July 26, 2025

Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 is terrible and the sky is blue

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Johnny Mac delivers the latest comedy news from the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He covers various late-night highlights, including jokes from Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers about Trump and Epstein. Jenna Friedman discusses her thoughts on the sudden cancellation of Colbert's show, and Matt Rife celebrates selling out shows at Madison Square Garden. Additionally, Mac reviews Nikki Glaser's insights on how standup saved her life. The episode wraps up with a review of Adam Sandler's poorly received 'Happy Gilmore 2,' updates on new comedy projects like 'Spinal Tap 2', Beavis and Butthead's return, and the Naked Gun reboot receiving positive early feedback. Mack also highlights upcoming shows and events at the comedy festival, ending on a humorous note regarding an uptick in monkeypox cases in Montreal.

01:06 Jenna Friedman on Colbert Gate
02:35 Nikki Glaser's Stand-Up Journey
04:10 Happy Gilmore II Review
06:36 Spinal Tap II and Other Movie News
08:48 South Park's Controversial Episode
10:27 Montreal Comedy Festival Highlights
13:59 New Jersey Comedy Scene

Johnny Mac delivers the latest comedy news from the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He covers various late-night highlights, including jokes from Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers about Trump and Epstein. Jenna Friedman discusses her thoughts on the sudden cancellation of Colbert's show, and Matt Rife celebrates selling out shows at Madison Square Garden. Additionally, Mac reviews Nikki Glaser's insights on how standup saved her life. The episode wraps up with a review of Adam Sandler's poorly received 'Happy Gilmore 2,' updates on new comedy projects like 'Spinal Tap 2', Beavis and Butthead's return, and the Naked Gun reboot receiving positive early feedback. Mack also highlights upcoming shows and events at the comedy festival, ending on a humorous note regarding an uptick in monkeypox cases in Montreal.

01:06 Jenna Friedman on Colbert Gate
02:35 Nikki Glaser's Stand-Up Journey
04:10 Happy Gilmore II Review
06:36 Spinal Tap II and Other Movie News
08:48 South Park's Controversial Episode
10:27 Montreal Comedy Festival Highlights
13:59 New Jersey Comedy Scene

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Hey guys, real quick, I just wanted to share. I

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recorded the first half here on a street corner. My

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energy's a little low, and I took the break a

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little early. But stick around because the second half is

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very robust. Here we go Callaroga Shark Media from Montreal

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on the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. I'm Johnny Mack

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with your daily comedy news. I will do the late

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night stuff today. Jimmy Falluander in the Week said the

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Justice Apartment said that they planned me with Epstein associate

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Julane Maxwell. When asked about it, Trump said it sounds

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like an appropriate thing to do. He was like, hell,

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I met her hundreds of times. Seth Myers said, that's right.

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President Trump reportedly sent Jeffrey Epstein a letter to celebrate

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his fiftieth birthday that ends with a happy birthday, and

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may every day be another wonderful secret. And then somebody

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else signed the letter exhibit A. That's great. May every

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day be a wonderful secret to me. That sounds kind

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of like he asked, remind me to venmo you for

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the sex by the way, tomorrow night at the Beak

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in Theaters Sunday night. I keep an eye on John

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Oliver and Seth Meyers doing a show. I'm sure they'll

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talk about Colbert. Jennif Friedman waded in on Colbert at Gate.

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She was on the Last Laugh podcast and said, like

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a lot of things right now, there's no definitive proof,

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but we don't know exactly why the show was canceled.

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Was it for ratings? Was it because political reasons? I

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think the larger issues for me is that I personally

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look to comedians I admire, particularly outspoken political comedian in

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times of uncertainty, and just the fact that Colbert's show

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was canceled so swiftly in such a scary moment really

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made me sad. She talked about her appearance on the

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show in twenty sixteen and said she took comfort in

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knowing that things are going to be okay for us

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as long as people like Steven Colbert are on the

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air able to say what they're saying. That at least

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is one sign of a democracy that is not totally

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in pallidi of care. So this news is just another

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notch and I'm not sure what the right analogy is

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the two belt towards fascism. Freedman talked about trying to

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re enter the US from Canada. Oh, I better pay

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attention here. She told the border guard. She was performing

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comedy and quote for some dumb reason side a flirt

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with him, and I was like, I joke about everything

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other than airport security. The border guard asked he do

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you make fun of politicians? She said no, and says

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the guy wasn't trying to troll me or tease me.

