Aug. 6, 2025

Bill Burr's Hot Take on Comedy and Politics

Bill Burr's Hot Take on Comedy and Politics
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The popularity of Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix, Bill Burr's interview with Vulture addressing his comedy specials and political views, and Jon Stewart's criticism of Jay Leno's partisanship in late-night comedy. The episode also covers recent comedy special reviews including Mark Maron's and Dusty Slay's new releases, Colin Jost and Pete Davidson's legal troubles regarding their ferry purchase, and insights from comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Additionally, the passing of Loni Anderson from WKRP in Cincinnati is acknowledged.

00:00 Adam Sandler's Netflix Success
00:50 Bill Burr's Take on Comedy and Politics
04:33 Jon Stewart and Late Night Politics
12:13 Comedy Specials and Reviews
15:23 Edinburgh Fringe and Comedy Scene
18:46 In Memoriam: Loni Anderson

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Callarogas Shock Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily comedy who said, Look,

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I've tried. I did everything I could. But if you

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guys are gonna watch Adam Sandler comedies on Netflix, they're

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gonna keep making them. Happy Gilmore I forty six point

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seven million views, slightly more people consume that than consume

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this podcast. Forty six point seven million views in just

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three days. That made Happy Gilmore Too, the biggest US

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opening weekend ever for a Netflix film and Adam Sandler's

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best Netflix debut. So if you're gonna watch it, and

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Netflix is going to pay Adam Sailor to make these,

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they're gonna keep making them. He's not gonna make uncut

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gems too. If you keep watching this crap. People are

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starting to pay a lot of attention to Bill Burr's

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the interview with Vulture from last week on The Good

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One podcast, Burst said specials aren't just special. Some of

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them are transitionals. So someone will be like, ah, I

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really like Paper Tiger, but then Red Rocks wasn't quite

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as good. It was more of a transitional special because

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I was in the middle of undoing a lot of

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stuff about myself. There's specials where you're catching somebody sort

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of midstry. They haven't plent of that foot or where

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they're going to be. So I'm excited about my new

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hour that I'm writing because this one is more of

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my self examination. But my worldview is apolitical and it's

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trying to bring people together. I'm trying to do the

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opposite of what's going on there because I feel like

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we're going to have a civil war if we're not careful.

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When I was growing up, everybody hated the Russians. Now

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people hate California or Florida or New York at Texas

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and it's like, geist we're on the same team. People

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gonna have different opinions. I don't know. I think what

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this country needs now is a leader. At that point,

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the Good One podcast asked, are you the leader? No, no, no,

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no no. I'm talking about politics and this whole leading

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by dividing. That's we're going off for the last few decades.

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It's going to pull a country apart if they're not careful.

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Lever of corruption with all these politicians and how much

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money they're making from the people, poisonou food supply. I mean,

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are they going to hook up with the pharmaceutical people.

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Like your job's to go out here and eat poison

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and get sick by the drugs. Say live long enough,

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make a claim, haven't denied after you paid insurance, then

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die and I've all that dead passed on to the people.

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And I can tell you right now that people doing

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that are not illegal aliens. Bill is not happy with

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Ben Shapiro saying that Burr has become woke. He doesn't

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even know what the word means. His definition awoke. As

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white liberals, they don't even know what it was. They

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just took the word from black people. It's the worse

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thing about our people. Not only we take from other cultures.

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We don't even take the time to understand the definition.

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You want there to be annoyed so you can have

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something to talk about, and then he can make money

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off dividing his own country. Those people treason us what

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they do. The fact is it worked for what his

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goal was, for it to become a thing online. We're

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a certain portion of the right complain about how you're

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woke racist, they're racists. Let me drop the half ass

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impression here, because this is the next point, is that

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Bill Burr says, they send pictures of monkeys to me

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and my wife. They're effing horrible people and their cowards.

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They never say it to your face. There's an ugliness

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out there right now where if you're a racist, if

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you're an anti semi, if you're a psychoanationalist and you

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want a softball interview, there's podcast out there where you

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can get one, and they'll laugh at you for your

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bad jokes and give you the pass. There's a really

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ugly thing going on out there, and we've already seen

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what it destination. It's not the way to go. Then,

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Vulture said, people on the left have been really embracing

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you and sharing videos of you. Burr said, no, it's

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not true, dude, it's not true. It's common sense on

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both sides. We keep doing this stuff where we're like, oh,

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the right's all f and racist, and dude, the left

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is some of the most Most of the left feels

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like if they have a black friend, they don't have issues.

