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Callaroga Shark Media. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news,
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a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the
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comedy industry. That's a sentence. The Spotify algorithm likes Bert
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Kraser's show Free Bert is out today on Netflix. The
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only press I've seen him do so far was on
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Gail King on CBS, and I went to pull the
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audio and the interview was very CBS this morning, Gail
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kingy and not interesting at all, So I'm like, forget it.
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I'll just tell them that it's out today. We'll see
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if Bert does any more. Press from lad Bible Comedians
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speaks out over allegations Ricky Gervay's stole his joke? Okay,
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did Ricky Gervas steal a joke? I'm gonna have to
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do a lot of paraphrasing here as I try to
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keep it clean. During his Golden Globe Award winning special,
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Ricky Gervas started joking about the Exorcist cleaning up Ricky's joke.
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He said something like, if scientists actually found the devil,
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I'd want to meet him, and I'd meet the devil.
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And he tried to hurt my feelings, and he went,
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your mother does a whole bunch of things with her
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mouth in hell, and Ricky's tag is, I don't care
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once she's dead too, she was heterosexual, and then he
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goes on to have some fun with that premise. Some
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comedy fans claim that it was a cut and paste
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of a joke made by Andy Field back in twenty
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twenty during BBC's stand up for Live Comedy. Field's version,
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which I'll also clean up. Has anyone seen The Exorcist?
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Your mother, uh does things with her mouth in hell?
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And you're supposed to go, oh no, that sounds awful,
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But I don't know. I think it sounds fine. It's hell,
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isn't it. It's where the most imaginable things happen. There's
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a million people burning fraternity in a like a fire,
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constantly blistering and angity. My mom's down there doing stuff.
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Who's having stuff done to them in hell? Anyway? That
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seems like a really positive thing to be happening. Boy,
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that sounds extremely similar. So Field heard that Gervase might
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be copying his joke. Field shared a video on social
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media explaining his opinion. Field splice clips of both are
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sets together to highlight the similarities and pointed out they're
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pretty close. But the idea that there's so many bits
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that are so close is kind of weird, isn't it.
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If I'm honest, I think what happens is that Ricky
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Gervas had the same idea as me, independently on his
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own at a different time. People love a bit of drama,
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love a bit of jokestealing Johnny Max guilty. Then I
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don't think that's what happened here. Most likely, Field says,
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we've never met. I know I did that bit on
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BBC one, but no one watched it. And I had
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that idea ten years ago. Ricky Gervas had it quite recently.
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I don't think he stole my bit. I think we
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just have very similar bits, very similar He's doing a
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lot of work. In that sentence, Field took the opportunity
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to highlight how many talented people there are out there.
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Lots of people, myself included, can make stand up with
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that level. There's not space in the public consciousness for
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that many successful comedians, but there are that many talented
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people out there. All right, well played, he got his
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message across the court of public opinion. Can decide. Pole
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Star posted a big, long discussion between Jerry Seinfeld and
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Nate bergatzi, It'll take me days to go through this,
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but let's start picking away at it. Jerry said, let's
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start here with what's on my mind? What do you
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have to do with this business that people stop trying
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to make you laugh? You get these guys and then
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you say something and you go, I'm kidding. What makes
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people think I'm gonna riff with Nate a little bit?
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I'm as accountant Nate forgets, he said. I get a
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lot of stories, and I'll be honest, I enjoyed telling
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them why their story is not good and what I
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would do with it. The problem is they get to
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the punchline almost immediately, and then they don't know how
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to get out of it. So then that's the fun part.
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I got hit by a car and then it's like, yo, man,
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you gotta save that car thing and build up a
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little bit. In the middle, they start talking about their wives.
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Jerry Seinfeld said, my wife's extremely funny also, but when
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she's telling a story, I just keep thinking tighter, just tighter.
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Nate says, oh, yeah, everything's tighter. Nothing should be long.
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The idea of the elevator pitch. You should think about
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that all the time, Jerry said, it's not important for them.
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It doesn't matter if it works at dinner or not.
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Really new topic, Nate said, I was talking to a
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younger comic like six months in, just recently, and he's
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going on and on about his Set's a bad show
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he did, and You're like, I don't care, man, you're
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six months in. Then he stopped and came back to it,
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and I was like, why don't you tell it story
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again one more time. Let's see how this one ends.
