Dec. 8, 2025

Government takes a shot at Marcelo Hernandez

Government takes a shot at Marcelo Hernandez

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I'm

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actually recording this one on Saturday. Still no boiler. It's

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forty seven degrees in the kitchen, and you may hear

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my voices a little blown out from screaming over the

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DJ at the wedding of Friday night. But all is

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good here in the basement studio. Later today, around noon Eastern,

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I will release a bonus episode with the Comedy Survivor

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selection show. The executive committee, which is me, has met

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and named the sixteen comedians that will take place in

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Comedy Survivor coming to this feed in January. We'll talk

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about that at noon. Leading off today, Marcelo Hernandez in

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the news. Now he does two things well, one of

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them is Domingo and variance on that, and the other,

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of course, is a Sebastian Maniscalco impression. He got dragged

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into the White House's battle with Sabrina Carbenter. Sabrina was

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unhappy that the White House had used some of her

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songs in a post celebrating the work of Ice. They

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deleted that post, and then they posted a new clip

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of Sabrina Carpenter doing a commercial for her recent SNL appearance,

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with the audio overdub so that she appears to be

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calling cast member Marcelo Hernandez illegal instead of hot. In

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the original clip, this is just you know, I've been

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doing the bit about the president, and I disagree on

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some of the issues, one of them mis Seth Meyer's

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been doing that bit, but like, come on, guys, what

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are you doing here? The original SNL commercial Sabrina still

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alongside Marcelo and said I think I might need to

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arrest someone for being too hot. Hernandez said, oh well,

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I turned myself in. In the White House version of

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the clip, the over dubbed audio now has a voice

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like Carpenter saying too illegal. The caption reads, PSA, if

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you're a criminal illegal, you will be arrested and deported.

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All right, let's take a listen to what these idiots did.

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I think I might need to arrest someone for being

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too illegal. Oh well, I turned myself in. You're under arrest.

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I mean, it's not even a good edit. It like

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it's just what are you doing? Just what are you doing?

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From Wreussell Talk your Home for Comedy News, Tony Hinchcliff

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said he turned down a WWE writer role earlier in

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his career, Hinchcliffe was on Rogan's podcast. However, the role

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would have required Tony Hinchcliff to move to Stamford, Connecticut,

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which would have made commuting for his comedy commmits rather annoying.

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Hinchcliffe said, yeah, it was only a couple of years

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into me doing stand up, like seven nights a week

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at the comedy store all the time. Someone's like, hey,

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I have a friend at WWE. If you want to

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have a meeting with them and just talk. I went

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in with trade up ideas like the Undertaker's brother comes

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back again. I can't even remember any of them, it's

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been so long, but I went in with the whole

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thing and the guy's like, this is crazy. You just

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did this, and I'm like, yeah, I found out a

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couple of days ago. We were going to talk. They

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offered him the gig, but he said, I would have

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had to move to Connecticut and take a train in

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New York every night to go do stand up, and

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that would have been exhausting. If it was anywhere else

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other than Connecticut, it kind of would have made sense.

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If it was New York City, it would have been

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a no brainer if it was in La definitely w

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Camal Bell is not happy with Friend of the Show

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Jason Zinneman. Bell wrote on his substack hate New York

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Times Louis c. K doesn't need your help subheading when

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a newspaper has only one stand up comedy critic, they

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actually have none. This is a lengthy substack post from Bell.

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I'll pick away at it. He writes, The New York

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Times only has one dedicated stand up comedy critic. When

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they first hired him in twenty eleven, I thought, yay,

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the New York Times has taken comedy seriously. But more

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than a short period of time, I came to realize

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that a newspaper that only has one comedy critic only

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has one sense of humor. This is a problem because

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comedy is as diverse as a discipline as any other

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art form. It would be like if The New York

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Times only had one music critic. We all know that

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would be ridiculous because the classical music critic has no

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business reviewing pop music. When you google New York Times

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music critic, you get a bunch of different names. Only

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one name comes up. When you do the same with

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the phrase New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinnamon all right,

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I'm gonna jump in there. If you're a regular listen

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to this program, you know Jason's been on several times,

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and I've had lengthy hour conversations with them. I've never

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met any conversation we've had. You've heard ninety eight percent

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of it on this podcast, other than you know, the hey,

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I'm gonna hit record now part of our discussions. Seems

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like a really cool guy, seems like a level headed guy.

