Jimmy Carr’s Dark Russell Brand Joke

0:01 Hello, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily comedy news. Jimmy Carr weighed in on Russell Brand. What do I think about Russell Brand? Well, this is interesting. It's crazy to think that Russell Brand is going to jail for something he didn't do. Get consent. I think Russell Brand's views on sex and consent are going to radically change in.

0:41 The next week. Big One announced Gary Goldman's one-man show Grand Delinquent is coming to HBO in the form of a comedy special. The show will debut sometime in December. How do you guys not know? How hard is this? What do you mean sometime in December? It will be also available to stream on HBO Max, we are told, with theatrical flair. Grand Delinquent sees the Massachusetts-born 56-year-old telling stories of his childhood and formative experiences. The logline says, I got a problem here. My publicist needs me to get her the best specials of the year list before Thanksgiving.

1:30 I might put out two lists this year. There might be the publicist version and then the December 28th version where I've actually seen stuff like Gary Goldman's special, which I'm sure will be way up there. That's a Cadillac problem to have. Goldman began Grand Delinquent as an off-Broadway production in early 2025. It's his third project under HBO following 2019's The Great Depress and 2023's Born on Third Base. John Mulaney is your host of Saturday Night Live this week. He is also in the new, probably not so good, I haven't seen it yet, but probably not good based on the trailer's movie, Madden. Mulaney was at the premiere of Madden, and he told People magazine that John had had an argument with his two-year-old daughter, May, that gave him a glimpse into their future when she gets a car.

2:18 Mulaney said, I can't wait for my daughter to get older and older. She and I had an argument the other day about a Trader Joe's mango fruit square that was way too sticky for her to eat, and I was unwrapping it. It was so lousy, the plastic on it. I was like, Mae, this is sticking to the plastic. No game. Not good. Not good for Mae Mae. And she's going, cut it. Open it. Give it to me. Cut it, Daddy. Cut it with scissors. Open it and give it to me. The lady joked, and I'm like, we're going to be having this argument about a car. We're going to be having this argument about her own room, about a significant other. And it's going to be the same argument every time. No, Maymay. Bad for Maymay. One of the great mysteries of life is why I pasted that into my script. Not once, not twice, but three times. Why is it there three times? Does that mean today's episode is not as long as I think it is?

3:01 We're going to find out together. John also talked about how he and wife Olivia Munn balanced their careers. He said, listen, we've been very lucky in our careers even before we built our family together. And I think we both have this appreciation of that. Our son and daughter came into our lives at this point where we were really proud of the work we'd accomplished. We have many more things we'd like to do. But the way we're blessed with them, it came at this time where there's nothing. I'm not trying to pay that lip service, but there's nothing more important than them. There's nothing more fun than them. There's nothing more creative than them. There's nothing more thrilling than them. It has been so busy around here. There were those two slow weeks in a row, and then this week, a little busier, especially with the Chappelle stuff on top. I didn't get to tell you about Stephen Colbert. He was accused of crossing a picket line during a Harvard University event. The evening was cut short when someone pulled a fire alarm. Colbert was there with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma as part of the Office of the Arts Learning from Performers series. Ahead of the event, members of the Harvard Graduate Students Union, who had been on strike since October 27th, they seek higher wages and stronger workplace protections.

4:04 I'm trying to shake off the Mulaney delivery, and I'm having a hard time doing it. Asked Colbert and Yo-Yo Ma to relocate. Postponed or canceled the appearance in solidarity with workers. They wrote on Instagram, please don't cross our picket line tomorrow night. I can't shake off the Mulaney. I might have to do this entire podcast in a half-assed Mulaney. In a statement shared on social media, HGSU stated, the alarm was unrelated to HGSU's picketing activity and we have no knowledge of its cause. Members of the picket were relieved to learn that no one inside was at risk. Late Nighter has shared that a previously unknown kinescope from Johnny Carson's first season hosting The Tonight Show has been discovered in a Southern California garage. That is amazing. Carson Entertainment Group, has only about 10 to 12 kinescopes that predate the newly discovered April 1963 footage, according to John Satsing, the company's marketing director. Leighton Eider says the discovery came in October when a tech archivist was sorting through a collection of old films and reel-to-reel audiotapes that had belonged to Milton Blackstone, a TV producer and talent agent. In a plain plastic case was labeled Johnny Carson Toy Reel. Inside, the leader on a 16mm film read April 12, 1963, that's a night show. There are seven minutes of footage spanning portions of two acts. They showed Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon demonstrating an assortment of new toys. That is pretty, pretty cool and a wonderful opportunity for me to promote this weekend's episodes of Is Late Night Dead? That is

5:35 the series. It's another podcast feed. I'm the host where we ask the question, is late night dead this weekend? We talk about Johnny Carson in the Saturday episode, so that's fortuitous. And episode nine is an episode called The Challengers, in which we will talk about Joan Rivers and Joey Bishop and Dick Kevin and Arsenio Hall and even Pat Sajak. In this feed here, you'll get episodes one and two this weekend. And if you're like, hey, that was actually pretty cool, then you can catch up on the Is Late Night Dead feed because you can go all the way to episode nine by Sunday. In this feed today at noon Eastern, you'll get episode two of Nobody's Top Five. That is our wonderfully created by AI fake music countdown.