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They don't even realize it because they're six months in
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a comedy. Plenty more from those too, you'll find it
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on Pollstar. Now, if you listen every day, you know
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that the President and I don't see eye to eye
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on all the issues. Some of them we do like
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making Late Night great again. Some of them we don't.
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I won't make that list right now, but we do
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agree that we have a problem a twelve thirty for sure,
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and I'm aligned with the President that Stephen Colbert has
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to go. Now. We have different reasons for that. Mine
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is Stephen Colbert is one of the comedians helping to
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absolutely destroy Star Trek. So I have no patience for
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Stephen Colbert tak Natoro gini yshir or paton oswaldug the Vulcan.
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So I'm not at all excited that Stephen Colbert is
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going to make an appearance on SETH Myers. Why not
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just yell out the window, Stephen? Why not come on
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this show? The audience isn't all that much different. Why
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would you go on SETH Myers Late Nighter got into
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the logistics of all this. Colbert will walk the five
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blocks from his offices to the Ed Sullivan Theater. I'm
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pretty sure he'll be in a town corp of some sort. Anyway,
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he will somehow travel five blocks on Monday, although right
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now the forecast for New York City on Monday is
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somewhere between a nice day and forty thousand inches of snow.
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Most of you who lives somewhere east of the Mississippi
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have a similar forecast for this weekend. Are we getting
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two inches? Four thousand inches? Who knows? But let's say
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there was no snow. Steve Colbert would somehow, maybe by sled,
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travel five blocks. But John, you just said there was
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no snow. Why would he travel by sled if there's
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no snow. Your whole premise is busting apart. This is
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why I need Seinfeld and Nate to tell me how
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to tell a story. I digress. Colbert somehow don't worry
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about the weather. Somehow he's gonna go five blocks. You
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really should edit this, John, but that's not fun. Colbert
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will somehow go five blocks from the Ed Sullivan Theater
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to thirty Rock. At thirty Rock, he will pre tape
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his appearance to the ninety people who watch Late Night
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with Seth Myers, and then go back to record his
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own number one rated late night canceled talk show, The
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Late Show now Late Nighter points out on Mondays, Seth
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Myers tapes two episodes covering both Monday and Tuesday, which
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I've discussed in the past on this program. I find
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it curious the Colbert people didn't take that option. You know,
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maybe stop off at some budget cuts before we cancel
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the thing entirely. But maybe it's for the best because
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Stephen Colbert is helping to ruin Star Trek. But I digress.
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Sarah Silverman shared a not Safe for Work anecdote from
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her days on Saturday Night Live. Sarah went on Late
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Night with Seth Myers. Why are people doing this program?
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You think I'm being mean? Here here's from Late Night
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or October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Here are final late
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night ratings for Q three. Late Night with Seth Myers
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average nine hundred and twenty three thousand total viewers and
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one hundred and nine thousand in the eighteen to forty
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nine s Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman could actually stand
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on a box in Times Square and reach more people.
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That is not at all a joke. Make Late Night
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great again. Come on, President Trump, You're focusing on the
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wrong issues. You're totally distracted all week. You've been totally
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distracted with crazy things. You need to focus on this
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late night issue. Sarah Silverman said she was there at
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SNL fifty with John Lovett's Paul McCartney was about to perform.
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Sarah said she and Lovitz made a bet before Paul
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began his set. She said, John Lovetts leans over and
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he goes, if I can guess what song he's going
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to sing, will you show me a picture of your privates?
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He used a different word, but not as bad as
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you think. The one with the V he used that word,
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or at least that's the version Sarah tells. Who knows
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what he actually said. Sarah told the seven people that
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watched Seth Myers absolutely deal love its correctly guessed Golden Slumbers.
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Sarah did not say whether she made good on the bet.
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Hey BET's a bet. Keenan Thompson is getting back together
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with Kel Mitchell. They're making yet another movie. It's not
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Good Burger three. Oh No, They're making a horror comedy.
