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Hey guys, it's John So let me do you straight here.
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I teach a class on Thursday morning. I'm out the
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door at six thirty in the morning, so I obviously
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already recorded Thursday's episode. Now. Last night, around seven pm Eastern,
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the Jimmy Kimmel story broke. In case you missed it,
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the episode before this one in the feed is a
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bonus episode of me reacting to the Kimmel news in
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the episode you're about to hear now, no Kimmel at all,
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I don't think, but definitely nothing about this story as
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it was already recorded, and candidly, I had already recorded
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Friday as well because Thursday is teaching day. But I
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will come back this afternoon Thursday afternoon with a bonus
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episode and catch up on the Kimmel News. But in
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the meantime, here's this Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm
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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I'll see if
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my voice holds out. I just recorded over an hour
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of the other show. I host Five Good News Stories,
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and this weekend we start five Good News Christmas Stories.
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I know it's September, but five Good News Christmas Stories
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does really well, so if you're not hip to that,
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I host to show five good news stories. It's five stories,
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all of them. Good news comes out four times a week,
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and as we're closer to Christmas, more and more Christmas
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stories if you want to check that out. It is
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a very busy week for comedy. So I had mixed
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emotions when Vulture released their twenty twenty five list of
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comedians you should and will know. This is a very
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important list, and candidly I get a lot of content
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from it, but I don't need the content this week.
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So I'm just going to tell you that this exists
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and start to talk about it, and I'll dive in
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as the days go on. Vulture writes this year's list
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features comedians who approach their craft from a wide variety
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of perspectives, Originally hailing from places as disparate as Lebanon
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and Estonia to various US cities. They specialize in musical comedy, clowning,
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which is very underrated and I'm not being sarcastic there,
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pitch perfect parodies of nuances of TikTok, and interrogating politicians.
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Vulture explains to make the list, they reached out to
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over two hundred of the top taste makers and gatekeepers
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in the country, including comedy club bookers, production company executives,
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major network talent scouts, streaming service curators, comedy record label owners,
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and they asked them what comedians make them excited about
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going to work each morning. This is always a great list.
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It's always on point, and I'm recording a podcast in
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the basement. But you know, I did spend a decade
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plus as serious. I never ran into anyone who was
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part of this list, so I don't know who the
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two hundred taste makers are. That's not a shot at Vulture.
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I'm just like, I've never met anyone who's been part
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of this list, just mathematically I should have. And again,
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that's not a digd Vulture because the list is really good.
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This year's comedians are Natalie Alcar, Tessa Bell, Comedian CP,
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Rachel Coster, Esther Fhallck, Jimmy Falley, and Kira O'Sullivan as One, comedian,
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Adam Friedland, Adam Gilbert, Zanab Johnson, ray lao, Ismail Lufti,
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Juliette Massley, Taylor Ortega, Eric Rayhill, and Meets a Raw,
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Paris Sasche, Saheb Singh, Derek Stroup, Joe Sunday, and Jacob Boisak.
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Now what's interesting is some of these folks have been
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around for a while. When I saw the list, it
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was like, oh, I will spotlight this on the show
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I host on the Live One app, which is called
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the Weekly Comedy Thing, And the app is Live one.
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The app is free, the show is free. It's like this,
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except I can actually play clips from comedians because of
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you know, how royalties work. I can't really do that
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on the podcast. But like somebody like Paris Sachet has
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been around for ten years. She's got an album in
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the system for twenty sixteen. But most of these people
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did not have anything released on digital that was available
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for play. I just found that curious. So they're really
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new faces, which is great and a great job out
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of Vulture there. Variety had done that big piece with
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Andrew Santino, a lot of interesting stuff in there, and
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just you know, with the Emmys and everything, there was
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other stuff to talk about it for a couple of days,
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but we learn learned that the sitcom Dave, which started
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Little Dicky, is not coming back. Santino said, that's not
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on pause. That thing is gone. I don't even know
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why the narrative is out there. It's not true. We're
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not doing the show. I think people said it was
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on pause to protect the relationship of the show. Well
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that's all nonsense. The show's done. We're all going on
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our own way and doing our own thing. It was
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a great run and we all enjoyed it very much.
