Feb. 16, 2026

Fallon Pasta Sauce Deal, ‘Trump Epstein Files’ Jokes, and Comedy World Political Fallout

Fallon Pasta Sauce Deal, ‘Trump Epstein Files’ Jokes, and Comedy World Political Fallout

Johnny Mac delivers a politically heavy Daily Comedy News episode. He reports that a planned pasta sauce collaborationinvolving Jimmy Fallon fell through, and discusses Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue proposal to rebrand the Epstein files as the “Epstein Trump files,” including Kimmel saying he trademarked the phrase. He summarizes a Hollywood Reporter piece about “comedy bros” (including Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz, Theo Von, and Tony Hinchcliffe) cooling on Trump,.

00:00 Welcome to Daily Comedy News (and why today gets political)
00:31 Fallon’s pasta sauce deal derails 
01:08 Kimmel’s ‘Epstein Trump Files’ bit: comedy vs. the horror of the story
02:38 Hollywood Reporter: Comedy bros, podcasts, and political influence
05:30 Dave Chappelle in Minnesota  s
06:34 Joe Rogan reacts to being named in the Epstein files
08:14 SAG-AFTRA vs. Netflix: Pete Davidson’s ‘video podcast’ deal
09:14 Cristela Alonzo reschedules to avoid sharing a venue with Kill Tony
10:32 New comedy pods & festival check-in: Melbourne’s Callback + JFL Vancouver
11:56 Comedy Survivor update + how to join the Facebook group
12:24 Ben Bankas controversy: venue move, backlash, and ‘don’t go’ debate
14:20 Matt Rife stars in Red Clay Strays music video + wrap-up and tomorrow’s tease

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Kalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians

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in the comedy industry. A sentence you'd think I've memorized

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by now, but I have not. But the algorithm does

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love it. Apparently numbers are up new listeners. Thank you

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Today is political, not because it's President's Day. Just as

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I put the show together the same way I put

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the show together every day. Almost all the stories are political.

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Sold try and start with a fun one. I saw

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this headline. Deal between Jimmy Fallon and Tommy Mottola falls through.

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Apparently they were going to work on a pasta sauce together.

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What could have possibly gone wrong? Seems that Tommy's name

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is in the Epstein files. Page six says representatives for

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Jimmy Fallon did not comment, nor did Tommy spokesperson. A

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source familiar with the pasta sauce plans tells page six

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nobody wants to be within fifty feet of anyone in

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the Epste files. Obviously, the Epstein Files are not funny,

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but the pasta aspect of this story is funny. Jimmy

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Fallon has escaped Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel has proposed a new

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nickname for the files. Kimmel has proposed rebranding the Epstein

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Files as the Epstein Trump Files. Kim ll explained Trump

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wants everything to be named after him, including the Kennedy Center,

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Dulles International Airport, and New York's Pans Station. Jimmy said,

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I mean, if that's the way to keep them happy.

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I have another suggestion for something we could name after him,

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and it's big, and I think you'll like it because

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it's something everybody's talking about, something that he actually, unlike

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almost everything else he wants named after him, deserves to

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be a part of. And I propose that we should

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think about adding his name to the Epstein Files. This

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is hilarious and that is the point of comedy. You

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can find laughter and anything like. Again, it's serious for

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a second. I write for Pallace Intrigue about the British

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Royal Family, Epstein Files, everything. Some of the stuff that

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I have clicked on these images are in my head.

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I don't even want to verbalize out louds some of

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the things have come across that are just horrific. So

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I don't make fun of the files at all. But

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from a comedy standpoint, what Kimmel's doing here is hilarious.

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The idea that a Jimmy fallon pasta sauce deal went

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sideways over the files, that is kind of funny. So

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Kimmel said, with your cooperation and the cooperation of others,

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will be known as the Trump Epstein File. So now

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he's flipped it there as an ice ring to it.

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Why not put his name on the outside of the

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files too. On Thursday Night, Jimmy is Monologue noted that

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he has trademarked the phrase Epstein Trump Files. Kim Will

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explain jd Vance has been very weekly defending his boss

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in the fact that Trump's name is mentioned more than

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a million times in what are now known as the

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Trump Epstein Files. We're getting that trademark, but if you

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can spread it around, feel free. The Hollywood Reporter had

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a big piece titled why Mega Boosting comedy bros or

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turning on Trump? Subheading from Joe Rogan Andrew Schultz. The

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bromance between bright coded comics and the president is quickly

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cooling off. The Hollywood Reporter reminds us, with their tens

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of millions of subscribers manosphere show a circle of pals

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that includes such Trump amenable comics as Tony Hinchcliff, Joe Rogan,

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and Andrew Schultz. Are not a cultural footnote. That reminds

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me last week Theovaughn had on two guests. He had

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on Kevin James and the United States Secretary of Health

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and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior. If you want

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to catch up on THEO. Vaughn Show, Kevin James always great, listen.

