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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Shinny Mack with your daily
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comedy news. I'm freezing es in the morning again. Please stop.
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This is your daily comedy news and daily briefing on
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stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence
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the algorithm loves for some reason. I'll keep saying it.
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Conan O'Brien caught up with Chris Fleming for Interview magazine.
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Did you watch Chris Fleming on HBO Max? I'm curious
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what the quote unquote the normies think of this. This
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is not you know, Bill Burr in front of a
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brick wall. This is something else entirely. I sent it
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to my friend Mark and I'm like, watch Chris Fleming
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and when you think it's weird, stick with it. And
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he wrote back to me, I'm glad you told me
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to stick with it, because I totally would have bailed
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it's weird. I loved it. I thought it was fantastic.
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That is currently the number one special of the year.
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Chris Fleming and Conan O'Brien in Interview Magazine. Fleming said,
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have you seen this magazine? Usually it's like Alexander Scoresguard
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interviewed by Judge Judy or Fiona Apple interviewed by the
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Tinder Swindler. But you and I actually make sense together,
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Gonu said. This makes sense because I have a hard
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time imagining who I can relate to more than mister Fleming. Here,
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your ridiculous figure. I've been enamored with you for a
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long time, and I wish I were talking to the
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late illusionist Doug Henning. Conan said, I can see you
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took my advice. I told you long ago, don't move
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around so much. O'Brien said, I said, I want you
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to wear very masculine, working class clothing. Fleming said, you
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gave me a Men's Warehouse gift certificate, and you whispered
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in my ear stillness is king. Now, if you haven't
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watched the specially, you have no idea why that is
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so funny. Gonan, make sure all the references are accessible
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to all age groups. That means none of your trader
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Joe's marginalia no takes on NPR. And I insisted that
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you talk at length about the nineteen seventy five Red
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Sox and bring up fred Lin repeatedly, and you said,
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got it. And then to my surprise. I tune in
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and you're up to your old high jinks. You imp.
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Chris said, I had a manager who said, I don't
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know what you're talking about ninety percent of the time, Conan,
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you've established a rhythm. It's completely yours. You lull people
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into the state where suddenly they know what everything about
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this specific guy who's serving you a boba t and
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we're all just there with you, even though I shouldn't
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know what you're talking about because I've never had bobat
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in my life. Funny shange here, Conan says, just today,
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Jon Appatow found a clip at me from nineteen eighty
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six in the background at some comedy event that he's
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doing a documentary about. Chris said, oh, I didn't know
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he did documentaries, Conan. It's a documentary about the time
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he stopped doing documentaries. Fun stuff there at the interview magazine.
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We'll talk more about Chris Fleming in the second half.
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Are you following this Jim Carrey thing? Did you see this?
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Last week? There was an award show and Jim Carrey
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showed up, or maybe it wasn't actually Jim Carrey. Did
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you see this? People are like, is that Jim Carrey.
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It kind of looks like Jim Carrey, but yet not
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at all like Jim Carrey. Is Jim Carrey doing a bit?
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Did Jim Carrey have botox? Did Jim Carrey have plastic surgery?
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Did the Illuminati replace Jim Carrey with a clone that's
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not that good? Nobody knows what's going on. Well, there's
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a new wrinkle to this that I love. Makeup artist
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Alexis Stone claims that it was he who appeared last
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week week as Jim Carrey. On Instagram, Alexis posted Alexis
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Stone as Jim Carrey in Paris. The post included two
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photos of quote unquote Jim Carrey at the event, and
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one photo of a masked teeth and a dark wig
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that resembled Jim Carrey's new look. Now, the Cesar Awards
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say that Jim Carrey worked on his speech in French
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for months and that there is no clone. In a statement,
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Gregory Collier, the General Delegate of the Caesar Awards, said
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the rumors are a non issue. Jim Carrey's visit has
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been planned since this summer. From the outside, it was
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extremely touched by the Academy's invitation eight months of ongoing
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constructive discussions. He worked on a speech in French for months,
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asking me about the exact pronunciation of certain words. He
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came with his partner, his daughter, his grandson, of twelve,
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close friends and family members. His longtime publicist accompanied him.
