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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy news Today, a final look at the best
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stand up specials of twenty twenty five. There were a
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lot of big time releases in December. As I mentioned previously,
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I had to put out my list December thirteenth to
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hook up the publicist, which left off a few specials
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that didn't exist yet. But now that they exist, we
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can finally rank them again. As I talk about any
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of these lists in my list, your list, someone else's list,
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they're all valid. It's all just opinion, it's just something
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to talk about. But for me, number one was easily
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Mark Maren's Panicked. Maren had a great year. Now tomorrow
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on this very program, I'm going to talk about who
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won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. One of
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the winners, for sure, Mark Maron walking away from his
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podcast in a stunning move on his own terms. But
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Maren had his best stand up special the last one
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I didn't love. The one before that was pretty good,
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But Panicked was just Maren doing Maren and doing Maren
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very well, and his joke about nagging people into fascism
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just captured the Zeitgeist Mark Meren the best stand up
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special of the year number two, and I could see
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people disagreeing with me, and that's fine, it's just a list.
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But I thought Kevin Hart's acting my age was funny.
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He's just shocking jokes. But boy, I was laughing, and
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I'm a comedy snob, and if you get me to laugh,
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I'm gonna give you a high ranking. I just thought
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Kevin Hart's special was fun and funny, and I'm a
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guy sitting on a couch and he made me laugh,
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so that's good enough for me. Robbie Hoffman's Netflix special
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at number three, that was one of them that wasn't
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on the original list just because of timing. But boy,
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a lot of buzz on Robbie. Like I said, the
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trivia guys talk to me about Robbie when I'm over
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there with the brewery people talking about Robbie Hoffman in
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the Facebook group. What a fantastic special. I considered bumping
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it up to number two, but I think I laughed
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a little bit more at Kevin Hart's special. But Robbie
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Hoffman fantastic and also one of the winners of twenty
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twenty five at number four, again. Some people will be
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irate and throw their phone across the room. But Matt
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Riif's Christmas crowd Work Special again. You're sitting on a couch.
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Are you entertained? Are you laughing? Is it funny? Yes?
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Is it crowd work? Is it fake CrowdWork? Is it
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controlled crowd work? Is it heavily edited CrowdWork? Don't know,
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don't care, don't care, don't care, don't know, don't care.
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I'm laughing. It's funny. Dave Chappelle's a Netflilix special that
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dropped out of nowhere to complicate everything. As I've said before,
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I compare it to a baseball pitcher. When Dave first
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takes the stage, it is shot well, it looks well,
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it feels big time. I'm looking at this thing and
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Dave is just on fire. He's like Dwight Gooden. It
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is prime, throwing strikes, mewing down people with the curveball,
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and I'm like, this guy's gonna throw a perfect game tonight.
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And that's how it felt for the first four innings.
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An hour later, I was like, ah, that was pretty good.
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I didn't think Chappelle's closer was as good as Chappelle
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thinks it is. And I mentioned on Friday's podcast how
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some of the details of Chappelle's monologue there fall apart,
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but did I laugh. Sure, some of the riodd stuff
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was very, very funny. Dave Chappelle comes in at number five.
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Jim Jeffries Two Limbs. I know I crutch a lot,
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and I'll just say comedian doing comedian named things. But
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that's how I feel about Jim Jefferies. You kind of
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know what you're gonna get. He's very good at it,
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and two Limbs is a good Jim Jeffery special. Laughed
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at a lot. This next one I didn't see on
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anyone's list but mine, But I really liked Justin Willman's
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Magic Lover that was on Netflix in June. Now, if
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you go into the reddits, some people will be like
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that was fake. This is fake. Just turn your brain
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off and just go for the ride and let Justin
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Wilman entertain you. However we get there, much like I
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said about Matt Riith, however we get there, are you
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not entertained? And I was very entertained by that one.
