Oct. 6, 2024

Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Crossover, Lewis Black's Farewell Tour, and Cleveland Comedy Festival

Show Notes
Transcript

This episode of the comedy news shares a sneak peek of a crossover between 'Abbott Elementary' and 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' teased by Rob McElhenney with photos on social media. It also touches on Will Ferrell's early days on SNL as discussed in his documentary with Harper Steele, Lewis Black's potential farewell tour, and Cooper Manning's amusing golf outing with Larry David. Additionally, there's news about the 'Community' movie script being reworked, Alan Strickland Williams' debut comedy album release, and the upcoming Cleveland Comedy Festival highlighting local talent. The show emphasizes unique comedic perspectives, discusses a comedian's onstage mishap, and promotes the Cleveland Comedy Festival taking place from November 6th to 9th.

00:00 Introduction and Unusual Crossover News
00:43 Larry David's Golf Antics
01:13 Will Ferrell's Early SNL Days
02:03 Lewis Black on Politics and Comedy
03:01 Community Movie Updates
04:16 Alan Strickland Williams' Comedy Album
05:09 Mandel's Worst Show Ever
06:48 Cleveland Comedy Festival
08:00 Closing Remarks and Subscription Info

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Callaroga Shark Media. Here's a weird one and Hi, I'm

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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. They're doing a

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crossover between Abbot Elementary and it's always Sonny in Philadelphia. Yeah.

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Rob mcalenny teased it on social media. On Twitter, he

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shared a photo of him and Charlie Day with Quintin Brunson.

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He posts another photo of the trio with Danny DeVito, Tyler,

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James Williams, and Williams Stanford Davis on his Instagram story.

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Both Abbot and Sonny take place in Philadelphia and both

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are owned by Disney. That should be interesting, right, I imagined

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it's an episode of Sonny who Knows Time will tell

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From golf dot com You're home for comedy News. Cooper Manning,

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the other Manning brother, was playing golf with Larry David.

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Cooper said, you want things to go wrong where Larry

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David gets mad and aggravated, because that's where he shines.

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So you know, even on the first green he had

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a put and he started yelling at it. You know,

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are too ard, He flustered his caddy. As caddy told them,

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you know it's a little uphill. He hammered it, and

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he's like, don't ever tell me how harder or how

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soft to hit it unless I ask. Will Ferrell getting

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a lot of good buzz for his documentary, Will and

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Harper and they talked about how Will when he first

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started on SNL, the cast members didn't think Will was

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particularly impressive. Harper Steele said, the first week we went

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downstairs to launch, and there's something about the two of us.

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We were just on the same wavelength a lot of

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different ways. They all thought Will Ferrell was a dud.

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I just knew Will was not the dud. Will said,

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you were an ambassador for me to be like, now,

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I don't write him off. He's actually really funny. Sometimes

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you look back at these casts and people go on

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to bigger things and become bigger names than maybe they

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were at the time. The nineteen ninety six cast of

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SNL Chris Caton, Daryl Hammond, Tracy Morgan, Will Ferrell, Jim Brewer,

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Cherio Terry, Molly Shannon, Nor McDonald, Tim Meadows, and a

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gaesst Styre. It's a pretty good cast. In the documentary,

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Will says, if you ever scratched your head and said,

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why did Will Ferrell make that there's a good chance

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it was with Steel, describing Steel is having a super weird,

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creative sense of humor. Lewis Black was on with Boston

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Public Radio talking about politics and said, how many jokes

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can you make about this insanity? Every special? I have

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a joke where the Democrats do this, the Republicans do that,

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honky hank, quack quack. It's the same over and over again.

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Now it's just gotten a little crazier. Is this really

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a farewell tour? Lewis said, I'm not going to do

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one hundred and fifty shows. He might occasionally open for

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his comedian friends, or do one off performances or appear

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on the Daily Show. Black recalled a flight several years

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ago where he ran into Don Rickles, who was then

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in his eighties. Black recalled saying to his own opening

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act at that time, I'm not doing that. Black is

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seventy six and says, going in front of an audience

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where people like you more than you've ever liked yourself,

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it's pretty remarkable. If he needs the buzz, he'll open

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for Kathleen Madigan. They're good friends and do live shows

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of his Lewis Black Rantcast podcast, and if that's not enough,

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he says, I'm going to go on public transit and

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yell at people hashtag six seasons and a movie. You know,

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it would help if I had actually put the new

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story in my script. I only have the headline here,

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a little behind the scenes for you. Why don't you

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edit that out? John? It's more fun this way, Evett.

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Nicole Brown said the community movie is going to happen,

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but the script is being reworked. After she signed on

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to reprise her role as Surely. She told the Rap

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I think it's being reworked, but we've all read an

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entire full script, so script exists. I've heard that we

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have the big credit in LA that gives you money

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to make the film, so we're definitely gonna be doing

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it in La. Joel McHale it took responsibility for the

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movies delay, telling GQ that fans can fully blame my schedule.

