Sept. 1, 2025

Happy Nikki Glaser Day, Adam Sandler’s sandwich wins summer, and more SNL exits

Happy Nikki Glaser Day, Adam Sandler’s sandwich wins summer, and more SNL exits

Nikki Glaser gets honored at Busch Stadium. Adam Sandler’s legendary sandwich from Spanglish resurfaces. SNL sees four cast members exit — and one Please Don’t Destroy member may be getting promoted. Plus: Eric Idle reflects on Monty Python, Jimmy Fallon’s NFL lead-in shows, and Johnny Mac heads to the beach one last time this summer :(

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Callaroga Shark Media Happy Nicki Glazer Day. I'll get to that. Hello,

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I'm Johnnie Mack with your daily comedy news. If you're

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in Saint Louis, if you're at the Cardinals game, if

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you're at Bush Stadium, today is Nicki Glazer Day. She's

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being honored with her very own bobblehead. Nicki Glazer told

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Saint Louis on the air. I was kind of embarrassed

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at first. There's gonna be a bobblehead and kids are

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going to be confused, like who is this lady. With

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the purchase of a theme ticket, fans well receiving Nicki

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Glazer bobblehead today at Bush Stadium. Nicki said this was

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something that was offered to me from the Cardinals as

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a our hometown girl. We love you, and I'm just

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trying to accept it and not fight it. She's from

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Saint Louis, loves Saint Louis and says, when I'm on

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both of the coasts, it's like constantly comparing yourself and

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everyone's just chasing their status. That is true, Nicky Glazer. Here,

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it just feels a little bit more relaxed than I

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get back to what's important, having a good time and

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going out to to eat. Living here is just wanting

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to focus on my family while they're still around and

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healthy and want to hang out with me. It's also

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just being in a town where what podcast you have,

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what spots you're doing that night, what parties are going to,

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what red carpet's you're attending, doesn't matter. That's not here

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and that's not what people value here, and it just

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recalibrates me. Nicki says, if she spends too much time

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on the coast will start to question herself. Being in

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Saint Louis allows her to let go of all that.

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It's not because no one cares about nice things here.

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They do. It's just that it comes to my nervous

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system being here. If you go see Nicki Glazer live,

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she says, whatever you know people in the room, whether

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it's somebod you might run into at the grocery store,

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your mom's best friend, or your dad's tennis partners, whatever

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it is, there's an added pressure of, oh, there's a

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lot riding on this. My dad has to go to

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tennis next week and have conversations with these people, and

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I don't want to embarrass him. I just want everyone

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have a good time. You know, when I'm performing in Baltimore,

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I leave the next day. And if they didn't like it, okay,

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I don't really have to face them, but here I

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have to. Boylatenighter dot Com took a terrible time to

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take a week off last week. Heidi Gardner has exited

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Saturday Night Live. She was on for eight seasons. Seems

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like Lauren wasn't kidding about the cast shake up. I

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continue to be of the opinion that getting out after

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SNL fifty was the time, including for you, Lauren. You

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should have gotten out as well. It's all gonna be

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downhill from here. Heidi Garner is the fourth cast member

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to leave the show, following Devin Walker, Emil Wakeem and

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Michael Longfellow and between me recording this on Friday and

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enjoying the holiday weekend on the beach. Who knows how

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many people have left us and L by the time

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you're hearing this. On Thursday, a Twitter user had tagged

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Walker and Longfellow in a post. The fan said, wish

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you nothing but the best. Walker jumped in and said,

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y'all acting like we died. Lol. We just getting different jobs.

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Walker had posted on Instagram earlier in the week, just

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to be clear, this is good news. It was just

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time for me to do something different. Please don't be

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hitting me with all the I'm so sorry. We're not

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on that at all. Sometimes mom and dad just don't

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see things eye to eye. Interesting. Michael Longfellow had posted

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on Instagram that he wouldn't be returning for his fourth season.

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He wrote, wish I was, but so it goes. It

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was the best three years of my life so far.

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So it sounds like he was pushed. Emo Wachem said

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being informed he wouldn't return was a gut punch of

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a call the get But I'm so grateful for my

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time there, So obviously he was pushed on Friday, or

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maybe they posted it this Thursday night. Late Nighter had

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a rumor and they wrote, take this for what it

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is right now. A rumor, and Johnny Mack will say

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take this for what it is right now on Friday,

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as he records before a holiday weekend. A rumor. But

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they're hearing that one member of Please Don't Destroy might

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be moved into the main cast. As for the other

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two members of Please Don't Destroy. The rumor says one

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will stay on the show's writing staff and the other

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will leave the show. Interesting, the speculation is that Ben

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Marshall will get the cast promotion. Now that's interesting because

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the other two were Neippo babies, and I saw somebody

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on thread's comment about the number of Nepo babies working

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on SNL. Martin Hurley's father is former SNL writer Tim Hurley.

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John Higgins father is SNL prit er writer and Jimmy

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Fallon sidekick Steve Higgins. A lot of ties to Lauren there.

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So the speculation is Ben Marshall, we'll get the cast promotion.

