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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedys
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holiday weekend. I hope you had a great fourth of July.
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Am now well into my mission to make it to
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the tri Centennial. Need medicine help me a little bit.
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I'll have to be one hundred and seven years old,
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but that is my goal to be there July fourth,
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twenty seventy six. So let's put our feet up today
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and take a look at the best comedy specials of
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twenty twenty six so far. And I'm going up to
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bottom best special of the year, and I don't imagine
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anything passing this Chris Flemings Live at the Palace from
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HBO in February. This is the one that made everybody
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feel like they discovered a secret, even though the secret
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had been hiding in plain sight on YouTube for years.
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Chris Fleming filmed his HBO debut with the Cadillac Palace
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Theater in Chicago in a purple velvet gemsuit with ruby
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red Dorothy slippers. He then prance, scuttled and belly flopped
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his way through an hour about Trader Joe's, Doug Breed's, NPR,
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and Conga lines. Mark Maron called him a marvel to behold,
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a true artist. If you've seen this thing, Fleming isn't
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doing joke jokes. He's doing art, except the art is
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pretty funny and has a lot of physical comedy. And
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let me flip over a card here. I used AI
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to help me script out today's episode off my scratch notes,
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and the AI came up with this one. Chris Fleming
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looks like he may have studied under a mime who
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was also a Golden retriever. That's pretty good. Number two
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special of the year, Ryan Hamilton. This just hit me.
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You know, sometimes I'll see a comedian on the up
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and be like, oh, I can't wait for this person's
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next special, and they kind of disappoint. And you know,
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it'd been a minute for Ryan Hamilton because he got
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hit by a bus, which he made very clear. So
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I was very happy at how funny this special was,
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and it seemed to everybody in the Facebook group Daily
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Comedy News podcast group was with the program. In case
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you missed it, Ryan Hamilton got hit by a bus
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and then he made a comedy special about it. The
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special was directed by mega comedian Aperghezzi. One time attended
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a UFC show who that guy? But much like the
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Nate brand, the energy is clean, warm, observational. Nobody's getting
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their feelings hurt. And as far as I know, Ryan
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Hamilton did not attend any UFC events recently. I'm going
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to google it just to check. Oh, this is fun.
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There's an MMA fighter named Ryan Hamilton who goes by
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the nickname Hollywood Ryan Hamilton. He has a professional MMA
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record of zero and one. His last fight was July seventeenth,
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twenty twenty one, in whatever FCS is. He is currently
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on a one loss MMA streak. He apparently lost to
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Johann Rubio by a rear naked choke two minutes and
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eleven seconds into round two. This is the kind of
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thing Nate bergets he would find very interesting. And I'm
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sure you're like, shut up, John and get back to
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the comedy part. I will. That's a good suggestion. Listener
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Hamilton works in the Jim Gaffigan Brian Reagan Lane, Nah,
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I disagree. I think I think Ryan Hamilton would call
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me back had I helped him early in his career.
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Now I haven't helped him in his career at all,
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but had I helped him early in his career, and
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I was like, Hey, Ryan, do you want to come
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on the radio show. I'm pretty sure Ryan would have
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called me back and said yes, sir or I said no,
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I'd love to, but you know, I'm busy. I'm touring,
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which is perfectly fine, and I have no problem to no.
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I digress, Holliay weekend having a little fun here. Ryan
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Habilinson works on the Jim Gaffick and Brian Reagan Lan
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Family Friendly, Never a curse word, the kind of special
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you can watch with your parents and feel good about yourself.
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Number three Trevor Noah Joy in the Trenches. I really
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like Trevor Noah's comedy. This was on Netflix in April.
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I liked it a lot, but some people said at
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times have felt like a ted talk that wandered into
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a comedy club by accident, and not sure I agree
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with that. Number four Count Williams The Last Report Netflix
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in February. Count Williams Fourth Netflix special. The Last Report
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leans heavily into conspiracy theorist, political commentary, and the vibe
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of a man who's looked at the world and concluded
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he was right about everything. If you love cat you'll
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love this one. If you thought his previous specialist wandered
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a little bit. You won't like this one in fifth place.
