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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
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comedy news. If you missed it over the weekend, I
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dropped two episodes taking a look bit this year's top
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twenty five stand up specials. Go back and check that out, please.
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Jordan Clepper will have a special tonight on Comedy Central.
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Daily Show presents that Jordan Clepper fingers the pulse. This
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time he went to Mississippi, Oregon, and Norway in search
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of an answer to the question does Donald Trump deserve
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a Nobel Peace Prize? Now? The answer was no. The
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Nobel Prize came out last week and did not go
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to Donald Trump. Klepper told the Hollywood Reporter. As we
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were putting the special together, two conversations were taking place
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in the country. There were troops being sent to Portland
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and to Chicago. There were ice rays and protests. At
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the same time, Trump was campaigning openly for the Nobel
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Peace Prize. We saw a special in that conversation said
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we went to Mississippi and talked to Trump supporters about
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why Donald Trump was the most peaceful president. They talked
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about the wars he solved, They talked about him bringing
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strength to cities then we went to Oslo to talk
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to the people who give out the Peace Prize about
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what qualities a Peace Prize winner would have. He even
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found a group of Nordic mega types. The Hollywood Reporter
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was curious about doing four or five minutes on the
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Daily Show versus something like this, Jordan said, you get
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to go deeper. What I feel really lucky about is
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I get to work in three separate modes at the
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Daily Show. I get to host. When you're doing that,
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you're dealing with a day of stories, You're responding to
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the news of the moment. Then I get to do
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field pieces, which are reflective of what's happening. A lot
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of those, to me feel like I'm stressed testing propaganda.
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With these specials, you get to have a larger argument
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and really dive deeper into these conversations. Theol Vaughan has
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revealed that he goes to Bible studies with Morgan Wallen.
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This happened during Theo's conversation with Leanne Morgan. Morgan Wallen's
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name came up and fil Vonn said, I'm going to
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see him tomorrow Bible study. Actually, Leanne was curious, what
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are you studying? Was that. I mean, I think we're
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watching a movie, but it is Bible study. Yeah, I'm
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not sure what chapter we're on at the moment. In Austin,
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there's a new Italian bakery, Chichio Bamba. One of the
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co owners Tom Sagora. We've learned that Italian chef John
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Ba Vinzoni is a restaurant tour who wiled Tom Sagora
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with his signature croissants at Vinzoni's restaurant in California. Sigora
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started sharing the croissants far and wide and has collaborated
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with Vinzoni to bring them to Austin. Foreign menus include Cornetti,
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which is a horned Italian croissants, Fcaccia Italian sandwich is
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brunch specialties, and coffee. The bakery is open from seven
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thirty to four, and there's a menu we can check out.
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And if you're a longtime listener, you know I'm clicking
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on the menu. Now I have some bad news for
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Tom Sagora. I wanted to click on the menus and
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make a bit out of this, but you see, when
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a click on the dine in menu, it fails and
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tells me I'm not online, but I am online. I
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have fifty nine point seven megabytes of download speed right now.
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I ran speed test, and when I try to order takeout,
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several menus come up, including the Austin Retisseri and Taco Pagaso.
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But I'm not seeing Sigor's place, which is a shame
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because it ruins the bit. So let's just move on.
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Patton Oswald says, right now, the greatest living comedian is
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definitely Maria Bamford. Now, Patton Oswald also thinks Doug the
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Vulcan is a good idea, so we might have to say,
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h Patton Oswald's not right about everything. People who like
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Maria Bamford love Maria Bamford. Patton Oswald said, she's in
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her own category. She's a comedian. But there's certain people
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with a profession where you're like, you don't put them anywhere.
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He told the Good One podcast. You go now there's
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a separate chapter about this person. She's her own chapter,
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both in form, content delivery and how she pursues her career.
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It's all original, it's all brand new and unprecedented, and
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it's amazing. No one comes close. Jesse David Fox, who
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hosts The Good One podcast, that I was hoping you'd
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say her, it's just Richard Pryor than her. To me
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is the conversation in terms of what can be done
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with stand up as a form. That's all crazy talk.
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I mean, just absolutely insane. Richard Pryor, Maria Bamford, Stop
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you sound crazy. Sebastian Manaskalgo went on Drew Barrymore Show
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and had some food advice. He said, if you go
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to someone's house, bring something, a small gift, it's kind
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of a right thing to do. Jew said, I get
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really stress and people ask me what can I bring.
