July 29, 2024

Bill Maher on Jerry Seinfeld's acting

Show Notes
Transcript

00:00 Introduction and Bill Maher's Comedy Insights
01:08 Patton Oswalt's Seinfeld Experience
02:03 Dane Cook on the Comedy Industry
02:58 Pete Correale's Advice for Aspiring Comics
03:45 Sebastian Maniscalco's Showmanship
06:31 Sam Morril on Comedy Specials and Platforms

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello Chunny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Happy Monday. Bill Maherr maybe a professional comedian, but he

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acknowledged that Malcolm McDowell is a better comic actor than

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he has. Mar said, great actors do great with comedy

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because they play the reality of the situation. If it's

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written well, that's enough to get the laugh. Mar says

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of himself, I was just a guy who knew how

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to get a laugh, as a comic does. I could

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do sitcoms and light comedy. McDowell got it. Mar says

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as an actor, Mar was like Seinfeld, noting that the

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show Seinfeld was brilliantly written. But as for Jerry's acting,

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he was even worse than me. He'd crack up in

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his own scenes and you could see it on his face.

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McDowell's that's why we loved him. Mars said. Part of

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the charm was the guy was like, I'm not even

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going to pretend to be an actor. They then talked

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about Gary Shanling said Gary was a great guy, but added, look,

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you can only get so close to Shandling. McDowell said,

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isn't it the same with you? Though? Bill maher the

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same with me, Mar said, not me. I let lots

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of people in as far as you go. Speaking of Seinfeld,

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Patton Oswald appeared in the nineteen ninety four Seinfeld episode

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of The Couch. He played an employee of the video

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store where George tries to rent the movie adaptation of

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Truman Capodi's Breakfast to Tiffany's Oswalt's character clerk informs George

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the tape has been rented and refuses George's request to

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call up the renter and ask them to return it.

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Patton explains it was his first acting gig ever. Larry

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David later told him why he was cast on the show. Apparently,

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during his audition, Patten's customer service instincts kicked in. He

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tells the story. I didn't realize he did this, but

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I subconsciously started looking around for what other employee can

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I pass this guy on to? Because I'd worked in

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retail for so many years, and that's what you do

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when you have a bad customer, You say, who do

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I give this guy to? And Larry David thought, oh,

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I love that he didn't get rich off a Seinfeld.

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He says, it got me my after membership, but then

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the money I made went right in to pay my

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after fee. It had no impact financially or theme wise.

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The Montreal Cozette spoke to Dane Cook. A lot of

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people from the Dane Cook generation have gotten out of comedy.

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I know a lot of people who were new when

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I started at Serius XM are no longer doing it.

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It's so weird to me. Dane says, don't ever believe

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a comedian who says they're leaving because they want to.

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I don't believe any comic is ever happy about putting

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down their mic. I think there's something about a comedian

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always wanting to observe and a report and a lash

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out and say the thing that everyone else is scared

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to say. I always want to see a comedian keep

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that spike in their hands. That's what I want to

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continue doing for the next phase of my comedy career.

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Comedy has gotten easier in the last year or two,

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especially in the States. Comedy went around the corner from

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utter cancelation for saying something'sposedly out of bounds to audiences

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deciding they don't want homogenized crap anymore, they want a

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little danger. I actually think we're in a comedy resurgence.

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Now I'm hearing comic saying anything and everything and pushing

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the limits a little bit more. It's not about trying

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to break the law. It's about bringing that little ding boy.

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I hope we get the danisance here. I'm looking forward

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to it. Pete Corielly, friend of mine. He spoke to

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the digital colonel. No, there's no digital kernel. Again. Sometimes

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I choose not to make the edit. What would the

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digital colonel be? It's the digital journal, to which Pete

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Corioley had advice for aspiring young comics and said, do

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I have a I do have a half, asked Pete Corioley,

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But I don't feel like doing it. I basically have

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to get down and say man like, hey, what's up man?

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Pete said, you have to have such an incredible passion

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to do this. If you don't love doing it, don't

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look for success. The commitments through the roof and the

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rejection is heavy. The people that have made it, including myself,

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cannot see a life without doing it. If you don't

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feel that way about it, do something else. It's a calling. Also,

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talk about your life because nobody else can steal that.

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Don't curse because it handcuffs you, even though I curse

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all the time, And then Pete laughed at that he

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does curse all the time. Sebastian Maniscalco he does a

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podcast with the aforementioned Pete Corioley. He's on a forty

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seven city tour called it Ain't Right, and he's added

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bells and whistles for arena crowd. Sebastian says, I've always

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liked being a showman. I grew up with lots of

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bells and whistles when it came to going shows like

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Motley Crupser Michael Jackson, so I always loved the spectacle

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of it. Although this is not music, I not only

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wanted to give the people a night of laughter, but

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something to look at. Otsco at Kotska down in Australia.

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The Sydney Morning Harold to caught up with her. They write,

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She's known for a lot of things. An appearance. Her

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ink black razor sharp bowl cut, perfected in twenty seventeen,

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is a throwback to the hairstyle she had as a

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child in Japan. When she performs live, fans often turn

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up wearing bowlcut tribute weeks. She says, comedy really is

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a cult and then says I'm just kidding. The Sydney

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Morning Harold was curious, is it a wig? She says, no,

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I'm embracing the weirdo. That's what's happening. My main motivation

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in performing and doing comedy is for people to not

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feel alone anymore. A big part of it is to

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talk about things that are hard to talk about, like

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mental illness. It's also about making people laugh a lot.

