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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack, who with
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another busy daily comedy news. There's a lot going on.
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I'm not going to cover today, but I want to
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call your attention to a pretty feisty Bill Burr interview.
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You'll find that on Vulture dot com and as a
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podcast in the Good One. I'll start picking away that tomorrow.
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But just other things I want to get to. The
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cool kids came for Jay Leno last week. They did
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not like the Jay Leno interview about Late Night and
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called out Jay for some hypocrisy. It's really interesting to
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see what Jay's legacy has become as the team Conan
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people just continue to pile on, and now the cool
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kids are coming ford Joe Rogan. There were two things.
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One from The Daily Beast. The headline. A number of
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Joe Rogan's comedy and podcasting buddies are having second thoughts
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about following him to Texas. Some of the comedians they
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single out, Shane Gillis, moved to Austin years after he
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was fired as a cast member of Saturday Night Live.
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They point out in June on Andrew Schultz's podcast, where
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Andrew was probably shocked to learn that Donald Trump didn't
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do everything he said he was going to do. Shane said,
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Texas effing blows. Gillis criticized Texas, describing how his home
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had a blackout for three days. Gillis said, the second
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we ran out of power, the house was ninety degrees
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and just bugs. Bugs came in immediately. The house filled
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with bugs, and I'm just laying in the dark. In
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twenty twenty four, Shane Gillis told vi Ivaughn, I just
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wanted to move to a place where you can do
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stand up during the week forever. It was just in
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New York, in LA. Now you can do it in Nashville.
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In Austin, Brendan Schaub said, I miss my community and
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my routine after moving from LA to Austin. Tim Dillon,
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who you can never take that seriously in any sentence
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that Tim Dillon ever speaks. Tim described Austin as a
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great place to raise a family as long as they
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like you, are dull and never want to succeed. In September,
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Tim was on Whitney Cummings podcast and called Austin and
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the soulas city that should be burned to the ground.
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He described the music scene as three heroin addicts busking
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with guitars. Whitney made fun of the Joe Rogan experience
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and said he'd rather have someone that makes knives than you. Right,
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they're just hoping that people he's flying miss their flight
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and they need someone at the last minute. Dylan has
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moved back to LA, we're told, but says of Texas.
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Yeah the taxes are better, and yeah, there are benefits
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to not being in LA, and yes LA has a
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host of problems. But I moved here because first and
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foremost I said something new will be good. I was wrong.
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The cool kids continue to go after Joe Rogan. Last week,
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on Wednesday's The Daily Show, they did seven minutes on
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Joe Rogan. They did a mock biopic. The narrator of
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the biopic says, a new thinker has emerged to grapple
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with the mysteries of our universe. He is the world's
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greatest thinker. They then showed clips of Rogan saying things
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like why do black people like menthol so much? And
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if you're drinking water, you're drinking dinosaur pe. The narrator
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continues and talk he did because the most fundamental truth
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about the modern world was finally within his grasp. That
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a man may speak forever without knowing things as long
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as he has a podcast, Rogan began his true life's
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project of absorbing the collected wisdom of the world's greatest
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wise men and every now and then a woman. They
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then show guests Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Alex Jones.
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Then they highlighted the title of a YouTube video alleging
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to show all the times Rogan has used the N word.
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You know what, while I've gone here, let me open
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up one of the Leno pieces. I wasn't gonna do
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it at all, but since we're here from the Nation,
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the headline jay Leno's phony case for balanced comedy, They ask,
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why is it that every time a great late night
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host loses a job, jay Leno appears. That's just stupid.
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I don't know what d Steth Meyers weigh in on
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Colbert the Nation rights, really Jay Leno fair and balance comedian.
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A two thousand and nine George Mason University study found
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that of the thirty three thousand jokes Leno told about
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politicians during his first run as the Tonight Show host,
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he told forty four hundred and sixty eight Bill Clinton jokes,
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and nine and ninety nine about George Bush. They do
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add that, of course, there's no reason Leno shouldn't have
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gone after Clinton more than Bush if he wanted to.