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I don't know. Sebastians suggested a small candle, something small,
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something nice, just to gift for the house. Thanks. Sebastian.
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Variety asked Jim Gaffigan if he's a silly person off stage,
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Having spent time with Jim Gaffigan twenty years ago. The
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answer was no, maybe these days he's super silly. He wasn't.
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Then Jim said, I'd say I'm a silly person with
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my comedian friends. What I love about stand up is
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that element of play give when someone the guff that
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sarcastic banter. I wouldn't describe it as roasting. It's just play.
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Some comedians are always in play and doing bits, like
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Todd Glass. That's why comics gravitate towards each other. It's
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a plain environment. But when I'm with my kids, no,
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I'm very focused. I'm also someone asked to work hard.
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I don't know what kind of learning disabilities I have,
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but even studying lines for an acting role, it takes
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me longer than it would take my wife. Twenty years ago,
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I would often discuss bits with my wife. Now I
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might be discussing them with my opening comedian Ted Alexandro.
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The writing and rewriting is very valuable. That's something I
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do when I tour. I don't have that tree at
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home because kids are too much work. If you think
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of having children, don't. The luxury of doing shows out
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of town is that I can spend those days listening
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to a set and dissecting how I could expand it.
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For me, It's not that I have to walk away
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from a writing session with a joke. I just feel
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good if I made the effort. They asked Jim if
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the story was true where he woke up at his
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office to be fired from his day job. He was
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a comedian in New York in the nineties he was
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an ad salesman during the day. Jim said, absolutely. And
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the cruelty is that a friend of mine, David Tel,
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already had a joke about being woken up to be fired.
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Whenever this comes up out of respect, I have to
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mention the fact that David Tel had this joke. But yes,
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I worked in advertising and I'm really grateful that experience
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as a copywriter, the editing process furing out the shortest
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way to say something is incredibly valuable, and that carries
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over into stand up. I was definitely delusional. After six
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months of doing stand up. I remember thinking I can't
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believe I haven't been on Letterman, and then I didn't
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get on for seven years. So I did a lot
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of work on myself, therapy and stuff like that, but
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there was no expectation of I'm going to stop doing this.
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All comedians are delusional. You have to be. If insanity
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is repeating something and expecting a different result. Even the
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quickest careers involve five a failure, that's insanity. Right. The
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La Times put out their list of the thirty three
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best comedy specials of twenty twenty five. I'll go quickly
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here because I spent the weekend doing lists, but I
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was curious and the Ala Times has a very very
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good comedy section. I don't think these are ranked, and
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I can't tell what kind of order they are. They're
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not chronological, I don't think. But here's what they have.
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Frankie ken Yunius, Damn, That's Crazy from Hulu, Andrew Schultz
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Life from Netflix, at bashed In, Manuscalcos and Ain't Right
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from Hulu. Bill Burr's Dropped Dead Years from Hulu. Nah
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Jordan Jensen's Take Me With You on Netflix, otsco At
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Kotska's Father on Hulu, gab Iglesias Legend of Fluffy on Netflix,
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Mark Maren's Panic on HBO. Nate Jackson's Super Funny on
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Neateflex on Netflix. You know what, I'm leaving the Neateflix.
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You heard me clean it up at But I'm leaving
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it in because it's funny on Nateflex. Nate Jackson Super Funny.
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Are They're right? There's a reason. Nate Jackson's debut Netflix
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special arrives during barbecue season on a stool under the spotlight.
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Out of shows, the comedian spends most of his evening
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delivering hospital worthy third degree burns to crowd members who
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want the smoke right, that's probably worth checking out. Lean
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Morgan Unspeakable Things Netflix, Eliza Slessinger Is a Different Animal
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Prime Video, Ralph Barbosa's Planet Bosa on Hulu. Gaffigan's Bourbon
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Set on YouTube, Steph Tolev's filth Queen Netflix, Christella Alonso's
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Upper Classy. I feel like that was on Netflix. They
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didn't list to a platform here. Ali Sadiq's Rugged on YouTube. Yeah,
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a lot of people commented on him throughout the year.