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He literally was just following orders. It was such a

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benign but insidious question. It felt shocking. Matt Riife was

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very excited that he saw out Madison Square Garden two

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shows last weekend. He posted on Insta, Wow, we really

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did it. I hope I get to do it for

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the rest of my life. Jesse McCartney posted epic night, brother,

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so happy for you. I skimmed down here and I

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said the word McCartney. I was like, Paul McCartney likes

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Matt Rife, but no, it's Jesse McCartney that makes more sense.

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Variety's Comedy Impact Honory Nicky Glazer on how stand up

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saved her life. She said, we all thought I was

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going to die. Her friend Lisa Lampinelli, who was also

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my friend, says Nicky is a kind person. She didn't

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want to use the word nice because I think nice

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as wishy washy. You look at comics who'd get away

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with the stuff they say, Howard Stern, Don Rickles, Jeff Ross.

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It's because they have an underlying kindness and a good goal.

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She leads with her heart and her vulnerability. Laser admits,

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I want to be liked desperately, but not for any

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reason that isn't really me. Nicki doesn't stick around for

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standing ovation. In fact, I'm always kind of sprinting off

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the stage because I feel bad that I'm wasting any

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more of people's time. One time, she even refunded the

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price of someone's ticket. Nicki says, if someone messages me

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about how I made them feel bad, where they felt

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like I ruined their night, I'll venmo them back their

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money because I want people out of a good time

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my show. I'm in awe that people pay so much

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to see me. They get a babysitter, they get all

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dressed up, they get dinner. The worst thing I could

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do is make them feel bad for themselves. You'd be

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late to the show, disrespect them in some way. That's

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my deepest fear She then talked about growing up. I

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could never ask my parents about what sex was about,

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because they would have given me euphemisms about literally birds

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and bees. I didn't appreciate being lied to as I

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grew up. I really suffered being lied to for too long.

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I believed in Santa Claus way too late. Nicki says

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she grew up clamoring for the truth. I think that's

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why I gravitated towards stand up, because she gets to

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tell the truth. The things I say in a microphone

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feel like the ultimate rebellion for having been shamed for

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the things I said as a kid. Plenty more there.

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You'll find that variety. I'll pick at that in the

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next couple days. Right now, I gotta go catch another

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show here at the Montreal Comedy Festival, so we'll take

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the break and then we'll come right back. From the

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Hollywood Reporter Happy Gilmore to review Adam Sandler's Netflix sequel

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is terrible and fans will love it. The reporter rights,

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there are so many clips from its predecessor that even

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those who never saw the original film, and they are

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lucky people, we'll have no trouble catching up. Add that

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to the many original performers reprising their roles, the constant callbacks,

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and the NonStop nostalgia, and the result is less a

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continuation than an exercise in fans service. If you're watching

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Happy Gilmore two at home, don't be surprised if some

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of the cast members show up at your door offering

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autograph pictures for a fee. Every minute of the film

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features a reference to the original in one form or another.

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It all feels extremely lazy and self indulgent, especially Sandler's

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tendency to cast nearly everyone who's ever worked with or

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ever met. The cameos here are so voluminous that you

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need to cheat, cheat to keep up, although most of

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them barely make an impression Sandler, it easily walks through

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the film looking, as one character describes him, like someone

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who got divorced four seconds ago. I mean, I am

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just shocked. I mean the thought that an Adam Sandler

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comedy movie is not hilarious. I mean, who knew? Why

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didn't anyone ever bring this up? I like this one

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star review TJ Moto posted, it was horrible. The movie

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was so bad. I actually like Jack and Jill better. Wow.

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I mean that just speaks volumes. I've shared this before

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in my household. When that movie came out on pay perview,

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my kids wanted to rent it, and I said I

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would rather set the five dollars on fire and would

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not let them rent. Jack and Jill DJ motorwrites, there

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was way too many cameos and Happy Gilmore was not

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the Happy Gilmore character we all love. Well speak for

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yourself slash Film's review Happy Gilmore Too, the comedy sequel,

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takes a big swing but completely whiffs it. Happy Gilmore

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two is an absolute slog of a comedy that takes

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everything that made the original movie great and regurgitates it

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into something resembling a Dodgeball sequel crashed into professional golf outing.

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When there are jokes that aren't callbacks, they're either so

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dumb or it makes such a little sense that you're

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wondering how they ever made it onto the page. I'm

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not surprised they made out of the page at all.

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Have you guys not been paying attention for thirty years.

