Feb. 13, 2025

Andrew Schulz (Flagrant) announces Netflix special PLUS Dave Chappelle will receive the NAACP President's Award

Andrew Schulz (Flagrant) announces Netflix special PLUS Dave Chappelle will receive the NAACP President's Award

Johnny Mac provides updates on the latest in comedy, including Andrew Schulz's new Netflix special and highlights from the upcoming 'Night of Too Many Stars' event featuring Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, and more. Dave Chappelle will receive the NAACP...

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Johnny Mac provides updates on the latest in comedy, including Andrew Schulz's new Netflix special and highlights from the upcoming 'Night of Too Many Stars' event featuring Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, and more. Dave Chappelle will receive the NAACP President's Award, and Felipe Esparza's new Netflix special gets mixed reviews. Other topics include a controversy involving Russell Brand, a rare small venue performance by Louis C.K., and discussions on comedy's role in social commentary from Gianmarco Soresi. The episode also previews upcoming shows and discussions, including anticipated SNL specials.

00:16 Andrew Schulz's New Special
00:46 Night of Too Many Stars Event
02:16 Dave Chappelle Honored by NAACP
02:58 Felipe Esparza's Comedy Journey
07:22 Russell Brand's Legal Troubles
07:53 Louis C.K.'s Small Venue Shows
10:08 Upcoming SNL 50th Anniversary Special
12:21 Comedy Industry Insights
14:13 Peter Kay's Heckler Incident Reaction
17:03 Vir Das on Comedy and Journalism
18:12 Seth Rogen on Modern Comedy
19:08 Schedule of Upcoming Episodes

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Busy one today, busy few days coming up.

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I'll talk you through all that after the break, Let's

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get to the news. Andrew Schultz has taped a new

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pregnancy themed special called Life that will premiere on Netflix

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on March fourth. Filmed at New York's Beacon Theater, it

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is Andrew's second for Netflix. The specialists billed as the

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comics most personally yet, he offers a look at the

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hilarious and humbling journey of trying to start a family.

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Breaking down the cast of IVF from pumping out samples,

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I appreciate you keeping that clean, a dodging emotional land mines.

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It's raw, real, and will make you grateful. Your swimmers

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probably work. Apparently the producers of Night of Too Many

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Stars must listen to this program because I told you

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the guest lineup I don't know earlier this week, late

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last week, and I commented that they released the news

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on a very busy news day and it was going

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to get lost. And they must have heard me and

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done another kick, because on Wednesday, both Variety and The

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Hollywood Reporter announced this as if it hadn't already been

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announced less I'm clairvoyant. I don't know where I originally

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got the story from, but anyway, we're pretending this is news.

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Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and Moore will perform

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at the Night of Too Many Stars comedy events on Monday,

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March thirty first at the Beacon Theater in New York City.

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John Stewart is your host, as previously reported by Daily

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Comedy News, Other performers include Ronnie Chang, Alex Edelman, Susie Esmond,

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Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Sherman, Max Weinberg's Jukebox, James Austin Johnson,

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and Sam Morrell. The event will include a live auction

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to support initiatives for artistic adults. Event creators Michelle and

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Robert Smigel said in a statement, we created Night of

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Too Many Stars with our friends of the comedy world

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at a time when most organizations focused only on research

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for a cure for autism. Seeing so many parents struggle

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to find appropriate services and schools for their children inspired

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us to create an event to support the vital programs

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and services that individuals with autism need right now. The

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Night of Too Many Stars was created by Michelle and

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Robert in two thousand and three after struggling to find

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effective education for their artistic son. The organization is dedicated

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to helping the five point four million autistic adults living

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in the US achieve their dreams. Dave Chappelle will be

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honored with the NAACP's President's Award at the fifty sixth

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n DOUBACP Image Awards in Pasadena later this month. The

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President's Award honors individuals for special achievement and distinguished public service.

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President CEO Derek Johnson said in statement, the President's Award

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honors an unwavering dedication to community, and throughout his distinguished career,

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Dave Chappelle has consistently been recognized as a powerful voice

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for social consciousness. Through his unique ability to transform complex

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political issues into thought provoking humor, Dave has solidified his

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place as one of the most impactful voices of our time.

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The NAACP Image Awards will air live February twenty second

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from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on be Et and CBS.

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It's been a busy week, and you get to talk

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much about Felipe Asparza, who had a special come out

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on Netflix on Tuesday. The folks of the Facebook group

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have watched it. I haven't watched it yet. They're calling

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it mid Icon versus Icon did just a fantastic, really

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great interview with Felipe. I'll pick at it over the

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next maybe not even the next few days because it's

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really busy. I'll explain that after the break, but I'm

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definitely gonna pick at it. But they asked really good questions.

