Oct. 7, 2026

Sebastian Maniscalco ‘Raw Dog’ Controversy, Radio Rotations, and Comics’ Royaltie

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac records a bonus Daily Comedy News episode early to discuss “Raw Dog Gate,” arguing SiriusXM’s Raw Dog/Raw Comedy rebrand under Sebastian Maniscalco has sharply reduced the number of comedians played and thus royalty income for working comics. Citing standupforstandup.org, he says total monthly spins stayed roughly 7,800–9,400, but the active roster fell about 66% (812 acts in April to 275 in September) and plays concentrated among top famous acts; he contrasts March 2026 top spins (including Liz Miele and Gianmarco Soresi) with September’s hit-heavy list led by Jim Gaffigan and Kevin Hart. He explains comedy-radio rotation principles and suggests an easy fix: apologize and restore depth. He then plays reactions from Marc Maron, Dane Cook, Mark Normand, Dan Soder, Brian Posehn, and Todd Barry, and checks XM Playlist for recent spins on Sebastian’s channel.

00:15 Raw Dog Gate Stakes
01:23 How Comedy Radio Works
03:12 Rotation Rules Explained
05:17 Roster Shrink Data
08:12 Vulture and Royalties
09:58 Comedians React Montage
23:08 XM Playlist Reality Check
24:39 Wrap Up and Next Episode at Noon Today

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily comedy news.

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Little housekeeping. This technically is the bonus episode. Normally, the

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regular episode comes out at 3 a.m., and if I

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do a bonus, I do it at noon. I'm going

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to flip that today. So if you're looking for the

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regular episode, that'll be out on noon Eastern on Wednesday.

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This is the bonus episode. because I want to talk

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more about Sebastian Maniscalco, Raw Dog Gate. This is a

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big deal. I'm going to play some more clips from

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big-name comedians. Sebastian is just going to have to do

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something about this. It is currently 3.57 p.m. on Tuesday

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afternoon as I record this piece here. So part of

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the stress for me is I can't be near my

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computer on Wednesday morning. I have a commitment that I

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have to do So that's why I've flipped the episodes,

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because the regular episode where I tell you about Jamie

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Foxx's new special out today, that'll hold. So you can

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get that at noon. But I'm a little concerned that

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if I schedule this and wait too late in the day,

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Sebastian will have reacted to this and this whole thing

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will be dated. And I want to be fair to

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the guy. Now, I think this is a very, very

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easy win for Sebastian. All he has to do is go, hey, wow,

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I heard you guys and didn't realize. And oh, my goodness,

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I feel so bad. Yeah, of course we want to

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play comedians. As the former program director of the Raw

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Dog channel, as I mentioned yesterday for newer listeners, I

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was vice president of comedy and entertainment for Sirius XM

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over a decade ago. So I absolutely have some expertise

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on this subject for me when I program the channel.

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It was a mix of hits and discovery, as we

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call it. So back in 2008 or so, maybe we

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were playing a lot of Dean Cook and Jeff Dunham,

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but we would play people maybe you didn't know, like

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a Hannibal Buress, somebody like that, and mix them in.

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The value proposition was come for the hits and then

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trust us, we know what's happening in comedy. I personally

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don't understand why you wouldn't want to play comedians like

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somebody like Liz Mealy, who's in the center of this.

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She's fantastic. Why wouldn't you play Liz Mealy? Why wouldn't

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you have a station that plays someone like Liz Mealy

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or Gianmarco Ceresi or people like that? Why wouldn't you

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play these people? I don't understand it at all. But

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you would have to ask the current programmers there. Anyway,

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there's a website, standupforstandup.org. They've done some research on this.

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According to that website, total spins per month, barely moved

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all year. between 7,800 and 9,400 clips. When I programmed

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the channel, we tried to aim for like five minute clips.

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If you did clips that were too short, it just

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cluttered up the radio station. And if you had a

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bit that was like too long, it slowed down the

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radio station. So we aimed for around five, always trying

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to keep the integrity of the bit. But as a comedian,

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if you had an album with a bunch of 90

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second tracks, we just didn't schedule them because of the

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clutter issue. Also, if you had an 11 minute bit,

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like Eddie Murphy, The Barbecue, that just didn't get played

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often because it was too long. I'd have to do

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the math on if you play a five-minute clip, so

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that would be 12 an hour, 24 hours a day,

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30 days a month. You do the math, you probably

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wind up with a number around 7,800 to 9,400. Standupforstandup.org

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says what changed is how many different acts split that number.

