June 3, 2024

Eminem's 'Houdini,' featuring Shane Gillis and Pete Davidson

Eminem's 'Houdini,' featuring Shane Gillis and Pete Davidson

n today's comedy news, host Johnny Mac provides spoilers for Eminem's new video, 'Houdini,' featuring Shane Gillis and Pete Davidson. Bill Maher discusses his controversial statements on CNN's Fareed Zakaria, addressing changes in political...

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n today's comedy news, host Johnny Mac provides spoilers for Eminem's new video, 'Houdini,' featuring Shane Gillis and Pete Davidson. Bill Maher discusses his controversial statements on CNN's Fareed Zakaria, addressing changes in political landscapes. Nick Swardson reflects on his new comedy tour and image makeover. Reggie Watts shares insights on performing at festivals and improvising his comedy specials. Additionally, we get a sneak peek at Adam Ray's upcoming special, and Vulture's recommendations for must-watch stand-up specials, among other comedy highlights.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey Jenny Mann, cool side again with your daily comedy

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news. We've got landscapers and birds
for you. Spoilers for Eminem's new video

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Houdini. Some comedians appear in it, so if you don't want to be

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spoiled about Eminem's new video, you
might want to skip ahead. All right,

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here come the spoilers. The song
is called Houdini. That's not a

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spoiler, But who's in it?
Shane Gillis and Pete Davidson. The music

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video like the song, is a
throwback to Eminem's two thousand and two hit

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Without Me. The new song reprises
the guess Who's back entered of the song.

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Eminem and Doctor dre returned to their
superhero characters from the first film.

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Pete Davison shows up towards the end
of the video and takes over Shady's driver

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and says, trust me, I'm
a great driver. Don't worry, I

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just got my license back. That
is an allusion to Pete's twenty twenty three

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reckless driving charge. Shane gillis also
in the video. It is unclear to

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me what Shane Gillis does in the
video. Bill Maher got into it with

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CNN's Freed Zakira. Bill Maher denies
that he has changed. Mars says,

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people have said to me, you
made fun of the left more than you

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used to, and guilty I have
because the left has changed. Mars says

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he believes the Republican Party is even
worse than the Democratic Party, saying the

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right doesn't believe in democracy anymore.
They've thrown their lot in with a sociopath

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named you know who. I'm not
here to upset people who only thinks elections

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can't when we win, Mars said. But it's not like the left hasn't

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changed also, so I'm gonna call
it out whenever I see it. He

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specified the issues of gender, race, and fretty speech. It's not that

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I've gotten old, it's that your
ideas are stupid. The last chapter in

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the book is called civil war,
and you hear more about it all the

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time. People are actually pining for
it. It can't work, It won't

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work. Half the country's not gonna
self debord, even if you win every

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election. I'm just trying to do
a comedy podcast poolside. I don't want

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to discuss a potential civil war today. This is not why we're here.

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More from Nick Swartzen in the La
Times on his current tour, I talk

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about the same topics I usually do, but I'm trying to stay away from

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certain things. No, not Paul. It's says I don't party like I

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used to, I don't drink like
I used to do. So I want

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to get away from that image where
people think of some lunatic. I don't

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do drugs. I mean I did
edibles in Colorado and then ended up on

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the EFIC News that one time.
There's like so many horrific things going on

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in the world, and they decided
to put me on blast for getting too

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high. In Colorado. I took
an edible, which is my fault and

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was stupid. But on my new
act, I have a diarrhea joke.

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Of course. I talked about Norm
MacDonald and I talked about a bunch of

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true stories. It's just silly.
My act is a good time. It's

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not political. I don't have an
agenda. I'm exactly how I am on

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stage as I am off stage,
and people always mention that it's just like

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a real show, and it's just
fun and silly, and it's like,

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let's have a good time. Man
life is too short. Schwartzen says he

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always finds it weird when gen Z
fans have seen his own material. I'm

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always shocked when I meet people in
their twenties and they're like, we love

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Reno nine one one, and I'm
like, how do you even know about

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that? I always tell young actress
and comedians you got to commit one hundred

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ten percent to what you're doing on
stage and on camera. You have to

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be willing to completely lose your mind, like when you watch guys like Will

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Ferrell and he's running around streaking in
old school showing his butt. When I

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did the movie Bucky Larson, I
was naked. I did a Haunted House.

