Nov. 30, 2025

Could Eddie Murphy's return to stand-up possibly live up expectations? The case for NO.

Could Eddie Murphy's return to stand-up possibly live up expectations?  The case for NO.

Jim Gaffigan's viral bourbon set is getting huge views, Kevin Hart's Netflix special is the year's second best.,

Amid the speculation around Eddie Murphy's potential return to stand-up comedy, Mac doubts Murphy can meet high expectations set by his past performances and notes the challenges he may face. Additionally, Eddie Murphy will be honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award.

 Elsewhere, Jay Leno reveals that ticket sales for his stand-up shows rose by 30% after he quit discussing politics. 

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Caloroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news,

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and boy, things are not going my way way? Do

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you hear the leadoff story on Monday's episode? It involves

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David Letterman and boy who this one hurt today? I'm

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swimming upstream against this whole Jim Gaffigan bourbon thing. The

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last time I checked his bourbon set on YouTube had

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over one point five million views. It's probably a two

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or three million by the time you're hearing this, And uh, boy,

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I lasted five and a half minutes, and I'm like,

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I think Jim Gaffigan is just getting by in reputation.

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But people are clicking on this thing. It's got, you know,

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a million and a half plus views, so it's obviously successful.

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And the legend of Jim Gaffick and continues. And okay, everybody,

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he was on the Today Show and spoke about his

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bourbon obsession father time.

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It's very important. I'm out there support fathers the liquid

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that every father needs because I believe fathers are underappreciated.

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I do.

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What is it about bourbon?

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Bourbon is It's probably the most important invention of Jesus's

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and it is. There's something I love about bourbon, all

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the elements. I love the bourbon community. I love how

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it be a community. There's you know, Alan I we've

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bonded over this. It allows men to get together, and

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men need that. Men are kind of socially inept and

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they need.

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Some bourbon that brings men together.

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I mean, I think some of it is it's alcohol.

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I'll tell you well, you should watch is Kevin Hort

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special on Netflix that is the second best special of

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the year, behind only Mark Marin Special and to end

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just funny. You should watch it. I did have it

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in my nose for the holiday weekend, and there has

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been a lot of news. I did want to talk

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about the Eddie Murphy documentary a little bit, just about

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the idea of the return of Eddie Murphy to end up.

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And I can't see a scenario where it goes well

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because younger people will be like, what's the big deal

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about this guy? Us? Old people like me. His delirious

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in particular delirious and raw, but Delirious in particular is

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built up so much in our minds. And I could

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probably do half of Delirious off the top of my

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head right now. If I had to that, my brain

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would be looking for, like so much of an endorphin

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hit that as soon as I saw Eddie Murphy doing

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stand up, I don't think he could possibly live up

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to what my mind would need it to be. If

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he does his old style act, you know the taglines

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to the setup, mister Murphy, you have aids. If he

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does that, he gets canceled. If he doesn't do that, well,

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Eddie Murphy's woke and he's gone soft. I don't think

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he can win. There's such a thin line there. I

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don't think he should return to his stand up comedy

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at this point. It's been way too long. Eddie Murphy

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will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award, America's highest honor

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for a career in film. This announced by the American

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Film Institute's Board of Trustees. Murphy will be honored at

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a gala on April eighteenth. That should make for some

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good content two weeks after turning sixty five, which seems impossible.

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Kathleen Kennedy, you know her from Star Wars, She said.

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Eddie Murphy is an American iconic, a trailblazing force in

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the arts of film, television, and stand up comedy. His

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versatility knows no bounds cross five decades, is enduring impact

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on our culture as inspired artists and audience is alike,

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and AFI is brought to honor him with the fifty

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first AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Previous winners I won't read

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all fifty, but some big names here, john Ford, Jimmy Cagney,

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Orson Wells, Betty Davis, Henry Fonda, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire,

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Frank Capra. In more modern times and by modern n I

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mean nineteen ninety four, Jack Nicholson, Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Scorsese,

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Robert Wise, who, of course directed Star Trek, the motion picture,

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which December seventh is the anniversary. Are you going to

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watch the film on December seventh like you do every year?

