Aug. 8, 2025

Comedy Stock Market: BUY Maron, Sandler SELL Burr, Colbert

Comedy Stock Market: BUY Maron, Sandler  SELL Burr, Colbert

Comedy Stock Market makes its debut in the seocnd galf, But first...Ralph Barbosa's new comedy special on Hulu, Katt Williams' involvement in the PGA tour, and Will Ferrell's upcoming golf-themed series and news about Matt Rife, Josh Blue, and...

Comedy Stock Market makes its debut in the seocnd galf,

But first...Ralph Barbosa's new comedy special on Hulu, Katt Williams' involvement in the PGA tour, and Will Ferrell's upcoming golf-themed series and news about Matt Rife, Josh Blue, and Michael Rappaport. 

00:57 Hulu's Secret Comedy Special
01:21 Katt Williams and Golf
02:45 Will Ferrell's Upcoming Golf Comedy
03:14 Matt Rife's Career Path and Controversies
04:52 Josh Blue's New Book
06:34 Michael Rappaport's Canceled Show
07:49 Stockton's Comedy Show Controversy
09:24 John Oliver's Comedy Process
11:05 Comedy Stock Market
13:47 Fringe Performers and Reviews

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news as I've been trying to reinstate. On

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Friday's taking a look at the late night joke, Steven

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Colbert had a good one about Trump. Don't know if

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you saw the job numbers were pretty bad, and Colbert said,

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when he heard about the employment crisis, Trump sprang in

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action and fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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You fool, Now there's one less job. Don't you see

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you fell into her trap. I like that very clever.

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Seth Myers said. Trump spoke about the proposal to build

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a ballroom on the White House grounds next to the

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executive mansion and added it'll be near but not touching it,

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so it's kind of like him and Milania. You could

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see that one coming. I like that joke, Colbert again.

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Now presidents are allowed to do a little renovation. Of course,

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the Obama added a vegetable garden, Truman and Nixon both

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added bowling lanes, and Jimmy Carter famously added a sex dungeon.

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Hulu has Ralph Borbosa's planet bo out today. I'd tell

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you all about it, but Hulu likes to keep their

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comedy specials extra secret. They don't want me to know

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about it, but my spies have told me that Ralph

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Barbosa's Planet Bosa was filmed at the Balboa Theater in

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San Diego, and in it, Ralph shares his adventures in dating,

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controlling his temper, working on cars, and his views on

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current events. Kat Williams is working the PGA Tour this weekend.

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He is the FedEx Cup Playoffs en course correspondent. Why

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the PGA Tour is trying to attract a new audience.

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Kat Williams is a huge fan of golf and has

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a nineteen handicap. Kat told the Hollywood Reporter, Okay, so

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I had to establish a handicap when I tore my

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rotator cuff. So I came in as a nineteen handicap.

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But I shoot low eighties. You certainly don't want to

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bet me. I know I won't be able to get

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that when I get ready to do it again. Eighty

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three is a good and gettable score for me all

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across the country at excellent courses. The thing I like

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about golf is that it permeates so many different parts

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of your life. It's not like it fixes everything, but

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it gives you a new parameter for things. The first

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four holes not going to your liking. It is the

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ability to ruin the day. But it doesn't have to.

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You can fix the front nine, you see, and level

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this front nine out where you can still have a

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good eighteen. He calls his outlook toxic positivity. And he

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really thought about this, quoted kat If. I aimed right,

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and I meant for the ball to go right, but

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the ball went left. Where am I in my journey?

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I feel like the ball knows better than me, and

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that must be the angle that I must need to

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take to get to the pin. And that's why I

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went over there, not that I made a mistake and

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shanked it and it went over to the right. I

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don't even look at it like that, because that's the

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way it isn't golf, that's the way it is in

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my real life. It's almost toxic positivity. I know that

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that happened because I didn't keep my head down. I'm

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just gonna try and make sure that I keep it

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down the next time. It takes away a lot of

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the pressures of doing poorly because you've got so many

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opportunities to do a better job. Kat Williams, philosopher speaking

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of golf, What's going on with Will Ferrell's upcoming golf comedy.

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Ronnie Yusef and Joshua Benowitz were originally announced as co

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showrunners in addition to having created the series with Will Ferrell.

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Will Ferrell stars as a fictional golf legend, according to Variety.

