June 22, 2025

Bob Odenkirk's reason why you should just leave a fight

Show Notes
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Johnny Mac covers a range of comedy news. Jim Jefferies reflects on his early career and evolving style. Mike Birbiglia shares his thoughts on meeting Pope Francis and finding humor in personal challenges. Jimmy O. Yang discusses his career shift from finance to comedy, influenced by his Chinese upbringing. Bob Odenkirk opens up about his uncertain career path and insights on real versus screen fighting. Iliza Shlesinger announces her European tour inspired by fans. Additionally, Seth Meyers humorously critiques the political impact of SNL, and Ellie Coleman discusses her bold comedic style and controversial jokes.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Jim Jefferies started at age seventeen. In nineteen

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ninety four, he did some open nights in Sydney and

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said two of them went really badly and one of

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them went okay, And in fact one that went badly

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hurt me so much. I thought, this is all I

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ever do in my life. I didn't get back on

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stage until I was twenty. Now it's all I could

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ever do in my life and the only real job

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I've had. I think about it a lot, and I

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do feel really lucky. We all get older, Jim says,

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I still push boundaries, but it's a lot less about

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shock and more about clarity. Now. The funny thing about

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comedy is that it's more universal than people think. People

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everywhere relate to having kids, hating their jobs, worrying about money.

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The accent changes, but the laugh is the same. Mike

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Birbiglia had sold gold Derby about meeting Pope Francis the

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previous pope. Meeting Pope Francis was very moving, and I

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think it was very inspirational. He was a deeply kind,

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loving and compassionate person who wanted change for the Catholic

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and he wanted progressive ideas, bussing gay couples and welcoming

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divorced couples back into the church and all these things.

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He would sort of go, well, of course, but actually

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there's a faction of people who don't want that to

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be the case. And so I say in my special,

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I go, in case you don't know this pope, he's

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pretty good, but only compared to other popes. If you

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met him at a party, you'd be like this guy,

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But compared to popees, he's amazing. Some of the popes

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were literally Nazis, by the way, the Kurd Pope Pope Leo.

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I'm writing a podcast called White Smoke, and we've been

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putting that out seven days a week since Pope Leo

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took over. There is like the podcast is barely religious.

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Like this week alone, we were talking about how Pope

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Leo met al Pacino and how Pope Leo is related

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to Madonna and Justin Bieber and he's a White Sox fan,

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so there's all kinds of fun stuff to talk about

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with Pope Leo. That podcast is called White Smoke. Wherever

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you get your shows for Bigly I said, I feel

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like stand up comedy is always best when it's whatever

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you're obsessed with. In my obsession when I started writing

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this thing was the Good Life. How do you answer

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your child's questions? We don't necessarily know the answers. I

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was really knocking out of the park when she was

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five with the answers, but now that she's eight, I

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don't know all the answers. I don't know how to

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explain drugs and the thing that happened with my dad.

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Her BIG's daughter asked if Grandpa was okay at a stroke,

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and Mike said he didn't know. That's some one was like,

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oh well, let me try to say this on stage

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and see if I can find the comedy in it.

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If you look at all my specials, that's the challenge

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behind each one. How can you take a light threatening

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sleepwalking disorder and make that funny? How can you talk

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about having bladder cancer and make that funny? And it's like,

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if you can, that's the ultimate comedy handshake with the audience,

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and if you can't, then you just have to find

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another topic. I've developed a relationship with my audience where

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I trust them now to be okay. With it, and

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they trust me to take some big swings emotionally. I

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think it's symbiotic at this point, and I think there's

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a degree to which as a comedian, the audience will

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go there. If what you're saying is funny, If it's moving,

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the audience will go there, and if it's boring comedically

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or dramatically, they won't. Jimmy O Yang told The South

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China Morning Post. There's an expectation, especially if you grow

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up in a Chinese family, to go to college, and

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there's only a few majors that are considered legitimate majors

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like doctor lawyer, a can finance. At first, I was

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an engineering major, but then didn't love it. I try

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to find something easier that would also make my dad happy,

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so I chose economics. His dad helped him get an

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internship with Smith Barney. Jimmy says it was like a

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golden ticket. Everybody wants to work for Smith Barney, but

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Jimmy never enjoyed it. He said, when I was a kid,

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I'd build little forts with my chopstick wrappers. He took

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hot jobs, try to make money from his hobbies. He

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worked as a DJ. He got into comedy and said

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I didn't have any stage for it. Although my jokes

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weren't very good in the beginning. I think Hong Kong

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people have a great sense of humor, so I learned

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a lot from that growing up. Of course, my dad,

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he's a very funny, charismatic Shanghai knees man. Bob Odenkirk,

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you have any wisdom for us, Bob tells Esquire. No,

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I do not have worthy wisdom to give anyone. It's

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a strange moment for me. I feel more uncertain than

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I having a long time about who I am, what

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I'm trying to do. I've been out of my element

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for about fifteen years now, starting with Better Call Saul.

