Aug. 20, 2025

Conan O'Brien Says Late Night Is Dying PLUS a shocking suggestion for Best Comedian Right Now

Conan O'Brien  Says Late Night Is Dying PLUS a shocking suggestion for Best Comedian Right Now
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Conan O’Brien admits traditional late-night TV may be disappearing, but insists Stephen Colbert will thrive in a new format. Jimmy Kimmel calls B.S. on rumors Colbert’s show lost $40 million a year. Plus: Jean Marco’s new special Thief of Joy, Pete Davidson dishes on why Bupkis is done, the New York Comedy Festival adds 100+ shows (but are they big names?), and Johnny Mac declares Kyle Kinane the low-key best comic in the game. Also: Cherry and Spoon at Minnesota Fringe, Ralph Barbosa’s latest special, and a tease of DCN8.

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Callaroga Shark media. Uh oh, it's August twentieth. You know

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what that is. That's the two minute warning on Johnny

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Mack's summer. I'm gonna panic and have to go to

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the beach ninety five times in the next ten days

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to Labor Day. And Labor Day is a pesky Monday,

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September first, So all of a sudden, it's gonna be like, hey,

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back to school. Uh. Conan O'Brien, Oh Hi, I'm Johnny

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Maack with your daily coming. He was. Conan O'Brien says

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Late Night TV is going to disappear, but quote people

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like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to

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go away. I put the spin on light there. I

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think he said it as a compliments, and I'm not

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taking a dig at Kobert. I just noticed I put

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some spin on the sentence that I didn't need to.

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Conan talked about all this while being honored at the

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TV Academy Hall of Fame ceremony. He was inducted as

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one of the six new members into the Hall of Fame,

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joining Ryan Murphy among others. Macpacker Henry Winkler. Speaking of

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macpack I've been oding on Bash Brothers, the Andy Samberg

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thing about Mark McGuire and jose canseco out. It came

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out like five years ago, and I put it on

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last week. It's on Netflix. I've been watching it about

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once a day and playing the soundtrack endlessly. Just go

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check out Bash Brothers. It's amazing. Anyway, Mac Packer, Henry

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Winkler's in the Hall of Fame. Now Conan's in the

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Hall of Fame. Conan said, you know, people say that

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television is dying, but I want to ask you, if

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our industry was really in trouble, would we be gathered

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right now for our greatest night in a downtown Los

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Angeles Marriott on a weekend in August. No, Conan O'Brien joked,

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things are changing fast. I don't claim to know the

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future of our beloved medium, but I know this, Getting

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the privileged to play around with an hour of television

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has been the great joy of my professional career. We're

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having this event now at a time where there's a

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lot of fear about the future of television, and rightfully so.

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The life we've all known for almost eighty years is

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undergoing seismic change. But this might just be my nature.

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I choose not to mourn what is lost, because I think,

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in the most essential way, what we have is not

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changing at all. Streaming changes the pipeline, but the connection,

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that talent, the ideas that come in our homes. I

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think that's as quotent as ever. We have proof here

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tonight the elephant in the room CBS ending the Late

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Show with Colbert Conan said, yes, late night television as

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we have known it since around nineteen fifty is going

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to disappear. But those voices aren't going anywhere. People like

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Steven Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away.

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It's not going to happen. He's not going anywhere. Steven

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is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in

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a new format that he controls completely. I had an

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idea that'll never happen. It was recently the anniversary of

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the Larry Sanders show What If Colbert, And remember in

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the past, Colbert played a character called Stephen Colbert. What

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If Colbert went to HBO and did a new take

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on the Larry Sanders Show. So it's about what happens

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to quote unquote Stephen Colbert as he gets a quote

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unquote late night show on streaming. That could be fun,

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but that's not what he's going to do. That was

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my idea. Jimmy Kimmel is calling a hogwash on this

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insider report claiming that Colbert's Late Show was losing paramount

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forty million dollars a year. Kimmel pointed as ever, said,

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there's just not a snowballs chance in hell that's anywhere

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near accurate. All Right, that's pretty clear he has more.

