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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
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Bert Krascher told USA Today, my wife never parties. But
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if we're out to breakfast in Hawaii and she goes,
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what's this kolua coffee thing? This sounds good. It might
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be eight am and I have no plans for drinking,
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and now I'm like, all right, we're getting wasted today.
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It's the energy that I love about partying, the spontaneousness
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of it. And every friend group has that one teetotaler
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who never wants to go out or have fun. And
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the second you break their spirit, you have permission to party,
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which happens to be the name of his tour. Funny
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how that worked out. It's the permission to Party tour,
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and Sure says he will continue to make fun of
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his wife, Leanne. I love my wife, but if I
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have a good joke where I can trash her, I
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do it happily. We have a rule in our relationship.
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If it's funny, it plays. Gary Goleman talked to you
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Third Coast Review about the old NBC series Last Comic Standing.
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I used to hate that show because I was running comedy.
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It's serious and people would watch it and be like, Hey,
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how come you never play anything by the guy that
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has eight seconds of material that I saw on TV
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last night? And the answer would be, because he has
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eight seconds of material, Golman, Who's got more than eight seconds?
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And I just remember I was feeling pretty good at
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the time, and I really had nothing going on in
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terms of my career. I couldn't get any roadwork. And
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this sounds like an exaggeration, but I don't think I
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had three hundred dollars on the bank when it started.
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I just remember I went into more credit card debt
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to buy clothes so that I could look good on TV.
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And then I just kept getting passed further along and
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it was really exciting. It was interesting because it gave
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me a touring career for about a year and a half,
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and then it was back to where it was. I
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felt like it was going back to the beginning. It
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was a little frustrating. I mean, most people never get
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to have that kind of exposure, so I was grateful
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for it, but it was also like, oh, it didn't
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set you up for the rest of the life in
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terms of touring. Whereas it turns out, it was an
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appearance on Conan that kind of set me up for that. Specifically,
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Paton Oswald shared my appearance on Conan where I talked
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about abbreviating the fifty States, and that gave me a
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foundation that I feel like has grown. But it was
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strong enough just on that that I could tour the
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country and pay my rent every month, which is really
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as you know, all we want is a comedian to
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be able to give it our all, not have to
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split our energy and brain power the day job all
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the time, so that was really helpful. Gary talked about
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his current sure Grand Delinquent, saying it's a little bit
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of a prequel to the Great Depression, but it's a
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little more theatrical, and that it's not all hilarious stand up.
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This is some stories that are real bummers, so it's
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more of a challenge to perform it because our oxygen
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as comedians is laughter. And there's a part where it's
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hard to say where the audience is enjoying themselves because
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it's not a very funny story. It's sad and it's
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just straight information rather than a joke or would you comment.
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So it was challenging, but not so challenging that it
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was overwhelmed. I felt over my head when we were
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rehearsing it, and that's a really good place to be
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as an artist, or an athlete, or really anything. You
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should give yourself enough of a challenge where you wonder
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whether you're equipped or whether you'll be able to rise
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to the occasion. So I think the show's really fulfilling.
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I mean, it was critically acclaim but I think more importantly,
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it was a little bit out of my comfort zone.
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My comfort zone is saying funny things, and this involved
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me not being funny for part of it. It's still
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a comedy show, but there's a lengthy story about a
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half an hour where people gasp about and really take
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it away with them. I think it's sort of a
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gradual evolution as a performer and writer. Just start doing
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these observational jokes and then do something very personal with
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the great depression. Then do this, which is personal. I'm
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also out of my comfort zone in terms of acting
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and performing. Starvaros Halgi has caught up with GQ about
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masculinity and Starvarro said, I definitely have a glaring difference
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from the traditional idea of what a masculine man is
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I've been fat my whole life. I received the scorn
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of traditional masculinity. I definitely felt that growing up. I'm
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pretty lucky that the funny fat guy's an archetype. Every
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crew of bullies is a fat, wise cracking guy. That's there.
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I played football, I was athletic, whatever, but that was
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also me trying to fit in a way that sometimes
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probably wasn't that good for me. I was in school
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plays my whole life, and then something shifted in seventh grade.
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I remember getting an offered a part, and I think
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it was you're a good man, Charlie Brown or something,
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but I wasn't Charlie. I got offered some other part,
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and I was like, theater is gay, dude. I was like,
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our theater teacher's gay. I don't want to be around
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that guy. It was afft up. It was pure sour grapes,
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the fact that I wanted to be Charlie Brown. Then
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I was like, I'm thirteen, it's time to get strong,
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it's time to be a football player. I certainly would
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have been better off in the long run for my
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life i'd stuck with theater. I would have still played sports.
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Don't get me wrong, but I just admitted I wasn't
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good enough to get the part, and I should have
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worked her bounce my life out that way instead of
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pretending like that's stuff's not for me when I got
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my feelings hurt and lashing out in a very traditionally
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negative way. That is a fantastic answer. That's somebody who
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understands themselves. I like that answer a lot, he continued.
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I think about with myself. When I was fourteen fifteen,
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I was a loser. I was nervous to talk to girls.
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I didn't feel comfortable in my body, was getting attacked
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for being fat. Luckily, I was going to make fun
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of people. But if there's some ripped dude who's good
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at beating people up, was like, and I had to
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get chicks. All you have to do is control women
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and treat them poorly. If they shot me with that,
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Andrew Tait ray when I was fourteen, stuff might have
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been bad for me. All we had was Dane COOKSDS
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Mark Norman caught up with al dot com. They were
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curious about one of Mark's jokes and how Mark Norman
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found out how Werner von Brown and other rocket scientists
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who helped the US reach the moon were Nazis. Mark said,
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for me, he was just driving around Huntsville and seeing
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all the von Braun signs everywhere. Then I googled it.