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I was naked in that too.
Whether it was Blades of Glory or

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The Benchwarmers and all those movies,
I got crazy and had to commit to

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it. I feel you like,
say you decide to record your podcast outside

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a crazy idea to begin with,
and the landscapers are just gonna blow leaves

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around. You're committed now. Adam
Ray will have a new special on June

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sixteenth, which is his birthday.
It's his third special, this one called

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Like and Subscribe. It'll debut on
YouTube. And beyond video on demand on

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June eighteenth. The new Hour covers
everything from awkward flight to his rapper brother

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in law, Disneyland etiquette, and
his childhood dream, The eight hundred Bound

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Garilla. I spoke to Reggie Watts
when Reggie was at the recent Netflix Festival.

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They asked him, just performing at
a festival change your performance at all?

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Are there advantages disadvantages? Reggie said, I don't think there are advantages

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or disadvantages. I think for me, I'm an improviser, So for me,

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festivals are great because there's a lots
of comments on the layout of it

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and so forth, so I enjoy
that a lot. I don't really change

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it anything other than reflecting environment that
I'm performing in. The Gorilla asked him

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about his recent special. As an
improviser, what's the process like? Do

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you mix in some prepared stuff?
How do you prepare for a special as

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an improviser? Reggie said, I
don't really plan it. I know the

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data I'm supposed to show up,
and I have a concept for it.

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I might have an intro and outro
for a bit. It's really have an

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idea of what I liked the feel
of it. To be aesthetically and then

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work with the production team to make
that happen. And then I just kind

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of show up and go for it. If I wanted to, I could

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probably release three specials a year.
Well, no, then they wouldn't be

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special. She'd be putting up three
hours a year. Should we have that

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debate again? Now let's move on. You know it's a little light for

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Monday. I might have to run
towards the Joe Koy bit just to pad

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this thing thirty seconds, Reggie said, Or I could do a special every

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week for marketing terms, and you
know how much money's put in a special.

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You have to market everyone. You
have to market so everyone can make

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their money back and all that stuff. But for me, it doesn't really

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matter. I frequency your preparedness.
I'll do specials all day long. Good

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question here, is Reggie playing more
comedy venues or music venues? I mean

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not that that's like the most amazing
question, but I like the answer.

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Watt says, I was kind of
doing what I was doing at gam nights

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in Seattle in the nineties, a
little bit like in between sets. If

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I was improvising with a band and
we were playing all night, that was

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a little more formalized pose. But
I guess I started actually doing comedy when

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I moved to New York. You
had like UCB Theater in the Pit and

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other weird small venues and nightclubs that
did comedy nights. And then eventually sometimes

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I play the comic strip or Carolines, but not very often. I love

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playing those clubs because they didn't know
what's going on. Retchie, Yeah,

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it's the absolute best, But a
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In advance, Vulture hooks up the
slow news day with an article three new

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comedy specials you should definitely watch.
Okay, let's see what this says now.

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I really like their premise here.
They write upward of one hundred and

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fifty stand up specials released in twenty
twenty three. That's a lot these days.

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If a comedian can't get one of
the cable or streaming networks to buy

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their special, they can self produce
and release it alongside one of the hundreds

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of other specials on YouTube. As
such, every month this column will suggest

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a few specials worth watching. Yeah, I mean, there's just no way

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to keep up unless this is all
you do, all right. They have

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nominated Ali Sidiq's Domino Effect Part three
on YouTube. I've not seen this one,

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Vulture tells us Ali Sidik the landscaper
stopped. It seems so quiet now.

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Ali Cidq is in the middle of
the most ambitious project in the history

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of stand up, a four part
series about how he was raised by a

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drug dealer, started selling drugs himself, got arrested and went to prison,

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they add. In a lovely bit
of direction, Sadik's performance of this arc

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is backdropped by a screen that shifts
from a sunny day to the sun setting

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tonight sky over the course of seventy
minutes. By the way, one downside

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of sitting pool side recording your podcast
is the pollen. I hear my voice

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giving out the next one, they
suggest NICKI Glazers, someday he'll die.

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I have the unpopular opinion that that
special is whatever. I get it.