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The idea that Steven Colbert's show is losing forty million

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dollars a year's beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly

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analyze the budgets of the shows. I don't know who

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they are, but I do know they don't know what

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they're talking about. I would imagine Jimmy Kimmel has pretty

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good insight into the finances of a late night show.

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Maybe the real estate New York versus LA is different.

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Maybe Colbert's show has eighty five times as many staffers

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who have even better benefits. You know, could be stuff

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like that. But if Colbert is saying forty million dollars

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a year is not realistic, he's gotta be in the ballpark. Right.

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Kimmel explained AD revenue is only one way shows make money,

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and that affiliate fees can also make a show profitable.

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It's really surprising how little the media seems to know

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about how the media works. Yeah, like, if you want

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to be an ABC affiliate, you got to like sign

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up and I guess pay some money to the ABC's

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I recently saw some TV stations stopped being affiliates. Let

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me see if I can find that story real quick. Yeah,

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here's from the Hollowood Reporter in March. Disney said the

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Thursday in March that WPLG, the South Florida TV station

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owned by Berkshire Hathway for the last eleven years, would

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be losing its ABC affiliation later this summer. That I

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think has now happened more from Kimmel. Suddenly he's losing

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forty million dollars a year. I'll tell you, in the

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first ten years I did the show, they claim we

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weren't making any money, and we had five times as

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many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows

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what's true. I have to say, if Joe Biden had

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used his muscle to get Sean Hannity kicked off the air.

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You may be surprised to learn that I would not

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support that. In fact, I would support Sean Hannity in

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that situation because I thought one of the founding principles

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of this country was free speech. But people don't seem

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to care about protecting it unless you agree with them.

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Kim Well declared this. I don't know about this, Jimmy said.

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More if people are watching late night television than ever before,

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including during Carson's era, our monologues get between two and

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five million views, sometimes more. Every night. Seth Meyers gets

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two million on YouTube alone. We're not even talking about

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Instagram or the other platforms. The show John Stewart on

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a Monday night, we'll get five million views. Then you

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add in the TV ratings. So the idea that late

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night is dead is simply untrue. Yes, but the idea

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that an eleven thirty show losing money is dead, that

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is true. I mean, if you guys want to just

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sit home and stream monologues, sure you'll get views. And

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what's the monetization on a YouTube video versus network television. Jimmy,

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I mean, I'd pro late night here, but I do

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understand you have to be realistic about the money and

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to say like, oh, people are watching Seth Meyers on YouTube. Yeah,

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that's nice. Kimmel wants you to vote for Colbert instead

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of Kimmel for the Emmys. He told Variety, it seems

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like voting for Steven is the least we could do

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at this point, and I think it'll be a nice

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statement if he does win. Obviously, awards don't mean much,

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but every once in a while they do, and in

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this case that they get will No, it won't. The

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headline will be Stephen Colbert wins Emmy, and then there'll

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be articles like haha, CBS, your stupid faces, see what

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you did. And the show is still canceled. It doesn't

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matter at all. All that said, sure, let's give Stephen

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Colbert an Emmy. Seems like a good guy. I've previously

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said if I were the Democrats, I'd get on the

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phone and call him. But the show's not coming back.

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It's done. It is an X show, it is deceased.

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It is no more Late Nighter. Reports Kobert will not

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get a tenth anniversary special on CBS. That makes sense

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to me. It's a dead show walking again. If you

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do a tenth anniversary special, No one's gonna go, oh,

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those guys at CBS are cool. They're just gonna say,

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look at those idiots at CBS and now they're doing

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a tenth anniversary special. What jerks they are? So yeah,

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you're not getting a ten anniversary special. Sorry, all right,

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Enough with the late night Friend of the Show, Jen

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Marcos Soireesi. There was a podcasting expert quote unquote expert

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who wrote a big article about how you're not supposed

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to say friend of the show or friend of the pod.

