Aug. 7, 2024

Mitch Hedberg Documentary and Comedians for Kamala

Show Notes
Transcript

Jenny Mac covers various topics in today's comedy news, including a new documentary about comedian Mitch Hedberg featuring interviews with notable comedians and close family members.

00:29 Mitch Hedberg Documentary Announcement
02:16 George Carlin in SNL Movie Controversy
04:08 Comedians for Kamala Event Highlights
05:36 Phil Wang's New Netflix Special
06:30 Colin Jost Leaves the Olympics
07:19 Comedy Festival Updates and Conclusion

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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You spend enough time on Twitter, you see random things.

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Swan Marcus tweeted, it's so weird how the RFK junior

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bear story. I don't know if you heard this one,

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Google it. It's so weird how the RFK junior bear

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story is only the third worst story involving at Kennedy

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having a dead body in their car. Wow, I'm excited

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about this. This just hit the wires as I'm recording

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Mitch Hedburg documentary. Yes, Deadline reporting the life of comedian

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Mitch Hepburg, master of the one liner and a talent

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beloved by fellow comics. That is true will be the

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focus of an upcoming documentary from two two two two

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two two two Films. They announced they have completed principal

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photography on the project, a five year long undertaking that

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features interviews with Margaret Chow, bj Novak, Lewis Black, Jim Gaffick,

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and David Tel, Doug Stanhope, Who's the right Person, Gary Goleman,

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Nick Swartzman, among many others. Bj Novak said, we talked

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about him as if he were too special for this world.

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He had this energy that he was from another planet.

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Director Jeff Siegel says, a lot of people have had

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a lot to say for a very long time, but

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no one said it until now. It's taken many years

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to connect with nearly everyone who is a part of

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Mitch's life and piece together who's largely unknown story. All

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that most people know about him is that he was

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hilarious and died young. But he was so much more

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than that. Among the interviews are close family members, childhood friends,

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comedy colleagues. The press release says the documentary takes viewers

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into comedy club scattered throughout America in the nineties. For

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Hedburg and his peers, the road was life and the

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grind was real, especially in the days of carving out

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a career before the internet, before society learned to better

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address mental health needs. I'm finding it curious that this

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one story that I've seen about this does not mention

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Lynn Shawcroft, Mitch's wife and who I worked with on

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some Mitch related projects. Back in twenty eighteen, Vulture road

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a piece and then they quoted Lynn as saying she's

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been working with an LA based production company to digitize

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everything and her goals that everything Mitch left behind, every

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half written joke, every spontaneous utterance on a MicroTape will

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be accessible within a few clicks on a mouse. I'm

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not seeing anything about Lynn and a documentary. I'll dive

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into it when I have a little more time, and

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we'll see what else pops up. But that is top

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of mind to me. Let me call up a story

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ahead later in the podcast, but it's relevant, let me

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move it here. From a Late Nighter, Kelly Carlin seems

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surprised that George Carlin is appearing in the Saturday Night

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Live movie. Apparently Kelly tweeted and now has deleted it,

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but the original tweets that I found it so strange

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that this film is about the first taping OFSNL on

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the host that night isn't in the film. I know

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he was doing a lot of blow that week, but

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I do know he showed up for the taping. Cameil

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n Gianni. Let Kelly Carlin know that her father is

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indeed a character in the film, played by Matthew Reese.

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Kelly then wrote, I guess he is in it. I

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can't find anything on IMDb about it, though, Gunna have

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to make some calls tomorrow. Late Nighter makes clear that

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Kelly isn't necessarily opposing that George is in the film.

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When you heard he was playing George, she said, oh wow,

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he's great. Larry Wilmore than chimed in and said, if

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that's true about Reese, that's great, He's amazing. Kelly wrote back,

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we loved Barry Mason Late Night or rates. However, she added,

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the estate was in the dark about it. We were

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never contacted by anyone about it. I think they'd get

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clearance to use his name and likeness, she told, come

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on on, Gianny, I just find that weird, wouldn't you,

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Late Nighter says. Kelly admitted she's unclear on what legal permissions,

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if any, are called for in the situation. Another user

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speculated George's likeness might be fair game since he's a

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public figure. Kelly wrote, from my experiences my dad died,

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depicting someone's name and likeness as usually something you get

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permissioned for. I've had TV shows. He's a picture of

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him on a wong get clearance for that, but maybe

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this is different. Late Nighter mentions that the Hollywood Reporter

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named that George Carlin's longtime manager Jerry Hamza serves as

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the executor of his estate. I personally have worked with

