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Callaroga Shark Media hither. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
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comedy news. I've been trying to stay away from the
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Chevy Chase documentary. I just I don't know why. I'm
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just not interested in it. But there's controversy involved, and
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Johnny Mack likes to talk about controversy. One of the
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things that is notable is that nobody from the cast
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of community talked to the documentary that screams volumes and
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now we are hearing from a vet Nicole Brown, or
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rather not hearing from a vet Nicole Brown. She posted
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on Instagram. There are things I've never spoken of publicly
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and perhaps never will. Anyone currently speaking four or about me,
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and she put four and about in caps four or
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about me with perceived authority is speaking without ever speaking
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to me about the things they claim to know about.
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They actually don't know me at all. They actually don't
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really know me at all. They also have no knowledge
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of my relationship with anyone I've worked with, and can
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not credibly speak on any current or previous issues. I
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hate that all this had to be said in East
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Cleveland speak. Keep my name out of your mouth. Wow,
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I mean, that's the kind of phrase that somebody says
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when they're about to slap Chris Rock. So she seems
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pretty upset. So, according to this new CNN documentary, which
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is called I'm Chevy, Chase and He're Not, nobody from
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the community cast wanted to speak, and according to the
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doc Chase felt ostracized by the tight knit cast. Chevy
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also clashed with Dan Harmon, the creator of the series. Apparently,
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Chevy arrived with his family to a rap party and
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found Dan Harmon leading the room in a chant of
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Fu Chevy Wow. We are sold the incident that led
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to Chevy's firing from the show involved a scene in
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which Chase's character Peers, performs a puppet show in which
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the hand puppet character performs a blackface. As the story goes,
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there was a discussion about the appropriateness of the scene
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between Chevy and event Nicole Brown. Some say during that
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discussion Chevy used the and Brown stormed off the set
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that wouldn't come back unless Chevy apologize. As the story goes,
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we are told Chase did return to the set but
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didn't apologize. The episode director says, Chevy goes, you know
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me and Richard Pryor I used to call Richard pryor
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the N word, and he used to call me the
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honky and we loved each other. And I'm like, I know, man,
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I love that bit. And I said, you know, can
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we just have a little apology? And he goes for
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what that reference is to a pretty famous Saturday Night
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Live bit that I'm not going to share with you
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for obvious reasons. After this incident was recapped on The
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Hollywood Reporter, apparently Chevy had a full meltdown and worried
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that his career was ruined. Now concurrent to that controversy,
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Saturday Night Lives, Terry Sweeney has weighed in. Terry Sweeney
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was SNL's first out cast member during the nineteen eighty
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five eighty six season. I saw Terry's name come up
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in the news, and I didn't remember him being a
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cast member. That's neither here nor there. It's just my
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own personal lack of recollection. I was like, who. But apparently,
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way back when Chase and Sweeney didn't get along. In
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the CNN doc, director Marina Zenovich reminds Chevy Chase of
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the joke that offended Sweeney, quoting her, you said something
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to Sweeney like, oh, you're the gay guy. Why don't
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we ask if you have AIDS? And every week we
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weigh you burn. Michaels says, I think Chevy was just
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being chevy. He would say things that were funny, would
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assume you were comedy people. He could speak that way.
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You know, we would say terrible things because that's what
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would make us laugh. In the documentary, Chevy says Terry Sweeney,
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he was very funny. This guy. I don't think he's
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alive anymore. Well, Terry Sweeney disproved that by both being
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alive and speaking to the Hollow reporter. He told the reporter,
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don't you think he's saying this and making himself look
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more like they ass he is. In the SNL oral
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history book Live from New York, The Complete Uncensored History
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of Saturday Night Live, Sweeney recounts Chevy entering his dressing
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room and apologizing for the AIDS group, but was furious
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that he apologize. Chase responds, my memory is that he's lying,
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and that's my memory. He's not telling the truth. This
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is it's not who I am. And if I am
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that way, my life has changed because I have to
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live with that now. For the rest of my effing life.