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That followed speculation that it was Donald Glover's schedule holding

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up production. Ivett said, for a minute, I wasn't confirmed,

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so they have to now change some things because I

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am confirmed, and they can now change some things for

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Shirley's character as well, So it's gonna be a really

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good time. It's just now trying to get all these

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puzzle pieces together of everyone's schedule. We were scheduled to

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do it, and then the strike happen, and now it's

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like trying to figure out when is so and so

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done with their show, and when is so and so

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done with their movie? When is so and so off tour.

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It's all those things that we're trying to get together.

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But it's gonna happen. We're gonna do the movie, and

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we're all on board to do it. For the script,

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she says, a lot of it's probably gonna change, but

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it's really well, it's very reverent. It's silly. As for

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that LA tax Credit community. The movie that seems to

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be the title was announced as one of nineteen projects

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that will benefit from fifty one point six million dollars

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in incentives from California's Film and TV tax credits program.

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Contact your local politician if you have an opinion on that.

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Blond Medicine and Alan Strickland Williams have announced the release

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of Allen's debut full length comedy album, ran Through. It'll

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be out October twenty fifth. Ran Through as a culmination

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of ASW stand up since he started up till the

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night he recorded. The album is filled with absurd, dark

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one liners, those well structured pieces about the selestial bodies

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that hang in the sky above his Florida roots, relationships, dating,

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and being single, parenting are lack thereof viseectomes and guns.

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I like that because it didn't follow the copywriting rule

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of three that was like seven. Love it. ASW excels

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at crash jokes about sex, drugs, and residual trauma, the

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kind of jokes that you can't help but laugh at

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while also relating to just a bit much. Born in Texas,

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raised in Florida because my parents really wanted to do

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a number on me, Asw now lives a totally normal

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life in the small humble town of Los Angeles, California.

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Mandell is one of vulturous comedians you should and will know.

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Worst show ever, Mendel says, I've had my fair share

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of awful interactions with audience members, and most of them

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are my fault. My worst work to date was when

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I used to tell a joke about my six hundred

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pound life. It was a newer joke at the time,

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and I'm trying to figure out how to get in it.

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So I decided to unnecessarily ask the audience who watches

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the show. This lady responds instead of saying, you look

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like the type of person would watch the show, considering

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you're the target demographic for TLC television programming, meaning she

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was a mid thirty suburban woman with a mid thirty

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suburban husband. I just say you look like it, and

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everybody in the audience, including her, thought I was calling

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her fat. Now that wasn't my intention, So it takes

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me a while to process. While everyone in the room

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gats and started mugging me, I hear a comic from

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behind the curtain say, oh no, and then it clicked.

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I spent the rest of the set apologizing to this

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lady and was able to squeeze out a big laugh

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at the end and got off stage. Who everything should

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be cool at that point, But then a comic later

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on in the night decides to bring the situation back

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up and says, ain't nothing wrong with being a big girl.

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Big girls make some noise, and now our husband is

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full blown red and ready to fight by the end

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of the show. Afterward, I saw her crying, oh no,

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Johnny Mack, you just laughed. You're such a chirk. I

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don't know. I didn't know where the story was going.

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Mendel says, I tried to apologize again, but of course

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they weren't having it right LYA she bought a ticket

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a comedy show in the hopes of having a nice laugh,

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but I got met with a bunch of folks calling her fat.

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Truly a rough night. I think about it at least

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twice a month. What comedy opinion Hill will you die on?

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Mendel said, I don't believe in funny is funny? While

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I do believe a lot of the best jokes speak

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to the human condition in a way that every person

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can understand, identify with that does not undermine the idea

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that we are unique with our own interest sensibilities, et cetera.

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So sometimes we're not gonna find the same thing funny.

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That's okay. A person can identify as a music lover

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and very much so hate country music. I'm that person.

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Best advice, worst advice, best have fun? Worst stop yelling Hey,

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are you in Cleveland? I bet you are? After church?

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Once you head on over to the seventeenth Annual Cleveland

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Comedy Festival. Yes, I'm shouting out Deacon Mike. Everyone then

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say hi to Deacon Mike. Hi to Deacon Mike. Deacon Mike,

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this story's just for you. The Cleveland Comedy Festival November

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sixth through ninth, Wednesday through Saturday, fifty comics in Cleveland

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for the four day event. The festival will be centered

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at Forest City Brewery, twenty one thirty five Columbus Road

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in Cleveland. Maybe I should go because I could pick

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up the bar tab and write it off for us. Yeah,

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let's hang Deacon Mike. Additional venues at market Am. No,

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it's a legit. If I go to a comedy festival,

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that's a legit expense. I didn't schedule that at a brewery.

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What do you think of doing here? This is a business.

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Steve Guys the executive director of the Cleveland Comedy Festival,

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and says the annual event shines the spotlight in Cleveland's

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incredible comedic talent. We're proud to partner with other venues

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to offer curated open mics and local showcases, giving fans

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a glimpse into the different levels of stand up comedy.

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Kicks off Wednesday, November sixth, with Cleveland's best female comedian,

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Sabbatha Jones. She'll be at Spotlight Cleveland. You know the place,

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eighty seven oh one, Madison. Some of the other shows

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include Roast to Battle Cleveland and Your Arts Suck, a

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roast of fine arts. And that's your comedy news for today.

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