Jan. 22, 2025

Bill Burr and Marc Maron talk about their fights, report says Will Smith still mad at Chris Rock

Bill Burr and Marc Maron talk about their fights, report says Will Smith still mad at Chris Rock

Johnny Mac presents the latest in comedy news, discussing Will Smith's ongoing feud with Chris Rock, Trevor Noah hosting the Grammys, and a conversation between Bill Burr and Mark Maron on wildfires. Conan O'Brien jokes about nearly losing his house...

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Johnny Mac presents the latest in comedy news, discussing Will Smith's ongoing feud with Chris Rock, Trevor Noah hosting the Grammys, and a conversation between Bill Burr and Mark Maron on wildfires. Conan O'Brien jokes about nearly losing his house and assisting his staff affected by fires. The episode also covers Ricky Gervais promoting his alcohol brand, the impact of Apple TV shows like 'Ted Lasso', and outcomes of legal battles in comedy. Tune in for updates on comedian controversies and notable entertainment incidents.

00:19 Bill Burr on Marc Maron's Podcast
02:56 Conan O'Brien's Wildfire Experience
04:16 Trevor Noah to Host the Grammys
05:51 Will Smith and Chris Rock Feud
07:56 Comedy Bits and Updates
10:43 Legal Battles in Comedy

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Caloroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, Johnny mag with your daily comedy news. Seems

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like Will Smith is still man of Chris Rock and

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Trevor Noah is going to host the Grammys after all.

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That's exciting. Bill Burr was the guest on Mark Marin's

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podcast this week. They discussed the Los Angeles fires. Let's listen.

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No, I don't freak out on these things, but I

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am freaking out somewhere. I'm just not in touch with it.

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Left.

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So you weren't directly threatened. I didn't freak out during

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nine to eleven. I didn't freak out during the pandemic.

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I didn't freak out during this thing that your house

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wasn't in danger. Uh no, yeah, no, it it got

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a little scary there, that's what I mean. Yeah, so

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we you know, definitely jelowed up. Yep, load up, had

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to get out of there, and you had a mandatory evacuate.

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Oh yeah, oh yeah. But it was like, you know,

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I saw this. The flames never got close enough, but

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like you knew they were coming, and it was just

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kind of like just yeah, and it was like, you know,

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it's just yeah. So I feel very like fortunate. Yeah,

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that survivor's guilt. Yeah, I got a little of that.

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I freaked out. Wait, what does the benefits start with

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this many prigging people? Well, you mean insurance No, I

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mean just as far as for helping people out, insurance company.

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And yeah, that's the thing I was talking about on

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Kimmel is how they was keeping on all the homeless people,

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all the immigrants. What about the insurance companies. It's not

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going to pay anybody a dime and still give themselves

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a bonus. What about those guys? What about all these

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landlords that are now a two bedroom in Pasadena's nine

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grand a month? Best? What about these hotels that was

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eighty nine bucks and it went up to like seven

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hundred bucks.

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And Maren also talked about they occasionally don't get along.

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I was.

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I was pretty impressed during the last fight we got

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into over whatever there was in the green room. Dude,

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I've had so many fights to do, and I don't

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remember what any of them are about. No, well, I

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kind of knew what that was about. But there was

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a couple of things I remember about it, though. Oh

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the last one I do remember. The last week we

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were trying to get a and then you tried to

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act like you weren't. Uh. You came walking in and

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you go, Uh, I could hear your voice from down

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the hall, and I go, I could, I go. I

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could smell your bitterness. Yeah, you know that this was

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a different thing you were. It was a it was

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over a topic. It was over a uh due process,

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and we were in the well the cancel culture was

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going on, right. We were in the green room and

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Jess looking, there's a couple other people there, and you

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go off on me. And all I remember is like,

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I'm gonna have to just take this. I'm gonna have

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to stand. I'm not I can't walk away from it.

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I'm gonna have to hold my ground and wait till

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he passes and you go, and then I go. But

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the thing I noticed was, you know, within three minutes

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you were like, you know, maybe I should be on

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the women's side once in a while. Like the distance

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between outburst and apology was tight. I was proud of

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both of us. Yeah, I thought we did run over quickly.

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Wait pretty good. Yeah, No, we're in a good place.

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And I know another one, because of the way we're wired,

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is coming. But I don't take it seriously.

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Meanwhile, on his podcast, Codon O'Brian revealed he was close

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to losing his house or the LA wildfires. His house

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is okay, but unfortunately the home of his longtime assistant Sona.