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I was a very quiet kid. I was very shy

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for the most part, but I was learning at home

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the way people communicate comedically. It was very animated. I

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didn't dare try that at school, though at school you're

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supposed to be cool. Wasn't until years later, after i'd

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and practicing in the comfort and privacy in my home

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that I finally came out and try to be funny.

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At age seventeen, a fellow church goer gave her a

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DVD copy of Margaret Show's two thousand and two comedy

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special Margaret Show Notorious Show. Osco said, I've never heard

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of stand up comedy. I had no idea it was

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even a job. In college, a boyfriend suggested she try it.

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She did some open mics eventually got an HBO comedy special.

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She says, when you're trying to find your voice, you're

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trying to figure out who you are, you should go

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for the thing that you've been trying to run away

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from the most, because it's possible you're in denial of

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who you really are. I was afraid to wear bright

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colors and stand out and rock this haircut that I

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think is actually very artful in chic and I love,

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but as a kid, you're made fun of for it.

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So now I'm finally embracing all the things that made

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me feel like fake or an outsider the things that

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actually make me feel good. It was during a pandemic

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I really embraced this aircut, my brand of comedy, the

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way a joke, and finally talking about my mom's mental illness.

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It took the world to shut down and being forced

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to look inward. I'm not academic, I'm not organized. I'm

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very unapologetically someone who makes mistakes and I have to

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fail to learn. Check out her a special. She is fantastic.

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She's one of my favorites. I like her a lot.

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Her new show Full Grown is about figuring out what

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being an adult is Otsko says it's sillier and funnier

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than The Intruder because it's exploring an even deeper side

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of me. It's talking about how you make friends as

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an adult. It's about me and my husband and my

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abilities as a human person. It's about realizing that maybe

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you'll never be fully grown. The more people talk, the

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more stories are out there, the more people feel seen.

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It's finding your community. We're all not normal. My fans

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are fellow weirdos, and I love them. Deadline asked Sam Morrel.

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Unlike many comics, you've had the backing of major distributors

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for most of your specials, first with Comedy Central, now

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Netflix and Amazon. Sam said, God bless Comedy Central for

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having interest in me, but I may as well have

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flushed my special down the toilet with how many people

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saw it. You do feel pretty discouraged when you work

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that hard in your first hour and it's like nowhere

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people couldn't even watch it. That drove me crazy. The

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first half hour I thought was really good, so I

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thought it was about time. In my mind, I wasn't like, Wow,

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they gave out a bunch and I thought I should

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have gotten one. Then for the second Hour. I only

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got it because Amy Schumer produced it. I don't think

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they would have given me an hour otherwise. And same

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goes for Mark Norman. I don't think they were particularly

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just sing us until we had that, and then the

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next one I put on their YouTube, so I don't

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feel like I had their support. As for Netflix, I

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was pretty damn late on Netflix too. I don't think

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I was on any of them early. With Amazon, they

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actually gave me a respectable money offer, and for me,

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I had made enough specials on a budget. I was like,

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I want this to look awesome. These things live forever,

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and I put so much work into them. I want

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the set design and the crew to really reflect that,

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and I thought they did a great job. Deadline followed

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up asking about the difference between that kind of thing

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and YouTube. Sam said, I couldn't spend what I spent

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on this on YouTube. It would have been too much money.

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My YouTube one is very minimalist and simplistic, and I

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think it works for it. But also I think now

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YouTube is oversaturated. Boy, we're hearing a lot of that lately, right.

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I think I mentioned a story like that yesterday and

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maybe one last week too. Sam says, I think YouTube

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is oversaturated. I think there's always going to be problems.

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Joe List got demonetized on YouTube. Really why Joe List

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said it? Fahim Onwar. I mean, it's pretty fed up

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that social media platform have this playbook that they keep changing.

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I can't say I believe he's saying the sea word here.

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I can't say the sea word question mark from Johnny Mack.

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I'm not saying I want to, but I'm writing for

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the algorithm. You're now policing language, and I think it's

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really dangerous for comedy and comedy specials. That upsets me.

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That's the way we're going with social media. They're policing

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more and more language because that's where the ad sale

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dollars are, and before you know, it's going to be

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worse than bleeping fallon Wow, a dig at Jimmy Fallon.

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The Toronto Guardian spoke to comedian Most CineMo. How would

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you describe your comedy style? Most said fierce, brave, smart, philosophical,

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intelligent and human. My bad. No, I'm still very much

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a newborn baby when it comes to all this. But

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if I had to describe my style right now, I'd

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say I try to be relatable, very personal for the

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most part, and happy vibes. I might start getting goofy

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and more confusing as the years go by. I feel

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it coming. You never know, though, I never want to

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force anything. Who are your influences, he says, Kevin Hart,

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Dave Chappelle, Sheen Gillison, maybe even Chris Dalia. Be careful

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not loss on there. Don't get two influenced. Google it.

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Who's your favorite comedian? Growing up? Kevin Hart was the

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one who got me to know this. If Kevin Hart

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does not exist, then I don't know if i'd be

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here right now. I also love Dave Chappelle and Bill

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Burr pretty early on. Who's your favorite comedian now? Dave Chapelle,

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Kevin Hart, Louis ck, Tony Roberts, Sebastian, Manascalco. Those are

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my top five personal favorites of all time in that order. Okay,

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let's read it again. Chappelle, Hart, ck Tony, Roberts, Sebastian.

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But I love so many comedians. Joe List, in my opinion,

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is the best comedian on earth at this moment. Really,

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Joe List. A lot of Joe List mentions today. Maybe

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it was demonetized. I heard, and that's your comedy news

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