Aug. 19, 2025

Dusty Slay on Tipping Madness, Pete Davidson Opens Up & Jeff Ross Hits Broadway

Dusty Slay says tipping has gotten out of control, John Cleese and Eric Idle feud (again), and Jeff Ross brings his one-man show Take a Banana for the Road to Broadway. Plus, Brad Williams jokes about finally being an “overnight sensation,” Pete Davidson reflects on being sexualized by the media, and Rob Beckett gets frog-marched out of Mick Jagger’s 82nd birthday party. Also: Paul Rodriguez arrested in Burbank, TJ Miller’s new special, and more tales of Fringe Festival misery.

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Caloroga Shark Media preach Dusty Sleigh. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack

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with your daily comedy news on Twitter or x whatever

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it is. Dusty Sleigh wrote, I worked for tips on

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and off for over a decade. I love tipping, but

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tipping is out of control now. I'll stop right there. Yes,

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I mean yes, you live in America, right, or maybe

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don't live in America. But if you live in America,

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you go anywhere you go get fast food, like, can

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we have a tip? I buy a smoothie, like can

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have a tip? No, Dusty Sleigh rights, When I go

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to a restaurant, I tip because that's how they make

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their living. Everywhere else, I tip to show my appreciation

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for someone's hard work. But now tips are expected everywhere

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and it no longer shows appreciation if it's just out

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of obligation. I don't have the answer here. I'm just

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at the airport again. I got coffee in the water

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and it costs me ten bucks. I tip twenty percent

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and that's two dollars. Then I got food and it

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was twenty dollars, and I tipped five dollars because that

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guy did a lot of running around for me. The

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coffee shop worker barely did anything. I don't mind tipping,

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but it just seems like every purchase I make a

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tip is expected. I would love to give tips, but

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when it's expected, it's not even appreciated. On the same

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Twitter timeline, the very next tweet was from John Clees

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The Python's not getting along again. Clees tweeted Eric Idol's

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been complaining again that Python communications to him have been delayed.

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Fans may be interested to know that this could be

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because he refuses to accept any communications that are sent

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to him except through his lawyers. That slows it down

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a bit. Jeff Ross made his grand opening last night

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with Take a Banana for the Road. His Broadway show

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previews had begun on August fifth. Last night was the

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proper opening. Take a Banana for the Road was named

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after his grandfather's advice for traveling. The one man show

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follows Jeff Ross's upbringing in New Jersey before earning the

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nickname Roastmaster. General Friday says Jeff uses humor and song

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to reflect on many not so funny topics, like losing

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his parents at a young age, as well as losing

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Bob Sackett, Gilbert Gottfried and Norm MacDonald in quick successions.

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In recent years, he's accompanied by a giant led screen

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and a two piece orc. Jeff said, I always want

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to do something extra. I've seen some Broadway shows that

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felt like breakfast and lunch, but I didn't quite get dinner.

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I wanted this to feel like a full meal. I

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need a little schmaltz in my life. Before the first

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preview performance, Jeff said, I couldn't sleep the night before,

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which was a good sign, but I wasn't nervous. There

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was a guy on the front row with his feet

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on the stage and his wife was on her phone.

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Her phone went off, and I'm like, oh, this is

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like any other gig. No phone's gonna throw me off.

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Des Bishop at Oldhampton's dot com. I spent most of

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my career in Ireland, so now that I'm back living

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in New York full time, it's been fun to flip

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the outside of point of view I had in Ireland

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and throw that glance at the US. Plus I get

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to explore the nostalgia of my childhood in a way

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I couldn't in Ireland because those references wouldn't have resonated

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with them. His influences. He says, when I first became

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aware of stand up, it was because of the popularity

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of Eddie Murphy. My friends and I watched Delirious and

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Raw on repeat and could recite the jokes to anyone

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who would listen. I think those of us at a

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certain age could probably do half of Raw off the

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top of our heads. Like seriously, Des says, when I

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started stand up, I was really into Bill Hicks, George Carlin,

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and Chris Irish. Comics that people over here wouldn't be

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as familiar with, like Dylan Moran and Tommy Chounan also

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inspired me in my early career. Now I just enjoy

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good bits when I see them. Social meeting is a

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blessing and a curse in our world, but one of

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the great things is the broad amount of people you

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get to see that I would never have been exposed

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to in the past. Brad Williams spoke to The Daily

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Gazette and said, people might think I'm gonna go on

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stage and say I could take a bath in a thimble,

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and that's weird. The audience will laugh, but think he's

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not gonna be anything much beyond that. I would say

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having good sets and showing people that I'm a good name.