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But we'll start at the beginning. Felipe says, when I

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started doing stand up comedy, there was no social media yet,

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so I had to go to a library to look

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for books on how to do stand up comedy and

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write jokes. So I read a couple of those and

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checked out a couple of comedy DVDs and CDs that

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I took with me, with stuff like George carl and

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Paul Rodriguez and Rodney Dangerfield. Remember Paul Rodriguez was pretty big.

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He's become forgotten and I think some other later generation

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comedians stole his corner. But Paul was really big. He

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had a sitcom called Aka Pablo on ABC that I

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really liked. Anyway, it was stuff like George carl and

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Paul Rodriguez and Rodney Dangerfield. I just went and consumed

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all that commed. That's where I started learning how to

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write jokes. First time on stage was an open mic,

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and just like every other comic out there, I thought

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I did really well. I thought I did great, but

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it was just okay. Since I'd never done it before.

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I didn't know about timing, which is very important. I

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didn't know that and was just talking through my jokes.

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I didn't know where to do the punchline. However, after

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the first open mic, I went to a couple of

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stand up comedy classes that were very expensive even back then.

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They were like five hundred dollars. They promised you a

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set at the ice House plus a five minute tape

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of your set, but I didn't have five hundred bucks.

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I also didn't have anybody who believed in me enough

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to give me five hundred bucks to join the class.

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So I went there anyway, and I sat in on

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the free one hour introductory class and they started teaching

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me how to write jokes on that first class. After that,

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I went to another one called Greg Dean, a stand

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up comedy course, and learn more stuff from there. That

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was it. Then I hit my second open mic. It

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took a long time to figure out who Felipe was.

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There was a lot of trial and error starting out.

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A lot of people emulate a comic they love. For example,

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if someone in New York grew up watching Todd Berry,

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they might sound a lot like him. On the West Coast,

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the people who grew up here might start sounding like

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Paul Rodriguez, George Lopez, or Carlo Smith Cia for a while.

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So they initially start finding their own voice depending on

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where they grew up. Man, I sounded like nine different

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comedians when I first started out. Look at me now,

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I have long hair and a trench coat. I'm in

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my Sam Kittison stage. That's great. Listen to this. When

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I started off, I was deadpad. I was like Steven

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writer Mitch Hedberg, just a deadpan comic. I would sit

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there and tell jokes with no personality or facial expression.

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Then I try to be a political comedian. I'd get

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the newspaper, I write a bunch of jokes about the

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Middle East. There was bombing and throwing rocks at each other,

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so I wrote this joke was totally bad. The joke

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there was piece in the Middle East this week. There

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were no rocks to throw. I was also performing in

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very loud rooms where nobody paid attention. You really had

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a fight to do stand up comedy because those pieces

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were not suitable for stand up, but was suitable for

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picking up a girl and taking her home, getting stabbed,

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or getting your Harley Davidson stolen outside. This is a

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great stuff Icon versus Icon and I have shared it

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in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. The

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La Times has a fantastic comedy reporter anyway, like twice

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a week they'll write a really good piece about comedy.

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They caught up with friend of the show, John Marco

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Cirezi and the topic was social issues in comedy, and

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John Marco said, you can lose your fan base who

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might be influenced by your work by harping on social

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issues too much. There's a good comedian whose thesis is

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in a show was men, we need to do better.

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We don't deserve points for being right. I don't need

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to pay money and you don't need to be lit

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and micd for an hour on that thesis. I was

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in South Carolina when I said Britney Griner was released

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from the Russian prison today. As a setup to a joke,

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some guy booed instead of being funny, I said, I

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should think it's good when Americans are released from foreign prisons.

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But why do that? I was preaching. I didn't convince

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that guy to challenge his notions of who he doesn't

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respect because of internal biases. You could achieve things with

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what you say, but if funny is not at the front,

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audiences are going to feel betrayed. Sometimes I want to

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come at the joke from the bad point of view

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or the good point of view for the wrong reasons.

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I had one joke about how I ran into my

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old college roommate and found that they'd recently transitioned, and

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I was thrilled because I'd forgotten their name. I like

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that because you wonder, is that a pro trans joke?

