Pete Davidson & Colin Jost Finally Use That Ferry | SNL Cast News & Chelsea Handler Dispute

0:03 One last time this summer before we put the cover on high, I'm Johnny Mack with a poolside edition of Daily Comedy News. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost had their Staten Island Ferry event. Colin Jost joked, can you believe the Coast Guard let you guys on tonight? Pete Davidson said, this is something we want to do for like five years, so thank you guys for coming out. Pete and Colin riffed off one another, joking about the ferry, the crowd, and the challenges of turning a ferry into a comedy venue. Pete added, this is nice, the amount of crap that people have talked. And then he added, suck it. It was very warm. I was in the city that day, and it was pretty warm. Jost acknowledged it, saying attendees were feeling hot and boaty. Pete Dave. Hot and Bodie.

0:51 Hot and Nauseous. That's a good name for the next comedy festival. Your performers, Matt Richards, Casey Shonima, Ronnie Chang, Jay Jordan, Paul Verzi, Mike Vecchione, and Caitlin Palufo. Richards cracked a OK joke. Two rich white guys bought a broken ferry. Not sure how funny that is. I'm sure he told it better. Caitlin Palufo said, I went to Staten Island. I loved it. I never had that much fun in an above ground pool. She later added, the dumber that has to, the acorns are attacking me. Yeah, there's a ton of acorns here on the deck pool side. Oh, no, another one just hit me. I'm distracted. Caitlin said, the dumber the tattoo, the hotter the guy. That's why I love Staten Island. Dave Chappelle has added a second Madison Square Garden show. He will now perform November 7th on top of November 6th, part of the New York Comedy Festival.

1:36 On Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Tonight, a former Tonight Show host returns for the second time. It's Conan O'Brien. Meanwhile, Seth Meyers is back from seven weeks off. Late night with Seth Meyers, we'll have Taylor Tomlinson, who used to compete against Seth at 1230. About 90,000 people will wind up watching that thing. SNL announced their cast, and boy, Johnny Mac was wrong about something. Almost everybody is back, including the five freshmen. Ben Marshall, Jeremy Culhane, Tommy Brennan, Veronica Slowakowska, and Cam Patterson is back. I don't know why. I don't know what... He's all right as a stand-up, but I don't see him working on SNL at all.

2:17 The usual suspects, Kenan, Colin, Che, Mikey Day, they're all back. So are Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padilla, James Austin Johnson, Marcelo Hernandez, who can do one thing really well. We'll probably see a lot of that. Andrew Dismukes and Jane Wickline. Boy, that's a pretty good cast. You know, now that you look at it, you know, you've got the aces in Keenan, Colin, and Shay. That's reliable. And you've got Sarah Sherman and Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline as part of that cast now. And James Austin Johnson. You know, that's a pretty good cast they have. Last year I didn't think was too good, but the cast is good. Joe Rogan had Ron White as a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience. They discussed the president of the United States. Let's listen. But, you know, Trump supporters are nuts, man. They're rabid. He represents something other than just a person to them. Oh, it's Christ. Yeah. Well, he represents something, a leader that they wish they had, you know? Yeah. Which is a real problem in our society in general with leaders. We look to them as if they're something different than every other person that's ever been a leader before. Like, this is the one. This is the one that's going to save us. Send your letters to Joe Rogan. Chelsea Handler in a little kerfluffle, as I pronounce it incorrectly. Comedian Salma Hindy has accused Chelsea Handler of kicking her off tour. I will let Salma explain it.

3:35 I lost my position as Chelsea Handler's opener after I spoke to her about Palestine. My name is Salma Hindy. I am a Canadian-Egyptian stand-up comedian living in New York City. Beginning in 2022, I opened for Chelsea Handler on two tours, performed at her Just for Laughs Chelsea Handler Gala. and generally had a very warm, loving, sisterly relationship with Chelsea Handler to the point where she actually used to invite me to ride her private jet with her. October 14 of 2023, I messaged Chelsea asking her if she wanted to speak about the Palestine-Israel thing after noticing that two of her closest friends, Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, had posted some... disgustingly racist, dehumanizing posts toward Palestinians. I texted Chelsea about it lovingly, to which she did not respond.

4:17 Immediately the next day, I got taken off of three of the 12 upcoming tour shows. I was told that she had promised those dates to somebody else. Regardless, Chelsea and I did end up going on tour in December of 2023. We did four shows together in Canada. After one of the shows, I spoke to Chelsea privately about Palestine at dinner. to which I found out that Chelsea Handler has actually been to the West Bank. And in her own words, she said it looked like the Arabs had their souls sucked from their faces. The clip is a little long, so I cut that short, but you can watch that online. Chelsea Handler responded to it and said, eh, that's actually not what happened. You quit opening for me and I have the emails from your agents. Your agent is full of it. I would never fire someone for disagreeing with me political on this issue.

