Dec. 1, 2025

David Letterman weighs in on #M1230GA PLUS Introducing Comedy Survivor!

David Letterman weighs in on #M1230GA PLUS Introducing Comedy Survivor!

Johnny Mac discusses a major setback inthe #M1230GA movement as David Letterman weighs in.  To make things even worse for Johnny Mac, Letterman has Adam Sandler on his Netflix show.

Shane Gillis sells out a major venue, while controversial comedian Louis CK is seen with Mimi O'Donnell.

There's a lighthearted segment called Comedy Survivor launching, inviting listeners to nominate comedians. A recap of top touring comedians, Chevy Chase documentary news, and Charlie Bes's new special wraps up the episode.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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

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you skip the holiday weekend, I get it, but I'll

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tell you there were real episodes Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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No holiday filler, Plenty of fun news in there, some

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fun moments. Check that out in today at the halfway mark,

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I'll have a major announcement. But before that, just a really,

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really shocking development in the make twelve thirty great Again movement.

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If you're a regular listener, you know that the President

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and I are not aligned on all the issues, but

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one of the issues we are aligned on is the

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twelve thirty NBC franchise Late Night. We need to make

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it great again. The President, like me, not impressed by

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what Seth Myers is handing in. The President on social

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media posted, why does NBC waste its time and money

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on a guy like this? Which is a good question.

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We need to get back to the good old days

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of throwing things off a five story tower, or masturbating

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bears or whatever Jimmy Fallon did while he hosted the

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Thing Friends. This is very tough for me. David Letterman

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has weighed in on the situation. Now you're probably like John, Yeah, Letterman.

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I mean, he's got to know, like, what is Seth doing?

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He should be throwing stuff off a tower. He should

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be having Chris Elliott on doing fun bits. That's what

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I would hope David Letterman would say. But friends, no,

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David Letterman on the wrong side of the make twelve

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thirty Great Again movement.

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Let's listen, the President of the United States now wants

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to fire Seth Myers.

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Hell yeah, and I thought this is just delightful me.

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How do you think that's gonna go? So anyway, I've

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never been more proud of Seth Myers. That's our old show.

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As a matter of yees, yeah, we used to do

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that show and he does a magical job. But just

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remember Seth. Things happen.

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I think Dave may have lost it. It could just

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be he got really old and he just forgot what

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twelve thirty is supposed to be, Like make twelve thirty

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great again? The President doing a great job on this issue.

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More masturbating bears, more throwing things off a tower, more

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Chris Eliot. David Letterman continues to cause me personal pain.

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He's on Netflix today as a new episode. He has

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a new episode of his talk show My Next Guest

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Is or whatever it's called, Today's guest Adam Sandler. Now,

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hopefully David Letterman is asking Adam Sandler questions about how

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Adam Sandler is a great dramatic actor and not in

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any way making Adam Sandler think that Adam Sandler's funny. Dave,

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I hope you did not let me down twice in

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one day. That would pain me terribly. But yes, add

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on Netflix today David Letterman with the great, great dramatic

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actor Adam Sandler. Things not going Johnny max Way lately,

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I sold yesterday. Jim Gaffickin's Bourbon special doing really well

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on YouTube. I don't get it. You're only going to

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encourage him to do more. Everybody go watch Kevin Hart

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special for something actually funny. A variety watched Jim Gaffigin's car.

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They were curious, Jim, when did you find success? You

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were on Letterman and then quickly given a TV show

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called Welcome to New York, which was canceled after one season.

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What was it like to reach that peak and have

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a ticket away? Jim Gaffikins said, I feel like my

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career is this balance between creative fulfillment and getting caught

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up in other people's expectations. And when you get caught

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up in other people's expectations, that's when you become frustrated.

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I know, I would expect somebody who you helped earlier

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in their career would call you back, and then when

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they don't, that's very frustrating. So I understand what you're saying,

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Jim Gaffigan. Jim said, it's weird because comedians are very

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much self servers, but they also have to be cooperative

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and compliant. They go in a club environment and they

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have to be deferential to the person who books it,

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the person who oversees it. So they have to be

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audacious to get there, but they also have to be deferential.

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They need some schmoozing skills. But in the entertainment industry,

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particularly when creating and executing a show, you have to

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be protective of your ideas. I'm not saying you have

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to be Rosanne, but you have to be protective. The

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skills that work in stand up, not just the writing,

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but the businesses stand up are completely different from the

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sitcom or TV world. Acting is something I love, but

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it's insane. I used to say auditioning is like stripping,

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but you don't get a dollar. There's an amount of

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humiliation and rejection every creative person has to embrace. Jim Gaffigan,

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are their boundaries you would not cross? Good question? Jim

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said it sounds corny, but being a comedy nerd and

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having studied stand up, I do think there's an aftertaste

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to stand up that people don't realize. I don't want

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my stand up to leave people with that ichy feeling.

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I don't want to punch down. We all have friends

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who are super bitchy and gossipy, and they're great to

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hang out with, but in an hour after that, you're like,

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I feel kind of bad. We were making fun of

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Melissa forever, not saying I'm not guilty of this, but

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there is a lot of anger and I have a

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very dark heart. But it's better to bring insight and

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make a joke as a commentary on all humans. Good

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follow up here. In a recent special, Jim had a

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joke about pat retiring from Wheel of Fortune, the punchline

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being long lines. So if you can't retire from playing hangman,

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isn't that punching down Jim said, no, Honestly, that's a

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good example, because I wouldn't want Pats a Jack to

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be like, why is he picking on me? That's where

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it's imperfect. I tried to set up the joke where

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he seems like a loving guy, but the point of

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the joke was he was making seventeen million dollars a

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year for playing Hangman. The meat of the joke is

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more commentary on how our priorities in society are all

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over the place. Pat Sajack was compensated because people had

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an affinity for him. He was efficient, he was likable,

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he was charming. But maybe a teacher should make more

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than him. Shane Gillis is going to play Lincoln Financial Field,

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home of the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, over sixty thousand seats.