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With their departure, Molly Shannon has joined the series in

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the role of Stacy. We don't know too much about

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Stacy just yet. To me, trading out rama usea for

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Molly Shannon. That's like trading Tom sever to the Reds

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if you catch my drift there. Billboard asked Matt Rife,

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are you looking to follow the career path of say

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Adam Sandler. No? By that, did they mean that Matt

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Rife might become a really good dramatic actor or are

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they wondering if he's going to make horrific comedies? Rif said,

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it's hard to say. Life's going to take me in

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whatever direction it wants. But if I had my way, Yeah,

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that's the weird thing about accomplishing as much as I

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have by thirty, including a Madison Square garden. It's like,

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what do I do now? It's the most blessed predicament

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I could possibly dream of. As far as stand up comedy,

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my dreams have come true. I know it wasn't pure luck.

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I've worked my butts off, but it almost feels like

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I hit the mark of I could retire if I

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wanted to. I won't stop performing until I die, But

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now I have to start thinking about is there something more?

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Is there something I'm passionate about that's new to me?

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The goal would be filmed in television, primarily film than

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doing stand up whenever I feel like and performing with

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my friends as much as I can. That's one thing

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I love about Adam Sandler. He's always kept that tight

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knit group around him. Bill Board asked Rife about a

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swipe from Mark Maron in twenty twenty three. Mark Marin

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called Matt Rife the it boy of Crampy Comedy, said

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there was never a beef. He was just being a

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crotchety old man. I've never even met the guy. I

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guarantee he's never watched one of my shows. So if

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he wants to be bitter and angry, that I get

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to live his streams yeah, man, you kind of be

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in a d word to somebody who might have looked

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up to you. I used to love to watch Mark

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Marin stand up. I don't have a beef with a

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single comedian. I'm living my life, dude. What do I

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possibly have to complain about. I don't hate on anybody.

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I don't talk crap about anybody. I'm just out here

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performing to the best of my ability. I play with

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my puppy, and I hang out with my friends. I'm

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on my own business, and anybody who's problem with that,

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it's clearly an internal battle. All Right, Matt Rife. I

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like that quote. That was well fielded that question. Josh

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Blue has a book. He's been working on it for years.

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He said, yeah, it was about fifteen pages a year.

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I had scribes who I dictated to what I wanted

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to say. I went through five different scribes over twenty years,

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and it's my story, but each person influences how the

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story is. So I had to go back through and

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rewrite the whole book just because it was in so

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many different voices. It was a long, long process, but

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I feel like it was worth the weight. Well, that

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book is out now. It is called something to stare at.

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The book gets into Josh Blue's unpredictable life, from his

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emergency birth in Africa to representing the United States in

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Paralympic soccer and building a successful stand up career. I

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have met him. He's a cool guy. If you're in Denver,

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there's a launch party tonight at seventy three Art Agency

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in Denver's Rhino District. The event includes a Q and

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a a book signing, light refreshments. Giveaway is in a

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gallery show of Josh's original paintings. Josh says, it's hard

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when you're so close to something for so long. I

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can't really see it, but everybody that's been reading it

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is like, this is good, and every time somebody says

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it's not crap, it feels great. If you are not

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familiar with Joshi has cerebral palsy and explains, because of

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my disability, I've had to be very comfortable with other

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people knowing my stuff because I need help to get

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stuff done. So I feel like I've always been very

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open and comfortable with that. Obviously, talking about getting bullied

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and stuff like that doesn't feel good, but it also

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feels good in the fact that I'm here now if

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that makes sense, and hopefully because other people's strength to

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deal with whatever it is that they're dealing with. I

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don't like corny or cheesy stuff, but if you could

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take something from these stories in my life, then that's awesome. Anyway,

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if you're in Denver and you want to hit the

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Something to Stare at launch party event Bright dot Com

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tonight six to nine pm. My dogs apparently are very

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excited about it. They just started to bark their heads off.

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Usually the mastering process can get rid of the barking,

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but if you hear the barking, that's what's going on.

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Michael Rappaport is on the list of comedians alongside say

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George Lopez that I never come on here and be like, hey,

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Michael Rappaport had a great day. He said it was

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Sonny in seventy two degrees out and he got ice

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cream and he just loves life. I'd never tell you

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a story like that. From al Alabama dot com, Michael

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Rapperport went on Facebook and told one point one million

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followers that his comedy show in Alabama was canceled after

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quote protests and threats over my support for Israel. Rapaport

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had announced the show in July twenty third on Facebook,

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saying he'd be in Birmingham to film the movie and

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at schedule the performance on his night off. He continued

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to post about the concert all the way through August,

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first posting in a video, I can't wait. Tickets are

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available now, but it's gonna sell out because I'm Michael Rappaport,

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Ail dot com says. At three pm on Tuesday, however,

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Rappaport confirmed that the show wasn't happening, quoting Michael, my

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show tonight at the Stardom in Alabama was canceled all caps.