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Why not? Why not? John Marco's been on twice, seems

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to like me. His publicist definitely likes maybe treat notes

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all the time, So sure, Friend of the Show. John

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Marcos Soiressi is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of

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his first full length comedy special, Fief of Joy, that'll

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be on his YouTube channel September nineteenth. Thief of Joy

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blenched on Marco's signature theatrical flare with deeply personal storytelling.

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Drawing from his life as a theater kid turned to

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theater major. He weaves together intimate anecdotes about his relationship, career,

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and parents divorce, all delivered in the animated style the

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New York Times called silkly feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation.

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Was that you, Jason Zinneman who wrote that phrase? I'm

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pretty sure if I google that exact phrase, that'll come

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up right. Let's see who wrote that? Yes, that was

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Friend of the Show. Oh, I said Friend of the

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show again. I'm going to get a note from the

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podcasting expert Jason Zinneman. December one, twenty twenty three, New

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York Times. Yep says here comic who alternates between silkily

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feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation. Love it. See I'm not

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good enough for the New York Times. My review would

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be like, Yeah, he was really funny. That's why I'm

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podcasting in the basement. Friend of the Show third time,

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Jason Zinneman. He's writing for the New York Times. People

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who went to see Shane Gillis says Shane has a

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new opening video montage. It features clips of the Philadelphia

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Eagles defeating the Kansas City Chiefs. The montage includes a

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hit to the face of Patrick Mahomes. Interestingly enough, the

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Chiefs and Eagles played each other week two. A lot

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of Pete Davison stuff lately, all coming from his interview

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with Charlemagne. What's making headlines this week is Pete talking

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about how I canceled buck Guss and I got in

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trouble for it because I didn't I love that show.

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I love doing buck Guss at a blast. Just got

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to a point where I really got tired of my

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whole career just being my personal life and living through

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that is sort of traumatic. Not to be lame, but

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it's traumatic to live in your own crap all the time.

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Pete said the show's direction changed when a new collaborator

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stepped in. Pete says, this new person came in and

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was like, I think Pete should be banging Martha Stewart

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this season. I think Pete should have more mental issues.

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And I was like, oh, but I wouldn't do that.

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And then we're like, well, Pete the character would, and

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I was like, I can't do this. I was like,

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if I want any shot and being in real movies

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being seen a certain way, I just can't play myself

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all the time and be this sack A at NBC react,

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they were not pleased. Have you seen me in any

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NBC Universal projects? Since they were upset, I cost people jobs,

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and I took care of the writer's room and anyone

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who to get paid that needed to. I took care

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of it, which also hurt. But it's funny you work

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for company over a decade. Pretty sure. I brought in

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a lot of money, worked hard on the show as

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a good boy, like promoting it and whatnot. Made me realize. Yes,

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everything I'm about to tell you that Pete said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,

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It made me realize about the business. No one actually

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cares about you. Studios, networks, they don't really care about you.

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They want you to do the thing, which I get.

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And that's all good. But there was a time when

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it wasn't. Seems like the New York Comedy Festival took

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my note. I mean, this was probably the plan already,

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These are the highlights of the New York Comedy Festival.

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By the way, I didn't write the press release they

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did that show hosted by Chris Gethard November twelfth, New

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York's Funniest Stand Ups on the twelfth, Comics to Watch,

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j McBride show, Jays Fantastic Mateo, Nick Smith on the fourteenth,

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Monsters of Tokyo on the fifteenth, Hannibal Burus and Friends

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on the sixteenth in Brooklyn, Rika Rhodes Pushing Up Daisies

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at UCB on the sixteenth, and Ricky Valez on the sixteenth.

