Bad Friends with Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee to become an animated series

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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This one caught me by surprise.
Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. You know,

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they have that podcast, Bad Friends
that's massively popular, but like most

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of mainstream America, has no idea
who either one of them are. It's

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funny with comedy, you could be
like secretly huge. There's a lot of

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comedians that are secretly huge. And
we'll talk about this sometimes in the Facebook

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group, which is Daily Comedy News
podcast group walk down the Street one hundred

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people go, hey, do you
like Andrew Santino? And unless you like

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specifically pick a certain demo, you
might go, oh for a hundred,

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you might go like three four,
a hundred. But it's not like,

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hey, have you ever heard of
Jerry Seinfeld? Right, But they're good

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anyway. The podcast is being made
into an adult animated series for Hulu.

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Bad Friends follows the relationship between Andrew
a fiery lightning bug and Bobby a shy

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roly Polly as they navigate the treacherous
waters of being adolescent misfit bugs in high

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school. Okay, sure, no
details other than that, but you didn't

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see that one coming, did you
me neither. Yahoo profiled Kevin James,

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which makes for some great holiday weekend
filler. Kevin told a story where he

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showed up to a stand up gig
at a bachelor party and found out the

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guests were expecting a stripper instead.
Kevin told Yahoo the stripper didn't show and

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they put me up on stage and
I had to stand on a chair in

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the middle of a bunch of guys
to do my act. It was pretty

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rough, but I left with a
lot of tips that night. That's a

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good tag. He hasn't done stand
up in a while. He says it's

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nerve wracking when you haven't done it
for a while. Like when you're doing

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a new show. You got to
oil the muscles again and get everything working

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again. You go through that couple
of shows and you get your legs.

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I wouldn't say I get nervous anymore. It's more than I get excited.

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I just love doing stand up.
I can understand that. I always would

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get nervous before a big radio show, if we were doing a remote or

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a really big guest, there'd be
nervous energy in the room. Even though

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you would do radio every single day
and you know, I'd been in the

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career twenty five thirty years. You
still get that nervous energy. I hear

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you. He got an audition for
Saturday Night Live. He bombed. At

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the time he thought it was a
failure. He now sees it at one

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of the best things that ever happened
to him. He recalls, you feel

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like, oh no, what did
I do? I bomb? But I'm

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so happy I did. I really
am. He's currently working on Solo Mio,

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in which Kevin James plays a groom
who got suited up at the altar

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in Italy and decides to go on
his honeymoon alone. He says, these

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movies aren't made anymore. There aren't
that many of them. I'm gonna bust

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my butt to make this thing.
I do love those type of movies,

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and I haven't done one in a
long time. Solo Mio sounds like it

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should be an Adam Sadlor movie.
No, yes, boy, it's like

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the article read my mind now who
writes. One of james frequent collaborators is

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Adam Saylor, who he met decades
ago. They didn't become friendly until Kevin

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was on the King of Queen's Saandlor
had an office on the Sony lot they

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met. Kevin says, I just
met him, hung out and talked and

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became really close. Now he's one
of my best friends. Just the greatest

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guy in the world. I'm very
happy to be part of that camp.

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I really am. Anytime he says, hey, I'm thinking of doing this,

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I say, I'm in. I
get it. Hey, I would

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be in an Adams movie. Now
the movie would be terrible because it's an

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Adams Sandler movie, but I would
be in it. Sure. Will Kevin

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James make in appearance in Happy Gilmore
too? We can only hope, so,

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he says, I don't know.
We'll see. We're talking about it

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right now. We're working on some
other stuff and hopefully, yes, if

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it happens, I couldn't tell you
anyway, but I don't know. Hey,

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you ever get five minutes into the
second podcast of five you're trying to

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record, and you hear your voice
going already, yeah, trying to take

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a long weekend. Paul Sheer was
on Conan recently and told a story about

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who he picked as his best man
at his wedding in two thousand and nine.

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The answer a Jack Nicholson. Impersonator, as Sheer tells the story in

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a Nicholson impression, I don't have
one of those. The Nicholson impersonator arrived

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to the wedding late and goes,
hey, sorry, I'm late. I

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was at a party at Robyan Polanski's
house. That was his opening line.

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The wedding venue was split with parents
and older adults on one side, the

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couple's friends on the other. Paul
says, now our friends on the other

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side are having the best time,
going, oh, this is insane,

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and the people the other side started
going, I think he might know Jack

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Nicholson. This is hilarious. Want
I hear this properly told? It's on

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Conan's podcast Shere says the day of
the wedding, he pulls me aside and

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goes, you have a teleprompter.
I say a teleprompter. No, it's

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a wedding. There is no teleprompter. He goes, I'm not really going

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to remember too much of the speech. So the man started improvising. He

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starts devolving into things that aren't even
Jack Nicholson. Paul said, I didn't

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know that I married the right person
because when I brought that up to June

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she was like, yeah, you
can have him, and that was a

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nice moment, very nice. Carlos
Mencia spoke to Tucson dot com weird set

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up here. New York and Mayor
Eric Adams recently suggested immigrants could help fill

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the city's lifeguard shortage because they are
excellent swimmers. The response did not go

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over well. Carlos Smancia, though, said the joke has two sides to

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it. One side is whoa what's
he trying to say? On the other

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side is all my immigrant family saying
no, He's right, we are very

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good swimmers. One of his setups
in his shows a spoiler in case you're

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playing agin seeing Carlos Smancia a clap
if you were not born in the country.