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It ran its beautiful little course and that was a
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wonderful moment in time. I'm happy I was part of it.
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But no, world, do I think the show would ever
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come back. Sounds a little feisty there. I wonder what's
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going on behind the scenes. So he was asked, was
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it FX's decision to end it? Now, listen to this answer.
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I was a hired gun that was between Dave Birrd
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Jeff Schaffer in FX. I had no power over what
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was happening. I kind of found out when everybody else
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went out that it wasn't coming back. But people saying,
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perhaps will pause it and come back. I know better.
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Dad left to get cigarettes. He's not coming home. Sounds
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like it sounds like there was strife or he's annoyed
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or something sideways there, right, GQ did that profile at
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Stavros Halkias, where the whole thing was about like being
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manly man and man and man stuff and man and
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being a man and be a man and manly. Such
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a q aske Stavros, What are the most important things
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we need to teach young men in these formative years?
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Stavros said, I guess the lessons are twofold. First of all,
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you're not a piece of crap for laughing at messed
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up stuff. I quite cleaned that sentence up. Those things
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are funny. We're not going to pretend they're not funny,
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but understand they're just jokes and it shouldn't be the
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way you treat other people in society. And then become
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the best version of yourself. For me, that's really the
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biggest lesson, right. It sounds so boring to say, be yourself,
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but guess what. Some of you aren't gonna get jacked,
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some of you aren't gonna be crypto billionaires. They dropped
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a couple f's in that sentence. The way out of
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being an incel is understanding you can be a loser.
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You don't have to be the exact ideal, be the
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ideal version of you, even at your worst there's more
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people in the world that would want to have sex
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with you than you'll ever be able to have sex with.
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I'm quite cleaning this up. Truly, they're out there, you
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just have to find them. The quickest way out of
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being an inceel being a nice, good hang that cares
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about other people, is empathetic. I promise you in the
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long run, you'll have better results that way, by being
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yourself and being nice and putting yourself out there. That's
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pretty good advice. He goes on to say the time
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I had the most successful with women, I was five seven,
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three hundred and fifty pounds. You know what I mean.
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I was in horrible shape, but I did believe in myself,
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and now I'm trying to get that together. It's about
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constant growth and it's about always improving yourself. But that's
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the way out of being an incel. You do have
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to hold yourself accountable, but don't blame other people. Don't
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complain if you're not trying to find a solution. I
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think that's literally an Ornold Schwarzenegger thing. I think that's
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the lesson I would give to them, because if I
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can do it, brother, you can do it too. I
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was twenty two, I'd hooked up with one girl as fat, bald, broke,
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living at all with my parents, and I turned it
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all around. You can turn it around too. Giqi was
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curious they couldn't just let this go? Who tell you that?
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Who tell you how to be a man? Starfro said,
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I said it, but bleeping Arnold Schwarzenegger. Action movies, sports movies.
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You know what I mean? As corney as it sounds,
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sports are big for me, Rocky the Underdog Story. Obviously
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my father had male role models or whatever. But I
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think sometimes their dads can give these incomplete versions of
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what it means to be a guy, and maybe sometimes
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you can learn off their mistakes a lot lot more there.
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All right, we gotta talk about the Emmys a little
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bit more. Remember the other night, Hannah Einbinder said, f
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ice and free Palestine. Well. On Twitter, Ricky Gervase posted
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a throwback to his Golden Globes monologue back in twenty twenty.
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He made some comments. Jervase had said back then, if
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you do win an award tonight, don't use it as
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a political platform to make a political speech. You're in
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no position to lecture of the public about anything. You
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know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent
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less time in school than Greta Tunberg. Well, Ricky has
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removed that from his Twitter account. Critics claimed he had
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rethought his intervention in the context of the War of Gaza.
