Oct. 22, 2025

Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s Staten Island Ferry Deal Sinks Fast

Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s Staten Island Ferry Deal Sinks Fast

Johnny Mac decides to keep politics out oft he show today! He delves into a controversy surrounding the Golden Globes, explaining how Penske Media's ownership of various entities involved raises questions of impartiality.

Johnny also highlights interviews with comedians Dane Cook and Gianmarco Soresi, discussing their careers and perspectives on comedy. Additionally, Katt Williams's tour announcement, and Tim Heidecker's new role in 'The Comedy Hour' are mentioned.

What's the deal with Tim Dillon?

An amusing sideline story involves Colin Jost and Pete Davidson's ill-fated purchase of a Staten Island ferry, now facing numerous logistical and financial challenges.

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Kalaroga Shark Media very angsty today. It's been a warning

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of distractions and aggravations of Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with

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your daily comedy new So I've decided no politics today.

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We all need a break from the politics. Now. I

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can tell you tomorrow. There's already three stories with politics,

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but those can wait. Ben's Diller comments. I saw him

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talk about that tomorrow. Let's do happy things today, but

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first a controversy, and Johnny Mack does like a controversy.

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There seems to be some kurf fluffle with the Golden Globes.

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I read several stories about it, and I didn't really

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understand the story. So I asked AI to summarize this

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and explain it to me so I could explain it

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to you. So hopefully this information is correct. So the

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AI wrote, here's where it gets messy. The Golden Globes

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are owned by Penske Media. Penske Media owns Variety, The

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Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline. Penske also owns Lumini eight, which

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is the analytics company that supposedly created the list of

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the twenty five eligible podcasts for Golden Globes. Okay, so

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we're going to give an award Illuminate made the list.

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They're owned by Penske, And then there are the three

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main trades, Variety, Hollywood, Port, and Deadline, also all owned

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by Penske, which is a fun fact that most people

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don't know. The AI wrote, the Globes had said an

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outside company would determine the list, and technically they weren't lying.

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It's just that their outside company is another company they

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also own. But then came the real bombshell. Penske Media

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is reportedly selling marketing packages for up to seventy five grand,

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basically for your consideration, ads to help podcasts promote themselves

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to Globe voters. So if I'm understanding this right, you're

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being encouraged by an ad in one of the three

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trades to promote yourself to Globe voters for an award

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controlled by the people who are selling you the ads, right,

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the AI wrote, So to recap, Penske owns the awards,

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owns the data company choosing Who's eligible, owns the media

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outlets covering the wars, and is now allegedly selling ad

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packages to the very people who want to win those awards.

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As George Carlin said, it's a big club and you

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ain't in it. One industry insider said, the Penske thing

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is out of control. They said an outside company would

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handle it. It's all a racket. All right, We'll keep

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an eye on that one. Let's check it in with

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Dane Cook, who's fifty three years old now. He spoke

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to Cincinnati Magazine. I happen to reference Dane Cook in

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my college class on Monday night. None of them knew

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who Dane Cook was. It goes fast. I was doing

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it in context. I was teaching them about how I

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program radio stations and what something in the A category

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would be. And there was a time when Dane Cook

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was it. He was the superstar in comedy and he

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was an a in your music programming library. Twenty something

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years later, the kids don't know who he is, but

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he was a superstar for a while. Dane said, I

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think that anything goes in stand up comedy. Part of

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stand up is the pinprick and the release of how

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everyone is feeling. Sometimes what they're feeling might be uncouth,

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but the reality is everyone's laughing at this one thing

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because we're sort of feeling the same thing. That doesn't

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mean it's right. Sometimes we're laughing at the most wrong

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thing possible. He says, there are limits if you don't

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fel malice from a comedian all topics are in play.

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You don't get laughs when audience starts sensing the meanness.

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Dane said early in his career he learned how he

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could let the ship leave the shore even if his

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jokes went pretty far. I'd still have old ladies pinching

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my cheek after the show, and I'd say some pretty

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wild stuff, especially in my New York years, where I

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and performers who were brash. I don't know what's gonna

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make you laugh until we're all laughings. I love this

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idea of going on stage and expressing myself in fooliship,

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certain irreverent ways. He realized he's a storyteller and not

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a set up punch comic. It's not my strong suit

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because I have this physical element. I just happen to

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say something on stage a few months ago that you

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I didn't write it ahead of time just happened on stage.

