Shane Gillis' new commercial, Adam Sandler's new special reviews, and The Day The Clown Cried |...

karoga shark media hello I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news Shane Gillis is in a new Bud Light commercial USA Today points out Shane Gillis drinking a Bud Light for a college football game isn't exactly headline news a quick scroll through his Instagram and you can see Shane and his friends enjoying a Bud Lights while out at various events in January Shane announced a partnership with Bud Light they have a new camp rolling out across TV and social media Todd Allen is Bud light's senior vice president of marketing he said as a passionate college football fan himself Shane Gillis was the perfect partner to connect our college football audience with his distinct style of humor and it doesn't hurt that Shane loves a Bud Light or two on game day all right in this commercial which I'm going to play most of for you it is called the Dean's office Shane Gillis plays coach herb who's brought into the office for a meeting between the college dean and a football player in trouble a bucket of Bud Lights is offered in exchange for the truth let's take a listen it takes a minute to get rolling but once we get to Shane major payoff here you go Bobby you've been accused of plagiarizing your Master's thesis if you are found guilty you will have to forgo the football season but if you confess I will make it only half the season I'll make you a deal you tell the truth you can have this this ice cold bucket of Bud Lights all you have to do is c f all right I'll go first Grease the wheels a little what no I confess that I practice my halftime speeches in the shower before games Professor Wilkins you want to confess anything no all right I'll go for you Professor Wilkins has been taking karate classes ever since that saxophone girl put him in a headlock Shane Gillis provided an exclusive to USA Today in which Shane Gillis says I've spent the past couple years working with these guys on projects from beautiful dogs to tires getting to shoot new shorts with them and Bud was a lot of fun all right Adam Sandler Recaps here here's the deal I've got some stuff going on in my personal life I had a tape a couple days in advance so I'm actually recording today because I'm not around today I had to record this on Tuesday my plan here as I sit here in the basement is to actually watch Adam Sandler but as I record I haven't seen it yet but a bunch of reviews are out the first from USA Today who write there are two Adam Sandlers one is the in-your-face lowest common denominator for and penis joke guy you know and maybe love depending on your comedic taste Johnny MC Presley hates that the other is getting a little bit older a little bit romantic and very nostalgic I I like the older Adam Sandler I've talked about this I I openly don't like most of his movies and I think some of the more dramatic roles I think he's actually pretty good at it and I'd like to see him do more of that USA Tedy R says for the special these two men meet in an odd dysfunctional marriage in Sandler's new Netflix special Adam Sandler love you they gave it two and a half stars out of four the hourong special is a foe off-the-cuff event directed by one of Sandler's uncut jams collaborators Josh safy it makes more odd penis and sex jokes than you would expect with a bit of melancholy and softness sorry my brain locked on penis jokes and softness I know plus some unreality pretending to be real altogether it's a little juring sometimes off-putting but also kind of sweet love you is nowhere near the heights of his last special 2018 100% fresh that outing was full of energy and newness spoilers love you opens with Sandler driving a car with a shattered windshield into an alley he's instantly overcome by fans and gets a hoodie from a stranger it's meant to be raw footage but in reality it's clearly scripted to be weird and offputting complete with a random ventriloquist as Sandler's opening act it stinks of safy involvement as films from safy and his brother Benny including gems in good time are known for their stressful slightly off-kilter version of the real world it doesn't really work nor does a series of technical glitches after Sandler takes the sage that might have been real or but also come off scripted this is really interesting I'm looking forward to watching this and considering the special was filmed over four nights that's the most logical conclusion yeah that that too that they had to take four different nights to make an hour here or 70 minutes here little weird coffee in hand which he demands to be sweetened with stevia and not a different artificial sugar Sandler begins a rall of midlink jokes about life veering from the mundane to the Fantastical topics include Genies talking balloons other mythical characters he's never been the kind of comedian to invite the audience into his actual personal life even if some of his experiences as a husband father and celebrity sneak into a storytelling there are many many of his typical less than tasteful jokes kids walking in on their parents having sex Genie tricking Sandler in performing uh something naughty in an airport bathroom songs about old guys with kids the list goes on the line between funny and vulgar is crossed more than once but that's nothing new for Sandler this is USA Today but then there are the simple folksy kind of jokes that hit without inducing cringe Rob Schneider appears in an elfas Presley get up to do a really solid impression of the king as Sandler sings along I played on the the weekly comedy thing that's the show I host on live one I played a Schneider bit where he was doing Yoko and Julian Lenin now the Yoko is every