Oct. 2, 2025

Bill Burr discusses his time at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Bill Burr discusses his time at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Bill Burr discussed his appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, including observations on Saudi culture and stand-up comedy constraints, his initial concerns about performing in Saudi Arabia and how he felt welcomed and appreciated by the audience.

The episode also covers other performers like Chris Tucker, Jeff Ross, and Russell Peters, and their shows at the festival. Additionally, it includes reactions from comedians and media personalities regarding the moral implications of attending the festival.

Other topics discussed include Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert's show cancellations, John Mulaney's partnership with non-alcoholic beer brand Years, and a new podcast explaining British comedy to Americans.  

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey busy one again. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Bill Burr on his podcast addressed his appearance

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at the Riod Comedy Festival. He did this about seventeen

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minutes into his podcast after talking about football. I have

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made many many edits here, mainly to get rid of

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F bombs. Bill's one of those guys that can't get

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through an fing sentence without you know, F and cursing

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and F and F and I just don't want to

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play all the F bombs. I know I've been letting

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the swear words go this week because I'm trying to

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capture the emotions of the comedians involved in all this.

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But I don't want to play just a million F

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bombs when he's just using them as adjectives. I did

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leave in an S word.

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Here's Bill Burr, And like my whole idea of Saudi Arabias,

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what I've seen like on the New I literally think

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I'm going to land, you know, and everybody's gonna be

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screaming deaf to a matica and they gonna have like

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machetes and want to like chop my head off, right,

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because this is what I've been and fed about that

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part of the world, right, and we're flying over it.

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It's nothing but like these long roads and sand, it's

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like nothing, and everybody's just regular.

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They're dressed different, but they're regular.

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I go down to do the show, right, and they say,

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all right, the front two roads is going to be

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all diplomats in these padded seats, and then up top

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the royals are going to be there.

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And it was like in the round and everything, and.

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Everyone was like ridiculously excited that there was going to

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be stand up comedy there.

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And this is what's amazing about.

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The arts and stand up comedy is comedians have always

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pushed like the boundaries and this was like a classic case,

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like I guess this is tipping the cap to the

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people that set up the festival over there. When they

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first went to set it up over there, the rules

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on what they had.

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About what you could say and what you couldn't say.

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In Saudi Arabia, the people running the festivals will be like,

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all right, well man, that's game, set match.

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If this is like all you.

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Can talk about and you want some good comedians, like

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this isn't going to work.

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And then to their credit. They said, all right, what

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do we gotta do?

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And they just negotiated it all the way down, so

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like you can talk about anything, you know, other than

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a couple things, which was basically you know, you know, religion,

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don't make fun of the royals, and other than that,

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it was all everything.

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Was like open.

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In this next clip, Bill discusses what it was like

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to actually be on the stage again. I've made many

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edits for f words in some for basing the people.

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Okay, they want to show. You could feel it. I

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was talking to other comics. You could feel it. They

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wanted you to push right. It was really exciting. So

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I go up on stage and I start doing my

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shit and they're into it. Everything's going good. I'm not

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going to lie to you. I'm checking out the diplomats is.

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I'm doing this stuff and they're all laughing. All right,

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So I'm gonna push you a little farther. And all

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of a sudden, I start getting in the zone. Well

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Billy's feeling loose up there, and my brain just goes

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gay Jim, and then the other part of my brain goes,

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don't do that.

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And then I said, I'm going to do it. So

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I started doing the joke and it murdered. It murdered.

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They all loved it, and at that point I was

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just like, oh, I'm just doing my act. So I

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did my act, did the whole thing, and I had

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to stop a couple times during the show. It's like

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going like, I'm be honest with you guys, I cannot

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believe any of you have any idea who I am.

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This is really amazing and it was just this great

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exchange of energy.

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Right, And one more clip from Bill Here is his

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final takeaway of the entire experience.

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Thank you to everyone in Rehod that came out. I couldn't, honestly,

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from the bottom of my heart, I could not have

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a better time doing.

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Shows for you guys.

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And it was great to experienced that part of the

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world and to be a part of the first comedy

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festival over there in Saudi Arabia. I think it's going

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to lead to a lot of positive things.

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So there you go. That's that's that.

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Oh wait, I do have one more clip from Bill. Now.

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This one is edited because I took the timestamp and

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attached it to the rest of the comments, but I

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thought you might find this clip from Bill Burr kind

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of interesting.

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Hey, what's going on? Is Bill Burr and it's time

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for the Monday Morning podcast.