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There's just no reason why Kimmel, Colbert Fallon shouldn't go
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after Trump more than anyone else. You know, part of this, guys,
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is just from a comedy standpoint. Clinton is funnier than
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George Bush. George Bush is funny, but George Bush is
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a lot funnier than Obama or Biden. Again, nobody has
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yet really to nail an Obama impression that's truly funny.
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None of the Biden impressions were funny. There are funny
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Trump impressions. There are funny Clinton's, there are funny Reagan's.
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There was a funny George H. Bush, There were funny Nixons.
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Chevy Chase figured out a way to do Ford. So yeah,
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for us to go back, you know what is its
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twenty five years later? No, it's thirty years later now,
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and be like, oh, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, it's not funny.
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Leno's right leaning show regularly topped Lettermans in the ratings. Oh,
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I missed that Jay Leno's right leaning show. I missed
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that one. Okay, they did discuss the Winsky of it all.
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The Nation rights take, for instance, Leno's relentless slut shaming
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with the expensive Monica Lewinsky. In his own gauzy remembrance,
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Leno was a voice for fair play and civility. Back
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when Leno first began touting comedic civility in the Trump era,
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John Oliver threw a montage of his own Winsky jokes
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back at him because Leno wasn't any more civil than
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he was bipartisan. Leno certainly wasn't alone and going after Lewinsky,
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Bill mar David Letterman, more N Daoud, among many others,
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beat up on her. The difference is that Leno has
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a particular talent for dressing up his cruel streak and
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a folksy style of do you hear this water cooler banter?
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That's fair? Then the nation is mad that Leno made
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jokes about someone named Stella Libeck. They write that name
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is largely forgotten now, but she was the seventy nine
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year old woman at the center of the McDonald's Hot
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Coffee lawsuit. They end their piece with if Leno's first
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comedic reflex is to side with a multi billion dollar
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fast food chain over a scalded grandma. It's no surprise
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that decides with our babbling dictator president when he feels
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Late Night comics are too mean to him. I mean, yes,
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we all feel bad that a woman got burned with coffee,
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But of course the joke is, did you not know
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the coffee's high? I mean, I just don't get it, guys.
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At some point comedy is going to make fun of
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something and someone, Oh my goodness, I'm like, ten minutes in,
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I didn't even mean to do that story. We're going
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to be long today, friends, Let's get to it. John Okay,
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second with Late Night for a second, Late Nighter points out.
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Stephen Colbert had good ratings. He had an average weekly
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share of twelve point sixty three percent among total viewers.
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In his first full week of shows since CBS announced
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the cancelation, he allogged his best ratings in over two years,
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with an average of three point zero five million, more
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than the other two shows combined. Again, to be fair,
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Jimmy Kimmel's in guest host mode in the eighteen to
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forty nine demo, Colbert's weekly average jumped sixty four percent. Again,
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I'm sure a lot of that was the curiosity. On
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the Monday, the Letterman Podcast, Great podcast, check out the
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newest episode. They have Letterman's former producer Morty and famous
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radio DJ and former on this program and personal friend
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of mine Alex Bennett are the guests. Mike and I
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are planning on doing something to talk late night and
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late show. South Park had good ratings as well. In
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the three days after the premiere of the episode in
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which we see Donald Trump in bed with Satan, they
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got five point nine million cross platform viewers including on
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air replays. That's a sixty eight percent improvement on the
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season twenty sixth premiere. There was no episode last week.
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This week, the trailer suggests that we'll see Donald Trump
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grabbing Satan's leg under the table. I'm sure that will
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go over well in some parts of the capitol. Sam
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Bee was on Tom popp As podcast and weighed in
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on Colbert Gate. Was it money? Was it politics? Sam said,
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I think both things are true and real. These legacy shows,
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they're hamorrhaging money with no real end in sight. People
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are just not tuning in even remotely comparatively to how
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they used to. People are literally on their phones all
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the time for one thing, they don't need a recap
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of the day's events. We're consuming news media all the time.
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I do it too, but we don't relax in the
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same way by watching everybody get together, lay down in
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your bed, type TV and watch them jokes in some interviews.
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It's also true that when the President of the United
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States has to give a sign off on a corporate merger,
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the thing you can't do is make jokes about him.
