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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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was like, let me see how far I can really go.
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I had this epiphany early on that I liked comics
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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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might say is a vintage set up with a punchline.
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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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Johnny Carson's Tonight Show taught him a comedian didn't have
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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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my travels, A cool guy. I remember going to the
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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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lost I had in the notes, say Colin Jost Ferry story.
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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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Nearly four years after they bought an out of service
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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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hundred ton hunk of metal, they envisioned a floating event
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space with two restaurants, six bars, a concert venue and
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hotel rooms with private sun decks on a former Staten
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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,