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The La Times asked Joen Marco was he wary of

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doing his bit about Israel and Gaza. Jenmarco said, I

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saw people who were not speaking honestly or looking through

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a black and white lens about what was happening there,

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and that fueled my desire to write that. But there's

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a safety in being Jewish. When I make that jokes,

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I won't be accused of anti Semitism. I could be righteous,

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but the punchline has to be subversive. I'm proud of

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those jokes because I felt like, even though I'm expressing

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a point of view, I think the joke itself supersedes it.

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Reuters is reporting that's Russell Brand is being sued over

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sexual abuse allegations, in the first known lawsuit brought against

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him in Britain, after several women accused him of sexual

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assaults and inappropriate behavior. New topic. Don't read anything into

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my sequencing here. I'll share with you how I prepped

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the show big stories. First, the Russell Brand thing is

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a newsy thing, and this final story of the first

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half has a fun end. So that's why it goes

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last on the first half. So don't read anything into

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why I went from that topic to this topic. Okay, okay.

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The funny headline from the Times Tribune comedian Louis c.

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K to headline Holiday inn Scrantonese done more but you

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can't go? All right? That was good clickbait. I clicked

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on it. I was like, Oh, why can't I go?

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Is he doing a private show? Nope? It was just

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that the show in the six hundred and fifty seat

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room sold out. The general manager of the hotel is Corey,

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who said, it's gonna be a great show. It's gonna

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be awesome for Done Moore, especially someone coming to our

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local area who's well known, very famous. Now I could

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have kicked that story, but what interested me is that

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Louis has been playing small rooms. He played there's a

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room kind of close to where I live that honestly

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is like not a good comedy room. They get good comedy,

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but in terms of the physical structure, I don't think

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it's a good room. I think it's the second floor

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of a local restaurant that I had dinner with my

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daughter about three weeks ago. I was shocked that Louis

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was playing there was sold out before I knew it existed,

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and I don't like to leave the house, like I

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probably could have somehow gotten in there, but I was like, eh, whatever. Anyway,

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the room in question, we learned rental fees vary depending

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on the date, the season, and what you're doing, but

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the room generally cost around three thousand dollars to host

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an event. Tickets to CK's show were cap at around

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four hundred. Let's do some math here. The prices were

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thirty five to forty five, so let's do lazy math.

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Four hundred times forty is how much? Somebody help me

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sixteen thousand. You got to rent the room for three thousand,

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So it's Louis making ten thirteen grand on the night

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to work out some material, presumably in a small room

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like that, because the same article tells us he's playing

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mccurtiy's in Sarasota that holds two fifty the Off the

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Hook Comedy Club in Naples, where Louis's opening for Robert Kelly.

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Interesting that holds three point thirty. Cek's playing Youngstown, Ohio

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at the Funny Farm Comedy Club for one hundred people,

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and then the Funny Bone in Columbus for less than

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three hundred people. The Times Tribune caught up with Rich Voss,

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who seems to like this club Fas says, I have

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a good time there. It's a good audience, it's fun.

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I don't have to get on a plane, he says.

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The show's producer, who is local comedian Kevin Lepka, rents

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the ballroom from the Holiday Inn to produce shows under

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the name Scranton Comedy Club. He calls that guy a

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hustler in the good sense he promotes. Well, he does

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all the promotion. You gotta be thankful to have somebody

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musical show is Tomorrow night, plus four seo reasons. I

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how handsome I am and boy ladies, be prepared. There's

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the possible comedy bust. I've heard Papa mention that a

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you guys are hurting the cause and there's no reason

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four hundred on YouTube in a year, three hundred and

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sixty five. How much comedy you gonna consume? So Papa

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getting siloed and the audiences aren't crossing over. There's obviously

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maybe we could do the Clean Comedians World Tour. I

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five Writers Guild Awards. Those are in Los Angeles at

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the Beverly Hilton. Spent a lot of time yesterday about

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that Peter Kay garlic bread battle in Metro. Jacob Hawley

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writes under the headline I'm a comedian, Here's where Peter

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Kay went wrong. Jacob writes, in a smaller venue, Peter

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K could have dealt with it better. The free speech

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culture war has infiltrated our comedy shows, with the Man

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from Manchester claiming that he was treated like a terrorist

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for being asked to leave at Peter k gig after

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he repeatedly shadowed the words garlic bread. The man told

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instinctively on the side of k that I was cheering

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him on as he irige security to kick the heckler

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in the face and calling him a nasty thing. I'm

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paraphrasing this whole article here, but I'll be honest on

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my own tour. When I'm playing the venues of a

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couple hundred and still flogging spare tickets on the day,

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I can only empathize so much. Many will see my

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name is the writer on this piece and think who.