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I'm oud of that. I don't want to hear any

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more left and right crap. They're all e f and nuts.

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Me too. Where it went from people shouldn't sexually assault

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people absolutely too. I don't like where you're talking about

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in your act was nuts. It was McCarthyism on the left,

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and the left is so fed up that the cycle

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right thinks they're in the middle, and they're not. They're

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out of their f and minds. We're continued and I travel, dude,

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and I'm telling you people who lean right and left

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or chill and they're just sitting in the middle. Like,

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when is everyone going to calm the f down? When

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is this going to go back to live and let live?

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People from construction workers to hairy leg chicks with nose

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rings going, hey, I like what you're saying out there

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about these billionaires, because that's the problem. The other problem

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is people make it like it's political, like if you

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vote for this color tie, those billionaires or somehow going

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to grow a heart, and it's just not the case.

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It isn't. That's on the Good One podcast Vultures podcast.

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I'll continue to pick away at that one. Let me

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go forward promote Saturday. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast

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and I had a long conversation. I haven't checked with Mike.

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I imagine it'll be The Letterman Podcast on Friday, but

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it will be this podcast on Saturday, and we talked

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about all things Late Night. Very good conversation. We wrapped up.

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We'd gone just about an hour and a half and

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I couldn't believe how long we'd been talking. I can

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talk to that guy forever. John Stewart on his own

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podcast was giving Jay Leno some crap, and that's one

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of the topics I got into with Mike Chisholm on

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The Letterman podcast. John Stewart got annoyed at Jay Leno's

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comments about, you know, being less partisanship in Late Night.

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Stuart said, this is them trying to police and create

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rules they would never follow. That's how Fox is popular.

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That's how any of these people, you know, they all

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talk about Gutfeld. By the way, Gutfeld on Fallon Tomorrow night,

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they'll talk about Gutfeld. It's the most popular. I'm struggling

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here because I'm trying not to slip back into Burr.

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I have to remember I'm doing John Stewart here, or

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I'm not trying to do anyone right now, but that

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burricades I'm kind of locked into it. Let me take

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a breath and just try and speak normally. John Stewart said,

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that's how any of these people, you know, they all

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talk about Gutfeld. It's the most popular. He's not popular

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because he's a both sides guy. He's relentless, and after

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a day of watching Fox News and being bathed in

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their very purposeful propaganda, it's a great way to top

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off the night. If you look at the social media

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profile of all the people to complain about the left

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wing bias, they're all right wing influencers. They all make

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their money. Their entire economy is based on how willing

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they are to attack and to fame and to crush liberals.

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The whole thing is bs. Have you met the chairman

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of the FCC, He's like crap poasting Colbert. He's probably

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right now. Want to search for more right wing billionaires

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that can buy out more of these properties, because there's

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going to be an acquisition in Murger Spree for these

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kind of things. Mark Maren had some opinions on podcasts.

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Mark Maron was on CNN, and I'll let Mark speak for himself.

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You know, we were there at the beginning, and it

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is a media that anyone can really do, that can

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thrill their hat in the ring. And I think as

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it's evolved and into video, you know, people have been

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able to set up their own little show business empires.

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So I mean, like any medium, it can be used.

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For bad or evil.

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So I mean, you know, what are you going to do?

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But it is the way the media landscape is working.

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I look, there's a sort of cultural malignancy to it

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in some ways, but in some areas people are doing

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really interesting stuff.

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I have been enjoying the heck out of a Dusty

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Sligh's opinions about country music Rolling Stone as Dusty Sligh,

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what do you think makes for a good country song?

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Dusty said, sometimes it's a good story, but I think

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voice plays a big, big role. I love a good

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deep voice minus shot right now because I just talked

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to Mike Chisholm for an hour and a half. Dusty said,

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I have a joke where I say, a good country song,

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we'll have you reminiscing about times you never had. And

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I think about that Brooks and Dunn song Brand New Man,

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where he's talking about how basically he's been running around

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while he's women and how he's met a woman and

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changed his life. I was probably eight years old, ready

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to settle down. I was like, I need to change

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my ways and I've never even done anything, but I

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think that's what good country does. Dusty talked about the

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Brooks and Dunn song hard Working Men. Dusty said, I

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love the song and I'm listening and basically he's complaining

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about how he can't get ahead in life. He's working

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so hard he can't get ahead. But he reveals to

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you on the song why he can't get ahead. And

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this guy, this character I feel like they're writing about

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a character, is a guy who's complaining about how he

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never has any money. But if you look at his

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own personal finances, you're like, well, you're spending all your money,

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and you know how you're doing it. Speaking about spending money,

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Colin Chost and Pete Davidson spent it on a ferry.

