June 18, 2026

Fake Shane Gillis Alert, Mulaney Sells Out Wrigley, and Mikki Glaser Plays Into Type

Show Notes
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Johnny Mac reports that Watertown, NY police arrested a man after he allegedly pointed a BB gun at a scooter rider who told dispatch the suspect looked like Shane Gillis, though Gillis was not involved. John Mulaney became the first comedian to sell out Wrigley Field (July 11) and joked to Deadline about watching Mark Grace. Nikki Glaser joins Netflix Animation’s Cinderella reimagining Steps as villain Priscilla alongside Ali Wong and Bette Midler. Mike Myers told Trevor Noah “Yes” about Austin Powers 4. James Corden’s Fox post-World Cup show drew 418,000 viewers. Marc Maron said he isn’t retired, is developing a film to direct, and misses some podcast-driven improvisation. Eric Andre was pulled into a WWE Raw segment and hit with a splash. Items also include Amy Schumer hosting a kids Knicks parade, late-night jokes, Des Bishop’s Hulu special, 800 Pound Gorilla’s Comedy Central Records audio deal, and new releases from Willie Mack and Kate Zazowski.

00:00 Fake Shane Gillis Alert
00:51 Mulaney Sells Out Wrigley
01:35 Nikki Glaser Stepsisters Role
03:28 Austin Powers 4 Tease
04:29 Corden After Soccer Ratings
05:32 Marc Maron Life After Podcast
06:49 Eric Andre WWE Incident
07:30 Knicks Parade Late Night Jokes
08:43 Kimmel Reflecting Pool Roast
09:08 New Specials And Releases
10:38 Wrap Up And Share The Show

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Callaroga Shark Media be on the lookout for fake Shane Gillis. Hello,

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news out of Watertown,

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New York. The police are saying that a man named

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Ian was driving on Clinton Street when Ian had an

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exchange with a man on a scooter. Please say. Ian

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shouted at the man and called him fat. The man

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responded by making an obscene gesture. Ian allegedly pointed a

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pistol at the man and said do we have a

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problem and drove off, while the scooter operator called police

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and described the corps and the driver. He told dispatchers

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that the suspect looked like Shane Gillis. Apparently that description

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was enough, police found Ian. The pistol turned out to

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be a BB gun. Shane Gillis was not involved. John

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Mulaney's PR People getting it done from Deadline exclusive last fall,

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John mullaney called his shot he'd become the first comedian

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a headline Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs, blah blah blah,

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and now he's become the first to sell out the

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forty thousand plus seed Ballpark. Here's where the PR people

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really got it done. Listen to the company they're putting.

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Mullany and Mulaney, a proud Chicago native, joins a shortlist

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of the world's most prominent artists who have made the

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stage their own, which includes the likes of Paul McCartney,

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Bruce Springsteen, and Pearl jam Melanie will be at Wrigley Saturday,

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July eleventh. In his statement, Mullaney told Deadline, I'm honored

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to stand on the same field where I saw Mark

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Grace rip cigarettes during games and yell all my jokes.

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That sound you here is all the cool being sucked

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out of Nicki Glazer. There's no cool left. NICKI wanted

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to be famous, is famous, and now it's the cash in.

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Nicki Glazer is joining the cast of Steps. Nicki Glazer

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will play Priscilla, a villainous schemer who will stop at

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nothing to control everyone around her. Hmm, that's it. I'm

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just saying. This is a reimagining of Cinderella. Bette Midler

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plays the fairy godmother in this thing. Nicki Glazer, in

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the announcement, said it was a cathartic joy to voice

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the character of Priscilla, the jealous, try hard, want to

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be princess. Let's just stop there. I'm not even gonna

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con Let's just stop there. Okay, you're thinking it. I

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didn't say anything. I just told you what. Nicki Glazer said.

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She's playing Priscilla, the jealous, tryhard, want to be princess

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who's fueled by deep seated insecurities of unlovability and inadequacy.