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I think I just threw that on one night because
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I was bored. What's this number? Eight. Jen Marcos Sareisi's
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Thief of Joy. Longtime listeners to this program, I've heard
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me talking about Jen Marco for several years. He is
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a three time guest on this program. But with this special,
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people noticed, if you're into comedy, he's no longer a
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who's that never heard of him? Now most people on
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the street, if we walk down the street, will probably
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go maybe ninety nine out of one hundred. I don't
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know who that is. Maybe if we go you know
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the guy that did this, maybe we'll pick up a
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couple more people. He's not a name yet, but boy,
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keep an eye on him. For twenty twenty six, Mo
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Amer's Wild World Netflix special. Boy, Netflix had a lot
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of great specials this year, didn't they. He had something
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to say. He was making political points in a very
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funny way. I loved his special. Lot one of the
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top ten of the year, Moe Ammer's Wild World and
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rounding out the top ten, Dusty Sleigh. I just like
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what Dusty does. He gets in a vibe. He keeps
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you there. It's his catchphrase, we're having a good time.
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That nails it. Love Dusty Sleigh. The last new entry
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on the list, Ricky Gervai's Mortality just came out this week.
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I liked it. I didn't play on my phone. He
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kept me engaged. Whatever part of your brain that lights
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up when you watch comedy was lit up. Made me
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laugh out loud a couple times. So I'm a psychopath
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and I just analyzed comedy and rarely laugh. But he
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got a couple chuckles out of me. When I woke
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up the next day, I was like, that feels like
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empty calories, where it's like Robbie Hoffman Special stuck with me,
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Chappelle's Special, stuck with me, Maren Special, stuck with me,
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Ricky entertaining funny but empty calories. So I don't know.
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I didn't like it as much as I liked the
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other ten, but I liked it. It's also not Ricky's
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a best special. Oh No, one more late comer to
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the year, Kamel Non Jihanni's Hulu special. It was fine.
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The people who were saying this is the greatest special
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of the year are of course crazy people, and I'd
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be curious to see if they ever got any checks
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from anybody involved with Hulu. I'm just saying that there's
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no way. Come on, Gianni special is the best of
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the year. It's good, it's fun. I think I have
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a bias that I know he's just popping into stand
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up comedy because he was bored or something. But he's
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not coming back to stand up comedy, so I don't
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know why the special even exists. He's going right back
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to acting. But you know it's fine. Best of the year. Yah,
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that's crazy talk. Also in my top tier, number thirteen,
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Bert Krascher is Lucky from Netflix. Brett Goldstein. Brett Goldstein
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I have at number fourteen. Now, as I'm doing this
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list for the seven millionth time, I'm looking at that
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and I'm wondering, hmm, you may have Brett's special way
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too low, Johnny Mack. Now, I have it at fourteen,
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So that's the official I had it in the homework.
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I have it at fourteen. But as I'm looking at this,
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I probably like Brett better than Bert and better than Kamel,
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better than Ricky, maybe not more than Dusty. So maybe
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Brett should be number ten and a half, but I
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have him at number fourteen. That's a really good special.
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On HBO fifteen and sixteen, Michelle Wolf and Sarah Silverman
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kind of pair up because I have the same note
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on both of them. Nice hour, not all that funny,
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but a nice hour and nice company. And I liked
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both specials a lot. I particularly something about Sarah's special
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really stuck with me, even though I have heard sixteen
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of Michelle at fifteen, but Michelle's is slightly funnier. Again,
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as I said, these are just listen. How do you
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rank anything? Who knows both are nice company? At seventeen,
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I have Matt McCusker. The audio is not recorded all
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that well, but it was way funnier than I thought.
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That was one of those nights when I was like, Oh,
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I'm watching comedy specials tonight. What else could I watch?
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And I clicked on that. My note continues to be
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poor Man's Shane Gillis, which makes sense because they do
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the podcast together. But yeah, good special. Number eighteen. I
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have Mateo Lane's Al Dente that was on Hulu back
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in May. I have that same note I had with
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Michelle and Sarah that maybe it's not hilarious, but it
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was real nice company for an hour. And then at
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nineteen Tim Dillon I'm your mother. If you like Tim Dillon,
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you'll like I'm your mother. If you don't like Tim Dillon,
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you're not gonna like I'm your mother. The other things
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that absolutely must be mentioned, they're not stand up specials,
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but they are the funny things from the year I have.
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Number one by a mile was the Mark Twain Prize
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given to Conan O'Brien. That's even better than Maren Special.