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While there may be a stray chuckle here and there

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thanks to a genuinely clever line or surprising cameo, those

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moments are a few and far between. Happy Gilmour two

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is a poor excuse for nostalgia comedy, and you'd have

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more fun getting a colonoscopy with a rake. They gave

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it a two out of ten. Got a bunch of

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movie news. I'll do it all back to back to

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back to back a Spinal Tap two. The trailer is

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out and I watched it this morning, and I was

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all excited for it, and uh worried about this one

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not looking too good in this trailer trailer not looking

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too funny. I went to buwl the audio and it

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just wouldn't make sense for this audio podcast. In the trailer,

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we see filmmaker Marty de Bergie catching up with the

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Spinal Tap crew. They all look quite old. I think

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they have been made up to look even older than

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they do in real life. The trailer then shows us

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efforts by the band to reunite for one last hurrah,

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including their efforts to recruit a drummer suicidal enough to

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play the gig, their merchandising efforts. There is a pretty

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decent joke about that and whether one or two of

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them dying on stave would help boost publicity for the

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gig and cement their legacy. Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell

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are attached to Tough Guys. Now, I'll point out it's

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been a minute for Will here I recently walked you

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through as IMDb It's been a minute. Tough Guys follows

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two henchmen who are tired of being disposable and break

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free from the criminal underworld, rewriting the rules as they

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build a new life on their own terms. In Better

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Comedy movie News, supposedly the upcoming Naked Gun reboot is good.

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I've seen nothing but good reviews of it. Now you

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noticed they didn't release anything about Happy Gilmour too until

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Friday morning. That's always a tell with Naked Gun. They're

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going the other way and they're getting the word out.

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Leslie Nielsen plays Frank Drebe Green Rant says first reactions

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are praising the reboot as hilariously nostalgic, smartly silly and

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laugh out loud funny. Eric Davis writes, I can finally

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talk about how obsessed I am with the Naked Gun

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reboot director Akiva Schaeffer. You know him from Lonely Island

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and his work is usually quite strong, so I'll believe

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it a Kiva Schaffer delivers a hilarious film stuff with

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hundreds of gags that very much honors the original series.

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Haven't laughed that much in a while, walked out feeling amazing.

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Highly recommend. Wow. Joe Blow dot com wrote my thoughts,

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Holy Hell, the Naked Gun is the funniest flick I've

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seen for a while. Liam Neeson is so freaking perfect

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as Frank Drepen Junior in the comedy chemistry he shares

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with Pamela Anderson is absolutely wonderful. One sequence had me

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in tears laughing so hard. It's eighty five minutes. It's

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an enjoyable watch from start to finish. August First, did

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you see the South Park episode about Donald Trump that

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made quite the news on Thursday and Friday. The White

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House reacted to the episode, Trey Parker said, We're terribly

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sorry in case you missed it. Unlike other characters on

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South Park, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of

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Trump on an animated body. The body has a rather

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small penis. There's also a very realistic looking at deep

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fake video of Trump completely naked walking in a desert,

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also with a very small penis. The White House did

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not find this funny. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said

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a statement, this show hasn't been relevant for over twenty

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years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired

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ideas and a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has

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delivered on more promises in just six months than any

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other president in our country's history, and no fourth rate

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show can derail President Trump's hot streak. At Comic Con,

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Parker said they did get a note from the producers.

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The note apparently said, okay, but we're going to blur

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the penis, and I said, no, you're not going to

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blur these penis. Matt Stone said the team decided to

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put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character, explaining,

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if we put eyes on the penis, we won't blur it.

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There was a whole conversation with grown up people for

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four effing days. What will happen next week? Parker said,

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I don't know what next week's episode is going to be.

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Even just three days ago, we were like, I don't

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know if people are gonna like this. Sone explained how

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he and Trey Mehdi said we met ouver Monty Python

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in this day when PBS is getting their funding cut.

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That's how I found Monty Python. Also from Comic Con.

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Comedy Central announced Beavis and butt Heead is coming back

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September third. Beavis and butt Head look a little older

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than they used to and everything that's old is new again.