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Like I do? Yes, of course you are. You're not crazy.

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Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, to Nero, Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Connery, Paccino, Clooney,

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Denzel and last year Francis Ford Coppla A nice company

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for Eddie Murphy The New York Times, and Christina Sikova wrote,

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Adam Sandler is the light we need yes, Adam Sandler. Uh, oh,

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what's this gonna be? Christina says, when I bought tickets

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for my dad and I to see Adam Sandler live

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at the United Senate of Chicago, I worried it was

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a gamble. My dad's a saidlor guy, but not a

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live events guy. You may think of mister Sandler most

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readily as that goof who sang the Honkkah song, or

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the one who played in during Manchild characters like Happy

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Gilmore Billy Madison even in middle age. After a successful

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forty year career, Sandler inexplicably got the Mark Twain Prize

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for American Humor. How's that possible? That's the thing that happened.

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I've got a bulletin board up here in the studio

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where it says Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars once. I'm

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gonna write below that Adam Sandler won the Mark Twain

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Prize for Humor. Both those facts seem impossible to me.

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I'm just gonna stare at them as I record the podcast.

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Christina writes. The Sandman appears now kind of a schlob icon,

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known for wearing Bloomer sweats, basketball sneakers and a scruffy

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beard he once described as black and gray cornflakes stuck

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to his face. Christina writes, at his best, he's slantedly,

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chrimming and delightfully fabulous. Yes, he leans into elude pose occasionally,

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but dirty jokes had never been a whole story with him,

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and that's why I believe he's such a salve at

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his core. It's so clear that he has heart. Christina writs,

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before we found our seats, my dad asked if there

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was much profanity in mister Sandler's stand up. Yeah, I'd said,

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but not much sex. After mister Sandler reeled off one

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of his cruder jokes near the beginning of the show,

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I cringed. Then in my peripheral vision, I saw my

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dad belly laughing. As I scanned the enormous crowd, No

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one among us seemed uncomfortable. In fact, what I saw

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was relief. Maybe they were relieved that the show was

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almost over. Who knows. I'd have to check. By the way,

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big announcement on this podcast tomorrow. If you've been in

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the Facebook group, you know what it is. But big, big, big, huge,

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tremendous announcement tomorrow. Colin jo Justin Michael Chay were on

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the Manning Cast on Monday Night Football as the San

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Francisco forty nine ers crushed the Carolina Panthers as they

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always do. Peyton Manning asked each of them to name

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their dream pick for a future SNL host. Michael Jay

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said Denzel Washington. I think Denzel, of all the great

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movies he's done, we so rarely got to see him

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just be funny and silly. I would love to see

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Denzel hosted fun fact, when I graduated Fordham University, our

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celebrity speaker was some random actor that nobody cared about,

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this guy Denzel Washington, and we all like, we didn't

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play on our phones. We didn't have phones yet, but

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we all kind of zoned out. Oops. Colin Jost went

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with Tiger Woods Huge. I would love it. That's a

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terrible pick, Colin Jost. Jost added, I'd also love if

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Michael Jordan ever came back now that he's doing some

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broadcast stuff for the NBA, and that would be such

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a cool one For his third pick. Joe said Steph Curry.

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I think Steph's never done it. Maybe it's the right

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timing for him to do it. It's the hardest with

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the NBA because I always have to be the first

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show of the year. They can't do it. You can't

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say President Trump isn't getting things done. Now. He and

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I don't agree on all the issues, and we'll talk

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about one of those issues tomorrow on which we do agree,

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But you can't say the man doesn't get things done.

