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Callarogas Shark Media.
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Normal episodes through the holiday, including tomorrow. I have got
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a great piece from Jonathan Kite for you tomorrow. Hello,
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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Maga comedian
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Shane Gillis. I don't know why the headlines call him
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maga comedian, but Mega comedian Shane Gillis thinks President Donald
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Trump is approaching quote Biden brain territory. There was a
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conversation on Matt and Shane's Secret podcast. Matt asked, Shane,
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you think he's getting dementia. Shane responded, I mean, I
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don't know. He just seems a little slower than usual.
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McCusker said their speculation that tea dog might be rocking
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Biden brains. Gillis said he's definitely not at Biden brains yet,
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but he's circling the dream. Shane also felt the quiet
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Piggy line was effing crazy. It's pretty wild. I just
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can't think of how embarrassed that lady must have been.
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Friend of the show, Jason Zeniman, he writes for The
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New York Times, he went to see Louis c. K
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under the headline a meditative Louis c. K take the stage.
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Don't call it a comeback. Louis c K plays concerts
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all over the world, from the Riod Comedy Festival to
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the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. We're told c K said
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you can live a great life, but you're still alive
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after that part. Apparently a big chunk of this set
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is about aging getting older. Jason writes, what's faded in
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the memory is that Louis was once treated like a
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secular saint. The word genius was frequently thrown around. Critics
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bent over backward to interpret his sick jokes as the
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work of a progressive philosopher King This was always a stretch.
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Louis c K has always been far more committed to
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exploring discomforting thoughts and forbidden territory than in advocating any
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position he still is. The anxiety and fluster that powered
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so much of his work has been replaced by a
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disarming equanimity when he evokes the darkest subjects. The biggest
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twist might be that he rarely approaches any with anger.
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Jason adds what has most diminished as Louis ci K's
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social commenter, his new hour is almost aggressively anti topical
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what has replaced it is a bit surprising. C K
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is now fixated on faith, mentioning religion in every special
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post cancelation, even breaking out a Bible in one bit.
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It might seem like an odd shift since he remains
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a committed non believer. Jason end's with here Louis c
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K showed us the upside of living a long time.
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It meant that he could not only develop his craft,
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but also the confidence of taking a risk and pulling
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it off. Lengthy piece in the New York Times, and
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you should always read Jason's inman pieces. Sebastian Maniscalco told
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Good Morning America that SNL asked him to be part
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of the Marcelo Hernandez sketch. Sebastian explained, I couldn't because
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I was doing a show in Palm Springs. I'd love
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to host SNL. If people out there are listening, I'd
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like to do SNL. If Lauren's watching, I could see
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him hosting SNL. That seems pretty close to a no brainer.
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Maybe you have Marsello bust that impression out one more time.
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And then he asked Sebastian a host in the spring sometime.
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That's not crazy talk. Maniscalco likes the impression. Listen, it's
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very flattering that he did that. I thought he did
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a great job. Obviously, you know it was really over
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the top.
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Was it.
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I'm not sure you've seen your own trailer. Obviously, you
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know was really over the top, which made it funnier.
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Cam Batterson, who's going to wind up doing one year
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of SNL SIS Johnny Mack has wisely scheduled a comedy
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to our forty four dates around the country January through June,
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during weeks off from SNL, and then after June he'll
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probably have lots and lots of weeks off from SNL,
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just saying do you watch the show?
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I do?
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What? Has?
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He had? Four lines? Cam Patterson will visit sixteen cities,
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offering three night stints in most cities. Kevin Hart dropped
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a special on Netflix. He also went on the Diary
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of a CEO podcast, a lengthy interview. I haven't listened
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to it yet, but I did read the transcript. Kevin
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Heart said, I'm a very driven individual, and I'm driven
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off ideation. I like the fact that they can have
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thoughts and if you're in love with the thoughts that
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you're having, you can be energized to bring those thoughts
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into a bigger reality. That's the real fuel to the
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brain for me. I mean, there's no success without failure.
