Dec. 3, 2025

Conan O'Brien and The Beatles

Johnny Mac discusses David Letterman's recent interview with Adam Sandler, pondering whether Letterman has lost his touch. Mac mentions Conan O'Brien's appearance on 'The Rest is History' podcast discussing the Beatles. He humorously entertains the 'Paul is Dead' theory and gives viewer statistics for Jim Gaffigan's popular bourbon video. Kevin Hart's Comedy Mount Rushmore is revealed, featuring Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, and Chris Rock. He also talks about Louis C.K.'s new bestseller novel and Amy Schumer addressing rumors about her personal life. Finally, he announces an upcoming 'Comedy Survivor' series and reflects on Adam Sandler's dramatic and comedic career, critiquing Sandler's recent interview with Letterman and humorously touching on his diet.

00:25 Conan O'Brien and The Beatles
02:13 Jim Gaffigan's Bourbon Video Analysis
03:23 Kevin Hart's Mount Rushmore of Comedians
05:57 Louis CK's Bestseller and Controversies
09:39 Amy Schumer's Personal Update
10:22 Comedy Survivor and Nominations
11:41 Adam Sandler's Dramatic Roles and David Letterman


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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hi there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I

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will talk about this David Letterman guy, he had Adam

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Sandler Runner show. We'll talk about it on the second half.

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I'm starting to wonder now have I been on the

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wrong team for the last thirty something years? Should I

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have been Team Jay the whole time? As Dave lost

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his way? We'll get into that. The true King of

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twelve thirty. Conan O'Brien, he's going to be on the

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Rest Is History podcast. That is a fantastic podcast. Have

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you ever listened to that one? They're doing an episode

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about the Beatles. Have you been watching the new version

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of Anthology on Disney Plus? Well, I haven't, because you know,

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that would be supporting fascism. But I heard some other

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people are watching it and they're saying it's really good

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in that they've upscaled the video. But of course I

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don't do such things. I go upstairs and I watch

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the nineteen ninety five DVDs of Anthology. The Rest Is

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History is doing a two part special. Conan O'Brien said

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they were singer songwriters who wrote their own music and

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in so many ways broke the mold. Most groups at

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the time had a clear frontman Deanna and the Bell Mouns,

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for example, and there was a real pressure on them

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to follow that model. For a moment they were even

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Johnny and the Moondogs, but they always knew they were

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a group. Now, as I'm rewatching the nineteen ninety five

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anthology DVDs up until like sixty five, it really is

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John Lennon and the guys. And then I actually believe

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in the Paul is Dead theory. I think Billy Shears,

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who are you familiar with? This Paul is dead replaced

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by a look alike. Some people refer to him as

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Billy Shears, some refer to him as William Campbell. But

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whoever the replacement Paul McCartney is, that guy is a

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Hall of Famer because if you accept the theory is true,

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which of course it is William Campbell, Billy Shears has

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had a Hall of Fame career if you just look

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at the late Beatles stuff after John kind of checked out,

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and then all the stuff from Wings in the solo years,

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fake Paul McCartney has put out a body of work

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that the real Paul McCartney couldn't touch. I mean, it

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really was John Lennon and the Beatles up until basically

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the replacement. Think about it, Get your DVDs out, watch

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the original anthology. Don't support fascism and you'll see what

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I mean. I digress. Conan said, the Beatles single handedly

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brought us from black and white to color. The volume

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of work they have is incredible. They remain as relevant

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today as they were in nineteen sixty four, and I'm

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proud of you, guys. I thought I was going to

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have to get on here today and lecture everyone this

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Jim Gaffigan Bourbon video. It has now leveled off. It

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is steady at three and a half million views. That

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means either the algorithm has slowed it down or you

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guys came to your senses to stop watching this thing,

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and I thank you for that. I did notice it

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has three and a half million views, but only twenty

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seven thousand likes. I was curious, is that a lot

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of likes? It doesn't seem like a lot of likes,

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But I asked chat cheapt who said, short answer, yes,

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that's solid, not spectacular, but definitely not bad. Here's how

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it breaks down. According to chat cheapt. A typical YouTube

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like a rate is a round point five percent to

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two percent. Jim Gaffigan's video is at point seven seven percent.

