June 14, 2026

Guy Fieri Feeds Andrew Santino and Bert Kreischer, Adam Ray’s Netflix ‘Dr. Phil Live,’ and John Oliver’s Soap Opera Role

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers comedy news, starting with Guy Fieri’s four-episode series “Guy’s Feast Club,” featuring comedians including Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, and Bobby Lee while they eat dishes like an Italian feast and a tomahawk rib eye sandwich. He notes Netflix will debut “Adam Ray: Dr. Phil Live” on June 19 as a cheaply produced TV show mislabeled as a podcast, with four episodes and guests such as Michael Bublé, Dave Matthews, Nikki Glaser, and Santino, plus future guests including Hasan Minhaj, Marshawn Lynch, Joel McHale, Mark Normand, and more; Ray also improvises characters like Dr. Phil. Days of Our Lives reportedly cast John Oliver after his on-air offer. The episode also highlights Variety Q&A details with Marc Maron, Patton Oswalt on writing and directing and topical vs observational comedy, a report on a Nate Bargatze Netflix taping, Jeff Foxworthy on comedy writing and avoiding politics, and Guy Branum on stand-up’s changing audiences, plus Toronto comedian Ashwin Singh’s influences.

00:12 Guy Fieri Comedy Feast
01:06 Adam Ray Dr Phil Live
02:05 John Oliver Soap Role
02:50 Marc Maron Quickfire Qs
03:59 Patton Oswalt On Comedy
05:07 Nate Bargatze Taping Recap
06:02 Foxworthy Comedy Math
07:26 Guy Branum On Change
08:31 Toronto Comic Spotlight
09:00 Wrap Up And Share

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Guy Fieri has a new show. It's called

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Guy's Feast Club. Why are we talking about this John

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because he's got some comedians on it, including Andrew Santino

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and Bert Krascher. Before episode series Guys Feast Club will

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include guests feasting on dishes like Tomahawk Ribbi sandwiches while

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chatting with the Food Network chef. There's a trailer he

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introduces his guests, whom he calls the most talented people

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on the planet, including Bert Kreischer. Guy asks the guests

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what they would like to eat. Andrew Santino says Italian

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food would be nice. Bobby Lee says Korean. Guy explains

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the show, I find out what they're craving, I go

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get it. We sit down and what happens next is

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anybody's guests. So in the four episodes, there's an Italian

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least with Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino, a Tomahawk Ribbi

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sandwich with Bert Krascher, and then the other guests are

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Tony Hawk and somebody else. Sounds very exciting, doesn't it.

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Adam Ray is getting a cheap television show on Netflix. Now,

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the people at Netflix are mistaken. They think this is

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a podcast because they don't understand what a podcast is.

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It's actually an inexpensively produced television show that they're airing

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on Netflix under the column that says podcast. But this

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is in no way a podcast. But what is it? John?

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It is called Adam Ray Doctor Phil Live. The cheaply

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produced television show will debut on Netflix June nineteenth. That's

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coming up with four episodes. Michael Boobley the first guest,

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then Dave Matthews, Niki Lazer, Oh Boy, and Andrew Santino.

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Future guests include Hassan Minhaj, Jelly Roll, Marshaun Lynch, John Schneider,

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and Mike McDonald. Know not John Schneider from The Dukes

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of Hazzard, I don't think it's the general manager and

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head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Joel mchel Mark Normand

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Ray's mother, the Google Dolls, and more. Adam Ray will

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engage in quote deep dive converse with the guests, but

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not always as himself. He'll drift into improvised characters, including

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Doctor Phil. Meanwhile, Days of Our Lives has taken John

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Oliver up on his offer. According to The Daily Mail,

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John Oliver has started taping a role on Days of

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Our Lives, with the part reportedly written specifically for him.

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The Daily Mail calls the role whacky now. Back in March,

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John Oliver closed an episode of Last Week Tonight with

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a tribute to the pleasures of daytime soaps. During that segment,

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he said, I'm officially offering myself to you. Write me

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your role, and I'll be on your set so fast

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that it'll make your head spin. He did have conditions.