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For Monday, June thirteenth, two thy and sixteen. All right,

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just a question, when will you come to Saudi Arabia

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or Dubai or Kuwait. I don't know when they like us.

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I'm not going over there and getting kidnapped and getting

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my head sowd off on YouTube.

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Hey's Bill Burr, just checking in on you. And then

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you know you'd have to say something.

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Nah, you couldn't because they need to worry that they

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do something even worse to you. I wait till write

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as they got through the jugular. Oh man, I would

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find you do a quick little Philly set on. Uh,

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just say everything that would piss him off, which I

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would say.

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Would I know you know what I would be.

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I'd be rocking and crying like I know that doesn't

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happen in Saudi Arabia. But you know if you steal

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something in Saudi Arabia, they chop your arm off.

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You know, I don't need that pressure.

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Tonight, at the re Odd Comedy Festival, comedy legend Chris

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Tucker takes the stage with his trademark energy and razor

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sharp humor. Also Jeff Ross that's right. The Roastmaster General

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brings his razor sharp wood to the Redd Comedy Festival.

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He turns quick observations into precision burns. Expect playful audience interaction,

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brilliant riffs on culture, Be careful, Jeff, and spontaneous moments

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Be careful, Jeff, that make each show feel one of

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a kind. Russell Peter is in town at the re

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Odd Comedy Festival for three shows, not one, not two.

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Russell Peters doing three shows. Known for his lightning fast,

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sharp timing, hilarious audience interactions, Russell Show promises an unfiltered evening.

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It does an unfiltered evening of observational comedy, sharp improvisation

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and riotous audience interaction. It's a big night at the

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Riodd Comedy Festival. Zarna Garg is there now. If you're

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not familiar with Zarna Garg, she fled India at age

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fourteen to avoid an arranged marriage. She came here to

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the United States, where of course, women have rights, and

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tonight she's at the ri Odd Comedy Festival. Her material

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draws from her Indian heritage, immigrant experience, and motherhood The

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Guardian has reported that Nimesh Pezil remember that Instagram story

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that I played yesterday, he's pulled it down. Well, you

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know what, Nimesh, I still have it. Let's listen to

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a clip of it.

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No, I'm not attending. I just figured, you know what,

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I'll just do forty shows that had not planned on

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doing here in the perfectly clean moral above everyone else,

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United States of America. I'm tired just thinking about it

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to make a for the lost bag. So that's what

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I'll do. I'm going to do forty shows that had

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not planned on doing that haven't even been launched yet,

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that we're now trying to figure out between now and

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the end of the year to make up for the

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lost bag before my theater tour kicks off.

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The Guardian did not pull any punches writing about this thing.

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They called out everybody. It's glorious. I shared it in

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the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group,

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which has been very active this week. I love you

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all participating in that. Feel encouraged to join us. You

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will be asked a couple trick questions to make sure

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that you're not a porn bot. We don't want any

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porn bots any Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group.

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But if you're an active member, come on buy and

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start some conversations. I've got some pretty good ones this

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week about this topic, anyway, The Guardian wrote, over the years,

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Andrew Schultz has joked about the Koshoge murder and Saudi

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connections to nine to eleven. He's tweeted that Saudi people

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are begging for help from a tyrannical regime of sexism,

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racism and homophobia, and argue that the country exists because

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we allow them to exist in order to give us

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bleeping gas. Andrew will be performing at the Riod Comedy Festival.

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The Guardian also called out Jessica Curson, one of two

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women on the festival's lineup. Jessica wasn't speaking specifically about

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this situation, but they quoted her speaking about the plight

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of female comedians in the Middle East in the past.

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Jessica Kerson said, they're not allowed to talk about the

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government or the royal family, or they're not allowed to

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curse or talk about sex. We are so privileged here here,

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presumably the United States, The Guardian continues. Even if the

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bigger names on the bill were offered huge sums. None

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of them are hard up for cash. Chappelle, Hart Burr,

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Koi and Gabriel Iglesias. Not sure why Gabe got both

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names and Koi got one, but whatever are multi millionaires

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who sell hundreds of thousands of tickets playing big venues

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across the globe. Louis c K's income may have taken

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a dent in recent years, but an invoice sent to

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his promoter, obtained via public records request, appears to show

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that he grossed more than three hundred thousand dollars over

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a weekend in Seattle this past July. Similar records appear

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to show that in twenty nineteen, Pete Davidson, who's at

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the Reod Comedy Festival tomorrow, earned one hundred thousand dollars

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for a gig at Florida State University. In twenty twenty three,

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Pete Davidson grossed more than one hundred and thirty thousand

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dollars over a weekend in Buffalo. Again. Pete will be

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at the Riodd Comedy Festival tomorrow. Oh, The Guardian wasn't done,

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they point out. In an August episode of the podcast

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We Might Be Drunk, Jessica Curson chatted with hosts Mark

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Norman and Sam Morrell about the Reodd Comedy Festival. At

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that point, The Guardian believes Jessica hadn't yet been booked,

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but she indicated she'd be into performing in the region.