stereotype you can imagine um but the Julian lennin was pretty good it was basically doing juliean Lenin as the John lennin everyone does but it was really entertaining anyway that show is called the weekly comedy thing it's on the live one app the show is free the app is free if you want to check that out I do that once a week new episodes every Sunday the Elvis thing is not really a joke so much as a solid musical inlude the Chicago Sun Times reviewed Adam Sandler's new special and say we are living in the age of the streaming comedy special when it seems like there's at least one new stand-up show every week yes there are the first five minutes of love you play like a deleted scene from uncut gems with Sandler pulling up an alley I just talked about that once Sandler's inside it's clear the venue isn't exactly the United Center or American Airlines Arena Sandler wonders alow who booked this place so like I haven't seen yet that sounds kind of lame like Adam Sandler's walking in having no idea where he's performing I mean that's just not true so you know have two minds here one it's comedy just laugh whatever have a good time but if the underlying premise is oh I can't believe I'm in this Arena how did this happen how is my Netflix special being filmed here that seems a little lame to me but again I haven't seen it yet the Sun Times rights turns out the grubbiness of the venue is literally built into the production as safy and the production design team built the nocturn theater in Glendale California into a ramshackle dister that looks like it's on the brink of being shut down it's strange to see one of the biggest comedy stars of his generation in such a downscale setting but it's never not interesting none of this would matter if the material isn't there in that department Sandler delivers a hilarious yet thought-provoking mix of jokes and songs not everything works mostly though Sandler comes through where he's telling a story that sounds like it's pulled from real life but quickly turns absurd or playing solid guitar while performing the genre hopping songs and a friend of the podcast Jason Zinman in the New York Times writes Adam Sandler 57 hasn't lost a step before it became a huge star Sandler made proudly filthy and beloved comedy albums full of irreverence sketches that chronicled subjects like an extremely long bout of urination uh I'm going to jump in and again I respect Jason zinaman and as I told Jason Zinman when he was on the Pod Jason knows more about comedy than I do but I'm going to push back on beloved comedy albums and here's why I programmed a serious comedy for 10 years and uh especially in the area of programming on live one and slacker I can tell you Adam Sandler bits are not loved like for example on the live one app you can thumbs up and thumbs down things and I get to see all the data anytime I schedule Adam Sandler stuff it is at the bottom of any playlist all of them they are not beloved at least by the people that use the live one app these are not beloved Jason cinnamon but love you Jason writes the new special can feel like a throwback to that era if anything age allows new avenues for pot humor Sandler hasn't exactly matured that was Destroy his comedy so much as allows sentimentality to overtake the humor he had helped from family his wife and daughters and now as much of regulars as his work as Chris Rock David Spade and his old friends from SN LR Sandler gives his old pal Rob Schneider an unnecessary Cameo doing an Elvis impression the best parts of the special are its long winding dirty stories told in its characteristic mumble in crooked angles and close-ups safy shoots Sandler watching his show fall apart a dog runs on stage the video doesn't work Sandler makes one joke about his own Fame and stature but the visuals undercut any hero worship even putting silhouettes on the heads of audience members in the foreground he's playing a small room and speaking softly about juvenile things for a certain kind of Comedy that's all you need um Jason also wrote about Langston kerman's bad poetry that one I did watch last weekend and uh you know it was okay I just didn't do anything for me so I bailed on it but Jason writes in his terrific debut hour Langston Kerman displays the kind of effortless laid-back charm that can make you underestimate him there's an ease with which he moves between talking about his mother's romantic life or the student cruelty experience when he was a school teacher that can make his actx seem tossed off you might also think he benefits from great stories like an amazing one about a man his mother married who was fired from his job as an NBA mascot but there's a Precision to his low-key stories and attention to detail that puts jokes across his setups and punch lines are solid even his transitions contain gems like all our heroes are monsters and all our monsters have podcasts the punchline comedy club is opening with Dave Chappelle it's their new location at 1204 Caroline in Houston inside the former House of Blues Restaurant space capacity 2 50 Dave Chappelle will perform September 6th and 7th at the new location it's probably sold out by the time you hear my voice I told you that traitor wanted Ricky D to be on their show Ricky has responded on Twitter saying he loves the show and I'm very flattered but it won't happen I'm too busy and there's no way they could afford me he wrote that alongside an emoji of a face wearing sunglasses so when I put the show together I have these little documents and I'll put the stories and I'll slot them in a different day for example if you announced a comedy special coming out December 1st and I got a press release I would not only mention it to but in the December 1st folder I would put it there to remind me to talk about it 3 months from now the other thing I do is like say I'm going to talk about Adam Sandler I just have one word I'll write Sandler to let me know as I go into the next story what I'm about to talk about uh what I'm about to talk about here is Michael Katon but for some reason I spelled it ke e a r t o w n i I don't know how that happened kieron Michael kieron you know him he was Batman well he's also in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice I know I'm not falling for it I'm not saying that word third time you know what happens if you say it three times Michael Keaton said the only thing I was worried about was should we have left it alone you know should we have just said don't touch it just walk away go make your other movies so for me it was a big roll of dice at the end of the day if somebody said you have to pick one thing you've done how I make my living I'd probably pick that character that I'm not saying for its all-encompassing thing just for its art you know what I mean I've been in you know some pretty good movies but this sequel is something different I'm looking forward to this one do you know what the day the Clown cried is it is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 drama directed by and starring Jerry Lewis okay have you heard of this it is one of the most famous lost films in history it's so bad Jerry Lewis declared it should never be seen every now and then I hear stories of like a secret screening in Los Angeles I've seen a recreation of it on YouTube so what's so bad about the day the clown cried how bad could it be well here's the synopsis of a new film called Darkness to light Darkness to light synopsis reads in 1972 the king of comedy Jerry Lewis was at the peak of his career driven by the ambition to play a dramatic role for change he set out to craft a very special movie project for himself the day the clown cried it turned out to be an epic Fiasco becoming an elusive ghost of a movie with Lewis leaving the set never speaking about what happened the movie was never completed and has become the ultimate Hollywood myth okay what's the deal John how bad could this movie be in the day the clown cried Jerry Lewis plays a German clown in a concentration camp now the story I'm cripping off here doesn't uh doesn't talk about it um but basically spoilers for a 50-year-old movie that's never coming out the Nazis something something with Jerry Lewis the clown and Jerry Lewis the clown um performs to distract the children who then get led to the gas Chambers this is a Jerry Lewis film it never came out so I'm looking forward to this documentary and if you really scour the internet you can't find the film it really has been put away I'm pulling up the Wikipedia right here Jerry Lewis repeatedly insisted the day the clown cow would never be released later donated an incomplete copy of the film to the Library of Congress in 2015 under the stipulation it was not to be made available before June of 2024 according to Lewis's Sun there is no complete negative of the film and outstanding copyright issues have prevented its release Wikipedia has the plot as helmet dork d o r k helmet dork is a washed up German circus clown during the beginning of World War II in the Holocaust he was once a famous performer who toured North America and Europe with the Ringling Brothers dor is now pass his prime receives little respect after dork causes an accident during a show the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote dork Upon returning home dor confines his problems to his wife aah and she encourages him to stand up for himself he goes back to the circus something something Helman is arrested by the gapo for drunkenly mocking eight off Hitler in a bar he's imprisoned in a Nazi camp for the next 3 to four years he remains there while hoping for a trial and a chance to plead his case subplots about his time in the prison the other prisoners go Dorking a performing for them but he doesn't realize that he's actually not that good the other prisoners beat him up and leave him in a courtyard to sulk he sees a group of Jewish children laughing at him from the other side delighted to be appreciated helmet performs for them and gains an audience until the new prison commant orders him to stop helmet learns that franzinger is strictly forbidden unable to leave the children in a state of unhappiness he continues to perform for them more plot skipping ahead seeing a use for him the common on assigns him to help load Jewish children on trains leading out of the internment camp with a promise that his case will be reviewed by a twist of fate he ends up accidentally accompanying the children on a box car train to awit he's eventually used in pi Piper fashion to help the Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chamber on February 23rd 1973 Jerry Lewis appeared as a guest on the Dick Cavit show where he stated the film would complete editing in 6 to 7 weeks and had been invited premere at the can's Film Festival that may it would be released in America after that the film was never officially released and remains unreleasable to the failure to secure the underlying rights in 2012 French director zavier ganoli uh told a talk show he had managed to track down a 75-minute copy of the film and had shown it to a number of people and I don't see it here but I feel like there was a an LA screening of it at one point like you had to be in the Cool Kids Club anyway I'm looking forward to that documentary there's no way I'm digging out of this hole and making the end of this podcast fun so let's just get out and that's your comedy news for today I will see you tomorrow