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I'm sure I digress. The hollowd Reporter says Hinchcliffe, Rogan, Vaughn,

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Andrew Schultz are not a cultural footnote. They are an

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infrastructure map. You know, that's sentence structure. There is very AI.

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I use a lot of AI. It's very AI there

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copywriters at The hollod Reporter Sidney Demetz, a fifth year

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PhD student at the University of Washington who studies podcast

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networks and misinformation, described the medium's advantage less as a

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media theory than a statement of physics. Sidney says podcasts

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are incredibly persuasive because they induce the parasocial phenomenon and

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trigger a lot of feelings of intimacy and trust. Hopefully

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that is true. Hopefully people are walking around and saying

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the phrase great dramatic actor Adam Sandler Fell Sydney is

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right about this, She says. The listener does not merely

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consume content. The listener builds a relationship. After enough hours,

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disagreement feels like betrayal. Right, so like, yeah, you're gonna

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be sitting there, you're gonna be watching Happy Gilmour three,

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and you're gonna be like, this sucks. Johnny Mack is right. See,

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that's how this works. Thhr writes, this is how political

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influence arrives disguised his personality. Roguod show rarely sounds like ideology.

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It sounds like a shaggy, melancholic tenderness or fuse. It

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will be pinned down Schultz. A show is never doctrine,

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but it does sound like swagger. They don't tell all

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their audiences what to believe, so much as they suggest

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what is acceptable to laugh at, to dismiss, to view

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as performative, order regard as just the media doing its

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predictable thing. Skipping ahead, Vaughn's recent rupture with the administration

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is instructive because it's less ideological than existential. When DHS

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posts that a deportation themed video that used to clip

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a Vaughan without his consent. He objected publicly. Schultz's retreat

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has been much louder. Talking to Charlemagne the God on

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January thirty first, a rattled Schultz said the fatal shooting

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of Alex Pretty by Ice agents in Minneapolis was his

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breaking point. It's giving ahead. Trump can survive contempt from

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newspapers he survived for years. What he cannot easily survives

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contempt from the people who made him feel to millions

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of listeners like a permissible choice. The hangover is spreading.

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Not a sudden moral awakening, but a curdling, a fatigue,

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a clawing sense that the joke kept going long after

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it stopped being funny. Now that reminds me. Over the weekend,

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I was watching the movie Diehard. Bruce Willis. Have you

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seen this movie? It's pretty good. I like that line

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where Bruce Willis says, welcome to the party, pal. You know,

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Bruce is just like frustrated that the cops aren't paying

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attention while he's screaming in the window. I like that.

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See I digress. Let'll get back to comedy here. Dave

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Chappelle will be in Minnesota today to stand with community

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Dave's at the Grand Casino Arena. Be curious to see

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what Dave has to say as he performs in Minnesota.

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From pod News, which is a fantastic newsletter written by

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James Kridlin, who I'm friendly with. It covers the podcasting industry.

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He had an interesting report on Friday about the Trump

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Epstein Files and how podcasts appeared in them. Now, I

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haven't searched for daily comedy news in them. I hope

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I'm not in the Trump Epstein Files, but in some

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of the back and some people recommended to Epstein that

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he listened to The Dan Bengino Show. Also recommended episode

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eleven sixty nine of The Joe Rogan Experience. The guest

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I think on that one was Elon Musk. Also recommended

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Gilbert Godfrey's Amazing Colossal podcast, specifically the episode with Jackie

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the joke Man. Now we don't know who recommended that

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Epstein listened to Jackie the joke Man. That came from

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a redacted contact, but somebody was like, hey, check out

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Jackie the joke Man. Now I'm worried because I've had

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Jackie the joke man on this show. I better not

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be in these things. Joe Rogan found out that he

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was mentioned in the files on last Tuesday's Joe Rogan Experience.

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Joe said he never once considered meeting Jeffrey Epstein. Rogan's

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guest was Cheryl Hines. She's married to Health and Human

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Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. You may also know

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her from the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm. Joe told Cheryl,

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I'm in the files for not going. Jeffrey Epstein was

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trying to meet with me, and I was like, what, Like, no, thanks.

