iHeart’s Best Comedy Podcast Reigning Champs Will Defend Their Title… Or Will They?

0:00Oh, could this vintage store be any cuter? Right? And the best part? They accept Discover. Accept Discover? In a little place like this? I don't think so, Jennifer. Oh, yeah, huh.

0:11Dana Carvey:Discover's accepted where I like to shop. Come on, baby, get with the times. Right, so we shouldn't get the parachute pants? These are making a comeback. I think. Discover is accepted at 99 % of places that take credit cards nationwide. based on the February 2025 Nielsen Report. I just have to tell you, Dana, there's something I'm excited about. Yes, I understand. Now, you remember we talked about Jury Duty, the show. Oh, yeah. Season one, yeah. Yeah, fantastic. And that one, I saw it on TikTok, and then it was kind of a word of mouth thing. It blew up. It was funny. And it actually all pulled together, which I was shocked they pulled that thing together.

0:54Yeah. Uh, and I was like, I would, will they do it again? And they did.

0:59Dana Carvey:Cool. I think that's very cool. It was set in the courtroom the first time. And, uh, this is going to be a company retreat. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Jury duty presents company retreat. It takes this groundbreaking social experiment out of the courthouse. Stay with me, Dana. I got it. And drops it into the most relatable setting ever company corporate retreat. And if you've ever survived that awkward team building exercises or a trust fall with coworkers, you know the vibe. Yeah. I mean, this is an inspired idea, I got to say, after jury duty to put it in a company retreat. This season follows Anthony, a real temp hired by Rockin' Grandma's Hot Sauce for their annual retreat.

1:43Dana Carvey:Right there, they should figure it out, Rockin' Grandma's Hot Sauce. Yeah, I know. Except he has no idea the entire thing is staged around him. it's a workplace comedy meets hidden camera and uh it's unpredictable it's authentic it's so full of heart the stakes are higher the laughs are bigger and it still celebrates the goodness in people and here's the wild part rockin grandma's hot sauce they're actually making it okay and the flavors will be available on amazon oh my god i wonder if they started that first or if they they just made up that name and then it sounded funny and it's going to get a lot of attention But, you know, this thing, I'm kind of glad they didn't do it in the courtroom again because someone would figure that out, I would think.

2:29Dana Carvey:Oh, I don't think they could do it in the courtroom. I think the company retreat is the next best one. It's hard to think of where to do it, but they did a good job. So I'm looking forward to that. Me too. Watch now on Prime Video, the Lombardi Trophy. We'll take on any comers, even though we will lose. wait it's where are we not are there nominations out maybe I got everything maybe I read last year's oh it's on the left looks good too he's dialed in look at those American flag boots he's got on I like these kids and they should have their own show based on what I'm seeing like if this was a live streaming show and you just call it mullet I have one that you might not want to watch it's called Mr.

3:13Bestiality and what I do is Dana Dana, here's my opening line.

3:22Dana Carvey:Okay. Do you ever walk down the street in LA wearing a puffer coat because it's cold and then you walk by some guy in shorts and you feel like a pussy? Yes. It happens to me too often. Or a guy with a girl, they're both in shorts and they're snickering at me and I'm like, isn't it a little brisk? I'm feeling a chill. Well, look. Embarrassing. I have like eight puffer jackets. Oh, yeah. And I've got some lightweight ones, heavier weight ones. And, you know, they're adaptable. So if people judge you, just they can come see me. Oh, okay. Just fighting words, man. Because you can unzip it. It's sort of light.

4:05Dana Carvey:In a movie theater, you go to a movie, sometimes it's 45, 46 degrees. Sometimes, right? You ever been in one that's like, are they going to show the movie where I can see my breath? Yeah. Sometimes to make it look less like not tough, I tie it around my waist. With a double cinch. I don't know if that helps. Cinch it up. I think it's adorable. Anyway, welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. My guest. We're going to get to, in a second, the controversy over the iHeartRadio nominations. There's a huge controversy. Actually, we can start. we can talk about it because it happens it's no big deal i'm not gonna say anything i mean well that ties into a few other things that the the iheart comedy podcast award we won last year we're up for it again we're alluding to well wait a minute you said you walkie-talkied me because that's how we communicate yeah that we were up for it again 2026 comedy podcast of the year that's what i read yeah i looked at it and i did not see our name on the nominations anywhere oh so we're not well i don't want to co-sign it completely uh anyone want to look that up but that's what i saw yeah yeah there's podcast of the year and then there's comedy podcast yeah i think podcast year was like la carista curistus with um yeah let's put it this way it's uh it's a amy poehler year who who's who we love so and well deserved but yeah she's uh she's got like six seven nominations they'll sweep it all but but what about we should be up for comedy because i thought i saw nikki glazer us and well could someone look that up then one of us has to be wrong or right bill and heather in a race to look at it yeah dude but in the meantime just to make sure that everyone knows who we're talking about this is our award from last year so we right now are the defending champions we we have the the lombardi trophy any comers even though we will lose.

