Oct. 1, 2026

Dane Cook Porch Pirate Video PLUS New Specials from Che, Bamford, Hardwick

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers Dane Cook posting surveillance video to identify a woman he says stole dog treats from his doorstep at 6 a.m., noting the coincidence with Cook promoting a new VOD film and discussing Cook’s comments to Deadline about a documentary framing his career like “Empire Strikes Back.” He highlights a Michael Che Netflix special trailer (Oct. 13), the Maria Bamford documentary “Paralyzed by Hope” (Oct. 23, Netflix), Chris Hardwick’s special “The Middle Ages” (Oct. 5 on 800 Pound Gorilla’s Gorilla Comedy Plus; Oct. 20 on YouTube), and Zainab Johnson’s “Toxically Optimistic” (Oct. 27, Netflix, co-produced with Higher Ground). Other items include Jason Zinoman on Sam Morril, Andrew Schulz cast in “Miami Vice ’85” (IMAX May 19, 2028), Nate Bargatze writing for Ford, late-night ratings led by “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Audible’s “The Moons of LA” (Oct. 8), and Vulture spotlighting Janet McNamara.

01:30 Dane Cook Movie Promo
03:19 New Trailers & Specials
07:26 Chris Hardwick Special
09:30 Zainab Johnson Special
10:07 Sam Morril Special
11:12 Andrew Schulz & Miami Vice
14:51 Late Night Ratings
15:17 Moons of LA
15:46 Vulture: Janet McNamara
17:01 Outro

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Jam-packed one today. Hi, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily

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comedy news. Dean Cook is asking the public to help

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identify a woman who Dean Cook says stole a delivery

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from his doorstep. Dane posted a video on social media

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captured from his home surveillance system. One angle appears to

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be from his doorbell camera. The other looks out to

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a street. The video footage shows a woman wearing a baggy,

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sleeveless tank top that says, I love L.A. And she's

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wearing flip-flops. She walks up to Dane Cook's front door.

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She shuffles off, holding a large brown bag in her

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right hand. The other angle shows her running to her SUV,

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a white SUV, and driving off. Dean Cook says, this

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haggard porch pirate got away with our dog treats. I mean,

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not funny. Don't rob Dean Cook. What are you doing?

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But anyway, we're on the lookout for a woman in

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a white SUV, that narrows it down, wearing a baggy

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sleeveless tank top that says, I love LA. She was

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wearing flip-flops. At six in the morning, when she stole

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Dane Cook's dog treats, Dane posted on Instagram, she says

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I love L.A. as indicated on her unwashed loose top,

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but what this action really says is I don't love

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myself and want to be caught before I get into

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my angel white Range Rover and dash to the next porch.

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Let's find her L.A. and give my dogs the treats

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they've earned from sit, stay, and don't bark at strangers

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unless it's a sea hag taking your delights. Now, what's

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really strange is that Dane Cook's dog treats were stolen

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on a day where he was promoting a new video

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on demand movie. Isn't that a weird coincidence? You don't

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hear from Dane Cook for months. And then on the

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day he's promoting his new movie, somebody steals his dog treats.

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Wow.

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What a coincidence. Dane spoke to Deadline and said, when

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I was approached by the producers that I made the

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film with, I knew the moment was finally coming to light.

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where I was like, I feel like I can own

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this moment as a creative person. I feel like I

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can tell an incredible story that also includes the highs

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and lows of the career. And I really looked at this,

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I love this line because this is the money line,

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and I really looked at this like the Empire Strikes

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Back story and the greatest story of my career. Does

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that mean there's a third act in Dane Cook's career?

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Huh.

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Deadline was like, why tell the story now? And they

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weren't talking about the suspicious dog biscuit robbery on the

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day Dane was promoting a new movie. No, no. They

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were curious about the documentary itself. And of course, he

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was already saying, well, I wouldn't do it the other

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way anyway. When I sat in the chair, I said,

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I'm going to give you everything I have in this moment.

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So if you ask the question, there'll be no barrier.

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I'm really ready to put everything I have into this moment.

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And he asked everything that I think you'd want to

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understand and even beyond that. So ready for it. Strong

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enough to share the story, but also in a place

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in my life where I was a better person from this.

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I was happier, healthier. It was more in my faith.

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I was in an incredible relationship that would turn into

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a marriage with my best friend, and so why wouldn't

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I now want to own our darkest capsizing moment when

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I'm at the happiest, most fulfilling moment? There is a

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lot of this. We'll picket it over the next week

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or so, but I don't want to roadblock the show

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with nothing but Dane Cook because we have so much

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to get to, including the Michael Che trailer. He's got

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a new special out on October 13th on Netflix, and

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I've made a slight edit for language. Here's Che.

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You know what really bothers me about Colin being married

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to Scarlett Johansson? is that he acts like it's normal.

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That's annoying.

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He acts like it's.