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He sold it out in half an hour. That shows

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July seventeenth. The Daily Mail was very excited about this one.

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Canceled comedian Louis c K devours Hollywood legend's widow on

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streets of NYC as steamy romance is revealed. Okay, what's this? Well,

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you see Louis c K just back from the Riod

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Comedy Festival, spotted passionately kissing Philip seymour Hoffman's longtime partner

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Mimi O'Donnell. That's right, Mimi was seen with Louis c

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K eleven years after Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away. Now

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The Daily Mail says that Mimi O'Donnell is now Spotify's

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head of scripted fiction. Hmm, mister ck just wrote a book,

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didn't he. That's interesting, We're told in the PDA Louis

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c K passionately put his hand on the back of

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her head. Josh Johnson got some attention for joking about

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New York City Mayor elect Zora and Mumdani. Johnson was

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joking about mum Donnie's visit to the White House where

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the Mayor elect and the president got along. Maybe they

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were talking about twelve thirty. Josh started by defining a communist,

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saying that it refers to those individuals who want everyone

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to eat or want some kind of grocery store for themselves.

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And then he said, for his part, you know, Zoren

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only really brought up Trump when he was asked. He

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wasn't one of those people that was companning on like

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opposing Trump specifically. You know what I mean, and it's

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wild that those two were in the same place. Johnson

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tagged that with I would have been like, Nah, sounds

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like a setup. I know a setup when I see

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one hand's papers. Dot Com had some questions for tig

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Nataro Rapid Fire tig Nataro questions. Favorite book The Five

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Am Club by Robin Sharma. The last thing to chock

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your breath away tick Nataro. Five deer lying close together

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off a wooded trail. Interesting, last thing I made you

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cry getting tough news about a dear friend. What would

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be your last meal? My morning's smoothie? Something worth fighting

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for planet Earth? If that goes, we go, something worth

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giving up expectations. Spend an afternoon with anyone alive or dad.

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Who would it be, she said, my mother. I'd love

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to introduce her to my family. Any interesting objects in

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your home or studio? Her answer A beautiful crystal on

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our mantle from singer Edie Burkel. Last film you watched? Friendship?

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What's the movie? Everyone should watch the documentary Come See

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Me in the Good Light on Apple TV plus this.

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Fall Sixteen Comedians, One Island And in the end, only

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one thing matters. Your vote alliances will form, bits will evolve,

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Johnny Mack will beat recurring jokes to their breaking point.

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Sixteen comedians, one recurring bit, one Survivor. This January on

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Daily Comedy News, Outbit Outlaugh Outlast, this is Comedy Survivor.

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That's right, Comedy Survivor will be the new bit. Here's

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how this is going to work. This week, in the

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Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you're

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gonna find a cartoon image for Comedy Survivor. In that thread,

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I want you to make nominations for who should be

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part of this contest. Then we'll let the holidays go by,

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and then in January, every week in the Facebook group

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Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you will vote one person

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off the comedy island and we will see who wins. Now,

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I want to remind you it doesn't really matter this.

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The whole thing is a bit. There's no actual island,

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there's no prize. This is a bit. So let's all

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tee each other up so that we can hopefully make

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for an entertaining podcast. And with that in mind, I

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have pre selected four people who would be part of

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Comedy Survivor. You guys get to pick the other twelve,

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but the four that I am putting on the island

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for reasons that you should understand if you listen to

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this podcast. They are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy,

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and Jim Gaffigan, creator of Bourbon It's Comedy Survivor. Coming

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to Daily Comedy News. Jump in the Facebook group Now

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make your nominations. Sixteen comedians one comedy Survivor should be fun.

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Billboard released the Biggest touring Comedians of October twenty twenty five.

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Your top touring comedian Nate bergatzy fifteen million dollars in October. Wow,

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some other people making some money. Louis c K. If

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you thinn't going to Riatt'll hurt your bottom line? Well no,

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he grossed to one point seven million dollars. Louis ck

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did eleven shows domestically twenty seven thousand, six hundred tickets,

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grossed one point seven million dollars. Matt Ryf also sold

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twenty seven thousand tickets. He did two shows, also grossed

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one point seven million. John mulaney seven shows, twenty three

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thy nine hundred tickets two point six million dollars, and

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Nate of course up top fifteen point eight mil two

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hundred and sixteen thousand tickets fourteen shows. What's fifteen point

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eight million divided by two hundred and sixteen thousand. Serie

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tells me seventy three point one four so on average,

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seventy three bucks to go see Nate Pergatzy must be

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Nice CNN. On Year's Day, they'll have a documentary called

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I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not. A trailer suggests a

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deep dive into both the myth and the men, featuring

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interviews with the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Lorne Michaels, Kevin Kneelan,

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and Martin short Notice. Nobody from community listed there out

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to day. On YouTube, Charlie Barns has his second special.

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It's called Neighborly. Charlie brings his particular brand of Midwest

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nice to his latest hour full of stories about growing

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up one of twelve children, sneaking a beer in a church,

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gambling with his grandmother, and Midwest cheap hacks. And that

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is your comedy news for to day or a I'll

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see you to Morrow.