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Adding fuels of that speculation, The Police Don't Destroys are

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currently touring the US. However, last week Ben Marshall missed

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several of the shows. His spot was filled by Emily Wilson,

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who happens to be married to John Higgins. Marshall rejoined

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the group later in the week. Very interesting, I shared

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in the Facebook group and we'll get to it later

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in the week. Adam Sandler, the buzz on this J

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Kelly movie tremendous for Sailor's performance, some people even saying Oscar,

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but I'll save that for later in the week, but

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Sailor was at the Venice Film Festival. GQ said, Sailor

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showed up and exactly what you think it'd wear. A

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freaky polo shirt completely covered in cheetahs, big baggy Nike

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basketball shorts, and a pair of bright pink under armor

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Curry elevens. However, I also saw photos of Adam Sandler

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in a classic tuckceedo. Yeah, like dressed properly. Oh, I'm

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often confused for George Clooney dress wise, I am often

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confused for Adam Sandler. But right now, let's say I've

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got a new balance thin fleece it's a little cool,

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my nice black sweatpants and some Neon colored what brand

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of these? These are Hocus Hocus sneakers and of course

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my sun faded Villanova hat. So if we had a

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rank dressers Clooney, Johnny mac Sandler, I do clean up

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nice though, everyone who knows me when I do dress parplate,

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people go, you clean up nice? So why don't you

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clean up nice? Because I record a podcast in the basement.

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Speaking of Sandler, I'd saved this for the holidays. We

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all know he's terrible at comedy movies. But what about sandwiches.

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Allrecipes dot Com wrote about Adam Sandler's World's Greatest sandwich,

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and they say it's the only one you'll need this

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tomato season. You see in the two thousand and four

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horrible movie Spanglish, Adam Sandler played a chef in the movie.

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He makes an epic restaurant worthy sandwich toasted bread layered

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with bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, cheese, and a fried egg.

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It was simple, but perfect, and it looked delicious. Allrecipes

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dot Com says, for now, I'd like to begin by

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letting you know that this sandwich wouldn't have earned world's

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best status without the man behind the creation, Chef Thomas

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Keller of French laundry fame. He was on set during

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filming to help Adam Sandler create the simple, yet artfully

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crafted sandwich. All Recipees tells us if you want to

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make the World's Greatest sandwich at home, good news you can.

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All of the ingredients are readily available at your local

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grocery store. We learned the sandwich begins with toasted bread.

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It should be country style or another hearty bread that

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could be thickly sliced. Once toasted. One slice gets topped

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with mayonnaise, then tomato slices and a sprinkling of salt.

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This is followed by a layer of crispy bacon. So

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far this sounds great, which is top with a fried

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egg cooked in butter, of course, and a layer of

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butter leaf lettuce. The other slice of toasted bread is

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top with cheese and broiled until melted it's a lot

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of work, and then added as the final perfect layer.

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The Guardian caught up with eric Idol. They said, I

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love your songs and I sing them frequently, including the

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now unacceptable eye like Chinese, which increasingly just sounds like

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pragmatic foreign policy. How did it feel in the early

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days of Python being the only one who wasn't in

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a writing team. The other teams were Chapman, Clee's and

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Jones Palin. Eric Idle said, I don't like being part

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of a writing team because I don't like talking before lunch.

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I wake up at five point thirty and love discovering

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what's in your mind. You don't judge it, you just

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find it, write it and create it and then do

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a lot of rewriting. What was hard was the other

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Pythons had two votes to one. This is interesting about

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the Beatles. When I first met George Harrison, we bonded

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immediately and talked all night, and I realized we played

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the same roles in our groups. There were these two heavy,

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powerful blocks, and we were in the middle. We didn't

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have as much power, but we learned a lot from it.

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Eric said, I'm still a friend of Ringos, and Paul's

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always very nice and friendly, but we're not close. Late

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Night TV maybe not so Dead NBC will air four

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special Sunday night editions of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.

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Those will follow Sunday night football and local newscast. Stay

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tuned after your local news for a brand new episode

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of The Tonight Show Jimmy Fallon the first, September twenty first,

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following Chiefs Giants Chiefs, Taylor Swift all that that's a

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good lead in. Matthew McConaughey and Eric Church are the guests.

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Other Sunday night editions will air one on October twenty sixth,

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after Packers Steelers. That's a dog of a game, Lions

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Eagles on November sixteenth. That's a banger, as the kids say,

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and then more Chiefs textans on to SEVERER seventh. A're right, Jimmy,

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you got three out of four good lead ins. You

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can't complain there. Plus your show wasn't canceled, asked even Colbert.

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Also this Thursday, Fallon will host a special episode of

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The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon after the NFL kickoff

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game between Eagles Cowboys. A great game. I mean, the

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Cowboys are gonna suck, but that's a great game. It's

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always a good matchup. We're all excited. Peacock. Thanks, we're

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gonna watch ten episodes of the Paper. We're not. We're

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all gonna watch Eagles Cowboys. And that's a long enough

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episode for holiday. What are you doing? Why are you

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listening to podcasts? Go to the beach See tomorrow.