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Cheryl Hines asked, are you glad? Joe said, It's not

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even a possibility that I've ever won. Especially after I

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googled him. I was like, what the eff are you

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talking about? This was like twenty seventeen. One of my

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guests was trying to get me to meet him. I

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was like, are you high? Like, what the eff are

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you talking about. Rogan added that some people get intoxicated

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by being in a circle of rich and powerful people,

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even if they don't have any ambitions of being one

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of those people, they just want to be around them. Yeah,

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that's called los Angeles. Rogan described Epstein's networking is very clever,

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saying that Epstein was getting all these very powerful and

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very respected people together, and you'd figure, like, yeah, Clinton's here,

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how could this be bad? You know, he's a genius.

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On a different episode, Rogan talked about the Epstein files

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and said it's crazy. The whole thing is crazy because like,

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why have you protected people? He then got into some

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of the stuff I don't want to get into on

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this program. This is the stuff that's in my head

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that is like, yikes, yikes, yike's skipping ahead. Referring to

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President Trump's claims that the Epstein files were part of

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a Democrat inspired hoax, Joe Rogan said, it looks terrible

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for Trump when he was saying that none of this

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was real. This is all this is not a hoax,

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Like did you not know? Maybe he didn't know, and

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if you want to be charitable, but this is definitely

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not a oax. And if you got redacted people's names

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and these people aren't victims, you're not protecting the victims.

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So what are you doing? And how come all this

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stuff is not released? Fun show today? John, I know

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Pete Davidson, he has that television show that Netflix was

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calling a video podcast. Well, sag After has weighed in

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on it, and they apparently have signed an agreement with

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Netflix that covers the Pete Davidson Show as a quote

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video podcast. After Pete's inexpensive television show was announced, sag

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last Thursday, the Actor's Union announced that it had struck a

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podcast agreement. A rep for the union set in a

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statement to Variety sag After a Netflix have executed a

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podcast agreement covering the Pete Davidson Show. They did not

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say the terms. Variety says, typically the union's podcast agreements

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have less stringent requirements than TV agreements do. Whereas TV

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contracts require payment of residuals, podcast contracts generally do not.

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In addition, TV contracts have relatively strict rules regarding a

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production safety protocols, working hours, breaks, and travel, which are

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often simplified in podcast agreements. I hope Pete Davison isn't

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working in an unsaved garage. Christella Alonso was scheduled to

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bring her Midlife Mixtape tour to the Charlene Macomb's Empire

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Theater on April eleventh. However, she has announced she is

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now trying to change the dates for her visit to

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Alamo City. Now, why does she want to change the dates?

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Christella explained a lovely follower mentioned that there was a

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show playing literally in the theater next door that's based

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on a podcast that honestly, I don't want to be around.

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She did not mention what that show is, but everybody

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else assumes she's referring to The Killers of Kill Tony,

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that live comedy podcast a schedule to play San Antonio

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on April eleventh at the neighboring Majestic Theater. Christella said,

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the majority of my followers are Latino, and in the

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time that we're in right now, I don't feel comfortable

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having my people around a demo that includes people that

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support the atrocious things that are happening to my community.

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So I'm looking to change dates for the San Antonio

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show that will ensure that my people have the best

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time and where I don't have to cross paths backstage

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with anyone I don't want to, Christella said. When she

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booked her San Antonio date to Kill Tony Folks hadn't

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been confirmed, she said, Had I known it was playing there,

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I would have picked a different day. I know some

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of you might not understand my motivation, but I've had

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a really difficult couple of months and I don't want

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to put myself in a space like that. I'm rescheduling

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asap and we'll let y'all know. Thank you to those

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who understand, sorry of those who won't. I just refuse

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to be in proximity of that world if I don't

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have to be. The Milbourne International Comedy Festival has launched

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a podcast. It is called The Callback. I have added

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it to my increasingly long podcast queue. There's been so

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much sports. There was a Super Bowl, now these these Olympics,

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so I've been watching more TV than usual and less podcast.

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It's also been four degrees out, so I haven't been

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out for runs or long walks with the dog. But

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eventually I'll get to The Callback. Hosted by beloved comedian

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and broadcaster Claire Hooper, The Callback dives into the defining

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moments that shape comedy careers. Claria said, comedians are entertaining

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on stage, but it's backstage where the chats get really good.

