Dave Chappelle's controversial selfie with Rep. Lauren Boebert

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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If you skip the weekends for some
reason, go back and listen to Sunday.

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There's a whole thing with Mark Maren
and Matt Rife. It's just wonderful.

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And the moon Tower Comedy Festival has
a lot of news there, okay.

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In today's news, Dave Chappelle has
posed for a selfie with Representatives Lauren

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Bobert and and a Luna. This
happened on Capitol Hill. Bobert and Luna

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spotted Dave Chappelle wandering the halls of
Congress on Thursday. Bobert posted it and

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wrote, just three people who understand
there's only two genders. Luna tweeted the

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same photo and captured it ran into
Dave Chappelle. Luna told Dave as they

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spoke, thanks for all you do. Representative Byron Donald's, a Republican out

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of Florida, was also filmed greeting
Dave Chappelle and chatting with Dave. Why

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was Dave at the Capitol Great question? Reportedly for meeting with the Congressional Black

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Caucus. According to punch Bowl News, Dave was asked about this by reporter.

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He said, a lot of the
people I grew up with work on

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the Hill, so I hang out
here sometimes, and I'm in DC to

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catch up with old friends. A
representative for Chappelle told the Washington Examiner that

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Chappelle did not conduct any business or
attend any meetings while at the Capitol,

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given the reason that he was in
town for last night's Kennedy Center honors and

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an art is activism workshop at a
local public high school. All right,

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we'll keep an eye on that for
tomorrow, Johnny Mack, you never talk

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about Matt Rife. I know,
right. Matt recently played Santa Rosa.

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The Press Democrat had somebody at the
show, and apparently Matt offered a solution

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for anyone offended by his jokes.
He said, we have a safe space

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for you outside the exit door.
I'm sure he told it better. The

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Press Democrat rites on the soft side. He talked about donating toys given him

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by fans to children, and made
friends with a fan who sat with his

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diabetes service dog a pub named Waffles
in one of the front rows. First,

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Rife denounced the dog as ugly,
then later reckoned it was cute.

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A total of three and twenty fans
attended Matt Rice's two shows, including some

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who came from other states because their
local right shows were sold out, according

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to a spokesperson for the Luther Burbank
Center. As for the controversial joke and

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the Netflix special, I'll remind you, Rife joked, Yeah, but I

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feel like if she could cook,
she wouldn't have that black eye. Raife

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addressed it to the audience on Wednesday
and said, it's a joke. It's

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not based on real circumstances, nor
does it reflect my real feelings. At

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the Santa Rosa show, Rife tried
out some new material We're told based on

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his standby topics, which are relationships, sexuality, gender roles, misunderstood segments

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of the population, and taboo words
and concepts. He also talked about some

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positive responses from fans. Riife had
set on stage that he loves otters.

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A fan invited him to an otter
sanctuary, and then Rife joked, I'm

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sure he told it better than I
will. It was in Florida and was

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in a bathtub, and it was
just a powsome painted brown I guess in

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context and told properly that could Land
more details about Kevin Hart and Chris Rock

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Headliners Only. This the documentary coming
to Netflix on December twelfth. In Kevin

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Hart and Chris Rock Headliners Only,
we follow the two comedy legends as they

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embark on a series of performances while
also taking audiences on a tour throughout their

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varying trajectories leading up to it.
In addition to Kevin Hart and Chris Rock,

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the documentary features interviews with Jerry Seinfeld, Wanda Sykes, Bill Byrd,

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Dave Chappelle, Tiffany Hannish, and
Moore. Good note from Chris Rock,

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he says, I'm smart enough to
always check to see what Kevin's doing before

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I go on tour. I'm not
getting stumped by Kevin. That's just not

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happening. John mulaney spoke to a
variety and said, going to rehab and

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a lot of other things that have
become public knowledge, I felt there was

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no way to start doing stand up
again without going through this. I also

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had a lot to say about it. It had been an extremely eventful time

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and the goal from the beginning was
to do this as funny as I could

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make it, not as impactful as
I could make it not to pause for

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dramatic effect. I just wanted to
be a little wilder and put you in

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my very confident, amended brain.
During the time of addiction, I kept

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asking friends, do I come off
like too much of an a hole?

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Jimmy Kimmel saw it at the tubidoor
and said, yes, but you have

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to keep it all. I've been
to my entire career where I think,

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oh, this is a little dark. I know if people are going to

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go with this. For some reason, I had checked an audience from seventy

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years old to seven, and I'm
aware of how this is going to play

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with a great, big group that
I'm very lucky to have assembled. I

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just knew that this vein would be
interesting to people. Mulaney was asked if

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he has any dad jokes, and
he said, it's a funny thing to

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me. I don't have an immediate
comedic take on being a dad. I

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have some stories that I think are
funny because of the amount of talking we

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do. Now we're just chatting all
the time, and I find the amount

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of time I spent talking to a
twenty three month old versus any adults A

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musing Amy Schumer is set to Star
and produce Kind of Pregnant. In Kind

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of Pregnant, we follow a Laney
played by Amy Schumer, who is jealous

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of her best friend's pregnancy and begins
wearing a fake baby bump that accidentally meets

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the man of her dreams. M
Nicole Bayer has done a deal with Destination

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Canada. They've teamed up to create
Canadian Crash Course, a new virtual course

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designed encourage travelers to step out of
their comfort zone and gain confidence navigating winter

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like an expert, Like a Canadian. Nicole Byer hosts lessons on navigating sche

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mishaps, chili plunges, fashion blunders, sport fails, and more. In

