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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

I'm trying to bring back the late night joke segment on Friday, but the jokes just haven't been there.

The only joke I really felt like sharing was from Fallon, who said President Trump, after not being seen in public for several days, appeared in the Oval Office, which means it's six more weeks of dictatorship.

Your letters to Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel will be coming to Brooklyn.

He'll record at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House September twenty nine through October third.

One of the guests will be Stephen Colbert, who has just kicked off the final season of The Late Show.

Oh that reminds me.

Listen to last week's Letterman podcast.

Not the one that came out today.

I have no idea.

Maybe today's is awesome.

Didn't listen to it yet, but the one that came out last Friday, Mark Malkoff drop by.

They start to talking Carson.

At some point Mitch Hedberg came up, really good.

Listen to that one from Deadline the headline, there were signs that Please Don't Destroy was coming to an end on SNL.

Oh No Deadline says the trio radically reduced the amount of videos they produced for the show last year.

Well, it was also the fiftieth anniversary, and there was a lot of big celebrities across twenty one episodes.

In season forty nine, they had done ten.

In season forty eight, they had done eleven in their first year.

They got seven on and also Ben Marshall will be one of the full time cast members of SNL fifty one.

From GQ, the headline, J Kelly should finally met Adam Sandler the Oscar he deserves.

I agree.

I haven't seen the movie, but just on principle, Adam Sandler doing a dramatic role and not a stupid comedy, Let's give him the Oscar just for that.

GQ wrights, We've always known that Adam Sandler has the range.

It's the thrilling to see when the Sandman breaks his pattern, and with Jay Kelly he delivers one of his most subdued performances.

It also happens to be one of his greatest.

Adam Sandler plays Ron, the longtime manager to Jay Kelly, who's played by George Clooney.

The character j Kelly is a charismatic magnet, attracting attention everywhere he moves.

He's lonely but never alone, surrounded by a team that circles him like subservient vultures.

GQ tells us the beauty of Sandler's performance is that you can see Ron's joy and optimism drain from him.

Initially, Ron is bubbly with optimism, calling Jay by the nickname Puppy, and never letting a stress show through a smile.

Then some spoilers.

I don't want to ruin an Adam Sandler dramatic movie for you.

But then some spoilers and we see Adam show some range there, and they write, if Adam Sandler wins an Oscar in the Year of Happy Gilmore two, that will make the victory even sweeter.

I'm rooting for you, Adam Sandler.

Dramatic actor Weird Al explains to the La Times why he hasn't released a parody song in more than a decade.

He says, because there's no longer a monoculture where it's more obvious what the hits are.

Al had recently done some smaller tours where he's playing things that weren't hits, as such things are in the Yanka verse.

I just made that term up.

I like it right.

Yeah, sounds a little dirty, but it's not weird.

Al said, the smaller tours cleanse it ballad for me, and we're fun for my band and the hardcore fans.

But now we're back to playing the big tent, we're ramping up the silliness.

The articleicle even gets into what weird Al calls inception, like there's somebody named Steve Goodie who parodied the weird Al original hardware Store and did a parody of that.

Now hardware Store is not a parody, it's a weird Al original, but the parody by Steve Goodie is called Dumbledore.

And Steve Goody even has a one man show called Al the Weird Tribute.

If you go see Al, at one point every show they cover a classic song and do a straight version of it.

Some examples include Paul Simons you can call me Al, all right, that's a little on the nose, George Harrison's What Is Life?

And even Helen Ready's I Am Woman.

Al says it's a rotating slot almost every night is something different.

The fans get into it, although when he talks to them about it, he sometimes finds their reactions baffling.

People sometimes say, oh, you guys can really play, You can really do real music, and Al says, what do you think we've been doing just because the words are funny, It's not real music.

Newsweek asked Mark Marin if how he perhaps for a special has changed over the years, specifically because he's more high profile than he wasn't at another point and he gets more tension.

Does that affect the crafting and the material?

Maren said, I don't know if it has anything to do with the name of profile, because I never really registered that as a lot or being enough.

It's really more about me as a person.

What if I learned what matters, what doesn't matter?

As I get older, what do I really give a hoot about?

And as a comic, what can I do?

What risk can I take?

And I think over time, me talking about myself probably kind of played spinning and more neurotic.

But as I get deeper into myself, I think that last special from Bleak to Dark offered me an opportunity tragically to try and wrap my brain around grief and death and loss in a funny way.

And I think working those muscles or figuring out how to do that and has it really opened up a whole other area for me to take comedic risks, which I think we see with the trauma bit in this one, and then revisiting grief at the end.

But I think my neurotic problems are my problems of behavior at least have solutions now so I can move through them differently and make them more relatable, because I used to assume when that every when I was younger was angry and bitter like me, but they weren't.

Josh Blue has a new memoir.

He said not everything made the final cut.

He wrote some chapters centered on his experiences with marriage and fatherhood.

Josh says that can come later in a different book.