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Jerry Hamza as executor of the Carlin estate. I assume

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he is still the executor. If it's not Jerry, it

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would probably be Kelly. Well, it's unclear if the Carlin

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estate itself was contacted. Kelly was at least making it

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known that no one had contacted her. All right, that's

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all interesting and goes back to my point about I

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hope somebody talked to Lynn Shawcroft about this. Mitch Hebburg

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a documentary A little bit of Buzz on an event

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that happened Monday night Comedians for kamalaw Nick Offerman was

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trending for a while. He sang an original tune from

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the perspective of reformed Republican voters. He introduced the song,

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telling the audience he was powerfully grateful to Sport Harris,

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who didn't just prosecute rapists but also is not one herself.

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Nick said, I think there are going to be a

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lot of Republicans that, for obvious reasons, are going to

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be Kamala curious. He wrote the song from the perspective

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of a Republican men who might have once been blind

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but now can see a clear way to decency. Offerman

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played the tune of God Bless the USA. You know,

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proud to be an American that song, he sang along

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the lyrics, I won't sing it here, I will read

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it in a flat voice. When he mocked the disabled

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in war heroes, I look the other way, he said,

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to march on the Capitol. If the President says it's okay,

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I don't mind sex with porn stars. I'd do it

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too if I had the guts, But when it comes

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to banging the furniture, that's just effing nuts. I'm proud

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to be a Kamala man who's quit the GOP because

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I just can't abide a man who's tried for thirty

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four fellow knees. It's time to stand up and face

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the facts that the men I once cheered or a

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bunch of wing nut white nationalists. Those guys are effing

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weird to send your letters to Nick Offerman. Meanwhile, Kamala

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has chosen her running mates Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. The

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internet started speculating who might play Tim Walls on SNL.

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Some of the picks Nick Offerman Steve Martin, and I'll

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go with this one Jim Gaffigan, who's a pretty decent actor.

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One Twitter user wrote, rooting for Tim Walls for many reasons,

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but mainly because I'd love to see Danny DeVito play

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him on SNL for the rest of the election season.

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Phil Wang, a comedian that I like a lot, has

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a new Netflix special coming out September third. It is

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called Wang In There Baby, Wang In Their Baby is

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about being British, being Asian, octopuses America, and the trappings

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of minor fame. There is a clip, let's listen.

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I went on really great holiday recently to Paris. Nice

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holiday is a good holiday because I went with people

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who didn't mind being touristy, right, I hate going on

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holiday with people who don't want to be touristy. It's like,

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get over yourself. You're a tourist. You're here to do

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the tauristy stuff. The touristy stuff is actually the fun

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part of the place. Otherwise you're just living there, are you? Oh? Phil?

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Oh the Eiffel Tower. It's a bit touristy, all right.

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Then it's got to the dentist into a big shop.

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Because I won.

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Phil Wang Netflix op Tiber third. Colin Jost is done

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with the Olympics. He's heading home late nighter. Says it's

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not clear if it's because he hurt his foot where

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the finals were delayed or whatever, but he left before

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the finals. Colin Jose had told NBC's Mike Tarico that

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he was under strict doctor's orders to keep both his

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head and his feet out of the water. He'd also

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been told he couldn't fly for two days. Subbing in

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for Colin Jost is Australian meteorologist and radio personality Luke Bradham,

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who was into Heiti covering surfing for Australia's Channel nine.

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Luke says, I got a phone call the surfing came

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back online. It was literally just Colin's not able to

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work it. Could you please fill in for us. It

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is unclear why Colin left. I'm going to speculate because

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the flight home was already booked before the finals got delayed,

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and somebody looked at it and went, you know what,

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this bit isn't working. It's not worth throwing more money

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at it. And Colin's like, yeah, let me come home.

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I got to go to Tahiti for a week. That

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was the plan. John Stewart is not on the Daily

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Show this week. He tested positive for COVID. Hope you're

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doing okay, John. Michael Costa will host every night this

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week and starting today, it's the sixteenth annual Ashville Comedy

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Festival kicking off tonight. Your headliner, Tom Sagora definitely not

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a serial killer. Check out yesterday's episode for that callback

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The pressure Lease tells is Tom Sagora, a comedian celebrated

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for his sharp wit, end distinctive comedic style. Speaking of

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comedy festivals, right before I recorded this, I recorded with

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Walker Evans, who's putting together next week's Columbus Comedy Festival.

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That'll be the Saturday interview this weekend. Impressive dude, impressive festival.

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So that is coming up. And that is your comedy

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news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a

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