Conan O'Brien wants to be left in a ditch

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Joinning Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Conan O'Brien told a friend of the
pod, Jason Zinneman of The New York

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Times, that longevity is overrated.
Zinneman says the first time Conan made this

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point was in April at a restaurant
in New York, when he proposed that

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all statues and monuments should be made
with durable soap that dissolves in seven years.

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A month later, Conan declared himself
anti graveyard, So does he want

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to be cremated? Conan said,
I want to be left at a ditch

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and found by a jugger. W
p R spoke to Dmitri Martin about is

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a recent special Dmitri deconstructed they were
curious about his use of voiceover to give

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the audience a sense of what it's
like being Dmitri. Mister Martin said that

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speaks to the screen relationship or viewers
who perform relationships. That's different when you're

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on a screen than when you're live, because you can get entighter depending on

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your coverage, which I think is
interesting comedically because now we can get a

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lot closer. It's a surprise sometimes
a suddenly we're in height, but then

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once you are closer, you can
be a lot closer auditorially, so close

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that you can get into the performer's
head with a voiceover, if you can

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pull it off. I used it
sparingly, but I think it worked pretty

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well. It's a simulation of the
experience of being on stage, especially if

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you've told jokes so many times that
on the show X number of times,

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you get accustomed to it and try
to keep it fresh and present. But

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you know, it's just how the
human mind works. Sometimes your mind wanders

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and you're telling a joke, but
you're thinking about, oh crap, what

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times? Only flight tomorrow? Hey, Mark Norman, how's your newest hour

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going? Mark said, it's cooking
because I have short jokes. The Beast

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reality joke that took months to fix
and got going. It's about thirty four

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seconds. All this work I'm putting
into it. I guess it's stupid and

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kind of kind productive, but it's
almost like collecting pennies to try to save

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up money. Each joke is like
a penny, and you've got a jar

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of pennies, and you may have
something worthwhile there, but it takes forever,

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so I'd say I'm about thirty five
minutes in. Liz Meely says I

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owe my career to social media.
Some of her early material went viral and

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said it's sort of the best thing
that's ever happened to me and the worst

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thing that's ever had happened to me. I started clipping up my jokes over

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fifteen years ago, and that's how
these viral videos very early in my career,

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via YouTube at first and then Instagram. It's those clips and singular jokes

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that gained me an audience. But
as a storyteller and someone who's more long

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winded, you need to know a
little about me to even appreciate every joke.

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I've had people say mean things about
me because they have no context.

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I did a show in Istanbul and
the booker clipped up a joke about my

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cat dying and me kind of flippantly
being like, I don't care. All

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the hate comments I got I had
to translate them. They were like,

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you don't deserve cats, you horrible
person, and I'm like, WHOA.

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Both my parents are veterinarians. I
love cats. It's a joke. But

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because the clip was out of context, I look like a monster. If

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you had watched even the first jokes
around it, you'd know how much I

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love my cat and cats in general. How tongue in cheek. The response

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was, when you clip it up
and take away context, I was getting

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Turkish hate mail. Will Ferrell's legal
first name is not Will. Apparently this

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bothered him when he was a kid. At the beginning of every school year,

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Will was on Christina Applegate and Jimmy
Linn Siegler is a podcast that exists.

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Apparently Will said, this is some
minor things in terms of it's not

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even really trauma. But I remember
feeling so embarrassed because my real name is

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John John William Ferrell's. The first
day of school, I'd be John.

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The teacher would be like John Ferrell, and was so embarrassing for me to

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have to say, here, but
I go by Will. I don't go

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by John. Boy sounds like a
rough childhood. Huh. Wasn't my choice.

