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Hooray Daylight savings Time. You people that don't like daylight
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savings Time don't want to hear it longer daylight after
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Hi.
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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I'm in
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a good mood. I just recorded the results of Mondays
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at Comedy Survivor. Wow. Another interesting result. So you're gonna
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want to come back for Comedy Survivor at noon eastern
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daylight time on Monday. Well, let's do some comedy stuff, John,
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all right. The late night guys were talking about Christy Noam.
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You saw she got fired. Greg Gutfeld with a good joke,
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and I'm sure he told it even better than I will.
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He said, Trump fired DHS Secretary Christy Nooaman, and no
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one is more disappointed than her dogs. Jimmy Fallon said,
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you never know what Trump. He either thinks she's bad
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at her job or he wants her to be the
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new Supreme Leader of Iran. Fallon again, Yeah, Noam is
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the first cabinet secretary Trump's fired since returning into office,
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he was like, man, I forgot how good this feels.
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Get Cash Bettell in here, Jimmy Kimmel, The funniest thing
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would be if they deport her to l Salvador. On HBO,
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Tonight's is a new show by Bill Lawrence. Now, who's
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Bill Lawrence. That's the guy that made Scrubs and the
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guy that made ted Lasso and some other things. Right,
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so we like him. He's good at stuff. This stars
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Steve Carell. It also features John C McGinley, who is
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sometimes Doctor Cox on Scrubs. So we've got some really
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good pedigree here today. Although I have seen mixed reviews
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possible spoilers here, I haven't actually read the reviews, just
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the headlines. Daniel Feinberg is one of my favorite TV reviewers.
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He's in The Hollywood Reporter. His headline Steve Carell college
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comedy bos. The Stellar Cast can't figure out what it
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wants to be. Daniel writes, it's a show with an
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excess of undeveloped identities rather than a lack of identity,
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spackling over its poorly few story elements, with a sense
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of humor that's sometimes appealing and frequently desperately hacky that's
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not good. Rooster is the story of an introverted pulp
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fiction author played by Steve Carell, who was nothing like
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his macho alter ego, but gets the opportunity to change
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his life when he gets a job as a writer
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in residence at a small New England college that gives
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us the gimmick of reuniting him with his daughter, who's
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an art history professor dealing with a crumbling marriage. But
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Finberg got a little funny here, he wrote, or perhaps
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a poetry teacher at a small New England college is
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looking forward to a reunion with her best friend newly
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hired as writer in residence, only to have the school's president,
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John C. McGinley, give the job to a schlocky pot
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boiler scribe played by Steve Carell, who doesn't even want
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the job now, Finberg writes, Okay, Rooster absolutely is in
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the last show I mentioned, though there's certainly a subplot,
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Findberg writes, it's a truth near universally acknowledged that Bill
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Laurrence shows generally work best when they dispatch with or
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at least deemphasize the gimmicks and just becomes stories about
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damaged people, hanging out, making mistakes, and hugging. It's completely
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possible that by the end of the ten episode first season,
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Rooster will have found its story, resolved its most discordant pieces,
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and become another of those charming and more Bill Laurrence shows. Meanwhile,
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Variety hes headlines Steve Carell's HBO comedy Rooster is dated
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and uninspired. Ooh, that's not good. I thought I had
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the good review. Second, I guess not. Oh I already
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ready the good review. Oh no, Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence,
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John McGinley, uh Oh, Variety wrote, Unfortunately, Rooster is full
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of predictable characters and circumstances, adding up to a lackluster narrative.
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Oh No. Rooster is especially disappointing because there's much to
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be said about the relationships between fathers and adult daughters,
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but that dynamic is barely explored here, despite its star
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power and creator Lawrence's previous work on series like Ted Lasso,
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Shrinking and Cougartown no mention for Scrubs, Dude, do I
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have to am? I gonna have to get up a
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Scrubs posse and come and wag our fingers at you
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in front of your house. What do you mean you
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didn't mention scrubs. Rooster is a dull regurgitation of previously
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explored themes and figures Corell has portrayed before Rooster HBO Tonight. Meanwhile,
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the La Times profiled an upcoming concert. It's going to
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be at so Fi Stadium in Los Angeles and it
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features Joe Koy and Gabriel Iglesias. Gabriel Iglesias. Now, if
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you're like, who's Gabriela Glacis, remind me who he is.
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He's the guy. His nickname is Fluffy and he recently
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played the Riod Comedy Festival. Some people call him a sellout.
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I don't care. Yeah, I bought a house with that money,
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so I don't care what you say.
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He said. The fact that we've known each other as
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long as we've had is wild. We've known each other
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since we both had long hair. On March twenty first,
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Sofi Stadium will be filled with more than seventy thousand people.
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The one night only show will not be televised or
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recorded as a special. It's meant to be a party
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for comedy fans who have supported gab Iglesias and Joe
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Koy since their early days and now feel like John.
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Who's Joe Koy again? Can you remind me sure? I'm
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happy to do that. Before Nicki Glazer hosted the Golden Globes,
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Joe Koy host of the Golden Globes. Now you might
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not remember that year. That was the year he told
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this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let's listen.
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As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.
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The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.
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On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of
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Taylor Swift.
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Love that bit, Gabe and Jokoy. We'll pass the mic
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back and forth throughout the night. The night will feature
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special guests, surprise moments, and a copywriting rule of three
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plenty of other unplanned interruptions. They're expecting a four hour show.
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Gab Iglacias said, it's more sweet because it's taken so long.
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This wasn't an overnight thing. Now, what as everybody wants
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everything so fast. Between the two of us, we've got
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about sixty years of comedy experience. Joe Coy said, it's insane.
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I can't explain it. Every time we come here, and
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look up. I'm like, there's gonna be a stage here.
