Dec. 10, 2024

Chris Rock's Surprise Storm Out, Bill Burr's Hot Assassin Take, and Jamie Foxx's Night Out

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode, host Johnny Mac discusses Chris Rock's abrupt exit from a holiday party performance, Bill Burr's views on the healthcare industry, and Billy Corgan's amusing claim about possibly being Bill Burr's half-brother. The show also covers nominations for the Golden Globes in comedy categories, Jamie Foxx's recent activities including his lobbying for Down Syndrome research, and a recap of last weekend's Saturday Night Live. Additional gossip includes Andrew Schulz facing criticism for his jokes and updates on new comedy specials.

00:00 Gossip Corner
00:13 Chris Rock's Surprise Set Gone Wrong
01:44 Bill Burr's Take on Healthcare and Crime
02:25 Billy Corgan's Bill Burr Connection
03:57 Golden Globes Nominations and Comedy
05:19 Jamie Foxx's Miami Party and Advocacy
07:19 Saturday Night Live and Comedy Insights
08:57 Ellen's UK Car Troubles and Comedian Controversies

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Kalaroga Shark Media tightly home Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Let's start on gossip corner. The Daily Mail

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reports Chris Rock ran out in the middle of a

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surprise comedy set at a billionaire's holiday party. Must be

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nice to be Chris Rock and that billionaire. According to

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The Mail, Rock was upset by being videotape, so he

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stormed out minutes after taking the stage. Rock was hired

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by Anthony Pratt for the party, attended by many quote

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uber wealthy Australians down at the Amandarin. Oriental comedian Wally

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Collins and country singer Keith Urban were also hired to

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perform at the party, but in between their sets, Chris

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Rock surprised the crowd. Rock took the stage in casual

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attire and joked, our new push will be out of space.

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We'll put all the Mexicans on the rockets. I'm sure

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he told it better. It's not a particularly great joke.

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New York Post gossip colonist Cindy Adams, who has to

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be one hundred and thirty four years old at this point.

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I mean, she's been around forever and was old when

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I was a kid. How old is Cindy Adams ninety four?

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According to Cindy Adams, the quote here is he saw

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something the audience did not before abruptly ending his quote

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very short set. Whatever he saw or thought he saw

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upset him. Like he went momentarily ape and shouted something,

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does the ninety four year old woman use ape? Where

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is somebody ghostwriting this? Like he went momentarily ape and

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shouted something like he wasn't supposed to be videotaped, reported

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or whatever else wasn't supposed to happen. Rock didn't complain,

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didn't explain, didn't do one more minute, and is said

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to have barreled quickly, forcefully through people to the exit doors.

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He kept complaining loudly, and without a second's hesitation, stormed out,

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never to return. Bill Burr on his podcast talked about

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the murder of the head of United Healthcare. I want

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to pull the audio here, but Burr drops a lot

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of F bombs, so let me read you what he said.

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I was sitting there reading an article. A guy was like,

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Oh my god, he's such a great guy. He had

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a wife and kids. He's such a and then you

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find out any other guys he's working for getting sued

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for a one hundred and twenty one million dollars you're

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not a stock and not letting the other people know.

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It's like dash emotive, the gangsters, dude effing gangsters and

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then when one of them gets whacked or something like,

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oh my god, he's such a good guy. It's a

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dirty game, healthcare dirty game. Why is there this lever

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off coverage? Somebody gets gunned down in New York every

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f and day, and now all of a sudden these

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experts have to weigh in. That's because of the status.

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You can't have white guys and suits getting whacked. Speaking

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of Bill Burr smashing, Pumpkins front man Billy corgan is

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claiming there's a chance Bill Burr is his half brother.

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Billy was on Howie Mandel's podcast and told the story.