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I'm fighting the tide here. This
one's gonna win awards and everyone's gonna be

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like, see you told you.
I get that Nikki crushed on the roast.

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I get she's having a moment.
I watched that special and I was

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like, eh, not feeling it
all right. Next one, Colin Quinn,

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Our time is up on YouTube.
I didn't even know this existed.

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When did this come out? Valterre
says. By filming his special at the

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Psychotherapy Networker Symposium and including interviews with
therapists who diagnose Colin Quinn based on what

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they see in his set, Colin
creates a uniquely robust watching experience. You're

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observing his material, but you're also
observing how the therapist receive it, which,

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in Turin makes you wonder what they
must think about him. Is he

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a truth teller of society's ills or
a madman? Wow? All right,

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while we're here. Some other ones
that they have previously suggested. Alex Edelman's

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Just for Us on Max. Haven't
gotten to that yet. Kyle Crane's Dirt

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Nap that has just an amazing chunk
about the fast and the Furious. I

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saw that Kyle has pulled that out
as a standalone YouTube clip if you want

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to find that at all time ten
to twelve minutes. Nation Macintosh is Down

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with Tech on YouTube. I haven't
seen that yet. Christina Catherine Martinez is

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how to Bake a Cake in the
Digital Age also on YouTube. Boy,

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I got some homework to do.
Natasha van Blatt, We're all dads here

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on YouTube and they're also highlighting Kristin
Shawl's twenty thirteen Live at the Fillmore Kristin

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shaw allegedly in that television show Bob's
Burgers. You know what, let me

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do, everyone save you some trouble. I'm going to put this in the

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Facebook group, which is Daily Company
News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join

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us there. The parent company of
Just for Laughs has sold some assets as

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part of a court directed bankruptcy protection. Quebec's Cities Comedy Ha, a company

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I have not previously heard of,
announced that had picked up unspecified assets as

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part of a sale and solicitation process. According to Price Waterhouse, Cooper's secured

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creditors are owed twenty six point five
million dollars an outstanding debt, possibly Canadian

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dollars. And that's where I'm sourcing
this story from. Meanwhile, NBC Universal

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is rebranding its Fast channel. You
know those streaming channels. A fast channel

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is like two B and all those
they're like linear networks. I'm using industry

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term. Okay, remember old fashioned
TV. You'd put it on and what

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was ever is on was just on. You couldn't do anything about it.

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And now on streaming services like to
b and Roku has a couple of these,

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And if you have Samsung TV,
there's a bunch of those channels,

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and I'm talking about the ones that
show like Night Writer all Day. Those

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are called fast channels Free ad supported
Streaming Television FASST. But we drop one

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S because fast with one ass looks
cooler. I digress there barrely was one

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called T NBC T for teen,
Well, no more teen, NBC.

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It has been rebranded as NBC Comedy
Vaults. You're like, oh, that's

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cool, right, So that probably
has like The Office and Saturday Night Live,

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maybe some cool specials. Well.
NBC Comedy Vault will initially be available

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on Amazon freev the Roku Channel and
Zumu play what will they be showing?

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And Landscapers are back? All eight
seasons of Will and Grace and yeah that

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pregnant pause was I got to the
end of the list. Wow, a

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whole channel showing eight seasons of Will
and Grace. I can't wait. But

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don't worry. They're gonna add more
things. They're going to add in July.

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Charles and Church coach and Major Jad. All right, I know you

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can't wait. That's really really exciting, NBC. I'm glad you put out

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that presser. Carol Burnett tells The
Hollyood Reporter the best advice she ever received,

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this too shall pass. If something
isn't going well, you know,

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it could turn on a dime and
get better. So what I always try

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to and if something's not going well, that doesn't mean it's always gonna be

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that way. Who should play Carol
Burnette in a biopic? She says,

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Angelina Jolie Okay, good choice.
Another option, she suggests Kristin Wigg.

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She'd be wonderful because she could do
it all. If I'm casting that movie.

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As much as I enjoy watching Angelina
Joelee on screen, Kristin Wig would

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be my choice to play Carol Burnette, and I would watch that movie.

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And that is your comedy news for
today. I'm gonna go sit out in

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the sun. I'm gonna edit this
thing later at night. See you later.