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The active roster shrank by roughly 66% as the channel

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rebrand took hold from a high of 812 acts in

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April to 275 in September. Let me talk to you

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about radio programming really quickly. I'm going to do this

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very quickly. If you're a radio expert, you can poke

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holes in my argument, but I'm going to teach this

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very simply the way I teach it to college students

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for the first time when they're learning about music rotations.

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Let's have Three categories, A, B, and C. A is

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going to be hits. B is going to be things

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that were popular, say, six months ago. C is going

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to be classics. What we do is we have a

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smaller pool of comedians or songs in A, a bigger

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pool in B, and then C is a big slow rotation.

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So say you did play a George Carlin bit. Well,

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George hasn't put anything new out in 15, 20 years now.

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So Carlin would go in C, think of C as classic,

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and maybe somebody who's hot right now, if you had

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a Shane Gillis clip, you would put Shane in A.

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The difference between music radio and comedy radio is in

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music radio, you don't mind hearing the same song over

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and over if you really like the song, especially if

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it's new. In comedy, once you hear something, you've heard it,

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and you never laugh the same way as hard the

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second time. So the analog is basically a comedy library

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will have 10 times as many songs. So think of

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a comedy clip as a song. And in terms of licensing,

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they are effectively songs. They are sound recordings is the term.

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You may have heard the term top 40 radio. So

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maybe in comedy, you might have 400, whereas you had 40.

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Because you don't add one song, you usually add a

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new album. If Shane Gillis put out a new album,

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I wouldn't add just track one from Shane Gillis's album,

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I would add the entire album. Does that make sense?

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In terms of how many artists you were playing? I

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don't know if I ever really factored that in. When

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you use the automatic music scheduler, you do have to

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have there's a concept called artist separation. For example, if

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you just played Shane Gillis, you don't want to play

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Shane Gillis again in the next five minutes, 10 minutes,

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probably not again for a few hours. So you tell

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the computer, OK, separate the artist Shane Gillis from itself

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with I think we had a three hour rule back

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in the day. But I more looked at the number

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of total clips available rather than total artists. The current

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programmers may have a different opinion. Standup for Standup.org say

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there were 812 playing in April, 275 in September. They

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say June 2026 saw shift. That month, nearly half the

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names on the top 100 list were swapped out and

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spin shifted towards a much smaller rotation featuring more famous

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performers receiving heavier rotation. So I'm going to call up

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their website now. They have a graph there. March 2026-before.

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And according to this, in March 2026, Jim Jeffries had

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90 spins. Pete Correale, who co-hosts the Sebastian Maniscalco podcast,

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was number two with 86. Hannah Gadsby with 84 spins.

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Florentine with 78. Adrienne Appalucci with 74. Liz Mealy with 74.

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Mike Vecchione with 73. Chad Daniels with 71. Ian Edwards, 67.

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And at number 10, John Marco at 64. Now, according

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to this data, I haven't checked it. I have no

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reason not to believe their data. Of those 10 I

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just read you, Hannah, Florentine, Adrian, Liz, Mike Vecchione, Ian Edwards,

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and John Marco are out of current rotation. Chad Daniels,

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Pete Correale, and Jim Jeffries still in. In September, which

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is the new format, StandUpForStandUp.org says number one in spins,

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Jim Gaffigan with 183 spins. Now, I program currently the

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comedy offerings for the Live One app. I can assure you,

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Jim Gaffigan is quite popular, and my audience shows no

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sense of Jim Gaffigan fatigue, so I don't think it's

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absurd to play a lot of Jim Gaffigan. Number two,

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Kevin Hart. Same note, 181 spins. Number three, Brian Regan, 175.

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Corey Elliott, 173 at number four. Again, Corey Elliott is

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the co-host of the Sebastian podcast. Number five, Cat Williams.