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All right, Let's see what's happening here in Montreal at

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the Festival one BM Just for Laughs Pilots, three thirty

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Just for Laughs Shorts, six point thirty, The Fortune Feamster Gala,

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Danny Boy at seven, British at seven, Malik Ela Sal

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at seven, Jack Turner at seven, Christ Stefano at seven,

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Mary Beth Baron at seven, Matthew Bursard at seven, Who

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Faces Character Encore at seven, Dean Smith Cannon Fodder eight thirty,

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Leslie Lau at nine, Drop Out Improv nine thirty, Nick

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mikey Da Gala nine thirty, Shay Drina nine thirty, JFLGBTQ

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Casuals Presents Cowboys at ten thirty. Business Casuals, a sketch

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comedy trio from Los Angeles. The show Spoilers tells the

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story of a gun slinging cowboys seeking revenge on three

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men who killed his family. He must assemble a posse

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and sat out on the journey of a lifetime. Along

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the way, the group encounter gold miners, snake oil salesman,

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and just about every Western trope you could think of.

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It sounds fun tough slot, though on Saturday. I feel

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like that might have played better on, you know, Wednesday night,

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Thursday night. It's a lot going on tonight, Midnight Surprise

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eleven fifty nine, Roywood Junior eleven fifty nine, Comedy Confidential

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eleven fifty nine. Nick Muhammet's Show Again nine thirty He

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did one day other night, got a really good review.

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This from the Montreal Gazette, which unrelated says Montreal reports

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rise in monkey pock's cases. Oh good, that's great news

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if you've been in theaters in Montreal all week. If

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the show disappears for a couple of days, that might

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be why the Gazette when not reporting about monkey pox,

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says Nick. Attired in a glittering gold lemet jacket, he

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speaks phonetically in a high pitched tone, and displays the

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sort of high end energy that sounds like way too

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much helium intake. His act is mentalism, magic, music, drama,

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oh and yes, a comedy. He explains, mister Swallow is

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a character truly based on a teacher of mine that

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I've been doing since I was fifteen in my school

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playground and professionally for the last twenty years. It's been

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with me so so long. I've always loved magic and mentalism,

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but that sort of crept out of my career once

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other comedy took over. I used to gig as a

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working magician, table hopping at weddings and hotels, and I've

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tried to refine it a little. He talked about playing

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Nate on ted Lasso, and so the role actually got

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quite challenging towards the end. But I've always loved the

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idea of being quite malleable in terms of the way

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you inhabit a different character. For me, that's the real

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joy of being an actor. It's weird because for the

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first season we were all quite shelter from the success

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of it. We weren't traveling because of COVID. But now

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we can't get away from it, and we're all so

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grateful for it doesn't sound like Nate is part of

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season four. He said, who knows. We'll have to see,

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and then gave out a big laugh. I know they're

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in Kansas. They're filming in Kansas City. I know they're

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in Kansas at the moment, so we'll see what happens.

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I'm being very coy, but he says it with no

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trace of bitterness. So the Montreal Gazette thinks Nate will

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be back. He says those are all good theories, and

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don't forget they filmed those shows over a long time.

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Michelle Bottill says, once you get the Gallas spot at JFL,

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it feels like you've won Formula one. They're a handful

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of things. Especially in New York. Comedians always talk about

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getting an SNL audition, a late night spot, and JFL

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was right up there. So this is very exciting. I mean,

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it's been a long time, very happy to be doing it.

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She likes connecting with people around the world. She said,

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there's a non binary teenager in Kenya that's reaching out

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to me, a sixty two year old lesbian in Bulgaria.

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Then there's cities in Brazil using my cashphrase you know,

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if there's gonna be monkey pocks up here, I may

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have to return back to New Jersey. And there is

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a comedy festival in Montclair, New Jersey. Instead of moving

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to Canada, I could have just driven twenty five minutes

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to the Montclair Comedy Festival. Colin Armstrong was one of

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the performers there this weekend. Colin likes the energy from

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doing comedy in Jersey that you can't get anywhere else.

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He says people are more open to laughing about darker

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stuff than we're willing to admit. And you know, as

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long as you know where the morsels of funny are,

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people are going to be receptive to it. He praised

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Chris Gethard as a great guy and the godfather of

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Jersey comedy. I got to do a few shows with him,

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which was really special. In ice, it's just good fun times.

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Jersey is more open to darker subject matter than if

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I were doing shows and say San Francisco, San Francisco legendary,

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uptight city. Question mark, question mark, question mark. If it's funny,

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it's funny. But it's a very interesting dynamic of what

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out of state audiences will and won't laugh at. For

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some reason, He says Jersey audiences tend to have more hecklers.

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Being from New Jersey is a uniquely brutal experience. I

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grew up with everybody making fun of everyone, and nobody's

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not a target. If you got picked on, you learn

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how to take that stank off you by making fun

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of someone else. And that is your comedy news for today.

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I'm gonna go get my monkey pox vaccine and hope

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for the best. See you tomorrow, I guess.