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I did not cancel. I would never cancel, especially since

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I'm ready here in Birmingham, ready to perform. It was

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shut down because of protests and threats over my support

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for Israel and for speaking up about the fifty hostages

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still being held in Gaza, six hundred and seventy days

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in captivity, and people are protesting me for demanding their release.

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Question Mark. It's embarrassing. It's sad, but I'm not ashamed.

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I stand by what I say and who I stand with.

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From Stocktonia dot com, You're home for comedy news, they report,

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the City of Stockton spent fifty thousand dollars to subsidize

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a live entertainment event in which the city's vice mayor

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was one of the featured performers. Okay, what's going on here?

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Stocktonia says the city tapped the Risk Medication Fund in

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order for the Wild and Out live show to go forward.

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This planned on May twenty fourth. The quote Epic Knight

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of Comedy, Music and Wild Freestyle Battles was the live

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version offshoot of the MTV Sketch Comedy and Rap show.

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One of the recurring cast members Stockton Vice Mayor Jason

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Lee fast forwarding through all the political details. Interim city

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manager Steve Colangelo said he had launched an investigation into

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how fifty thousand dollars was dispersed without his knowledge or

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approval and initially quote whether boundaries between policymaking and administration

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were crossed. Stocktonian reports the Wild and Out show wasn't

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the first received a city bill out. The city kicked

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in one hundred and twenty five grand to subsidize the

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second year of the Stockton Lantern Festival, a show involving

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lighted displays. As for wilden Out, the manager of ASM Stockton,

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which manages the arena, told the director of Stockton's Economic

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and Development department that the show encouraged a one hundred

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and seventy thousand dollars lost to its promoters. Apparently the

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fifty thousand dollars was quote helpful to quote narrow the

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loss gap for the promoter canceling the show due to

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low ticket sales. Fewer than four thousand tickets had sold

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in the ten thousand seed arena the day before the show.

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What has deterred other promoters from booking acts in Stockton?

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They apparently dropped the ticket prices and got a lot

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of walk up and got the attendance to seventy seven hundred.

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Who knows. The Hollywood Reporter had a big piece with

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John Oliver. I'll pick at this for the next few days.

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They were curious, what timeline does the comedy get layered

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in the last week tonight? Segments come together in six weeks,

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but what about the comedy part? Oliver said, really late.

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The jokes used to come in earlier. But you don't

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want to start writing before stories stable, because then you'll

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fall in love with the jokes that are built on

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material that doesn't stand up, and that's a terrible position

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to put comedy writers in. So it's only in the

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last two weeks that the jokes come in. But that

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first month you're trying to give people ingredients that they'll

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be able to create comedy from. You want it to

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be like an episode of Chopped, where it's not impossible

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to make something palatable at the end. So you're not

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giving them broken glass and weed care, you give them eggs.

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You'll find that interview in the Hollywood Reporter. I'll have

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more about that tomorrow and on tomorrow's show, Mike Chisholm

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I'll talk a little about Oliver. Where you caught up

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on South Park? Did you catch the other day? Actual Ice,

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like the actual Government Immigrations Customs Enforcement website, used a

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clip from South Park. Yes, the official Twitter account for

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teaser had included footage of Donald Trump groping Satan's leg

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under the table at a dinner party. Ice didn't use

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them on social media and wrote, wait, so we are

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relevant and had a hashtag I can't even read this

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to you, but you may be familiar with a particular

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Louis ck comedy routine about aiding a bag of something.

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They use the hashtag eat a bag of something. Comedy

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stock Market. Welcome to Comedy stock Market, or new Friday feature.

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We're I'll throw out some names of comedians and tell

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you if you should buy, sell, or maybe even hold

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their comedy stock This week's buy recommendations by Stock and

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Mark Meron His recent special is the best special of

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the year. It's Mark's best special, his podcast coming to

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an end. He'll be taking a victory lap and he's

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got that documentary by Mark Maren Stock. Also by Dusty Slay.

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His special was really good as well. Plus he's part

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of the Nate Brighetzi verse. Always a good thing to

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have and being Nate adjacent should help Dusty's ascendency and

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well deserved. Also by Adam Sandler Stock. Despite me screaming

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about it, you guys watched Happy Gilmour too. Don't blame me,

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but forty seven million of you did the first weekend.

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That means Netflix is for sure going to make more

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Adam Sandler comedies, paying Adam Sandler tons and tons of

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money to make terribly unfunny things. So by Adam Sandler Stock,

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here are my cells. Sell Stephen Colbert Stock. I know

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two weeks ago everybody's like, oh, we love Stephen Colbert,

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but you weren't watching Stephen Colbert anyway. And I think

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that show's gonna have a quiet few months and then

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perk back up in May. But I would sell on Colbert.

