Dave Chappelle's comedy advice to Donnell Rawlings, did Jon Stewart swing and miss this week, and more Shane Gillis

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Jennie Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Donnelle Rawlings out doing press, but
everybody keeps asking him about Dave Chappelle.

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Rawlings told The Washington Post two years
ago, we shot a special in North

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Carolina where I got a standing ovation. A month before deciding if it was

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going to air, Dave pulled it. He said, I could put you

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in front of an audience and you'll
destroy the room, but that doesn't make

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it a great special. Well,
said Dave Chappelle. Donnelle said, I

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had to listen to this little constructive
criticism, not getting my feelings and understand

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what he was saying. Donelle talked
about the creativity he and Chappelle bring out

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in each other, telling the Post, staying true to the artistry of what

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we do, not just giving into
trends. We push each other. It's

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a very very healthy competition. Dave
sees me to a set, I might

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get a standing. Oh, I
know that's gonna make him want to give

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it his all. Same thing with
me an earthquake. We went out on

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tour together last year and we alternated
who would close the show. We push

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each other to be great. It's
no days off when we work with each

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other. Then I'll move from LA
to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Dave

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Chappelle is also based. He says, I realized Hollywood is overrated. You

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can create a good lifestyle for yourself
not being there. So I went from

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the streets to the creeks and from
the hoods to the woods. Love it

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some more advice from Dave Chappelle via
Donnelle Rawlings. Dave said, if you

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want to see a comic, come
and check him out after he's filmed a

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special. Because now it's a new
process. I can't use the jokes I

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use in the special. I've got
to go deeper. This is a time

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when comics really test their armor.
Great stuff. The Daily Beast also spoke

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to Donnell and also discussed Dave Chappelle, and he says, I don't have

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to come to Dave's defense, but
I do defend him. We're best friends.

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It's not just that we work together. We've been to funerals together,

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We've been to cookouts together. So
if you talk sideways, I can't listen

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to it. Take that stuff to
somebody else, but not to me,

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because he's like a brother. If
you say something to my family member and

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then I'm going to check you.
If people say Dave got in trouble,

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you might have three people that didn't
like it and ninety seven people that loved

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it, but the focus is on
those three people as opposed to the ninety

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seven. And I think people like
Dave, people like myself, people like

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Chris Rock. We're taking back who
we appreciate and we're showing them love.

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And at three percent, can go
kick Rocks. I love it. He

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actually said, kick Rocks. I'm
not cleaning that up. Does Rawlings understand

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why people are upset about Chappelle's jokes
targeting the trans community. Donelle says,

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you want my honest opinion. No. Dave's point on everything is like,

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I understand you, I hear you, but that doesn't mean I have to

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agree with everything that you're saying.
People want to find something to be mad

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at. There are some people who
aren't happy unless they're mad. And the

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real reason why I take offense to
that is because you're trying to destroy my

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friend's character, and I know how
hard he tries to be fair. I

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watched Donnell's news special on Netflix.
I found it to be just yelling,

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like just yelling. I didn't last
long. I was like, this is

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not enjoyable. So then I switched
over to Jenny Slat's special Let's Just add

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on Amazon Prime. I lasted a
little longer there, but just wasn't feeling

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it, and as I shared in
the Facebook group Daily comed News Podcast group,

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I have to find a special before
I turn into the Johnny Mack just

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hates everything. Here we are.
It's March, and I only have two

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specials on the Best of twenty twenty
four list, which right now is number

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one Dusty Slay, number two Taylor
Thomlinson, and I think Taylor Thomlinson's is

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gonna fall to like number twenty by
the end of the year. Not on

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the list Pete Davidson, Jackie Novak, Kevin James, Rory Scoveldno Rowlings,

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Jenny Slat. It's early though.
I remember last year this time it was

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like Nate Bergatzy and not much else, So we'll see how the summer goes.

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After I didn't enjoy Donnell and then
I didn't enjoy Jenny Slat, I

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switched over to the Daily Show with
John Stewart and Johnnie mack Hay's Everything Think.

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MSNBC nailed it here. John Stewart's
third appearance in the anchor chair open

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with the host basking in a standing
ovation, yep. And then he made

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the topic Israel Palestine, and he
got kind of serious, and I was

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like, I try to hang with
you, John, and I bailed.

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MSNBC rights, the popular genre of
which Stewart is a master, blend's comedy

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and political analysis, all the while
smuggling in whatever moral convictions the comic might

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possess. Poll attainment. I like
that looks like real news. I'm saying.