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They go hand in hand, and with the failure comes
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amazing lessons, adjustments, and he gets sharper because of the
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stuff you've done wrong or you didn't know it to
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approach a certain way that now you know how to approach.
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So I embrace the concept of failure just as much
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as I embrace the win of success. I feel like
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I'm doing a service of good. If I can make
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people feel better, if I can brighten up your day,
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it's a service of good. It means I'm like a
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shepherd of some sort. I'm responsible for making people feel better.
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Robbie Hoffman has a premier date for her Netflix special.
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It's called Wake Up. It is notably directed by John Mulaney.
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Mail a lot of attention to Robbie Hoffman when this
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got announced and I was putting together the show I
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host on Live One, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing.
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It's like this except a lot less me. But I
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can also play stand up clips. So if I were
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telling you the story, I would play a clip by
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Robbie Hoffman here on this show. I really can't do that,
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but I dusted off my own knowledge of Robbie Hoffman.
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I was like, oh yeah, all right, okay, so that's
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a hint for this week's comedy stock Market, get on
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the Robbie Hoffman trade, I'm telling you. John mulaney apparently agrees.
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He's directing Wake Up, which will be on Netflix December fourteenth.
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Now a sidebar here. Everybody's putting out the specials too late.
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I'm working with a publicist who's gonna share my list
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of the top specials, and my homework's due December thirteenth,
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So there's like this one. It's a Gora Gervais. They're
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all coming out too late. Come on, people, Johnny Maxx
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Top twenty five of the first eleven and a half months.
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Robbie Hoffman taped the special at the Masonic Lodge back
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in October. In a statement, John mlaney said, Robie Hoffman
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makes me laugh until I'm delirious. No one has owned
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a stage like her since James Brown. I'm extremely proud
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to be part of her Netflix debut, but moreover, extremely
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lucky that I got to spend so much time with
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this brilliant lunatic. Patton Oswalds had some opinions on the
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intersection of politics and comedy, and you know that notable
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politician dude, I'll let bat and explain it. Johnny mackbot here,
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john forgot to credit CNN.
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I think that's I mean, you know, not to get
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too inflated, but comedy is clearly crucial because there's so
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much attention being put on it. It clearly means something
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to people, and it clearly can help. I don't think
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comedy can topple a dictator, but it can definitely kind
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of make things safer for the people that are trying
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to topple the dictator and kind of help focus public opinions.
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So yeah, it is. I mean, it really says something.
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When the when the Nazis annexed Vienna, the first people
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they went after were the cabaret performers, you know, the
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all of the all the all the cafe, the simplicitous performers.
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They wanted those guys quiet first, because they don't.
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Want them They they don't like being made fun of.
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Because also when you when you embrace authoritarians, authoritarianism, part
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of that is I'm I reject the chaos and the
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uncertainty of the world, which a comedian can actually embrace
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and go, Yeah, things are nuts and I can help
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us do it.
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And they want no. I don't want any surprises. I
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don't want to wrong. I want everything to be fine.
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So when they that's the first thing they got to
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get rid of, you know, because it is very to
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quote the show and or an authoritarian authoritarian regime is very,
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very fragile.
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Daryl Hammond spoke to e W about his portrayal of
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the Lads. Dick Cheney. Arrel said, I was fortunate enough
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to be invited to the Vice President's mansion a couple
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of times to meet the family. I think I had
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six occasions that I spent a few minutes with him.
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On one occasion, I went to the Greenbrier Hotel in
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the basement. You know, that's the place they were going
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to ride out World War three, that bunker. You ever
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watched those documentaries, Look up Greenbrier. It's pretty interesting. He
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had all his Republican colleagues there and I dressed up
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as Bill Clinton and insulted them all. That was his idea.
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So there's Darryl Hammond who's dressed up as Bill Clinton,
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and he says, I'm attempting to shake Cheney's hand and
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he's shrinking in revulsion. Like I said, the guy had
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a sense of humor. And while we're being somewhat political,
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Tignazarro has opened up about the end of her friendship
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with Cheryl Hines over the politics of Cheryl's husband, Robert F.