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He's a thin skinned idiot, and we know he's like
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a pernicious cancer, and he cares about that stuff. Papa
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asked if TBS asked Sam to tone down her show's
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political stances. She said, one hundred percent. When a huge
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corporate mergers happening, nobody wants to cause trouble. Business trumps everything.
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Everything you think is important is absolutely impotent. It's not
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even a consideration. Sam's insight into ending the Late Show
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is it's so much easier for them to cut the
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Late Show loose with this merger coming down the pike.
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Probably the most agonizing decisions they were having were about
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how do we float this, How do we not get
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a lot of blowback? You know what I was going
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to tell you about the Toronto Comedy Festival. We'll do
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that tomorrow because it's not until September eighteenth. I'm seeing
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nothing but great reviews for the New and Naked Gun movie,
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which first of all, is amazing, and congratulations to them.
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Liam Neeson was asked other movies he enjoys. He said,
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Missus Outfire springs to mind and the outtakes were extraordinary too,
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and they aren't part of the movie too. Actually in
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the credits that I once shared a taxi with Robin
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Williams and a few other actors and he started rapping
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on some politician. I remember thinking, this is maybe what
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Shakespeare would have been like, just this incredible stuff pouring
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out of his brain in his mouth. He was a
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genius comedian Country Wayne with a shocker. On social media,
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he said, I got to come to Facebook because you
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all have been here since day one, all the reason
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I'm really able to sell tickets, and you all have
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been the reason I've been sustaining off stand up for
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the last ten years. So I had to come live
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and tell y'all, Hey, everybody, I love y'all. But when
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it comes to stand up comedy, my last show will
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be October fourth at the cob Energy Center in Atlanta.
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From my Amazon special Wow sad to hear that. I
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also hope this isn't a Craig Robinson situation where he's
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just trying to get attention, because that would be really,
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really lame. Wayne said. Now a lot of people are like, Wayne,
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You're leaving millions of dollars on the table. But the
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reason being, I tell everybody, when God tells you to move,
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you got to move some time. Sometimes you got to
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lose to win. Everything I got going right now, I
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put on the back burner for stand up for years.
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If you all can remember back in the day when
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I went and did stand up, I had to stop
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doing social media content. Everybody was mad I had to
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leave social media. But I had to leave social media
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to become the person I am in stand up today.
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Now I'm leaving stand up because a lot of stuff
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in Hollywood that I got going on, and God got
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a lot in me and creating these ideas to put together,
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which is the ideas you love. Billboard put out their
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report of the biggest tours Beyonce led the way. In June,
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Joe Coy sold forty two thousand tickets across ten shows.
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He grows two point six million dollars. Nicky Glazer grows
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three million, forty three seven hundred tickets across twenty shows.
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Gaba Glaciers three point two million, fifty two thousand, six
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hundred tickets nine shows. Nate Bergatzi three point six million,
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forty four nine hundred tickets six shows. Dude, keep doing comedy,
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Stop with the theme park nonsense. Matt Riiche grows four
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point two million dollars to lead the pack fifty two
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thousand tickets across five shows. Some other shows making some money.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler grows two point two million,
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John Stewart, John Millenium, Pete Davidson together one point four million,
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and in Dublin the two Johnnies, Johnny Smacks McMahon and
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Johnny b O'Brien one point three million dollars. Bounce on
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a lot of stuff today, which is always a good
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problem to have. In the summer. Voicemag dot UK has
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been catching up with comedians who were performing at the
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Fringe now underway. One of them is Aiden McQueen, who
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self describes as a stand up comedian from Ireland and
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a woman who's been through just enough therapy to monetize
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her emotional chaos. Waiting for Texto is my one woman
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comedy play about heartbreak, grief and healing in the age
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of WhatsApp, yoga and passive aggressive self help memes. Have
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you done Fringe before? Yes, I've done the stand up trenches,
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Flying in the Rain, performing the Three Men called Dave,
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and coming home with trench Foot in a new juke
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this year with a full length solo show, more Prepared.
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I'm pacing myself. We keep hearing about the pacing. Isn't
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that interesting. I'm pacing myself and bringing a collapsible stool
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for when I want to cry in the street with dignity. Boy,
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do I ever read an article that's like, Hey, the