Oct. 13, 2026

Dan Levy Slams Shane Gillis’ SNL Joke PLUS This Past Weekend's Theo Von new Special

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers Dan Levy’s Instagram response to Shane Gillis’ SNL monologue joke about women dressing “like whores” at the gym, with Levy calling such language misogynistic and urging men to defend women; he also cites Levy’s earlier post condemning “vile” talk. He recaps CinemaBlend’s look at past SNL monologue controversies and the mismatch between SNL audiences and stand-up crowds. Robert Smigel says SNL planned a Mike Ditka “Superfans” tribute but ran out of time. Theo Von’s Netflix special “I’m Doing Fine” premieres October 20, and a trailer features a hamster-bones bit. Sebastian Maniscalco had a chatty audience member removed at the Wynn. Nate Bargatze discusses “sense of urgency,” Chris Rock talks about needing new material, and Mac promotes his browser podcast tool LINNET and the film “Digger.” Russell Brand’s trial begins on seven charges involving six women, and Voice Mag UK critiques Richard Ayoade’s fit on Taskmaster.

00:02 Dan Levy Slams SNL Joke
02:08 SNL Controversy History
03:17 Mike Ditka Tribute Miss
03:39 Theo Von Netflix Special
04:14 Theo Von Trailer Bit
05:31 Maniscalco Vegas Ejection
07:23 Nate Bargatze Work Ethic
08:18 Chris Rock On New Material
08:46 LINNET Podcast Tool Pitch
09:49 Digger Box Office Woes
10:22 Russell Brand Trial Begins
11:23 Taskmaster Ayoade Critique

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Kalaroga Shark Media.

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Hi, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily comedy news. Boy,

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Dan Levy is not happy with Shane Gillis' monologue on

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Saturday Night Live. I played the clip on Monday's show.

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I won't play it today because YouTube took all the

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clips down. It's just too annoying to deal with. But

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Shane Gillis said and told it better than I will,

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I haven't been to the gym in so long. I

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didn't know women just dress like whores now. Well, Dan

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Levy did not like that joke. He went on Instagram

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and posted this.

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Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not... make

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them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists.

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There's a difference there. By the way, I've seen more

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men's nipples at the gym than I've ever seen women

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showing their bodies off. But I'm speechless that something like

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that can exist on TV. live national television. And to

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be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up

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in opposition to it because it's complacency that has created

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the environment with which women are sexually assaulted. And it's

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a conversation as opposed to a crime. Men need to

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be defending women more. This is not a women's issue.

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This is an everybody issue. Because the more that men

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objectify women in the media, the more that other men

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see them as objects and treat them as objects. They

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are not objects. They are superior human beings to men. Okay?

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And I'm sorry if this gets me in trouble with

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the Internet.

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Dan then had one more sentence, which I clipped into paraphrasing.

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He said something like, I don't want the entire Internet

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mad at me.

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Oh, F.

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And the reason I took it out was because of

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the F-bomb. In a previous Instagram story that also appeared

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to be inspired by Shane Gillis's monologue, Levy bemoaned the vile, repugnant,

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disgusting trash that has been pouring out of people's mouths lately,

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according to USA Today. Dan Levy is 43 years old.

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CinemaBlend talked about previous SNL scandals. They reminded us that

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Nikki Glaser got gasped from the audience last year when

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she talked about her young nephew wanting to shower with her.

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Bill Burr got into trouble because he said we shouldn't

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cancel people who are dead because God already canceled them.

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Dave Chappelle joked about Kanye and anti-Semitism. Larry David joked

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about flirting with women in concentration camps. Some people didn't

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like that. CinemaBlend writes, There's a murderer's row of stand-up

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comedians who've taken the stage at Studio 8H and have

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gotten mild applause at best. Their theory? The average person

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sitting in the Studio 8H audience, and even the average

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person at home, is not the same person who goes

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to stand-up comedy shows. Like the 70-something thousand that went

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to go see Shane Gillis at the Eagles Stadium? Those people?

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Yeah.

