Aug. 12, 2024

Chad Daniels on being the subject of a Mitch Hedberg Joke

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Daily Comedy News: Mitch Hedberg Stories, Scrubs Revival & Ted Lasso Updates
In today's edition of Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac discusses Chad Daniels reminiscing about Mitch Hedberg, including his experience opening for him and being the subject of one of his jokes. Brett Terhune shares insights about maintaining comedy in the current political climate. Johnny also provides updates on the revival of 'Scrubs' with creator Bill Lawrence's plans, and potential future episodes of 'Ted Lasso,' contingent on Jason Sudeikis’ involvement. Additionally, a new documentary on Gary Coleman is announced, and Martin Lawrence's recent interaction with a heckler is highlighted. The show ends with news on stand-up comedy censorship in Kazakhstan and a fringe show featuring Alexa Elmy.

00:24 Chad Daniels Remembers Mitch Hedberg
01:39 Brett Terhune on Comedy and Character
02:17 Scrubs Revival News
04:40 Ted Lasso Season 4 Possibilities
06:47 Gary Coleman Documentary
07:14 Martin Lawrence vs. Heckler
08:08 Kazakhstan Comedians in Trouble
09:13 Alexa Elmy's Fringe Show

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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If you missed yesterday, I had a lot to say

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about an article in the Hollywood Reporter about the streamers

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bidding on comedy specials. Pretty lengthy episode, especially for a Sunday,

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so go check that one out. Today's a lot of fun.

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Chad Daniels was on with I ninety five Radio and

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started telling Mitch Hedberg stories. The Hedburg aissance is happening.

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Can you feel it in the air. A lot of

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people talking about Mitch Hedburg all of a sudden. Chad

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told on ninety five, I think one liners are funny.

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One of the funniest people that has ever lived is

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Mitch Edburg. He was just one brilliant one liner after another.

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But I think to really deep dive a story, you

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feel that human connection. That's pretty cool. Daniels used to

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open for Mitch Hedburg on the road. Daniels revealed that

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he is the unnamed friend in a classic Hedburg joke.

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My friend came up to me said, hey, you know

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what I like massed potatoes, and it's like, dude, give

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me time to guss. Chad said that was actually about me.

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We were out eating and I said that, and he

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grabbed his notebook and wrote something down. I watched a

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set that night. Chad said, I've never been more thrilled

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in my stand up career than I have. Hebberget write

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a joke about me. It was crazy. Chad told Dan

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Soder I used to use that as a credit because

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I didn't have any credits. Soda said he would have

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done the same thing. That's a badass credit. Daniel's got

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the gig opening for Mitch early in his career when

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the two met in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Chad said

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he learned important lessons from Mitch Edburgh. It wasn't about

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stand up necessarily. It was about how to treat the staff,

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how to treat people who were opening for you, how

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to treat the bookers, just everybody. I don't know anybody

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who had a bad thing to say about him, so

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I try to live a little like that. Brett Turheun

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was on with WISHTV and said, don't confuse the character

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with the dude. Brett told Wish every day there's something

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new happening in the news. I started doing a character

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when people were burning nikes. I just burned nikes in

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my mom's backyard as a joke. People would say, this

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guy's an idiot, but it was all for laughs. In

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the current political climate, you can't believe, but you tow

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the line and make fun of everybody. Especially in comedy,

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you make fun of yourself first, and that opens the

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door to poke fun at the rest of the world.

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How much of himself is in the character? I'm somewhat

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spoken as just me. I wear none of those clothes.

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I like to humble myself every once in a while,

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but that character is not necessarily me. Hey, good news

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for me. Scrubs is coming back.

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Now.

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When it's coming back is another question. I guess if

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you live long enough, everything happens. I mean, forty years

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went by and the police finally released some new materials

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Synchronicity DELEXTX edition. Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence confirms plans for

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Scrubs to return to TV fourteen years after Scrubs ended.

