Golf According to Katt Williams PLUS the uncoolness of Jim Gaffigan Bourbon

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello. Jenny
Mack with your daily comedy news. Late

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Night had some fun with the daily
use of marijuana now surpassing that of alcohol

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in the US. Wow. Michael
Costa said, of course, the rising

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popularity of weed is a good reminder
of the beer in the state. They

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got lazy, they thought they could
sit back and relax, while Tommy Chung

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brought up every ad on Twitter.
You know, congrats beer companies. You

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lost to that well known super ambitious
type a hard work and go get her

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Tommy Chung. Colbert with a great
point. Some may be surprised by this,

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but as a New Yorker, I'm
not. I smoke weed every single

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day, whether I want to or
not, on the sidewalk, literally everywhere

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I go. Yeah, New York
City reeks. I mean I hate the

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smell. Whatever you want to do
at home, fine, go to party,

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fine, But just walking down the
streets in New York City now it's

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impossible. You just smell. It's
really really bad. They got to do

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something about it again, do whatever
you want your house, want to walk

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down the street. Same note on
regular cigarettes too, Colbert joke. This

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news has alcohol makers worry. They
changed their standard discover from drink responsibly to

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please drink. The Hollywood Reporter and
an intelligence firm called Morning Consult asked twenty

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two hundred adults in the US how
much they trusted to various US TV hosts.

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Your options A lot, some,
not much, not at all,

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don't know. John Stewart seeing Colbert
got about fifty seven percent of the audience

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saying they either had a lot,
were some, trust in both hosts.

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Seth Meyers forty nine percent, but
it's still higher than folks like Don Lemon,

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Chris Cuomo, Megan Kelly, Tucker
Carlson, and Sean Hannity. They

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all scored lower than Seth Myers.
Case you're curious, the most trusted new

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z's in America Lester Holds, David
Muir, Al Roker, Robin Roberts,

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Michael Strahand, and Anderson Cooper.
They all landed sixty to sixty five percent.

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If you want to break it down
by age, millennials and baby boomers

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like John Stewart, Colbert won jen
X, Seth Myers led gen Z.

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Catwilliams spoke about golf. This is
a bit of a longer clip, but

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I really liked it and kat Williams
makes a lot of sense here. This

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from golf three sixty five dot com. Let's listen. Golf is this thing

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where eighteen times they set you up
with the challenge and they put obstacles and

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hazards in the way, and you
have to try to navigate your way safely

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and try to do as much as
you can. But you learn that if

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you do more than you can,
you can't do that, and there will

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be things that happen. And so
all of the things that I like about

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life in general are on the golf
course. I'm saying, I have to

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addrink out here, I smoke out
here, I whistle out here, I

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look at nature, all the things
that really mean something to me. Golf

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requires you to experience all those beautiful
things, but then every shot requires you

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to block all of that out and
just focus on the task at hand,

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and you don't have the opportunity of
doing it again. So the Bastian man

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of Scalco is not concerned with you
people that can't take a joke. He

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told Fox News Digital. I don't
add it myself. I'd be lying to

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you if I said, oh,
I don't know, is it worth doing

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that? Joke because it might cause
a B and C. There's a little

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of that, but I don't know. I've been all over the country and

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I feel like the people are coming
to at least my shows, are dying

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to laugh, whether it be appropriate
and inappropriate. I mean, I hate

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to use the word inappropriate. Including
your own family and yourself. Wasn't done

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with the mean spirit. It's just
kind of pointing out behaviors or idiosyncrasies or

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oddities that were going on in the
neighborhood. Nevere gonna laughed at it.

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My material tends to be experience based. I'm going to Universal Studios, I'm

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going to the kiddi part, I'm
going to the school drop off. I'm

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doing all these things that happen to
be part of my life, and through

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those experiences, I tend to have
a point of view and what I'm seeing

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any particular time of day. The
only thing you can concentrate on is your

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own material. So if you see
a comedian get a TV show, you

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see a comedian selling out arenas or
whatever, don't let it bother you.

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Don't let to consume you. The
only thing you have control on is writing

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your own stuff. The best you
could do with what you're doing. Your

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time will come. Bert Krascher spoke
to WSAV about his Fully Loaded Comedy tour,

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and he said, it really is
a family. You know. Comedy

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is a tight knit community of people
who have struggled and thrived together. It's

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the reason I do it. It's
like summer camp for me. I've known

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these people for twenty five years,
longer than i've known my daughters. And

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my daughters come on tour as PA's, so they're like their uncles and their

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aunts, nepo babies. Bert says
it's my favorite tour I've ever done.

