July 15, 2026

Andrew Schulz in shorts? ESPYs with Marcello Hernandez. Blue Collar Comics on ‘Woke’ Culture. Tim Heidecker’s Fake Infowars

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The ESPYs air tonight on ABC hosted by comedian Marcello Hernandez with performances by Slick Rick, Ghostface Killah, and De La Soul, and contrasts audience reactions to last year’s Shane Gillis. Larry the Cable Guy tells Us Weekly he ignores “woke” backlash, argues audiences can simply skip acts they dislike, and cites Gillis getting more popular after being fired from SNL; the host adds “Atire” season three hits Netflix August 13, 2026. Jeff Foxworthy tells Fox Digital Hollywood misunderstands much of America, credits the Blue Collar Tour’s appeal, and recalls programming SiriusXM’s Blue Collar channel. Tim Heidecker discusses his decade-long Alex Jones impersonation and a new Infowars continuity where Jones “popped like a balloon.” The episode includes a Louis C.K. story about giving Jerry Seinfeld a “cow says July 3rd” tag, criticizes Andrew Schulz, previews Just for Laughs Montreal lineup highlights, and notes a $27M Lion King defamation suit against a comedian was voluntarily dismissed.

00:16 ESPY Host Preview
00:52 Blue Collar Woke Talk
02:02 Foxworthy on Audiences
04:39 Heidecker Spoofs Alex Jones
08:17 Louis C.K. Seinfeld Story
11:16 Andrew Schulz AC Rant
13:00 Just For Laughs Guide
17:05 Lion King Lawsuit Update


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Callaroga Shark Media full side. I'm Johnnie Mack, who with

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your daily comedy to use. You know what today is.

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I don't have to tell you. I know you have

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it on your calendar. It's the SP's And of course

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you know who's hosting the SP's. That's right, it's comedian

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Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing really well. The SP's

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tonight on ABC eight Eastern, seventh Central. Some of the

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guests include Slick Rick, Ghostface Killer, and Dla Soul. They'll

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all perform on the show from Lincoln Center in New

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York City. I'll be curious to see if the establishment

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athletes population welcomes Marcelo Hernandez. I bet they do. They

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definitely did not to welcome Shane Gillis last year. However,

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I tuned in to see Shane Gillis, and I have

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no intention of watching Marcelo Hernandez. I'll pull some clips

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and tell you about it in a day or two.

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The blue collar guys are getting slightly political, Larry the

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Cable Guy spoke to US Weekly. Larry was out participate

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baiting in the thirty seventh annual ACC Golf Championship, which

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reminds this podcast host to pull some clips of comedians

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talking about that event, but we won't get to that today.

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Cable guys said, we live in the United States of America.

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If somebody doesn't want to like your act, then don't

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go to see that person's act. It's as simple as that.

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Larry was asked about performing stand up comedy in Woke America.

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The cable guy, who's now sixty three, which makes sense

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because I'm almost fifty seven now, said I don't worry

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about it. I already got a pretty good built in following,

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and I got some awesome fans. You know. If I

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think it's funny, I'm gonna do it. We'll see where

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it goes. If you let it bother you, yeah, it's

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gonna be tough. But I think Shan gillis pretty much

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proof to everybody that you get canceled and if you

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want to double down on that, that's what people want

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you to do because they're sick of it too. Shane

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Gillis got even more popular after you got fired from

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Saturday Night Live for being too woke from stuff he

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did ten years ago, you know, and now look at him.

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That's the whole key. Right there. If you don't like it,

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It's like soda pop. Find the one you like and

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don't bitch about the others love it. Larry, speaking of

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Shane Gillis a Hire Season three will be on Netflix

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August thirteenth, twenty twenty six. I think it's of an

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episode or two left from last season. Meanwhile, Jeff Foxworthy

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told Fox Digital, I don't think Hollywood has understood that

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audience in a long long time. I don't care where

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they live or where they stand politically. If you sat

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people down and said what do you want out of life?