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It seems like it's been longer. Bill Lawrence says he's

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eager to return for a revived series, revealing he'd not

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only liked to begin work within the next six months,

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but'd also like to introduce a new cast alongside the

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legacy cast. Well, of course, so that's how that's going

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to work. Bill told lad Bible, Look, there's no huge

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drive because everybody's successful and I think the show was

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on for like seventy two years. But on the other hand,

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medical people over here right now are very heroic to me.

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It's been a tough road and no one's becoming a

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doctor right now to get Richard America. So we've all

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been hanging out and talking. So I'm open to it,

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and I don't want to do it as a movie.

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I'm definitely open to doing a couple more years of

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that show. Not only bed He fun to see with

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the characters I used to love her now, but also

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see what a young doctor nowadays looks like as far

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as the kids coming in behind them, you know. So

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we've been talking a lot about it. I think we'll

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figure it out in the next six months what we

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want to do. I'm just busy too, man in a

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great way. Of the main cast from the first eight

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seasons of Scrubs, season nine was a little funky, the

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reboot cast would probably be only missing Ken Jenkins, who

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played doctor Kelso. This article says Jenkins is retired. I

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thought he had passed away. Nope. I'm glad it didn't

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pass away. I don't know why I made that up.

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Glad to see that he's still around. Born in nineteen

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forty in Dayton, Ohio. John C McGinley, who played Doctor Cox,

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has taken a recent break from acting. He'll do it.

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It seems the easiest to get back would be Zach

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Braff and Donald Faison, considering they already have his Scrubs

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podcast and Too Commercial together. Yeah, those two would be idiots.

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If if somebody calls and goes, hey, guys, Scrubs and

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those two don't come back, that's stupid. Take the money.

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This article's ridiculous. Robert Macio, who played the Todd, may

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make a cameo. He stepped away from acting to pursue

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his career as a real estate broker in Santa Juanica.

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I'm sure he'll come by and do the Todd. I

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gotta scroll down here to my bumps from yesterday. Also

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Bill Lawrence related where did you go? Did I not

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move into the document? Why don't he edit this? John?

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Because that's not fun. I'm trying to tell you about

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Ted Lasso. I see what I did. I had hit

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control C for cut, but I never did the paste part.

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Now I've put paste and the stories where it belongs.

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Ted Lasso also created by Bill Lawrence. Guy's pretty good

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at TV. He talked about a potential season four of

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Ted Lasso and says it's all up to Jason sadeikis

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No pressure Jason.

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You know we'd all make a Lasso season four if

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Jason was into it, you know, Otherwise I don't know

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what to tell you. No pressure Jason Lawrence, still collider.

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Whatever Jason feels like doing, and whatever his decision is,

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we're all down with it. Not only is he the star,

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he's the head writer, and he is also the dude

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whose life just has to be completely overhauled and moved

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to a foreign country with young children. It's a big deal.

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So as a fan, if someone's like, oh, it's gonna

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happen again, I'll go nuts. As a partner, I'm down

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for whatever he wants to do. I have a couple

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questions here, and I want to be and I like, sincerely,

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I don't want to have sarcasm my voice. I sincerely

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get Jason sidekas wanting to be around his children when

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they're growing up. In my career, I missed a lot

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of the early days of my kids' lives because I

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wouldn't get home from the city to seven thirty, and

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then Dad would be exhausted. And then when Sirius kicked

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me out the door, and suddenly Dad was home all

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the time, and I went to every soccer practice and

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every dance thing and every musical.

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It was great. So I understand Jason sidekis, but I

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have some questions, and there's a little bit in my voice.

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I'm being serious here. Can we not write from home?

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Do we have to write ted Lasso in the UK? Why?

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Especially if this thing's going to make a lot of money.