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I was like, who the hell's von Braun? How do
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I not know this guy? And then the rest is his.
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I was blown away. And plus, when you do a
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gig somewhere, you need some local stuff to riff on.
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So that's all it was. And I said, this is perfect.
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It killed. You can't go wrong with Nazis. I was
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cooking with gas Chamber and everybody liked it. Wow. And
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then you know, Huntsville is such an anomaly because like,
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I'm from Louisiana, but everybody thinks of Alabama as like
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a toothless written state. And you've got the smartest people
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on the planet as well, so it's a nice economy.
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Mark self spoiled about his current tour and said, I've
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got a whole chunk on a zimpic. I've got a
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whole chunk on AI new advances to technology and chat
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GPT and all this stuff. And I'm also trying to
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go more personal. I just had a baby, so I'm
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doing a bunch of baby stuff. But then you also
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don't want to be the baby guy, so I'm always
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tweaking and tinkering. Let's go at Cosca cut up with
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Philippines Vogue. She's writing her third stand up special and
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it is taking a different approach. She explains, for the
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first two stand up specials, I always chase the joke,
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but now I'm trying to do this thing where maybe
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I service the whole story first. She finds that writing
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jokes first can be limiting. She explains, sometimes she'll go,
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oh wait, that joke about dogs doesn't fit into this
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hour of themes. You have to take that out and
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you do with that joke. You have to live in
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the drama first for it to become funny. Eventually, Greg
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Guttfeld got up at the LA Times. He was gloating
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about being number one. Of course, his show was on
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at ten pm Eastern, not eleven thirty five pm Eastern,
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a fact that the Gutfeld camp loves to ignore, and
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also on the West Coast, Fallon and Colbert and Kimmel
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air at eleven thirty five and Gutfeld airs at seven pm. Anyway,
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Gutfeld is number one in the ten pm time slot
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and says, I get ratings every single day, so I
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was able to watch us win. I guess it wasn't
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that surprised by it. I just knew there was going
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to take time. I thought, yeah, maybe in a couple
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of years, but it was like in a matter of months.
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He talked about the difference between Red Eye and the
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current show. Red Eye was operating on the assumption that
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you really had a select group of people awake at
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two or three in the morning. It wasn't trying to
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be a cult like pleasure. It just happened to be
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that way. We did want it to be for everyone.
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Though now we have ten times the viewers and we're
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number one, So on my mind, I'm going I want
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the same sensibility, but I don't want to completely confuse
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the viewers. I realized that my humor on Red Eye
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was deliberate, up tuse in some ways, and not really deliberately.
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It was just surreal and bizarre, and maybe that one
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fly in primetime or late night. But like Red Eye,
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our shows now is interesting and unpredictable as that show was.
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And that's ninety percent of the fight. Now, this next
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section here, I've sat on this story for weeks. I
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don't know if you noticed. It was busy. But all
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this happened before the Kimmel gait, but I think it
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happened after Colbert Gate. Gottfeldt said, I think the key
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is that nothing you should say should warrant an apology,
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Meaning if I were to insult you, you're not going
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to demand an apology for me. When somebody wants an
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apology for comment, I always ask them, how would that
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apology sound? I'm sorry that the jokes I made hurt
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your feelings? How insulting is that to the person you're
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apologizing to. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings with this insult.
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It's like the people that are demanding an apology don't
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even see how absolutely insulting it is that they're asking
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for it. Santem Johnson is one of vulturous comedians You
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should and will know or whatever that thing is called. Anyway,
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I like it a lot, even though I can never
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remember what they call it. That's funny. I mean, she's
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been around for a minutes. She was on last Comic
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Standing in twenty fourteen was a just for laughs new face.
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That same year, Welter asked, what was your worst show ever?
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The answer. Probably the first time I did a main
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spot at the Comedy Store. It was year one and
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I was ambitious. I've been doing five minute spots to
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warm up the show, and I thought, now that I'm
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doing a main spot, which is fifteen minutes, I needed
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all new material. I went up after Gerrod Carmichael, and
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I watched him turn a bomb in a win, so
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I thought I'd have the same luck. Nope, they didn't boo,
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but the silence was deafening. The friends in the audience
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who came out to support me were confused and embarrassed.
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I was literally because I clearly didn't have the confidence
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or experience to get through the bombs. I think the
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audience had said good night. When I tried leaving the stage,
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the host was nowhere to be found, so I had
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to stand there an awkward failure. Ooh, that's brutal. What's
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your biggest financial hurdle you've encountered since becoming a comedian?
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Interesting answer here. I was under the impression that if
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you tell me you're gonna pay me, you'll just do it.
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But I learned very early that if you don't speak up,
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people won't offer it to you. The Toronto Guardian caught
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up with Toronto comedian Brady Coyle. Brady's favorite comedian growing
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up George Carlin. I listened to his albums, particularly Complaints
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and Grievances and Jamming in New York saw I'm Live
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when I was fourteen. I was the only one in
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the crowd under fifty. I love Carlin's ability and willingness
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to analyze politics, dissect the English language, comment on human behavior,
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extrapolate where societal trans will lead us, and then also
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make sure to spend five minutes on for jokes. Ah,
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who are your favorite comedians right now? Brady Coyle, I'm
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a big fan of John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle, Pete Holmes, Apergetzi,
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Luis k Dean Cole, and Tom Poppa. Mike Birbigley is
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probably my favorite. He's a hilarious and captivating storyteller. To
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find new comics, Brady says, nothing beats seeing comedy live
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at the venue in person. Alternatively, I like watching full
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specials because it allows the viewer to get a sense
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of who comedian is and you get to see jokes
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they crafted over a long period of time, and that
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it's your comedy news for today, see you tomorrow,