Sept. 2, 2025

Adam Sandler gets serious, Matt Rife gets Idol, and Patton Oswalt gets everything wrong

Adam Sandler gets serious, Matt Rife gets Idol, and Patton Oswalt gets everything wrong

Adam Sandler earns raves for his dramatic role in J. Kelly. Matt Rife goes all in on Billy Idol with a tribute tattoo and biopic dreams. Weird Al tops July’s comedy tour earnings. Patton Oswalt bombs Millionaire and Star Trek. Plus: SNL exits, Jimmy Fallon’s Password renewed, and Eric Idle critiques satire and royalty.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, it's the worst day of the year.

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Johnny Mack hates today. It is the Tuesday after Labor Day.

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Summer's over, no more beach, no more sunshine. And back

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when I had a real job, this was always the

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day where the bosses were like, Okay, now that summer's over,

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let's do our fall initiatives and get And it was like, dude,

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I just want to think about the beach. Hi. I'm

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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Hey. I've been

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telling you all summer long. Adam Sandler a great dramatic actor,

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terrible comedic actor. You guys ignored me and you watched

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Happy Gilmour, and I keep telling you, no, no, no no.

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His best films are Uncut Gems and The Spaceman One

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and The Basketball One. We want dramatic actor Adam Sandler,

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and the buzz on his performance in this upcoming George

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Clooney film Jay Kelly is tremendous. In J Kelly, Adam

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Sandler plays against type as a serious, straight shooting manager

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to movie star J Kelly, played by George Clooney, who

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I'm often confused for, Like what if George Clooney wasn't

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as good looking and had a lot of donuts for breakfast.

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That be the comparison there, But uh Anyway, Adam Sandlor

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spoke to Variety and said, being in this movie and

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not just trying to find jokes and laugh moments, that's

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what's amazing. What's amazing to me is that Adam Sandler

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has been trying to find jokes and laugh moments in

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his other movies because he has failed terribly at that.

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Sandlor says, all our characters give you a moment to

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laugh and feel pain. As an actor, when you re

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a script like this, you say, holy s I can't

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believe I'm getting this gift. Director Noah Bomback said Adam

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does have such grace and loyalty and generosity and hard

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around the people he works with in his family. He

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really does find a way to involve everyone. It's the

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opposite of Jay Kelly. He's found a way to navigate

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this whole thing and do it successfully. Sandlor said, I've

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always tried to bring the family when we go to

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film a movie, and it can't happen every time. But

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FaceTime is nice too. I've seen the cast list of

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your films, Adam, don't act like the family's not with you.

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They're in the darn things, Sli. I've always appreciated my manager,

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my agent, my publicists. I know how hard they work

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and how difficult it is to hear my ups and

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downs and to back me up. Even when I could

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get loud at times. I was excited to play a

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man who was devoted. I admire everyone who does that. Hey,

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you want to feel old? Matt Rife caught up with

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Billboard and now. Matt Riffe's current tour poster is an

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homage to Billy Idol. That's great. I mean, who doesn't

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like Billy Idol. The Rebel Yell album is fantastic. White

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Wedding is always a banger, as the kids say at weddings. Well,

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how did Matt Riffe get into Billy Idol? His grandfather

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introduced him. So that's not my kids getting into Billy Idol,

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that's Matt Rife's grandfather or I said, yeah, my grandpa

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put me on a classic rock as far back as

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I can remember. It's still my favorite genre of music.

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But my last tours have been inspired by classic musicians.

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I did the doors for my problematic tour poster and

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this one I did Billy Idol and I actually dyed

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my hair blonde for it. I've never done anything like

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that before. Funny how the world works out. I actually

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got to work with Billy Idol on the promo he

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did for his current tour. I had him sign my

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arm and I went straight to the tattoo shop. So

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now I have Billy Idol tattooed on my arm. That's

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a bad decision, matt Riyfe, What are you thinking? Rafe said,

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Billy Idol is the nicest, coolest guy. How he speaks,

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what he speaks about, the stories he had to tell.

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I'd love to play him in a biopic someday, you

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know what, not the worst casting. I would go see that.

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What are we gonna call it? You have to call

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it Rebel Yell, right, and any other title would be dumb.

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I have called up on Google Billy Idol's songs. I

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probably could do this for memory, but it's easier this way,

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all right, I vote we call the movie Rebel Yell.

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Other candidates would be dancing with myself not awful, hot

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in the city, worse but not as good catch my

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fall don't need a gun to be a Lover, Eyes

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without a Face, White Wedding Stand in the Shadows, that's

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you know, that's kind of too clever for school. That's

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a great song on the Rebel Yell album from nineteen

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eighty three. If you haven't been paying attention to Billy.

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First of all, there's some full concerts of him on YouTube.

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He did one at the Hoover Dam. He said, sounds great,

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and he put out a few songs in the last

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couple of years. I have my phone, let me tell

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you what they're called. From his twenty twenty five album

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Dream Into It. There's a song called Still Dancing that

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I liked a lot. And in twenty two we put

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out an EP called The Cage that was fantastic. The

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song Running from the Ghost is pretty good, and the

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song Rebel Like You peak Billy Idol, I mean fantastic.