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If you say to the writers, hey, we're gonna make

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ted Lasso, but you come to Jason's Dacas town, I

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don't know if he's in la or somewhere else. Aren't

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the writers gonna go? Yeah, let's think about what the

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show ted Lasso is. Do we need to film some

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exteriors in the UK? Yeah? All right, Jason, you mind

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going over to the UK for four days. None of

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us like to be away from our family for four days,

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but you could do that. The interior shots in the

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locker room. Could we not film that in the sound

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stage somewhere? The soccer stuff? Could we not film the

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close ups on some soccer field somewhere and cg in

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some stands? Could we not do that? What does this

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have to be filmed in the UK? Other than for

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dex purposes? Lawrence continued, it's a big deal. So as

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a fan, if someone's like, oh, it's gonna happen again,

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I'll go nuts. As a partner, I'm down for whatever

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he wants to do. They're making a documentary. We got

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Gary Coleman. Remember Gary Coleman from Different Strokes? That was

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a sitcom in the eighties. Maybe you weren't around yet,

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it was a thing. This will be on Peacock, so

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nobody will really see it. The ninety minute docum Entry

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about Gary Coleman Premiere's August twenty ninth. It follows Gary

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Coleman's rise to international fame, and it struggles with living

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in the spotlight along with the controversy surrounding his tragic

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death at age forty two. The log line here suggests

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something mysterious may have happened, so we'll have to watch that.

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Martin Lawrence got into it with a heckler. Martin Lawrence

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was on stage. He asked someone to bring up some water.

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Someone in the audience yelled, hurry up. Martin Lawrence respondible

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with a smile, F you, and I dare you to

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run up on stage. It main' going to be no

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Dave Chappelle crap. I'll whoop your ass. People on social

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media enjoyed it. One fan wrote, don't forget who the

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original host of Deaf Comedy Jam is. Another echo of

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that saying brought that Deaf Comedy Jam Martin out of him.

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I now. A third said, the people that always sy

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hurry up during your water breaks still haven't learned throughout

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the years. Put Martin Lawrence on Comedy's Mount Rushmore, and

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they wrote for me, it's Eddie Martin, and then there's

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everybody else. I assume the Eddies, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Griffin

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can't be Eddie Griffin. Well maybe it could be Eddie Griffin.

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If' putting Martin Lawrence on the amount rush More of comedy,

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you're gonna put Eddie and Martin, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor

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cover act, come on from Human Rights, watch your Home

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for Comedy News. On July twenty sixth, they court in

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Kazakhstan's capital sentenced thirty one year old Alexander Murcool, a

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stand up comedian, to ten days detention on charges of

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petty hooliganism, allegedly for using obscene language during a performance

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in June. Murcool pleaded guilty. Is joke Kazakhstan is new,

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poverty is old, the reference there being to a slogan

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that translates to new Kazakhstan used regularly by the president.

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It is believed that is what provoked authorities to respond

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by prosecuting him for obscene words used elsewhere in his act.

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In May, a court sentenced another stand up comic to

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fifteen days in detention for swearing in public. That comedian,

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who also pleaded guilty, had joked about corruption in Kazakhstan

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and made a comment about massive flooding on the country's

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north earlier that year that caused the displacement of at

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least one hundred and twenty thousand people. Not sure what

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the joke there was, the Human Rights Watch as freedom

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of expression is not absolute, but international human rights loss

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sets clear boundaries on legitimate government measures to regulate it.

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Kazakhstan is acting well beyond those boundaries, and it's pastime

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it starts respecting them. Alexei Elmy's show, Alexa Play Alexei

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Elmy is at Fringe at Venue twenty nine. The show

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is at fourteen fifty five.

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Now.

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The show's an hour and five minutes, so that works

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out now through the seventeenth Alexei Elmi brings fun so

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already president energy, frequently crossing into expressions of aggression and reach.

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In her solo play Real Life Human, Alexa is fed

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up with Amazon's bassatorization of her name. Thus she creates

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a support group, alexis Anonymous. That is your comedy news

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