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Keenan and Kel meet Frankenstein, which makes me wonder, why
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doesn't Sandler do that? Why are we doing Adam Sandler
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meets Frankenstein? Adam Sandler meets the Mummy? Why is Sanlor
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not doing ten of those? That's kind of comedian Adam
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Sandler's destiny, right do whatever Adam did accept, it's Adam Sandler.
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Let me look those up. Ma's a little loose today,
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you know, I'm looking here at the IMDb. Sailor could
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remake all kinds of movies. Could you see Adam Sandler
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in a remake of Buck Privates? Adam Sandler could play
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a sidewalk salesman enlisting in the army to avoid jail,
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only to find that his drill instructor is the police
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officer who had him imprisoned. You could see that? Could
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you see? Adam Sandlor in hold that Ghost? After inheriting
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a fortune from a gangster, a dim witted service station
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attendant finds himself stranded in a haunted house. Does that
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not scream? Adam Sandler? Here come the co Eds. A
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bumbler played by Adam Sandler could become the caretaker at
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an all girls college. During his misadventures, he raises money
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to free the school from its traditionally minded landlord. Could
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you not see that? Adam Sandler meets Frankenstein. The Wolfman
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tries to warn a dim witted porter that Dracula wants
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his brain for frankenstein Monster's body. I mean, does that
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not scream? Adam Sandlor? Movie? Adam Sandler in The Foreign Legion.
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In this Abbot and Constella remake, a Brooklyn wrestling promoter
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ghost of French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler,
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but accidentally ends up in the French Foreign Legion. Could
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you not see that? Could you not see? Adam Sandler
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meets the Invisible Man? How about Adam Sandler and the
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Beanstalk in this app and Costello remaking a story about
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Adam Sandler who trades the family cow for magic beans.
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I think I've made my point. Move on, although I
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am distracted by Adam Sandler goes to Mars and Adam
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Sandlor meets Captain Kid, Adam Sandler meets Doctor Jekyl and
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mister Hyde. Adam Sailor meets the Mummy. Where were we? Oh?
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Keenan Thompson was making a movie. I try not to
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hand in the same show every day. Guce. Keenan Thompson
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was making a movie. This is called Keenan and Kel
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Meet Frankenstein. Keenan said, Kell and I have always loved
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finding new ways to work together, and this project felt
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like the perfect mix of nostalgia, comedy and something completely unexpected.
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We're excited to bring a fresh take on a classic
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monster story and have some fun doing it. There's more
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Podcasting Awards, which is something I could say every single day.
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There's so many podcasts awards. These are the Ambies presented
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by the Podcast Academy, which sounds really fancy. Thirty three
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categories Best Comedy Podcast. The nominees are Conan O'Brien needs
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a friend, be not so canceled, Last Culturistas, something called
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Murder at the Pateel Motel, SmartLess, The Bald and the Beautiful,
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The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr, which is not a
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good podcast, and I like Jimmy Carr despite the whole
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odd thing that is not a good podcast. And Wisecrack.
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I don't know what wisecrack is and I don't care now.
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Podcast of the Year, Real Quick Call Her, Daddy, Crime Junkie,
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Pablo Tory, Podsave America, Question Everything, Reveals, SmartLess, the last
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invention of the Mel Robins podcast, and Wisecrack once again,
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must be a good show. I'd better look this up
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now now if it's nominated for everything? What is Wyse
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Crack Wise Crack from Tenderfoot? Now? I know the Tenderfoot guys.
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They are good people. I know Donald and Donald hands
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in good work. Okay, this is just off my radar
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because I don't work with them anymore. You can check
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my resume. I work with them. He left home as
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the chubby kid with a dream. A decade later, he's
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a touring comic with a killer set. All right, let's
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give it to that because I like Donald Anyway, you
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may be noticing, Hey, John, how come you didn't mention
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Amy Poehler. She just won the Golden Globe for Best Podcast.
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She's not even nominated. What's the deal with that. Entertainment
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Weekly looked into it and apparently they confirmed with a
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source at Spotify that Spotify historically does not submit for awards.
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If you're enjoying this program today, God bless you, and
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you would like it without commercials. What thing you can do?
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You open up your Apple podcast app. I'll do it
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with you. I got my phone right here. Okay, I'm
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gonna swipe up and I'm gonna find the podcast app
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after I enter my code. I'm not telling you what