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Sam Morrell points out she's a gay Jewish woman. Jessica

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said I wouldn't do any game material there at all,

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and ad she would steer clear of Jewish material too. However,

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she was into how well the Kingdom treats its guests,

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saying you get treated like gold. It's five star, crazy treatment,

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hotels and car service and food and they really take

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care of you. John Marco Saraisi was on CNN with

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Jake Tamper. John Marco addressed the Riod Comedy Festival, which

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he is not part of.

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I think those comedians that performed, next time they get

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asked who their favorite comedian is, they should stop saying

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George Carlin, because I think comedy has written off the

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name of speaking truth to power, and these comedians are

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allowing their images and their reputation and frankly the brand

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of American stand up comedy to be exploited for propaganda.

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It's embarrassing how many of these comedians that many of

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which are incredible joke riders, are willing to agree to

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the requirements for this festival, who are willing to slap

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their face onto the flyer, and it's embarrassing for the

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art form.

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CNN s Jake Tamper wasn't familiar with some of the contracts. Here,

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John Marco explains what Otsco at Kotska had shared with everyone.

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Yeah, I think it's I think it's worse because, you know,

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I think there's lines. Listen, if if you have, if

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you have some kids who're trying to put through school,

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maybe a little bit less. But some of these comics

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they got nothing to support at home, They got brand deals,

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they're making millions. They don't need to do this. Maybe

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they're in it for the adventure. And I say, if

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you're in it for the adventure, why don't you produce

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a local show there without the requirements. I think it's

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embarrassing to go on stage and tell jokes that if

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some of the audience members tweeted from their own personal

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accounts could lead to them being executed. I think that's

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embarrassing one of them. I think we need to bring

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back some shame.

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What are the requirements you're talking about, because I haven't

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seen any of the contracts or anything.

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post to them. I can read them for you. There.

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Well, just give me the eye.

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You'll not prepare or perform any short you shall not

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bring into disrepute, contempt, scandal, embarrassment, or ridicule. A the

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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including its leadership, public figures, culture

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of people, be the Saudi royal family, legal system, or government.

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And see any religion, religious tradition, figure, or religious practice. Wow.

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I mean that's a long list.

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That's a pretty big list for a regime that kills

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gay people and kills journalists. And I mean, we all

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know what they did with Jamal hal Shogi, who was

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an American resident and Washington Post columnist.

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And John Marcos Arasi discussed him. It kind of matters

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who's paying for the show.

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Now, the United States, we have our own fair share

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of moral atrocities, But I don't know that you really

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can compare us to the Saudist What do you think?

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on who's paying you. I would be critical if the

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Trump inauguration featured mister Bean. I would say, well, why

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are you taking money directly from a government figure? I

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think that changes it. Of course, no country has zero

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blood on their hands, but taking money from a politician

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enters you into the realm of propaganda, and I think

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to be used in the way that all these comedians

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are is a different moral thing. I was in Buffalo

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this past weekend. The taxpayers in America did not pay

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for me to go to Buffalo. Now if they did,

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if Trump had sent me to Buffalo, I do think

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if I were to participate and take that money, I

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would at least have responsibility towards the comedy to criticize

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the Trump administration or Israel, or really speak my mind

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on things that I think deserve criticism.

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To Marcos Rasi's debut special Fief of Joy, is out

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In other news, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert went on

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each other show. During that appearance, Colbert revealed how he

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found out about Jimmy's suspension. There's a clip from the

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night this all happened. Colbert's handed a phone while sitting

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at his own desk. He stares at the message for

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a long moment. He puts his feet up on the

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desk and continues to read, Okay, Jimmy Kimmel show has

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been pulled indefinitely by ABC. Colbert tells his studio audience, Wow,

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hold on one second. I'm gonna go find out what

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this is about, and walks off stage. Colbert explained to

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kim Ol the text didn't tell me why you'd been suspended.

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He then jokingly added, I generally assumed it was your fault.

