Shane Gillis Hosts SNL, St Patrick's Eve with Colin Jost and Michael Che

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Callaroga Shark Media Happy Shane Gillis Day. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy

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news. Shane hosting SNL tonight.
The New York Times wrote a big article

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about Shane. They resurfaced a twenty
twenty one interview with Shane from The Joe

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Rogan Experience, on which Shane said
he had told SNL about the tone of

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his podcast. Lord Michael Sposeley asked, Shane, do you have anything you

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want us to check out? Gillis
replied he had a podcast, as The

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New York Times quotes, I say
like gay and retard a lot. According

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to Gillis, they were like,
ah, that's fine, don't worry about

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it. The Times reminds us that
that year Bowen Yang joined the cast.

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In twenty twenty, Yang told The
Times, the reason I didn't comment on

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it was because there was a sense
of opposition being created between the two of

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us, right, But a lot
of it was invented because it wasn't like

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he was making any comments about me
specifically. So why is Shane back?

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Well? The Times went with this
when hosting SNL in nineteen ninety nine,

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about a year and a half after
being let go, Norm McDonald said,

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I wanted to keep my job,
and they felt the exact opposite. How

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did I go from not being funny
enough to even be allowed in the building

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to being so funny that I'm now
hosting the show? How did I get

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so damn funny? It's inexplicable to
me. Then it occurred to me,

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I hadn't gotten funnier, The show
had gotten really bad. Time Magazine writes

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SNL's Sheen Gillis flip flop comes as
no surprise. This is a very good

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article I shared in the Facebook group
Daily Comedy News podcast group. Time rates

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on SNL the buck stops with creator
Lauren Michaels, So it seems fair to

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presume that the choices reflect some combination
of his taste and what he and his

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team believe viewers want to see.
And you hear him tell it. He

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never stopped being a fan of Shane
Gillis's work. As he explained in twenty

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twenty two, NBC was in something
of a panic. It was like they're

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gonna boycott the sponsors. Reflecting on
all this in twenty twenty two Inner with

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Andrew Yang, the rich guy that
ran for president, Remember him? Shane

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told Andrew, I understand both sides
of the argument. He should be fired

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or he was just joking. I'm
not a victim. There's a video of

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me using a slur. There's gonna
be some backlash. Time says that might

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not seem like much. Certainly isn't
an apology. Yet it's remarkably rare to

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hear such a clear eyed articulation of
his own predicament. Usually, comedians double

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down, refashioning themselves as free speech
warriors. Chappelle Sorry, I had a

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cough there, rallying against cancel culture
and ultimately embracing an audience friendlier to their

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brand of bigotry. Some, most
prominently Louis c K, have issued apologies

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and disappeared for a while, only
to resurface with material geared towards reactionary fans.

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Gillis can be refreshing and that he
doesn't pretend I have all the answers

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or be an exemplary human being.
And his jokes he casts himself as ugly

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bad at sex, subjectively inferior to
his girlfriend's Navy seal. X wive in

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Austin opens with the comedian roasting his
own hair. Then he advises an overwhelmingly

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white male audience. If you're white, don't get it to me Midican haircut,

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you just stand up looking more racist. He then doesn't a brief impression

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of the Dominican barber, Sime writes, it's a bit of a punchline overload.

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Who's actually the butt of the joke? Gillis Dominicans, racist white people

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with their stupid haircuts. A thorough
review of the context surrounding the racist language

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that knocked them off a pedestal might
lose some nuance. The new material might

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even be enough to make you wonder
whether SNL hadn't been overly hasty and cutting

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them loose. Would a comic this
perceptive really step off the stage and spew

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hatred for its own sake? Time
rights? Unfortunately? Yes. If an

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interest in history is a gateway to
republicanism, then Gillis's stand up that's a

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call back to a joke that's not
a dig from time. Then Gillis's stand

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up might be a gateway to his
partially paywalled empire of slurs, conspiracy theories,

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and all manner of other bigotry.
Seth Simons has made a study of

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all the things Gillis says, outside
of his Aisle crossing stand up in The

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Daily Beast, I talk about this
early a week. He offers a damning

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indictment of Gillis's choice to platform holocaust
deniers, one of whom happens to be

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his podcast co host's brother Simons brought
a run down of the comic recent utterances

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for The La Times. Features inwards, anti Semitic K words and a crude

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impression of some with down syndrome,
the misgendering of trans women, praise for

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Proud Boys founder Gavin McGinness, and
as well as that old standby charactertures of

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Asian people. I'm looking forward to
this episode tonight. I will talk about

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it on Monday, because you know
SNL ends at one am and Johnny Mack

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goes to bed. Speaking of SNL, I think this is really cool.