6:17 And I can tell you, because I've already listened to the episode, the first song this week is a banger. But the host is AI, the songs are AI, and what is really cool is the entire thing self-generates. I'm always looking to push the technology, and my business partner, Mark, figured out how to do this, and I'm really excited about it. It came out way better than you would think. So that's in the feed today at noon Eastern. Larry the Cable Guy is back on TV tonight. He's got a new series called American Mayhem, a new half-hour series premiering tonight at 9 East and West. Paramount Network has ordered 13 episodes of the show. The series will feature a collection of funny, surprising, and relatable moments caught on camera across the country with Larry the Cable Guy, providing his signature commentary on everything from backyard mishaps to do-it-yourself projects gone hilariously wrong. Gableman said, I watch a ton of shows on the Paramount Network, and to see Mayhem premiere on that platform is something I'm really excited about.

7:11 Nothing celebrates this country like watching somebody's uncle fall through a long chair. That is funny copy. American Mayhem celebrates folks having a good time and making questionable decisions. I've been training for this job my whole life. Laura Weir's PR people didn't work too hard. Her statement is, Larry the Cable Guy is the perfect comedian to bring these moments to life with his natural ability to connect with audiences. Comedy Stock Market. That's right. It is Friday, and every Friday we do the Comedy Stock Market segment where we look at the comedians that might be a little overvalued and undervalued at this particular moment in time. It doesn't mean they're good or bad. They're just undervalued or overvalued, like how you buy stocks. You get how this works.

8:00 Let's buy some Gianmarco Cerezi. He's going to have a Netflix special, and then everyone's going to know who he is. Now, here, those of us in the basement and listeners of Daily Comedy News, we've been on the Gianmarco train for a few years, so we all know about him, but they don't in another couple weeks. Everyone's going to know who this guy is and he's really going to, I think he's going to explode because he's really fantastic. So buy Gianmarco Cerezi stock while you still can. Let's buy some mega comedian Nate Breghese stock. Sure, he went to a UFC fight one time. Maybe he took a picture with Robert F. Kennedy, but his comedy is really good. And are we really going to put him in Daily Beast jail because he went to a UFC fight? Stop. The guy's a good comic. And he's got a special coming out.

8:42 So buy some Nate Bregazzi while maybe his stock's a little low from the Daily Beast people giving him a hard time. Let's sell some Dave Chappelle. It was not a great week for Dave Chappelle. And it just got me thinking, is Chappelle past his prime now? You know, everybody, if you think of how a mountain works, you hit the peak. You know, you got a long climb. And then there's a long way down. And maybe we're five minutes past Dave's peak now. He didn't have a good week. So let's sell Dave Chappelle. Now, Dave is probably... Still the best stand-up comic out there, but maybe he was a little better a couple years ago. So think about that. All right, so we're going to buy Gianmarco Cerezi, we're going to buy Nate Bregazzi, and we're going to sell Dave Chappelle's stock, and that is your comedy stock market for this week. Now, it's a Friday night in New York City, the Big Apple, and there's the New York Comedy Festival, so surely they're going to have really impressive acts on a Friday night in New York City at the New York Comedy Festival, right? I'm not going to scroll down here and tell you I'm looking for names and don't see any, right? Okay, let's find out. I have begun the scroll. Alana Glazer at The Beacon at 6.45.

9:42 That's kind of early, but okay. I like an early show. Adam Freeland at Town Hall at 7. Irene Too is underrated and at The Bell House at 7. I like the title of this show, Czar the Star, Scam Likely. I don't know what it is, but it's at the Broadway Comedy Club at 7. All right, I'm getting closer to 8 o'clock. I'm not seeing any headliners here. I'm still scrolling. This is not good. And I'm all the way at 10 o'clock, and oh boy, New York Comedy Festival on a Friday night. Yikes, you're getting out-hustled by the Flyover Comedy Festival, which is going on in St. Louis. Right off the bat, it's 7 o'clock, Yakov Smirnoff and Cameron Esposito. I mean, both of those are fantastic. And the Sklar brothers are playing at 8. Right there, that is a better night of comedy. Good job, Flyover Comedy Festival.

10:32 And I've been trying to avoid this one. This has been bubbling up for a couple weeks. And, you know, if you pay attention to the show, I just want to make fun of, like, Nikki Glaser's writer and, like, just do, like, silly stuff. I don't like dealing with all this Russell Brand type stuff. And we have possibly, perhaps... Another one coming, and again from the UK. David Williams has been accused of grooming fans and harassing women by The Guardian newspaper after he failed to get an injunction to prevent them from publishing the story. You may know David from Little Britain if you're on this side of the pond, as they say. He's also a former Britain's Got Talent judge. The Guardian reports that David is alleged to have groomed fans when he met them when they were as young as 15 and harassed women in the workplace over a number of years. Nothing fun here at all.

11:18 But I am going to bring up, here's a clip from 2004. It is the 15th British Comedy Awards. Jonathan Ross is your host here, and it's Jonathan that makes this joke about David, who won Best TV Comedy Actor that night. But listen to this, and is this another situation where, yeah, people kind of knew? Here's Jonathan Ross. 15 years old. And I told 15-year-olds, it's drunk, it's unpredictable, and it's probably going on with David Walliams. David denies any wrongdoing and says he's taking legal advice. And that is your comedy news for today. Again, at noon Eastern, the AI-generated, really fun parody countdown show, Nobody's Top Five. And then on this feed as bonus episodes Saturday and Sunday at noon, you will get Is Late Night Dead? You'll get the normal episodes in the morning, and then at noon you'll get a bonus episode each day. And you can always bounce over to the Is Late Night Dead feed. and catch up through episodes one through nine. And all that, we'll talk to each other soon. Have a good Friday.