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I bet we would agree on eighty five percent of

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the things. We want the same things. What happened was,

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instead of celebrating the eighty five percent that were all alike,

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we yell and scream at each other over the fifteen

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percent that were different. Being different is fine. It would

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be boring as hell if we were all alike and

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all thought the same way. Jeff said. I think that

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was the success of the Blue Collar Tour because when

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The Kings of Comedy came out, Atlanta was one of

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the first stops, and they had an article about it

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in the Atlanta paper and it said it was a

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show for the urban hip audience. And I'm like, well,

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I've bet all fifty states, so let me tell you

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there's two hundred million people that aren't urban or hip.

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Let's do a show for them. The first time I

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worked with those guys, they invited me down to their show.

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They were playing the Hockey Arena in Nashville. I asked

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the Blue Collar team, please do not vip me. My

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mission there was to learn about that audience so I

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could program the blue Collar Comedy Channel for Serious. So

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they sat us in the upper deck again and what

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I wanted, and I remember a couple things caught my eye.

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One I was the second skinniest person in the arena,

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usually never true. And a couple of things got ovations.

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One was, y'all ever been to the Walmart? Got a

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big ovation? And a Jimmy Buffett mentioned got a big ovation.

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So that helps inform me. Whereas the Raw Dog Comedy

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Channel on Serious back in the heyday before the Sebastian

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Manuscalco camp murdered it, we imaged it like a rock

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station and that was kind of sarcastic, and if it

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had come to life, it probably would have been a

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classic bill burr Hey.

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our ideas.

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God Flag, country troops, country music, Love, Working with those guys.

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Serious XM's Blue Collar Radio presents Bovie Stars TV host

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in comedy Legend visit about rednecks Jeff Coo truly up

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into super Bowl.

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Jeff's hanging with the players, the stars and the fans.

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It's not even it might be a redneck you are.

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It's Jeff Fox Body love from the super Bowl.

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Here at Friday two pm.

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Sexual Blue Collar Radio Serious Exam ninety seven.

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The road to New Orleans and super Bowl forty seven

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is right here on Serious XM.

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The new Info Wars is up. Slate caught up with

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Tim Hideker. Heidecker has been impersonating Alex Jones for the

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past ten years. Tim told Slade, I'm attracted to people

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like Alex, not sexually attracted, but interested in his mind,

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in the way he presents himself. Everything we do that's

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perceived as absurd always starts from a real place of

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something like this exists, and we're gonna expand upon it

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and go deeper and weird with it. In the New

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Info Wars world in their continuity, Alex Jones is dead.

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The big story we want to get to right now,

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and this is exclusive. These are stories from other news outlets,

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but one thing Emergency's gonna be the leader in is

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breaking news that we've reported on. I've got a terrific

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team out there, producers and researchers finding the truth, getting

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to the bottom of things. This one pertains to Alex Jones,

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and I'm gonna break this is big news. This is

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gonna be on every CNN and all the other fake

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news sites. They're gonna be running with this wild. They're

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gonna be running wild with this story. We have leaked

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video now revealing that Alex Jones pop like a balloon

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in his car two months ago. That's right, folks. Alex Jones,

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the Alex Jones that we have come to know over

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the years, is dead. He has passed away. In forces

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obtained shocking cell phone footage that appears to show disgrace

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broadcaster to Alex Jones popping like a balloon in the

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front seat of his own vehicle on the morning of

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May one, twenty twenty six.

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Where did that come from? Tim Hideker said, I think

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I made an offhand remark on my podcast where I

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said he popped like a balloon. He's such a round man.

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I don't want to fat shame anyone, but reminds me

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a lot of the Monty Python Meaning of Life sketch

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where the guy says the wait for him blows up.

