Nov. 2, 2025

Bill Burr is mad you're mad about Bill Burr at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Bill Burr is mad you're mad about Bill Burr at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Despite many of his fans and peers making Marge Simpson Face at him,  Bill Burr's reflects on his experience at the Riyad Comedy Festival and his critics, Marc Maron's insights into his time in morning radio, and updates on Netflix's podcast additions. The segment also touches on comedian Stavros Halkias's potential career moves and Jay Leno's decision to avoid buying Ferraris due to dealership practices.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, Johnny mac Take two Today's Daily Comedy News.

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So the first story is Bill Burr talking about the

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Reodd Comedy Festival on his podcast. And I got like

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two minutes into it and I realized my half ass

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Burr I wasn't enunciating enough of the way Burr does

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when he's doing his angry slow burn. Again, if you're

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new to the program, I'm not an impressionist. No really, John,

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we can't tell my half assed impressions are just I'm

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trying to capture someone's cadence, not the voice, but just

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the cadence. Bill said, I'm still thinking about that BS

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from a few weeks ago. It's a bunch of crap.

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That was one of the hardest things I ever to

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keep my mouth shut not trash every one of those.

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And then there's asterisks there. I'm guessing he said a

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holes would be my guess. You may recall people like

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Mark Maron, David Cross, Johnny Mack and others criticized Bill Burr.

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Burr said, I'm looking forward to running a few people. Hey,

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what's the latest you cared about? It's weird all of

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a sudden, you don't care anymore. What happened? You're waving

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your arms up and down. What happened? What should cause

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this month? To help sell whatever project you're on. Let's

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talk some Bretta Canty and a circus that I don't

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go to because of the way they treat the animals.

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And I have a special coming out. I'm gonna find

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the right thing to get sanctimonious about it, to mock

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all of them. Yeah, everything must have cleared up, because

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there's no more chatter. Must have fixed everything. Oh, it's

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gonna be passive, it's gonna be aggressive. So if you

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ever get sick of Hollywood bs and people trying to

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cancel your stand up back. That was the funniest thing too.

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Trumper's acting like they give a hoot about human rights.

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Half assed. Burs A little off today because the voice

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is thin, because I already did an episode. It's the weekend,

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going back to back here voice wears out. Mark Maron

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was on the Bullseye podcast. I haven't listened to the

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whole thing yet, but I did pull the transcript and

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I pulled some clips here. Now, what I found interesting

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was Mark Maron talked about his time doing morning radio

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now earlier in my career in the nineties, I produced

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morning radio in New York City. The hours are horrible.

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Let's listen to Mark Maron talk about it.

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I always like doing morning radio. If it's a good crew,

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it's great and it's fun. And I knew that going

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into America that there are certain morning crews that I

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would do, you know, every year, where I mean, it

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was hard to get up, but if they were in

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it and they were kind of like not trying to

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undermine me, getting into the groove with a good morning

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crew is a blast because and what I learned from

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doing it is that there's so much writing on it.

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You don't you don't want someone to come in there

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and kind of like crap out your show and comedians

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buying large. You don't have a great reputation for doing

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morning radio because they've been up all night, or they're exhausted,

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or they don't care. So a lot of these hosts

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are a little kind of tenuous about how it's going

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to go. But I can talk, so if they're jiving

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on something and we get going, I thought it was

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completely engaging and a lot of fun.

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So I know, for me, that's when I've always been heavy.

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That's when I really put on weight because you're so miserable.

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You're just up and you're fueling yourself on crap. And

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he used to work with this guy Bobby. And Bobby

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would look over at me at seven thirty in the

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morning and go cheeseburger, and I would say yes, because

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I'd been up since three thirty three am was the

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absolute minimum time I could set the alarm, jump in

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a shower, get dressed, hop in my car at a

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press pass so I could actually park on the street.

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In New York City, it would take me thirteen minutes

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to get from Queens to basically Times Square, the city

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that never sleeps. It does sleep between four and five am.

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I mean thirteen minutes from Queens to Times Square. You

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can't do that except at four am. Park in front

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of the building. Then I had to go find newspapers.

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No internet in the nineteen nineties, kids and anyway, So oh,

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you know, you'd be always tired, always miserable, and Bobby

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would go cheeseburger and I would say yes and get

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a cheeseburger and fries. Now you're like, that's not a

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healthy breakfast, John, And I'm not saying it is a

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healthy breakfast, because breakfast was the bagels that the rest

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of the crew would get around eight thirty eight forty

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five no, no, no, no. Cheeseburger and fries was fourth meal,

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and that's how you put twenty pounds on.

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really adjust to it. And I really had to blast

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my brain, you know, with sugar and caffeine, and that

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went on every day. I don't know what kind of

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damage I did to myself, but it was really just

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M and m is and Dunkin Donuts coffee.

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So I mentioned I would have to find the newspapers. Now,

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ostensibly we had the newspapers delivered, but if they didn't come,

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I had to go out on the streets of Times Square,

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New York City in the nineties, which wasn't quite a

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fun zone that it is now, and find a newspaper

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because otherwise how would we know what was happening. I mean,

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we had wire services in all, but if you wanted

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to really have the vibe for New York City, you

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needed a newspaper. And then sometime between four and five am,

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I'd have to quickly read the newspaper, cut out articles

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and leave them for my hosts so he would know

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what's going on. All this happening before five am. So

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it was just just a miserable time. Here's Maren.

