Shane Gillis on U.S. Grant and naming his special

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Shoenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Shane Gillis was on Hot Ones.
You know what that is. That's where

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you go and they feed you increasingly
spicy wings while you answer some questions.

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You know, that thing's pretty popular. Probably heard of it. Shane explained

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where the name Beautiful Dogs came from. That's the name of Shane's most recent

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Netflix comedy special. He shared that
it was a spontaneous decision made from one

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of his shows at Joe Rogan's club, The Comedy Mothership in Austin. The

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booker stopped him as he walked off
stage and told Gillis that's the name of

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the special. It's Beautiful Dogs,
and Gillis goes, all right, great,

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if someone names it few, it's
a lot easier than trying to be

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cool and creative. Shane Gillis is
a favorite mediocre US president Ulics assessed Grant

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he failed at the beginning, that
became a general at the end. It's

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pretty sick. Gillis acknowledges how much
of a loser Grant was while working for

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his father in law's drug store.
The story continues on how Grant then became

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a clerk when the Civil War broke
out, and by the end of the

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war he was commander in chief.
I with Shane on this one. He

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said, how unimportant comedy special intros
are. Just walk on stage, amen.

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I hate those specials that have the
four minutes of I don't know,

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green room stuff or walking backstage and
with the camera falls down and says,

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just walk on stage. Shane is
absolutely right, exclaim dot ca a with

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a fun one for the last decade. Duff McKagan you know him from Guns

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n' Roses. He plays bass.
He has claimed that the Simpsons beer Duff

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Beer, is named after him.
No it's not. Jake Cogan, is

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an original writer producer on the show, told TMZ it's very weird that this

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Duff mccagan guy wants to claim credit
for Duff Beer. He had zero to

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do with it, according to Duff
McKagan, So I was Doff the King

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of beers. But this is nineteen
eighty eight, nineteen eighty nine, and

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our management, I remember they called
me and said some art house like cartoon

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wants to use your name as the
beer, like a college arthouse cartoon.

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There weren't any adult cartoons at the
point, I didn't know anything about branding

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or anything like that took off and
they started selling merchant stuff. I never

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went after him, but I'm like, hey, mfrs. You know,

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no, dude, No, it's
not named after you. Cogan says we

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named it Duff because it's a synonym
for butt, tushy, booty, and

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so on. It wouldn't have been
funny to name it after a rock star

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as Duff as a beer for people
who sit on their fat ass all day,

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Excelain points out. Cogan said no
one working on The Simpsons at that

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time knew any Guns N' Roses member
beside Axel Rose, a burn for McKagan,

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but a worse burn for Slash Entertainment
Weekly. Uh put out a fluff

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piece. A coworker of mine used
to call it waxing your car. I

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don't know what the point of this
article was. It was just gushing.

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Executive producer Stephen Colbert says he's long
been a fan of Taylor. Thomson was

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thrilled when she agreed to host.
Colbert explains, when she was just starting

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out, the algorithm started feeding her
to me years ago. I remember thinking,

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who is this special Woman. We
then get a recap of Tomlinson's career.

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She builds her career as a stand
up comedian, winning fans with frank

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confessional Netflix specials, including this year's
Having On twenty twenty's Quarter Life Crisis,

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but she's since embraced the joys of
staying up after midnight. Taylor explains,

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I think hosting is an entirely different
skilled and stand up which is why I

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decided to take the job. I
wanted to try something new. Also,

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you know, forty plus weeks of
steady work that probably pays well. Some

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internet rumors have her salary at three
million dollars, you know, so there's

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that, and plus her on network
TV. And then you show up on

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things like the Tony Awards. She
was on the Tony Awards Sunday night,

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and people are like, I know
who that is. You know, maybe

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if somebody offers you a twelve thirty
show on a network, you say yes,

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Tomlinson said. I remember being incredibly
nervous and feeling excited but also pretty

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overwhelmed. I don't think I could
have or would have taken a show like

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this without someone like Steven producing it. He's been super generous with his time

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and advice. I can't imagine tackling
something like this entirely on my own.

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Oh yeah, here's ten million dollars. But the executive producer is I don't

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know who's someone horrible Marjorie Taylor Green. She's executive producing it, and it's

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ten million dollars. You. In
weird article, Late Nighter recapped a recent

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FYC event for John Mulaney's Late Night
show. Nick Kroll was hosting it.

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Nick asked writer Langston Kerman what their
favorite pieces for the show were. Kerman

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revealed they had shot a tribute to
LA's many Kobe Bryant murals. Mlani explained,

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there were four hundred of varying quality, but then the lawyers got involved.

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Oh, I've been involved with lawyers. They ruin everything. Mulleny explained,

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you can't show an outdoor mural legally
without compensating the muralist. We filmed

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like one hundred murals. We just
thought they're on walls. The co executive

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producer, David Ferguson clarified, well, they'll let you do it as long

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as you make commentary. Mlanie also
mentioned one argument that didn't work for the

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lawyers. John said, when the
muralists put their name in the corner,

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you can't go. We had no
idea who did it. Our lawyers called

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it due diligence. Thanks lawyers.
Dean Cook is going to reteam with Greg

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Coolidge. You're like, who's Greg
Coolidge? Well, he's obviously the director

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from the two thousand and six lines
Gate comedy Employee of the Month, which

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starred Deane Cook. How did you
forget that film? While this comedy duo

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is back, they're working on an
indie comedy based on the twenty eleven Blacklist

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script by Christopher Baldy. The film
follows a man who, after hitting a

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major rut in his marriage, is
convinced the only way to save the relationship

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is to have the ultimate night out
with his male co workers. Dan Cook

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is fifty two, so I guess
it's kind of sort of The Hangover with

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a fifty two year old Dane Cook
in the middle. Some more evidence of

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that seth Yankelwitz, who casted The
Hangover, is casting for this one.