5:05 Handler then shared screenshots from her Instagram story to support her version. One message dated January 29th, 2024 appeared to show Hindi writing, Chelsea, something has now come up, but I won't be able to do the remaining four shows anymore. Wanted you to hear it from me. Thank you for everything. It's been such an experience. And you're right. It would have been wonderful stage time. Very interesting there. Kate Berlant getting an HBO comedy special. It's called Parmesan, I assume, unless she is pronouncing it Parmesan, but Parmesan, I guess. HBO, October 16th. Parmesan is described as a hilarious tour de force that skewers the many contradictions of modern life and the art of stand-up comedy itself. Nina Rosenstein, big time HBO suit, said when it comes to Caperland, the comedy is everything. A look, a gesture, a pause that lasts a little too long. People are worried about Matt Rife and evil energy. The story, Matt Rife's haunted Warren Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is drawing visitors from across the country and concern from paranormal believers. who questioned whether Annabelle should be a major tourist attraction. So interesting to me that there's a controversy involving Salem, Massachusetts, right before October Halloween season. Boy, that's weird. Now, you may know of Annabelle, the allegedly haunted doll, which became famous through paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. According to Ed and Lorraine, the case began in 1970 when two nurses believed an unseen presence had attached itself to the doll. The Warrens removed it and kept it contained, believing The doll was connected to a dangerous entity, now psychic medium Matt Fraser, worries that putting

6:36 Annabelle in front of large crowds changes the situation. Very interesting. He told the Daily Mail, Ed and Lorraine took them seriously and contained them for a reason. When you turn something that was once contained into an attraction, you completely change the relationship people have with it. Matt Reif enthusiastically promoted the museum's expansion. He said, Matt Reif said, We've collected over 1,000 of the world's most haunted objects and added them to the Warren's already historic collection. Fraser said, and now you're taking Annabelle and bringing her together with an entire collection of objects that reportedly carry their own histories and energies all under one roof while thousands of people continuously walk through that environment? Every visitor brings their own energy with them, and whether that fear is grief, curiosity, skepticism, or even the desire to provoke whatever might be there.

7:23 My concern is that evil energy loves attention, dark energy wants to be acknowledged, He wants people talking about it, challenging it, fearing it, and feeding it with their attention. I almost feel like he's describing Amy Schumer, but I digress. Well, good news for the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. Jay Leno's law has passed. Governor Newsom announced last week he had signed legislation exempting classic cars made before 1981, model year 1981, from state smog checks that measure pollution levels. He also signed a bill to create a specialty license plate commemorating lowrider vehicles. The governor said these bills protect a treasured part of California culture, giving car owners a way to preserve these pieces of history for generations to come.

8:05 The announcement was accompanied by a video of him touring Jay Leno's car garage in Burbank. In the video, we see the governor and Jay Leno walking past a 1957 Buick Roadmaster, a 1966 Chevrolet Corvair, a 1989 Bentley Turbo R, and some open-wheel roadsters and vintage British sports cars. Out on Netflix today, Party Down. Party Down's not new, but it's going to be new to a lot of people. There are three seasons of it. They did two seasons like over a decade ago, I feel like it was. And then a third season, maybe like two years ago. But the cast is Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Ryan Hansen, Martin Starr. Martin is Homelander, right? Lizzie Kaplan, Megan Mullally and Jane Lynch. They are actors who are not really acting that much and making a living as caterers. It's a fantastic show. I feel like this is going to pop on Netflix, which is good because that's a good show.

8:59 Out on Netflix today, Nimesh Patel. His special is called By the Dip. Patel discusses the absurdity of parenting, the insanity of the Indian family, and the rampant corruption in Washington, D.C. Send your letters to Nimesh Patel. There's a new podcast out today called Petty Cases. The premise is put ridiculous arguments on trial. and let comedians decide who's right in each episode. Willie and Steve preside over absurd, low-stakes disputes that would never make it anywhere near a real courtroom. I had jury duty last week. The judge let me go. I appreciate that. I was home by 11 o'clock. It was very nice. All right, so some of the comedians who will be stepping into the courtroom. Good list here. Bert Kreischer, Ron Funches, Morgan Jay, Frankie Quinonez. Let's see, Caitlin Palufo gets a second mention today, and a bunch of, oh, Steph Tolev and a bunch of others. We're told because Willie and Steve are stand-ups first, every case becomes a comedy set in disguise. This keeps reminding me, and I never know how to explain it without hanging myself. When I was at Sirius, there was a judge who turned comedian, and we had um in a premise we called racist court And we could never figure out how to do racist court without accidentally being actually racist. But the idea would be if you did some sort of behavior, were you just being normal or were you being racist about it?

10:12 And I really can't explain it. But the gang, which was a diverse crowd, we all kind of got it, but we never figured out how to do it without just, you know, accidentally being racist, which was not the idea. I asked ChatGPT to explain it. And it would be something like if we went out for, Chinese food and the waiter brought just the person of Asian descent chopsticks and the rest of us forks. Now we'll try that person on racist court. Did they profile our Asian friend in this hypothetical situation? Like that kind of thing. Just like harmless fun, but we could never figure it out. Josh Johnson's been hitting comic shops from comicsbeat.com, which isn't about comic comedians. It's about comic books. We're told last month Josh stopped off in Minneapolis and he went to Odd Mart. which combines Indian alternative comics, zines, vintage items, local artist showcases, toys, and more. They even host their own Saturday cartoon cabaret. Then he stopped off at Comic Book College in Roseville. That's known as Minnesota's longest-running comic book specialty store, going back to 1974. Then in San Francisco, he went to Comics Experience, Comics with an X. That was founded in 1989 and is now the oldest comic book store in San Francisco. Josh Johnson commented on how unique and diverse its choices are and how to categorize books opposed to other comic shops. He said that sets comics, what is this, comics experience apart and makes things worth exploring. Next, Dr.

11:41 Volt's Comic Connection and the Nerd Store in Salt Lake. And Josh Johnson has been filming all this. I wonder what he's up to. The man puts out a lot of content. And that, one last time for this summer from Poolside, is your Daily Comedy News. There's regular Daily Comedy News tomorrow. And every day, but we probably won't be poolside as the pool guy's coming and putting the tarp on. And living here in New Jersey, it gets cooler out. So I'll put the Hawaiian shirt away and sunglasses go back in the car. You have a great day.