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Previously announced headliners for this year's festival include Hannah Berner,

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Michael Blaxon, The Not So Canceled, Louis c K, Margaret Show,

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Alex Edelman, Chris Fleming, Pete Holmes, Morgan Jay Ismo, Ryan Long, Nurse,

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John Joheyesponder, Paul Denello and Amy Sedaris and Trevor Wallace.

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So let me just summarize this. So basically, the New

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then who were putting third Hannibal burs Oh Strangers with

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Candy with Stephen Colbert's on this one? Okay, so rephrasing

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this year's at New York Comedy Festival is what Stephen Colbert,

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Louis c K, Pete Holmes, and Hannibal Burris, A bit

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of a drop this year in Saint Louis. Now, now

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here's a lineup for you. In Saint Louis, they've announced

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the Flyover Comedy Festival. We'll be back. Flyover is in

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November thirteen to the sixteen, so that's probably right after

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New York in Saint Louis. It features more than one

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hundred and fifty comedians across ten stages. Headliners include The

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Not So Canceled Disease I'm sorry, and somebody who I

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think might actually low key quietly be sailing along who

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right now might be the best comedian in the game,

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John did you just say that about who you didn't

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name yet? I did you know who might really, low

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key if you pay attention, be pound for pound the

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funniest out there right now. And it's also one of

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the headliners of the Flyover Comedy Festival. You know what

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name I'm going to say to you, and I want

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you to ponder it over the break. Kyle Kanaan, Did

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you ponder mi Kyle Kanaan declaration? Think about it? He's

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really good? Wyn't you comment? The Facebook group Daily Comedy

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News Podcast Group. Hey, Johnny Mack actually watched some comedy specials?

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I know, right? Yeah? Was this? Was it Friday night

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or Saturday night? After I went tubing? Was some night

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I was too tired to do anything. Let's see what

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did I put on first? I think I'd put on

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Devin Walker's special because the buzz was good and I

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watched it. I think he's a writer. I think the

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materials there. I don't think he's a good stand up

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comedian performer, says the guy recording a podcast in his

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basement about the guy on Saturday Night Live. The Chris

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Rock joke, which we've previously talked about, is fantastic, But

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I don't know. The special just didn't feel like it

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was there when I switched over to Ralph Barbosa on

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going to be dislanarious? Not my problem because the pulp

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says won't tell me anyway, Barbosa, this is one of

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those specials that I think civilians are gonna be like, oh,

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that was good, and comedy snobs like me are like, eh,

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about it, you know, because I went in there going O,

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everybody said this wasn't good, and I thought it was

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better than that. But like, it just wasn't. There wasn't

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anything special, and I'm a snaps. I moved on and

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really funny. Let's keep an eye on him, and he

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of the three I just mentioned, I really like that one.

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was just tired, and then I wanted to check out

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the new Alien show, which brings me to new thing. Okay,

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give me a minute here and then we'll get back

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to the comedy. I started a new thing. It's called

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DCN eight. What's that? So you hear me from time

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to time trying to upsell premium subscriptions to Calaruga Shark Media,

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And you know what, it's doing pretty well for us.

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You get this show and a bunch of others, including

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five Good News Stories, which I host, and Palace Intrigue,

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which is our big show, and you get those commercial

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free for five bucks a month. So for like five

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network ad free. There's like a minor exception. There's like

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one thing. It doesn't matter. If I was speaking casually,

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But like you know, anyway, I digress. Five bucks a month.

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It's all commercial free. So I'm like, you know what,

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So I dropped an episode yesterday of DCN eight. What

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I don't want to do is I don't want to

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be a jerk and be like, hey, I got a

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cool comedy story, but I'm not doing it unless you

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give me five bucks. So all the comedy stuff stays

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exactly how it's been for seven years now, not changing it.