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As I often say, I know more about comedy than say,

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ninety eight percent of the general population, and then the

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people that know more about comedy than I do know

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a lot more. And Jason's in that second camp. I

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also believe, and I'm gonna fact check this here as

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I talk and type, I believe his title is critic

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at large, not so much specific comedy critic. So I'm

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on ny Times dot com right now, and Jason's byline says,

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I am a critic at large for the Culture section

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of the New York Times and write a column about comedy.

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Jason's own words here what I cover, skipping down to

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the second paragraph. Since becoming the paper's first comedy critic

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at twenty eleven, I focused on stand up specials, but

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I also keep an eye on improv, sketch podcasts, plays, musicals,

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TikTok accounts, and any other forms in which jokes are made.

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As a critic at large, I also like to write

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about movie theater and books, but never seem enough time

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to do it now. As someone who puts this show

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together every day, and and I'm a paid subscriber to

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The New York Times, I believe and I could kind

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of prove it here. Other people write about comedy for

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The New York Times. I just typed in search query comedian,

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and as I record this on Saturday morning, it is

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ten thirty eight am the time, just telling me. Six

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hours ago Hannah Ziegler posted an article in the Arts

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section and the headline bouble for a day, but he

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can't sing, And there's a little resemblance subheader. Dan Permlan,

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a comedian, looks and sounds nothing like Michael Boublay, and

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for some reason he was hired to impersonate the Crouner

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at a birthday party. The next one that surfaced is

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from August and Zennaman, then one from September twenty eighth,

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Also in the arts section, Mark Marin and other comedians

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rebuke Piers in Saudi Festival. That's from Derek, Bryce and Taylor.

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I guess, to be fair to mister Bell, that's commentary

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and not a critic piece. But you get where I'm going,

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and I don't want to bog down in this. There's

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plenty here. Bell rights. While I do occasionally read Zinneman's work,

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I read it because it concerns my industry, not because

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I need his particular critics eye. And yes, a big

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part of the reason I don't seek him out is

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because when he found space to mention me, it was

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clear he was not a fan. Here's the time he

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squeezed a short review of my Netflix special Private School

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Negro into one of his columns. Belle then quotes Zinneman

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is writing Bell's new special seems a little tempid. His

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stand up was never danced with punchlines. But Private School

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Negro veers further from a tight club set toward a

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mix of storytelling, jokes and arguments. It's a rambling, sometimes

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overly familiar hour. Again, I am friendly with Jason Zenman,

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so I admit I come with a bias here, But

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I don't think that paragraph I just wrote to you

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is like absurd. Getting back to what prompted this piece

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from Bell. On November twenty one, Zinneman reviewed one of

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Louis c K's recent stand up shows at the Beacon Theaters.

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Zenneman's lovingly crafted prose describes in detailed the current evolution

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of Louis's career. See Jason is concerned that too few

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people know that Louis still a great comedian. This concern

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seems particularly bizarre and unfounded because Louis in the middle

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of a comedy tour that's mostly sold out. It's not

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like Louis playing small clubs. Louis playing at the kind

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of venues you play when you're a super successful touring act.

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But you don't want to play the enormo done in

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the town, so instead you play a bunch of shows

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at the giant theater in town. In other words, Louis

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is literally living the stand up comedian dream. Louis doesn't

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need Zinnemen's helps writing his word, but Zinnamann does it anyway.