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Kennedy Junior. On tig Nataro's Handsome podcast, she told her
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co hosts, I didn't sever the friendship, but I did
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notice that once he was running for president. Once I
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stepped away from her old podcast, I never heard from
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her again. Out on the eight hundred Bound Gorilla Today
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or Styla's Green. Meanwhile, on The Great British Bake Off,
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the cast of Peep Show will reunite David Mitchell, Olivia Coleman, Gessi,
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Sudie Matt King and Sophie Winkelman, who's part of the
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royal family, which is how I found this. I wasn't
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prepping the comedy show. I was prepping The Palace Intrigue,
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which I'm the writer for, where we talk about the
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royal family palace in wherever you get your podcasts, Yeah,
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Sophie Winkelman, or to you, Lady Frederick windsor or to
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me big Sus from peep Show. I'm not a British subject.
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I don't care anyway. All of those folks will take
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part in this year's festive episode of The Great British Bakeoff.
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It's their first on screen appearance since the sitcom ended
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in twenty fifteen, notably absent Robert Webb, who co starred
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the series with David Mitchell. No air day yet. Peep Show,
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if you've never watched it. My daughter actually stumbled across
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it and hit me up on the side, was like,
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have you ever seen peep Show? And I was like,
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are you kidding me? I think it's on Hulu right now,
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she said, And let me get out my just watch
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tea now about just watch? Just watch app is great?
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Hold on? Oh wait, I almost accidentally supported fascism. I mean, yes,
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it's on Hulu, but you know, don't do that. Buy
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some DVDs and watch it that way. Don't just push
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that green Hulu button on your Rokuo remote and be
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like it's Thanksgiving weekend, Johnny Max s d this show's good.
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I'm gonna watch Peep Show on Hulu. No no, no,
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no no, you get yourself some DVDs. Hey, look I
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just clicked on something. Amazon will sell you episode in
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standard death for ninety nine cents. That's how you prove
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you're not a fascist. You spend a dollar for one
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episode of standard definition instead of just pushing that green
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button on your Roku remote. And I'm gonna leave you
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with this. I can't even do the bit today about
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jay Leno because look, he's so genuine with this. I
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know you all hate him because he has an opinion
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about late night television. What does he know? I really
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can't do the bit today. He was on the Today Show.
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He was talking about Mavis, his wife hes dementia. Jaye
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talked about making Mavis laugh and he told a joke.
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Obviously jay Leno would tell a joke better than I would,
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but the joke reads last night. I said to her.
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A guy goes to the doctor. The doctor says, what's
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the matter? Guy says, when I press here, it hurts.
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When I press on my shoulder, it hurts. When I
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press my knee cap, it hurts. When I press my ripcage,
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it hurts. The doc goes, you've got a broken finger.
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That got a laugh out of Mavis, and Jay said,
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if I was a doctor, I'd say the patient's doing well.
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Put it that way. Jay says he always brings up
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old and fond memories to Mavis. He says, when I'm
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carrying her to the bathroom, I call her Jay and
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Mavis to the prom in high school rocker back and forth,
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and she thinks that's funny. Hod of the host was
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curious how Mavis shows Jay that she loves him. Jay said, well,
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by saying it, I could see it in the smile.
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I could tell when she's happy. So that's really it.
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And as someone who is doing show business, I go
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home and I get an audience reaction every night. I
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please the person I'm entertaining when she looks at me
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and smiles and says she loves me, I melt. Jay
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shared that Mavis used to love traveling and he figured
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out a way to explore with her. Jay said, you
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reach this point in your life where she loves to travel,
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and I'm so sad she can't do those things. But
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there's so much stuff on YouTube, the travel stuff, and
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we watch those things and the animal shows real big
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with the flash cards. Not flash cards, but see this picture.
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See this picture. She says, who's that? That's President Obama
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And she says, no, I never met him. Yeah, honey,
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you did. We had dinner with him at his house,
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the White House, and then we laugh. Jay said, is
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he takes his vows seriously? Clearly does quoting Jay. Now
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she really needs me and I like that, and I