Has bourbon sapped Jim Gaffigan of the funny? PLUS Is Sebastian Maniscalco's story true?

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack, who with your daily comedy

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news. This show has been so
much fun to do lately. There's been

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so much to talk about, so
I just want to get in front of

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it. I know the episodes have
been hitting the twenty minute mark lately.

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I just want to tell you that's
not the plan. When it gets back

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down around twelve, when things calm
down, don't get mad at me,

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and don't be like, hey,
you hook up the show so short it's

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supposed to be. I don't know
around twelve minutes, there's just been so

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much. All right, we've got
to start with Jim Gaffigan. This clip

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I'm gonna play. It's awful.
It's absolutely awful. I made it a

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minute and thirty eight in. I
couldn't take it, and I was pulling

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the clip to share with you guys, and then I realized that my little

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program here called Audio Hijack wasn't actually
recording and I would have to listen to

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it again. And I actually said
f out loud, all right, what's

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going on here? Jim Gaffigan's got
a new product. Let's let Jim tell

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you about it. I'm telling you. I'm warning you this clip is awful.

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Don't bail on the podcast. If
you can't take it. Hit thirty

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seconds, skip twice. But here's
Jim gaffigin but stay with the podcast.

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I've got really good stuff today.
This video is actually less funny than an

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Adam Zaydler movie. That's how bad
this is. If you said to me,

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Johnny Mack, we're gonna watch something, do you want to watch Jack

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and Jill or this video from Jim
mcgaffigan, I would pick Jack and Jill.

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And I'm not doing a bit.
This is awful. Here's Jim Gaffigan

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trying to sell you something. Hi, I'm generous comedian Jim Gaffigan, and

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I'd like to talk to you about
a condition that affects three out of five

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men. That's six out of ten
men, or nine out of fifteen men.

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I'm talking about a condition called fatherhood. Now, this can affect all

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types of men, good looking men, ugly men, it doesn't matter.

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One of the only things we have
discovered that can help reconcile this situation,

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there's something me and a group of
scientists have developed called father time bourbon.

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This bourbon may not cure you of
children, but it makes you forget about

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those children. Yeah, so Jim
tweeted big news. I've got my own

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bourbon. Yes, my own bourbon. It's called father Time, and it's

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available for pre order right now at
the website. I went to the website.

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There's some FAQs. One of them
who's behind father Time? He writes,

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it's just me, Jim Gaffigan and
my college buddy, film director Stu

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Pollard. We've had tons of help
making father Time happen, but the investment

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in all the decisions were made by
us. One of those decisions, apparently,

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was the pricing. How much is
a bottle of bourbon Johnny Mack one

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hundred and fifty dollars. They're also
selling quota glasses. The website says,

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we don't recommend drinking father Time directly
from the bottle, but if you have

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teenagers, you may occasionally feel the
desire to do so. There are four

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handcrafted quo tumblers, inscribe with parenting
lines from Jim Gaffigan. Father Time Bourbon

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is dedicated to father's and all parents. I also understand not all parents drink

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alcohol, but what parent doesn't enjoy
a glass with a quote complaining about parenting.

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The quote glasses A set of four
costs how much wrong? Eighty dollars

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And here are the quotes. On
glass number one, it says, you

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know what it's like having a fifth
kid. Imagine you're drowning, then someone

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hands you a baby. That would
be funny if Jim Gaffigan told it.

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I agree Jim's second glass as being
a father is definitely the most important thing

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I will fail out in my life. Hack next one, Most of my

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fatherhood feels like going through customs with
an outdated passport. It's kind of hacky.

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Fourth one, Raising kids may be
a thankless job with ridiculous hours,

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but at least the pay sucks.
That's funny. Four glasses eighty dollars plus

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a bottle of bourbon one fifty So
for two hundred and thirty dollars you can

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enjoy the heck out of this product
that I don't know has sucked all the

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cool out of bourbon, like all
of it. Like if you came over

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and I was like, on some
Jim Gaffigan bourbon in a gimme class,

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would you be like? What?
So? That's how I feel about it.

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Jim has another clip, and uh, he's either the Andy Kaufman of

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this and doing an amazing put on
where he's completely self unaware. Let's listen.