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Why again, I'll let Jasus speak for himself as an

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observer here. I think Jason went to Louis ck show

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during the New York Comedy Festival and thought the stand

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up was good, and he wrote about it, because that's

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what he does. Bell, quoting Zinnamon Zinnaman writing, in the

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seven years since c K admitted to sexual misconduct, the

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comedian has produced four different hours of comedy. It's a large,

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under examined, formally audacious body of work that represents a

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break from the past, but also continuity. Bell writes, under examined, mister, Zinnamon, A,

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you're trying to make us feel bad for not keeping

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up with Louis c K's work after his admission, et cetera,

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et cetera. Are you saying that CK's work is somehow

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so good it'll make us forget that he did the

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thing he did, et cetera, et cetera. Louis c K

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doesn't own anything from the public. His work isn't under examined.

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It is utterly discarded by the audience who thought he

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could trust him. Interesting. I mean yes to all this.

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I see what Belle saying. I think Jason Zinaman went

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to a show and is also pointing out CK has

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put out a bunch of things that people haven't seen.

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I mean, if we want to nitpick the word under examined,

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especially the examined part of it, I mean, sure, here

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in the basement where I have no boiler, I'd just

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like a good comedy fight a lot more from Camel

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Bell on his substack. If you want to check that out.

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If you listen to yesterday show, I told you Vulture

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has Night Thoughts as their number one comedy special of

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the year. There's now a trailer for it. Based on

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this trailer, I don't see how this is possibly the

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number one special of the year. But again I haven't

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seen it. But this is a year in which Mark

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Marin's special came out, and I don't see how this

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is going to be better than that. So let's listen

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to the trailer.

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Watching your movie made me want to get therapy. Oh

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that's good, that's clever. Do not get weird about the muscles.

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These muscles can't hurt you. These muscles are decorative. Never

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been in a fight for because I'm super good at apologizing.

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I am an immigrant. Are there any other immigrants here? Okay?

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What you can't do is point at someone else. I

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thought I was happy, and then every now and then I'd.

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Get very angry out of nowhere.

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I watched Bananas in the stake.

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Anyone remember what it was like buying marijuana before it

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was legal.

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You had to go to a guy's house, pretend to

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be friends with a guy.

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You had to like, watch a little bit of the

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Matrix with him. You guys get night thoughts when you're

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laying in bed in the middle of the night and

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you can't sleep, and your brain's like, here's something new

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for you.

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To worry about, or.

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You hadn't thought of that. It's because you're a little

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bit stupid.

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Night thoughts are like day thoughts, except they hate you.

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This was really keeping me up at night.

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White people, there's more.

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And for some reason it is bothering me. The voice

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that Kamil Nan Johnny uses during his stand up Now,

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to be fair, my friend Larry the Cable Guy does

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an exaggeration. Sebastian Manaskalko does an exaggeration, and I right

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now am doing an exaggeration. If I'm at the bar

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at trivia night, I'm not like Glenn, would you like

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a beer? I'm like, hey, you want to get another beer?

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My normal speaking voice would be something like that, like Hey,

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I'm gonna have a sip of my coffee right now.

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So this is a performance, and I'm up in my

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Johnny Mack delivery that my children make fun of. So

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maybe I'm being unfair. But in Kisha Curius, here is

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Kamail Nanjihanni on the Michael Rosenbaum podcast. Fun fact, Michael

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is my former intern. That's right, way back in the

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twentieth century at WR Radio. Michael Rosenbaum was my intern.

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And I got to give props to Michael when he

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was the intern making copies. He said he was going

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to Hollywood to become an actor and that he did,

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so I plot him. Anyway, here is Kamil Nan Johnny's

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it was Oscar winning director, one of the craziest casts.

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amazing Brian Tyry Henry Barry Kiogen, who have both been

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an individual person, but someone who was on crack that

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one of the top of the year. So I'm really

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of the year. It comes out December nineteenth. It won't

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make my list because my publicist wants my list this

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weekend so she can publicize it, so that'll be Saturday's episode. Oh,

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I did record the Billboard Top twenty five. The rest

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I'm saving my reaction to it for some episodes. Right

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after Christmas. I could take a couple days off, you know,

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Christmas Day. I don't want to be sitting at the

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basement talking about comedy and plus, there won't be any

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news anyway, like any list. Some things I went, oh,

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crazy town. If you'd like to hear my thoughts now.

