Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend and it's Joe Biden! Ricky Gervais responds to Armageddon controversy, Gary Gulman Born On Third Base out today

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

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Ricky Gervais has responded to some of
the criticism about his upcoming special that'll be

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out on Netflix on Christmas. In
it, Ricky is joking about recording video

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messages for terminally ill children via the
Make a Wish Foundation. Ricky's joke,

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I always start the video the same
way I go, why didn't you wish

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to get better? What are you
fing? R? Word? As well?

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That didn't go over well. Ricky
has now told BBC Radio five Live.

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In the actual skit, I say
I've been doing a lot of video

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messages lately for terminally ill children,
only if they are requested. I don't

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burst into the hospitals and say wake
up, baldy. I'm literally saying in

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the joke that I don't do that. But people have a reaction. They

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don't analyze it. They feel something. That's what the offense is. It's

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a feeling. That's why I'm offended. Is quite meaningless. What do you

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want me to change? The host
discussed a petition that has accrued thousands of

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signatures calling for Netflix to remove the
joke. Ricky responded good luck. That's

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what I say to them, good
luck. I'll even retweet it. Ninety

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nine percent of it is faux offence. They're not really offended, they just

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want to be heard. I'll explain
now, you've mistaken the subject of the

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joke with the actual target. Of
the millions of people that watched it and

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loved it, only a few don't
like it. If I give them special

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attention and try to placate them,
I've annoyed the other millions of people that

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got the joke. They go,
no, you've ruined it for us.

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So I've got a duty to the
people that like it and get it.

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I wouldn't sit down with a heckler, would I. If I'm playing to

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twenty thousand people, I wouldn't stop
the show and explain it to them.

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I ignore them. Ricky adds,
particularly with irony and satsire, I'm often

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playing a character. But some people
get confused and think that a joke is

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a window into the comedian's true soul. It's not true. It's a joke.

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No one does this with puns,
do they. Two books didn't really

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walk into a pub. I deal
in taboo subjects because I want to take

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the audience to a place that hasn't
been before, even for a split second.

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Most defense comes from when people mistake
the subject of a joke with the

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actual target. I think that's what
the comedy is for getting us over taboo

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subjects so they're not scary anymore.
So I deal with everything, and I

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think we second guess the audience too
much. I'm looking forward to watching that

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one. I've been holding off on
publishing my Top Specials of the Year list

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because I want to include that one. I'd love to include Chappelle as well,

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but that doesn't come out to New
Year's Eve, and I do want

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to include Gary Goldman, who has
a special out today. I'll get to

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that in a second. I did, as promised, watch Trevor Noah's special.

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I liked it a lot. It
is not the funniest special, but

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it's really compelling. I find Trevor
to be great company. I like the

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way he thinks, I like the
way he explains issues. I just like

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listening to him speak. I love
the voice work that he does. Maybe

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the specials ten minutes too long.
I wasn't laughing all that much again,

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totally entertained. Loved the special,
was playing on my phone a little bit

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towards the end, and the spoiler
thing I mentioned yesterday totally worked on me.

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Trevy, you got me to watch
the credits. So right now,

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plus or minus Ricky Gervais, I
have Trevor Noah's Special Ants number thirteen,

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so better than the Roast of Mister
Peanut, which sounds like a dig but

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that was actually pretty good and not
as good as Jimmy O yangs. Guess

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how much I'll go over that full
list sometime next week. Expect Drvas will

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make it, and I also expect
Gary Golman's Born on Third Base will make

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it. That's out on Max Today. In Born on Third Base, Gary

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Goleman offers up his insights on a
range of topics from growing up poor to

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pretentious suffixes, all with the generous
helping of his inventive humor and absurdism,

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while chronicling his childhood experiences with free
school lunch programs and questionable dentsal care.

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These stand up makes an incisive swiper
two at billionairesm Boing Boying got a screener

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of it, they say. In
Born on Third Base, Goldman's playful styles

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at the forefront with many digressions into
silliness, word plying, observational comedy.