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It's only taking me twenty one years to become an

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overnight sensation at the Palace Theater in Alby. There are

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really smart comedians out there that talk about what's going

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on and of really intelligent, insightful jokes about the whole situation.

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I'm not that one. My job is to tell jokes

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and make everyone come together and realize we're not all

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that different. You're sitting there watching my show. Everyone's laughing.

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No one cares about race. No one cares you voted for,

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No one cares what race you are. We lay down

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with you right too, no one. No one worries about that.

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Everyone's at the same place at the same time. All

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of us have the same thoughts. Wow, this guy is funny.

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Soup Connor whispers in the street gossip Conn, probably about

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Pete gossip Conn. Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Mac.

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It's always a tree gossip. Connor whispers this tree gossip corn,

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probably Pe gossip Cone. Where the room is meeting with

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Johnny mags all in the tree and gossip corner is

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probably about Pete. Pete Davidson was on with Charlemagne, the

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God and talked about bringing pop culture to SNL and

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making it a quote tabloidy trendy thing unintentionally. Pete said,

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I was embarrassed by it because no one talked about

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any work I was doing. They were just like, oh,

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there's the uh F stick and that hurts so much.

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Urla Maine was confused and was like, you were banging

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a lot of hot chicks and had a ten inch

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you know. Pete says on paper that might sound great,

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but in reality he wasn't happy with being sexualized by

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the public and was uncomfortable and explains he's not the

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most handsome celebrity out there. Quoting Pete, Pete said, it's

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embarrassing because you know, it's Hollywood. Everyone haves. Ever, why

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are they focusing on me. I don't want to victimize

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myself in any way because I'm cool, but the sexualization

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of me. If that was a girl, people would be like,

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there'd be a march for it. Seriously, you're just talking

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about my thing all day. He was asked how the

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big energy started. Pete said, I'd think it was like

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the New York Times or something when I started dating

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someone that I guess they considered it out of my league,

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which I think everyone is out of my league, but

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you know, they were like this guy must have big energy,

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and then someone confirmed it, like not to be lame,

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but it's traumatic to live in your own cramp all

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the time. Also on Gossip Corner, Rob Beckett, you know

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him from was it l Last One Standing? What was that?

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The Amazon show that I liked? You think i'd know

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the name of it? That one? Rob Beckett revealed he

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was quote frog marched, had of Mick Jagger's eighty second

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birthday party. Here's some name dropping. How did Rob Beckett

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get to Mick Jagger's eighty second birthday party? He was

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Jimmy Cars plus one and they had just left the

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Oasis concert. We're told Rob Beckett had enjoyed several dreams

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and found himself partying with Ronnie Wood, you know from

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the Rolling Stones, at swanky Chelsea night club, the Rex Rooms.

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He told the Parenting Hell podcast. It was a tiny

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little back room and Mick Jagger was there, obviously a

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lot of his ex wives and children from his ex wives,

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Sasha Baron Cohen, Ronnie Wood. It was really nice. They

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were really chatty and hospitable. The music was quite loud.

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I said hello to Mick Jagger. I didn't properly chat

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to him because there was another separate room that had

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him in it with Sasha Baron Cohen. Then I was like,

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I've had six pints of lager, two espresso martinis, and

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I'd say a bottle and a half of rose and

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just been to the best gig of my wife and

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I'm there with a Vakan soda. After being on a

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motorbike chatting to Ronnie Wood and Sally Wood and Jimmy

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Carr and I'm just talking about absolute to crap, rob

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decided to leave and was helped on his way by

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four security guards. He said, I got like frog marched

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out by four people that were holding on to me.

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Maybe I got kicked out. I don't know. They were

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walking me out. They're like extracting me like I'm a

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rolling stone and there's ten thousand people trying to grab me.

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He woke up in the morning to a text from

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his new friend ron Wood and said, that was one

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of the most mental nights of my life. All right,

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that one was fun. This next one on Gossip Corner

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kind of serious from NBC four Los Angeles. They reported

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Paul Rodriguez was arrested at a Burbank restaurant on suspicion

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of misdemeanor narconics possession. A woman was arrested on suspicion

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of drug possession, and after searching the car, police arrested

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Rodriguez on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of narconics. Law enforcement

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sources told NBC Los Angeles that police found xanax and

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suspected fentanyl in the car. Rodriguez denied that the drugs

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were his, according to police. NBC reports. Jail records indicated

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Rodriguez was cited and released on the next morning. Now

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back in March, Rodriguez had been arrested at a traffic

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stop near Victory Boulevard in Burbank. He was a passenger

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in a car in which the Burbank Police said narcotics

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were discovered. Rodriguez told TMZ the drugs did not belong

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to him. In November of last year, a friend of

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Rodriguez died at his home in a drug rotate fatality.