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Her house was lost in the fire. Conan said he

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was at work preparing to host the Academy Awards, still

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scheduled for March second, when he got the call from

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his wife that she only had a few minutes to

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pack up their stuff and get out. She grabbed a

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small bag of clothes and the only thing Conan asked

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her to grab was the frame letter he received from

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author E. B. White when Conan was just sixteen. Conan said,

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I could easily be here saying we don't have our house.

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The fire came right up to the line of his property.

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Then he began joking with Sona about what he could

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do to help her money side, food aside, clothing, aside, love,

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an affection aside, sheltering you in any way at any

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one of my nineteen mansions, aside is there anything I

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could do for you? And then he tagged that with

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and also I'm letting you go? Is this a bad time?

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Conan joked he was looking forward to the headlines that

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would read. Conan O'Brien Fire's Sona on podcast where she

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talks about losing her home, Sona shut back. I'm really

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glad your house is okay, because if you lost your house,

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it would overshadow mine by a lot. Good to see

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they still have a sense of humor here. I feel

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like all of us do you just feel awful for

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people that lost their homes there? And you know, I've

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been thinking about it. So even if you get the

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insurance company to pay you, you still got to get

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a contractor to rebuild your home, and the contractors are

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going to be busy. It's gonna be a while for

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anybody to have any semblance of normalcy out there. Trevor

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Noah is set to return as host of the Grammys.

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Now today is January twenty second. The news came out

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yesterday the Grammys or what February second, So he's got

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a little more than nine days like Joe Koy had

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to get ready for the Golden Globes. But it's only

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I don't know, lazy mouth, ten twelve days a number

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like that. Now, Trevor has hosted the Grammys before, and

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I suspect he's been secretly working on it. I say

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that because Trevor is now a producer on the Grammy Awards.

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So that's not a conversation that happened in the span

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of half an hour. That's not a text. Hey, you

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want to host the Grammys and you write back shore,

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can I be a producer? Sure some negotiations surely went

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on there. This is Trevor's fifth straight time hosting the Grammys,

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and he's up for an award. The nominees for Best

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Comedy Album, and longtime listeners know that I get annoyed

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about how the Grammys defined an album, but I have

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lost that battle, so I'll shut up about it and

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just tell you. The nominees are Jim Gaffigan's The Prisoner

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and Nicki Glazer Someday He'll Die, Trevor Noah's Where Was I,

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Dave Chappelle's The Dreamer, and Ricky Gervais or mcgeddon. Out

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of those, I'm picking Trevor Noah. He can give a

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Grammy to himself. Maybe Taylor Swift will come by. Is

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she nominated? Oh yes, Taylor is nominated for Best Pop

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Vocal Album and Best Music Video. You know, maybe she'll

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come and Trevor will take a joke and Taylor will

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smile and be like, Hey, that was a really funny joke.

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I appreciate you trying to host an award show on

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short notice. That seems like the kind of thing Taylor

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would do, because she's cool like that, bringing Smifties. I

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like Taylor Swift's music a lot. I just think Joe

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Coy got a bad rap. I'm not going there, Scott

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Peckert relax in Touch Weekly, he says. A source close

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to Will Smith revealed that Will Smith still holds resentment

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towards Chris Rock, particularly due to the median's smug attitude

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following the infamous incident. The source claims that Will Smith

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is now relishing what he feels like a last laugh

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moment as Chris Rock finds himself embroiled in controversy. Now,

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as they read the sentence, I'm like, what controversy is

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Chris Rock involved with? Oh yeah, you may recall last

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month Chris Rock reportedly walked off stage minute tune performance

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at a billionaire's party in Australia. I got news for you,

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Will Smith. Not much of a controversy. I couldn't even

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remember it, and I talked about it for three days.

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Not a big deal, the source tells him. Touch Will's

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getting a last laugh and loving it. He'll never forgive

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Chris for ruining his life, even though he's managed to

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pick up the pieces in the last year or so.

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He still hates the guy and his smug attitude. I

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was watching last night. I was watching my DVD box

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set of Homicide, Life on the Street. I was there

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in late in season four and Pembleton is talking to

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a guy in the box. And you know who played

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the guy in the box, Chris Rock. Yeah, he's on

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an episode of Homicide. Did we know this? I guess

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we knew this. I mean it's thirty years ago. It's

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the episode Requiem for a Dina. Chris Rock plays Kurver Dooley.

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The insider said, Chris isn't the victim here or not.

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In Will's opinion, a lot of people would agree with

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Will and think, what's happening to Chris is karma for

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refusing to speak to Will or accept this apology. Let's

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assume it was the worst joke, the meanest joke. You

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should have never done that, the worst thing anybody ever

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did to anybody. The karma for that is walking off

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a stage in a billionaire's party that you per simply

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got paid to appear at, and then a comedy podcast

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talked about you for three straight days. Whoo karma. Wow.