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Saw about ten years ago, one of my brothers was

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having a birthday party and my stepmother was there, and

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my stepmother said to me, do you know who Bill

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Burr is? Now? At that point, I had never heard

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of Bill Burr. I didn't know who he was. I

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didn't know he was comedian or anything. He could have

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been the guy down the street. Stepmom shows Corgan a

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picture of Bill Burr, says, I kind of know sh

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right away. Gee, looks like my father. Bill Burr looks

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more like my father than Bill Burr looks like me,

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or I look like Bill Burr. Stepmom says, I think

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he might be one of your father's illegitimate children. Bill

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Burr might be one of the children that your father

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sired in his days of being a traveling musician. It's

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a true story. I'm not making this up, and there's

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no joke in that. This is a true story. I've

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never told this anywhere, honestly. And again, I didn't know

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Bill was a famous comedian. He could have been a

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guy that's working down the street at the whack factory

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in Chicago. I had no idea who he was. None. Zero.

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And then the stepmom goes, I think there's twelve total. Well,

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he was a traveling musician. Corgan ads, it's my belief

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at this point, because I've sat on the story for

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ten years that I don't think Bill Burr and I

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were related. Just one of those things there were people

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in the world that look alike. Now, I was really

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upset here. I was googling Bill burr parents and I

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scrolled down and I see on Google. Burr's father died

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when he was only one year old, and his mother

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died the following year. Burr became an orphan at the

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age of two years old. I had no idea about

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Bill Burr. Oh no, no, no, no, that's Aaron Burr,

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the guy from Hamilton. Bill's father, Robert Burr, was a

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prominent dentist who immigrated from Ireland. Whatever, I'm moving on.

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The Golden Globes nominations are out. This year's host, Nicki Glazer.

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I've got some categories here for Best Performance by an

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Actor or actress in Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, but

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they're not really what we talk about here, so I'll

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skip those. Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy. Abbot The Bear,

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The Gentleman Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders again. If

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you think The Bear is actually a comedy, you should

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have your head examined. Best stand Up Comedian on Television.

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Interesting category. Jamie Fox for What had Happened Was, which

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is out today. Nicki Glazers Someday You'll Die, Seth Myers

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for Dead Man Walking, Adam Sandler Love You, Ali Wong

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for Single Lady and Rami yousef more feelings. Now, I

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haven't seen Fox yet, so putting that aside, if I

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had to pick from the other five, I'm going to

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pick No, buckle up, You're gonna be stunned by this.

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I would pick ata those five Adam Sandler, and I've

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been known not to be a fan of Adam Sandler's comedy.

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But out of those five Adam Sandler, Jamie Fox is

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out on Netflix today. It is his special What had

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happened was I'm sure we'll be recapping that a lot

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in the next few days. I don't know if I'll

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get to it tonight. The Indiana Jones video game came out,

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and I thought I was going to play at Sunday morning,

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and I thought I had preloaded the game, and then

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Xbox was like, yeah, this is going to take five

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hours to download. And I haven't gotten to play yet,

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So that might be my Tuesday night. Maybe I'll wait

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for Jamie and Fortune and watch them back to back

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on the weekend. Back to Gossip Corner, page six reports

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that Jamie Party passed four am in Miami, seen at

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Megaclub E eleven on Sunday. Jamie was spotted dancing at

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his ultra vip table in the club's party pit, surrounded

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by a listers. No word on who those eight listers are.

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One witness said Jamie was just vibing with the music

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and seemed to be having the best time. He was

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standing on the banquette of his table and definitely didn't

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mind being seen. The crowd went wild when gold Digger

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came on, and Jamie was nodding along with the music

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and interacting with fans. Says another source, his energy was unreal.

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Page six is told Jamie arrived at three am and

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stayed until dawn had take in Lil Wayne's headlining performance.

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Wayne didn't go on till four point thirty. Usually enough

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and not lying to you. I've been at a Jamie

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Fox Barty or two and all that sounds right on.

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He tends to have his little area, tends to interact

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with fans, tends to be very pleasant as a beverage too,

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dances because he's there. They always play gold Digger, that

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was his hit song, and you know, cool guy in

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all senses of the word. KABC reports Jamie visited Capitol

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Hill last Wednesday, lobbying for a bill that would increase

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funding for Down syndrome research in honor of his late sister.