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I told you the other day he wanted them to

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make Rush Hour four. Well, Paramount Pictures has agreed they're

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gonna work on Rush Hour four. Both Deadline and Variety

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reporting Paramount Pictures will distribute the Brett Radner directed sequel

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on behalf of Warner Brothers. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker

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expected to return for Rush Hour four. By the way,

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pay no attention that Paramount is trying to buy Warner

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Brothers and they need the government to approve it. Pay

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no attention to any of that. The President just wants

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to see Rush Hour four, and the guys at Paramount

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are like, that's a great idea, sir. If the President

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wants to impress me, let's do something about Star Trek

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and Paton Oswald helping to ruin it. Okay, and of

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course make twelve thirty great again. We'll get into that tomorrow.

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Jay Leno says ticket sales for his stand up shows

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went up almost thirty percent when he made this one change,

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says the clickbait headline. Jay was on The Today Show

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and said, I'd take politics out of it. I noticed

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ticket sales are up twenty thirty per cent, just because

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nobody wants to be lectured. When you're on a TV

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and you can play directly in your audience and there's

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a laugh track. When you go to Indiana or Kentucky

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or any of the place the country, you're always gonna

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have a third of the people don't agree with you politically,

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So why even go there. I don't know, Jay, Maybe

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you believe in something. I don't know. I'm not a

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stand up comedian. I'm a guy in a basement doing

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a podcast. Hoda asked Jay Leno if the current political

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landscape made comedy more of a challenge. Jay Leno said,

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I don't think it's sending tricker. We always said tough times.

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Stuff that used to be the lost now against the law,

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and that's great. Ultimately, it's a bit like a donkey.

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Sometimes you got him in the head with a two

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by four to get its attention, but eventually it'll listen.

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The folks at Billboard recommended some comedy specials for you too,

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stream if you've got some time left on this weekend.

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A lot of football again today, I mean so much

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football this weekend. In in olden times, Thanksgiving weekend would be

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like when I would catch up on movies, or my

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family would binge like The Fast and the Furious movies.

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Now there's just like constant football. There's no time to

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watch anything but football. They really liked Michelle Wolfe's The

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Well and add While Frankie Kenyunias, Damn That's Crazy isn't

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exactly his debut special, it might as well be, since

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twenty twenty one's HBO half hour Super Homies had its

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flow broken up by sketches. They liked. Adam Palace is

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an intimate evening with Adam Palley the idea behind the

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scenes for an evening of cover songs strung together with

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stories and jokes, Except most of the songs don't clear licensing,

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and the stories may or may not be true. You'll

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find that on HBO. Frankie Conunius on Hulu again. You

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you have to decide is Frankie Conunius Worth supporting fascism.

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Maybe he'll eventually release a special on DVD and you

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can watch it that way. Leslie Jones Life Part Two

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is on Peacock. Michelle Wolf's The Well is on Netflix.

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The New York Times profiled Verer DAEs. They caught him boxing.

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Ver Das said, this is the most terrifying thing I've

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ever done. He clarified, working out in front of The

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New York Times. Mister Dawes explained, it's nice to be

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out of breath at a little bruised. It's good prep

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for adversity. The Time says each line follows more or

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less the same format and example. I come from in

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India that has the largest working population under thirty on

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the planet, but still listens to seventy five year old

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leaders with one hundred and fifty year old ideas. Another example,

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I come from in India, where we take pride in

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being vegetarians and yet run over the farmers who grow vegetables.

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They then quoted the joke that got him in some trouble.

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I'm not going to quote it here because it's just

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not what I do. But they point out that Vieri

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didn't think much of posting the joke at the time.

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He posted the video on YouTube and then headed to

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New York with his wife to attend the International Emmy Awards.

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By the time he got back to Mumbai, there was

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a chance he could be arrested. Vier explains, my v's like, yeah,

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we'll see what happens. So she's on standby, and then

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I have the conversation with my wife, you know, like

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if I get arrested, this is where all the money is.

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Just have this much leftover for legal fees. Here's all

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my cards, use everything, all the logins. Yikes, He says.

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India has embraced me. I have a massive audience. They

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just don't own news channels. You know what I mean.

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That is your comedy news for today on a holiday Sunday,

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enjoy the football games and December tomorrow. Wow, see you

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then