This one feels like it should be more about me and my path he has called something to stare at.

Josh says, I put the book up on my website.

I thought to get a couple of orders, but I had five hundred already.

I'm just overwhelmed with the fact that this many people have ordered the book without any reviews because they just want to support me, and I know it's going to be a good story because they love my stand up and they love my spirit and personality.

What would he like to do in the future, Josh says, I think porn would be fun.

Now.

I've always wanted my own TV show, I want my own sitcom.

I feel like the world is ready for a disabled lead, and I feel like I'm the guy to do it.

If you have an idea of what you want to do, when you put it in the world, it happens.

Obviously, you have to put the work in.

But so many times people are afraid to even take the first step of dreaming.

I think sometimes people have an idea of what a disability is and what this book will be, and it's not woe is Me or inspirational.

It's not who I am.

I'm just telling my story.

It's a unique story, and I feel like there's more to come.

It's not done.

I worked with him, you know, and like all my stories now, they are million years ago.

But I worked with him back in the day, and he was a very cool guy.

You know who else was cool back in the day.

Well, he's still cool.

But I used to work with him a lot back in the day Bill Engvall, who has unretired.

He's at Treasure Island Casino tonight.

Is it a comeback Bill Engvall, it's all the Star Tribune.

Yes, I'm back out.

Nindsight, I should have just taken a break.

I got burned out, but I missed that juice you get from an audience.

You also create a lifestyle that's got to be fed.

Nobody's coming to me anymore saying we'll take care of your bills.

My celebrity recognition factors way down.

Used to be.

I can walk in a restaurant and that say we've got a table for you.

We're going to take care of your dinner.

I'm not gonna lie.

That's fun.

When did he know retirement was a mistake within six months.

At first, I was bound to determine to make it work.

Then I caught myself watching The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, and that's when I knew it was time to get back on the road.

Comedy stock Market, It is Friday where we make our comedy stock picks.

We're gonna buy some.

Nate Brigatzi today.

Why he's hosting the Emmys on September fourteenth, check your calendar.

All of a sudden, there's gonna be a lot of Nate press and it's gonna be super positive.

The media likes him.

Let's buy neat.

Let's buy Adam Sandler.

Johnny Mack, you're buying Adam Sandler stock.

That's right, dramatic actor Adam Sandler.

Let's get him the Oscar.

Let's load up on some Sandler.

Let's sell SNL.

The haters are out there.

The bar is too high.

There's no way SNL fifty one can live up to SNL fifty, which wasn't even that creative a season other than the celebration new cast.

People are gonna be mad.

They're gonna be mad about the guy from kil Tony.

Forget it.

Let's sell SNL.

However, let's buy stock and Ben Marshall from the Police, don't destroys.

He's got a lot of charisma and I think he's going to have a great year.

Let's sell our stock in the paper.

Remember last Friday, we loaded up on the paper.

Johnny Mack, Why are you selling right now?

The show just launched the last night and they announced season two.

That's right, that's how we make money on comedy.

Stock market.

We sell Hi, let's get out on the paper and short sell.

We don't have any stock in this, but let's short sell Dancing with the Stars.

Now, why are we short selling Dancing with the Stars, Johnny Mack.

They have announced the cast of season thirty four, and you know who's on the cast of season thirty four, Andy Richter.

That's right, Dancing with the Stars is taking on the curse of Andy Richter.

Andy Richter can get any show canceled, including Conan O'Brien.

You're messing with the devil there.

I don't know what you're doing.

Nobody's tuning in, going oh cool.

Andy Richter's on.

You're only taking on the curse.

We will sell Dancing with the Star stock and that is your comedy stock market.

We do this every Friday.

Are you in Chicago?

Go watch them.

Name the street after Bob Newhart.

Gotta get there by eleven am.

The street on the North Sheridan Road between ord Moore and Thorndale named in honor of Bob Newhart.

Today would have been Bob Newhart's ninety sixth birthday.

Bob Newhart born in nineteen twenty nine in Oak Park, attended Saint Ignatius College Prep and Loyal University, where a theater bears his name, and The Toronto Guardian caught up with comedian Sidish pay Pai Pie.

Sidesh combines sharp wit, clever wordplay and self deprecating humor, aircrafting one liners and observational jokes.

Pretty generic.

I'm rooting for you.

Let's see, who are your favorite comedians growing up?

Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld.

Okay, who are your favorite comedians now?

Is Zorna Gorg and Mark Normand?

All right?

I think that helps us zone in on your lane of comedy.

Sidesh says, Mark Norman is like a machine gun of one liners which resonates with my own comedic style.

What is your pre show ritual meditation?

Interesting?

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Don't tell anyone you get palace intrigue.

Harry's coming to the UK Monday, or maybe he's not.

I don't know.

No one knows.

You read one news article they're like, Harry's gonna beet with the King Monday, and then the next one's like, no, they're not.

I've been calling it Schrodinger's Harry.

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