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It's the reason I'm doing Fully Loaded. We created a system that hasn't been

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created. I love the sense of
community. Look, I grew up in

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Florida. I love sunsets, partying
and cold beer. So I try to

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create an environment that I'd love to
go to. It does sound like fun.

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I've not seen that tour. The
Lucille Ball Comedy Festival announced to their

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headliners the festival August first. The
headliners include Nicole Byer and Jeff Ross and

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unnamed third headliner. Third headliner will
play at the Northwest Arena on August third

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and will be announced in mid June, so it's got to be somebody significant.

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I have no idea. My spidy
sense is telling me it's Nate Perghatzy.

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Why am I saying Nate Pergatzy just
because of my spidery sets have no

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knowledge. There's nothing in this article
telegraphing that. That's just the face that

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came into my brain has read the
sentence. Jerny Gunderson is the executive director

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for the National Comedy Center and said
Jeff Ross has been a genre defining artists

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for decades before continuing and revolutionizing the
art of insult comedy. Beyond the RUSS,

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He's just a fantastic stand up comedian
and an incredible writer and a genuine

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champion of the arts past and present, which I love about him. Nicole

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Byer is a fearless performer with a
candid, razor sharp take that brings the

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audience along for a fun ride.
In addition to the show's three headliners,

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the festival will be incorporating its late
night comedy shows, Lucy Legacy Events,

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and more as part of this year's
programming. I should probably take a ride

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up there. I've made fun of
the choice of Jamestown in the past,

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but it's not that far from where
I live. It is out of the

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way, like you don't accidentally drive
through Jamestown, New York. But I

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mean I could go. Jim Gaffigan
needs an intervention. Man. He was

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on the Bourbon Pursuit podcast. I
pulled some clips Jim the bourbon it's just

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not cool. It's just, you
know, like cool. Well apparently Jim

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doesn't know cool. The rest of
us you know cool. This just isn't

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it. It's just not working.
I see he's backed off it too.

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I wonder if he figured out,
like, oh yeah, no one's into

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Jim Gaffig and bourbon. Jim and
discussed with Bourbon Pursuit his wife's take on

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the whole project. It's not really
a money making adventure, but it has

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been fun. I mean, my
wife's like, what are you doing?

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But you know, what are you
gonna do? Now? This is interesting.

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Jim admitted he was approached on this
previously. In my humble opinion,

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this was being spun of. I
know, Jim just wanted to make a

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bourbon, but no, it seems
like he was approached. Someone went,

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you know, if we had a
bourbon you know, I'm in my late

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fifties. I know, like I
look like I'm in my mid fifties,

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but I'm in my late fifties.
And I was not always a bourbon or

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even like a dark liquid kind of
guy, you know. But I think

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during the pandemic, you know,
a lot of lockdown. My wife and

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I we would do a casual,
I'd have an old fashioned. My joke

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was like I always felt like I
was pretending to be a grown up,

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or that I was pretending I was
in a Tennessee Williams play whenever I would

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have like a mint julip or anything
like that. And so but I slowly

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switched to just bourbon because I like
an old fashion, but it's a little

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too sweet for me. And so
I just started to love it. And

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my you know, as my wife
and I, you know, our kids

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are teenagers, and so it's we
I describe it as we have our occasional

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bourbon every night, you know what
I mean. And so it was this

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parental bonding thing. And so that
kind of coincided with being approached by you

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know, some spear companies that to
do a celebrity spirit and I was like,

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I would I was shying away from
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you know, I kind of like
Bourbon. And in this third clip,

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Jim is of course all about the
authenticity of Jim Gaffig and Bourbon. It's

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about authenticity. And I knew if
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I would want it to be something
special. And so even when we

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eventually went down to Kentucky to pick
the barrels, I had my brothers come

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down and do it. And of
course, you know it's I mean,

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there's yeah, no, it's like
anyone. I'm sure everyone listening to this

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is just you know, the Bourbon
Trail or visiting Kentucky is like to somebody

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that loves Bourbon. It's like Kentucky
is like is Disney World, Right,

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It's just this kind of it has
a charm and the stories and it's I

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mean, all the research I did
it was so fun because it's also uniquely

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American, which I kind of love
on a lot of different levels. So

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I don't know, and I'm still
learning so much. I still have so

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much to learn, but I love
this journey, and you know, I

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feel really good that the product is
quality. I do think he's let it

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go, though, I believe me. I googled Jim Gaffigan and Bourbon the

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way I used to google George Lopez
Taco's, especially when I'm looking for material

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to pad these things out a little. I haven't seen anything lately. The

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Hollywood Reporter writes how Seth Myers accidentally
made Getting Drunk on air and art form.