6:31Wait, are there nominations out? Maybe I read last year's.

6:38Dana Carvey:Yeah, I think a lot of times that happens. You're reading 2025. Well, it was an article they sent. It was an honor to be nominated and an honor to win. And now I guess it's an honor to not be nominated. I guess so. I don't know. It's an honor to just talk about being nominated that's pretty good hang okay here they are yeah toast wait it went away toast distractible handsome or is that distractible handsome handsome oh handsome is with fortune okay and then the basement yard can you read that mine went away oh yeah uh best comedy podcast of year 2026 iheart radio good hang with amy poehler the toast with jimmy toast i don't know the field distractible i will say handsome i know is fortune and she's a comedian with with her two friends and oh yeah yeah tigna which ties me into the golden wolves some comedy podcasts to me are about like murders of I think people jump over to sneak in a comedy category when they're not fully kind I feel like if it's not like a comedian or a comedy person like a Jimmy Fallon podcast like it has to have some and some of these I don't think for sure they're I think yeah I mean in 2023 the comedy podcast the year and I heart was son of Sam the entire season was dedicated to son and Sam and I guess it was funny I don't know the categories get a little a little you know there's there you go we take a light-hearted look at grizzly murders that is one of them I won't say the name but I know you know what and I would like to see a podcast with this title or let's do it ourselves as an offshoot it would just be murder murder murder with exclamation points after each murder murder murder murder and then in parentheses with jokes well murder can be funny well i will ask you did you jump in golden gloves did you think one battle after another was a comedy it was in musical or comedy right i would say i would say it's not a comedy but that that it was in the comedy category really made me laugh so in a weird second degrees of whatever kevin bacon it is a comedy because to call it a comedy is really funny well i know that it's it was a great movie probably win all the movies at the oscars uh i have thoughts about it right okay go ahead because i thought at least and i did laugh at parts but i if if i went in there thinking it was a comedy that was not how I went in right yeah it's uh there were elements I would say if you look at um PTA Paul Thomas Anderson Magnolia you know there will be blood so the guy's brilliant right and I've talked to people you know everyone loves Kubrick you know and and if you look at you take a Quentin Tarantino, you take a Coen brothers, great movies need to be seen more than once.

9:51Dana Carvey:So I'm going to wait a little while and I'm going to watch one battle after another a second time. And then I will give my thoughts on it because I do believe great movies because it's a, it's a handful. It's, it's a big movie. There's a lot, a lot of movies. So I once upon a time in Hollywood, like I liked it the first time, but the fifth time I was like in love with it. So I'm going to withhold that. That's my hot take. And I will say that I love Benicio del Toro. There's guys that like old school, turning into old school Hollywood, like movie star guys that I like. I think DiCaprio is cool.

10:36I think he's younger, but Sean Penn is

10:39Dana Carvey:cool he's all beat up sean penn is like electric at this point he's he's aging the way he wants and like you can't take your eyes off of him there's an intensity about him in in this movie that's amazing um yeah the acting's brilliant yes there's a young lady plays the younger activist is uh very good in it so you know it's uh interesting uh it's a good movie and um And while we're on the Golden Globes, we could talk a little bit about Nikki did a good job. Nikki, our friend of the show and a friend, Nikki Glaser. Friend of the show. Here's a couple of my favorite jokes. She did do a joke about podcasts, which I didn't see until after because I didn't see it on the show.

11:25I watched part of it. But when she makes fun of the podcast category and says, you know, I shouldn't be this close to Roberts. Actually, me and anyone up for a podcast should not be this close to you. Up for a podcast award. And then when she said, Good Hang is up, Amy Paul's Good Hang, which is also what Timothee Chalamet tells us dates after a one-nighter.