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I would sell on Leanne Morgan. Here's why. My wife,

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who was really excited about the sitcom and is in

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the Target demo. She kept telling me how bad it

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was and she doesn't like the laugh track. So if

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they're not getting my wife, sell on Leanne. Sorry about

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the Netflix show. And my final cell recommendation of the week,

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sell on Bill Burr. Just the more I pick away

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at that Vulture interview and listening to the words Bill

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Burr says, I think Bill Burr's going to lose his core.

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He might not care, but I think we're past peak

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Bill Burr now so sell On, Burr sell On, LeAnn

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Sell on Colbert Buye Sandler, Bye, Dusty Sleigh Bike, Mark Marin.

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That is your comedy stock Market out today on the

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eight hundred Pound Gorilla. Eliza Slessinger a different animal. She's

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also putting out an album on eight to fifteen. That's exciting.

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Also a comedy album from Damien Power. It's called not

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so Funny, now is it? We're told that's available wherever

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you stream comedy. Also Larry Dean's Fudnut, fud Nut Fudnut,

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Nice job by the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, and I

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wish that Hulu would hire the nice lady from the

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eight hundred Pound Gorilla. She sends me things in advance

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with dates and stuff, not like the Hulu publicist. Hulu

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Publishers doesn't want me to know anything about what they're

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up to over at Hulu. A comedian I'm very much

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into right now is Seaton Smith. He's over at the Fringe.

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Voicemag dot Uk has been speaking with a lot of

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the fringe performers. Seton says, I'm debuting my show Trauma

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Bonding after twenty two years of doing comedy. I spent

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two years opening for John Mulaney, and I'm excited to

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talk about my family, my childhood, how it's affected me

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who I am now, and I'm excited to relate to people.

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It's exciting mainly because it's scary going in deeper talking

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about childhood stories I always thought were tragic because they

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don't seem tragic in themselves, Like there was a time

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when I lived with my father and the food he

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my constipation ruined the church's big field trip to six

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Flags the amusement park. They asked Eating about his creative process.

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He said, an idea pops into my head from living

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a moment in life, and then a journal until I

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understand the players in the situation. Then it looked for

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my opinion of the situation, which leads into the conflict

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of the scene. From there, it's just playing around, finding

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the funny and kinek energy. I like that. That's really smart.

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What do you find most rewarding about performing for a

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live audience? Smith said, when a new joke kills Because

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I'm surprised as much as the audience. We all get

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to be the audience in moments like that. It's my favorite.

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It's a thrill. Influence is Richard Pryor, Patrise O'Neill, John Mulaney,

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Tony Woods, John Stewart See Smith Trauma Bonding at the

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Pleasure Usince Courtyard Bunker three for the entire fringe chortle

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wants to go see Ted Milligan's show called United. They

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say Milligan has golden retriever energy and has come up

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with a pretty good premise for his new show. Taking

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inspiration from the ongoing rash of Netflix sports documentaries, this

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show documents a season in the lower leagues for Crubchester United,

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a team in some town that fell into economic depression

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after the collapse of the cash register industry. This basically

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sounds like Wrexham spoilers here you Weren't Flying to Scotland.

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Milligan's approaches uneven and conceptually a little wobbly. What begins

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the video material runs out and has to take over

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his narrator. It's nice to see somebody unabashedly silly and

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cheerful in tone, even if Milligan never quite finds a

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way to view his underdog tail with real stakes or

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narrative intrigue interesting. The Times really liked Tom Rosenthal's show.

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They gave it four stores out of five. The title

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of the show is whatever people say I am, That's

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what I am, and it puts a positive spin on

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the title of the first album by the Arctic Monkeys,

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the punchline being an amazing band if you ignore everything

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after two thousand and seven. The Times like a four

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stars out of five to Cat Cohen, who won Best

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Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in twenty nineteen. Her

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show broad Strokes is the story of a girl who

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wants to be exceptional, and yet she is unexceptional. The

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Time says the way she mixes hugely accomplished, velvety smooth

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singing with wittily warped description of her drive hypochondria career,

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and when we get to it real illness is always acute,

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always imaginative. Also four stars out of five to Lou

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wall I like Lou a lot. The Time says It's

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not often that a sequel outstrips the original, Yet Breaking

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the Fifth Wall is a real Paddington IWO of an

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Edinburgh comedy hour. Interesting the times right, some audience members

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were used to accuse Wall of making it all up,

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and sure enough, this is a show about whether or

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not to trust a comedian who insists they're always telling

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the truth except when they're lying. And that is your

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comedy news for today. Come back tomorrow, Mike Chisholm and

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I will throw the ball around for at least an hour.

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We'll talk all things late night, normal episode on Sunday.

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Appreciate you, see you