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That's comfortably within the normal band. Chat says, for a

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video with three and a half million views, the platform

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average would put you somewhere between seventeen thousand, five hundred

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likes and seventy thousand likes. Again, the burb video as

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twenty seven thousand. Chat says twenty seven thousand sits in

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the lower middle range respectable engagement, especially if the content

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is something that naturally drives people to smash the light button.

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What it usually means is people watch the video but

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didn't feel a strong emotional push to interact. The reach

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is high views, but the engagement intent might be mild.

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Still totally healthy, nothing to worry about. Kevin Hart has

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put out his mount Rushmore of comedians. Now, any mount

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Rushmore of comedians is so complicated, because you know where

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do you start? I usually start somewhere around Lenny Bruce,

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George Carlin in the sixties, because how do you really

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compare modern stand up to what people did and say vaudeville?

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It doesn't work. So I will tell you who Kevin

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Hart picked and then you can lose your mind about

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it and whatever. It's just a guy saying here's four

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comedians I like. On that note, Billboard has put out

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a their list of the top stand up comedians of

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the twenty first century. I have not looked at it

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at all. I shared it in the Facebook group, which

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is Daily Comedy News Podcast. I want to save that

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I believe Christmas is a Thursday. So I dropped this

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in for the Sunday, but I am curious about it.

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I might actually record that day's show right after this,

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just so I know who they did. And if I

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do that, I'll drop it early for the paid subscribers,

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Great way to support the show, and again, if I

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have my act together, I'll drop that second episode for

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the paid people shortly. I'm having some microphone problems today.

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I had to go into the shoe box here in

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the studio and find an old adapter. I have a

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USB C to USB A adapter so I can use

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the microphone on my MacBook and the one I've been using. Oh,

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you're kind of crapped out, but I found an old one.

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It seems like we're steady. I digress. You don't care

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about any of that. Kevin Hart his mount Rushmore of comedy.

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Kevin Hart said prior always is on there first, and

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his other three picks Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. Again,

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I almost went on a diet tribe about how Eddie

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Murphy is just a Richard Pryor cover act, even though

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I love him. But I'm not taking the bait. We

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can debate this all day, so sure, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy,

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Dave Schapelle, Chris Rock, why not build a mountain put

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their face up on it. I don't care. Hart explained,

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Chris Rock is someone who became a multi hyphen it

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in the business of entertainment but still stayed true to

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the craft. Dave Chappelle is just the voice of comedy today.

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Eddie Murphy showed what a star looked like, and he

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did not elaborate, Nor does anyone need to on the

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greatness of Richard Pryor. On most lists of Richard Pryor

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and George Carlin to finish one or two, depending on

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who made the list. There was a time when Louis

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c k was being compared to George Carlin as the

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modern day George Carlin. You don't hear that so much anymore.

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Louis who is you know? So canceled and he did

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the naughty stuff and then he went to Riodd and

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everyone's just mad at him. Well, he's on the New

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York Times Bestseller's list for hardcover fiction titles. Who's buying

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this book? Someone is ck went on Instagram and wrote, Hello,

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I want to share the happy news that my debut novel,

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Ingram is at the New York Times bestseller List, number fourteen.

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It's been a very rich experience having it out in

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the world and hearing how much people like it. You

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can order Ingram hardcover ebook or audiobook at the link

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in my bio. Now I'm curious. Let's see what else

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is on the list. What am I looking for here?

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New York Times Bestseller List. But it's a subdivision, right,

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bestseller hardcover fiction titles. All right, New York Times Bestseller

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Hardcover Fiction. Here is the list. Oh look, as I

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record this a little after three on Tuesday, no longer

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on the list. Oh no, no, no, I'm looking at

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They have the top fifteen here, and I'm not seeing

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Louis ck On here. So I guess it was a

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little little bit of a shooting star there. And for

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the second time today, sanity is resuming here in the

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world of comedy watching gaff again, you stop buying Louis

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c k books. Next thing, you'll come around on Adam

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Sandler being a great dramatic actor and a terrible comedian.

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You'll come around. I'm having a good day here. This

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is much better than the week's been going up until now.

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If you're curious. Louis said he's going to be at

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the Barnes and Ople bookstore at the Grove in Los

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Angeles for a book signing on December sixth. Dustin Nickerson

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was quite happy that the Carolina Panthers beat the Los

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Angeles Rams. That's right, Panthers thirty one, Rams twenty eight.