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Not a miracle. Because we don't live that far from

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each other. We live like five minutes away from each other.

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Sometimes he'll like call me and be like, hey man,

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we're having dinner at the house. It's just me and Scarlett.

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Why don't you bring a date? We could do a

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double date thing. I'm like, I can't bring the women

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that I date.

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To Scarlett Johansson's house. I don't need her calling my

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phone like, hey, I think your date stole our silverware.

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I'm like, yeah, she do that sometimes. She gets nervous.

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I thought I heard her jingling in the Uber. I'll

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keep an eye out for you, Scar. Can I call

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you Scar?

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Good stuff there, but what's an even better trailer, and

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that's not a backhanded compliment to Che, I just love

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this trailer for the Maria Bamford documentary, and I'm not

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a Bamford stan. I know the comedians love her, and

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I find her okay, but this trailer is fantastic.

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Oh, hello.

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Hi, Maria. We don't know if you want to take

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part in making a documentary, but regardless, you wanted money

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for today.

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Yes!

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I don't know if that's how it works, but maybe

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we have no ethics here.

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When I first.

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and famous. But then I found out about clerical work.

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The first time I saw her, I didn't get what

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she was doing.

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What do they all say when you start a new job?

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We do things a little differently around here.

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What am I watching?

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So hold on to your hats. It's gonna be a

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wild ride.

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But it never is.

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Sometimes it feels like you're talking to a lobster whose

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shell has been removed, and it's just feeling every single

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molecule in the room.

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Mom told me recently, hey, when you don't.

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Wear makeup, you look mentally ill.

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Now I'm sure to wear thick green eyeshadow and a

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line of lipstick around my lips. Baby, look pretty now, mommy.

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When I was around 9 or 10, I remember just

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feeling like there is something desperately wrong with me. I

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was a bit of a dark kid growing up. Occasionally,

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I'd stage my own death for fun. My mom would say,

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sometimes I just couldn't find.

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You in the house.

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And I just thought, we're just going to have to

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drag the lake. I'd always known I had depression, and

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there was bipolar in my family. But at a certain point,

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I started feeling extremely depressed. Marie was on this very,

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very risky adventure of becoming a comedian. It did give

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me some relief being on stage. There's a lot of

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memes out there for health that are sort of like, hey,

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tell someone about it.

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Hey, you okay?

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Feels emotionally honest. Think of all the people for whom

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her experience is real. It's all funny and heartbreaking at

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the same time. She's my favorite comedian.

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I am not a good time. I am an assignment

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from a therapist. I am something comics go to see

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to go, huh.

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Maria is just a true net positive in this world.

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Old MacDonald had a pterodactyl E-I-E-I-O with a.

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Paralyzed by Hope will see Maria Bamford unpack the mental

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health journey behind her Fuhler's comedy. That documentary is out

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October 23rd on Netflix. Chris Hardwick has a new special.

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It is called The Middle Ages. It'll be out on

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the 5th on Guerrilla Comedy Plus. And then it'll be

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on the regular 800-pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, 7 o'clock, October 20th,

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7 o'clock Central. In the Middle Ages, Chris Hardwick takes

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on middle age, marriage, fatherhood, and a rapidly changing world.

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Now in his 50s, welcome to the club, he finds

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comedy in the indignities of aging, from growing pill collections

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and questionable digestive choices to prostate exams and realizing Gen

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Z are time millionaires. Here's Chris Hardwick.

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We appreciate immature humor, say aye!

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Aye!

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Speaking of butt stuff, poca poca.

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Poca poca, look who brought a knife to a tickle fight.

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If you're 25 years old, you can just get out

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of bed in the morning and.

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Leave.

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I do feel for Gen Z, you will never know

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the absolute satisfaction of slamming down.

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A telephone in anger.

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We didn't have TikTok.

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In those days.

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How did you know which relatives were racist? We called

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that Thanksgiving. And now let's play the quiet game.

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Oh, you're already lost.

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Let all the kittens sing.

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Chris says the

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foundation of the set came from his tour back in

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2019-2020 with the intent to shoot the special in 21,

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but the pandemic had other plans. In January of 2022,

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we had a baby. I paused work stuff for what

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ultimately became a three-year hiatus. But in that time, I

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learned piano, became a parent, and got even more middle-aged

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than I was before. So in a weird way, the

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delay actually kind of helped the set. I'm super excited

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it's finally happening. Huge thanks to the 800-pound gorilla, etc., etc.,

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Zaynab Johnson has her second comedy special, this one called

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Toxically Optimistic. This, co-produced with the Obamas. Yeah, Obama's Higher

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Ground have a production credit on this. Toxically Optimistic will

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premiere on Netflix on October 27th. The special's based on

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a show that she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, which

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was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the List Festival Awards.