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I like that a lot today.
I wonder what that's about. Do

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I say that all the time.
It's graphics are so eye popping, the

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chiron's so abundant. It's shiny sets
so CNN like one expects Wolf Blitzer to

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pop in projecting a winter in the
Michigan Primary. Poly Attainment radiates a weird

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sort of winking authority and even moral
gravitzas audiences and even comedians themselves risk forgetting

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that their newsreader is neither a credential
journalist nor a scholar, but a person

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who's core competency is genital gags Stewart
tried to maintain a semblance of ideological balance

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as a newsperson would, but in
the conflict this raw, complex and emotionally

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charged, he likely satisfied very few. Some things just aren't funny. So

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then I switched over to John Oliver, and as I prepped the show today,

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I'm really confused. I definitely had
John Oliver on, I definitely was

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enjoying it, but I don't remember
thinking about it. I can't tell you

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a single joke. I don't remember
what the main topic was. And here's

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what's scarier to me. I don't
remember turning it off. Did I finish

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the episode? I remember sitting on
the same couch. This was not the

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sleepy chair. I didn't pass out. I was awake. I was watching

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this. I had Oliver on,
and at some point I switched over to

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watching YouTube videos. But I don't
remember turning Oliver off, or did I

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complete it? Did I bail halfway? I don't know, and this troubles

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me. I have a memory.
GAP told you the other day about four

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comedians who was gig at a Seattle
comedy club was canceled. One of those

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comedians, Jim Florentine. He told
Como News, we got this email saying

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listen, we did some research and
you basically can't come to the club.

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There was a whole thing about we're
a progressive area and we check with our

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community, and your values and my
values don't align with the other comics.

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This is such a big deal.
Even Rob Schneider has waited. Rob tweeted,

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Dear Seattle. If you're worried about
hearing ideas separate than your own,

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if a person standing on a stage
saying words that may challenge your opinions frightens

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you. If you only want approved
ideas that keep you in your safe political

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bubble, you can thank your local
comedy club. Look as I said yesterday,

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I've got no problem with a club
saying hey, we've got a particularular

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vibe here. For example, if
I opened a rock club and you came

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in and you said, well,
you know, we're like a country rock

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band, and I said, well, that's not really what we do here.

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I don't think I have to book
you now why they were booked and

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unbooked. That's a separate conversation.
But if this comedy club wants to go

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you know, hey, we're doing
this kind of thing like, say you're

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in Brooklyn and you're running an alt
comedy scene and Jim Norton, who's a

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good guy that I've worked with,
we're friendly. If Jim Norton wanted to

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play your all comedy club and just
do jokes about hookers in Las Vegas for

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an hour, it doesn't fit.
It doesn't mean Jim's not good, it

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just doesn't fit your alt comedy scene
in Brooklyn. It's okay. Rab Schneider

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is incredibly fascinating. John Jamison said, I always keep thing positive here on

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Twitter, but Capitol Hill Comedy Club
in Seattle can who's right off? Steve

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Mudflat McGrew said, I hope the
club goes belly up. The empty building

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burns down from drug addicts using it
to shoot up with the free needles the

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city gives, and then the shell
of the business is bulldozed down. Then

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the briocks washed and used to build
a new church for better humans than the

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ones who own the club. Florentine
said, I'm not even really that mad

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at it, it's just weirder they
booked us. Kurt Metzker, one of

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the unbooked comedians. I'm trying not
to use word canceled, because you know

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that means something else these days.
Before Dave Smith, Lewis, J Gomas,

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Jim Florentine, and Kurt Metzger.
Kurt said they're gonna go out of

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business. They don't have real comics
coming in. I looked at the lineup.

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Let's take a look at the lineup, all right? Tonight. It's

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an open mic. Katie Boyle is
your headliner. Friday and Saturday. We've

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got a roast battle on Sunday.
Monday night, Queer's to the front Tuesday.

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Washington's Funniest Mammal. I'm clicking on
that. What's that? Hm?

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I clicked on it. It's not
listed, but I do see Dave Marriages

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just playing there. He's solid,
all right. Washington's Funniest Mammal. Washington's

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Funniest Mammal has their own website.
Cozy Comedy founders Travis and Marcus have been

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producing local comedy shows. The goal
of Cozy Comedy is simple, bring local

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comedians to places that haven't ever seen
them. First round, fifty total comedians,

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five shows, ten comedians per show. Each comedian gets seven minutes.

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Top three from each show move on
to the semis show winners received two hundred

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dollars semi final rounds fifteen comics.
You get the idea of final round four

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comics. That's why this thing is
three nights. That's not terrible. Again,

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the weirdness is why book them and
then unbooked them. Meanwhile, in

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New Westminster, British Columbia, a
show featuring comedy troupe Danger Cats has been

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canceled after public outrage over the group's
sale of t shirts depicting a particular serial

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killer. Here at Daily Comedy News, we do not promote serial killing,

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so I will not mention the name
of the serial killer. As far as

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serial killers go, was not a
serial killer whose name I was familiar with.

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I don't think I'm an expert on
serial killers, but it wasn't like

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that famous guy from the nineteen seventies
in New York City. Again, I'm

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not saying the names of serial killers. In a now deleted Facebook post,

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the House of Comedy BC wrote it
had decided to cancel the event, saying

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it missed the market aims to do
better. The post had read, While

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we value and support the freedom of
expression in comedy, we recognize that the

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chosen material for this show has caused
discomfort in our community. When asked by

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CBC News for more details, the
VP of Operations said they had no comment.