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We were getting up much earlier than like just average

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morning crews because we had to, you know, kind of

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correalate the news. So we were getting up at two

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thirty track, you know, getting there by three sometimes, and

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you know, and I was overwhelmed because I'm not a wonk,

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I'm a little out of the loop. I learned a

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lot there. I literally showed up at Air America with

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a Democracy for Dummies book because I felt like I

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was at a disadvantage. And that's true.

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I did want to talk about this one. This came

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up during the week, but you know, the week gets

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busy with the news and there's a little more breathing

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room on the weekends. Deadline wrote about Netflix adding some podcasts.

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They're writing a bunch of shows from the Ringer. The

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ringer is Bill Simmons Company. They're adding the Bill Simmons Podcast,

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which is owned by Spotify, so this is a deal

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with Spotify, and Deadline noticed that the announcement doesn't include

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a single comedy title, given Netflix's long established affinity for comedy,

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Deadline Rights. Kill Tony, the self proclaimed number one live

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podcast in the world, lended on Netflix earlier this year

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as part of a three special deal. The first special,

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Kill Tony, Killer Be Killed outperformed nearly every other standup

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special released on Netflix in the first half of twenty

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twenty five. According to data pulled from Netflix's recent and

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What We Watched report, eight point eight million views in

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the first three months of the platform. Deadline compared the

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eight point eight to a number like Jimmy Kimmel, who

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averages one point eight five million viewers, or Jimmy Fallon

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one point two to three. Deadline Rights data we pulled

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on the last ten episodes of YouTube's Killed Tony shows

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two point seventy four million viewers an episode. Deadline points

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out that is also far greater viewership than achieved by

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Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. Interesting, now, staying with me

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for this next part Deadline Rights. Historically, Spotify has offered

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no transparency to the public on viewership, but we were

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able to look at the Ringers podcast reach because the

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company just recently changed its polse, starting to display plays

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on episodes, reaching an audience of fifty thousand or more

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for their website. Spotify's play metric reflects the total number

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of times people have actively listened to or watched an episode.

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Deadline Rights, it's unclear what actively means. The writer says

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that bring this up because half of the first late

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of podcasts coming to Netflix not have a publicly available

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Spotify play clount, indicating they reach fewer than fifty thousand

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plays on each of their ten most recent episodes. They

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also point out that the deal does not include a

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good hang with Amy Poehler, despite that routinely cracking a

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million plays on Spotify and well over five hundred thousand

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views on YouTube. Interesting. We'll see what happens there. Vulture

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is a good one. Caught up with Stavros Halkias, who's

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everywhere lately. Vulture said, when someone starts getting heat, their

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team starts thinking of all the other directions they can

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take them. Yep, that does happen. Stavros, Do you have

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any interest in some of the following question Number one

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major brand partnership? Stavro said, it depends. I won't do gambling.

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I want to do crypto. There are things that I

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was advertising and I was like, why am I doing this?

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I hate this stuff, but if it aligns, I'm open

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to it. All right. How about a book? Stavra said,

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before even started doing stand up, I actually really wanted

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to be a writer. I like the personal essay a lot.

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I'd want to do it if it's not a pure

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cynical cash grab. I want to sit in a cabin

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with a typewriter and a card. Again, I want to

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do the whole thing, but it's not at the top

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of my list. How about hosting SNL. Yeah, for sure,

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without question. It's still for some how many people? Your

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first entry to comedy. How about a Marvel movie? Nah,

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I don't think so. How about an Award show. I've

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actually had that thought, and the stress again my chest

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means I should do it. The reason I'm scared of

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it is because I'd be so good at it, and

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I'm like, I don't want to learn a new thing.

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I don't want to do all that work. But yes,

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I'm definitely interested in doing that. And how about a

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reboot of my big fat Greek wedding? He said, Hell

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effing yeah, get me the rights. I'm ready to shoot

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five right now. I got the idea in my head.

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I don't even want to reboot. This would be the

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next one in the franchise. Graham Norton has been named

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Alumni Ambassador to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe thirty five years

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ago he launched his career there. In nineteen ninety one

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he performed Mother Teresa of Calcutta's Grand Farewell Tour at

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the Pleasants Attic. He is now an Ambassador, joining the

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French Society's Honorary President Phoebe waller Bridge to act as

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an advocate for the Festival. Gabe Gibbs will have his

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debut musical comedy special Pick a Lane on Veeps November twelfth.

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That's six West nine East, filmed a Dynasty Typewriter in

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La the special sies, Gibbs sing with two pianos, one

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for comedy and the other four dramatic little boys. He

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goes back and forth between the two and explores topics

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like Fort's Wieners and the downfall of Jared Letto. There

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is a trailer. I pulled the audio and it's too dirty.

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It's about eating body parts in not the first two

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or three body parts you thought of the other one

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that's not gonna fly on this show. How do we

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dust that off? Let's talk to Jay Leno. You know

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that guy, you remember, Jay Leno? He used to host

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the Tonight Show for like what was it like one

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two twenty two years and the guy like thinks you

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know something about late night. This guy, he's the worst.

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He was talking about why his collection of two hundred

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cars doesn't even include a Ferrari. I mean, come on, Jay,

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what are you doing. I host a podcast in my

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basement and I own two Ferraris. Jay Leno said, I

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just never liked dealing with the dealers. I don't want

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to give a guy twenty five grand in an envelope.

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Now what does that mean? Apparently there are a lot

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of hoops for customers to jump through. Some people say

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Ferrari limits who can buy special models, and allegedly blacklist

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people who speak publicly against the brand. So sounds like

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no Ferrari for Jay Leno. But you can borrow one

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of mine. And that is your comedy news for today.

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My voice is giving out. I gotta wrap up. See

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you tomorrow.