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But underneath all that is a very
cohesive and even profound story of what it's

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like growing up poor for a special
as laugh out loud, funny as this

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Hour is. There are many strong
and important public policy points he makes,

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including messages about welfare reform and shockingly
accelerating income disparity. Point Boying ads if

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you're going to illustrate your thesis about
America's treatment of the poor, went on

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do it with a long, hilarious
bit about pop darts. Brad Williams also

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has a special out today, this
one on veeps. Not sure what veeps

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is? What's veeps? Veeps your
past live shows, get unlimited access to

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live shows on demand content blah blah
blah. So it's an on demand service.

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Looks like there's a subscription where stuff
is free. I randomly clicked on

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and imagine Dragon's concert and you could
get that for six bucks. So there's

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some way to watch Brad Williams today
if you want. The New Hour sees

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him talk about navigating relationships and everyday
life as a little person. I was

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up in the middle of the night
with my dog, that's what my dog's

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been doing lately. And I'm like, all right, we can go out

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if you want. And then I
was playing with my phone and I'm like,

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oh wow. Conan O'Brien as President
Biden as his guest. Codin talked

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to Biden about Biden's speech impediment.
Conan said, my theory is if you

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stay connected to these things that embarrassed
you when you were a kid, whatever

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it was, speech impediment, anxiety, feeling awkward, not being a good

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athlete. Like my list goes on
and on, having weird hair, having

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a weird name. Biden jumps in
and says, I wish I had your

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hair. I trade you right now
if you want. Conan says, you

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want this air it comes off,
I'll mail you this week tomorrow. Sounds

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like the Manning brothers are not too
happy with Kevin Hart. Kevin was supposed

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to be on the Manning Cast on
Monday Night. Kevin Hart, big Eagles

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fan. Kevin had to back out
due to a last minute conflict. Hmmm.

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On air, Peyton Manning told ESPN
Scott Van Pelt Kevin Hart was supposed

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to be on, but it's a
tall order for him. To be on

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them for the second time, so
Kevin's out. Van Pelt said, shots

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at Kevin Hart. Peyton and Eli
Manning then proceeded a mock Houston, Texas

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quarterback case Keenum for being Kevin Hart's
replacement on the show. Eli said,

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tonight, you're replacing Kevin Hart was
supposed to be on the Manning cast,

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but last minute he had a conflict. I really do not have time to

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prepare for you, So I said, okay, if I ask you the

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questions I prepared for Kevin Hart,
that's really funny. Keenan said he would

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get into his Kevin Hart costume by
lowering his chair. Told you. John

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Oliver went after Elon Musk. Elon
Musk not really amused by all this,

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What a shock. Elon went on
the social media platform we're all calling Twitter.

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No one's calling it that other thing. Elon, stop with that Twitter,

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Twitter, Twitter Twitter. Elon was
on Twitter. A social media user

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had posted on Twitter a clip of
Oliver's segment and wrote, oh no,

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how will Elon ever recover? Elon
replied with crying laughing emojis, and then

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wrote Oliver was great eight several years
ago, but stop being funny. When

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he sold his soul to Wokeness,
where humor is basically illegal. What we

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do in the shadows, you know, the Office Vampires. It's ending,

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starting its production on the sixth season
in January. It will be the last

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season, according to FX. Tonight
on CBS, celebrate Dick Van Dyke's ninety

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eighth birthday two hour special Dick Vandyke
ninety eight years of Magic. Guests include

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Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Jason
Alexander, Rob Reiner, Ted Danson,

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William Shatner, Martin Short, Jane
Seymour, Jet Appatoo, Melbrooks, and

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Ken Jung. For some reason,
that's weird. Musical tributes and songs from

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Van Dyke's other career triumphs, including
Bye Bye Birdie and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,

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would be part of the celebration.
Dick Van Dyke said, I started

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with CBS in her contract in nineteen
fifty five with the CBS Morning Show,

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then The Dick Van Dyke Show and
Diagnosis Murder. Forgot about that third one.