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Jim Norton's Unconceivable on YouTube. I should probably put eyes
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on that. I like Jim a lot, Jay Jordens, Yes
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Ma'am on Hulu. Rosebud Baker's The Mother Load Netflix, Ken
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Flores Lol Live with Ken Flores. That's Hulu. Burt Kreischer
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Lucky Netflix, comedian cp on veep's Sunday After Six. Tree
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Crowder's Liberal Redneck on YouTube. I haven't seen that one.
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Phoebe Robinson's I Don't Want to Work Anymore on YouTube.
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Tim Dillon's I'm Your Mother on Netflix, Kathleen Madigan's The
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Family Threat on Amazon Prime. I'm Mike Veccioni's Low Income
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White on YouTube. Ian Edward's untitled on YouTube. Interesting that
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keeps popping up on lists. Ryan Sickler's Live and Alive
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on YouTube. They say Ryan Sickler turn thick blood into
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sweet wine. His trademark candor and giggle drives the hours
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he plays tour guide through a traumatic hospital state that
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nearly became his last Chinity Wunaka is lo Alive on Hulu.
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I have that on my list. Cameron Esposito's four Pills
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on Dropout. Samantha Hale's Horror Nerd on Apple TV. That's
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a thing. Where's that not out yet? Or what that's
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on Apple TV? Only Samantha Hale could make hair raising
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terror this funny. Her long running show harr Nerd jumps
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from the Hollywood improv stage to the screen. She nostalgically
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riffs on serial killers, the healing power of stabby movies,
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and turns genre obsessions called classic fantom an online feedback
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into an unbroken chain of laugh out loud brilliance. Okay,
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totally missed that one. And Jayang Summers What Specie Are You?
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Is on Hulu. There's the La Times thirty three picks.
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They have a very very strong comedy section Kathleen Madigan
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until the La times. I love beer, and all my
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uncles worked at the brewery forever and ever. They were
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pipe fitters full time at Anheuser Bush Downtown. The Midwest
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is kind of like that. That's our thing. Saint Louis
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is a beertown period. Anheuser Busch Brewery is still there.
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People still have jobs there, They sponsor everything. Milwaukee is
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kind of like a beer town too. It's all about
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the middle of light now, but back in the day
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they had a thousand breweries before prohibition. It's very beer centric.
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With the Paths Theater, I had taped a special already there,
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and they're just the nicest people, the crew and everybody
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works there. They're excited to you there. And I don't
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need to be flattered. I really don't not even need
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you to be there. But if you're gonna be there,
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if you cannot be cranky, that'd be great. The comedians
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will also tell you this, there's certain spots where you
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walk off stage and go. People should film specials here.
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This theater is one of the three that I feel
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that way about. Why are these certain places so special?
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I don't know. There's a little magic in there, I guess.
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Madigan talked about being on TikTok and said it's a
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lot different from dancing in your bedroom to Madonna in
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nineteen eighty four. I'm not particularly good at TikTok as
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a human or as a comedian, but I love being
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on TikTok as a voyeur. I post jokes and do
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work stuff. But I was really good at Twitter because
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I'm good with words. Instagram, I'm there, But TikTok, I'm
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watching seven thousand cab videos. If you have any kind
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of addictive personality, you love it because it's endless. It
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never stops, and there's hardly every repetition. Seems to be
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people way younger than me, But I like it. I
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wouldn't want to think I made a career out of it,
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though I think some of the young ones are biting
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off more than I could ever chew with this experience.
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acts will work. Will your fans keep coming five years
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from now? That's why I'm glad I started when I started.
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When young comics ask what should I do, I'm like, dude,
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I don't have any idea. Just make sure you get
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on stage a lot. She is so funny. I love her.
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The Trevor's City Economy Festival will return in April April
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sixteenth to the eighteenth, seven venues across Traverse City. Roywood
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Junior and Gary Golman will be the headliners for this one.
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Lewis Black spoke to Esquire about you know, he keeps
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talking about retiring. I thought he retired at the end
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of last year. Now he's doing fewer shows. I don't
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know what's going on. As for one of his final shows,
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he said, it was a concentration of all the performances
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I ever gave, including a heckler at the end. It
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was kind of like everything that could happen along the
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way happened that night in a bad way. It was good.
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The thing you can't explain to people, including Johnny Mack,
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is there was touring and then there's doing some shows.
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I might do ten shows a year as opposed to
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one hundred to one hundred and fifty to two hundred.