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Callaroga Shark Media. So I'm prepping the show and I
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see a headline comedy superstar known for going topless, and
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I'm like, hey, I better click on this story and
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check it out. It was about Bert Kraser. Not what
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I was looking for at all. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack
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with your daily comedy news. If you miss Sunday, it
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was a very robust episode. You want to go back
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and hear the Ovonne stuff if nothing else. Saturday Night Live,
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I don't know. Man started okay and then fell off
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a cliff, no teeth at all, not sure. SNL met
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the moment open with a decent sketch Colin jo just
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getting some run. He got to play Pete. Hegseth and
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did a nice job in character before getting interrupted by
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James Austin Johnson's increasingly drifting Donald Trump impression. The Trump
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character then got met us saying SNL fifty one off
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to a rough start, seventeen new cast members and I
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got the update guy doing the open, which I thought
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was a good observation. I was thinking the same thing
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myself that Jost got the open Johnson, as Trump said,
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I thought Jose would be with his friends at the
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Rion Comedy Festival, Joe saying he didn't get an offer.
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Then onto the credits, and I'm watching the credits, and
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the credits are high energy, and I'm looking at it
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and I'm like, this is a pretty strong cast because
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all the major players returned, and I'm like, Okay, here
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we go. And then Bad Bunny came out and his
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monologue killed it. There's obviously the language challenge there, but
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also his timing, so you know that takes the air
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out of the balloon. First sketch a Jeopardy sketch that
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just never flew. Other notes, I wrote down Marcelo Hernandez
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in a sketch about chat cheap pto, so like a
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a Hispanic version of chat cheapt Marcelo Hernandez. He does
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one thing. He does it really well, but it's the
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only thing he does, and he did it three different sketches.
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On Saturday. Come on, man, there was a K Pop
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what is a Demon Hunter sketch that spotlighted why Bowen
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Yang and Sarah Sherman are special performers. I wrote down
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Jojah Cat lip syncing, like what are we doing? Just
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don't have it? Just the show's called Saturday Night Live,
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not Saturday Night lip Sync. Kind of lame. Cam Patterson
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was on Update. He's got tons of charisma, but he
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can't perform. He was obviously reading the teleprompter and he's
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not good at that, and he's not good at delivering
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a material in that form. What a really, really really
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unfair early prediction. Cam Patterson won and done. Write that
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one down. We'll check back in May. Taylor Swift did
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not appear on a pretty weak Saturday Night Live. Speaking
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of Taylor Swift, she's the guest on The Tonight Show
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starring Jimmy Fallon. Tonight Late Night Wars heating back up.
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Fallon has been catching a lot of grief. He had
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done an interview recently with Newsweek talking about how he's
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not going to make the show political. Jimmy said, our
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show's never really been that political. You know, we hit
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both sizukhle. We trying to make everybody laugh, and that's
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really the way our show works. Our monologues are kind
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of the same we've been doing since Johnny Carson was
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doing The Tonight Show. So really, I just keep my
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head down and make sure the jokes are funny. I
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have great writers, clever smart writers, and we're just trying
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to make the best show we possibly can and entertain everybody.
