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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy news. Nicki Glazer was your SNL host. I'll
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do a recap of that tomorrow. Prior to her appearance,
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she went on Late Night with Seth Myers. I guess
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she figured passing out flyers that the car wash would
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reach just about as many people. But you know you
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might get wet, so you might as well go on
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Seth Meyers show. She told Seth and the sixteen people
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that watch that show for the monologue, it's like rehearse, rehearse, rehearse,
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running around town at different clubs. That's the one I
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can have control over, Seth Meyers said. And they're so
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happy that you're coming and you have your own monologue.
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It's the hardest thing to write for a host. So
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when you have somebody who's like, I know my voice
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and I'm really good at it, and here I am,
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I'm gonna crush, they're thrilled. Glazier's Jad told her, don't
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read the cue cards. Nicki said, he doesn't understand. You
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kind of have to. John Mulaney tell Travel in Leisure.
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I've always admired that Chicago's happiest at five on a Friday.
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It's like we did enough days that we can build
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up to this moment to do it again. He was
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kind of half out promoting years his partnership with the
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non alcoholic beer. Mulaney says, it feels like what you
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have at a cooler in Michigan in July that isn't fancy,
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but he's a great pilsner. I'm so happy there's something
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in the non alcoholic world that you can drink a
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bunch of crumble up and throw all right, I get it.
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I play trivia on Wednesday nights at the brewery, and
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I honestly there are times that like I'm just drinking
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socially that I wish they had another option. If they
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sold me a non alcoholic beer, they could actually sell
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me water with food coloring in it, and I would
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order it and pay the seven bucks. I just want
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to hang and sometimes I don't want to come home
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and feel like U. I remember, Johnny Mack does tell
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you two beers, not eight, But Johnny Mack also tells
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you two beers plus a cheese steak and some fries.
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That's when you come home feeling like ugh. John m'laney's
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advice to first time visitors of Los Angeles don't give up.
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It can't possibly make sense at first. I would get
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a map of Los Angeles, not to get lost, but
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just to have a sense of it, or else you
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will be constantly wondering if you're leaving LA. When you're not.
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He explains, LA is left landmarks and more neighborhoods. There's
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never going to be a Times Square or Washington Square Park.
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Just drive around listening to the Chinatown soundtrack. There's a
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reason it's a quintessential LA movie. It really sinks up.
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As for New York City, John says I can't imagine
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visiting New York and not liking it. His tip is
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to take the subway. He says, I'm not saying it's nice,
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but you don't want to sit in Manhattan traffic. That
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is true, He explained. New York is like spending a
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week with a great, fascinating, exciting person and then he
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moved in with that person and they punch you in
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the stomach right away. Suddenly the steps that you jumped
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up so effortlessly or higher, and it feels unfriendlier, but
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then it clicks. Landey says, I did all of New York,
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from the grimiest to the Ritzias, Like I went to
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a black tie party in the Rainbow Room for the
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SNL fortieth, and I bought drugs on the worst riverside
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spots in Williamsburg, up and down. It's great for all
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of it. At the New Yorker Conference, David Remnick asked
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John Stewart about being on Joe Rogan. You did Joe
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Rogan a couple of times. John said, yes, Well, what
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do you think of that experience? John Stewart Duett said,
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I enjoyed being on Rogan. I think he's an interesting interviewer.
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You know, there are right wing weaponized commentators who's sole
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purposes to pnipulate things to the benefit of the Steve
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Bannon project or Project twenty twenty five. Rogan's not that guy.
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Rogan is a curious comic who fell in this thing
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that got enormous. His opinions all over the political spectrum,
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but his tendencies that for the people on the left
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do not fit the esthetic. Stewart said, go on the
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show like it's not acceptable. Just say well I don't
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like what he does, then do it better. Beat them
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at their own game. We have to be relentless, tenacious.