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But you see, Dustin Nickerson is a fan of the Seahawks. Now,

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all these teams are in the forty nine ers way, Well,

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not the Panthers, but Nickerson, the Seahawks fan posted Dear

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Carolina Panthers, thank you sincerely, Seahawks fans. Jim gaff again

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stuck at three and a half million views. He was

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on Jimmy Kimmel's show and said he doesn't think of

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himself as dumb. I do dumb things. Let me talk hypothetically.

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Here's how dumb men are. I'm gonna think of a

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hypothetical man. Let's say a football coach. Let's say an

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NFL coach. Let's say this football coach has won five

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Super Bowls. This is quite funny. Let's say he had

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this legacy, and let's say this brilliant mastermind had his

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legacy destroyed by a twenty four year old social media manager.

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Kimmel cuts in, he goes, this is all hypothetical. Old

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Gaffigan says, yeah, hypothetically speaking, Now, maybe they're in love.

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He's seventy three, she's twenty four. I know some people

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have an issue with that, and those people are called women.

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love is love, right. My point is she's not evil,

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he's dumb. And now my dogs are working. Guys, I

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just fixed the microphone. I'm just trying to get the

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show today. Maria Bamford caught up with New yot ned.

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She was talking about Late Night and said, in nineteen

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ninety nine, and I think I was on Conan, I

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didn't feel good at all. I felt so scared. I

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was surprised by that because I thought, isn't this supposed

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to feel great when your dreams come true? But I

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felt very bad and super scared. It wasn't fine. It

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was three and a half or four minutes of time.

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I didn't grow up with entertainment my family, so I

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think I associated this weird magic with it, like, oh,

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if it's on TV, then it's a bigger deal in

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real life. And it turns out real life is almost

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exactly like TV. Nw YO asked her about Colbert Gate

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and Kimmelgate. Bamford said, well, the sad thing is people

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don't notice the lack of free speech until it starts

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affecting white males. It seems like our country is just

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not itself anymore because there's fear of retribution. I mean,

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people get death threats now for saying what they believe.

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I've had that myself. I did this goofy thing where

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I fought a restraining order against Trump so he couldn't

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come within one hundred feet of my house. I put

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that on social media because I thought it was funny,

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and he is an unregistered sex offender, so there's no

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reason to be afraid of him. But then as soon

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as I boasted that, I had death threats and people

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saying I know where you live. That's just so sad.

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So I think it's gotten where you go. Oh, even

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the privilege to being effective. And she laughed and said, which,

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I don't think anybody who's black, brown, or as any

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other minority experience, is going to be surprised by how

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quickly your freedoms are taken away. Let's head on over

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to gossip corner. Amy Schumer does like us to talk

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about her, so we shall. You got it. Amy. Amy

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went on Instagram to update everybody about the rumors of

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you know, as she's splitting up with her husband Chris.

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She wrote, fingers crossed, we make it through. Whatever ends

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up happening with me and Chris has nothing to do

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with weight loss or autism. Fingers crossed, we make it through.

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He's the best. Schumer jumped in on the comments and

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rode sorry for whatever a feeling it's giving you that

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That's right. Jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News

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Podcast Group and give me your nominees for who should

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be on the island. As we do this in January,

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midnight as Thursday turns into Friday, so I can record

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Monday's episode and tell you who will be on the Island.

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I welcome your nominations. Mike chimed in. He argued for

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Pete Davidson and says because his name always comes up,

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that's true. Also a good nomination from Mike for Kevin Hart,

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Mike points out because if there ever was a comedy survivor,

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Kevin won't be too busy for it. That's right. He

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likes to work. He also suggested Colin jokes because the

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furry thing isn't going away interesting. Plus we could make

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vote jokes. Mary Hinda gets the joke and wrote where

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Seth Myers that it wrote back? Is that a nomination?

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So I think she understands the whole thing out Today,

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I didn't want to put a big roadblock at the

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top of the show. I think pretty much everyone is

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now on board realizing that Adam Sandler is one of

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the great dramatic actors of our time. In this movie

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Ja Kelly, which is on Netflix Friday night, I'm actually disappointed.

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I have a wedding Friday night, so I can't watch

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Adam Sandler's movie Friday night. Hopefully Saturday night I'll get

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to it. But this weekend is December seventh, as you know,

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is the anniversary of Star Trek the motion picture, which

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I watch every single year on or about December seventh,

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So I don't know what I'm gonna get to Despite

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the greatness of Adam Sandler, but I think we all

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agree Adam Sandler one of the great dramatic actors of

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our time, one of the worst comedians who ever was.