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His old friend Michael Gondrey, who's made a film and
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too serious with him, was there and they were delighted
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to see each other again. For me, it's a non issue.
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I just remember his generosity, his kindness, has benevolence, his elegance.
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I think this is hilarious. Stavros Halkias is pairing up
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with manscaped together. They are auctioning off a hair ball
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collected from the head of Stavros Halkias. At least I
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assume it's the head. Jimmy Stark is the creative director
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at Quality Meats, a creative agency with a quirky name.
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Jamie Stark says, we can neither confirm nor deny the
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sources of the hairs for making of this hairball. We're
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pretty sure there's one hundred percent genuine human body hair
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in it, including Stavros's. We like to think of it
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as a hot dog styled hairball and that you don't
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exactly know all the sources of the hair meats it's
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made up of. You've already missed out on the auction.
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Sorry I didn't tell you in time. You could have
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had the hairball for just five hundred ten dollars. Proceeds
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from the auction went to Manscape's brand partner, the Testicular
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Cancer Society, supporting awareness, education and resources for men's health.
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Are you in Hollywood? Once you head on over to
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the Hollywood Walk of Fame around eleven thirty today and
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you might see Gabriel Iglesias. I hope you see him
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because he's supposed to be there to get his star
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on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A bunch of the
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cast from the Office reunited at Sunday Nights Actor Awards.
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It was Mindy Kaling, Jenni Fisher, Angela Kinsey, and Ellie Camper,
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which let me decide by here. When I was driving
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around with my wife over the weekend, I was just
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raving about scrubs. Have you caught on that Alex Scrubs?
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And how hard it is to even get everyone back together.
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And I said, for example, if they brought the Office back,
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you would get Jenna Angela, Kevin Creed, Oscar, they'd all
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do it in a second, and yet there's no way
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Steve Crall would do it, and there's no way Krasinski
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would do it. And then my wife was like, what
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about Dwight trut And my take is that Rain Wilson
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would successfully hold out for more money and get it,
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and then they'd put a new lead on top I Digress.
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Jenna Fisher recalled the relentless schedule of the Office. She
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said it meant Christmas episodes and Valentine's episodes and super
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Bowl episodes and sometimes filler episodes that were kind of bad.
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Ellie Camper said, but it didn't matter because there was
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always another one right around the corner. The Actor's Awards
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revealed the reunion was all down to Mindy Kayling, executive producer,
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who told Variety we had reached out to her about
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being presented, and she came back with the idea of
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what if I did at reunion with all the women
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of the Office, and we were like yeah. Within like
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an hour, she had texted them all. She basically booked
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them all for us. Some folks are mad at Saturday
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Night Live for a sketch that didn't even air. Apparently,
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there was a Cut for Time sketch in which SNL
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sent up the BAFTA racial slur incident. Anyway. In the
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Cut for Time sketch titled Turet's, a host of celebrities
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including JK Rawling, Mel Gibson, Army Hammer, Louis c k
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and Bill Cosby claim they suffer from Tourette's, which would
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explain the problematic stuff they've been involved with. Tourette's Action
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CEO Emma McNally was not happy with this. She apparently
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sent an email to Deadline. This is not acceptable, she wrote.
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Mocking and disabilities never acceptable. It would not be tolerated
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for any other condition, and it should not be tolerated
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by people with tourets. In the sketch, host Connor's story
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played Army Hammer saying not many people know this, but
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one of the most common side effects of Tourett's cannibalism
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Ashley Pitty is JK. Ralling said that Tarrett's isn't just
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blurting out offensive word. It could be a year's long
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obsession with something like trans writes Keenan Thompson. As Bill
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Cosby claimed to suffer from drink. Turett's Kanye West, played
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by Cam Patterson, in a rare appearance, declared he has
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like three different types of Turetts. Even Michael Jay made
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an appearance saying Tourett's makes us do horrible things to
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the white guy we work with. The sketch was sponsored
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by the National Workforce of Rethinking Disabilities aka n WORD.