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The cause of death was due to the effects of fentanyl.

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Sounds like a very very serious situation and nothing to

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joke about. On the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube channel

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seven pm Central Time. It's TJ Miller the Philosophy Circus.

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I like TJ. TJ's comedy is a lot of fun.

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There's been some colorful things on his personal resume, but

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his comedy's fun. And kind of hung out with him

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in Chicago million years ago one night, I think, especially

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at a show. I think we hung out. After my

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memory gets foggy, but I feel like I was at

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a show and TJ was up there with the guy

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who played the janitor on Scrubs. He was in a show. Anyway,

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I digress this Fringe man, What is going on with

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the Fringe? From the scotsman? Barry Ferns, who's been performing

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at Fringe for twenty five years, why do you keep

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going if it's so terrible, wrote in an open letter

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to the organizers that there needs to be fairness in

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the awards, pointing to the difference between performers with teams

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of ten technical staff, producers and marketing budget and solo artists. Barry,

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can you write the same letter to the podcast industry?

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Thank you? The awards, which according to this article are

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known as the Oscars of Comedy. Not sure I've ever

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heard that phrase before, but what do I know? Have

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four categories including Best Comedy Show, the Victoria Would Award,

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the Best Newcomer Award, and the Comedy Hall of Fame.

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Nika Burns Is, the director of the awards, wrote a

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response saying whether an act is unrepresented or represented is

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not a consideration. Mister Ferns wrote, mister Ferns is just

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funny because it makes me think of mister Burns. Mister

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Ferns wrote, one of these two acts a show for

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to the start line, fresh and focus. The other ask

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to run to the stadium just to be allowed to compete.

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And when they finally get there, they discover it's not

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the one hundred meter sprint everyone else is running, but

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the hurdles, and they're still expected to be just as fast.

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They've been flying their own path through the city and

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the rains, Sorting their own press releases, funding the whole

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thing from savings or debt, without the hope of selling

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enough tickets to recoup it even if they sell out.

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Designing their own poster is, finding and managing their own flyers,

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booking their own venue, often collapsing into bed each night,

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too tired or we work a joke, let alone pitch

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to a journalist. Don't go this sounds horrible. Every single

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day I'm reading you, folks an article about how the

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Fringe is a nightmare. Why does anyone do it? Fern's

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show is called My Seven Years is Lionel Richie. It's

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about how performing at Fringe over decades left him bankrupt.

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What are we doing? Chortle wants to go see Dusty

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Creases Dance your Life Away. They wrote this could be

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an introvert's worst nightmare and personally not my first choice

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for a fun time. Well, there's a review. Dusty Creases

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presents an hour heavy on physical participation, in which you're

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asked to jump to your feet every few minutes to

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join in the moves. The dance teacher character just demonstrated, no,

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I'm with the reviewer. I just want to sit there.

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I don't want to get up. That show's at the

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Pleasant Stome if you want to go. Voice mag has

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been speaking with some of the performers there. One is

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Jos Norris. Jozz's show is called You Wait, Time passes.

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In it, I will finally unveil my life's work, my

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secret project, which I've been secretly working on for thirty years.

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I've done nothing but imagine this moment for three decades.

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What will it feel like? How will people react? What

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treasures will they heap upon me when they realize that's

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what I've been sitting on this whole time. They asked

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him about his approach to the fringe, same message here.

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Why are we going? Jaws says, It's not possible to

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treat the fringe lightly anymore. It used to be possible

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to go up, not spend much money, experiment a bit,

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and come away having learned a lot. It's now much

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more of a place where you invest in your career

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by showcasing a product. Because of that, I no longer

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think of it as doing the fringe. I now think

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it's a secondary concern, and the main focus is to

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make good work you're passionate about, and to make that

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in its own time and its own pace. And then

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when a thing you're making is good enough to go okay,

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maybe it's time to take this to the fringe. That

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results in taking a show up every two to three

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years rather than annually. If you had the power to

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change one thing about the Fringe, what would it be

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Reduce the rents. We hear this every sale article. What's

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the best, worst, or weirdest review you ever received? Just

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said I made a show years ago which started with

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me frying a plastic gag. It ended with me dressing

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up a sharp and floating out to see. Halfway through it,

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I urinated skittles into a jar. One review described the

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show as being unrelatable, and it really made me wonder

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what they thought I was going for, as though they

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thought the skittle bit, I was secretly thinking, hope other

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people have had this experience too. That is really funny,

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Josh Norris, You wait, time passes at the pleasant Stome

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And since that's a good laugh, let's get out there.

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That is your comedy news for today. If we'd like

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better record some right now where that show's not going

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