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Sweeney says, if Chase's comments to the dock, it all
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reflects rightly horribly on him. Boy, you know, at some point, Chevy,
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it's you like the rest of the world is like
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this guy's a jerk. It's up pointed to you. Dude,
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are there coming for John Stewart? Did you get your
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talking points about why you're supposed to be mad at
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John Stewart? Here? Write this down so you're on the
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right side of righteousness. You're supposed to be furious at
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John Stewart. Currently on The Weekly Show with John Stewart.
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On the December eleventh episode, John Stewart made fun of
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people who still wear masks. John's comments did not go
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down well with people who still are cautious and wear masks.
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I wear masks on airplanes. I've been a germophobe way
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before COVID. Ask people who work with me and serious.
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If you had a cold and you were on my staff,
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I wouldn't let you in my office. On social media,
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one person wrote, Hey, John Stewart, were you under the
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impression that people who are still taking COVID seriously and
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wearing masks need your bs on top of everyone else's,
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isn't part of your brand being a decent guy who
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thinks Another said, Hey, John Stewart, joke about wearing masks
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aren't funny. Would you ask someone why they wear corrective eyeglasses? Well,
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masks are no different. I mean, can we talk about
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a non controversy here again? I wear masks. My wife's
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a physician. She often wears masks when things are spiking
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a little bit, like this week where there's a lot
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of flu going around in New Jersey, so she's masking up.
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If John Stewart wants to goof on us and go, hey,
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look at the fat guy on the plane hosting a
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podcast as basement, What a loser wearing a mask? I
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don't care. Just get the name of the show, right,
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Daily Comedy News. Just John, do twenty minutes on me?
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Please do? Someone else wrote, John Stewart has some absolute
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effing nerve to be making fun of long COVID survivors
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and people still masking. He's seen up close to the
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government to ie healthcare and resources for nine to eleven
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survivors who breathe in toxic air and suffering decades later. Anyway,
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that's why we're canceling John Stewart A little more serious here.
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Jimmy Kimmel is said to be quote unquote spiraling and
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feeling quote beaten down after the death of his best
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friend Clido Escovedo, who is the bandleader on The Jimmy
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Kimmel Live, a source told Raider Online, which again tends
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to be a little more gossipy but doesn't mean they're incorrect.
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But the source told Rader Online, Jimmy is spiraling. He's
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known Cleto since he was just a kid, and he
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never expected him to be gone this soon. It's got
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Jimmy facing his own mortality and questioning everything. He's in
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a very dark place. The same source says Jimmy's not
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really over the brief cancelation there. The source says, Jimmy
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got back on the air, so a lot of people
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assume that he's moved past this and he's feeling like
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a champ. But that's not the case. The too Much
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TV substack wrote about Dave Chappelle's special, they right, for
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the most part, stand up coming. He's a young man's game. Sure,
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you can keep telling stale jokes until you dropped dead
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while at the mic at some random casino and then
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they get this dig in, which is likely the way
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jay Leno's life will end. Should I just go there again? Like,
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I understand that you're upset that Jay Leno took to
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tonight show back. Okay, he's the worst guy ever, But
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other than that, why they hate for Jay Letto? He
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just it's fine. It's fine. Mike Chisholm, who hosts The
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Letterman Podcast, which I'm the guest on today, by the way,
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so when you're done here, go listen to the Letterman Podcast.
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We got onto the we got into this a little bit,
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the whole jay Lenell hate. I'll share that clip in
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an upcoming weekend episode of Daily Comedy News if you
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don't want to listen to Letterman Podcast. But just I
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don't understand they hate for jay Letto anyway too much
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TV or about Chappelle rights. But like songwriting, great stan
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up requires a focus and unhealthy competitive compulsion that is
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much easier to pull off a twenty two than it
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is at fifty two. However, staying relevant comedically also requires
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reinventing yourself to reflect both the change in your life
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and the changes the society. Comedians can go from super
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hot too unwatchable and a heartbeat. Dave Chappelle is fifty
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two and from what I can tell, over the past
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few years, has reinvented himself as a bit of a
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comedy troll. He consistently says things he knows will upset
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some people and channels their anger into a self righteous
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mocking that has become his preferred style of comedy. It's
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a reflection of that new persona that when I tell
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people Chappelle had a new Netflix special, their first question
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was always did he do any trans jokes? I think
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that's true of Ricky Gervais. So I did watch Ricky's
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new special. Ricky is clearly doing the thing where he'll
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say things that he knows will upset people and then
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is like the well, why are you getting upset? I mean,
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that's Ricky's entire act. Chappelle, I feel, is trying to
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make bigger points, and like, if you look at the
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recent special where there are quote unquote trans jokes, you
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know part of it is like, hey, I no, you
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don't want me to do this, but I'm doing it anyway.