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Let's see what's happening in JFL Vancouver Today. Now, is

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this the thing? I got to check in with Daily

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Comedy News Canadian consultant Mike Chisholm. You know how like

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in the United States of America the calendar week starts

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with Sunday. Well, on JFL Vancouver's website it goes from

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Monday to Sunday. So every time I go to do

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this little segment, I click on the wrong day because

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in my brain, Monday should be the second box, but

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on their website it's the first box. I'm gonna have

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to ask Mike about this. Looks like there's only one

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show tonight, Rashid Baduri, The Tale of the Syrian Dragon,

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that's at the Review stage at seven o'clock. If we

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were in Vancouver, we would go do that and then

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probably have a nice meal on some beverages. Actually I

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like to go to bed. We would have a nice

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meal in beverages at like four forty five, hit the

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show and be in bed by like nine to thirty.

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Oh sounds lovely. Coming up at noon Eastern today the

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results of Comedy Survivor. We'll let you know who's voted

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off Comedy Island. As I speak to you right now,

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I have no idea who was sent home. I haven't

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looked at the Facebook page in a couple of days

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and haven't recorded the episode. So come back at noon

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Eastern today for Comedy Survivor. If you would like to

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take part in Comedy Survivor, check out the Facebook group

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Daily Comedy News podcast group. After twelve Eastern today, there'll

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be a picture of me and some comedian being voted

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off the island and you can take part in the

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conversation there. Hey, remember that guy Ben Bankas. He's the

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quote unquote controversial comedian. This is the guy that made

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the jokes about people being killed by ice agents. He

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was scheduled to play some sold out shows at Kitchener's

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Conrad Center for the performing arts community said no thanks.

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The Conrad Center is a city owned venue. Bankas's team

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has said due to overwhelming fan response, both Ben Bankers's

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show on March seventh and had moved to Elements Nightclub.

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The City of Kitchener confirmed the news, saying the event

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rental has been relocated. All ticket purchasers have been notified.

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Bankers's team issued statements to five seventy news radio. The

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statement says, to the people who are calling the venue

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to complain and are angry over something they haven't seen.

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They don't need to watch or support it. The people

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accuse Bankus of hate speech are sorely misinformed about the

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satire and humor laws in Canada, which fully cover and

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making satirical comments about current events and other sensitive subjects.

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Bankas said, clearly, the people making these comments haven't even

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seen me perform a set live. Maybe we should give

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them a free ticket they can see for themselves. The

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Waterloo Region Record has an opinion column titled Ben Bankas

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is a controversial comic. If you don't like the jokes,

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don't go to the show. Luisa Demato writes, Bancas's jokes

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are blunt, often bigoted, and deeply hostile to progressive values

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of the people who hold them. He has mocked land

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acknowledgment and said he is glad that Renee Good, a

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mother an activist in Minneapolis, was shot and killed by

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an Ice agent. Luisa Demato writes, here's a sample from

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a recent performance captured on his social media. All these

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efforting liberal women, I say we keep the Mexicans and

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send the liberal women send them a Guatemala see how

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they like. It just drop off in a jungle and

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be like, yeah, try to get back borders closed. I'm

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sure he told it in a much funnier way than

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I just did it. Luisa says, here's some advice. If

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you don't approve of bank Is coming to Kitchener, then

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don't go to the show stand outside the theater without

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blocking the entrance with a sign explaining why don't think

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his commentary is worth listening to. Even talk to people

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going in if they're open to hearing from you. Otherwise

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leave them alone. And we did find out what was

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going on with Matt Rife and the band The Red

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clay Strays. Remember they had hinted they were doing something

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with Matt Rife. Well, the Red clay Strays on Friday

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dropped their newest single, If I Didn't Know You, and

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there's a music video and its stars Matt Rife. Rife

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has praised the band, calling them music for the soul

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and that is a very very angsty daily comedy news

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for today. Now, I say for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be fun.

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I'll tell you in the leadoff spot right now, I

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haven't written the episode yet, but right now, in the

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leadoff spot, the first sentence right now is Adam Sandler

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said he once performed music on the streets of New

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York City after he was fired from three jobs. So

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if you're a regular listener, you know what I'm going

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to do. So tomorrow will be fun. I understand today

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was very serious. I didn't stack the deck today. That's

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just what the news happened to be. And that is

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your daily comedy news on an angsty Monday back at

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noon Eastern for Comedy Survivor Meets You here. Then