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The size of the end zone. Wow, I didn't even
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set this next thing up. I didn't read this far
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ahead in the article before. Right now, they quoted in
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the La Times, Jay Leno, Yeah, the worst person whoever
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lives said. My attitude when I came to this town
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is if you can't get in through the front door,
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go in the back door. And they didn't do it
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the traditional way. They got to where they are as comedians,
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one audience member at a time. The show is already
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completely sold out seventy thousand tickets. Gabe sat at a
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certain point, It's like, we've been doing huge stand up
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shows for so many years, it becomes normal. What do
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you do to change things? What do you do to grow?
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The worst thing that happens is it fails. But at
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least we know we try, all right, Now we know
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what our ceiling is. But now this is at the
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ceiling the only time tells us. Unlike a typical arena show,
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which takes several months to coordinate, their big night at
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so Far required a full year of planning. The production
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in stage is three times the size of their normal
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stages and we managed by the same team that produces
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stadium shows for acts like Bad Bunny. Why the President
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of the United States isn't going to like this show? Meanwhile,
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in the Hindustan Times, your home for comedy news, they
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recapped John Marcos Siresi's recent trip to India. They quoted
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John marco Is saying being a New Yorker has prepared
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me for the phrenetic energy of being on the street,
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and India was like New York in advance mode. But
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you never feel alone in India, and I do like that.
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The food was incredible, although I was heavily monitored to
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not eat anything that would have disrupted my stage performance.
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So I fantasize about coming back here with enough time
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to be a little riskier with spice. John Marco said
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one of the highlights of his trip was hitting the
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vegetable market Mumbai at five am. Going to the spice market,
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flower market and fish market. John Marco said, I got
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to see the inner workings of how everything works in
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the chaos, any incredible nature of how people will fill
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the streets and then clear them out every single day.
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I wish I didn't have to wake up at five
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am and I've had that experience. I'm glad to have
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done it. Wudson never again, So please feel encouraged to
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join us in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy
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News podcast group. And the other day I saw Jeff
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posted that he was off to go see John Marcos
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Seresi in New York City, and then I ran into
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Jeff in real life the other day. You know why.
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Jeff is one of the infamous trivia guys, and I
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did some field reporting while at the brewery. Hright, you
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hear me talk about the trivia guys. I'm here with
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the trivia guys. Jeff went to see John Marco.
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I did at theater adult last night at jose Pum.
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I was it.
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It was great.
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I didn't initially realize I had bought tickets for the
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theater adults. I thought I was just going to see
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John Marco.
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Oh okay, but now you thought the whole cabaret. I
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got the whole thing.
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So then, as a former theater kid now sort of
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theater adult myself, it resonated. It was a wonderful Morgas
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born of comedy. It started out with the piano companists
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came out and warmed us up. Had us sing a
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little bit of be our Guest from Beating the Beast.
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Then Doug Goodheart came out and master it. He told
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us how to master five musical theater moves, very important.
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Then John Marco came out, did about twenty five minutes.
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Or so wow.
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And had people in the audience talk about their experiences
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doing musical theater, and had a couple of people come
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up out of the audience, catrolled them to do a song,
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which was fantastic. Then Ben Platt came out and opened
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with luck be a Lady in Hebrew from his days
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at the Jewish performing Arts camp as a kid, and
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then they had a nice chat and Ben did a
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Corner of the Sky from Pippin and all the roles
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in Your Fall from into the Woods, and then they
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dueted on Your Nothing Without Me from City of Angels,
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which was fun and it was great. So it was
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it was good to see John Marco doing a little
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theater instead of just kind of talking about how he
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doesn't do theater anymore right, and that the bits were
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funny and it was a great night. We look forward
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to the next one.
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And the whole Mullaney rip off thing.
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I don't see it at all.
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And I can't imagine after he saw the cabaret version. Yeah, yeah,
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it's ridiculous.
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No, I don't. I don't see him as a ripoff
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of Malina at all.
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So one of the unanswered questions when I talk about
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you guys is what is the geographic circle?
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Like?
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Will you go to San Diego? Is it just northern
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New Jersey? How how far away can I see comedy?
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No to hire the trivia guys, that's men trivia.
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Yeah, No, we pretty much stay Morris County, New Jersey. Ish,
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we'll go down to where's the where's the other county?
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We go to you know, Somerset County occasionally, Essex County occasionally,
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but we're pretty local. We're getting We'll go to San
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Diego if somebody right, if someone wants to hire is
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we'll figure out a way to make it work.
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I would pay a little t anda exactly sure is
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the flyest sound to say?
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Sick?
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I can say, Now, that's like me. I want to
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cover the Sydney Australia Comedy Festival, but on someone else's time. Exactly,
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all right, I know you got to set up, so
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let's do Old man questions tonight eighties music. I know
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this ari on a grande stuff. You bet I appreciate it.
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Do Our best friend of the show, Jason Zinneman. In
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the New York Times, the headline the funniest special of
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the year, Dylan so far is drunk on words. I
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might have added the Dylan part. Dylan is one of
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the guys in the Facebook group who watches fifty times
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the comedy specials. I do, but Dylan's not feeling the
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Chris Fleming special. That's okay. I don't like Adam Sandler.
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It's fine. Comedy comes in many forms. We all like
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different things. Zinnaman agrees with me that Chris Fleming is
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the funniest special of the year so far. We are
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aligned at zennymon Rights. Chris Fleming is a singular comedian
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for many reasons. His dynamic physicality, hopping, trotting, even moonwalking
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through jokes, the absolute finesse with which he delivers an
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insult so that it barely makes a mark, the unpredictability
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of his digressions, and the deadly seriousness he applies to
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subjects like the art of leading a conga line or
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Paul Dano's smile see. This is why we need people