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Jervase also unshared a post that directly commented on Einbinder's remarks.
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So what happened was during a backstage Emmy's press conference.
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Einbinder said she had an obligation as a Jewish person
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to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Responding to
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a video of the comments posted by Variety, one Twitter
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user cited another quote from Ricky Gervais's monologue, in which
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Jervase had said it back in twenty twenty, if Isis
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started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you.
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Gervais retweeted the comment, but on Tuesday remove the tweet.
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He has, however, shared old bost about his Globes monologue,
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including a video clip posted in August that contains the
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don't use it as a political platform to make a
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political speech rant. We'll see if Ricky comments some more
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about what is in the spirit of his social media actions.
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This week, Vulture wrote about Nate Brighetzi and said, reference
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award show host is not a natural position for a
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comic with Nates everyman persona. He's the type of comic
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who jokes about loving McDonald's and Walmart, and his down
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earth affect clashes with the unrelatability and self indulgence of
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an award show. Even if he were to uncritically lord
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over the proceedings, he's incapable of communicating a genuine belief
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that award recipients are deserving of all this pomp and circumstance.
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Another comedian Burghatzy's position might embrace this that use their
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outsider status to their advantage to deliver monologue jokes that
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poke at the ceremonies artifice, or make political jokes that
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can textualize its insular nature. But these also aren't Burghetzi
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strengths in his stand up the closest he gets to
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compativeness on stage by recounting confusing interactions he's had with
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his wife for customer service people he doesn't even curse.
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He avoids talking politics unless it's a joke about how
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little he understands it, and his jokes rarely take the
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form of traditional setup punchline one liners, so where his
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opening sketch might have traditionally given way to stand up
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monologue burgets, he opted to forgo it and cut straight
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to his logistical duties as master of Ceremonies. He devised
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a plan to keep the show running on time. We've
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discussed that, Vultre says. Every time the show cut back
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to Nata's host, he made a point to crack a
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joka too about the current donation total, which quickly grew
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one note. Even the jokes forgets he made to introduce presenters,
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some of which were well crafted, like when he put
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on a denim tuxedo and pretended to forget why then
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introduced Sidney Sweeney, failed to land because the donation total
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bit sucked up so much airtime I was watching. I
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noted that he was wearing a denim tuxedo, I heard
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him talk about it, and then I didn't even make
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the connection to the Sydney Sweeney thing. I don't think
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he nailed that at all. I mean, seems like a
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nice guy, but not a good job as Emmy's host. Sorry.
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John Oliver was the guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They
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were both happy that Stephen Colbert won. Oliver told Kimmel,
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it was great. We're all very happy. You know. We
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wanted him to win. The right thing to happen was
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for him to win. But the funniest thing to happen
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would have been if you, Jimmy Kimmel had won. Kimmel
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laughed and said right. Oliver continued, most of me wanted
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him to win. A part of me, the part of
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me that I like more, just wanted to see your
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face go oh no. Kimmel revealed there was a moment
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when he thought that it was possible. He said one
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of the drivers for one of the writers wasn't watching
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the show and went on Chat GPT or something and
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said who won the talk show Emmy, And for whatever reason,
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Chat said we won, and they texted it to us
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and I'm like, this is not right obviously, and then
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I was like, oh no, do they know something? And
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I was like, oh, shoot, if we win, this is
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a disaster. Oliver found that funny going. You would have
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been so bleaped. He had his whole staff there with him.
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You would have been booed onto the stage, maybe stoned.
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Why do you have to ruin everything. The first ever
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cut away and the winner is Jimmy Kimmel. No Oh,
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that's funny. Gossip Conna, Spoons in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby,
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Gossip Conna where them is meeting with Johnny Mac. It's
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ay's a tree. Let's enjoy Gossip Corner and the fun song.
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Because the podcast after these next two stories is going
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to get a little serious, so we'll start with Nick Kroll.
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He's on Instagram. He's out for Vietnamese food in Vancouver.
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He's a lunch lady, and he shared a photo. He wrote,