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Callaroga Shark Media. I'm Johnny mag with your daily comedy news,
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a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the
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comedy industry, which is something you would say to train
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the Spotify algorithm. But we don't have time for that
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because Nicki Glazer is hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday.
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And I'll tell you right this, the industry has decided
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they love Nicki Glazer. As I was going through the press,
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all the like mainstream sites have decided we love Nicki Glazer.
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She's getting nothing but rave reviews. Nicki Glazer said she's
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struggling to find a joke about Julia Roberts for the telecast.
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Glazer was on a conference call and said she's been
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the toughest not to crack, but I'm going to crack it.
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I want to do the perfect joke, but it's like
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people don't have a sense of humor about Julia Roberts.
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She'll be fine, other people are not fine on her. Behalf.
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Like the most innocent joke about her that they made
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a couple of times trying it out, they booed, they
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were like jeering. So I have some advice for Nicki Glazer,
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she doesn't need my help. But when you're hosting the
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gl Globes, here's what you don't want to do. You
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don't want to see Julia Roberts in the audience. Go
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as you know, we came on after an NFL doubleheader.
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The big difference between the NFL and the Golden Globes
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is we have fewer pictures of Julia Roberts. He don't
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want to do that, that won't go over well, don't
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do that. Nicki's been running her set at various California
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comedy clubs. She said, I've been running the jokes constantly.
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I live and die by those crowds. They really tell
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me what to keep and what not to. Things that
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I think will kill will be nothing, and things I
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think are a throwaway or they're like the best joke.
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I was gonna make a joke about Plurbus, where I said,
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have you seen it plurably Not? But we couldn't find
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a place for plurably Not, so that one's probably in
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the graveyard. Would she talk about things like Venezuela? Nicki says,
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you can't even anticipate things a week away as being
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relevant enough. You'd be surprised that half the room had
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no clue why I was saying Venezuela. People aren't getting
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the news like we all are. Nicki also said during
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the week I could do the monologue tonight and feel
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like I have a solid monologue, but I still have
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five days to write more so if you count. She
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said that on Tuesday. So I'm looking forward to what
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it becomes. There's a lot that can happen, and in
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the final moments, when the writing team and I are
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all kind of drained of any creativity, that's when it
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starts to get loopy and weird. I'm exciting for what
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comes out of that. Nicky also got the the nice
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Hollywood reporter, big splashy piece that famous people get from
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time to time. She got the good version of that.
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I'll save that for Saturday. Looking ahead to the weekend,
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Saturday will be a Golden Globe's preview, and Sunday I've
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got some stuff I recorded with Mike Chisholm that'll be
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this weekend. Conan O'Brien was interviewed by The Oxford I'm
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leaving that in why did I say Oxford Oxford Union
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say it with a normal accent. John Oxford Union. Anyway.
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He was interviewed for an hour by the Oxford Union.
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You'll find it on YouTube. He was asked about political comedy.
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Conan O'Brien said, some comics go the route of I'm
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just gonna say F Trump all the time, or that's
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their comedy. And I think, well, now you're being co
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opted because you're so angry. You've been lulled. It's like
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a siren leading you into the rocks. You've been lolled
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into just saying F Trump, F Trump, F Trump, Screw
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this guy. And I think now you've put down your
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best weapon, which is being funny, and you've exchanged for anger.
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And that person or any person like that would say, well,
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things are too serious now, I don't need to be funny,
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and I think, well, if you're a comedian, you always
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need to be funny. You just have to find a way.
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You just have to find a way to channel that
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anger into a way because good art will always be
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a great weapon, will always be a perfect weapon against power.
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But if you're just screaming and you're just angry, you've
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lost your best tool in the toolbox. Good advice from
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Codin O'Brien. There Conan also talked about tearing down the
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East wing of the White House to construct a ballroom.
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Conan said, I'm really going on a limb here saying
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that's his greatest crime. I think he's hurt political comedy
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by being so outlantish himself. I think the January sixth
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thing is a blip compared to how much he's heard comedy.