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He reminds me of that guy. I wouldn't say anyone's

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asking for this, but we want to do some little

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wish fulfillment or just live in a world where he

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could pretend that this is happening of Alex Jones. Tim

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Heideker said he's trafficked in conspiracy theories and crisis actors

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and really has such little respect for the truth and

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for other people's feelings and experiences, especially with the families

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at the Sandy Hook tragedy that we were like, let's

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just surf him back what he's been serving for years,

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which is a bunch of bs. Let's muddy the waters,

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go on the offense a little bit and create this messy,

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stupid conspiracy theory that anybody with a brain knows isn't true.

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But make it annoying and confusing, and expand upon this

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conspiracy theory that Alex Jones exploded and there's a new

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impostor Alex Jones, a fake one that they've created. You know,

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Capital TV. You can't just go middle ground on this.

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We have to go to place with this where it's

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not worth it for me.

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Questions remain, Who is this Alex Jones? I believe this

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is an imposter, This is a know it as a clone,

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but it's somebody that they've managed to fool the world

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into believe in. Is is Alex Jones? Why we're gonna

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get into the why is this happening? I want to

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get into the video. The source of the video here,

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because we got some metadata on this. The video was

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created on my first Central Time on the same day

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that a man claimed to be Alex Jones relaunched his

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show under his new banner, the Alex Jones Network or

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Alex Jones Live. Metadata listen iPhone as a recording device

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and contains GPS coordinates, placing the camera on a residential

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street on the south side of Austin. Now, this video

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was uploaded the X that afternoon by an account with

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no followers and no prior posts, so it's a new account.

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This is kind of what caught my eye. The account

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was suspended forty seven minutes later. Look at forty seven

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think about who's in charge?

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As late was curious. Have you ever spoken to Alex Jones?

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Tim said no during that period. In twenty sixteen, when

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we were at the Republican National Convention, they were live

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streaming on the street and I interrupted their live stream.

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It's on YouTube. You could see me doing my Alex

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Sjoon's impression that his report. He was there, and he

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was amused. If someone's doing a pretty good impression of view,

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I think that's kind of amusing. But he didn't know

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who I was. He didn't know I was a world class,

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legendary comedian. Louis c k was on Dan Soder's podcast. Yeah,

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I talked about this a little bit in the Facebook group. Now,

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Normally I would make fun of myself and say I'm

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a loserer basement, but today I'm a medium loser sitting

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pool sides. I'm not a total loser. At least I

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have a pool. But is Dan Soder good at podcasting?

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Because I think he's not. I went to pull three

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clips and I had to throw two of them out

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because Dan Soder, professional comedian, can't tell a story. Louis

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c K really can't tell a story either, and I

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had a cut down for pacing. Anyway, here is a

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clip of Louis c K telling a long story to

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Dan Soder. I have cut it down for both pacing

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and language, and I tried to take soda out of

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it because soda just steps on c K. Let the

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man tell us story.

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I opened for Jerry Seinfeld when I was like nineteen

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and I was sitting on the stool and he came in.

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He was doing Letterman, and back then when someone was

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doing Letterman, it was this thing, Jerry's going to be

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on Letterman tomorrow and he does the set and I

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saw a bit for him, I saw a tag and

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I knew him a little from Boston. It was a

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bit where he was talking about milk. He's talking about

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how once you're racing against the expiration date, you know

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you have too much milk, you're washing your face. It

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was a great bit. And he said, how do they

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know that's the day? How do they know that that

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day is the day?

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That was it?

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That's all he had, And I was like, I got it.

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So he's coming off stage and I just go Jerry

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and he looks at me like, oh yeah, with this kid?

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What And I go, I got a bit and he goes,

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go ahead. He's kind of like, you have ten seconds

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and I go, you say, how do you know that's

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the day? Is the guy milk and the cow? And

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the cow goes July third?

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Funny?

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And I knew it would work because his funny face

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being a cow. Yeah, And he goes, oh, Jerry's on Letterman,

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he's sitting on panel, he's telling jokes and he does

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that thing. How do they know that that's the day?