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Colin Jost and Michael Chay are celebrating
Saint Patrick's Eve. See this year it's

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a leap yeer. Saint Patrick's Day
was supposed to fall on a Saturday,

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which is awesome. When I used
to be the mayor of Saint Patrick's Day,

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there was one year I lost my
voice on Saint Patrick's Day. I

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went out anyway, but because of
the stupid Leap Year, Saint Patrick's Day

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is a Sunday, which sucks.
So Jost and Chay and Jamison Irish Whiskey

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are promoting Saint Patrick's Eve. Chay
tells People Magazine, we don't really like

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doing brand deals, that's not a
thing. But for a really good cause

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like Leapier, I mean we had
to. Jay says it'll possibly be the

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greatest holiday that will ever exist.
Even though we just found out about it,

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feels like we've been celebrating it forever. Joe just said, I think

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this is going to be at least
the second biggest countdown of the year that

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happens at Times Square Top two for
sure. Jay says, obviously, Saint

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Patrick's Day's a big deal in New
York. I just always love that everybody's

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in kind of the same spirit together. It's very rare that a city this

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big find something we could all agree
on. Just kind of cool to see

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everybody on the same page and having
a good time. Joe sasked, did

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you ever march in the parade?
Jay says, march of the parade?

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What am I a cop? No? I never marched the parade, but

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I've seen it maybe forty times.
Chris DeStefano said he had a callback audition

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for a reporter role in James Gunn's
Superman reboot. I don't think he got

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it. He was up for Steve
Lombard, who apparently is the Daily Planet's

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sports reporter. That must have happened
after I became an adult and stop reading

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Superman comics. Lombard often as a
comedic undertone. It is something of a

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workplace foil for Superman's nerdy Clark Kent
secret identity. They often have a strained

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relationship but wind up being good friends. Who knows rory scovel specials out on

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HBO Max. I'm not adding it
to my end of the year list.

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A couple notes here, and this
isn't at Rory, this is at everybody.

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The intros on these comedy specials they're
too long, man Like, Get

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to It. Rory's thing was like
two minutes. Kevin James did the same

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thing. Get to It to the
twenty first century. We've all got ad

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D. We're all playing on our
phone while the TV's on, and you're

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just gonna like walk out to music
for two minutes and the crowd here just

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get to it. Tell a joke. So I got through all that,

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and I gotta admit the long intro
already put me in a funk. You're

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already digging yourself out of a hole
because I'm already annoyed at the direction of

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the special. But I'm gonna play
a clip here, Okay, I want

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you to pay attention. I've been
noticing this a lot on specials. Are

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the comedians adding laughter to specials?
You tell me, listen to this,

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I'm gonna play a clip. The
initial joke is solid, definitely deserves the

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laugh. But then listen to the
tags. Listen to the way the audience

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reacts to the tags. To me, feels like a sitcom. I feel

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like the laughter's way out of whack
with the relative hilarity of these tags.

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You tell me, I also want
to be fair here After the word holy,

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he said the S word. I
try and keep this podcast clean,

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so I've made an edit here.
Other than that, it's as it aired

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on the HBO Max special. Take
a listen, you guys. Have you

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ever met someone who's like I've read
the whole Bible? Is your first thought?

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Oh my god, we should hang
out the whole Bible. What are

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you doing tonight? Holy the whole
Bible. You ever seen somebody with a

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highlighted Bible? Why did that start? I just thought Jesus made such a

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good point here, and I want
to I just I was reading it and

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I was like, wait, this
is me. But Jesus said it back

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then. Ah, So what do
you think? Huh? Yeah, I

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don't know. I'm noticing a lot
of that. Anyway. That does not

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make the end of the year list. The list continues to be only number

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one, Dusty Sleigh, number two, Taylor Thomlinson not on the list,

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Beat Davidson, Jackie Novak, Kevin
James, and now I have to add

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I already forgot his name, Rory
Scovel. I would hate to think people

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are adding laughter to their specials.
But Mitch Heedburgh had a joke twenty years

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ago about sweetening, so might be
a thing that happens again. Use your

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years, you tell me got a
lot here for a Saturday. Huh.