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That is the comedy event of the year. That's this
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year's Tom Brady Roast. If you haven't watched the Mark
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Twain Prize, I mean just a who's who on this
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Appearances include John m'laney who absolutely crushed it. This thing well, Pharaoh,
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Nikki Glazer, Bill Burr, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert was great,
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Adam Sandler was pretty good for Adam Sandler, David Letterman
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and Triumph thesl comic dog. I mean, how could he
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go wrong there. I'll have a lot to say about
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Conan tomorrow, but the Mark Twain Prize was the event
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of the year. Also really strong, not a full special,
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but Shane Gillis's sb's monologue where he came out just
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dg af as the kids say, boy, that was really funny.
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I'm not sure the audience liked it. As much as
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John on the Couch did, But John on the Couch
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I loved it. Shane Gillis's SBI monologue Number three, Tom
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Sigora's Bad Thoughts. I didn't love his special. I should
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probably mention because that came out and I didn't want
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to redo my entire list again again again. But I
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have Sigura and Sarah Sherman, I should mention, all right,
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So here I kind of fell into it. So in
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the first half I did the top specials of the year.
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Tina du aaka Gerrod Carmichael, roy Wood, otsco At costka
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Ian Edwards. Then I have Sarah Sherman and Tom Sigora.
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So for keeping track there, that would put them at
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let's say, Sherman at the twenty sixth spot and Sigur
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at the twenty seventh spot. Again, I didn't want to
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go that deep. Sigora Special's fine. It's just fine. Didn't
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love it, didn't hate It's just fine. But bad thoughts. Oh,
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I love that. Please bring that back in a hurry.
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I love it so much. It's naughty. My son is
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a young adult and he would find it funny, but
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I'm not going to be like, hey son, you should
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watch this because it's quite naughty. He can discover that
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on his own and we shall never discuss it. Did
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you watch last one Laughing UK? So they locked a
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bunch of comedians in a room and the comedians had
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to make each other laugh and if you after you
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got voted out of the room. Jimmy Carr was the
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host on that thing. It is hilarious and it's one
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of those shows you can play along at home because
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you sit on the couch and you see if you
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cannot laugh. And I got voted out of the room
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a couple times myself. That was really good, my jam.
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The thing that I can't get enough of is Jonathan
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Kite's Anthony boardeen. And you'll find Jonathan Kite doing Anthony
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Bourdain on social media. I follow him on threads, he's
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on Instagram, and he doesn't increasingly great Anthony Bourdain. So
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a year ago he was just doing the voice, but
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now he's got the hair, and he's got the walk down,
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and he's got the wardrobe. And Jonathan Kites Anthony Bourdain
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takes us to such exotic places as cracker Barrel, and Costco.
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I can't get enough of it. Highly recommend Jonathan Kite's
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Anthony Bourdain and Shane Gillis's sitcom Tires. It really reminds
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me of the Office at its peak times. It's really great.
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I'm remembering I have a couple episodes I didn't watch
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because I thought the season was like six episodes, and
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then there were more. I was like, oh, But then
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I get busy and I start playing video games. I'm
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all into the NBA two K video game right now
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because I'm a Nick's front runner. My son got mena
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the Knicks, and I'm a big time Knicks front runner,
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which reminds me I have a commercial to record for
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next week. I better do that next before I forget.
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But Shane Gillis's Tires, I love it. So there you go.
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Best Special of the Year, Mark Maron Best Thing of
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the Year the Mark Twain Prize starring Conan O'Brien. Tomorrow
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on this very program, we'll talk about who won and
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lost comedy in twenty twenty five. See you then. Welcome
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to the pop up Purgatory of Polyester and plastic Pumpkins.
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Spirit Halloween every September, a seasonal demon Clause Out of
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Hell possesses the concrete corpse of a failed store, then ghosts.
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On November first, it's gender furcation. What was one so
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ped Bath and Beyond is now bed Bath and Beyond
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the grave. Spirit Halloween a scarebnb for dead retail, So
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beware for when a lease grows cold, the bannerd Boogeyman
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will soon be there. They almost got Jimmy Kimmel's studios,