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It was like click, click, boom, set up punchline. I

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loved it. Maybe there's more of that to come, he said.

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to be one kind of funny. Johnny would have a

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terrible moment his monologue and you'd be talking about that

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the next day, and not one of the great jokes

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he landed, like when the Q cards fell on the

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floor and he didn't know what to do. Whenever something

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like that occurs and real I met Dane once in

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place we would get sandwiches to go get him some

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sun chips. I forget the particulars. I think that was

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just one of the requests that he had coming in

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and sure, I'll go get you sunships. I probably expensed them.

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Cat Williams going on tour. It's the Golden Age Tour

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to kick off in January. January twenty third, Ontario, California.

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They'll swing through the South Philadelphia in April, wrapping up

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in Chicago on May TEWI now I caught my eye

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on the press release was the about cant Williams boiler

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played paragraph Let's check it Out. With a career spanning

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over twenty years, cant Williams has earned a worldwide reputation

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as one of today's top entertainers, et cetera, et cetera.

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In two thousand and two, Williams made his on screen

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debut as a guest star on NYPD Blue. Did we

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know this? I didn't know that? Did you know? My dream?

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As I wanted to be an extra on NYPD Blue.

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I wanted to be guy on other shift. Now when

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that show was on, I was in my early thirties,

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and you know, Irish American kid from New York City.

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I looked the part. I didn't do anything about this.

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This was just my dream. But you know, just imagine

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if I was in enough episodes, eventually they would let

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me say hey, Andy as I walked down the stairs

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while Sippowitz walked up the stairs. Didn't happen. Didn't do

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anything about it. I could have been in the episode

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in two thousand and two with Kat Williams, who subsequently

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landed his first feature film role as Muddy Mike Friday

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after next. His extensive filmography includes notable roles. Here are

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some notable roles. Are you ready write this down? Notable roles,

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Kat Williams. Here are the notable roles, father Figures, Norbit,

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Scary Movie Five, Epic Movie, Bastards, The House next Door,

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Meet the Blacks, Cats and Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

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Oh yes, very notable, The Boondocks, Wilden Out, and a

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guest role on Atlanta, which earned him a Primetime Emmy

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Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. All right,

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that's a good credit. The National Comedy Center announced that

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the National Comedy Center is now the home of the

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career archive of Stellar and Mira Ben's parents. That's cool.

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The archives bands more than five decades of creative collaboration,

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documenting the evolution and impact of one America's most enduring

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comic partnerships. What a coincidence. Ben Steeler's new documentary about

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his parents' lives and legacies debuts October twenty fourth on

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Apple TV. Throughout the film, materials from the archive or

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features he can check that out. Ben said, Knowing my

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parents' body of work is preserved at the National Comedy

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Center means a great deal, because the material they left

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behind was not just to give for my family, but

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for anyone who wants to understand comedy's creative process. That's great.

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The center's doing really great work. I got to get

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up there. I like long drives. I got to get

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up to Jamestown. At some point. Ben's had some other

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things to say, but they involve politics, and we're not

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doing that today. We're just chilling out today. You hear

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in my tone today, I'm not ranting, and Raven were

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going easy. That's what we're doing today. Not tomorrow, totally different,

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but today taking it easy. Friends. Tim Heidecker is going

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to store as a late night talk show host in

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the Comedy Hour. The Comedy Hour follows a beleaguered late

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night host forced to produce a show through femin and

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fire and play. The network saddles him with a robot

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co host. An audience start to like the sidekick more

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than the host. The Comedy Hours written by Colby Day.

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Now Colby Day scripted Adam Sandler's Spaceman movie, which, as

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you know, is one of the five good Adam Sandler films.

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So that's some good pedigree there. Heidecker's character is named Jimmy,

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which is fun. This next story gets from Jacobin dot

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com or Jacobin dot com not Trey pronounce that. But

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Benjamin Fong asked the question, what is Tim Dlon doing?

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I agree, I am starting to lose interest in Dylan's show.

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I prefer when he's just solo and vamping on the news,

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Benjamin Fong writes, wavering between irony, outrage, and hallucination, the

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Tim Dillon Show presents the same question that any viewer

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of Mulholland Drive must ask, what am I watching? It's

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right wing, but not straightforwardly so it's ironic, but also strangely,

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sincere Dylan doesn't leave much daylight between performance and intention,

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it's easy to lump him in with most right media,

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either because he's just that guy, or because he he's

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irony poison himself into functionally participating in that sphere. I

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think that's what happened. The whole point of Dylan's persona

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on the show is to be vile without remainder so

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self serving, cynical, and bleak that no rational nugget can

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be on Earth. After the La fires, he explained that

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he was lying about losing his home to get sympathy

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and money. Near the end of a recent episode, He

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claimed he would do a set at the Riodd Comedy

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Festival and the blood of someone who just got beheaded.

