Nov. 10, 2024

Garrett Morris Criticizes SNL, Bill Maher's New Special, and Comedy Festival Highlights

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode, Johnny Mac provides the latest updates in the world of comedy. He discusses Garrett Morris's critical views on the current season of 'Saturday Night Live,' shares late-night jokes from Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, and highlights upcoming comedy specials from Bill Maher and Zorna Garg. The episode also covers the return of the 'History Hyenas' podcast and Ricky Lindholm's new comedy album. Johnny wraps up with highlights from the New York Comedy Festival and a discussion on the changes in the stand-up comedy landscape.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:13 Garrett Morris Critiques SNL
01:21 Late Night Jokes and Commentary
02:02 Upcoming Comedy Specials
02:37 Hularious Comedy Lineup
03:15 History Hyenas Podcast Returns
04:35 Riko Lindholm's New Comedy Album
05:25 Comedy Festivals and Shows
07:16 Caroline Hirsch's thoughts on state of comedy
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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi, anyone's still here After yesterday's show,

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I will

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discuss Saturday Night Live tomorrow. Original LESSONL cast member Garrett

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Morris is not a fan of the show's current season.

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He told The Guardian, I don't see the courage, the

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experimental impulses. To be fair to Garrett, he said this

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before last night's episode. Who knows what happened on last

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night's episode, Well, you do, but I don't. As I

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record this, mor said, I don't see the courage, the

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experimental impulses. That was the whole core of what happened

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in the first ten years. Interesting, he says ten, not five,

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because the second five included the Lorne Michael less years,

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which were a disaster till Letty Murphy showed up. That

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was the whole core of what happened the first ten years.

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I keep expecting it to attack in a funny way

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and bring out the foibles not only of individuals but

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of the government and all that. Nowadays, although people still

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check it out, I think they're catering to too many

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people too much of the time. Sounds like Garrett might

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have liked my commentary yesterday, Morris said, I will say,

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to the end of my days, Lauren's writers had a

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lot of racism going on. Lauren himself zero racism because

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remember when I was hired, I was the only black writer.

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Laurene wanted to have somebody black on TV at nighttime.

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People didn't want that. They were clamoring to make it

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all white. He didn't. Some jokes from Late Night Stephen

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Colbert said, so after years of investigation into Trump's many crimes,

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including trying to overthrow the US government, everything's just totally cool.

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Reminds me of that classic song I fought the law

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and what I won? How's that even possible? That's a

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good joke, Ronnie Chang with a strong one. Apparently you

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can get away with your crimes if you win the presidency.

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And that sound you just heard is Diddy forming an

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exploratory committee for twenty twenty eight. But my favorite is

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from Seth Myers, who said, you think Kamala Harris was

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too far left she was campaigning with Liz Cheney. The

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only way she could have run a more mainstream centrist

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campaign is that she would have formed a Huey Lewis

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cover band with Mitt Romney and did a cameo on

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Lawn Order. Bill Maher will have a new special for HBO.

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It is called is anyone else Seeing this? It'll be

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out in January. It's Bill Maher's thirteenth stand up hour

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for the network. Yeah. Mar will tape the special in

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front of a live audience. I love that in front

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of a live audience, not just an audience, a live

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audience at the CIBC Theater in Chicago. In a statement,

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Bill Moore said, I almost called this special you won't

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feel safe, because if you're purely a team player in

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American politics, you won't. This one is for the eighty

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percent of Americans who want to see crazy called out,

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no matter where it comes from. And the last twenty

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minutes on my sex life, that's for everybody. Zarna garg

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is part of Hularius. Not that the publicists will get

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back to me. Zarna Gargan a statement said, I'm beyond

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excited to join the Hulu family and bring families together

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for my comedy special. Just make sure they get back

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to their math homework afterward. Hularius kicks off November twenty

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second with Zorona Guard, Bill Burr, Christa Stefano, Jim Gaffigan,

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Alana Glazer, Jessica Curson, Mitseo Laine, Sebastian Menis, galco otsco

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At Cotska, Andrew Santino and Roy Wood Junior. That is

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a good line of pro up to twelve now because

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they were gonna do one a month. Let's see Zarna

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Bird three, War of Isa six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven.

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One to be revealed unless I miscounted. Let me know.

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Jannis Pappas and Christa Stefano used to have a podcast

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called History Hyenas. It's back baby, Oh Eric is my voice?

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You're right back? Wow, buy me a coffee. Dot com

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slash Daily Comedy News. According to Andrew Schultz, he invited

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Kamala Harris on and she didn't do his podcast either,

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and the other one being Rogan Schultz said, H'm smugly satisfied.

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This is what you all get. Y'all didn't want to

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come on Flagrant. You know, they told us it was

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too big of a risk for Comma to come on. Okay,

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you believe being loser, you know what's kind of a

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risk not doing any big podcasts. The purpose of Flagrant

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was to build a community and a connection with the audience.

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I think that her fatal flaw not going to these

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podcast is that people weren't able to make that connection,

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just as people come to shows because they build that

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connection with us. They came out to vote because Trump

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made that connection. When I said legacy media is done,

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I mean they can still set a narrative if people

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still watch it. Giannis and to Stefano co hosted their

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hit comedy podcast History Hyenas from twenty eighteen to twenty

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twenty one. On History Hyenas, the two comedians go wild

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for history and nature and tech and all things historical

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and natural in a way you never thought was possible. Well,

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all of a sudden, they're back. The new episode covered

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the history of October surprises. Here's a surprise. I misbalanced

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the script today. I'm one story short. I need to

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do one more more. All right, let me pull up

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something from Monday script. Ricky Lindholm. You know her from

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Garfunkel and Oates. She announced her new comedy album, No

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Worries If Not, and it comes out March fourteenth. Now,

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on the one hand, I want to go announce that

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kind of early didn't you. On the other hand, I'm

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the guy that already asked Nate Pergatzy's publicist could he

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come on my show six months from now. The album

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explores themes of family, aging, motherhood and more, all with

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Lindholm's trademark wit and dark humor. Ricky says, I'm so

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excited released my first solo album, No Worries if not.