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It is released as a bonus episode for the paid subscribers,

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I owe you guys at DCNA. It's been a super

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busy month. But you can hear my reaction to Billboard's

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list in there right now. Otherwise get it for free

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Oh my? The combination of I have no voice and

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the clock says, let's take a break out today On

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the eight hundred Pound Gorilla Rosie Jones triple Threat. On

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the Joe Rogan Podcast, Joe Rogan called President Trump a

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kid and revealed President Trump's text habits. Rogan said, he

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makes the text go big like USA is respected, respected

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all caps, and it makes the text in large. That's fun.

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I've never received a text from President Trump. Hannah Gasby

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will have a new show set to debut in March

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at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. The Evening Muse is described

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to be like a Tonight Show, but hosted by Hannah Gatsby,

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Festival runs from March twenty fifth through April nineteenth. Always

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fun to cover here in the basement. One of these

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years I will have to go Love Melbourne. Melbourne is

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a great city. For its fortieth anniversary, the twenty twenty

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Big Four to Oh, celebrating the milestone, bringing together standout

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comedians from this year's program and legends from across the

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four decades. A bunch of local legends will be there.

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unless you're, like, you know, extremely into Ozzie comedy. International

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stars hitting the festival include the UK's Sam Nickeresti, who

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Best Show, Ian Smith, Chloe Petts, Joe Kent, Walter, Is

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Luke McQueen, Phil Wang, He's Great, Scotland's Connor Burns, Daniel

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Sloss and Larry Dean, and Ireland's David o'darty and Joanne McNally.

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Denmark abbreviated d NK for some reason. Sophie Hawgin of

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the d NK will be there, Takashi Wakasugi from Japan

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and Tarag Hardikar from India. It's the Melbourne Comedy Festival

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coming up. Patton Oswald who's out there ruining Star Trek

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with his really awful Doug the Vulcan character, and the

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President has done nothing about this. I mean, the President

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is nothing but disappointing me today. Mister President, please make

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Star Trek great again? Have you seen the teaser art

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for Starfleet Academy, Mister President? Holy cow? I mean, I

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just want to say words that sound a lot like

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Jesus that have a JC in it, But you know

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I don't won't offend anybody, but boy, this Star Trek

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poster awful. And Paton Oswald has Dug the Vulcan ruining

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Star Trek. He was talking about AI and he said,

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AI is not going anywhere. We can't wish this stuff

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away because we invented it, So how do we find

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ways to work around it or make it more human?

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I like the rewards, but the rewards are only fun

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if you got it. It's almost like getting away with it.

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I got all the success from making things up from

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thin air. There's something beautiful about that, getting to sit

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down and come up with a joke out of nothing.

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It'll never get old for me. I've always set them

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and showed this for the money and the anecdotes. I

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want some really amazing stories, and when every part of

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the canvas covered, I want to be able to explore

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every corner of it. It changes you when you experience

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all this stuff. I would I have the Severdas story.

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social media talking about Mumbai's worsening air quality. He said

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it's reached a point where coughing has become redundant as

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his lungs have adapted. He was on Instagram. He filmed

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it in his living room and added a smoke filter

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for effect. Did He posted, Oh you think this is outside, No,

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this is what's happening inside you. Apparently Mumbai's air quality

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index has now touched the severe category. That's your comedy

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news for today. All right back around noon Eastern with

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the Comedy Survivors Selection Show. While I'm recording, I'm arguing

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with the AI to make new artwork. It has made artwork.

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You've seen it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News

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podcast group. But I'm like, can you revise it? And

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the AI was like, no, I can't do that, and

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I'm like, you just did it. Ah yeah, but that

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was before I discovered the policy. All right, well this

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is a parody. Can you do it? And just it's

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so annoying sometimes the AI. Maybe Patton Oswald is right,

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except not about Star Trek. All Right, bye,