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I've been with the CBS family for
almost seventy years and I couldn't be

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prouder. I'm incredibly honored that CBS
will be throwing a ninety eighth birthday special

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for me. Can't wait to be
part of the show. Of Sound has

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named their comedian of the Year.
Who do you think it is? I'll

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give you a second to think about
it. I like their pick a lot.

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It is Nateperghansey, they write.
He'd never label himself one, but

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Naperganzy's a bit of a business mogul. In addition to a stand up tours

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and specials, he hosts a Nate
Land podcast under the umbrella of his Nate

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Land Company. The core of Nateland
is similar to the core of Bergatzy's comedy,

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humor that everyone across age, demographics
or media preferences can enjoy together.

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The thesis there is that it's all
clean. Nate smashed the record for Amazon's

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most stream original comedy in its first
twenty eight days with two point nine million

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viewers, four hundred thousand more than
the previous record holder. I remind you

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the other day, Chris Rock I
think got thirty six million some number like

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that. Jim Gaffigan's Quality Time was
the previous record holder. That could just

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be an Amazon verus Netflix thing.
Good bick there. I like Nate a

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lot for comedy dot co dot UK
Mark muldoone caught Eliza Selessenger's show. Mark

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said she's making worthwhile but quite familiar
points. Mark uses an example of a

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joke about how women say don't actually
need to make an effort with makeup to

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arouse men or her clean from some
women that they wear makeup address sexually for

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ourselves, not for men. Good
funny social observations, but ones that have

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already been made fairly recently by UK
comedians. It'suffice to say, if you're

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interested in hearing the differences between men
and women in modern society, it's certainly

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a show that's all too happy to
explore them. After initial concerns about a

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lack of original thought, the show
doesn't warm up. She's inventive on other

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social divides, namely the one between
millennials and gen z, as well as

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the dilemma women face about whether to
get cosmetic surgery. Is the age that

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punchline. It's a difficult choice women
have to make. Do you want to

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look gold? We're weird? Bill
Maher has a book coming out in June.

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It's called What This Comedian Said?
We'll Shock you in it? Bill

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Maher revisits some of his on air
commentary. According to the publishers announcement,

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Bill Maher reviewed more than a decade
of his editorials, rewriting, reimaginating and

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updating them, and adding new material
to speak exactly to the moment we're in.

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I'll translate there. Hey you want
a book? Yeah? Do I

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have to do all any work?
Well? Yeah you do. Can we

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just reuse stuff I already did and
I get money? Yeah, I guess.

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From The Daily Mail, comedian Rosie
Jones has hit out at comments about

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her performance at the Royal Variety show
the other night. Rosie has serebal palsy,

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and she revealed she was on the
receiving end of some cruel trolling over

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her performance. On Twitter, which
is what everybody but Elon calls it,

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Rosie said, thank you for all
the lovely messages about the Royal Variety last

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night. What fun less of a
thanks to the not so lovely ones.

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On Instagram, Rosie said, so, I was on Royal Variati last night

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and I just want to make something
clear. If you want to write me

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to tell me I'm not funny,
don't because I don't care. If you

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want to say that I'm too disabled
to be on television or you can't understand

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me, don't bother, because again
I don't care, and I'm going to

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carry on being on your screen with
my disabled voice. And then there's your

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comedy news for today. I'll have
episodes for you all through the holidays,

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not taking a break here. I
might pre tape one, like you know,

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I'm not gonna record on Christmas Eve, let's be real, but I

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can tell you right now the Christmas
one has a lot of Ricky Travay's material.

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So if you're in a Ricky,
you're gonna like a Christmas episode.

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If you're not in a Ricky,
probably won't like it so much. See

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you tomorrow.