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With this album, I wanted to bring humor to some

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of the more personally historically isolating experiences that women face,

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including infertility, aging in motherhood. I hope people will find

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not just laughter but a sense of solidarity through these songs,

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which aims to distill complex topics in a light hearted

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and honest way. Making this album felt scary and vulnerable,

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but also like a natural creative evolution for me, and

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I can't wait to share with everyone in six months.

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It is the last day of the three one two

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Comedy Festival. Giggley Squad at five and eight pm at

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the Chicago Theater. You know Hannah Berner married to my

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new bestie Des Bishop, Steve O's at the Riviera at seven,

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Josh Wolf He's Fantastic at Park West at seven, and

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skin Bone at Zani's Downtown at seven. I'm not familiar

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with skin Bone. Skin Bone is influenced by legends such

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as Richard Pryor, Jim Carrey, Tyler Perry, Kevin Hart, and

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Bernie Mack. Skin Bone aspires to follow in their footsteps,

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blending comedy and influence to leave an indelible mark on

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the world. Apparently, he had a successful viral video called

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I'm from the Trenches. Meanwhile, the New York Comedy Festival continues.

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I left you with a cliffhanger yesterday where I was

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about to click on the Mister Rogers Variety Hour, which

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is the Brooklyn Art House at two pm. Let's see

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what that actually is because I don't know. Hosted by

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Ali Levin and Emma Tattenbaum Fine inspired by the kindness

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of Fred Rodgers, this show features a curation of work

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around a chosen theme from artists who dazzle us. That's

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not what I thought it was going to be at all,

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you know, I thought it was going to be like

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a Mister Rogers parody. I'm not going all the way

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out to Brooklyn for that one. Sorry. I won't read

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all the shows to you. Let's see what's interesting today.

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Mike Kamplan's at KD at seven, Chloe Radcliffe at Chelsea

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Music called eight thirty. It's a little light tonight. Yeah,

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nothing too exciting. Let me make a second pass here

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a mad Ethnic a New York City variety show at

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Second City at nine to thirty. The New York City

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Gong Show at Saint Mark's Comedy Club at nine thirty

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might be a night to stay in and watch Sunday

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night football. Front of the show, Jason Zinneman specifically called

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out Chloe Radcliffe show, which is called Cheat. Zinneman writes

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in The New York Time, I was more than a

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decade ago a Hollywood producer told me you couldn't make

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a movie about a woman who cheats on her boyfriend,

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her spouse and still retains the audience's sympathy. The stand

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up Chloe Radcliffe proves him wrong in this personal solo

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show that explores infidelity, her own and the subject broadly

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with a refreshing candor and open mindedness. Bill Board caught

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up with Caroline Hirsch and Andrew Fox. They've put this

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thing on. They were curious what's change over the last

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twenty years? Caroline said, most noticeably is the depth and

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length of the festival. We started out with ten big

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shows and three or four headliner shows. Now the festival

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is eleven days with over three hundred shows and twenty

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two headliners. And I would attribute a big part of

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that to the fact that comedy is more of a

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staple in our lives today. Andrew Fox said, when we started,

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so few comics were playing theaters. New York has had

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such great theaters Carnegie Hall, the Beacon Theater, Madison Square

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Garden for comics. In two thousand and six, we've put

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Dane Cook in a MSG for two nights. We sold

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thirty eight thousand tickets. Since then, we've put Kevin Hart,

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Bilburr and Trevor Noah the Garden. Fox said, when we

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put Dane there, it really changed the way people looked

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at the comedy business back at that from our humble beginnings.

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It was a game changer for US agents and managers

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in the industry. Caroline Ursh gets it and says, ideally,

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comedy is about taking information that may be controversial or

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polarizing and make it more palatable in a communal setting

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where everyone comes together to laugh and let off steam.

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We live in a country where fifty percent of the

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people are pissed off and fifty percent are happy. How

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do we bring those two sides together by making them laugh?

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Laughing is a healing process. It soothes. The Soul Billboard

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asked how a stand up comedy change since the festival started.

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Caroline said, it's a lot smarter and much more political.

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Used to be very left leaning, but now it's more balanced.

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There's a right leaning side to it now. Women play

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a much bigger role in comedy now too. Also, the

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number of headliners has increased. In the early days, I

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had maybe eighteen headliners. Today there must be one hundred

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comics that can headline. I think Caroline's had a lot

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to do with that growth. It did. We also played

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a role in the media's increased interest in comedy. It

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did in the early eighties. No one covered comedy. I

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had to convince people to cover it at the New

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York Daily News, page six and on Howard Stern Show.

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I don't know about that latter one. I was listening

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to Howard when he came to New York in nineteen

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eighty two, and he had comics on. I can't say

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I remember day one, but I sure remember comedians being

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on the show. I sure remember Jackie the joke Man,

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so I don't know about that last point there. Caroline,

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what show should we not miss? She says, New York's Funniest.

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Every year, we survey the canvas, so to speak, and

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select ten promising comics to participate. Some major comedians have

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come out of it. Nate Berghatzy and Michael Jay won

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in different years. The night Michael Jay won, he got

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an agent's and a manager at the Barred Carolines. My

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voice is shot, so that's it. Actually, I don't have

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any more stories anyway. I was actually done, but my

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voice is shot. See you tomorrow,