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Hmm, now I've popped over to
the Danger Cat's website. They use

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a font I think is similar to
the font def Leopard uses. They also

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use a font similar to Grand Theft
Auto. They're about us, says for

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those that understand living into the fullest
comes with a good time and a cold

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one in hand. I'm gonna click
on this merch tab they have here.

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Let me see what comes up.
We could get a flag in that def

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leopard ish font. There is some
sort of T shirt here. I believe

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it is an image of Justin Trudeau
doing brown face from an event in two

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thousand and one. There's another T
shirt in the style of Guns N' Roses

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album covers, another one in the
style of the Rolling Stones, but I

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don't see anything with a serial killer
in it anyway. This is the first

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time I heard of these guys.
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of the monster. This thing came
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it. You can play it and
walk your dog. You know, I

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it would mostly help if used Apple
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You never mentioned Shane Gillis. I
know R Slate wrote about Shane and they

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said, contrary to popular opinion or
what you might assume from that one ignoble

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podcast clip, Shane Gillis has never
been a mega comic. He's unburdened by

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the pickled grievance that defines an Adam
Corolla or Ricky Gervase. And I've never

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heard him utter the word woke on
stage in spite of the ants I woke

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the scriptor that all manner of outlets
and commentators frequently append to his name.

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He's Red State friend, if not
Red State exclusive, the kind of thing

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that socialists Brooklynites can savor alongside their
Fox News watching dads. The punchlines weren't

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delivered with any real invective were from
a specific moral vantage, but they did

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underscore Gillis's broader credo The world is
funnier when he doesn't need to think about

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what he wants to say. Gillis
has played the game perfectly. He's managed

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to parachute back into mainstream consciousness while
still intentionally or not holding onto some sly

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anti woke bonafides that appears to be
scaffolding for a long career. Marlon Wayns

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will have a new special on Amazon
Prime Video, this one called Marlon Wayns

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Good Grief. He will film this
at the Apollo Theater in New York.

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Great theater. Thanks John, We
had no idea. I got to see

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Springsteen there. It was amazing,
armed with his trademark wit and irresponsible energy.

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No, it's not irresponsible. I'm
leaving it in irrepressible energy. He

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has responsible energy, which is irrepressible. Waynes dies into the depths of personal

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loss, grappling with the profound grief
of losing both parents, from poignant reflect

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actions on the lessons imparted by his
father, to the unexpected challenges of caring

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for aging parents, including the uncharted
territory of changing diapers. No date yet

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on that, other than it'll be
out in the summer. I didn't get

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back to yesterday. I wanted to
talk more about that Bill Hicks piece that

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was in The Guardian. Brian Logan
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like Bill Hicks nowadays? I've watched
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over the last week or so,
and the way he styles himself takes the

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readjusting to It's not just the rock
star posturing the idea of himself as fearless

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rebel against the powers that be.
It's the lack of irony the authority assumes

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to preach to all of us efforts
who want to tell you what to think.

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Very few stand ups do that now, and the ones that do,

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Dave Chappelle leaps to mine, are
considered deeply suspect. Couldn't we do with

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a bit more faith in the possibility
of telling the truth with exposing lies?

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As Hicks described his mission, You
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sexism and homophobia lands with a hell
of a clunk. In the twenty twenties,

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Hicks once told an interviewer to me, the comic is a fleame like

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Shiva the Destroyer, toppling idols no
matter what they are. Frasier is getting

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another season. That's it. I
could read a quote Fraser's getting another season.

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And did you see this thing about
the Willy Wonka event I shared in

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the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast
group, OLLI reporter cracks me up with

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a description, it looks like a
meth lab. I'm not sure this is

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really comedy, but it makes me
laugh. And why not? What was

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built as an immersive experience seemingly inspired
by Willy Wonka movies turned into the fire

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fest of unofficial movie tie ins.
You gotta see the pictures of this thing.

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It's like an empty warehouse and somebody
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It's not exactly what's in your mind
when I say Willy Wonka, The

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other reporter says. The UK event
was titled Willie's Chocolate Experience and charged customers

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forty four dollars each. The attraction
was not affiliated with the movie Wonka,

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though the events marketing came as close
as possible to suggesting it was based on

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it. The ad copy invited fans
to journey to a universe where confectionery dreams

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are brought to life, including mind
expanding projections, optical marvels and exhibits that

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transport you into the realm of creativity
and wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every

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turn. The event organizers apparently used
AI to generate promotional images that suggested a

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very high quality attraction. I saw
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As reported by the Guardian, customers
showed up to a sparsely decorated warehouse

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with a scattering of plastic props,
a small bouncy castle and some backdrops bending

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against the walls. Scotland police were
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shut down. Parents and their children
were in tears. That's not funny,

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John, but it's kind of funny. Wonderful copywriting here, and I'll make

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this the end. I won't say
another word after this next sentence, because

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this is just perfect. All the
event lacked was a man in a top

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hat telling customers you get nothing,
you lose good taste, sir,