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The New York Post reported that Jost, Davidson and their partner,

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comedy club owner Paul Atalia Mayo, thirteen five hundred dollars

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to a downtown law firm. That law firm filed a

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lawsuit something something to do with dockage and twing contracts

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from when the comedians and their partner A BoNT the

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original ferry. A source told The New York Post Jostin Davidson,

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we're unaware of this as they don't handle the day

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to day business operations of the Ferry. Out on Amazon

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Prime Video today, The Pickup, starring Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy.

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The log line a routine cash pickup takes a wild

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turn when mismatched armored truck drivers Russell and Travis or

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ambush by ruthless criminals led by savvy mastermind Zoe played

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by Keky Palmer. As chaos erupts, the unlikely duo must

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navigate danger, clashing personalities, and one very bad day that

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keeps spiraling out of control. The Daily be Sure didn't

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think the movie was good. Their review said, it's been

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decades since Eddie Murphy made an honest to goodness funny

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movie Wait till they find out about Adam Zandler, and

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The Pickup won't break that dispiriting streak. It's going straight

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to Prime video, although in a just world it would

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just be released on DVD and sent directly to a

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big box retailer's bargain bin. This heist comedy is a

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half baked throwaway that's so busy staging third rate action

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sequences that it forgets to concoct a single passable joke. Wow,

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I can't believe Pete day Vidson got the role of

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not Sandler. Most of the reviews I've seen are in

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that vein Late Night are reporting the Daily Show is

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off for five weeks. The Late Nighter has a take.

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I have a slightly different take. Late Nighter says, though

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the timing is shure to raise eyebrows. It sure did

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you know Stephen Colbert and all that. If you're this

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far into this podcast, you know what's going on there.

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Dosi Leidak on last Thursday show said, just to let

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you guys know, we're going on a production break for August,

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which was planned months and months ago. So don't freak out,

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have a great summer, and we'll see you in September

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when we can all freak out together. Late Nighter says

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it's not the first time the show did that. When

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Trevor was hosting in twenty twenty one, they took three

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months off between the end of the Daily Social Distancing

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the upcoming season three episode of Elsbeth, which runs on CBS.

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Stephen Colbert will play a talk show host. In the

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October twelfth episode, Stephen plays the host of a fictional

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you believe would have complimented the Python's ensemble? Great question,

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royalties from spam a lot. Eric Idol said, they get

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more effing money than they've ever been grateful for They

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got effing millions, and they're miserable and horrible and bitchy

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about it. I spent twenty years working for Python and

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Mark Maren's new one is fantastic. It feels like a

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theater and a comedian has something to say, that's Mark

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Maren's special. Oh, I got to add it to my

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rankers here. Let me open up that file. I'm going

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to put it at number four overall, and it's the

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best special of the year. So my top tier right

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at five. Number six in the stand up tier would

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list some other day. But Maren, I thought was just fantastic.

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a good special. My hesitation is I think he had

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Bert Kraser, so that would be my third best special

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of the year and the seventh funniest thing overall. Dusty's

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just doing ratitat jokes. I like that style. The problem

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forty minutes specials. But very very very good. Again, the

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Netflix stuff in comparison to City HBO stuff. As I

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like a lot of them on Netflix. Feel like somebody

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the shelf. It just doesn't feel as big, but it's

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not like this special. Three and a half minutes in,

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made it maybe five six minutes. Maybe that's an unfair review,

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but dude, we got a lot of things to watch

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out there, and I've only got limited time. Vier was

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just on somebody's podcast. Who was I listening to? Was

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it good one? Yeah? Maybe it just good one? Sorry.

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Whatever I was to do was a really interesting interview

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about the special, but just as a special, just wasn't

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feeling it. Some things I am digging not Comedy Department

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wrestling fan. I watched it like every week when the

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Rock was red hot twenty five years ago. But I

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put on the new thing they are promoting. That's like

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how the sausage is made at wrestling events, really really good.