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Let's just take another break and you know, take the

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podcast in today. We'll go slow today. Want me to

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read the whole quote again. Nicki said, the role wasn't

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quite a stretch for me because those are all the

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characteristics that I do not at all relate to as

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a woman who has spent two decades clowing my way

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through show business. Here's the synopsis. Think you know Cinderella's

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evil stepsisters think again. Sick of living in Cinderella's shadow,

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Lilith played by Ali Wong, steals the fairy Godmother's magic

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wand and hijacks the Royal Ball with her sister Margo,

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breaking the Cinderella stories we know it and dooming the

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kingdom to the tyrannical rule of Priscilla, played by Nikki Glazer,

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a villainous schemer who swoops in and snatches the throne.

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Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella to fight biker trolls,

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outrun evil Henchman, and escape the Screaming Woods on an

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epic quest to save the kingdom, but most importantly their relationship.

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I would say, let's send this straight to the streamers,

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but this is from Netflix's animation studios. That reminds me

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today's garbage day. I gotta put the garbage out. Could

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we get Austin Powers four? Mike Myers was on Trevor

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Noah's World Cup watch party. Trevor asked if we will

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see Austin Powers four. Myers replied yes, that was it.

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No more information. Myers has been mentioning Austin Powers for

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since twenty eighteen, when he told Entertainment Tonight he wanted

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to make the movie from Doctor Evil's perspective. Myers at

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the time said, so it would be Doctor Evil one

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Austin Powers four. Mike Myers is also appearing as Doctor

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Evil in a commercial these days now. I was curious

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about this Trevor Noah's World Cup WI party because I

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remember I had told you about it months ago, and

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I actually looked up last week when the World Cup started,

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Hey is he even doing this? And there's no press

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on it. There's still not any press on it other

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than this Austin Powers thing. So I actually went on YouTube.

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Apparently it's Trevor Noah and people sitting around couches and

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they're watching the game. You don't see the game or

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hear the game, but it's kind of like you're in

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Trevor Noah's living room. I guess, so, I guess you

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put it on while watching the game. If that's the

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thing you want to do, go nuts. James Corden is

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hosting a show after Soccer on Fox. It has a

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different title, but I'm not going to use it. Late

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Night Er writes, James Gordon's return to late night did

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not exactly arrive with World Cup sized ratings, but it

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wasn't a face plan either. Late Night it tells us.

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According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Thursday's premiere

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of FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James

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Cordon aka Show on After Soccer averaged four hundred and

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eighteen thousand total viewers and one hundred and ten thousand

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adults eighteen to forty nine. Boy Just Run Byron ellen

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Nighter compared Midnight to one a m ABC's hours split

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between Kimmel and Nightline, NBC split between Fallon and the

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inexplicable Late Night with Seth Myers, and CBS between Byron

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Allen Garbage. Late Nighter says on that basis, Fox trailed ABC,

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who had one point five sixty four million viewers, NBC

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nine hundred and thirty thousand, and Byron Allen Garbage five

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hundred and thirty three thousand. However, in the eighteen to

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forty nine demo show after Soccer, one hundred and ten

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thousand adults, CBS said sixty four thousand, NBC one hundred

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and nineteen thousand. ABC led the hour three hundred and

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twenty thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. Mark Maren spoke

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to gold Derby. Maren said people got very used to

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hearing me talking to them directly. Twice a week. I'm

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getting dms on social media, with some of them saying

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ope you're enjoying retirement. I'm not retired and just having

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a life allow me to have a life. I'm situated

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in my life in a way I haven't been able

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to in a long time, which means I have a

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lot more time to worry about stuff and wonder if

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I'm doing enough. But I'm trying to ease up on that.

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I don't need to be operating in that space all

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the time. But I'm doing a lot of comedy work

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and trying to put together movie that I wanted to

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director early next year, which is coming along. But I

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also have time to try and do stuff around the house,

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spend time with friends, go do things. There's a lot

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of stuff I didn't used to do because I was

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so consumed by work, but I do still fun work

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to do. Does Mark Maron miss the direct connection to

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his audience, Yeah, sometimes thinks what would happen? I'd be

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talking about the podcast to stream a conscious away and

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I'd think, oh, maybe I should work that into a bit.