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People got very upset at this. I'll continue to defend
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Jimmy Fallen that he understands what the Tonight Show is
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and he executes the mission. I think he's got more
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in his tool belt than he does as host of
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the Tonight Show, but I think he understands what hosting
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the Tonight Show is. On social media, film Bart said, Look,
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I've enjoyed taking pot shots at Fallon from the cheap seats,
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but his utter failure to meet this cultural moment comedically
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is pretty staggering. His public persona is a complete and
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total void chilling. I wonder what film Bart thought of
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SNL Mister b Direct said, Fallon is an empty vessel
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puppeteered by the industry and mega corpse always has been,
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but it's never been more obvious. Hilariously, he will get
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taken out by the Trump administration as quickly as the
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rest of Late Night at the ri Odd Comedy Festival tonight,
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Jimmy Carr and Louis c K. If you miss Sunday's episode,
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I recapped K with Bill Moore. I also listen tok
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on Theovaugh's podcast. I couldn't make it all the way
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to the end. They got into conversation about their sexual addictions,
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and I just punched out on it. Matt Bronger on
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his Substack Rights. I'll start by saying I wasn't invited,
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and also thank god for that. If I was offered
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half of what the comics who went were offered, boy,
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it'd be tough to say no, but I think I
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would have. I'm not here to jump on my fellow comics,
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my brothers and sisters who stand alone on the stage
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and talk about their genitals for laughs. However, I will say,
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what the eff are you doing? We can talk about
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the expanding relationships between our country and theirs, and now
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their people deserve to be entertained. And the end of
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the day, you gotta face the fact that A they
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have slaves three exclamation points. B. The guy who ministered
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the entertainment has an entire wing of a prison where
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they torture people have spoken out or tweeted about the
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Kingdom's oppressions named after him. See they allegedly funded slash
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did nine to eleven D. They killed journalists. Matt observes
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comics play Russian next and e Hey, Kevin Hart, the
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Kevin Hart of Saudi Arabia's wife was taken and disappeared
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for driving a car. Matt Bronger then got into some
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other reactions from some other folks, but I'll skip head
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to his reaction to Bill Burr's take. Matt writes, this
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one's stung because ye s dude, you're the guy, maybe
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the closest big performer we have to a modern George Carlin,
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the zigger in a field of zaggers. Remember when Louis
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c k was the new George Carlan. Nobody says that anymore.
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That was the thing that was said. Matt wraps up
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with I'm still a fan of all these guys in
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most of the comics who played the festival, But to me,
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the check wasn't worth the handshake and applies thanks for
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reading for Pajiba. Dustin Rolls rights that defense is not
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gonna fly Bill Burr. Dustin says, here's the problem with
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Burr's defense. The problem was never the Saudi people. The
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problem with the Iranian regime is not the Iranian people.
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The problem with the net In Yahoo government is not
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the Israelis, and The problem with America is not the
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people who didn't vote for this authoritarian regime. The problem
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is the Saudi government, and it's the Saudi government the
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back to truck full of money to Burr's house. Burn
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might argue that he was simply bringing comedy to people
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who deserve to laugh, and on the surface that sounds noble,
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but that's not what's happening here. Bill Burr is giving
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the Saudi government exactly what it wanted, a positive portrait
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of Saudi Arabia. Yes, the Saudi people who are know
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different than the rest of us. They eat at Chilis too,
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But Saudi journalists are getting killed by their government, which
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is David Cross noted, has slaves. The Saudi people are
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victims of the very government that paid Bird to go
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home and tell the rest of the world that Saudi
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Arabia is a great place with great people, and that
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performing for the Saudi royals was one of the three
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best experiences of his life. So, no Bert, that's not
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gonna fly. And somehow I've lost even more respect for
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him because he apparently doesn't even realize he's become a
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tool for the Saudi royal family. Gabe Iglesias performed on
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Thursday night at the Riodd Comedy Festival. He shared a
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video of himself signing a poster showing the stack lineup.
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He captured it, thank you to everyone it came out
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to my event last night in Riod. I will be
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posting more highlight videos and pictures soon. Unity through laughter.
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The New York Times wrote, the festival has been held
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at Boulevard City, a sprawling entertainment complex with a quarter
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designed to resemble Times Square. Young Saudi has gathered in
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gender mixed spaces beneath the glare of giant screens, rather
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than the watchful gaze of the once feared religious police,
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whose powers were stripped down by the Crown Prince as
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part of his reform drive. Still, societal t insformation has
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its limits. Political humor was warmly received. The sex jokes
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not so much. Sipha Sounds started a gag about men
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air dropping photos of their genitals. Uncomfortable laughter rippled through
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the arena. Seipha Sounds said, Oh, sex jokes don't land,
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and Riod got it in the nation. Ben Schwartz writes
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the list of massive ironic cell phones, these comics just
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racked up and riot is impressive. Burr himself once went
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off on Beyonce as a woman who embraces feminism yet
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flew to Libyate to perform for Momar O Gaddafi. Shabelle
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has criticized Israel and Gaza, but just took money from
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a country that backed to civil war and Yemen that
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caused the femine debts of at least eighty five thousand
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children and killed hundreds of thousand more Yemeni civilians. In
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twenty fourteen, Annibal Burst went after Bill Cosby and said
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out loud what many knew but were afraid to say
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about Bill Cosby. Journalism was limited what it could say
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about Cosby because that his rules. Law enforcement was limited
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in what it could do because it is rules comedians
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don't and Bursu's takedown kickstarted Cosby's ultimate downfall. The Riad
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Court period won't mean much to the careers of most
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of these comics. No one's going to lose a Hollywood
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deal for a movie or a show, and with Saudi
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money in Hollywood, something might come home to new deals.