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Marcelo Hernandez has a new special on Netflix. Did you
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watch it? It's called American Boy, which reminds me. I
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prepped this whole show for like over an hour, and
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not one Marcelo article came up without me googling him.
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I did find this review I was about to roll into,
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and that reminded me, Oh yeah, let's see if there's
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any interviews with this guy. No, he did no press.
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Isn't that weird? Very strange? Also strange that Netflix released
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a special on a Wednesday. On a Tuesday, the Daily
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Beast they watched Marcelo Hernandez is American Boy. Let me
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lead with their last sentence before I read the review.
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They say, if you're one of the many SNL fans
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who believe that Hernandez lacks comedic range, you know the
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type his debut next Felix special probably won't change your mind.
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Oh that excites me to watch this. If you're a
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new listener, I might have mentioned once or twice that
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Marcelo Hernandez does one thing. He does one thing well,
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but he does one thing. That thing is Domingo, and
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I guess lately we're giving him credit for a half
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ass Sebastian man Scalho impression. If you like half ass impressions,
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you've come to the right podcast. I'll tell you that much.
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All right, So I'm scrolling down this review here, and
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all they're doing is quoting his jokes. I mean, what
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would be worse than me secondhand telling Marcelo hernandez jokes.
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There's no way that's going to be interesting. So you
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watched a special and we'll let Marcelo Hernandez tell his
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own jokes. The Daily Beast writ's most notable in American
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Boy are the connections to Hernandez's recurring protective mom sketch,
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which joked about Latina not sympathizing with her believing their
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kids' mental health problems. Ultimately, American Boy makes for a
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fun introduction to Hernandez's comedy for those who don't regularly
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watch SNL, sounds like it has one thing and does
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one thing well. Bowen Yang was on his own podcast,
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Los Culturistas and explained his decision to leave SNL. Bowen said,
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the current entertainment ecosystem is so turbulent that people have
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completely valid reasons for staying longer. In a lot of cases,
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don't have the privilege of staying as long as they
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would have liked to. I have this very beautiful thing
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where I got to say that I stayed on exactly
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as long as I wanted to. I was maybe unsure
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about going back in the summer, and I'm so glad
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I did now. Yang had talked about criticisms that he
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has no range. I've never seen such criticism, and I'm like,
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what are you talking about? Who says Bowen Yang doesn't
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have range? Yang said, I feel like I was really
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bogged down the entire time I was there about the
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idea that there was no range in anything I did.
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I knew I was never going to play the dad.
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I was never going to play the generic thing. In sketches.
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It's a sketch show. Each thing is like four minutes long.
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It's short and collapsed by necessity. So therefore it plays
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on archetypes. Is really interesting, he explains it. These archetypes
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are also in a relationship with generic things, and there's
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a genericism in whiteness and in being a canvas to
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build upon. I came in pre stretched, pre died. People
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had their overdeterminations on which I was. Oh, that's the
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gay Asian guy in SNL, So anytime I woul try
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and work outside of that, it got completely ignored, or
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it got collapsed to, oh, he's being gay and Asian
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as always. Now he's Boon Yang. So his feelings about
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how bone Yang is perceived totally valid. As a guy
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sitting home, I never felt that way about his characters.
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I was loved when he was on, and if he
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had played the data in a sketch, I don't think
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I would have thought twice about it. He was a
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good jd vance, wasn't he. I mean, you know, it's
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called acting. Chris Red has released a six minute and
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Instagram video addressing the rumors about his departure from SNL.
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Late Night I recapped it and Chris Read said he
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was dealing with pill problems and claims that he sometimes
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supplied pills to others at Saturday Night Live, but he
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sure at his former colleagues. I'm not gonna snitch on
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you all, mf ers. Chris Red also addresses his relationship
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with Keenan Thompson's ex wife. He called that situation an
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emotional double edged sword. Red says he and Thompson discussed
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the situation privately and continued working together for more than
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a year. Red says he's not trying to settle scores,
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but he's trying to be more transparent about mistakes he
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said he made while spiraling out emotionally in the video.
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He says, this wasn't meant for laughs. I find myself
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lately getting really annoyed at comedians. Here's another one of
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those stories that just made me go really dude, okay.