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Late Night reports that they had to scrap the original
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cold open. In the original version, it would have been
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The State of the Union, with James Austin Johnson's Donald
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Trump making jokes about deflecting from the Epstein Files and
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claiming that New York City Mayor zooron mom Donnie was
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thirsty for him. That all got scrapped and we got
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a pretty bad version of James Austin Johnson as Trump
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at two in the morning announcing the war. I used
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to really like James's impression. It is really drifting now,
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and I don't know what SNL's got to do with Trump.
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I don't know if James needs to just like sit
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home for a week and tweak it, but that impression
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is just really drifting. Let me just take a second
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here to just like thank so many of you. First
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of all, the feedback I got on the Pete Holmes interview,
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thank you. I got a lot of lovely notes. It
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seemed that people really dug it. First of all, thank
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you to Pete Holmes for doing it and the people
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at the eight hundter Bound Guerilla who made that happen.
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But thank you. You know, the notes on the side
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means something because otherwise I'm just a guy in the basement,
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you know, basically talking into the wall, and sometimes the
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dog stares at me while I do it, So thank
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you for that. Also, people have been sending in things.
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I'm sitting on a few things from a production standpoint.
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Jay Leno had talked about his Mount rushmoref comedy. I'm
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sitting on that. There's a great article about how Scrubs
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was able to recreate the hospital. I'll probably do that
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later in the week, but I'm still on Schrodinger's jury duty.
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I had a call again on Monday night. I have
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to call again Wednesday night, so like, I never know
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what my next day is going to be. So some
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of this stuff that I'm holding on to is just
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because I can't even judge my own production schedule right now.
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There is in the back end. There's an episode it's
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probably like four years old and definitely has the old
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theme music on it. Of like just me riffing on
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what at that time was somebody's list of the top
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fifteen comedians. That was like my what if I get
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COVID episode that I was just gonna play someday if
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I couldn't talk. I've never had to use it, but
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it's just sitting there knock on wood anyway, thank you
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for all the notes, and Richard sometimes sends me notes
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when I screw up the uploads. Richard appreciate that my
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email address is in the show. Not It's always great
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to hear from people. Don't forget Comedy Survivor roles are
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in oh wait, Actual Survivor. I'm still picking away at
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episode one of that first of all is up against
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Scrubs three hours of Survivor of like, Real Survivor is
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like way too much, guys, Just you can't hand it
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in a three hour episode, Like it's just my numbing.
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I'm sitting there and I'm like, there's still an hour
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left of this. I can't But Comedy Survivor is a
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lot of fun. Head to the Facebook group Daily comedy
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news podcast group Vote Someone Off. It's starting to get
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down to it now, and I've already started scribbling down.
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I've got this idea for Comedy Survivor, Heroes and Villains.
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I've got an idea for that. But when we get
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to the end of Comedy Survivor, I'm gonn I let
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it take a break. I don't want to, like endlessly
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do it. I think I think that kind of thing
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works best if like, we do it for a while,
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then we don't do it for a while, and then
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we bring it back again. But I'm kind of scribbling
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down a heroes and villain's idea for season two of
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Comedy Survivor. Take a look at the ratings. Scrubs did
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pretty well. The debut episode pulled in four point four
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to one million viewers, did a point six six rating
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in the eighteen to forty nine s. The second episode
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average three point five to two million viewers and a
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point five to five in the eighteen to forty nine
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they didn't realize there was a second episode. After the
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second Scrubs was the premiere of Nate Brighetzi's The greatest
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average American that true two point three eight million viewers.
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So we had Scrubs with four forty one, then Second
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which seems like a bad number. However, it did better
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than The Golden Bachelor did in the same spot last fall.
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And you know how much budgets there was on The
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Golden Bachelor and Nate's thing, you know, giving away sixty
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seven grand is probably dirt cheap to produce. That thing
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might run for fifteen years just because of the money
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of it all. Friend of the show, Jason Zinneman in
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The New York Times wrote an article five great specials
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to stream this winter. He writes, Taylor Thompson, Kevin Neal
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and Chris Spencer, Isabelle Hagen and Jackie Kashan deliver very