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He does not want to play himself. He wanted the

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character to have a ridiculous name, and he wanted something

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quote unquote juicy, preferably involving murder or slapping or being

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slapped or being someone's long lost something. He also requested

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a dramatic close up. Variety had ten questions from Mark Maren.

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Mark childhood nickname, Mark said drink p In fifth grade

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at stickball, my coach used to call me Hank Maren,

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which was pretty good because I hit a couple homers.

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I wouldn't say I was doing it all the time,

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but I don't remember too many nicknames other than just

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my last name. All right, Mark, something you loved as

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a kid, but can't believe you were into it now.

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Mark said I was pretty involved with cocoa pebbles. You

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didn't expect him to say that. I don't feel ashamed

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about it, but I try to eat them recently. It's

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not the same. His go to karaoke song is Bob

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Dylan's Going Going Gone. He also does Taylor Swift's Bigger

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Than the Whole Sky, which is in his recent special.

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Some of the other questions, they're not all interesting. Secret talent.

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I can cook and I can play. Harmonica favorite ice

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cream flavor Ben and Jerry still makes pretty good vegan

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ice cream, the chocolate fudge brown he's good. The vegan

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Jerry cherry garcilla is good. Vegan fish food is good.

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I like things with caramel and them too. One thing

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Mark Maren couldn't live with out his glasses what TV

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showed as he wished he could have been on the

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cast Mary Tyler Moore to work with Ed Asner at

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that point. How funny wuld that had been the whole crew?

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Oh my god, it's so funny. Favorite piece of advice,

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Mark Maren. I remember one time when I was talking

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to an editor about a book, and I was kind

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of panicking, so I go, but it's going to be okay, right,

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and he said, yeah, we're not. I think it's as

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honest as you could be. No, Oswalt, what aspirations do

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you have now as an actor, now that you've ruined

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Star Trek and you can ruin other things? Patten said,

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I want to keep acting in movies, obviously, and then

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I want to write and direct. I've always been kind

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of fascinated by the kind of low stakes, low life

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crime world. That's something that's always drawn me in New topic. Hey,

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Pat and Oswalt and your specials, what's the balance between

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topical and observational comedy? Does that change over time? Patten said,

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it fluctuates each special. I just do a snapshot of

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me reacting to the world at that time. I'm not

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trying to do anything beyond that. I'm trying to capture

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that moment, how it feels. He talked about the week

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when we went to the Moon and started a war.

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Pat said, it's weird how we're at the extremes of

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our highs and lows right now. It's insane. Humans have

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been the furthest they've ever been away from this planet,

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and they're poets. They're sending down these beautiful transmissions, and

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then we have a guy on the ground is saying,

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I'm going to wipe out a civilization. I don't know

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our minds are going to keep both of those together,

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but we'll see. He talked about he is feeling of

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the current direction of America, and he said, I think

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it's gonna take a generation. I don't think we've got

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to throw a switch and go back. We're so far

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down this road. There are many people like if I

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can't have this level of cruelty and pet I'd rather

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the world burn down. That's a level of nihilism that

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we're going to have to work through. Send your letters

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to Paton Oswalt, Star trek Ruiner. Folks at fort Worth

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dot com went to see Nate Burghetzi. They say the

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electric atmosphere was evident at the three o'clock performance Three

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the show began about thirty minutes late. Julian McCullough served

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as both MC and opening acts, warming up the crowd.

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Fellow comedians Mike Vickione and Greg Warren followed with sets

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Greg Warren mind humor from dating, missaps, and social awkwardness.

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All three comics frequently engaged audience members, et cetera, et cetera.

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This was a Netflix taping in the afternoon that started

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thirty minutes late, which told crane mounted cameras glided across

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the arena floor to capture Burghetzi's Theater in the Round presentation,

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while a rotating overhead camera recorded audience reactions minor joke spoilers,

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whether wondering how many chickens could fit inside a horse

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or admitting that he blindly accepts every website's cookie policy

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because he has no idea what any of it means.