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I had to leave this dramatic show and I had

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to learn on the job, and then I did an

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action movie called Nobody. I'm coming to the end of

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a chapter where I redefine myself, but I'm not sure

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what that means. One of my qualities on screen is

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that I'm strangely earnest. My earnestness really doesn't lend itself

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as well to comedy, which is what I've done for

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most of my career. It fits better in a drama.

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One of the weird things about where I am now

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is I don't know what to do next. Where's the

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next load of laundry. There's no laundry to do. I

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didn't deserve half of what I had. You know, I

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can't pretend like I have to engineer some great career.

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I'm so far past anything at any right to dream of.

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So I guess I have to work on myself, which

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is that wonderful thing people do when they have enough

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money and they're honest about the fact that the universe

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has been really good to them, and anything that remains

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that's a discrepancy or an unsettling feeling is all theirs.

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He does have advice about fights. In a real fight,

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I would, upon the advice of every single stunt man

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I've ever worked with, get out of the room as

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fast as I can. Every one of them will tell

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you the first thing you do in a fight is

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get away from the fights. Fights are not fun, and

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they're not good, and almost no one wins. It's not

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a movie. A lot of what you do for screen

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fightings goes against the basic rules of actual fighting. When

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you swing a punch, you go big and wide as

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you can which is not a good idea in a

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real fight, because now you're way open. Lots of slessengers.

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Tour dates include Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Slavinia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.

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Eliza says, I'm very lucky to have fans all over

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the world, so I always get to do Europe. I

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was in Finland, which is an incredible comedy market, and

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these girls came to my meet and greet. They made

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me this really cool card. They kind of look like me,

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and they were like, you should come to Estonia. I

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never thought about a Estonian and b that there would

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be cool girls like that. So I've been working on

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this tour for a few years and I was inspired

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by meeting those really cool girls. I hope they're still

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my fans because I'm coming. You should always be mindful

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of where you are and what your audience is. Outside

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of America, certain references will land because of our pop culture,

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but I think it's always good to cater to and

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never pander. A couple of local jokes is great, but

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the point of view stays the same. Seth Meyers did

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a lot of press for some reason. This month. He

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spoke to the Good One podcast. He said one of

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the ideas for SNL fifty was I wanted to have

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all the impressions of democratic presidents come out and just

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thank the liberal institution of SNL. Then the fake presidents

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would say, thanks for your help. We've won six out

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of thirteen elections. Meyer said, as much as people talk

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about influenia LESNL is, it's like sub five hundred if

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you truly believe it's the liberal media. It's wildly ineffective.

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And I like this profile from Star News Online, who

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tells us Wilmington, Delaware's most controversial comic. She's a gay,

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conservative mom and recovering addict. She also claims to hate

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being gay. Ellie Coleman has a lot of good quotes

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in this article. Her production company is Ellie Degenerate Productions.

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Ellie Coleman says, mainly, I'm just focused on what pays

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my bills and gives me a savings account. She sounds

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very real. I don't leave my house for less than

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three hundred dollars unless I want to, and being able

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to do that, like coming from being homeless to being

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able to like pay me three hundred bucks, it's pretty cool.

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We are told. Her comedic persona is a heightened version

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of her chip on the shoulder personality. One might call

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it lesbian redneck, a millennial bland of white trash hip hop,

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conservative leading politics, and jokes about everything from gay sex

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and drug abuse to being married and raising a toddler.

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Coleman used to wear her hair in a mullet. She

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wears baseball caps, padded vests with furry colors, and or

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Dale Earnhardt t shirts under flannels. She describes her style

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as one hundred percent insensitive. It's insensitive, and it's one

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half the population is thinking, but they're too scared to

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say it. During June, she jokes about the Pride flag.

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She started making jokes about Biden during the twenty four

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election because she was sick of hearing so many liberal

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Trump jokes, and explains a lot of the stuff I

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say on stages and how I really feel. But I'm

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dead serious when I joke about being gay on stage, Like,

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I think the gay community has taking it way too far.

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We got dudes marching around inspeedos and stuff around kids.

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It's like, okay, maybe tone it back a little bit,

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you know, go do that in a bar. She sounds

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like a lot of fun. I enjoy her. She is

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Ellie Coleman, and that is your comedy news on this Sunday.

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