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Pete Holmes Silly Silly fun Boy. I've been listening to
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some pen Homes interviews. I just really like what the
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guy's about. And as the year goes on and I
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revise this even here on the Fly, I'm like, Eh,
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maybe you don't want to put Pete above Cat and
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above Trevor. I don't know, come to revise here in
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the fly. Maybe Pete Holmes is the third best special
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of the year. John, you host the show, you made
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the list. I know, all right, I have it at five.
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This showed up on YouTube in March. Silly Silly fun
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Boy has scorpion bites, elevator Superstitions. Harry Potter is a
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philosophical text parenting marriage and the general vibe of a
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guy who's found genuine peace and wants to tell you
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about Like, yeah, that's what I'm picking up on the interviews,
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and I think that's what I like about him. Pete
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Holmes said it's my favorite special two dates, which is nice,
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but doesn't every comedian, like you know, is somebody gonna
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come out and be like, you know this one's pretty good,
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but my last one was way better. Like, you're just
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not gonna do that right. Here's one that might be
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off your radar, Derek Stroop's Nostalgic. Now, by off your radar,
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I mean Netflix put it in front of you and
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you didn't click on it. This was on Netflix in March,
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also produced by mega comedian Aperghancys Andnateland Entertainment. Nate one
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time went to a UFC fight Boy, People Are Very
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Upset fifty seven minutes about a nineties kid from rural Alabama,
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thrown it back to pre internet lifeboard games and why
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cigarettes should make a comeback. Critics compared to him either
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to mega comedian Apraghassi or Brig Krascher. Next up, Ramy
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Yusef in Love HBO April. I always enjoy Ramy. He
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just he exudes charm and he's very smooth. And this
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one he covers dogs, his marriage, Ai, religion, and the
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ri Odd Comedy Festival. One review said, it's not trying
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to be the funniest special the year. It's trying to
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be the most meaningful, and I think that's a good
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way to describe Rami Usef. Next up, Jackie Kashin with
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the title altercation I See what You did there? This
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on YouTube in February, the specialist personal stories in rapid
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fire punchlines shaped by decades of experience. She described herself
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as entirely made of bees at this point. So here
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the roughly halfway mark of the year. Those are my
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top specials. Now, usually the back half of the year
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has more on the front end of the year, and
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we tend to get a lot of stuff like after Thanksgiving,
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like really big names. So we'll see how the year develops.
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Let's take a look at the good pile. So I
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do these in three tiers. There's the best, the good
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that you should watch, and then famous people who drop
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specials that I'm not really into. So we've already done
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the best. Let's do the good. Shehang Wang's Purple on Netflix.
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I liked his previous special, Sweet and Juicy, and thought
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it was excellent. Purple not as good. It's a little repetitive,
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and at times I really was feeling the Mitch Hedberg
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cover act, which in the previous special I liked a lot,
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but this time I was like, Eh, the material didn't
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quite match the delivery. I like Shang a lot, but
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I'd actually recommend his previous special over this one. Ate
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pretty good specials. Aaron Chen's Life in Questions. Aaron Chan
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is Australian, surreal and underrated everywhere, kind of a low
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key style, an acquired taste. Perfectly fine special. I'm not
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going to put it in the elitch category, but pretty good.
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Also pretty good and well talked about the roast of
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Kevin Hart from Netflix in May. If you listen to
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this program, we have well dissected that, and we'll even
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be dissecting it in the upcoming week. Was it the
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roast of Tom Brady? Not even close? Was itatchable? Sure?
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It was kind of long. I'd watched it across two
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or three nights. It's hit and miss. Might be more
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miss than hit, but it's washable. Definitely put your eyes
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on it. This one's gonna upset people. You know what's
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watchable Tony Hinchcliff's man, other people I know, people on
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Threads specifically, are mad that this even exists. Is it funny?
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I don't know if it's funny. It's just nice company.
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I had it on for an hour and a lot
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of times because I am a comedy snob. I don't
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make it all the way through specials and I just go, Eah,
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this isn't worth my time. And I just had this
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on and it was entertaining. I don't know if it's funny,
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but I was entertained. And our first mention of the
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Hulu brand hularious. Now they're a publicists might not get
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back to you, but you can still watch comedy on now.