11:49Dana Carvey:Yeah, some great jokes. She crushed it again. She looked great. She was funny, and she did some sketches. It was a good thing. Yeah. So that the, oh, also I thought this is always rubs me wrong. Wanda Sykes, who I saw at the party after I said hi to and friendly with, but when she comes out and says, I am here because a queer white, a queer black woman can do better than two mediocre white guys. It's just hard if I said I'm here because I'm better than two mediocre black women. I mean, who could say that meanwhile everyone laughs it's hysterical so great she got a little burning on bill maher yeah and she got burned out of ricky gervais yeah she went around and kind of roasted the nominees and they were great jokes it was funny and she's likable you know but you watch your you watch yourself when you're a straight white male you just you just you just immediately are no more careful yeah i mean i can offend you you know but it does offend me you know david people keep asking about my 2026 resolution yes they do i've been one of them you i know what you're trying to say the people keep asking about your 2026 resolutions and i've got the usual ones read more or read it all hit the gym at the gym learn how to crochet get the knitting needles yeah but this year the goal at the very top of my list is simple get comfy i've learned that from abby yeah and that's exactly where bombas comes in they're bringing next level comfort to uh my everyday essentials take the new bombas sports socks they're designed with sport specific comfort for everything from running, hiking, golf.

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16:04Now this is taxes. Visit TurboTax.com today. Only available with TurboTax full service experts. Real-time updates only in the iOS mobile app. What about, Conan made a point of saying that Trump jokes are easy. I kind of like that he said that. We've said that before. We've said that sometimes people rely too much on Trump because it can be a hat on a hat like it can be it's a story about him is funny already and then when you tell a joke about it you're just you can just retell the what he said and it's funny

16:38Dana Carvey:you know i think conan actually i mean it's part of what he said was just the anger oh the anger is and just instead of a joke it's like trump and if you have the right audience you might get a standing ovation so it's it's it's different it's a different environment i'll just say right i did like that and that was the angle it was yeah you're coming at it with anger instead of just being a comedian and being doing comedy yeah right it's tempting in a way if you have an audience and they have a very strong point of view about anything any kind of audience and then you kind of co-sign it and you don't necessarily have to be hilarious to go ah it's different than a laugh you get more of a whoo listen during my act i'll take any of the above i asked so i ran somewhere the grocery store up here i said what do you think of uh flying the ball and he just stood back took one step back and what i go is that good or bad you'll laugh but when i'm on the road i hear about this people will show me their phone in an airport they're listening to it or that this is how many they've listened to or they asked me about it so uh i like that it's out there i mean people are are knowing something about it because i hear more than i thought i would about it i know it's always kind of weird because podcasting it's like it's not there's not trucks and a crew or anything it's us talking and everybody and amy and everybody it's just people in rooms talking there's no real production so it is kind of like i love your thing where you guys hang out and talk it's danis made in a fake plant against the world this is me dressed up well i got superman back there in case anyone knows and that's a fly on the wall leather bag and this is either a real plant now we don't know or a fake plant but i don't know when in podcasting there's like you gotta have a plant man it fills out the room i have real carpet behind me yeah you're like in a superstar studio i'm in an undisclosed location um it's a small bedroom but as long as the mic works the jokes can land okay i have a real question for you dan this is an exercise question and i'm not afraid i'm all these questions are controversial okay when people say it's better to have stairs in your house because you get a workout i say no because i have stairs and if you're doing them all day it's not all day it's literally once every half hour so there's no building up you know what i mean there's no like i'm gonna do 12 minutes of stairs i'm gonna do it's just once where it kind of like shocks your system like oh we're working out it's over and then you can almost pull something because you're kind of running up the stairs I want your thoughts and dreams on this.

19:34Dana Carvey:I would say I should write some kind of sub stack. Yeah. Some thesis about this. Working out throughout the day is kind of good. So like if you're trying to turn the water on, it's kind of tight. You just make sure your abs are on. You take a wide stance. It's a little workout. If you're in your car and you're taking a turn, perfect time for a crunch. Yep. Tighten up while you're doing anything. You get out of a chair. you lower yourself in a chair the stairs will make you stronger unless they don't but i would just say because we homo sapiens on earth sit on our ass exponential amount of time we don't squat like in cambodian stuff they can make a chair and just go down you know but we're sitting in chairs stairs are counteractive to that and if you just carefully go up and consciously walk up the stairs go oh and your place i get to walk up the stairs one step at a time push from the glute one step at a time make it a workout now when you come down this is very important you have to slightly toe out your feet you don't want to do it jerry lewis you toe out because right inside you right near your knee right above it is a muscle called the vmo the vmo if that is strong you'll see it on nba athletes you don't get knee pain so you want to toe out if you're wearing shorts look down and make sure your vmos are popping with each step so then you get a quad workout coming down the stairs as well well is it less like pull something in your knee if you're not totally straight ahead with your foot you know you want to want a slight rotation like that i mean if you're really strong and really young you could do squats in the gym and i can i can do straight foot stairs interesting well you know what here's what i want heather to do is like get her iPhone.