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Then he waits people clap and he
goes, how many of you are

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good swimmers? See, that's why
he likes the Eric Adams stuff. And

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you'll see they all clap, And
then I'll find somebody wh speaks English with

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a really thick accent, and I'll
go, were you offended by this?

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And the cool thing is it's not
always somebody from Mexico. The other day

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guy from Lafia said, I'm from
Lafia. And I am an immigrant and

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I'm a great swimmer. That's the
beauty of what I'm talking about. My

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ability to take reactionary moments, moments
that are like ay man, I'm not

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supposed to be like that, and
talking about the humans it effects. Let

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us not be arbiters of what is
offensive to other people. Two soun dot

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com writes, Mencia recently appeared at
an LGBTQ plus event and watch comedian after

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comedian tell LGBTQ jokes. When it
was his turn, he asked the audience

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why it was okay to tell those
jokes but not at his comedy club shows.

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Mincea said. Somebody said, because
here, we know that they're one

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of us, and I said,
so I'm not one of you. Two

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sound dot com says the response was
something of an epiphany for Mencia. Comedy

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cannot be contained in a bubble.
It has to be given license to put

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a mirror in all of society,
not just segments of it. That's where

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I am. Now. I'm free. You don't have to go to latinos

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show, you don't have to go
in an urban show, you don't have

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to go to a redneck show.
Come to my show. And it's like

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all those shows put together. We're
gonna laugh at each other and ourselves,

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and that's it. My intention is
good. If you don't understand that,

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then I don't know what to say. I'm a comedian. My intent is

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to make you as happy as humans
possible doing what I do. JB.

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Smooth was on The Daily Show and
talked about stand up comedy. He sees

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it as vital to survival because there's
no way in hell you could take the

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brunt of the real world every day
without that filtration. The move argues,

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the comedians are empaths. They have
to read the room and adjust their sets

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accordingly. Good stuff there. Vulture
recently profiled Zach Tuscannie Back in August of

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twenty two. Zach was performing a
stand up show in Boulder, Colorado,

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when suddenly an audience member's hyperactive dog
began running laps around the house like it

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had been possessed. At first it
was a minor distraction, but then the

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dog came back with the remains of
the rabbit had been chasing. You see,

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Zach to Scunni does dey shows an
average house show, and by house

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show, I don't mean you know
what a comedian would normally call a house

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show this is a show at your
house. Zach. He usually plays around

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forty to fifty people. He charges
a flat fee eight hundred dollars for shows

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on weekdays, twelve hundred for shows
on the weekend. Some guests also give

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out his Venmo and encourage the guests
to tip him. That can bring in

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an extra three to four hundred dollars. He did forty five house shows in

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twenty twenty eighty five and twenty three. Twenty five of those were rebookings from

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the previous year. Some of his
fellow comedians have been like, no,

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that's great, but then you have
to hang out afterwards and talk to people,

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and yeah, most comedians don't want
to hang out with non comedians.

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Comedians are a breed, They're a
particular breed. Zach says. It's the

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better part of doing the whole thing. You feel like you're actually connecting with

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people. There are times where going
to the show, I'll be like,

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I'm feeling kind of tired. I'll
probably do my set, hang out for

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a little bit, and then dip. Then afterwards I'm like, they're gonna

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have to kick me out. I
do that all the time. I call

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it going rock star. The amount
of times I would drag myself to go

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out after work planning to catch the
seven thirty train and then actually catching the

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twelve thirty am train. Yeah,
and I'm not even a big drinker.

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I just get into the hang and
the socialness of it. If you hang

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out with me, you've heard me
say the phrase two beers not eight.

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Zach says I did one show in
a suburb outside of Oakland. The people

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who booked me were like, we're
Palestinians. So while the people here tonight

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are in the Palestinian community, I
don't think I would have had access to

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that if I was at a comedy
club that show in particular, I was

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like, let me eat all this
food. They were like, we're going

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to dance after this. You want
to dance? I was like, yes,

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let's effing dance. One show,
there was a couple who were like,

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hey would like to book you.
We just moved in together, we're

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getting married. Is it gonna be
wird if it's just us? Kyle Knane

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asked to come to one. He
comes to an apartment show with those two

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people. So he sits in a
lazy boy chair behind the couple sitting on

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their couch while I'm standing in the
kitchen doing comedy. It was a blast.

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That's really funny. A lot more
to this article. It's on Vulture.

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It was up there a couple of
weeks ago, but search for let

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me give you his name correctly,
Zach Tuscani, zak new word, Tosca

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and I. That's on Vulture.
Definitely worth your read there. And that's

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