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Callaroga Shark Media. Last day of August, Joni Mack. Summer
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has got about eighteen seconds and one time out left
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on the clock and hello, I am Johnny Mack. I
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like my Summers. I'm running out of time. Mark Meron
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talked to Newsweek. They asked Maren, what is it about
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progressives and liberals that make them a good source for comedy.
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Maren said, I guess stated pretty clearly of the problem
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is there's no real unified left. There's centrist Democrats, some
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lefty Democrats, you know, they want things to be okay,
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but this idea that the left has an agenda, it's
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a very fragmented business and there's no unifying principle where
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everybody's all on the same page in terms of how
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we do this. People locking into their causes and they
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get rightious about it, but does do anything in the
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big picture. I don't know. The problem with the left
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is all the infighting and everybody's arguing about what should
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be platforms, what's more important? And I dealt with that
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years ago at Air American stuff. I wasn't gonna build
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mohrett and accuse them and do it in a lighthearder way,
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but an anti woke person. They do think there's some
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fun poking to be had at people that are overly
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committed to very small things, and that's what justifies their
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political existence. I thought that was right for comedy. And
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I think that line, which I came up with like
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two days before I shot the special, that we annoyed
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the average American into fascism. I'm so happy I got
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that line. I think that says it all. And I
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think the way I ride the line with that stuff
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is the progressives and liberals can see themselves in what
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I'm saying and take themselves down a notch website. Find
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that pod dot com put out an article called best
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Episodes of WTF with Mark Marron. Now this is from March,
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so they had done this anyway. Outside of Mark announcing
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the podcast was ending. They flag episode sixty seven with
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Robin Williams the Louis c K from twenty ten, both
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of those stuck behind a paywall Episode six thirteen with
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President Barack Obama. I personally consider that the best podcast
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episode of all time and use it in my college
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class as an example of how podcasts can be great. Now,
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what do you mean by that? John? If you listen
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to the episode. When Obama shows up, he's the President,
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allough Mark, good to see you, and he's all on
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his talking points. But somewhere about twenty minutes in from Memory,
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President Obama becomes Barack and they just start having a
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normal conversation for a while. Now towards the tail end,
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the President comes back, gets his talking points in. But
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if you've never listened to Obama, Maren, it is fantastic.
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The conversation covers college identity, race relations, gun violence, challenging
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the status quo, letting down supporters, comedy, fatherhood, and facing fear.
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I always thought Obama should have gone hard on the
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gun violence in his last term, but he did not.
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I bring that up because I first made that opinion
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when listening to that episode also spotlights Norm MacDonald from
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twenty eleven episode one ninety Todd Hansen, who's that I
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don't know either, one of the original writers for the Onion.
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That's interesting. They also like five sixty eight with Mike Judge,
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six sixty nine with David Spade, ten thirty with Stephen Colbert,
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fourteen five ft three with Murphy, eleven forty three with
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Seth Rogan, twelve thirty nine with Quentin Tarantino, twelve seventy
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one with Jane Goodall, eight to one with Anne hathawayne
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Amy Mann, the Gallagher episode, which apparently doesn't have a number,
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but that's from twenty eleven. Their discussion on comedy, language
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and cultural tolerance eventually led to Gallagher walking out, making
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that the first and only time that has ever happened
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on WTF. I might have to go grab that one.
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That's a good tip here. I also like episodes with
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Josh Brolin, Andrew Garfield, Larry King, John Oliver Mayevis Staples.
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This is a long list, guys. I know this one
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thousand episodes, but you got to narrow this down a little.
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Bradley Whitford, Bill Hayter, Lin, Manuel Miranda, David Herber, Shatner
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at age ninety two, Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio, Hugh Grant,
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Sebastian stan This is too many. Find that pod dot com, Melbrooks,
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Conan Gaffigan his fifth Visit episode five seven three, Peter Dinklice.
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And that's the end of the list. That was too long, guys,
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but I'll grab some of those I've actually been putting
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a bunch of Marens on my phone in case they
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decide to start paywalling everything where the episodes disappear. Zarna
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Garg's old Fox News Digital this is a country that
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looks at a person like me and says we want
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to hear what you have to say. That must have
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been interesting for Zorna Garg to say to Fox News
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that this is a country that looks at a person
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like her and says we want to hear what you
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have to say. Fascinating. Zorta said, my whole life I
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did in India what is called talking back to your
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parents were like, oh, you're a Weisenheimer. So that was
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my life. I remember my dad when I was very little,
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before I'd ever stepped foot in America, he used to
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be like, who do you think you are an American woman?
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Because all bad ideas back then came from America. I
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remember getting off the stage and thinking, is it possible
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this is my thing? When she got into stand up,
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I couldn't believe people found my observations funny. I couldn't
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believe that anybody wanted to hear what I had to
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say about anything. My whole life. People have been trying
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to shut me up. So that was a real revelation
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that up on stage I could be saying all these random,
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really minute observations that have made my whole life, and
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that people would be excited to hear what I had
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to say. Again, she told Fox News, what I'd be
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doing would be possible back home, as it makes America America.