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The Washington Post it caught up at
that. Robert F. Kennedy fundraiser Jeremy

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Piven compared white men to bitcoin,
saying we were the toast of the town,

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and now everyone's trying to dump us. Rob Schneider prowled the stage in

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a fedora, says the Post.
He complained in California public schools, one

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day, you drop off a girl. In the afternoon, you pick up

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a boy. Schnyder said, I'm
old enough to remember when the Democratic Party

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was the Democratic Party. Remember when
they were against war, censorship, don't

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trust your government. It was really
a joke, was it, Post says.

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People appear to have come for the
politics as much as the comedy.

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They laugh, but just as often
cheered things like the Constitution and my Glendell

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and booed things like Jimmy Kimmel and
Gavin Newsom. The crowd was diverse in

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age and style of dress, but
mostly white and skewing male. In an

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informal survey of twenty odd attendees,
quoting here, only one, a sharp

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dressed black man named Emmanuel, said
Biden was the second choice. The rest

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leaned toward Trump unquote. The evening's
entertainment was heavy on podcast comics loosely connected

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to what some have called the manosphere. I have not heard that term before.

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The manosphere among the audience, which
paid one hundred and fifty dollars for

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theater seats and up to fifteen hundred
for after party access. Podcasts were cited

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as an important source of information.
THEO Vaughn's name came up a lot,

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as did Adam Carolla. Both have
given RFK Junior a lot of airtime.

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The La Times ads so what got
the crowd going? Jokes about lockdown,

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masking, Biden's age, the pathetic
Democrats, and more masking. Not sure

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if they're quoting someone here or paraphrasing, but they wrote, isn't it funny

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how you had a mask when walking
to a restaurant but not at the table?

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How about on a plane visiting your
elderly mom? Should do that?

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As angry Jerry Seinfeld and a funny
I had a mask? And why at

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a restaurer? Have another tell?
How about out of play and were visited

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you earlier? The mom quite the
show. Varidy caught up with Michael Keaton

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about these sequels of Beetlejuice. The
movie is titled Beetle Juice and I'm not

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saying it a third time, not
falling for that, but it's that word

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twice is the title, Kean says, It's the most fun I've had on

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a set in a long time.
The one thing that Tim Burton and I

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decided on early, early, early
on, from the beginning, if we

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ever did it again. I was
totally not interested in doing something where there

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was too much technology. They had
to feel handmade. It's the most exciting

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thing when you get to do that
again. After years of standing in front

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of a giant screen pretending somebody's across
the way from you, this is just

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enormous fun. What made it fun
was watching somebody in the corner actually holding

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something up for you to watch everybody
in the shrunken headroom and say, there

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are people under there operating these things, trying to get it right. We

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thought, we have to get this
right. Otherwise don't do it. Let's

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just get on with our lives and
do other things. So I was hesitant

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and cautious, and he was probably
equally as hesitant and cautious after all these

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years. Once we got there,
he said, all right, let's go

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for it. Let's see if we
can do it. B were, I'm

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not falling for it is the most
fun you can have working. It's so

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fun, it's so great. You
know what this is. We're doing it

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exactly like we did the first movie. There's a woman, a spoiler in

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the Great Waiting Room for the Afterlife, literally with a fishing line. I

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want people to know this because I
love it, tugging on the tail of

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a cat to make it move.
Movie sequel, not Falling for It in

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theater is September sixth. Hopefully that
gets people reinterested in the musical. I

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saw the musical. It was fantastic. Paul Versey is taping his next special

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at the Din Theater in Chicago tonight
and on YouTube you many. American comedian

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I'm ed Al Khardri is releasing his
first special. Ahmed brings his striking goofy

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charm to tales that span the spectrum
of life subsurdities, from taking mushrooms at

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a Lizo concert and playing taboo with
his brothers to the comedic nuances of dual

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cultural identities that one's called special not
special. You'll find it on YouTube and

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that is your comedy news for today. Hopefully. Shane Gillis creates all kinds

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of controversies. I like the controversies. See tomorrow