21:24Dana Carvey:Let's see how you go up and down the stairs. And then I'll give you my advice. Maybe we can analyze it. That's a good idea. Yeah. Like this, when I pick this up, this is pretty heavy. Now I'm doing a podcast. Here's a pop quiz. Am I working out as I'm doing the podcast? Am I switching? Should you be breathing heavy at this point? You're not though, because you're in shape. Not really. No, I'm falling apart. I got so many. Saturday Night Live shoulder doing Dan Quayle over an Ottoman. He was the vice president at the time. So I had to do the stunt on a Thursday, concrete with narrow little bit of carpet, did a grade three separation the first time I was trained in pain.

22:05Dana Carvey:So I'll do another one, another one, then another one. Then the next day, Mary Tyler Moore's the host. Her husband is a doctor. I'm walking around like this, literally. He goes, hey, what? It's way, way up. And he goes, oh, what are you doing? So I had it checked out. They go, grade three separation surgery, maybe on the bubble. So I didn't do surgery. I worked it out. It didn't hurt for 40 years, but now it's back like a mofo, but I work it. You know what? Sometimes it has never happened to you, but I got a massage last week. And then, um, I, the lady, I wasn't really paying attention, but she gave me a hand job and I was like, what happened?

22:47And then I realized my flight's taking off, um, because I was in the airport it was one of those like lean over asus's i'm stuck with the hand job wait if you're gonna me give me like a three minute massage how'd she sneak that in there and i was mad about i didn't

23:01Dana Carvey:say anything but i was mad i know it's mad because it's who who was doing it you don't even know but that was oh yeah i didn't even look if it was a guy or girl it was them working their hand out you know that's you know it wasn't to do with you three minutes i go i'll do 20 and then after that i go i'm done they go oh it's only been four minutes i go yeah i'm pretty much done I like these dirty jokes. I sneak on you and then you're like this. Oh, boy. Oh, I don't have any problems. You don't want to hear my Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas. We'll save that for another time. I just do it in my own way.

23:36Dana Carvey:I do it in my own way. I know that one too. It's like Farley when he used to attack the pillow. Yeah, there's a lot of that kind of stuff. Or the office. Mike Myers had a character called Fucky. you know this is backstage stuff it was it was completely harmless but let's talk about movies just for a second because i'm a huge fan of housemate guess what number two it's climbing getting to 100 million oh yeah i did hit up our friend of the show paul feig who did the show and i said you know what i went in a house made with a open mind because dana said to go and uh i thought it was good i told him my only criticism was maybe a hair long i said but you know what no other criticism.

24:20Well, I said, Sydney Sweeney played it kind of under. She wasn't overacting. She was doing anything. She wasn't trying too hard. And I like Amanda Siegfried and Roy, whatever her last name is. And we talked about this. Yeah. I like it. We talked about it. And they're doing a sequel.

24:36Dana Carvey:Text me his number. I want to text him because now I've seen it twice. So I brought my wife and I'm thinking, okay, see what you think. We got all the way to the car. You know, I'm thinking, I guess she didn't like it. She goes, I loved it. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. There's just not that many movies. You look at fatal attraction, I guess you call them sexy thrillers or something. That's kind of the vein of it. So just so you know, it's like, yeah. Regular, like, Oh, my babysitter is pretty like there's more going on. Yeah. There's a lot more going on and the performances are brilliant and the way it all ties together, the music, the story, the ending, I don't know.

25:09Dana Carvey:I think it's like just a sleeper movie. So I, it's kind of fun when you start to root for a film when it's first weekend then you watch it and you're seeing how its audience is not eroding like the other films it's only going down made is an old term or is that a real term that i don't use and i never hear i think it's kind of an old old term i don't you know i mean the housemaid job i was like are we in 1820 well it's like you clean the fucking house and you do all the meals and get all i got yeah by the way the room they put her in they thought it was so charming i thought it was terrifying i would never go there well they couldn't get the window open but uh yeah if sydney wants to come on and talk about it oh yeah just fyi um oh people are circling the block to be on the show i think we're gonna have your boy marcello in a couple weeks which will be fun your boy yeah that'll be that'll be fun um there is a there is a trailer for a movie i I don't know if you've seen it, makes me laugh.

26:10Dana Carvey:And it's called Primate. So the monkey goes shithouse in the thing and they call the monkey Ben and they go, what's wrong with Ben? And Ben is jumping to the pool and biting people. They go, what's wrong with Ben? And they go, that ain't Ben. It's like he's demonic or something. But that might be a fun movie to see. That's kind of funny. We should comment on, we should watch it and comment on. Let's see it. Yeah. We can do that because I would laugh doing that. It's a kind where they show on TikTok or Instagram, the people in the audience being scared. That's how they get you in. And sometimes the daily mail, which is known mostly for the ads they have, cause they have a thousand on every, you can't get through that thing without getting an ad.