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The crowds I'm listening to the crowds building that was

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the day? Are they milking the cow? The cow goes

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July third? Explosive applause and Letterman comes out of the

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applause and goes the cow says July third, and Jerry goes, yeah,

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the cow, and they reiterated. The next day, I'm walking

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around I think Central Park and I see Jerry. I

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bump into him on the street and he goes, hey,

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you're a bit killed. And he goes, now you know

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that your mind, the way you think and your comedy

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can work in the big leagues, Like, now you know that?

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and Jerry are you know? We're connected? I got a

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letterman thing. So then like a month later, he goes

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on the Tonight Show Johnny Carson sure does the joke again.

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I think he closed with it kills. And so then

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real familiar, Hey, I saw you did the bit on

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Carson and he goes, what like, do you remember this cow?

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of like, that's enough now.

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time I listen to Andrew Schultz, I just wonder, like,

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did people actually listen to this guy? I'm not pulling

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bunches today. And then I have to Google to make

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sure I didn't hallucinate this, but no, the New York

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Times really did print the headline Andrew Schultz podcast bro

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might be America's foremost political journalists. This is a real

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thing that happened. Every now and then you look at

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something and you're like, jud did Amy Schumer host the oscars?

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That makes no sense? And I have to say to you, no,

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it does make no sense. But that is a thing

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that happened. I don't know why, but yeah, the New

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York Times actually printed this, that Andrew Schultz podcast bro

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might be America's foremost political journalist. So I saw this

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new clip and let's hear from the man who might

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be America's most political journalists. I did have to edit

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for language and pacing. The discussion. Here is about the

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New York City mayor wanting us to turn the AC

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up to seventy eight degrees. Here is possibly America's foremost

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political journalist, Andrew Schultz.

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Seventy degrees and below. You're even a little high with

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when we say AC, it's seventy two and below seventy

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degrees and below. You're even a little high with that one.

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keep it at seventy eight with easeys, this is this

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is America.

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He was feeling a little too good NIXXA five, he

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was like off the high. He's like, oh, we don't

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need it, but he was wild.

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I put him to sixty four, just despite him even

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suggesting such a thing or a blew out.

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I really don't know how people listen to that. And

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there's a video version, and I really don't want to

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look at Andrew Schultz sitting there in shorts just for laughs.

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In Montreal. Kicks off tonight. Now there's a couple weeks

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to it. The first week is usually a little slow.

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and all the big shiny stuff happens. I don't think

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I'm gonna go like nothing in the lineup. I'd love

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to go see weird al and I really like new faces,

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but I don't know something. For some reason, I haven't

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felt like going through. A part of it is they

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changed publicity companies and I was in really good with

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the old crew, and I reached out to the new

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crew and they were initially responsive, but they haven't chased me.

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And I haven't chased them, so I'm not saying that

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they're rotten like the Hulu people, but I don't know. There's,

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of course, the weird AL Show Saturday, July twenty fifth,

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at nine pm. It's kind of late AL at the

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Place to Festivals. Apparently Al played there at the twenty

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fifteen just for laughs. I guess I didn't go to

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that one. That was probably just after my run it's serious,

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and before I started getting back into all this stuff.

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I took a little break there. You know, I didn't

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have the podcast yet. I probably didn't even have the

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slacker job yet. So it's a little weird to just

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be like, hey, guys, I have no job, but I'm

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here at the festival, you know, so I stayed home.

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I guess that year. Bill Brownstein reminds us at the

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twenty fifteen just for laughs that the lineup was Mike Myers,

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Trevor Noah, Kevin Art, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Jane Lynch, Star,

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Trek Runer, Baton Os Walt, Colin, Joe's, Tom, Papa, JB. Smooth,

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Margaret Show, Jimmy Carr, Gilbert Gottfried, Sebastian Maniscalco, probably made

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a face, Janee Ruffalo, and Hassan Minhaj. That's a pretty

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good lineup, but Bill says COVID came and took a

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devastating toll on JFL and most other festivals for several years.