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Mark Normand at number six with 171. Jimmy Carr, then

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Dan Soder. Gary Goleman, and Jamie Foxx, interestingly enough. That

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surprises me. Jamie doesn't have all that much comedy, and

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I say that. I know he has a new special

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out today, and he recently did a comedy special, but

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I used to program the Foxhole comedy station for Jamie Foxx.

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Jamie Foxx does not have a lot of recorded comedy,

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so I don't know how they're getting up to 164

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spins for Jamie Foxx, but okay. If you're curious, the

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next five names are Gervais, Bo Burnham, Chris Rock, Louis C.K.,

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Martin Lawrence. In terms of play the hits, and in

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all formats, you should play the hits. Again, Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, Regan, Correale, Cat,

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Mark Norman, Jimmy Carr, Soder, Goldman, Jamie Foxx, Gervais, Burnham,

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Chris Rock, Louis C.K., Martin Lawrence. Not absurd for the

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category of, say, A for hits. What's missing here is

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the depth. In my opinion, when I had the radio station,

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I wanted it to be interesting, and I think it's

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more interesting... Sure, let's play some Kevin Hart, but let's

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also play some Liz Mealy, or let's also play some,

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I'm just looking at what they used to play, let's

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play some David Drake, let's play some Nicole Birch, let's

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play some Nick Callis. Vulture wrote about this. They say,

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on October 5th, comedians like Pat Noswalt, Michelle Wolfe, Matthew Broussard,

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dozens of others, we'll hear from some in a second,

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took to social media, et cetera, well covered here. According

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to these videos, royalties earned from radio play on raw comedy,

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and again, I brought this up yesterday, It's interesting to

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me that everyone is referring to this thing as raw dog,

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not raw comedy. When I programmed it, it was called

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Raw Dog Comedy Uncensored. In my last month or so there,

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the bosses made me change it to Raw Dog Comedy Hits.

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In my opinion, that was a mistake.

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Apparently, after I stopped paying attention, they went back to

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playing more depth and not just doing the hits. So

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I think they saw the error of their ways. But

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now they've gone back to doing a hits format with Sebastian.

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You'd have to ask them. Vulture says royalties earned from

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radio play on raw comedy approximately $ 15 per spin. have

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been a vital source of income for middle-class comedians for

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a year. In my experience, when we first started, if

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we played a comedian, like the first six months, all

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we heard was, you're stealing my material! And then they

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found out about the royalties part of it. We weren't

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stealing your material. You had entered them into SoundExchange, and

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we were using the SoundExchange system to play the material

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that you had submitted to SoundExchange, or your people had,

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and now you're getting royalties. I had one comedian, you've

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heard of this person! You definitely have heard of this person.

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Thank me personally, because he had gotten a check for $ 80, 000.

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This was a big-name comedian. He was very nice to me.

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Stand Up for Stand Up says the active roster of

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comedians platformed on the channel has shrunk by roughly 66%,

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from a high of 812 acts in April to 275

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in September. 75% of the plays are concentrated among the

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top 50 of those artists. Many of whom are famous.

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We just covered the list. How are we doing on time? Okay,

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we're getting a little long. Let me take the break

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and I'll come back and I'll play a bunch of

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clips for you. All right, let's hear from a bunch

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of comedians. I'm going to play a bunch of comedians

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reacting to this. You've heard of these people in a row.

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I'm going to play Mark Maron, Dean Cook, Mark Normand,

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Dan Soder, Brian Posehn, and Todd Barry. I'm just going

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to play all of those back to back to back. Now,

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unlike yesterday's episode, for this, I've had to make... They're

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not edits. Just yesterday, I was playing clips that I

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pulled from threads. Today is a clips I pulled from Instagram,

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and because of the way I have to capture them,

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I may have had to clip the beginning of the audio.

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It's just a long, boring story, but the audio ripper

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I use... you have to actually click on an Instagram video,

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but if you do that, it stops the audio ripper.

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So just trust me, nothing nefarious here, but I'm just

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being transparent. I may have resized their video and I

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may have clipped a little bit of the audio, but

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the spirit of what they say is intact here. So

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here's Marin, Dean Cook, Mark Norman, Dan Soder, Brian Posehn,

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and Todd Berry.