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I'm like a middle age Momo three with a weird
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outfit and an accent, and here I am being asked
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what I have to say on Fox News. This is
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a country that looks at a person like me and
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says we want to hear what you have to say
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on Fox News. Fascinating. Adam Sandler spoke to Vulture about
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writing the song on SNL fifty. Sandler said, I think
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we were talking about it for a few months. We
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knew the fiftieth was coming and Lauren said to do something,
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and we were trying to come up on an idea.
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We were chipping away at it. We weren't excited enough.
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We'd remind the other writer who was going to be there,
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and we're like, oh, we better kick some butt for everybody.
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The audence is pretty amazing, so we're like, let's rethink
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it for a second. We went into a little office
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and jammed on it. It was the best. It was fun.
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We were both coming up with good stuff. When we
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were on stage was the most surreal feeling to look
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out and see who was there and feeling that energy.
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I had the thing where you sometimes do when you
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do stand up, where you do a talk show, whatever
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your mind is kind of talking yourself while you're performing,
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your brain saying is your mouth dry? You better get
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this out. This is a live event, you better cruise
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through this. Then it kind of clicked in Vulture talked
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about Adam Sandler's SNL song. They seem to like them.
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They may be insane. Their opinion is they're funny. They
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land on the side of being sweet and earnest rather
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than cynical. Sandler said, I definitely like when that happens.
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I can't guarantee every time we write a song that's
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gonna have a sweetness, but we feel good when we
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come up with something like that, and it is a
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different style of connection. I don't sit down and say
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let's do one like that. I remember being at the
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show and going I haven't done a song in a
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month and a half or so. Maybe it's time to
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write one. I'd sit and jam with a couple of
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the writers come up with whatever we came up with.
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I'll never forget that I did that red Hooded Sweatshirt
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tune and Paul and Linna McCartney were part of it.
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Imagine getting to do that and call home and tell
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your family just sang with those two. That was one
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of the greatest things that ever happened to me. The
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Guardian caught up with the guys from Anti Donna, the
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Australian sketch comedy guys. They had a thing on Netflix
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during the pandemic that I liked a lot and I
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listened to their podcast, which is fun. Broden Kelly is
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one of the Anti Donna's and said comedy is like
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an orchid, it needs the perfect conditions to grow. Therefore,
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Anti Donna established Grouse House, a YouTube platform to support
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up and coming comedians. That way the up and comers
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can leverage Anti Donna's existing fan base rather than getting
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stuck in the weeds of promotion and distribution. That's pretty awesome,
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Broden Kelly said. We could feel the writing was on
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the wall with network comedy in Australia. There are two
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that do it, Channel ten and ABC two, but it's
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the Lord of the Rings style Odyssey stuff to get commissioned.
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Our experience is that when we were given the green lights,
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either go make a pilot or proof of concept that
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needed to be everything to everyone and would receive heavy
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rounds of notes. In twenty twenty three, the Australian ABC
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screened the six part series Anti Donna's Coffee Cafe, but
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the viewing numbers were eclipsed by one sketch shot over
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a few hours for five hundred dollars, which Anti Donna
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uploaded to YouTube. Broden Kelly said, you got to forget
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what fourteen year old you would want for your career,
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because all we wanted was an ABC two show. By
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the time we got one, we put it on a
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platform that was an EPT and did a bad job
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of promoting it. So what kind of things might you
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see on Grouse House? There's a show called So You
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Want to Win a Penis Pump. It is described as
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what happens if you leave Taskmaster and game Changer too
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close to the and they melt. Guests include Paul F.
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Tompkins that actually sounds pretty funny and the Toronto Guardian
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profiled comedian Owen Farewell. Owen says, I like to be real, direct,
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not animated, just telling stories. A lot of people say
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comics are the people who say what everyone is thinking,
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but that's not the point. I like to say what
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no one is thinking. Favorite comedian growing up Patrese O'Neill
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and Louis c. K. Who's your favorite comedian now? Shane
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gillis pre show ritual. I get a crappy hot dog,
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truck hot dog, listen to two thousands rap and take
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the subway man. Those hot dogs are good, though, no
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matter how crappy. What's your favorite bit? My favorite bit
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is about bedbugs on the subway. I've seen some crazy
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stuff on the subway, but if you have to see
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a bed, how are these guys getting there? I think
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we should go easy on them. It's too be months
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to learn how to ride the subway. Let's lay off
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the creatures that live in literal beds. This is my
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favorite bit because it never fails to make me chuckle
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on stage, and my own humor is my only real
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way of judging these That's Owen Farewell, and that is
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your comedy news for today. August is over, See you tomorrow,