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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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from The Letterman Podcast is my guest. We talk about
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all things late Night. But before I get to the interview,
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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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ICE used to still from a South Park teaser. The
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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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that part, but the teaser also featured footage of Ice officers,
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presumably rating south Park Ice thought that was cool and
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they decided to use it. South Park got back at
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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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They use the hashtag eat a bag of something. Comedy
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