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Seth discussed his early years at late
night and said, I remember thinking,

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oh, this is a slightly worse
copy of a thing that came before.

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He was asked if there was any
point in the past decade where it

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didn't feel the confidence of the bosses
very interesting, Seth said, the first

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year, there was definitely at least
one memorable conversation. There was a Hey,

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come out to LA for a quick
meeting, and when the meeting was

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over, there were not garlands at
our feet. I will say that I

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understood what they were asking us to
do, but it ended up being the

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opposite direction of where we went.
They definitely weren't saying we think you should

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lean into long form political things.
It was more try to be a better

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show for the current era we're in. This is twenty fifteen. It wasn't

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wrong to suggest that we lean into
shorter, viral popular things. The word

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not being said here is Jimmy fallon, which is two words. But we

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left the meeting knowing that we wouldn't
be able to do that in a way

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that was gratifying for us, nor
would be able to make them happy.

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That was the scariest time for the
show. Then the circumstances of the world

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changed and we became a better show
for the moment. I've said this on

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this podcast before. I feel like
this show has had zero impact. Like

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I don't know who's watching it.
There's no buzz on it. It just

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exists because NBC twelve thirty is a
thing. I don't know. Have you

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watched it? Is this the Bob's
Burgers of late night shows? Maybe it's

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not even on. I haven't checked. Next time the dog wakes me up

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at twelve thirty, I'm gonna put
the TV on and see if this thing

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is actually on. Good stuff here, the reporter asked what makes a good

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and bad guest? Sets that after
ten years, you should be good enough

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that there are no bad guests.
You should have learned how to pull the

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best out of anyone. If there
is a bad kind of guest, it's

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one who comes just with a material
they're gonna do no matter what. I

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hate those guests, you definitely see. It's usually comics. Right. He

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asked them a question and you know, hey, what colors the sky?

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It's blue? But I got to
tell you the lines at these airports,

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right? I hate that? So
what do you do, Seth Myers?

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You become the audience that they're not
getting. The other thing about ten years

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is you learn who you like and
who you don't. There's a tier of

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guests that all of us in Late
Night would take any night, no matter

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what. And then there's a middle
that we all share from. And then

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there's this sort of guests that are
the most interesting ones because they establish how

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your identity is different from the other
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a first time author or a fourth
lead on the show that's critically claim but

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nobody's ever seen. I think the
worst guest is a politician. They're so

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boring. They answer all the questions
they wish he asked them, and I'll

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answer two times in a row if
you don't stop them. They also have

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young staffers who are not plugged into
the importance of writing towards a person's specific

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voice and have given them three jokes
that are gonna bomb, and they're gonna

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tell them no matter what they asked
him about potentially replacing Lorne, michaels He

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and Tina Fey are the names that
come up as most likely said I'm definitely

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not gonna do it, but I
never want any of you to stop saying

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that. Will SNL continue without Lorne? Or do you just not want to

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be the one that attempts it?
Seth very honest here says I think both

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things can be true. Everybody underestimates
what Lauren brings to the show week in

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and week out, even though I
then people estimate it quite highly. Lauren

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has this invisible hand that gets things
done in that building for show that is

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unreasonable to even attempt. And I
learned so much from watching Lorne, and

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yet I'm also acutely aware there are
things you just can't learn. You talked

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about the Strike Force five podcast from
last summer during the writers strike. It's

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a credit to Kimmel for putting it
together, but also credit to Colbert.

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When the winds were blowing towards the
strike, Stephen was the one who thought,

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let's all talk and stay on the
same page. Let's make sure there's

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a cohesion with how we're approaching the
strike and what we're telling our staffs and

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what we're gonna do for them.
That's smart. This one I've bumped several

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times. It just keeps getting bumped. Let me clear this out today.

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It's good. I just kept kicking
it. David Cross. In Variety the

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Sources and interview Cross did with Andrew
Santino, Cross talked about Guru Nation,

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which was a show that Cross and
Bob Odenkirk worked up a few years back.

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He says there was a low key
bidding war between multiple networks. According

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to Cross, he and Odinkirk wrote
about half the eight episodes show about two

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rival cult leaders attempting to out manipulate
each other, and plotted out the rest,

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took it to their new partners at
Paramount Plus, and the whole thing

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got turned down by the streamer.
Cross said it got vetoed by the company's

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marketing and analytics department who didn't want
the series or get how to sell it.

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Cross said, they have all the
uffing bower and that's your comedy news

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for today. If you enjoy the
program, tell a friend about it.

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They might like it too. See
you tomorrow.