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Jamarco Siresi spoke to Current Affairs dot Org. He talked

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about performing overseas. He said, honestly, being an American comedian

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and American comedians can't complain to any other comedian in

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the world because our media is so shoved down everyone's

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throat that I was able to make jokes about RFK

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and Milan. No Italian could come to a normal American

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audience and talk about Georgia Maloney. I went to Istanbul

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and I was like, what can I say in the

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booker said, you can say anything you want. And he

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said there's going to be a Muslim call to prayer

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in the middle of your second show. And I said,

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can I joke about it? And he said, yeah, joke

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about whatever you want. I was like, you're saying I

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can say whatever I want and he said yes, and

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I did and it was great. Then I told him

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I was going to post a video and he was like,

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do not post a video. If you ever want to

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come back to Istanbul again. Jermarcus said, okay, I'm learning. Basically,

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it's okay in instant ball, it's not okay outside. My

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girlfriend is always telling me please don't go to jail

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for a joke. How we doing today? Kind of chill.

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I don't even have my good voice today or my

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creative fastball, just very angsty day, and I don't want

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to get angst into the show. Chattanooga's Lookout Comedy Festival

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is back at baby thirty plus comedians. Starts tonight, goes

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through the twenty fifth, officials said, with notable headlining performers

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from all over the country like Tricks with Two Exes

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Joe Zimmerman, Nick Murphy, and Casey Balsham. This year's four

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day festival's proof the Chattanoogas comedy scene is filled not

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only with fun, but burgeoning opportunities for comics and audiences alike.

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Out today on Comedy Exports YouTube channel. Sean Walsh back

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from the bed. Celebrity Jeopardy is switching services. It's moving

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from Amazon to Netflix. Colin Joe's toasted the first season.

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It's unclear if he will return. That reminds me I

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Let me pull that up to be in the script

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The New York Times, so the major story the headline

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Colin Jose, Pete Davidson and the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco.

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ferry boat for two hundred and eighty one hundred dollars,

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their plans for a floating event space maybe running aground

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the Times Rights. When they looked at the twenty one

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Island ferry. Josetas called the acquisition the dumbest and least

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thought through purchase I have ever made my life. Pete Davidson,

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who's just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, described it

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as a lifelong problem for me and Colin. No wonder

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Pete's playing riot. He needs money. Launched in nineteen sixty five,

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the John F. Kennedy was the oldest vessel in the

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Staten Island Ferry fleet at the Times Rights and the

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auction listing the agency did nothing to sugarcoate at seaworthiness.

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The boat was in quote poor condition without a working engine,

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it had to be towed. There were thirty zug boat

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companies in New York Harver which we'll transport your ship

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for around seventeen hundred dollars an hour. Then they had

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to find a place to tow it too. That's the best.

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April eleventh, twenty twenty two, the JFK was towed three miles.

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All right, so that's five grand skimming down this very

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lengthy article. Then we found there's asbestos in the ship.

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The Times quotes a ship expert who says, the thing

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about as bestos is it's not an issue until you

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go to take it out. It has to be done,

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and it has matt gear. You're looking at salty numbers

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to do asbestos remediation. All right, Once they solve that,

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where do you put it? The Times points out, you

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know a good place would be saying up here on

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the East River. Problem is those aren't cheap. Another expert

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points out large boats block sunlight, which can damage marine

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ecosystems and kill aquatic life over time. All right, maybe

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we should scrap the thing. Tommy O'Toole is a partner

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at Compass Maritime that handles ship sales. He did some math.

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If you wanted to scrap it, he said, let's say

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something weigh two thousand tons. If it's worth one hundred

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and fifty dollars a ton of scrap, that's three hundred grand.

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If the tow cost you three hundred fifty thousand dollars,

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you'd have to pay someone fifty grands. Kevin Hennessy is

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the former captain of the JFK. He told The Daily

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News in twenty twenty two that the boat had a

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serious cockroach problem. He said, this was an impulse buy

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with two guys with a lot of money who don't

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know anything about maritime vessels. And that is your politics.

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