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Isn't it weird that celebrities have their
own spirit. I mean, look,

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you're a great actor. All right, you're good looking, but what

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do you know about tequila? It's
offensive to Mexicans like myself. Okay,

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you're a great athlete. You're one
of the best basketball players on earth,

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but what do you know about rum. You're a great musician. That doesn't

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mean you should make whiskey. Anyway, I'm coming out with my own bourbon.

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Now you might be thinking, Johnny
Mack, you're a hater. Why

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do you hate so much? Well, because I like my comedy to have

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quality. Here's Ricky Gerviz also talking
a very similar product. But here's how

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you do it. Ricky, show
Jim how you do it. Hi,

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I'm Ricky Gervaias and this is Dutch
Bond Vodka. It's a beautifully crafted premium

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spirit. It tastes great and it's
friendly to the environment. It's known as

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the posh one in the brown bottle. But if you can't afford it,

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just get smirtof get that for fifteen
quid. In some places it does the

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trick. Now that's funny. Now
I hope you're still here. I hope

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you didn't bail on the podcast because
the other day I commented about Billy Joel

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and how a lot of his songs
are gimmick songs, and I might as

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well have made fun of Taylor Swift
while hosting the Golden Globes. It was

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not people did not react. Well, now we know how Joe Cooy feels.

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Now I feel like John, I
understand what did Joe Coy say?

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Here? Let me share with you
the big difference between the Golden Globes and

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the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor

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Swift. Oh boy, that's me. That's worse than saying Billy Joel has

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a lot of gimmick songs. All
this to set up a clip from the

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Bob and Tom Show. Sometimes you
can't make this stuff up. Frank Calando

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was on The Bob and Tom Show
and he sang Billy Joel songs in character.

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I'm gonna join this mid song and
stay to the end because this all

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comes full circle. You're gonna laugh
when he does it. Here we go,

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Adam Sandler, Here we go Yard
at the bar. A friend of

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mine h me my drinks and he
quickly I light up. I Fogboddy Tide

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it all together a Billy Joel gimmick
song, and Adam Sandler love it as

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planned. On Tuesday night, I
PLoP down in the TV cheer and I

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watched some comedy specials. I watched
three of them, well two and a

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half. The first one I watched
Dimitri Martin on Netflix. Really really good.

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This he gets into and I talked
about it yesterday with an article that

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sourced the whole thing about is this
just an hour taped at the Chuckle Hut

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and you threw it up on YouTube? Or is this a special Dmitri?

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The direction on this is great.
The creative choices are great. It's gimmicky.

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That's the word of the week.
Apparently the word of the week is

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gimmick. It definitely has some gimmicks
in it, but the gimmicks absolutely work.

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The bit he does with the demon
is really funny. The closer is

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really strong, and uh, that's
all I'm gonna say. Either close is

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really strong. We'll give you a
chance to watch it, so I like

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Dmitri a lot high recommend on that. And then I watched Kyle Kanane's Dirt

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n app. Wow, I'm gonna
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it. There is a chunk about
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You'll know it when you hear it. That I think, listen to

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me, maybe an all time bit. It's really really strong. It is

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lengthy. I didn't clock it,
but it felt like it was a ten

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minute chunk and it's really really strong. So I was watching that and I'm

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like, wow, Kyle is crushing
it. Here is this better than a

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TELL? And I had that thought
for a minute during the really strong chunk,

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and I was like, now,
because a Tel put on a masterclass,

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it's gonna be really really tough to
beat out that at Tel Special.

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And then as the hour went on
and the hour's amazing, I had a

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pee, let's see Saturday show.
But you know, I'm like, all

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right, we're probably like thirty seven
minutes in, we're forty five minutes in,

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we're fifty minutes in. Wow,
we're past an hour. How long

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is this think, Kyle? It's
seventy five minutes long and like a Tell

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showed last week thirty seven minutes in
Crush. Had Kyle Kinane wrapped this up

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at around forty five minutes, it
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my list. Because he won seventy
five minutes. It was actually diminishing returns,

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too much of a good thing.
He probably could have lifted a full

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half hour and made a second special
out of it with a new topper.

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So my updated rankings number one A
Tell to Triumph. Watch the Triumph,

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you lucky bastards. It's on run
on Netflix. That's wrong, it's on

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YouTube. Correcting my notes. Three
is David Cross were stadding in the world.

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At one point I was like,
ooh, can I Kyle's probably funnier

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than that. Again, it was
too long, and I loved the special.

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Does that make sense? I both
loved it and it was too long.