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My parents named me John, but
they called me Will. I grew

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up as Will, but on a
rule sheet, my legal name is John

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Ferrell. I don't know why that
was so embarrassing to me. I have

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to explain I'm actually Will the self
aware. Will Ferrell said, people are

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going to be listening to this going
that is the lamest thing ever. Are

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you in Milwaukee? Can you get
to Milwaukee? Do you want to be

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in Milwaukee? Well? Today you
want to be in Milwaukee. This week

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it's the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. We'll be covering that on the ballot

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to podcast Baublelot, where you get
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about the politicians. A lot of
fun that one, anyway, Comedy Central

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is hosting in Dog Decision twenty twenty
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It includes giveaways, doggy swag,
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and a meet and greet with members
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In Dog Cision twenty twenty four being
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organization, and Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal
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be another one of these in Chicago
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started the Democratic National Convention. So
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calendar, Becky and look Redisha to
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But if we get to the end
of this thing and you're like mad about

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it and you didn't vote, that's
on you sort of. I mean.

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Alex Bennett over the weekend explained how
electoral college works and in some states it's

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not really gonna matter, but vote
vote, but especially down ballot on the

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local stuff, super important. To
vote Tom Green to remember him. He

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is now a celebrity farmer in rural
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purchased a one hundred acre property at
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years. His new reality show Tom
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with a fifteen hundred pound mule,
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unscripted series is among seven new Canadian
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on Prime Video. Ah Yes that
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Sadik spoke to Cracked and said,
people relate to me because I don't win

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in every story. A lot of
people win in every story. But you

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know, even Superman and Batman get
beat sometimes. I always admired Muhammad Ali

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because he was a four time world
champion. The point is he lost three

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times. You can only become a
four time champion. If you lose,

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you gotta lose. Not true.
You could like retire and then someone else

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gets the belt and then you come
back, and then you could be a

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four time champion without ever losing.
I think Ali, you gotta aspire here.

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He often talks about releasing his own
stuff, and he says with other

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entities like Netflix, they own your
special for the duration of it. Somebody

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owns a part of your life.
So me going the independent route is important

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to the legacy of my children to
be able to own the rights to my

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material, to my life. As
always putting out independent albums, why not

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put out an independent special? Remember
comic selling DVDs after show? You were

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putting up some type of money to
make that DVDA. Just scale it up.

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I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm
just taking advantage of the wheel.

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The new thing with YouTube and the
Internet and Instagram, at Facebook and TikTok

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now they're putting a stipulation on young
comics. You have to have a certain

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amount of followers. For us to
put you on shows, need to become

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an asset with your followers. I
get it, but you're judging people by

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Instagram and Facebook and all these things. Now, these are not marketing people.

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These are people who do stand up. I feel like an audience is

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like a friend, and with my
friends, I can tell you the good

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and the bad. We're gonna laugh
and cry together. The Guardian took a

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look ahead at Edinburgh twenty twenty four
and wrote, find the funny with these

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twenty comedy shows. Let's fly through
these on a hot Sunday afternoon. Let's

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see a show about wealth and relatability. Olga Koch or Coke comes from Money.

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Olga stepped into the big league at
Fringe in twenty twenty three, rights

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to The Guardian with a show called
Prawn Cocktail, pairing SaaS tales of trans

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national hookups with a thoughtful critique of
soul bearing comedy. Next show MSCID is

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Sue Gray Emma cutter Teeth way back
as a character comic on the Edenburgh Fringe.

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Now she returns with an intriguing new
offering in disguise as the Grand Inquisitor

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of Partygate turned power behind Keir Starmer's
Throne. Next up, Bobby Davaus.

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Everything is funny if you can laugh
at it. Bobby bounces back after suffering

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a stroke on stage just six months
ago. Wow Rose Mottafeyo's show is on

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and on and on. Her first
solo show since her prize winner Horn Dog

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Roses show is expected to be the
hottest of tickets, says The Guardian.

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That's only four. I'm not doing
twenty. I'm doing five and I'm splitting

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this up. But John, what
are you thinking doing twenty five? We'll

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do five and the fifth one Demi
ade Juibe is going to do one.

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Demi, a writer for James Cordon's
CBS show, promises original comedic songs,

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presentations and one single backflip. Those
are five of the twenty I'm not doing

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all twenty shows that The Guardian is
excited about. I will tell you the

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others. Don't worry. We're here
every every day. It's not like there's

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a cap on the amount of comedy
news I can do. Just some point.

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I'm like, all right, I'm
not going to read twenty and that's

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your comedy news for today. If
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commercials, I can't take him anymore. Can he do something about it?

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