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Then competition unlike anything JFL had ever experienced came with

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the arrival of the biennial Netflix's a Joke Festival. Make

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things worse were jfl's financial issues and some other stuff

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I'll let the lawyers argue about. Then the new owners

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showed up and rescued this thing in twenty twenty four,

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and we had a pretty normal festival last year. This

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year's lineup includes David Letterman, Will Arnette, Jerry Seinfeld, Tiffany Hattich,

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Mike Berbiglia, Gabe Iglesias, May Martin, and of course we're

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aw Nick Brazo is the head of programming for JFL.

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He picked out ten of his favorites from the lineup.

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One of them Heated Rivalry, the unauthorized musical parody. There's

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also Sibling Rivalry Live. Say that one time slow and

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you still trip over it. We're told definitely not to

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be confused with the Heated Rivalry parody. Too late, this

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one will be equally unforgettable, featuring two of the world's

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most famous drag queens, Bob the Drag Queen and Monett Exchange,

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bringing a live version of their hit podcast, The Improveniers Sir.

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One of the truly feel good stories of this and

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any other festival. The cast together since twenty eighteen, is

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made up entirely by members with down syndrome. They use

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improv to break down barriers and put on both a

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great show and provide a very inclusive experience. That's cool

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the Montreal series July sixteenth and seventeenth that the Comedy Nests.

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Nick says, we have a duty and responsibility to support

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and celebrate our local comedians who get old their own

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with comics anywhere. Twenty four locals and four shows. See

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that's fun. That's the kind of thing. If you go

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to festival, I think you go see Dan Tiernan July

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twenty fifth, the Cafe Cleopatra and appearing in British July

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twenty first to the twenty fifth. Nick says a new

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face of comedy star at last year's fest Montreal. May

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not know him yet, but certainly will. He's a mad genius.

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I must see Nick's excited about Dukes, which is Jane

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Wicklin and the Live of Pierce. They bring their off

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Broadway hit musical comedy dealing with the hope, lust and

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dreams of two friends with one piano. We are told

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Mike Berbiglia is a huge fan Abby Wamba the first

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three minutes of seventeen shows July twenty fifth at the

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Theater Saint Catherine Abbey won the twenty twenty six Melbourne

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Comedy Festival Most Outstanding Show Award and the twenty twenty

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four Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Award. Good pedigree there. The

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Nasty Show one of the annual traditions. A new breed

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of nasty here with American host CP and Canadian Reids performing.

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Both may fly under the radar, but they've both been

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crushing it. The Culture Show is another returner, Alfred Roblace

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and Tara Canistraki. They are the opening acts for Gabe

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Iglesias and Joe Coy who one time told a horrible,

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mean joke about Taylor Swift, but we don't have time

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for that today. A Mexican and an Italian making their

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Montreal debuts. We are told details on the festival which

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starts today and runs through the twenty six go to

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Ha ha ha dot com. And good news for the guy.

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Remember the guy that was being sued by the Lion

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King people. Remember this comedian, Lean Moore Junasy was being

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sued for twenty seven million dollars. You may recall the

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comedian said that the famous Lion King chant translates to

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look there's a lion, Oh my god. And boy, if

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you think the tailor swift joke was mean, how about

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that line? Huh? That led to a twenty seven million

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dollar defamation lawsuit for joking that a song line means

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look there's a lion, Oh my god. The people suing

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remind us the line actually says, all hail the King,

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we all bound the presence of the King, and not

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at all, look there's a lion, Oh my god. Anyway,

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US District Judge Josephine Stanton said the parties had fully

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discussed the matter and agreed to dismiss the case voluntarily.

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The comedian had turned the dispute into merchandise, selling T

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shirts bearing the words look, it's a lawsuit, oh my god.

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The shirts also featured a cartoon of the comedian holding

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up legal paper is interposed that some perhaps possibly think,

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looked like Mafasa presenting Simba. And that is your pool

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side comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.