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I'm all into that one. That's the one that if

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shut up about. So some other things for you to watch.

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Lloyd Evans wrote about the Fringe and the Spectator. Now,

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if you follow this podcast, no conversation about the Fringe

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is like, the Fringe is awesome, you should go and

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it's a good time and everybody's happy. It just seems

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like the Fringe is making everyone miserable. Lloyd Evans writes,

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every day my inbox fills with stories of panic, madness

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and despair. The Edinburgh fringes upon us and the publicists

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are firing off emails big and critics to cover their shows. Now,

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he comments about how comedy has changed. They're sure is

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full of performers advertising their mental disorders as if they

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were badges of achievement. The fringe once had a sense

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of freedom and danger. I used to head for a

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crimp little basement just off the Royal Mile, where comedians

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performed from noon until midnight. No tickets, A bucket was

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passed around. At the end of the show, comedians showed up.

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They delivered sixty minutes of chit chat and verbal sword play.

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Often this involved singing out members of the crowd for

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good natured abuse. Anyone with a sensitive temperament or heaven forbid,

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an emotional disorder stayed away. There were no rules or

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special protections other than criminal law. I was there in

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twenty ten when a comedian lost patience with a drunken

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heckler and head butted him into the floor. After the

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bleeding victim was carried upstairs to a waiting ambulance. The

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next performer was called on the mic because she was

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an American with a delicate Southern accent. Good evening, Edinburgh,

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I had stepped over a pool of fresh blood in

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order to reach the stage. It's that normal in Scotland. Yes,

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this is the fringe we need back, not the one

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we're complaining about. How much the hotel is what Evans

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continues in The Spectator. Back then, the Fringe specialized in

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monologues about mass murderers and war criminals. An actor would

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dress up as say Hitler Stalin or Jeffrey Dahmer deliver

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an hour of bad taste joked to a crowd of

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unshockable punters. That genre seems to have expired yet right

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now the world stage is full of controversial and even

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monstrous characters who are ripe for mockery. The satirists seem uninterested.

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Another casualty is the joke of the Fringe Award, who

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sponsors have withdrawn their support. Last year's winner suggested that

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the pool of talent had all but dried up. The

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winner was I was going to sail around the globe

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and the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it. Lloyd

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Evans right, it's not great, but it's better than the

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winner from the previous year, which was I started dating

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a zoo keeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.

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And he goes on and on the premise the Fringe

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used to be more fun, I've never been voicemag dot

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uk has been profiling some of the performers. They caught

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up with cabaret comedian Scott Derwood, who says his new show,

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Apocalypse Cabaret Songs for the End of the World is

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about a karaoke jockey who finds themselves the sole survivor

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of an apocalypse and commits to singing every song on

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the sign up list. What are you excited about? First,

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the opportunity needs to do the same show twenty eight

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days in a row is huge because an extended run

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like that is so physically exhausting it knocks you out

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of your head, letting your art brain mak intuitive decisions

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rather than always deferring to one's thinking mind. The second

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is Edinburgh's like going to camp where everyone shares your

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same obsession, and that obsession is live shows. Best advice

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he got about the Fringe assume the weather every day

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is going to be crappy, and if the sun ever

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does come out, you'll be so excited you won't know

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what to do with yourself. You can check out that

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show nightly at the diary room at the Underbelly. Nine

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to twenty pm. Troida went to see Ben Pope's The

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cuts They write for reasons it'd be a spoiler to explain.

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Ben Pope finds himself almost ungooglable. The topic is about circumcision.

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Troda writes what shines out most or the charmingly funny

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vocabulary he deploys and the quirky mental pictures he conjures

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up that exquisitely define a microphone, for example, or a CD.

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And I'm a day late on this, but I do

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want to acknowledge the passing of Lonnie Anderson. If you

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are of a certain age, and if you worked in radio,

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you sure as heck loved WKRP in Cincinnati. Lonnie Anderson's

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Jennifer was the opposite of the dumb blonde stereotype, refusing

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to take dictation, type letters or make coffee. Lonnie Kay

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Anderson was born August fifth, nineteen forty five, was naturally

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dark haired. She said, I love being a brunette. It

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was exotic. People weren't quite sure what nationality I was.

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There was a mystery when acting I could be the

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bad lady. Lonnie Anderson was seventy nine Natural Comedy News

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for today, I'll see tomorrow