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Cinema blend, right? Certainly they're not the same people who

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would buy a ticket to go see Shane Gillis, so

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what he's joking about and how he's joking about it

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are probably not the sort of thing that the average

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person in the audience at SNL is predisposed to laugh about.

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It's just easier for everyone to get on the same

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page and laugh about Debbie Downer than it is about

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Chris Rock's thoughts about the Boston Marathon bombing. Even Norm

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Macdonald's return monologue, which is one of the most lauded

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openers ever, got a mixed response from the crowd. The

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legendary coach of the Chicago Bears, Mike Dicca, passed away

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last week. Some people wondered, would SNL do a tribute...

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Robert Smigel posted on social media, I believe SNL had

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planned to run a brief superfans clip in tribute to

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Mike Ditka and ran out of time. I was contacted

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to suggest a favorite Ditka joke, and this was my choice.

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He says he was contacted to suggest a favorite Ditka joke.

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Theo Vaughn will have a new Netflix special. It is

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called I'm Doing Fine. It'll be on Netflix October 20th. Hey,

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that's next week. It's Vaughn's third special, his first in

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five years. We find the freewheeling Theo Vaughn dishing on

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his rural upbringing and acid-filled adventures. There is a trailer.

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Now pay close attention here. I suspect, I don't know,

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but I suspect we're seeing some fake crowd work here,

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or Theo Vaughn is the master of improv and took

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a throwaway line from somebody who seems to be in

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the first row or two and did a nice solid

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five minutes here. Here's Theo Vaughn.

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We had some characters in our area growing up, though.

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I know that. They just busted a dude in my

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hometown with a 30-pound bag of hamster bones on him. Oh, yeah,

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they got him. How many hamsters do you think that is,

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big dog, right here? If you had to guess, 100?

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What are you talking about?

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What are you talking about?

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A hundred hamsters? You know what a hamster is, brother?

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One of the Lord's McNuggets, bro? You think a hundred

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hamsters have 30 pounds of bone in them? You got

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Galapagos hamsters? You got them rideable hamsters, y'all.

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Come on, Nibbles.

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We late for the Derby. No, bro, it's about 2,000 hances, bro. Dang, boy.

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But good guess, pretty good guess overall. And for this area,

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great guess, buddy. You started it.

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Enemy of the working class comedian Sebastian Maniscalco playing Las

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Vegas on Friday night. He said, this is my last

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weekend here at the Wynn. I've been performing here for

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six years, but I'm taking a break from performing here

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in Las Vegas. I didn't want this to go down

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on my last week in here. The this is not

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the whole kerfluffle from last week. The Las Vegas Review-Journal

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says a woman in a black outfit with glittery silver

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sleeves was escorted from the venue midway through the Sebastian

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Maniscalco show. Apparently the woman was enjoying herself and was

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a little chatty in the audience. Guests around her called

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security to her row. There was a brief conversation as

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Sebastian paused his act. Then a few minutes later, Sebastian

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saw more commotion from that area. Then Sebastian summons security.

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Sebastian is quoted as saying, lady, just take a walk.

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It's over.

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Take care. Goodbye. I'm sorry that had to happen, but

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you were ruining the show for everybody here. Maniscalco then

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told the crowd, get your phones out, guys. This is

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a good moment. Get this on social media. You think

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we're at a UFC fight? Now, that's interesting because Sebastian

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also has a no social media policy at his win shows.

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As the woman was being escorted out, apparently, she started

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shouting towards Sebastian Maniscalco. He then said, this whole section

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doesn't like you, lady. I'm sorry. I told you to

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stop at the beginning. I gave you a warning. I

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don't like doing that. It was ruining the show for 1,400

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people who paid good money to see some entertainment. So

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if you're wondering why Sebastian doesn't put the working class

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comedians back on, he says he needs time. This is

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what he's spending his time on. He doesn't have time

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to just go, hey, can you reactivate the Z category?

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How would he do that? We are told the entire

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interruption lasted about five minutes that could have been spent.