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It's like I love beer, but
nine beers is too many, you

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know what I'm saying. Three David
Cross. Four Dusty Sleigh. As I

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went to actually do the rankings this
morning, I was like, can I

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put Kyle ahead of Dusty Sleigh?
And I can't. If he'd asked me

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a half hour in absolutely, but
all said and done, I can't,

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so I'd tell Triumph Cross, Dusty
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Dimitri is really strong and up in
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middle group here. I realized I
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that's gonna be like in a middle
group. Right now, it's seven.

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Some things will wind up by the
end of the year, sneaking ahead of

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that. Some we'll fall behind it. And on the bottom group right now,

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Brian Simpson, Tig Nataro, and
Taylor Tomlinson would be your ten.

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I also watched Liz Meely's special Now
Keep It. I had already been watching

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two comedy specials that are in the
top five six five, so I had

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to ingested a lot of comedy and
I watched it. And I'll say the

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same thing about Liz meely special on
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It's fine. If you're hanging out
at comedy club and Liz Meely gets up

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and does that exact set, you'll
have a wonderful time. Is it next

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level? No? Is it great? No? Is it bad? No?

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Perfectly fine comedy special, and it's
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special. It's not gonna make my
Best of the Year list, but I'm

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not hating on it. So check
check your watch. Look how far we

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are into this already, and I've
barely started, and I've kicked three major

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stories I could tell you tomorrow.
I'm gonna talk about Mulaney and Daniel Tosh

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and one other thing at the top
of tomorrow's show, but I'm trying to

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not have this thing get all the
way to half an hour. But there's

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just so much going on real quick. In the Facebook group, Dylan has

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been a very active member of the
Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group

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Dylan, I appreciate what you're doing. Dylan posted his rankings. I'll fly

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through them, Ettel Canaane, Brian
Simpson, Taylor soder Akosh sing A gas

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Lit on YouTube. Dylan gave it
an A minus. I'll have to catch

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up with that one. Dusty Tig
crossed, Dmitri, Mike Apps selling out

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at eleven, Kevin James, Kevin
Ryan's Live in Philly on YouTube B minus

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h Foley A C plus, Pete
Davidson Donnell Rawlings, Rory Scovel, hannagats

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By, Jackie Novak, Steve Travino, fun. I like that you guys

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are doing this. I'm really excited
that the Facebook group is starting to really

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take on a life outside of me
posting things. I appreciate that Matt Rife

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not so canceled. It's got a
two special deal with Netflix. The first

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will be a full length CrowdWork special. All right, Let's pretend we're at

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the casino here and I have a
chip in my hand, and there are

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two boxes. One says good idea, bad idea. I just put all

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my chips on bad idea. We'll
see if Johnny Mack's right or wrong.

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It's gonna shoot at the Comedy Zone
in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we'll

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be directed by Eric Griffin. I
don't know. I feel like it's gonna

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be fake crowd work. I don't
know Matt Rife. I've never seen Matt

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Rife in person, never met him, never seen one of his shows.

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While I'm sitting in the audience.
But I don't know. This just seems

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like a bad idea. I said
what I said. Tom Papa says he'll

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be filming his next special for Netflix
and DC, taping it at the Warner

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Theater Great Venue June fifteenth. The
New York Post tells a Sebastian Manuscalco was

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upset at fees. Now wait for
the end part of this story, because

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Johnny max spidy sense is tingling.
But as the story goes, Sebastian was

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on social media that port's accurate,
and he said, I went to a

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restaurant last night and I got the
bill and they charged me a COVID fee.

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I asked the guy, what's the
COVID fee? He goes, yeah,

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well, we got to wipe down
the menus. Wipe down the menus.

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You're charging three dollars to wipe down
your own menus before COVID what you

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just brought out the menu with spaghetti
sauce on it? All right, funny

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enough. Manuscalco did not identify the
restaurant or say where was located. And

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here's where Johnny Mack's Spidey sense tingles. Sebastian said, it's a real bad

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look as a business absorbed the fee. It's called the doing business. They

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added, that ain't right, by
the way, that happens to also be

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the name of his upcoming tour.
Hmm. Moving on, Kelly Carlin and

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those people that made that AI thing
that Kelly was mad about, you know,

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AI, Georg Carlin. They have
a settlement. Fox News reports the

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settlement reached the demands made by Carlin's
a state in the lawsuits. According to

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Fox News, those demands included removal
of the special and unspecified damages. