Ricky Gervais' Tennis Court Controversy | Daily Comedy News

Introduction and Nate Bergazzi's Holiday Special karoga shark media hello I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news Nate burgatti will host a holiday special for CBS put that in your back pocket it's produced by Lauren Michaels the press release tells us the show will shine a spotlight on the heart and spirit of Nashville during the holiday season including family fun and feel-good moments that resonate with audiences of all ages Nate said I'm extremely excited to be creating this special as I've long been a big fan of variety and we don't see enough of it I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together and I couldn't be in better hands then with this team no title yet no date yet other than December my Heming and hawing don't all Lauren Michaels projects go to nbc/ Peacock this one going to cbsp Paramount Plus in SNL's 50th season that's odd Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 Announcement Adam Sandler announced on Monday that Happy Gilmore 2 is in production exciting Netflix posted on Twitter Happy Gilmore 2 is officially in production Sandler went on Instagram and said it ain't over the way I see it we've only just begun Adam Sandler also dropped by the Manning cast during Monday Night Football when my San Francisco 49ers completely manhandled the New York Jets Aaron Rogers through a pass intended for wide receiver Garrett Wilson was tipped in the air and intercepted by 49ers linebacker Demetrius Flanigan fouls Adam sailor said maybe you should get rid of me I don't want to be here I'm going that was terrible this is a mistake Jimmy Fallon's Surprise Segment with SNL Cast Jimmy Fallon was mid monologue and then suddenly said wait I can't do that joke that news is almost 3 months old then out walks Colin Jo and Michael Chay Joe said seems old to you Jimmy but we've been away all summer there's so much news that we haven't been able to joke about so we were wondering would it be okay if we told some of those jokes from the summer right now Fallon agreed as if Fallon's going to go no I'm hosting the Tonight Show I can't believe you just walked on and thought we were going to do a surprise segment that's not how the show Works Fallon said in July Donald Trump chose Ohio senator JD Vance as as a running mate to which Chay tagged well I guess he can't Dodge every bullet valon said I saw that Kendrick Lamar hosted a massive Jun teeth concert in LA Chay joked which is weird because I thought it was Drake who liked the teenss you either know what that means or not most of Colin Joe lines had the implication they were written by cha to sabotage him Fallon said this summer Louisiana became the first dat to mandate that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom Joe said wow every public school classroom my only question is what's Public School Fallon an Indiana Court ruled that a taco is a sandwich Jo a taco is a sandwich that's it build the wall speaking of Colin Jo his Ferry did get into use Tommy hilfer welcome guest aboard the MV John F Kennedy the decommission Staten Island Ferry they did a little fashion show Sunday night Colin Joost was there Pete Davidson was not there Brook Shields was there SNL Cast Changes and New Season Updates speaking of Saturday Night Live they've added three new cast members for season 50 and one has left the new cash member members Ashley Padilla Emil Wakee and Jane wickline they are in Khloe tro apparently was on the show Khloe no longer on the show I couldn't pick Khloe tro out of a lineup on Instagram Khloe tro wrote unfortunately I was not asked back to SNL the season I wish I was going to be back with all the amazing friends I made there it truly felt like home Marcelo Hernandez Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker make the jump from featured players to the main cast my Rudolph will be back as kamla Harris Khloe tro join of Punky Johnson and Molly Kierney as non-returning cast members pia has been a member of the groundling since 2021 whim has performed standup at the tonight's show on Just for Laughs where is named a new face of comedy in 2022 Wick line is part of The Ensemble for staple view which we're told is a sketch show that's gained a sizable Tik Tock following Larry David is doing a tour Larry David's Upcoming Tour it's called a conversation with Larry David 10 cities beginning in Denver on the 20th of this month the events will feature Larry David and an information discussion with a local moderator topics will include Seinfeld kir Your Enthusiasm and everything in between very exciting Denver Seattle San Fran Philly Atlanta Chicago Portland Oregon Phoenix Austin and Hollywood Florida on December 5th Netflix announced Ali Ali Wong's New Netflix Special Wong's new special it is called single lady it'll be out in October filmed at the wilter theater in La as part of the Netflix Festival Ali opens up about post- divorce life and the Quest for love I didn't know this Ali Wong was named one of times 100 most influential people in both 2020 and 2023 Ricky dves Ricky Gervais' Tennis Court Controversy is in a fight with his neighbors over plans to build a noisy tennis court I don't know if he's planning to build a noisy tennis court but that's what the neighbors are saying Ricky wants to rip up his back garden and put down a new permeable Sports surface for the occasional game of tennis he also has plans to demolish a basketball court water wall peroda and some retaining walls neighbors are complaining about noise and loss of privacy and you know the trees being torn down in a designated Conservation Area neighbors fear the court could also be used for five aside football and lead to flooding I don't know is Ricky J having people over for some five on five soccer games I I I struggle to imagine it but what do I know in a letter to the local Council one neighbor wrote it will not only be the ball or balls being hit or bounced before serving that will be noisy if practicing a machine firing balls over the net is even more noisy the players will make noise when speaking or sh shouting to each other from time to time there'll be Spectators watching shouting and cheering there's no fencing around the court so there' be a danger of being hit by a [Music] ball boy I I don't know who to side with here like if my neighbors were tearing down the woods and putting in a tennis court I'd be like all right that's a little bit much um but on the other hand I don't think I'd be worried like I'm sitting by my pool and a tennis ball is going to hit me I'm not too worried about that also if the neighbors started having five on five soccer games in the yard I'd probably ask to play vas's planning agent said this new lawn has no enclosure or lighting and has been designated to be visually an acoustically screen from the neighbors officials at bornett Council will make a decision later this month today is Reflecting on September 11th and Comedy September 11th I am a New Yorker I was in the city on that particular day so it is not a day I can ignore back in 2021 vulture wrote about how comedians handled the environment after 2021 very good article if you want to go back and read it uh they spoke to Bob Saget at the time who said about two or 3 weeks right after 9/11 I went to New York cuz I had a press tour for a TV show that was premiering October 5th I think I went up at the comedy seller and talked about it a bit sarcastically and backhandedly plugging a sitcom and how meaningless everything felt especially Show Business and yet I felt it was part of my job to make people laugh when I could as soon as it felt like they wanted it and needed it I had not one joke about 911 when I did stand up it was to distract with my silly jokes and if they were reverent it was only in the way of talking about things that were unrelated to that event in my pg19 style of Comedy they'll never be anything funny about 9/11 I've never done a joke about it the mere mention of it does for me what it does for most people it makes us hurt as deeply as possible for those that perished and for all those who lost their loved ones Patton Oswald said I was on stage less than a week later blae KAIT woke me up with the scariest phone call I've ever received it was 8:00 in the morning on the west coast and there's Blain's voice in my ear after I answered saying turn on the TV man I asked what channel he said doesn't matter and then he hung up the walk from my bedroom to the TV in the living room was 18 nightmares and as many steps click on the TV and I'm living in a different world I was on stage at the Largo the next Monday the 17th I'd had six days to be variably hopeful and stupid angry paranoid and then terrified so I hit the stage that Monday I was the least present I'd ever been as a comedian as a person so was everyone else no one didn't talk about it on that show I think Sarah Silverman and Kevin seia went up I can't remember anyone else and I can't remember too much of what I said except at one point out of nowhere I just blurted I keep seeing people say the hijackers are all religion and violence and they are but we're the bloated late '70s Zeppelin and Emerson Lake and Palmer of religion and violence those guys are the rones they'll carry their own amps while we're arguing for bigger fog machines something like that there's a lot of fear and self-righteousness and I knew right as I was saying it that the comedy was going to suck for a while maer brownie said either the following Saturday maybe two Saturdays after I'd been hired to do a private event at someone's house in Irvine California Irvine is pretty notoriously red stady and I called this guy and I said hey I don't know if it's a good idea if I come to do my show how can you be funny now and with my background I feel like I'm coming to the Dragon's layer and the guy was like n you should come people need to laugh it' be good for everybody and listen if it makes you feel any better my wife's actually Turkish so she's from that part of the world as well and that helped me feel a little more okay I flipped my axe so it didn't lead with me being Iranian at one point I said oh by the way I'm Iranian and then said something along the lines of like yeah I know I'm disappointed too meaning hey I didn't have anything to do with it I felt like I had a tipto into that portion of my act because of my fear of having some sort of Retribution the difficult part of the show was not that it was necessarily that there were a bunch of racist there standing at me was the show being at a fancy home in Earth Vine outside by a pool which is not the best for comedy Acoustics I remember I bought an American flag and put it at the back of my car I don't know if was out a fear of having somebody shoot me or if it was out of patriotism it was probably out of both I was pulling into the parking lot of The Comedy Store and there was this comedian Marilyn Martinez she was laughing at me in a funny way she was like oh my God look at Monster bronny he's got his flag to try and blend in and I go hell yeah Marilyn I'm blending in that's your comedy news for today