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It's not enough to complain to the guy as a
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platform and say, don't platform that guy. There's no one
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in the world right now that isn't platformed. Stephen Colbert
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talked about his old Colbert Rapport character and said, we
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like the idea that the character didn't know he was
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on a comedy channel because he took himself very seriously
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and he really was changing the course of human history
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with the tractor beam of his own justice. As for
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the Late Show coming to an end, GQ asked if
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Colbert has wrapped his head around that. He said, not
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at all. No. I mean I've accepted it. I've wrapped
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my head around that, But in terms of how I
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feel about it, no, I don't know. Because the shows
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go on, I don't necessarily know how I'll feel about
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it until I'm not doing it anymore, because it's all consuming. Listen,
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every show's got ended some time, and I've been on
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a bunch of shows that have been I did sometimes
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by our lights and sometimes by the decisions of other people,
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and that's the nature of show business. You can't worry
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about that. You got to be a big boy about that,
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but I think we were the first number one show
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to ever get canceled. I called a friend of mine
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who's also in Late Night Interesting. I was trying to
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work out my feelings and I said, you got any
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thoughts on this? And he goes, no, no one's ever
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gonna have thoughts on this. No one's ever been the
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number one show for nine years in a row and
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then been canceled. When I signed my twenty twelve contract
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for The Cobert Report, I went to my assistant and
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I said, Hey, what's our last show of twenty fourteen.
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She goes, it looks like December eighteenth, and I said, oh,
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good to know. And I started writing that last show myself. Basically,
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the entirety of that last show was something that I
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thought of really in the next month, and then I
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thought I was going to leave that and go I've
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been an actor of my entire career. I had a
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whole show that I'd planned out what I was going
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to do, and it was actually going to involve that
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old character in a new job, and he'd be like
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a central figure, but he wouldn't be the only character
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in it, and I might still do it someday but
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that was my plan, and then taking over for Letterman
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fell in my lap. But I had a plan how
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to end it. I knew the songs we were going
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to sing, I knew the jokes we were going to do.
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I knew how I wanted to shot everything. This is
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not my choice, so I don't know how we're gonna land
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this plane. But people have asked me, well, what do
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you think you're gonna do next? And the cleanest and
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really fullest answer I can give you not that I
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don't have thoughts, but the honest answer is I just
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want to land this plane gracefully in a way that
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I find satisfying given how much effort we've put into
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it for the last ten years. I appreciate the people
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at far Out Magazine because they understand the great actor
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Adam Sandler. Far Out wrote when I first watched Uncut Gems,
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which as listeners to this program know, is the best
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Adam Sandler movie by a mile, I left the theater
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with more questions than answers. Why did I feel so dizzy?
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What's the strongest sedative I can buy? And was that
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really Adam Sandler? I just watched As I watched the
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mirrored shot of Sandler's character lying on the floor with
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a gunshot wound in his head. I waited, for baited
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breath for either David Spade or Kevin James to bust
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in that shot and pull the rug from under the
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whole thing. To say, the whole film was one elaborate ruse,
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a satsire of high browse cinema that would swiftly be
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undercut by an ending that involved those three members of
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the Sandler alumni. But that never happened, and the film concluded.
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I left the cinema like many others that year, both
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baffled and encouraged by this return to drama. For Sandler,
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this was a renaissance that eclipsed McConaughey's from just under
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a decade earlier, simply for how awful were the run
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of films that Sandler released before Uncut Gems, My Boy,
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Grown Ups, Blended, Jack and Jill all came out in
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the chapter before Uncut Jims. While the latter film Jack
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and Jill represented the true bottom of the barrel. Amen, brother,
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you've heard me talk about that. I forbade my children
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from renting it and told them I would rather light
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the five dollars on fire. Far Out said to us
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it hinted towards a state of career complacency from Sandler
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that the today's of his own scrappy ideas being developed
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on a shoestring budget were long gone and instead replaced
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by half baked comitta crap served on a silver platter
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of big studio distribution. Sandler was fully aware of that. However,
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he knew the movies he was creating in the Spell
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of Mediocrity were there to serve one purpose, and one
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purpose only finance. And this is the point of the
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article Sandler's take on what the worst Sandler movie is.