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for these lessons, you can go
from northern novice to winter. Pro Buyer

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says hosting the Canadian Crash Course has
been a blast. Canadians really go above

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and beyond when it comes to friendly
hospitality. Watch and learn as I try

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skiing, cold plunging, ice skating, bundling up from the the lights,

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hunting and more, finding the fun
of the hiccups along the way. I

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mean, if you're gonna try something
new this winter, you better do it

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where they do. Winter Rite Canada. John Marco CIRESI was up in Connecticut

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and said, I've been all over
Connecticut and this is definitely one of the

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least interesting places. And that says
a lot for Connecticut. I've not been

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able to find a good smoothie place. Every time I ask someone for breakfast

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recommendation, they go, h Fairfield, and I go, well, I'm

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stuck here. You also talked about
touring Europe and said, I would say

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that they might not understand as many
American political references, but they had a

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better understanding of history in a way
that let me make some jokes frankly about

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the Holocaust, that they just understood
the intricacies of more than the typical American.

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They were not quite as in a
runch of humor, but they were

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very into dark humor. I feel
like, and these are broad strokes that

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I'm painting, that Europeans have a
more honest understanding of their own countries in

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a way that really lets you talk
crap about them. They make fun of

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us for the gun stuff very hard. It's an easy way for an American

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to get a laugh here, like, oh, it's nice to be here

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and get a break from all those
shootings. And they're like ah, yes,

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that's you, America. I am
finally remembering while there's a microphone in

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my hand to tell you that I
watched Mike bur Bigley as the Old Man

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on the Pool. I watched it, like I don't know, two weeks

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ago, and I keep forgetting to
mention it. My take. I think

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you guys are gonna really like it. I share that in the Facebook group,

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which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I think you guys will like

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it a lot. I like for
Biggs as I watched it, and again,

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major comedy snob here, and as
I've explained the past, I've listened

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to so much comedy over the last
twenty years. My brain is just numb.

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I was struggling with it. I
didn't believe his premises as he told

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the stories. I was like,
I don't think this actually happened, specifically

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the one about him wrestling, and
it took me out of it. But

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that's me. I think you guys
will like it. It won't make my

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personal list, but I think you
guys will really like it. Does that

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make sense? That's just more about
me being a snob, But I think

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it's a solid special this week on
the Weekly Comedy thing. That's the show

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I host on the Live one app. The app is free. The show

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is free. So you grabbed the
Live one app and you download it and

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you look for the Weekly Comedy Thing, and there you will find me doing

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shre intros to comedy bits. It's
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less me and a lot more actual
comedians. On this week's show. David

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Cross, John Mulaney, Nate Bergatzy
Bet Stealing, Patton Oswald, Bill Angvall,

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Adam Sandler's Honaka song Sebastian Maniscalco,
DJ Dimmers, who I'm really into

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right now, Gabe Iglesias, Kathy
Griffin, Burbiggs, Eddie Hazard, Cheech

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and Chung and spinal Tap The Weekly
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Ed Helms is down for The Hangover
Part four. Please don't the first one

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amazing, major diminishing returns, and
don't forget the Hangover kind of destroyed the

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later seasons of the Office because they
pivoted to Ed Helms when they should have

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made Jim Helper the boss and didn't
really work. Elms told the Hollywood Reporter,

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I mean Bradley Cooper. Zach Alifanakis, director Todd Phillips. These are

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some of my favorite people on the
planet. I would do anything with them.

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Oh my goodness, I would do
anything with those guys. Bradley Cooper

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recently told The New Yorker Radio Hour
he would do another Hangover in an instant

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because I love Todd, I love
Zach, I love Ed so much.

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I don't think Todd's ever going to
do it. Helms agrees, like Bradley

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said, highly unlikely Todd would be
up for it. The Hill caught up

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with Kat Timf who said, I
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some of its power. The scarier
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can seem. If you say,
oh, you can't joke about that,

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that makes it seem even more powerful. You're totally allowed to think of joke's

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not funny. You're totally allowed to
say, ah, that hurt my feelings.

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I don't like that joke. Here's
why, and have a conversation about

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it. To say you can't joke
about it is actually a cool thing to

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say when you think about it,
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healing mechanism that people who are dealing
with trauma might need Kat says, I'm

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a free speech absolutist, but there's
a distinction between jokes and somebody who's just

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being a jerk on purpose. It
matters if someone was trying to make a

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joke versus somebody who's being racist,
because that person is a racist and wants

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to spread racism. Of course there's
a difference. I'm a sensitive person.

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I have a lot of feelings,
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as a subject that humor would not
touch. She talked about the potential of

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another Biden versus Trump making things hard
for comics, and she said, yeah,

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I think in some ways, yeah, I think it's also just emotionally,

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we're really going to go through this
again. I always vote third party,

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and I'm open about that. So
all that remains to be seen is

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when it's all over, which side
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Does she worry about being canceled?
Kat said, what I found is it's

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never to think you think it's going
to be. She talked about a controversy

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involving her and some Star Wars jokes. She said, all I said was

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I've never seen Star wars because it
was too busy liking cool things and being

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attractive. There werecorders of the Internet
that did not appreciate that. Let me

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pause here and shake off my laugh
for her next sentence, I got death

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threats, a lot of sexual violence, much of it involving lightsabers. What

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people don't understand. Sometimes there's no
way to really know if a joke's going

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to hit or not until you try
it. And you can't really be afraid

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of swing and miss, because sometimes
you're going to swing and miss. That's

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