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But I don't think he was trolling on this one
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too much. TV rights I have no idea what Dave
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Chappelle really thinks of trans people. I know what he
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says about them and how much he revels in his
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ability to tell jokes that would damage someone else's career
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while writing the controversy to bigger successes. I half suspect
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it's all just a giant troll. They then recap the special,
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skipping ahead, he begins that forty minute comedic Touri Force,
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which opens with a thoughtful take on how he's feeling
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and how he thinks the audience is feeling in twenty
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twenty five. But the part of Chappelle's closer that is
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getting the most attention is also filled with the most
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historical inaccuracies, Although it makes for a solid bit those
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in act. Yes, Saretha Franklin's funeral and McCain's lying in
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state did happen on the same day, But McCain was
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not the only vote against the MLK holiday in the Senate.
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The final vote was seventy eight to twenty two, and
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McCain wasn't even a senator. In Chappelle's version, it's ninety
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nine to one with a Senator McCain voting against it.
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So again, inaccurate and inaccurate. McCain did vote against the
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bill as a congressman. Too much. TV asks the very
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good question why tell this complex web of lies at all?
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They suspected Chappelle's way of entertaining himself and showing just
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how easily people will believe stories that sound real, even
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if they don't stand up to the slightest scrutiny. In fact,
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social media is filled with clips with the McCain story,
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with people taking the entire story at face value. The
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problem with this approach is that it becomes hard to
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take anything he says seriously. I think that's very, very fair.
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Speaking of Ricky Gervai's there were, of course the reaction articles.
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I feel like they were pre written. I feel like
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the newspapers were like, eh, it's Christmas week, nobody feels
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like working Ricky. He's going to do a special and
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people are getting upset, so let's just write the reaction
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piece in advance. The Mirror wrote one such piece, they
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did the quote people on social media thing. One person wrote,
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Ricky Gervay's claiming victory over the elites while cashed out
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on a massive Netflix check is the ultimate safe space rebellion.
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He spent a decade whining about being canceled from the
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center of the world's biggest stage. It's not edgy to
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mock things everyone already hates, it's just profitable. Ricky shot
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back and said, I've never moaned about being canceled because
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I've never been canceled. I've moaned about nurses and teachers
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and office workers being canceled for stating honest opinions under
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certain authoritarian trends. Though luckily we're coming out of that
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face though. Thanks for watching. So, as I mentioned, I
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did watch it. I liked it. It's good company. I
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woke up the next day thinking it was empty calories,
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so I watched it, watched it. I wasn't playing on
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my phone. My brain was tickled. I laughed a few times,
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and I've discussed in the past about how a psychopath
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with Emperor of Rome syndrome and don't really laugh more
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analyzed comedy special. So you know, two three times I
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laugh laughed, which is a good sign. But when I
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woke up the next day, I was like, oh, yeah,
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that happened, and it made no impact on me. On
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tomorrow's show, I'm going to do the final Best of
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twenty twenty five list, and I'll tell you where Ricky
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comes up on that. But it's a good special. It
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is by no means his best though. All Right, I've
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got more controversy for you. I've been trying to stay
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away from this one as well. I don't know if
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you've been following the Russell Brand saga more charges against Russell.
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Comedian Katherine Ryan spoke out about her experience of working
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with Russell Brand on the UK version of Roast Battle.
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Katherine Ryan has a new stand up special on Sky
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called Katherine Ryan Firstborn Daughter. She didn't name Brand during
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the special, but dropped several unsubtle clues. During the special,