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DeAndre Dixon had Down syndrome. She passed away at the

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age of thirty six in October of twenty twenty. Fox

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told reporters, and my sister was a big part of

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my life. She lived an incredible life. People like DeAndre

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need help. Feels really good to talk about a bill

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that would be in my sister's name to continue her legacy.

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And I know she's looking down, like, yeah, man, that's

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what it's all about. Having been around that camp. That

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is not hogwash. That is not something you just say

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to the papers. He clearly did care about his sister.

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His sister clearly was a big part of his life.

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He would have his sister around. None of that is fake, phony,

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Hollywood stuff. I applaud you, Jamie Fox. The legislation past

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the House in September, and it still needs Senate approval

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and the President's signature. You can tell I only have

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good things to say about Jamie Fox. Right, yep, yep.

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Looking forward to watching the special. Maybe that's a night

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because of Indiana Jones Saturday Night Live. Paul Meskol was

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a good host. I really liked The Gladiator too as

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a musical sketch. There's a three and a half minute

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cut of that floating around the internet if you haven't

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seen it yet. I still don't understand again, Laurene Michael's

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Hall of Famer Me dope in the basement. I don't

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understand what we're doing with Dana Carvey. Why are we

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opening SNL in twenty twenty four with Dana Carvey doing

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the Church Lady and having David Spade on like it?

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Just you have a cast, use them. You can kind

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of hear my voice isn't all the way back yet? Right? Yeah,

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this thing is lingering, man. Variety held a thing called

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a Night in the Writer's Room. One of the writers

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that was there was Bill Lawrence. Laurence said, there's absolutely

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a line between comedy and drama, and drama should not

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end into comedy, and it has. There's a lot of

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shows that are not particularly funny, and then he drifted

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off and didn't name names, but I will the bear.

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Laurence said, Look, there's some dramas that are funny. Man.

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I wouldn't blink twice if Succession won the Emmy for

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Best Comedy. That show was effing funny. It was so

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darkly funny. I thought it was hysterical. But I thought

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it was hysterical because I'd had jokes. And I think

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you can do any type of show that has pathos

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and drama in emotion and call it a drama if

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you want, But I think to call it a comedy,

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you'd better be joke forward and arguably have some big

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serious laughs, or at least be attempting in every shot

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the bear, Laurence said when he was first pitching Scrubs,

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which if you missed over the weekend, he's working on

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a reboot of it. The president of one of the

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major networks said, I don't think you could do broad

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silly comedy and then switch gears and if people give

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a crap about whether or not a patient is living

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or dying. Laurence said, He fired back, I think you

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can if you turn the lights down and play an

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indie song. The executive didn't find that funny at all.

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Scrubs I think is proof that you can. Also there

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was the show Mash. I don't know if anybody's ever

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heard of that one. Apparently Ellen is having a hard

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time a joke in the UK. You see Ellen's got

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a land Rover Defender, but it's so wide they can't

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drive it in their new village, according to the Daily Mail.

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The newspaper said it's crying shame as their local pub

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is just four hundred meters away, you know, because Ellen

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was gonna hang out with the pub. Sure on the

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other side of A with restrictor and a with restricted

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bridge both said it's six feet six inches. Ellen's car

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is five to ten, which would mean squeaking through with

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a mere four inchest to spare on each side. Charlemage

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the God has stuck up for Andrew Schultz. The Internet

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continues to criticize Andrew over his alleged anti black jokes.

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Charlemagne said, I agree. If you're a comedian, you have

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the license to make jokes about any and everybody. Since

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when do we police comedians? And by the way, if

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you don't like the jokes, you have every right to

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say it. You can rap about it, you can protest

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about it, you can be offended, you can tweet about it,

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you can do all that stuff. New York comedian Derk

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Gaines tapes his Neck special two shows at the Stand

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tonight in New York City. Melissa via signor threaded. My

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special Whelp What Now will be out on New Year's

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in the show notes that'll tell you how that all works.

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Short version five bucks a month, commercials go away. Do it?

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See you tomorrow.