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Callaroga, Shark Media.
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Hey, and Johnny Mack's Today's Daily Comedy News. I struggled
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putting it together Today's show. I want the show to
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be fun, like I like yesterday. You know, we're just
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goofing on Jim Gaffigan doing a supermarket signing, like That's
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what I want the show to be light and fun.
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And you don't come here for politics. You don't come
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here for heavy topics. But there are d's where we
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just we got to talk about stuff, and maybe we
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do have to get a little political. And there are
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at least well those two major political stories. There are
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three things that normally would be the lead story on
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this podcast. So there's a lot to get to. Let's
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begin with Stephen Colbert, he tagged on a pre taped
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segment that aired before the opening credits of his program
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on Wednesday night. And let's let Steven take it from here.
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Good evening, everybody. After our scripts for tonight's show were
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finished this afternoon, we here at the Late Show learned
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that Charlie Kirk, a prominent right wing activist, was killed
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at a speaking engagement in Utah. Our condolences go out
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to his family and all of his loved ones. I'm
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old enough to personally remember the political violence of the
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nineteen sixties, and I hope it is obvious to everyone
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in America. The political violence does not solve any of
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our political differences. Political violence only leads to more political violence.
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And I pray with all my heart that this is
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the aberent action of a madman and not a sign
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of things to come. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the
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show that we had prepared for you.
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I find Colbert to be really well spoken. I've said
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on this podcast before. Whatever your politics are, I think
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that Democrats should take a look at Stephen Colbert because
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the man can speak, and he's twenty years younger than
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who they usually run. I think he'd be an interesting candidate.
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Jimmy Kimmel went on Instagram to demand and end it
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to the angry finger point. Kilmill wrote, can we just
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for one day agree that it's horrible and monstrous to
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shoot another human on behalf of my family? We send
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love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents,
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innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence. On that
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same day, there was a high school shooting barely got
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any media coverage. So I'll do the late night recaps
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to more like I just don't want to go right
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into like, hey, Jimmy Fallon said, I can't do that
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right now. On the same theme, the South Park episode
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making fun of Charlie Kirk has been pulled from Comedy Central.
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At the time of this recording, which is four thirty
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PM on Thursday, a lot later than I normally record.
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I believe that Charlie Kirk episode is still available on
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Paramount Plus. Per News reports, the episode premiered on August
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sixth That episode shows the character Clyde Donovan launch a
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podcast that character said some things I don't want to repeat.
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He then sets up a table at south Park Elementary
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to quote destroy woke liberal students, inviting his classmates to
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step forward with a microphone and prove him wrong, similar
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to the format of the event that Charlie Kirk was
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hosting on Wednesday, Cartman gets jealous of character Clyde donovan success.
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Later in that episode, Clyde is awarded the Charlie Kirk
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Award for Young Master Debaters. Charlie Kirk had reacted to
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that episode back in July, saying, honestly, my first reaction
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was I kind of laughed. It's kind of funny, and
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it goes to show the cultural impact and the residence
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that our movement has been able to achieve. I took
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this as a badge of honor. We as conservatives need
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to be able to take a joke. We shouldn't take
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ourselves so seriously. Anyway, the episode is down. Other thing
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that could have been the lead today, Jerry Seinfeld made
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an appearance at Duke University on Tuesday. I'm good to
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read the quote from Jerry Seinfeld verbatim, and I'm going
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to read it flat. I don't want to load it.
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These are the words of Jerry Seinfeld. Free Palestine is
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to me just you're free to say you don't like Jews.