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I know you well enough to know that. Colbert explained

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how he found out about his own show ending. He

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got a call from his manager, James baby dollal Dixon.

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Dixon said, Hey, I need to talk to you for

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fifteen minutes after the show. Colbert's like, wow, five minutes

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on the phone with Baby Dolls. It's like an hour,

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So fifteen minutes in person, what the hell's this about?

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So I said to my wife, Hey, i'll be home

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a bit later. I got to talk to Baby for

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fifteen minutes. I come home two and a half hours

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later and I walk in and she goes, what happened?

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Did you get canceled? And I said, yes, I did.

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Kim Ole said that Dixon knew the show's ending for

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a week but didn't want to upset Colbert while he

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was on Vicier. Colbert said he originally didn't want to

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tell the staff until after summer break, but his wife

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came with him to work the next day. She knew

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he wouldn't be able to hold back the news. Colbert explained,

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by the time I got some of my offices, I've

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swept through my shirt because I didn't want to know

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anything my staff didn't know. I said, I'm going to

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tell my staff today. But then we couldn't do a

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show if I told them, because then everybody'd be bummed

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out and I'd be bummed out. So Colbert did the

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show and then tell the audience to stay put. Then

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they recorded that new top. Colbert explains, my stage manager goes, oh, no,

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we're done, Steve, and I said, nope, there's one more

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act of the show. Please don't let the audience leave,

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and he goes, no, boss, I got to run the

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show here and we're done everything. And I said, I'm

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aware of that, and I'm here to tell you there's

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one more act of the show. So I went backstage

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and I said to the crew, everyone get on zoom.

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I told everybody as briefly as I could so they

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wouldn't find out about it on air. Boy, that's tough.

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That is tough, Steven. And then I went back out

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on stage to tell the audience on camera. I was

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so nervous about doing it right because there was nothing

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in the prompter. I was just speaking off the cuff.

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I had to restart twice, and the audience thought it

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was a bit and started channing, you can do it,

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because I always messed up on the sentence where I

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told him it was happening. Kim All described how he

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found out about his own suspension. He said, it was

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about three We tap our show at four thirty m.

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In my office type being ways the usually do I

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get a phone call. It's ABC. They say they want

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to talk to me. This is unusual. He went to

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the bathroom to find a private space. I'm on the

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phone with ABC executives and they say, listen, we want

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to take the temperature down. We're concerned about where you're

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going to say to night. We decided the best route

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is to take the show off the air. Tonight, kim

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Well went back to his office and told his producers

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I thought it was over. I'm never coming back on

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the air. Kimmell shared how he found out about Colbert's story.

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Kimmell was at the No King's protest march with his

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family and said, I was absolutely shocked. It's not right.

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Colbert said, it's nice to me to say it's their ball.

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They could take it home if they want. Kimmell said,

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they don't have any balls. Steven, let's be honest. A

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nice set up and punched there seth Myers, also stopped

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by the taping late Nighter, explained they did adjust the

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taping of the various shows. Colbert had the option to

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slide his start time back if kim got delayed. They

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did run into an ambient electronic tone interrupted the Colbert

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interview enough to stop the taping. In the end, everything

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was okay, okay, I've got more news for you, Mark Marin.

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I mentioned yesterday about the Judd Appatel clip show episode.

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I actually was in the car and had some free time.

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Well wasn't free time. I had a drive to a

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doctor's appointment. But that's what passes for free time lately. Anyway,

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I got to listen to the Maron episode It's really good.

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Jud brought a bunch of clips that he was into

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and played them from Mark Maron who reacted to them.

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And I really enjoyed that episode. So check that out.

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And John mulaney in the news he has partnered with Years,

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a non alcoholic beer brewed in the Midwest. Together, they

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kicked off Sober October by announcing that John mullaney has

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officially partnered with the brand. That's right, you know, added

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to the legion of cool comedians that were celebrating this week.

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Inspired by his own journey and his love for the

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non alcoholic beer, John mulaney brings his signature humor and

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authenticity to Years at a pivotal moment of growth and expansion.

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We're told via press release, Mallennie's connection to the brand

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started simply he got a sample from friends, tried it

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and loved it, and began drinking it regularly, even sharing

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it on the set. That genuine enthusiasm made him a

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true partner, not just a spokesperson. We even get a

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quote from John Mulaney. Years actually taste like beer, which

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is a relief because that's kind of the point. Years

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feels like a beer you reach for in a cooler

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in a driveway, watching someone who won't get a gas

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grill try to like the Coohles like me. It's completely

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and totally Midwestern, but might appeal to a fancy city crowd.

