternoon check In. There's an

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article in Variety they want Rosie O'Donnell to get a

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late night show. All this because she did pretty well

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last week on Jimmy Kimmelive as the guest host. People

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seem to dig it. But come on, guys, we're not

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giving Rosie O'Donnell a late night show in twenty twenty

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six or twenty twenty seven. What would possibly be the

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market for sixty six year old Rosio Donald. Now, she

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had a very successful career, successful daytime television show. I

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could see her going back to the view, but we

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are not starting, you know, later at night with Rosie O'Donnell.

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In this day and age, I will remind you Netflix

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couldn't get people to watch John mulaney when the guests

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were the ilk of like Jerry Seinfeld. Okay, no one's

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watching a ros o donald late night show. Maybe for

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a week there'd be some curiosity, but you know, this

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is not an episode of Hacks. We're not doing this.

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This is just not gonna happen. But Variety wrote that piece.

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The President of the United States had some thoughts about it.

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A White House spokesperson what out of the way to

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put out this statevid. Listen to this Rosie O. Donald's

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a nasty woman and a total slab whose brain has

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been completely destroyed by Trump drangement syndrome. You can send

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your letters to either Rosie or Trump, or whatever side

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you're on. Now, the other thing I'm gonna point out

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here is Rosie left the United States and moved to Ireland.

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And now I've been to Ireland. Ireland's a fabulous place.

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I wouldn't mind living in in Ireland. But when you're

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leaving because of who's in charge, you're making a stayment.

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So you know, it's just like coming home and hosting

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a late night show. So I think this is a

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complete non starter. We also have some news about controversial

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MAGA comedian Naprighazzy. He's back in the news and he's

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getting edgier. And you see he went to a UFC

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fight on the White House lawn and now he's into

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edgy material. He's started a new company. It is called

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No Pictures. He's not getting rid of Nateland, and Nateland

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will be the family friendly one, but No Pictures is

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for quote unquote edgier content that's right. We are told

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the name no Pictures comes from quote his daughter used

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to say. When she was little, she would tell Nate,

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no pictures please. I'm pretty sure we could figure it

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out that there was some kind of joke like that

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with the no Pictures. We've also learned Nateland is in

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pre production on Nateville. This would be the naperghazzy version

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of King of the Hill, sort of kind of why

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why we already have King of the Hill. I'm not

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sure people are actually watching King of the Hill. I'll

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put this in the Bob's Burgers category if I understand.

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Fox has been promoting King of the Hill for a

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decade and a half, maybe two decades at this point.

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I'm not sure it's actually on. Have you seen it.

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We're not gonna do the Bob's Burgers bit today, but

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I don't think we need like the napergazzy ripoff King

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of the Hill? Is that necessary? From Cobbs dot com,

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you're home for comedy news. They've announced the Fastball Comedy Festival.

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The headlineers are amazing, Dave Chappelle and thomps Agora. That's

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a pretty good one too, to lead off your festival.

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It'll be in Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona, October seventeenth

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and eighteenth. That's a Saturday and Sunday. We're told, turning

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one of baseball's premiere spring training venues into a comedy destination.

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And we're told that's one of those phone of free events,

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so you're gonna have to lock your phone away and

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a packet. And that is your quick update this afternoon.

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If you're catching this in the audio feed, there's quick

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videos I'm doing on YouTube and if you're seeing me

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on YouTube, but this is really an audio podcast. On

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Tuesday morning, there's a Reggie Watts story that's like not

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fun at all that I didn't want to get into here.

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You know, this is kind of loosey goosey. I'm sitting poolside,

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I'm outside, you hear the birds. But again to the

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Reggie Watts stuff. Listen to the audio episode. It's getting

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kind of hicky, all right, Catch in the morning,