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As you hear me say on the show, I feel
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like the Hulu brand's not up where the Netflix brand is,
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and Hulu's where you go when you're a little past peak.
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They recently dropped Dez Bishop's Bridge and Tunnel again, perfectly
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fine hour filmed at the Comedy Seller in New York.
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I like Dez's a previous special more than this one.
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But if you need something to watch, does Bishop Bridge
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and Tunnel on Hulu? And now onto the pass section.
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These are people you've heard of. I think it can pass.
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Let's start with Louis CK's Ridiculous Nope, didn't make the
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top of the list. Now let me tell you. I
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put this thing on the other night between soccer games,
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and the first ten minutes I was laughing out loud,
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like actual laughs. If you've listened to this program, you know.
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I have what I call Emperor of Rome syndrome, where
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my brain has just been fried from listening to comedy
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all these ears, and I do the thing the comedians
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do in the back of the room where they just go, oh, yeah,
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that's hilarious, very very funny, great callback, Oh that is
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so well written, but I don't actually laugh. K in
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the first ten minutes had me laughing, and I started thinking, Wow,
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is this going to be the number two special? Because
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it's gonna be hard to be Chris Fleming. I'm like,
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is this going to be number two? Did C Kate
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really bring it here? Because some of the reviews I
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saw said this wasn't that good. In the first ten
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minutes I loved. The next ten minutes I hated. He
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went into this bit about his father and I won't
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spoil the material, and there was just one joke that's aggressive,
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and I was like, I just don't like this. I
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don't want to spend time with this. And then that
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chunk ends like right at the nineteen minute mark with
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he's doing ten minute chunks, So that chunk ends around
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nineteen twenty minutes with clapter never a good sign, and
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then the next ten minutes, I was just kind of
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bored and I bailed. Life's too short, I've got soccer
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games to watch, I got stuff to do. I'm not
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going to watch a special I'm not enjoying. And I
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just wasn't enjoying it anymore, so I stopped. Variety calls
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it his return to the mainstream. Slate says he hasn't changed.
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Indy Wire says his misery becomes our own. All of
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those things are probably true at once, but passed on
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Louis c. K ridiculous. Pass on Taylor Thomason's Prodigal Daughter
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in Netflix February. Critics love it Thomasin's fourth Netflix special
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That's incredible, hit religious trauma, faith, the construction, sexuality, and
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fear of death, and I don't know, just kind of
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felt one note to me. I don't know, wasn't feeling it.
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Pass on Josh Johnson Symphony from HBO, and may I know,
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I know, I know we're all supposed to be like
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Josh Johnson is the greatest ever and his output is incredible.
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He does a new material on YouTube every Tuesday, and
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the buzzes on him and he's charismatic, and I know
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I'm supposed to love it. I wanted to love it,
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but I zoned out. Material didn't grab me. People who
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love it seem to really love it, which means either
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it's brilliant, or it wasn't in the right head space,
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or I just suck at this. I don't know, maybe
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I'm wrong, but just wasn't feeling it. And I know
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I'm supposed to, but I didn't. No surprise that I
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didn't like Marcelo Hernandez American Boy from in Netflix in January.
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As you've heard me say, Marcelo Hernandez does one thing. Well,
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he does one thing, and he did one thing during
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American Boy on Netflix in January. Can also pass on
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Mark Norman's None Too Pleased Mark Norman doing Mark Norman things.
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what you're in for, And yeah, that's it. I mean,
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if you like Mark Norman, great, I don't dislike the
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special but again, I got soccer games to watch, video games,
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to play movies to watch, go outside, do something else,
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not gonna make the end of your best of list.
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Neither is Nicki Glazer's Good Girl from the Hilarious Brand.
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I am not the target audience. I'm aware of that,
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and I am also aware that I increasingly feel Nicki
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Glazer needs to tap the brakes and disappear for a
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little bit. It's been a little much, but the type
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of material she does just does not connect with me.
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It may connect with you. You'll find Nicki Glazer Good
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Girl on Hulu. While we're here into the holiday weekend,
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Vulture posted five new comedy specials you should definitely watch
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when you have a moment. Their list Real Quick, Louis