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So I've lost that outlet, a kind of improvisation in

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terms of developing material. There's also discipline to do in

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the show twice a week, and I would send out

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a weekly update and forced myself to play music at

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the end of each episode. Lately, I found I've had

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to put myself in a position where I make sure

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the I'm doing all that stuff creatively. But the other

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side is what I want to do to stand up now,

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especially in longer sets, is there's an urgency to it

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there wasn't there before, and I like the audience doesn't

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know everything already because of the podcast. Currently, Eric Andre

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had a tough night on WWE RAW. We're told Andre

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was ringside during a Bloodline segment featuring Roman Reens and

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Jacob Fattu. Apparently Roman Rains formerly welcomed Fatu into the Bloodline.

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As the group made their way back up the ramp,

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eric Andre reached out and touched Fatu's ceremonial something. Fatu reacted,

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pulling Eric Andre over the barricade and into the ring.

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Oh no, Luckily, Roman Rains climbed into the ring and

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called him off. But then after a pause, Roman Rains

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changed his mind and allowed Fatuo to continue. Fatsu then

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hit Eric Andre with a splash from the top rope.

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We'll let you know if Eric Andre is okay. Yesterday

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in New York City there was a New York Knicks

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parade for kids outside the Children's Museum of Manhattan. You

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know who hosted it, Amy Schumer. Why, I don't know

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we're told she is a kid champion. Amy Schumer was

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joined by Jessica Seinfeld. Meanwhile, the real parade is today,

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the Ticker Tay Parade in New York City. This morning,

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Jimmy Fallon had some thoughts.

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Everyone's getting ready for the big victory parade this Thursday

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for the world champion New York. It could be the

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largest parade in New York City history, with over one

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million people expected to attend. And it's New York, so

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they're all roommates. We'll get this. The city is distributing

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two five hundred pounds of shredded paper to office buildings

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along the route for workers to toss out their windows

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right now. The santation departments like, why do we even

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bother cleaning up from Saturday?

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This is a design. It's a big deal. I even

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had a Zoom meeting scheduled and I canceled it because

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I want to watch the parade. I missed a good

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Jimmy Fallon joke the other night when he had the

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Nixon He said, of course it's the Knicks, so they

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won't really show up until the second half. Are you

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paying attention to what's going on in DC with the

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reflecting pool. It's a little green. Jimmy Kimmel said he

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wanted a painted American flag blue. Not even a week later,

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it's already completely green. It's a Mexican flag green. Experts

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are saying that when Trump had it paid it dark blue,

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he made the problem worse because the darker color retains

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more heat, and analogy thrives in warmer water. You know,

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he'd promise he'd trained the swamp. Instead he spent fourteen

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million of our dollars building a new one. Des Bishop,

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who was a great guest on this program, He's got

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a new special coming out on Hulu Friday, June twenty sixth.

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In the new Hour, filmed at the Comedy Seller New

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York City, Des Bishop embraces his inner bridge and tunnel,

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diving into the joys of not having kids, surviving gen

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X dating, growing up irish with the New York's attitude,

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and finding humor in the chaos of modern adulthood. The

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eight hundred Pound Gorilla has a deal to become the

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official audio distributor for Comedy Central Records. The deal brings

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together catalogs from comedians including a UFC, fann Aperghetzi, Jim Gaffigan,

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Amy Schumer, who likes the when we talk about her,

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the not so canceled disease, I'm sorry, Star trek Ruiner,

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Patton Oswalt, Big Jay Oakerson, Kyle Kanay and Mark Norman,

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Sam Marilla and many more. It's like they're collecting all

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the comics I have nicknames for. You might as well

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have signed. Dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Comedian Willie Mac has

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announced his first full Lin special, Good Dad, Bad Father,

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will extreme exclusively on Gorilla Comedy Plus beginning June twenty second.

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That's Monday. It'll be on YouTube July twenty first, which

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is not Monday. Mac show is about becoming a dad

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before fully becoming an adult. He said, my dad raised

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me with scripture, I raised my son with vibes. Comedian

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Kate and Sizowski will release her debut comedy album, Garbage Plate.

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That's out Friday, June twenty sixth, via a Special Thing Records.

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As a comedy writer, much of Kate's work centers on

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the LGBTQ community, flawed but lovable female characters, and mental illness,

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all of which shine on her first comedy album, recorded

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live in La And That is Your comedy news for today.

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