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All this is distracting us from the big story of
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the week, which is Jim Gaffigan bending the knee to
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the bourbon industry. Jim Gaffigan has sold out to Big Bourbon.
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Jim Gaffigan will do a live podcast recording at Pursuit
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Spirits on Whiskey Row. We're told it's a special live
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podcast experience at the brand new Bourbon Pursuit podcast studio
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and tasting room, and he's doing that today at twelve
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thirty in the afternoon. The Golden Globes, which would be
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hosted by Nicky Glazer, has announced the twenty five podcast
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eligible four Golden Globes now quite notably here, stunningly to
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me here, I can't explain this at all. Not on
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the list of twenty five, which I'll read, not on
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the list. Conan O'Brien, how is that possible? James Cridlin,
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who writes the pod News, pointed out that the twenty
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five podcasts is pretty close to the top twenty five
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podcasts on the charts. Nominated are fort eight Hours, Dak Shepard,
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Call Her Daddy, Candice Owens, Crime Junkie, Dateline, Amy Pohlar, Morbid,
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Mister Ballin, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Rotten Mango,
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Sean Ryan Smortless, stuff you should know. Ben Shapiro, Bill Simmons,
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The Daily, Rogan, Megan Kelly, Mel Robbins, Tucker Carlson, THEO,
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Vaughn n p R. Now, The Golden Globes is a
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showbiz show. I'm stunned that Conan's not on this list
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and just going to win, because don't you want to
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put on a show like you're gonna go ladies and gentlemen.
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Here's crime junkie. Yay. I mean it's popular, but that's
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not showbiz. Ladies and gentlemen. The winner. Best podcast goes
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to stuff you should know again, perfectly fine podcast, but yay,
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here's the guys from The Daily yay. I mean they're
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not gonna give it a Rogan. If you give it
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to somebody like Megan Kelly or Tucker Carlson, you're making
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a statement. I don't know who's gonna get it here.
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Do you just give it to I guess you just
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give it to Amy Pohlar, Right, do you just give it?
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Amy comes out, she smiles, everybody's happy, she's industry, she's
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Golden Globes friendly because she's hosted a thing. So yeah,
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just give it Amy Poehler and we're done. If I
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wrote my notes down correctly. There's a podcast called The
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Idiot Box with Alison Lips the topic, Jay Leno and
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the Late night Stuff, and I'm the guest. I believe
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that is out today, So if you want to hear
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me talk even more, I'm the guest. We recorded that
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before Kimmelgate, if I recall, so some of it might
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be not quite timely, but it is a really good
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conversation for about an hour. John Stewart was asked on
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The Weekly Show why Trump hasn't tried to cancel him
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the way Trump has tried to cancel Colbert, kim ol
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Seth and Felon. John Stewart said, there's no question. It's
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a function of relevance. I don't think we're on the radar,
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you know. I think he's right. It's a cable show,
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and I don't think the president watches that sort of
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TV other than Fox. He's a network guy. He's an
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old school He's from the twentieth century, like me. Makes sense.
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Beth Stelling spoke to Girl Talk HQ about her special,
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The Landlord Special, which you'll find on v Pops. That said,
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I usually know amana something stand up wise when my
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mom says she wants to hear more for this special,
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I was dealing with a very noisy, combustible land lady
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who seemed hell bount in getting me to move so
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she could raise the rent. But for years I was
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more stubborn than I was exasperated. I'd call my mom
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immediately after many of the interactions. On those calls, my
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mom was typically shocked and trying to advise me as
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best she could from afar, But at times it took
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a toll on my mental health to feel trapped in
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a place, especially during the pandemonium, I felt unwelcome and
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under surveillance. This story Heavy Special was born from severe frustration,
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but turning that in the stand up comedy for laughs
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is historically how I process and work through any bad, powerless, painful,
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or uncomfortable things I've experienced. Inspirations that says a renowned
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New York Times critic once referred to my voice as Bamfordian,