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Simply put, Years feels like the first beer you've ever had.

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It's authentic, and authenticity takes years. No song today, but

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on gossip Corner, Rob Schneider was spotted at two restaurants

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in Sue Falls. One of these places is called Chef

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Lances on Phillips and on Facebook, Chef Lances on Phillips

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posted last Friday night, Rob Schneider and six of his

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friends try to walk in, and he did. Chef Lances

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on Phillips. He didn't make a reservation and we were

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completely full. Sadly, we had to send him over to

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see our good friends at Ironwood Steakhouse. Luckily they were

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able to accommodate his group. The moral of this story is,

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even if you're Rob Schneider, if you don't have a

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reservation on a Friday or Saturday night, you're likely not

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getting a table boy that's some flex. They're making a

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Simpsons movie, Johnny Mack. Why, I don't know, dear listener.

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I can't explain this either. People aren't going to the theater.

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You want me to go to the theaters to see The

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Simpsons two when I can sit home.

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I have.

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First of all, I've got like the first seven seasons

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on DVD up and the DVD closet from that was

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the thing. Now I can't strain them because we all

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cancel Disney Plus. Right, you don't have Disney Plus, do

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you listen? You better not have Disney Plus. If I

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come to your house and you have Disney Plus and

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you're supporting fascism and you're watching Simpsons episodes, maybe that's

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why we have to go to the theater, right, because

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we all love the Simpsons, but we don't want to

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support Disney Plus. But we'll go to the theater and

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Disney will get our money. Anyway, No, that doesn't work. Look,

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we're not going to see The Simpsons two in the theaters. Okay. Now,

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it doesn't come out until July twenty third, twenty twenty seven.

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A lock it happened by then, we could have no

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late night shows. There could be seven new ones. Who

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even knows what will happen. But your question to me

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is why are they making a Simpsons movie? And my

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answer is I don't know. Now. If we weren't all

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boycotting Disney Plus, we could all sit home and watch

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thirty five seasons of The Simpsons at home, or we

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could go to the theater and spend twenty dollars to

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watch the Simpsons. I can't explain it. But luckily we're

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all boycotting Disney, Hulu, Disney Plus and everything. Or you

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do support fascism. Kevin Hart, He's going to be at

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the Riod Comedy Festival. He's working with Drewski on a

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new film titled Live Stream from Hell. Heart explains that

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his friends are going to be movie stars. You know

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what's the best way to show it. It's to do

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something with them. When we put something together, we'll drop

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a teaser. We're not done yet. We're gonna show the

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world what we're working on. We get a little long here.

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Let's see what do I need to tell you about today?

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I need to tell you about Ian Bagg versus the

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government that's on the eight hundred pound guerrilla YouTube channel up.

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I left myself a note out today, don't bump, okay,

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I have to tell you about a new podcast that

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teaches British comedy to Americans. This one is called All

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British Comedy Explained. We're told this is a podcast for

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anyone who loves to listen to the history of British

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TV and laugh along, et cetera, et cetera. The theme

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of the first season is Landmarks. They are Monty Python's

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Flying Circus, the Young Ones, not only but also the

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goon show, Victoria Scene on TV, the Office, the British

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One the Day today and I'm sorry, I haven't a clue,

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So that's out today. It is called All British Comedy Explained.

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I've got a story about Jay Leno. I'm not talking

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about that guy today. I got way too much, probably

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commented on Late Night or something, but I'll get to

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that over the weekend. That guy. All right, that's enough

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for today. That's your comedy news. Appreciate you all. A

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lot of new listeners. The numbers are seriously up by

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a third. And that's not just downloads because I put

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out a million episodes. That's like new people listening. So

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welcome aboard. Thank you. I personally, I think the show's

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been really good the last two weeks. I feel like

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I've had my fastball. It will calm down, it will

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be quiet candidly. I already recorded Columbus Day Weekend because

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I've taken a couple of days off there. So you

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know those episodes, our Johnny Mack throw and Heat, they're

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perfectly fine episodes. Sometimes you get a perfectly fine episode,

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especially on a weekend. I'm not gonna be su you know,

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sometimes they do other things, So Columbus Day Weekend, I'm

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gonna do something else. But in the meantime, I can

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tell you tomorrow is gonna be really good because, among

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other topics, we'll be getting into or Pete Davidson, whose

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father was killed a nine to eleven and he's performing

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at the Rion Comedy Festival. So if nothing else, I'll

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probably comment about that. See you tomorrow,