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He consistently found humor in ordinary situations. Jeff Foxworthy explained

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comedy math to NPR sixty minutes of Comedy for Special

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Equals a year on stage, Jeff Foxworthy said, I guess

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was nineteen eighty four and Jay Leno was probably the

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King of the Road comics, and he said, your goal

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should be to write one new minute a week, and

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I remember sitting there going to eat crazy. A week,

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I can write twenty new minutes, and I found out

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over time. He was exactly right. It's hard. It's trying

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to find a thing that's going to make a room

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full of strangers laugh every time you say it. Jeff

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talked about working political or not. I had a lot

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of friends that did political stuff, and half the room

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hates you. My goal was to make as many people

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laugh as I could. And because a I really believe

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if you took people from different sides of the political spectrum,

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they could peg one side or the other, and you

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sat down with them and you said, what do you

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want out of life? Would probably agree on eighty five

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percent of things, But instead of celebrating that eighty five percent,

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what we chose to do was scream and throw things

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at each other for the fifteen percent that were different.

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One of the coolest things about Stand Up for me

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was before I did it, I hadn't been anywhere. I've

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never been out of the South. And now I've been

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in all fifty states and almost every part of all

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fifty states, and you realize, yeah, the accents changed, the

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scenery changes, but people are people. That's the part I

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choose to go after with comedy. Jeff, will this be

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your last special? I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure

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I'm more content and more at peace, and now at

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this point in my life, I'm like, you know what,

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if I got a spare Wednesday evening, I don't want

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to be in a club with no cards in my hands.

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I'd rather be laying on the bed reading to my grandkids.

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It's not because I didn't love this thing. It's because

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I love other things too. You may recall Bill Engvall

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retired and then unretired, so we will see. Jeff Foxworthy

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is sixty seven. Guy Brainham Toldnuvau dot Nett. When I started,

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stand up comedy was something that was done eighty five

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percent by heterosexual men. When people showed up at a

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comedy show at a random comedy venue, they assumed a

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really specific perspective, and if they weren't getting that, they

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were shocked and surprised. The change that happened in stand

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up comedy in America is not a change to that

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because of the raw, amazing talent of a greater diversity

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of stand up comedians. It's a change that happened because

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audience has changed, because women showed up to shows not

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wanting to be humiliated and insulted. Because queer people realized

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it was a space they could show up to and

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not always be the butt of the joke. You can't

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deny that gay comedy was unusual when I started, No

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successful gay male stand up comics, even recently as six

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or seven years ago. Now you have Matteo Lane, Caleb

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heern An. Its higher generation of people have been able

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to build that. What Matteo has is in so many

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ways because of YouTube and Instagram stuff he did on

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his own terms. What Caleb achieved is because of TikTok

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and his podcast. I think we're at this really interesting

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moment entertainment where a consolidation of the gatekeepers has given

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a small number of corporations what they believe is a

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whole lot of power, but because they're not using it

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in ways that are reflect other times, they could very

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easily lose that power to other institutions that aren't gatekeeping

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as Hard and Toronto has the series Tragedy Plus Time.

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They caught up with Ashwan Singh, a Toronto comedian, seeing

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discusses topics like immigration, religion, and social hypocrisy, and splits

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his time between Toronto and Deli influences. Good List here

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George Carlin, Patris o' neil, Doug Stanhope, Dave Chappelle, Taylor Thompson,

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Michelle Wolfe, and some others. Favorite comedian growing up, Carlin.

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Always love that answer. Favorite comedian now depends on the day,

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but probably still Carlin. And that is your comedy news

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for today. It is June. So you're sharing the show, right.

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I forgot to bother you about that on Friday. You're

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sharing the show. You're telling people, right, You're like, Hey,

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there's this guy and he talks about stuff. I don't

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know what the show's really about, but I kind of

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like it. I listen every day. So what are you

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gonna do is you're gonna hit You have a phone

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in your hand right now, right, push the share button

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and send it to somebody would go, hey, listen to this.

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It's a random Sunday episode in the summer, and they'll

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be like, wow, that was a pretty good episode. Thank you, John.

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I don't know why I put myself down. If you

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like the show, share the show and I will see

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you tomorrow.