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Just say you don't like Jews. By saying free Palestine,
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you're not admitting to what you really think. So it's
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actually compared to the Ku Klux Klan. I'm actually thinking
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the Klan is actually a little better here because they
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can come right out and say we don't like blacks,
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we don't like Jews. Okay, that's honest. Those are the
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words of Jerry Seinfeld at Duke University on Tuesday. Again,
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I'm struggling with today's show. We are not going to
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solve gun control. We're not going to solve Palestine. I
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just want to make fun of Jim Gaffigan doing a
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supermarket signing A spokesperson for Duke University till the Chronicle
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Duke does not preview the remarks of speakers who were
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invited to campus, and the invitation of speakers to campus
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does not imply any endorsement of the remarks. I think
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there would be a different news cycle without the Charlie
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Kirk story, where Seinfeld would be quite talked about. I
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think this got a little bit buried. We'll see if
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it bubbles back up onto more fun things. Andrew Santino
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has a special out on Hulu today. It is called
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White Noise. It is his third stand up special, his
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first for Hulu. I like Andrew a lot. I also
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have been thinking about him. He's a good dramatic actor.
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I'll get into next week. I've had to just bounce
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a bunch of stories. But the FX show Dave, on
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which Santino appeared, that has apparently ended. And I forget
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what was called the one that took place in the
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seventies where it was like not quite the Comedy Store
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like that show. He was a comedian on that. He
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was really good on that, but Santino making the headlines,
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and usually this would be the top story the headline.
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Disney had Santino change the jokes. First, he talked about
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the title of the special, White Noise, and said, people
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are gonna feel a little uncomfortable or confused if they're
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supposed to laugh, or if that's okay to say that
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to me is the kind of point of comedy. If
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you string the audience along with love and they know
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they're in on the joke with you, they'll find nothing hateful.
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Apparently White Noise has something to do with one of
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the chunks in the special. I didn't think twice about
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the title until he brought it up. The minorist of
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spoilers for the special. We joined the special mid set.
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Santino said, I didn't want to do the traditional kill
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time up top thing, which I've done in the past.
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I probably did ten minutes of material before what you see.
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I just wanted to start the special with something fun
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and quick and snappy, and the phrase is it racist
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is a good hook. Anyway. During the special, he makes
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fun of Disney Adults the specials on Hulu, which is
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owned by Disney. Variety asked Santino, how soon after you
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sent in the cut of the special, Dijica a phone
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call from Disney. Santino said, immediately. They couldn't wait to
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trim the fat on those jokes. Candidly, we went back
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and forth and they didn't really enjoy having that stuff
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in there. We found a happy medium and I was
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able to keep the jokes in there, but the jokes
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were manipulated. I'm not going to lie. They definitely changed
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the jokes. I was not stoked about that. We got
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to a little bit of a war. They didn't want
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those jokes in there. My argument was, I joke about
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a lot of other stuff in the special that's controversial.
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I don't think joking about people who like Disney has
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grown ups is a controversial take. But they disagreed. Faridy said,
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you're saying the joke was harsher before Santino. Yeah, it
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was funnier. It peeled open a little bit more than
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what you saw on people going to Disney without kids
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and adults who wear Disney clothing. Okay, let's take a
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major time out here. Andrew Santino is telling you that
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for a paycheck he changed his material. I'm not making
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a judgment. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. I'm
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just pointing out to you as you listen, Andrew Santino
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was telling us because of the paycheck, he changed his
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material quoting Santino. But Disney's a massive corporate conglomerate, and
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they were like, if you want it on here, this
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is how we want it. Otherwise we won't be able
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to air the special. We have to cut the jokes.
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So we found a medium. We said we'd find a
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way to manipulate the jokes in the way that works
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for everybody. Disney got kind of what they wanted, and
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I tried to get the best of what I wanted.
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This is the compromise in the modern world of media.