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Billy Otto went I Know what you want? Here you

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go love it. We'll stick with bill Board. Four second

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into the holiday weekend, they put out the July box

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Score Report Who's got the biggest tours? We'll focus on

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the comedians here. Who do you think was the biggest

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touring comedian for July twenty twenty five wrong. The answer

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is weird Al Yankovic eight million dollars over one hundred

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and forty thousand tickets sold. Yeah, I remember he played

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the Garden That surpassed the monthly gross and attendance of

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the previous three leaders. All did twenty shows. That's a

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lot in thirty one days. It was the most shows

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that anyone played across all genres that month. People that

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were close were Kesha, who did nineteen fish and Tyler

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the Creator did seventeen each. At the Garden, weird Ow

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brought in more than one million dollars from a sold

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out crowd of twelve four hundred and sixty one. Weird

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Out beat Out Nate Brigetzi Wow Nate did six shows

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in July and grossed only five point one million dollars

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on sixty four thousand, seven hundred tickets. Number three Peter

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Kay did four shows three point four million. Number four

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Future Billy id On Matt Rife two shows two point

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six million, twenty five thousand, four undred tickets. Two point

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six million on two shows is not bad money if

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you can get it. And Number five The Dude Perfect Guys.

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They did four shows gross two point four million, thirty

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seven thousand, seven hundred tickets. Pat Oswald, who appeared in

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possibly perhaps maybe the worst episode of Star Trek Exchange

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New Worlds that ever existed. He played Doug the Vulcan.

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Did you hear me throw a brick through my television? No?

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I didn't actually destroy my television, but I wanted to.

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Patton Oswalt needs to stick to game shows. He was

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the phone a Friend Lifeline on who Wants to Be

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a Millionaire? Jimmy Kimmel, your host, Cal Penn phone to

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friend Patton Oswalt. He described Patton Oswald as both hilarious

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and incredibly intelligent, and also terrible at Star Trek. I

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will point out Cal Penn probably should have mentioned that

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kim Ol called Patton Oswald one of the smartest guys

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I know, but terrible at Star Trek. Patton Oswald shouted

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out the answer Shakespeare, as though that was the answer

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to an unspecified question. Penn fired off the question with

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the remaining answers, and even though there were only two

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options to choose from, Patton Oswald seemed uncertain of his choice.

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The question had to do with the commonly no name

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of Gua Shah a wellness technique practiced in China for centuries.

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The fifty to fifty lifeline was already gone. The two

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remaining answers, do you know the answer? Is it nerve

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numbing or skin scraping? I will tell you after the break.

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When we last left, there were two answers on the

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Who Wants to be a Millionaire board. Your friend Patton

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Oswald is on the phone. He's going to tell you

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if Gwa Shaw is nerve numbing or skin scraping. Patton Oswald,

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terrible at Star Trek, says the answer is nerve numbing.

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Do you want to go with him? Kal Penn did?

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Turns out wrong, The answer is skin scraping. So Patton

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Oswald is terrible at Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

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And of course Star Trek a lot of game show news.

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Jimmy Fallon not afraid to work. He's like the Kevin

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Hard of Late Night. He's got yet another gig right

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last week he's doing some sort of ad agency thing.

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He's going to do some Sunday night Tonight shows. Well.

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Password has been renewed for season three on NBC. In

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case you've never seen Password, with a series of one

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clues teams race to guess the secret password for a

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chance to win cash prizes. Here you want to play

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password with me? Here, I'll feed you word ready, unfunny,

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that's right, the password is saidler. See, you would have

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won a lot of money if you and I were

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on password with Jimmy Fallon. The Guardian asked Eric Idol,

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which comedian living or did do you admire the most.

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Eric Idol said Peter Cook, Billy Connolly, Robin Williams, Eddie

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Zard Erica, who's probably a fan of the podcast Palace Intrigue,

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where we talk about the royal family every day. He

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talked about the royal family with The Guardian and he said,

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I feel really sorry for the royals. Sometimes they're very

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nice and human and other times they've become monsters, because

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if you're called sir at five, you're putting trouble into people.

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King Charles was very funny. He was at Cambridge, he

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did comedy and he loves Spike Milligan and would always

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come to Billy Connolly's shows. But it's not a society

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I'd be happy to live in. The thing I like

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about America is it created itself. It's the only place

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that wrote a script for itself, but it needs a

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rewrite to bring it up to date. The Second Amendment

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says at sixteen, you're allowed a major weapon of war.

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I really think they're serious about wanting to get rid

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of liberals and lefties. They're very crazy. Send your letters

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to Eric Idol new topic, looking back on your career

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from Python to spam a lot. Do you think satshire

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can still achieve in today's world the power it had

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during the Python days? Eric Idel said, Python's not satsire,

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it's the opposite SATs Our ends it's dead. You don't

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watch early episodes of Snell and think, oh, gerald Ford

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fell downstairs. Python was always generic comedy and it survives longer.

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Great point. That's your comedy news for today. If you

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