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Can't wait for it, Dane says. He sets to release another comedy special,

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this one called Gritty in Pink.
Although there was not yet a date

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for that one. Also, he's
working on an untitled documentary chronicling his rise

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to comedy stardom amid a fierce legal
battle that's in development. W Magazine caught

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up with Hannah Einbinder, and I
like W Magazine because they mentioned her mother's

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Lorraine Newman, who was on Saturday
Night Live and is a founding member of

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the ground Links. It's relevant.
It doesn't mean Hannah's not talented. It

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just means, you know, people
know Peo. People make a call.

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For example, say I wanted to
have the Pope on, I could go

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to vatic and Media Relations and be
like, hey, my name's Johnny Mack.

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I host a podcast. Da da
Da da da. I'm not gonna

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get anywhere. But if I reach
out to Deacon Mike, who talks to

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the Bishop, who talks to James
Martin, who talks to the Pope on

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my behalf, I've got a shot. That's how the world works, you

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know. So let's not pretend Hannah's
mother's not Lorie Newman, and it didn't

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help. Doesn't mean she's not talented. It helps. Before landing Hacks,

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Hannah said she was really enjoying stand
up I love the art form. I

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love storytelling and characters and straight up
stand up comics, alternative comics, clowns,

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bur lesque. It's just pure to
me. Before I started acting,

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I was still a local comic.
I had just started featuring for other comedians

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on the road. Being an opening
act Hacks gave me the ability to tour

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on my own. She was excited
to release her special. There are some

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jokes that are months old. There
are some jokes that are years old.

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It feels like a time consul this
hour of my life artistically, and I'm

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ready to move on to the next
thing. If you have been watching my

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next guest needs no introduction with David
Letterman, you saw his interview with Miley

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Cyrus, who invited Dave to one
of her family and friends shows. Letterman

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apparently is one of the very few, if not only, straight men who've

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ever been granted entry. Miley tells
him from the stage, it's invite only,

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and it's kind of like you got
to be gay to get an invite.

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Letterman got to see Miley doing her
interpretation of talking Head cycle Killer,

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which she describes as David Byrton does
Johnny Cash doing Kylie Minogue Letterman said this

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was so good. As I'm sitting
there, I'm thinking I might be gay.

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If you like David Letterman, listen
to tomorrow's podcast. I'm talking with

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Mike Chisholm, host of the Letterman
Podcast, and we talk Letterman for eighty

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minutes. I might even split into
two ports forty and forty. You know,

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it's a weekend. It's a summer, all right. If you can

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make your way to Columbus, Ohio, it's the Columbus Comedy Festival. It's

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the inaugur one August fourteenth through the
eighteenth. Co founder Walker Evans says,

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we could be more excited to not
only bring major headliners to Columbus from New

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York, LA, Chicago and beyond, but also highlight her incredibly talented local

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comedy scene. The multi day festival
will be spread out at the Columbus Funny

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Bone, the Key, Columbus Performing
Arts Center, Mad Lab, the Attic

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Comedy Club, the Nest Theater,
the Hashtag Comedy Company, and Don't Tell

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Comedy Columbus. Among the performers Michael
Ian Black, Jason Banks, Tony Rock,

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Irene Two, Who's Fantastic, Sam
Jay, and there's about fifteen more

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names on this list that you probably
don't recognize, but that sounds like a

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really good festival. The New York
Times did a fluff piece for Lauren Michaels

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Lauren Hirsch. On the byeline,
Lauren Hirsch writes some jokes could have landed

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better, and Lauren Michaels is second
guessing his choice to shorten certain skits.

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He's likely to spend the weekend thinking
about every detail. By Monday, he'll

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find some degree of contentment until he
has to do it all over again.

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The article points out it's gotten harder
since the pandemic because a lot of the

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live venues that served as farm teams
for SNL have closed. Michaels is well

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versed in the challenges that New Star's
facing. If you were the funniest kid

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in the class at your school and
then you're working professionally and everyone else in

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the room is that it can be
upsetting or can be really stimulating. No

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one can handle the fame. Generally, we're more tolerant of it because you

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know people are going to turn into
a holes because it's just part of the

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process, because no one grew up
that way. Is Lauren going to sticker

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around. He won't answer. He
says, I'm gonna do it as long

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as I feel I can do it. But I rely on other people and

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I always have. Josh Gondoman is
taping his next special at the Bell House

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in New York tonight. A very
funny comedian you should check out. Brooklyn

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based comedian Eva Evans is being praised
for making a hilarious yet respectful joke about

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the LGBT plus community during a recent
show. A clip from her set was

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posted on Instagram by Don't Tell Comedy. It has gone viral. The set

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is called dating a trans Man.
Eva says, I didn't know he was

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trans from his profile, but you
know in person, I figured it out.

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But I didn't give a hoot.
I'm too poor to have a phobia.

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As long as you identify as a
man who's paying this check at the

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end of this MF and meal,
that's all I care about. As long

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as your pronouns are zell and cash
app, I don't give an f about

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what else you got going on.
And that's your comedy news today. All

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right, Mike Chisholm and I doc
Letterman tomorrow. Have a good weekend. See you