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Andrew Santino, Wow, quoting Santino morephrom variety. Typically we get
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free rein I see, I tell you, Normally this would
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be the top story, right. This is the first time
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I've experienced this in making specials, where they were afraid
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of the narrative I was putting out because it was
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a reflection on their company. I reminded them multiple times
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that it was comedy and I was kidding, and it's
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not real, and that's the point of comedy, you're not
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mocking reality. But they weren't interested in it. So again
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we found a happy medium. But most of the time,
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comedians are unfiltered most of the time. That's why we
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love the podcast world and why we've kind of gotten
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away from traditional forms of media. We got sick of
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being told you were not supposed to say that. Quite frankly,
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it's bs because that's not how people think and talk
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in the real world. Nobody cares. People speak their mind
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all the time, and they love when comics are able
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to say the things people don't talk about much because
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they're afraid to. That's our job to bring up the
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uncomfortable and talk about the topics. We win set. That's
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the best part of the business. We get to live
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in podcast land and live stand up which will never
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be filtered. So this was a challenge for me, but
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I made it work. I still love the special and
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I hope people enjoy it regardless of the tussling. In
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my mind, there's a lot more Santino Press out there.
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I will get to it. So so many stories coming
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in today and we've got the Emmys and Aperghazzy hosting it,
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and spinal taps out today. There's a Letterman interview in
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Vulture that I just don't even have time to read.
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So I'm moving stuff like well into next week, so
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don't think the weekend is mailed. In the weekend episodes
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are going to be really robust, and then Monday we'll
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have the Emmys recap. So it's just a lot going
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on right now, including out today Larry the Cable Guys
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special on Amazon Now. I had sent his manager, who's
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my friend on the side, hey, congratulations on this, and
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she wrote back, Larry should do your show. I've been
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so busy covering comedy news and doing other stuff at
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the podcast company. I didn't even have a second follow
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up on that. And if you've listened to me over
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the years, you know Larry and I are friends. Anyway,
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Larry the Cable Guy his special It's a Gift, is
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out on Amazon Prime Video today. In the hour long special,
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filmed in clearwoad Or, Florida, a Cable Guy delivers takes
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on everything from family life and aging to the everyday
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absurdities of modern living. I just mentioned Vulture has that
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interview with David Letterman. Letterman has expanded his content on
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his fast channel, Letterman TV, which you'll find on Samsung
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TV Plus. They now have the licensing rights to the
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entire eighteen hundred and nineteen episode run of Late Night
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with David Letterman The Good Show. Yes, I said it,
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Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast, what are you Gonna do?
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Come down from Canada and fight me. You guys should
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listen to Letterman Podcast. I sent Mike the Vulture interview
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as soon as I saw it. I haven't even read it,
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and I'm like, you might want to read this, So
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hopefully on the Letterman Podcast today he's talking about it,
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or maybe he's on his way to come to New
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Jersey and beat me up of my mean comments about
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Late Show with David Letterman. But Late Night we know, Mike,
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you know, Mike, Mike, you know Late Night was where
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it's at twelve thirty. Yeah, anyway. Letterman TV launched last
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year with highlights called from four thousand hours of content
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from the CBS era whatever. But now eighteen hundred episodes
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of Late Night with David Letterman just just mainline into
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my veins that is in my jam. I'll probably at
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some point put that on and then sit there for
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thirty six hours in between football games, because I gotta
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watch football. That guy Scott, he got me to the
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football pool. I was jacking with him earlier. Today I'm like,
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I got to make sure my picks are good this week.
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I am not letting you take fifty sixth place in
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this thing. He could sit there in fifty ninth and
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look at my break lights as he tries to catch me.
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I might not win, but I'm not letting Scott pass me.
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I digress Letterman said, all the fun of NBC and
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me forty years ago? Were you kidding? The golden age
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of television? And thanks to my old friend's cough at NBC,
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joining my new Samsung TV plus friends, very very cool?
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All right out today, Spinal Tap two. The end continues
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the new film as cameos from folks like Sir Elton
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John and Sir Paul McCartney. I saw a funny story
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where the Spinal Taps were trying to hit up King
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Charles for a potential knighthood. That made for a nice
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crossover story with our show Palace Intrigue, where we talk
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about the Royal family. Prince Harry wasn't down this week.
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Very busy week of palace intrigued. It's another reason I
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didn't get back to Gable Guy. Manager Jimmy Kimmel asked
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the Spinal Taps, have you been knighted? David Saint Hubbins
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said no. Nigel Toughnel added not as and then trailed