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And this brings me to David Letterman. So David Letterman

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is already on the wrong side of making twelve thirty

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great again. So I think we just have to just

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look at Dave and realize he got old and has

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lost his way, and now he's out interviewing Adam Sandler

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about comedy rather than acting, And what are you doing, Dave?

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I mean, Dave has lost his way. So this reminds me.

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I'm a Jimmy Buffett fan, And at one point there

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was a group that called themselves the Church of Buffett Orthodox.

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They began to distance themselves from Jimmy Buffett because Jimmy

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Corona Beers, and everything was just sell, sell, sell, sell, sell,

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and they thought that Jimmy Buffett the Man had gotten

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away from Jimmy Buffett the message, which was I'm just

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sitting in the sand having a good time. And they

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like the monetization of everything. So they started the Church

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of Buffett Orthodox. And now I'm wondering if we have

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to start the Church of Letterman Orthodox. Those of us,

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the true believers who understand that twelve thirty David Letterman

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was great, eleven thirty David Letterman was okay. And now

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I don't know what's happening. He does not want to

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make twelve thirty great again. Supporting Seth Myers and now

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interviewing Adam Sandler about comedy. Now I didn't watch this yet.

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The real thing that happened is I was sitting in

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the comfy chair and I fell asleep, and I woke

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up and it was one thirty in the morning, So

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I haven't actually watched My Next Guest needs no Introduction

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or whatever that show's called on the Netflix. Decider saw

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it and they gave it a review and said, the

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interview itself starts chronologically enough. We find out about Adam

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Sandler's time at NYU, where people told them he was funny.

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Sandler appearing in an early episode of The Cosby Show

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with that Bill Cosby guy, Yeah, what's that about him?

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Should we look into this? Sandler played Theo's friend Smitty,

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and then, of course, then Lorne Michael's. In one of

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the really bad decisions in Lorne Michael's Great career, he

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puts Adam Sandler on SNL. Now, finally there's a chunk

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where Letterman wakes the hell up and focuses on Sandler's

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dramatic turns and punch, drunk love and uncut gems. Hopefully

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I haven't seen it yet. Letterman asks him about the

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Basketball movie. In the Space Movie, Decider tells us the

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structure of the episode isn't linear in the conversation sometimes overlap,

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with Sandler repeating stories in slightly different ways more awkward,

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though Letterman veering off course multiple times in their conversation.

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A spotlight work Sandler has done for Netflix this year,

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including Happy Gilmore IWO, ugh Awful. The folks over at

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Parade Magazine watched it and they focused on a story

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Sandler told about his grandmother. There's a big story in

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my house. I was in Florida visiting, and I took

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a shower in the morning and I did my day,

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and that night I was taking another shower and my

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grandmother said, you take a lot of showers, and I

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said yeah, and she said, I think you're entertaining yourself

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up there. Sandler says he did not use that anecdote

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in his very first stand upset, but also says I

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was devastatingly bad and nobody laughed. I mean, yeah, that's

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not hard to believe at all. We've also learned, and

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Sandler says, I say so many things about my wife

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and kids that aren't true. I make stuff up and

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make a goofy. At the end of the show, I

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like to remind my audience that none of it is true.

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And I love my wife. I think during the show

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when I'm saying things about her, she must go. Let's

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move on. And we also learned from Sandler's appearance on

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the Drew Barrymore Show that wife Jackie and Drew Barrymore,

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who is the co star in some of the very

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few watchable Adam Sandler movies, they're trying to get Adam

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Who's weight, Which is funny because I'm actually dieting this week,

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and I'm not doing a bit down four pounds already.

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Why are you dining John? Because John found out oh

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my physicals at the end of this week, and as

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I've been joking to my family, I have to lose

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twenty five pounds in five days. Hey, I lost four.

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Drew Barrymore asked the great actor Adam Sandler. I heard

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that Jennifer Aniston is part of Jackie, Sonny and Sadie's

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crusade for you to eat healthy. What is this? I've

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seen your pantry. It's pretty healthy. Sandler joked. His wife

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bought grocery, so every milk has some sort of nut involved,

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and he switched to Healthy Cereal. Jake Kelly, a dramatic

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role by Adam Sandler, out on Netflix on Friday. David Letterman,

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Get it together, pal, and that is your comedy news

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for today. See tomorrow.