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I'm not going to be like, hey, I'm going to

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tell you my favorite specials of the air, but you

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got any five bucks. That's not what this is. That's

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not at all what this is. So I dropped an

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episode and I talked about my trip to Niagara over

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the weekend, my tubing trip. Then I went to Niagra Falls,

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some stuff I did there. Then I talked about Taylor Swift,

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Alien Earth and Star Trek Strange New Worlds. So, like

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I don't want to do that. But it's just something

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extra and hopefully another reason to encourage you to be like,

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all right, I'll spore the show five bucks. I'm on

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the commercial free it's in the feed. I'm not putting

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rules on it. I don't know what I'm going to

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talk about on it yet. It'll find its voice, like

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any new project, give me like a month and I'll

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be like, oh, that's what this should be. But I

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just was yesterday. I jumped in the pool. It's got

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a cool, new snazzy theme song that I like. It's

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like an inexcess vibe. So to get that on Apple Podcast,

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click the bander that says uninterrupted listening. If you have

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already done that, you can find the show in your feed.

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And if you just want to try it out, there's

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try out this commercial for everything, take the free trial.

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But I'm telling you today's August twentieth. It's on you

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to remember, like September eighteenth to nineteenth, to cancel the

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thing if you don't want it to renew, because if

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it renews, Johnny Mack gets five bucks. Actually Johnny make

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gets three bucks. Apple gets two bucks. But that's a

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whole other thing. Okay, So that's dcnight. If you're on

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Apple Podcast and you're a premium subscriber. You'll find it

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in the feed. Jordan Jensen, we'll get a Netflix special

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on September ninth, her first hour specials called Take Me

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with You. In a statement, Jensen said, being a person

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is humiliating and grotesque. I'm not sure why we're all

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pretending it's adorable or palatable in any way, but that

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sounds hilarious. Out today on the Comedy Exports YouTube channel

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at nine a m. Central Time, Love the Randomness and

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a three pm British time. It mentions Kai Humphries Mischief

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is out. Cherry and Spoon were at the Minnesota Fringe.

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So this isn't the horrible Edinburgh one where you're like,

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why am I even here? Hotels are so expensive and

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nobody comes to my show and Oasis ruined everything. No,

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it's not that one. This is the Minnesota one where

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people are probably Minnesota nice. Terry and Spoon went to

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see The Gentleman's Pratfall Club summary. An actor tries to

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learn how to fall down for his audition to be

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TV's new Captain Clumsy. Love it the description There's really

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nothing funnier than watching the comedy suitcase guys throw their

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bodies around the theater in the service of comedy. This

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reviewer says, it's the hardest I've laughed in ten days.

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Why is it? The people falling down are so funny somehow,

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even more when it's on purpose. The plot of the

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show is that Walter is a struggling actor going for

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one last edition for a show is not even into

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He just thinks it's a good way to go on TV.

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There were slaps, trips, getting tangled up in chairs. It's

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good old fashioned physical comedy. That's funny in any era,

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for all ages. That sounds fun It's the gentleman's prat

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fall Club. Meanwhile, over in Edinburgh, where Everybody's miserable fringe

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voice caught up with Andy Lindon. Andy's one man show,

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Baxter Versus the Bookies, recounts the fluctuating fortunes of a

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down trodden horse raiding tipster who pits his close up

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knowledge of horses against the flashy statistics of the online bookies,

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comedy and pathos. Hopefully Andy's approach to the fringe. He said,

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I used to drink at the Penny Black till five

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am and still do two shows nowadays. My doctors told

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me to give up smoking and drinking or die. So

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this will be my first totally sober and nicotine free festival.

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It's going to be crystal clear. The Horror. Top advice

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for an artist considering the Horrible Fringe where everybody's miserable,

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He says, like with betting, only do it if you

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could afford to lose. Edinburgh Festival is criminally expensive. Now

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if you listen every day, see if you can answer

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the question before I tell you the answer. They asked him,

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if you could change one thing about the festival, what

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would it be? Do you know what I'm going to say?

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Do you know what he said? That's right? No search

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pricing on accommodation or travel during the festival. Why do

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people go? All? Right? That is your comedy news for

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today again, if you would like to program with that

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