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From greenpointers dot com. Greenpointers dot com is reporting that
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Isola Brooklyn, a Williamsburg comedy club operated by Hannibal Burris,
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has shut down and according to a city marshall's notice
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left on the door, it's been a long time coming,
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greenpointers dot Com writes, quote a King's County Civil Court
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judge offered a warrant of eviction in September twenty twenty five,
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legal filings revealed that Isola Sessions, LLC currently owes listen
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to this number three hundred and twenty one thousand, three
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hundred and eighty six dollars in eighty seven cents. So
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just put the number three twenty in your mind for
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a second. We'll come back to it. Green Pointer says.
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The monthly rent was thirty one thousand dollars. The warrant
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was stayed upon partial payment, but was executed as of
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December fifth, twenty twenty five, green Pointer says. In an
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affid David Hannibal Burris cited the effects of the current
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climate for small businesses currently. A quote from Hannibal says, Unfortunately,
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like so many other small businesses, the current rental climate
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in New York City nearly destroyed our business, forced extended closures,
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and caused us to fall behind in rent. We did
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everything we could to survive and catch up. We made
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it a priority to always try to work with a
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petitioner and their agents. Okay, now remember that three twenty number.
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Let me remind you of this story from December twenty
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twenty five, one month ago, the Miami New Times reported
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the City of Miami will pay two hundred thousand dollars
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to settle a lawsuit legend one of its police officers
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falsely arrested comedian Hannibal Burst in twenty seventeen on a
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bogus disorderly intoxication charge. Okay, so there's two hundred thousand. Now.
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You may recall earlier in the year, Hannibal Verus played
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the reodd To Comedy Festival. Now, I have no idea
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how much Hannibal was paid to play the Reodd Comedy Festival.
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Five seconds of research didn't turn anything up. A Time
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magazine in September. Performers have reportedly been paid between three
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars and one point six million.
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We've also heard that three to fifty number. Out of
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Tim Dillon's mouth. Let's say three fifties the low end.
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You got a manager and an agent in the three
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fifties off by twice. So let's say one hundred and
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seventy five. So if you got two hundred from Miami
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and one seventy five from Riodd, that adds up to
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three seventy five. Now, if you subtract three hundred and
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twenty one thousand dollars I don't know. I don't have
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access to real figures. I'm just a guy in a
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basement who knows. I've never operated a comedy club. I'm
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not an account to don'ta know how any of this works.
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Interesting language here. Stephen Merchant has revealed he is leading
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a separate life from Ricky Gervais. Makes him sound like
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Amy Schumer is something. Merchant explained that he and Ricky
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realized they couldn't compete with the office, so that they
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should work a part. Steven Merchant told The Times, We're
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not in such a great deal these days, but even
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at our closest we were living quite separate lives. Ricky
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used to joke that he was thirteen or fourteen years
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older than me, and so I was just discovering my
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favorite nightclub and he was discovering his favorite comfortable chair.
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I feel you, Ricky. An update in the Nick Reiner case.
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I will talk about the case from time to time
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as we head forward, because it is comedy adjacent and
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I suspect, as I've discussed on the podcast before, that
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I think Conan will get dragged into this because of
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the shouting match at Conan's party. Nick Reiner's defense attorney
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Alan Jackson until the court on Wednesday that he's withdrawing
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from the double murder case. A public defender, kimber Lee Green,
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has taken over Reiner's defense. Reiner only spoke once he
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was asked if he wanted to postpone his arraignment to
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February twenty third. He said, yeah, I agree. Outside of court,
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the now stepped down defense attorney that he wouldn't be
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able to explain his reasons, but attributed it to circumstances
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beyond our control and more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick's control.
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My team and I remain deeply, deeply committed to Nick
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Reiner and to his best interests. Jackson said, what we've learned,
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and you can take this to the bank, is that
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pursue it to the laws of this state. Nick Reiner
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is not guilty of murder. We wish him the very
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best moving forward. The LA District Attorney Nathan Hockman spoke
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to the press outside court and said, we are fully