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So listen, there's a few ways that comics can make money.

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They can be on a TV show, they can tour,

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they can host things, but One of the most steady

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income streams for a comedian, if they have recorded material,

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is on Sirius XM's Raw Dog. And I make a

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little cash from that. A lot of comics. Hundreds of

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people make residuals from being played on satellite radio on

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Sirius on the Raw Dog station. Sebastian Maniscalco has taken

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over that station. And apparently a lot of people are

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losing their airtime, which means they're losing a lot of

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income that they need. as working class comics. So this

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is sort of a plea and a request for Sebastian

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to make room and give all those comics their airtime back.

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Talking today about the situation with Raw, the comedy channel,

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formerly Raw Dog, which then became the Sebastian Maniscalco channel

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on SiriusXM. Okay, long story short, there's a lot of

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comedians that really depend on not only the revenue stream

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that's generated during, let's call it the lean years or

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time when maybe you're taking care of family, taking care

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of responsibilities. And for one reason or another, that's like

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passive income that makes things less passive when you're off

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the road and looking to make ends meet. So listen, Sebastian,

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we're coming for you. There's no way to say it

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other than We're all here, and we're coming to your

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house right now. Fix it.

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No.

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I love Sebastian. He's a good friend of mine, and

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I love SiriusXM, and I think they're going to do

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the right thing, which is revert the channel back to

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what it was. You can still find space for Maniscalco

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and all things Maniscalco, or maybe there is a way

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to actually sort of help each other. Sebastian, I'm sure

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you could spotlight a lot of people, and those comics

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will then Always appreciate that you.

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Looked out for them.

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So that's what I'm on here to just express. And

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I acknowledge that this is something that's good for all stand-ups.

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And it's absolutely mission critical for the health and wellness

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of so many comics that take the roll of dice

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and take the gamble in this career and realize that

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sometimes that sacrifice is going to come You know, with

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an ebb and a flow that's not easy to always

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jive with. So do what's right. Please, please, please. If

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you're listening, Sirius XM, please do the right thing. And

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I know Sebastian's a good dude and he's going to

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do the right thing regardless. One other thing while I

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have you. The Coconut Grove Improv still owes me a

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bonus Sunday night show that I added back in 2008.

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And I'm not going to lie to you.

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I'm pissed.

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So can somebody, I know it's defunct and it no

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longer exists, but if somebody could get back in touch

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with me from the improv chain, maybe we could work

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that out.

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And you know what?

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I'll even break off a third for the 800 comedians

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that are relying on the raw channel residuals.

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All right.

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I'm going to bed. Make this right. When I wake up,

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I want everybody to be happy.

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Please.

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Sirius XM. Remember old Sirius? Lord knows I don't. Well,

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they're still around, and they used to have a great

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channel called Raw Dog, and now that's been given to Sebastian, and, uh,

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so they had like 800 comedians on there that they

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would spin, and, you know, they were famous, not famous,

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little everything, and now it's down to 300 famous comics,

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and I'm talking famous, like Joan, huh, Norm, hey, you know,

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I like all these guys. George Carlin.

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Great, great.

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All great comics, but they're dead. They're all dead. So

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where's that money going? I think it's a way for

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Sirius to not cough up the dough. Pretty good. So

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let's get Raw Dog back. I don't know if Sebastian

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had anything to do with it or whatever. If he

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knew he was screwing over a bunch of people, I

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doubt it. But why not get him back? That's a

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great way for you to find out about a new comic,

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learn about a guy or a gal you like, and

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you're on a road trip, and you go, this is great,

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I've got to look this person up. So, yeah. These

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guys have had it too good for too long, these

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dead comics. So, let's get Raw Dog back, and please

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make fun of my hair in the comments. Thank you.

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Comedy. What it is, is it's comics coming together to

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talk about SiriusXM's Raw Dog Radio. Raw Dog Radio was

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a very important... source of income for a lot of comics.