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on changing the categories on his radio station, but Sebastian's

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very busy. We're told he had been in the middle

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of his routine about his son's soccer game when the

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team was losing 13-0 in the second half, but the

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scoreboard then showed 12-0 all the way down to 2-0,

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so the kids wouldn't feel bad. Returning to the bit,

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Sebastian reset it, saying, OK, so the score's now 2-0. Meanwhile,

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controversial mega-comedian Nate Bergesi caught up with Fatherly. They were curious, hey,

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what's the most important thing you've learned about work in

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your life? Nate said, I always wanted to go back

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when I waited tables at one point, our manager there

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always talked about a sense of urgency. And that's always

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stuck with me for some reason. I'm just going to

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a table and I have a sense of urgency. It

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goes a long way when you get to that table

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and they feel like they're being taken care of. I

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think I've kept that even as I've gone forward. If

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you respond to emails or my team is talking to you,

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I don't want to be like, I'll get to them

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next week. You just want to be like, no, let's

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get to them and let's make sure that we stay

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on top of it. Hey, maybe we should give the

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controversial mega comedian A. Pregazzi a radio station because it

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sounds like if somebody wanted him to tweak the rotations,

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he wouldn't take a lot of days to do it.

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He would just do it. He would see the urgency

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and pick up the phone and be like, hey, guys,

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can you reactivate that stuff? And it would be done

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within a day. But you would have to ask Sebastian

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Maniscalco about all that. Chris Rock sold the Breakfast Club.

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Comedians have the hardest job in the world, OK? Because

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we always have to come up with new stuff. I

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wish I could go do the Bring the Pain tour

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and do the same joke over and over. Boy, there

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are days I can jump in here in the basement

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and knock out five of these. And then there are

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days like today where I can't go a sentence without stumbling.

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If you watch the podcast on YouTube today, you will

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my goodness. I cannot get through a sentence. Now, if

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you're like, hey, Johnny Mac, I'd like to make my

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need to go see it. We are now learning that

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Digger is on track to lose $ 245 million. Yikes. Then

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what's going to happen is this thing's going to show

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and be like, oh my goodness, that was the greatest

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movie ever. So just go see it. It is a comedy,

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which allows me to talk about it. I just absolutely

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love it. I am an evangelist for this movie. Go

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see Digger. It has the potential to wind up as

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the biggest flop of all time. And then again, you're

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be a cult classic. So just go see it now.

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Russell Brand's rape and sexual assault trial has begun on Monday.

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He appeared in court to start this week's trial on

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charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault. Russell Brand

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faces seven charges related to incidents that the prosecution say

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involve six women. In two previous hearings, Russell Brand pleaded

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not guilty to all the charges. When entering the courtroom

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on Monday, Russell briefly knelt down as if in prayer

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and then took a seat in the glass box at

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the back of the room. On Sunday, Russell Brand published

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a video on his YouTube channel in which he discussed

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Jeffrey Epstein. At one point, Brand said that he himself

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was on trial for sexual allegations that I deny in

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the strongest possible terms. The trial is scheduled to last

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up to 10 weeks. If you would like daily coverage

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of this, we have a sister podcast, Daily Crime and Justice.

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Daily Crime and Justice, they will be covering this trial.

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I'll cover it as we go along because Russell Brand

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is a comedian, obviously not at all a fun topic,

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and I try and make this show fun, but we'll

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cover that as need be. VoiceMag UK has been watching Taskmaster.

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They're wondering why Richard Ayoade, who should be the new

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Doctor Who, by the way, is not that good at it.

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They say Ayoade has been a victim of timing. There's

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something that feels a little off about this Taskmaster series.

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The contestants don't quite have the same level of shared

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dynamic as we've seen in recent series. Ayoade, more than

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anyone else, has clung tightly to his persona throughout filming.

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This in itself isn't a problem. The issue is his

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long-held persona is an awkward fit within the world of Taskmaster.

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The Ayoade character is always positioned at arm's length from

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what he's doing as if he's better than it. He

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continued this approach when he recently appeared on the Taskmaster

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tie-in podcast, describing the show as a national service for

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comedians and claiming not to have enjoyed the experience at all.

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The real Ayoade might have had a ball making the show,

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but the persona is king and is set in stone.

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Taskmaster airs on Channel 4 in the UK every Thursday

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and on your local pirate ship. And that is your

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comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.