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To Sandler admit that it's Jack and Jill know. He
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thinks it's the remake of The Longest, which on paper
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should have worked, but the Burt Reynolds version is much better.
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Sandler said, they were doing it and it was cool,
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and I was like, if they're doing it as well,
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be in it. Compared to the first one, not even close.
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It ended up doing all right, paid for some things
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in our house. It made no sense on NBC proper today.
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It's the paper, you know, the office spin off of sorts.
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I got through like six or seven of them. Fight
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your way through the first one or two. Then it
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gets better. It's at no point funny, but it's nice
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company while you just the TV's on and you're playing
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on your phone. It's that kind of show. I don't
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know if I've laughed at all. But the characters an't
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nice enough. The main two were nice enough. I don't
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know about the ensemble. Part of the ensemble is Alex Edelman,
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who told Variety why he was attracted to it. He said,
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seemed really fun. He used the word fun a lot
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because it's an important value in entertainment. It seems silly,
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but it's a good metric for whether a show was
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all right. He was asked to audition for the series,
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then labeled untitled Greg Daniels and Michael Corman Project. He
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received dummy sides of fake scenes that never showed up
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in the show. It explains the paper in the Office
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or totally different shows. His take is our shows in
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a little more parks and wreck than The Office, in
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my opinion. Angela from the Original Office spoke with grub
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Street and she said her call time for the nine
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years film in the Office was five thirty am. Was
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barely daylight when I'd arrive for hair and makeup, some
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of the casts would bring their own breakfast into the
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hair and makeup room and eat while they were quote
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in the works, which means holding your food in your
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lap and trying to sneak in a bite of eggs
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while you're getting your hair curled or your eye makeup done.
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Angela said, I would inevitably spill something on myself, so
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my first real meal would be hot snack. To this day,
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I still dream about hot snack every day. At exactly
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ten thirty, our assistant director would announce hot snack. You
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never knew what was gonna be, but it's always a feast. Ramen, dumplings, tacos,
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hot dogs, chili, fried rice, shrimp, skewers, you name it.
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I once had the nickname snacks Kinzie. She says, I'm
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a big believer in packing snacks. Today in my back
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back I have a mixed berry granola bar, fruit wraps,
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a cheese and salami snack tray from the airport's store,
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and a ziplock of peanuts. The Moontower Comedy Festival has
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announced their lineup now. The festival is not till April
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eighth through the nineteenth. Pretty impressive lineup and it's at
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least right there with this New York Comedy Festival, if
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not bigger names. They announced the first seventy five performers.
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A press release tells us there'll be stand up sets,
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unhinged podcast recordings, musical comedy, and sketch badness. There's a
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club series you purchase the Badge, and then there's four
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days of shows with more than one hundred comics within
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walking distance downtown that you can see. So far announced.
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Do you want me to read seventy five names? I
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don't think I want to. Let's see names that you
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would recognize. How about I'll do that? An evening with
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Albert Brooks, Beth Stelling, Brad Williams, Cristella Alonso, Doug Benson,
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Emo Wakeem, Ivan Decker, The Sclar Brothers, Jay Jorden, Jeremiah Watkins,
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John Goblet, con Boy, his name's all over the place.
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John Rudnitsky, he was on SNL for a year and
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I saw him a new faces. He was great up there.
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Kathy Griffin, Leslie Jones, Mark Marin, Matt Bronger, Nish Kumar,
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viwerd Oz and others. Okay, so you get a Bestie
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Badge promo that offers twenty five dollars off each badge
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and a group of two or more already too complicated.
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The big show tonight at the New York Comedy Festival
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is Stand Up for Heroes. John Stewart, Mike Berbiglia, Jim
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mcgaffigan and Moore. It's the nineteenth edition of Stand Up
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for Heroes. It raises awareness and funding for the Bob
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woodra Foundation, whose mission is to ensure that our nation's veterans,
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service members, and their families have stable and successful futures