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In Toxically Optimistic, Johnson said, I gave myself permission to

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be silly by inviting the audience to focus on the

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good during a time when the chaos and fear are

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at an all-time high. I encourage everyone to find a

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little whimsy in the most unexpected situations. I was planning

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on watching Sam Morrell's comedy special, plus or minus the

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travel that I have this week, and plus or minus

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baseball playoffs. But Jason Zinnemann, friend of the show, and

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Jason from the New York Times, wrote about it. He

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seemed to like it. He wrote, Sam likes a dirty joke,

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but not as much as a precisely awkward phrase. Morrell

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follows the seedier and overlooked corners of show business, small-time agents,

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trash-talking magicians, and especially that much-mythologized brand of stand-up, the

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hard-living road comics. The debauched loner, traveling from town to town,

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making drunks laugh. Some versions, like, say, Doug Stanhope, adopt

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a renegade philosopher streak. Others pander for cheap chuckles or

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wallow in the muck. Then there are the joke merchants.

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Muriel is one of the best and most prolific today.

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He's the kind of technician who responds to groans over

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dark material while asking the crowd to at least admire

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the structure. And he usually has a point. Zidman writes,

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When a disappointed woman he just slept with asks, Is

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this a joke? He responds, No. My humor is much

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more layered and complex. Love that. The New York Times,

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not Jason Zinneman, to be clear, but the New York

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Times once had the headline, Andrew Schultz might be America's

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foremost political journalist. Let's just sit that with a minute.

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Andrew Schultz might be America's foremost political journalist. The New

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York Times printed that sentence, released online. I don't know

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if it was actually in print. It's not like I

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have a framed copy of that issue of the New

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definitely online because I checked the exact phrasing before I

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recorded today. Andrew Schultz might be America's foremost political journalist.

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He's also going to be one of the stars of

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Miami Vice 85, starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler

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as Tubbs and Crockett. Are you kidding me? Michael B.

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Jordan as Ricardo Tubbs? I'm less excited about Austin Butler

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as James Sonny Crockett in the movie that will explore

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the glamour and corruption of mid-1980s Miami as it follows

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two detectives who work undercover. Hear me out. I think

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they should flip them. Because Tubbs always does like that

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BS Jamaican accent and sounds ridiculous. What if I told

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you Michael B. Jordan played a cool ex-football player who

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lives on a boat and has a crocodile and his

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name is James Sonny Crockett? That would work. And then

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make Austin Butler a guy named Ricardo Tubbs who does

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a BS Jamaican accent. I mean, let's flip the casting there.

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Miami Vice 85 is said to be inspired by the

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pilot episode of Miami Vice. You know the one with

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Phil Collins in the air tonight. and also the first

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season of the landmark TV series. Want to talk about

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something that is right in my wheelhouse? Miami Vice 85, dudes.

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It'll be out in IMAX May 19th, 2028. No, not 2027.

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2028.

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We'll be talking about this one for a year and

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a half, apparently. Controversial mega comedian Nate Bergenzi. He's out there.

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He's all about the cars. And he wrote for website fromtheroad.ford.com.

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It's almost as if he were paid to write this.

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But who knows? Maybe in his heart, He just wanted

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to write about cars. The controversial MAGA comedian wrote a

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while back, I got a call from Ford asking if

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I'd help get the word out about the real pros

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working at their dealerships every day to keep all our

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cars and tracks running. They also helped me to host

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Ford's Accelerate the Essential Economy conference. The controversial MAGA comedian said,

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I was excited to be asked, but also worried they

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might have called the wrong person. I don't know much

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about cars. Time out. Money has a way of making

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you do things, Nate. Just saying. Time in. When I

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first got my used car in high school, the stick

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shift was sticky to the touch, so I put a

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tennis ball over the knob to keep my hand less gross.

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That's the first and last time I tried to fix

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a car. But seriously, I was honored to be asked,

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and quite possibly paid. I was always dreaming of working

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with Ford and loved my Bronco. Nate Bregazzi is telling

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us he always dreamed of working with Ford. Now, I've

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read a lot of interviews with Nate over the years.

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I've never heard that as one of his career goals.

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But OK, I accept your premise, Nate said. I often

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talk about Ford as the type of comedy I want

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to build. Their work is quality and it's a family

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owned business that people not only want to work at,

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they want their children and grandchildren to work there, too.

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But could I, controversial mega-comedian Nate Borghese, be the spokesperson

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for real parts, real pros, real easy with this little

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knowledge about cars? And what's the essential economy anyway? When

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I met with Ford for the first time, they made

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it really straightforward. I didn't need to know about the

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real parts or be one of the real pros. They

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already have people for that. I'm the real easy, which

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is a position I feel very qualified for. This campaign

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isn't about me knowing things. It's about me getting paid. No, sorry,

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I misread that sentence. He said, it's about me not

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knowing things and that being totally okay. That's because Ford

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has the parts needed to fix your Ford. The people

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in the service department are pros that know what they're doing,

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and they can even come to you, saving you a

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