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You don't want to mess with the karma. I'll tell

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you that much. The source and knowledge that violence and

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response to a joke is never justifiable. The source also

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stated that Chris Rock has also been deeply affected by

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the incident. From Chris's end, he's still haunted by what

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happened on that Oscar stage. He suffers from PTSD Like Will,

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He's never recovered from that slap. Others feel the best

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thing would be for these two egomaniacs to come together

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and hug it out, but they're too proud. At the inauguration,

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Theo Vaughn tumbled into YouTuber Logan Paul. Theo's cheer collapsed.

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Logan Paul started filming as he sat next to brother Jake.

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Paul Logan caught the moment THEO fell out of his

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chair and shared it on Twitter. He captured the video

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make cheers agreed again. Vaughan didn't appear hurt during the

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accident and quickly made a joke which was Camalis Cheers.

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I'm discussed in the past. In my humble opinion, Ricky

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Gervais is better at promoting his alcohol brand than Jim

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Gaffigan was. Ricky shared this clip on social media. I

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think late last week. I've bumped this a couple times,

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many many edits in here because Ricky is very filthy.

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But let's take a listen.

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Hi, I'm Ricky Gervais, world famous comedian, But I tell

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you what isn't funny the effects that strong liquor can

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have on your wellbeing, everything from like putting on white

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diabetic skin or scabs and mental illness Dutch barn.

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Hey, you know what's a big money maker is Ted Lasso.

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Deadline shared some data they got from Parent Analytics about

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how how much money Apple TV shows are making. They

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value ted Lasso at generating six hundred and nine point

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four million dollars. Not sure how that numbers arrived at,

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but it compares to, say, two hundred and ninety nine

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point four for Severns, Rachel Sennots, who's kind of the

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it girl right now? And Bow and Yang they're going

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to announce the nominations for the ninety Did you hear

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me drop the G every now and the Queen's comes out.

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I noticed my daughter when we were on the trip,

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reminded me there's a C in Antarctica, and I realized,

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in my native queen's accent, the southernmost continent often comes

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out as Antarctica. Like no T, no C, just Antarctica.

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I drop an entire syllable there, I digress. Rachel and

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Bowen will announce the nominations for the ninety seventh Annual

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Academy Awards. They will do this Thursday at eight thirty

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am Eastern. If you live in La sucks to be you.

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You got to get up at five thirty in the

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morning to find out who will be nominated. Tarren kill

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Him has dropped out of the upcoming off Broadway production

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of You're in Town because of the destruction of his

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home in the fires. People Magazine ordered that his home,

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which he shares with wife Kobe Smolders, has been lost

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in the fires. There's a clip from the offices Brian

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Baumgardner making the rounds on social media. Brian was asked

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why did Ryan, Kelly and Toby have to sit away

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from the rest of the characters in the annex on

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the office. Brian said, this is a fun little easter egg.

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There was the main office, the main bullpen, right, Jim

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and Pam and the accountants and Stanley and Phyllis and

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Michael's office and all that. Then there was the other side, right.

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We called it the annex. If your desk was in

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the annex, you were a writer. And they did this

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because the camera was always moving around, we were there

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all the time. He explained that creator Greg Daniels needed

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the writers in the writer's room sometimes, so the people

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who were back there didn't have to be on set

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all the time. They could get up and write and

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then come back and shoot some group conference room scenes

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or seen back there, but they weren't there all the time.

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Over in the UK, comedian Harry Dean'sway has lost his

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case against Steve Coogan's production company over a sitcom that

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he claimed infringed his copyright. London's High Court ruled that

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Live at the Moth Club, which ran for one season

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in twenty twenty two, was not a copy of deans

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Way's twenty thirteen series Shambles Harry Tell's Shortal. He now

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faces bankruptcy if Steve Coogan's production company pursue him for

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legal costs. The lawsuit claim that Cougan's show ripped off

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the original show by combining on stage performance with scripted comedy.

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High Court Recorder Amanda Michaels said the format of Deansway

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series was not protected as a copyright work. The similarities

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between the shows identified by the claimant do not seem

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to me to raise an inference of copying. The main

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complaint is that Live of the Moth Club is set

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in an almost identical setting. They run down comedy venue

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and combined scenes of real comedians performing on stage with

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backstage scenes featuring a range of fictional characters. In my judgment,

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LATMC may have the same central underlying idea as Shambles,

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but that does not by itself lead to any inference

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that the pleated format of Shambles has been copied as

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a whole or in substantial part. Interesting case there. I'm

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by no means an expert in the UK law, and

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that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy

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