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It played over 800 comics and it's comics, you know,

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comics you love, but more importantly, comics you've never heard of,

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or maybe comics that you've never ran across and it

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would play their jokes and it would pay them. So

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it helped a lot of people make rent and made

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a lot of people help with like, you know, food

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and that kind of stuff. And recently Sebastian Maniscalco, one

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of the greats, one of the top working comics took

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over the channel. And since they took it over, they

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stopped playing a lot of comics. They started playing very

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famous comics. If you've ever been to a comedy club

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and looked at the menu, it's probably a comic that

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they have a drink named after, you know, it's probably

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like the Joan Rivers martini or the Bernie Mac and cheese.

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It's just people like that. It's like very famous comics

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who are dead or who don't necessarily need the money.

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So this video is just asking Sebastian, to please reconsider

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and return Raw Dog Radio to what it was, which

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was a great source of income for the comedy community.

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Not just one individual comedian, but all the comedians. So Sebastian,

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if you see this, we love you, dude. You know,

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I've met you. You're a sweetheart of a guy, an

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awesome comic. Please just reconsider and start booking the channel

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the way it was. You know, help out a lot

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of comedians. Because you don't want... you don't want to

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look greedy. You don't want to look like you're not

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helping out comics. And more importantly, you got a lot

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of catchphrases that can be used against you. And I

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don't think, you know, you don't want to see a

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bunch of, why did you, aren't you embarrassed? You took

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away their rent money. I'm just saying Sebastian, one comic

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to another, please reconsider having raw dog radio, uh, restored

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to the way it was to help out the community. Um,

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And I promise you this is the last front-facing video

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you'll see from me for a while.

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Hopefully. Along with my brothers and sisters in stand-up comedy, I, too,

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support all of them that are fighting against this latest

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thing to happen to work in comics. You know, it's

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been a rough couple of years for people... that just

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make money off stand-up and their live dates and people

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that don't have support of these massive streaming stations and whatever.

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There's a lot of people that feed families and cats

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and dogs and themselves just off what they make performing

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around the country. And a lot of them were living

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off this extra money from streaming services and, you know,

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having jokes get on Sirius. And that helped them, you know,

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by having they got money from that, which they should.

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But then they also got people to find out about

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them and hear them and go, oh, I heard that

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dude on Raw Dog. I'm going to go see him

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or I'm going to buy his record or, you know,

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go to a record store, which I still do, and

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buy a comedy record. That happens. And now it won't.

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So not only do those people not get any money

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from Raw Dog because of Sebastian Maniscalco, which God bless him.

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He's been working, you know, I don't know if he's

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been doing it as long as I have. I've been

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doing it almost 40 years, but I know he's been

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in the trenches for a long time and he should

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have respect for all the other people that do the

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same thing that he did for so long and don't

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have the success that he has yet, you know? And, uh,

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Sirius XM, you know, I pay, I subscribe cause I

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love the metal stations and I love, don't worry about

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what other stations I listened to. But anyway, um, I

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support Sirius XM and, and I've also enjoyed getting money from, um,

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my stuff being played on there and it's not going

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to be played on raw dog anymore. And luckily I

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have other, uh, forms of income, but a lot of

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comics don't. And, uh, this situation sucks. So I hope somebody,

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Sebastian or Sirius, I hope you change your mind and, uh,

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How about this? How about a show called Sebastian Presents

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Up and Comers? Do like what Tiffany Haddish does and

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what other people do where they support other comics and

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use their name to do that. Positive. That's something cool

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to do. Instead of just making more money and then

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making it so no one else makes money. That's not positive.

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That's something else.

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Hey, it's Todd Barry. I'm wearing a black shirt. So

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you know it's about to get serious.

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Serious?

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I didn't even mean to make that little coincidental homonym thing.

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I was asked to make a video about the whole

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Sebastian Maniscalco thing. Comics were asked to do that, and

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they were supposed to do it at noon today. It's

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7 p.m. now, so I'm guessing Sebastian's got the message.

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And I'm sure people who've been scrolling videos all day

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have gotten the message. So you know the bullet points

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of what's going on with this situation. And I just

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hope it gets resolved because these comedians, I saw a

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post from a comedian I know, and she said like

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a third of her income comes from royalties. So that's

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a lot of money. And not everyone is as fortunate

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as me who plays opera houses exclusively and stadiums. And

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the occasional half-full rock club. Or the occasional quarter-filled rock club.

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