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and that's why I'm offering this perspective. While most of

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you have never heard of me, Peter Kay is selling

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out hundreds of shows at venues that host twenty thousand people. Hey, Americans,

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do you know who Peter Kay is? I don't either,

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and I host this thing he's apparently playing the twenty

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thousand people? Who is he? Now? Say he's not good?

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I'm just saying he's got no presence in the States.

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There's a silo back to Jacob Pauley. So actually, while

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I should be backing my fellow comedian, I have much

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more in common with the bruised and Feda Heckler than

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to think I wouldn't shoot catchphrases in front of two people,

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never mind twenty thousand. When I go to the kind

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of venues Peter k play is like the O two

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Arena in London. I go as a punter rather the performer,

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because taken from a stand up, live comedy doesn't really

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work in those rooms. I've seen some of the best

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comedians the UK has ever produced suffer in large venues,

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struggling to deal with an audience of adoring fans if

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derived drunk thought that they were helping their hero by

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shouting out their favorite bits, then putting the comedian in

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the tricky position of having to ask someone who essentially

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stop enjoying themselves so much. As comedians, it's our job

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to make you laugh. So that's a pretty hard thing

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to tell someone and whether he likes it or not,

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garlic bread is Peter Kse's thing, his hit, his equivalent

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of Paul McCartney playing Hey Jude, and yet, as he

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put in a statement, being used to disrupt his particular show,

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the Heckler is a huge fan, likely shot out hundreds

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between tickets, travel and drink, and his crime is what exactly,

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excitingly shouting out his favorite punchline. That's why they're both

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right in their way, but also why I believe it's

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the circumstances that're the problem. If this worth three hundred

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setter venue K could have acknowledged it, properly, made eye

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contact with the blokes, shut them down and moved on.

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it impossible to properly engage, you can't fix a situation

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like this. And in an era where most people watch

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stand up comedy through the prism of viral crowd work

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clips on TikTok and Instagram, it's fair to assume that

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a lot of people think this is the point of

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a comedy gig BINGO, let's go along today, I've got

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another international controversy for you. Vir Das said, while there

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should be a debate on what's good comedy, there should

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also be discussion on what constitutes good journalism. He weighed

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in on controversy surrounding influencer ran Vir A Labadilla. Alabadilla

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recently faced backlash for controversial comments on parents and sex

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during his appearance on the YouTube comedy show India's Got Latent.

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Apparently the media has jumped on this. Vir Does on

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an Instagram slammed the media's approach, calling in a bunch

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of irrelevant mainstream media anchor is bordering extinction, coming together

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to take down new media that gets a million more views.

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Whether you like the new media or not is irrelevant.

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That's also what's happening here. And while we debate what

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good comedy is, please debate what good journalism is and

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the news that they should be doing, the questions they

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should be asking and who they should be asking them to.

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A good artist will take their feedback head down, mouth shut,

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maybe all follow either way. The consequences of your comedy

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and your career and audience are pretty instant. That's a

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natural process. Comedian Sammy Rena says he's removed all of

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India's Got Latent videos from his YouTube channel. Rena, Who's

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Got the popular YouTube show, said the comments made by

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rand ver A Labadilla had become too much for him

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to handle. And one more. Seth Rogan gave an interview

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to Esquire. He pushed back against the notion that comedy

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is now harder to pull off. I saw some people

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on threads say maybe ask a comedian about that, Rogan said.

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The complaint the comedy is harder than it used to

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be is not a valid complaint. Maybe it was too

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easy before, and why should it be? Why shouldn't it

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be hard? I like that my job is hard because

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I'm trying to do something that requires a huge amount

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of resources in people's time and energy. What do you

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wish you could say? What do you feel has been

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taken away from you? It's always funny when people are like, oh,

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they could never make the Diversity Day episode of the

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Office today, you could still watch it. I'm constantly meeting

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teenagers who love Super Bad and who think it holds up.

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None of them are like, how dare you have said that? Hey, Seth,

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why don't you try and watch every episode of It's

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Always Sunny in Philadelphia? Why don't you try and watch

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every episode of community. Things are pulled down. My friend

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Rogan says, don't even worry about Trump being president again.

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It's not like we sit down like, all right, new President,

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what movie do we write? I assume that's what Adam

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what we're going to work on next. All Right, busy

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day again Tomorrow, SNL preview Saturday. Mike Chisholm normal episode

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on Sunday. Interesting week here right, a couple of short

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these long ones. Tomorrow's is long, Saturdays is even longer.

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This one's long. Good stuff. Join us in the Facebook

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