26:56And so I snuck in that complaint, but they'll be like, they get paid for some of their stories. I didn't know. So if you see someone's photo a lot, they're like, oh, they're, they have a deal with them. I'm like, here's where I'll be. Take a picture of me. I'll be a leggy blonde actress or I'll be a, you know, show some cleavage. But the monkey one, they're like, people were fucking throwing up and having diarrhea.

27:20Dana Carvey:Yeah, they show the crowd. Like a nightlight, you know what I mean? Like night vision. And that's always a good trick to go. Netflix doesn't think they can even air this. There's probably legally. And then it's like, oh, I got to see it. People are running from the theater. They're afraid of Ben. People are lining up to piss their pants over this movie. I just think the writer's room in some studio with five guys and a woman, of course, women in a room kind of sitting back going, I don't know, they want us to make a... And some dude at one point went, killer ape, killer monkey, man. And they go, it's too much like Planet of the Apes.

28:02And he goes, no, because there's only one. and they're like, okay.

28:06Dana Carvey:It's a friendly, cute little chimp that goes shithouse demonic and just count the Benjamins. Yeah, they, you know, the big thing out there, because I've got my pulse on Hollywood, Dana, and the big thing is... I have that written down right here, pulse. I would do... And we're losing in the pulse. We need some Ringers Lactate over here in Hollywood. Well, give me a movie idea. i'll give you i'll give you of 10 seconds don't talk a movie a one-liner just think a one-liner for the next big movie high concept movie of 10 seconds okay i was gonna say they're we're into low budget horror movies because they cost three million and they make 20.

28:50they're the most successful yeah so that's why they if you're wondering that's why they always have them uh okay uh a movie um monsters come to earth and then aliens come to earth the same day and it's awkward

29:08Dana Carvey:and the monsters are not aliens they're just when they beat monster aliens it's all right it was a good start maybe the dinosaurs come back and they come back the same day the aliens land uh i would say it's like a simulation where the dinosaurs come back and they're big and they're real but they look exactly like the dinosaurs on the flintstones like do you know yeah it's a simulation we're all in a simulation man we're in a sim and they and they and do you remember when the flintstones uh like pelican they'd squeeze his fucking gut and he'd spit out water and that was like the dishwasher and then uh and then he'd go it's a living i know i thought to the camera i used to love that cartoon because it's on like at six o 'clock like it was quasi adult and it was a half hour do you want to hear my funny flintstone thing for sure so i'm on snl last fall and i'm doing biden and i'm trying to think of non-sec orders so for the dress show he's like people all those yabba dabba dabba doo right yeah so loran i could tell and i wasn't sure about he red flagged it so between you know like 11 15 lauren just comes dressing room just says oh yabba dabba dabba doo and and i i said all right i'll change it i'll change it so the writers came around they were panicked you talked to lauren he wants something changed it's like 11 20.

30:41Dana Carvey:he's so mad we came up with bed bath and beyond or whatever can't believe it's not butter yeah bed bath and beyond was you oh yeah that's right you thought of it tutti frutti yeah there's so many funny things that biden can say and nuts it's it was such a fun once you got into that it was like oh this is guess what by the way no i know it was a fun character and he had his moments but now it's all Trump all the time we're taking over the world this week this week the world it's exciting it's exciting right now what else we have you want to go to some stories or what else you want to tell me

31:27Dana Carvey:Germany sent 13 soldiers in France 15 soldiers to Greenland as a show of force did they really yeah that's what that's what i've read yeah look out well we gotta rethink it i know you have to be nice if we're going to greenland we should say listen let's do a collab we'll go up there you're up there let's make this right what does greenland have minerals what's so fucking great about rare earth and who knows what's under there but i looked it up i go greenland why what isn't this climate change and then i looked it up so So a thousand years ago, it was like five degrees Celsius, like 10 degrees warmer.

32:09Dana Carvey:And Greenland was just this green island. Oh, because Greenland's icy and Iceland's green. That's what I've heard. Is that true? Yes. But Greenland, when this Viking went over there, this place is green. What are you going to call it? Going to call it Greenland. And now it's a frozen tundra. There's a lot of stuff there. There's a lot of activity up around Antarctica, like China and Russia are up there. We see your icebreaker. Go follow us, Chinese people. Why are we not allowed to fly around the North Pole and Antarctica or whatever that is? Who's telling us we can't? No one can go up there because it's aliens.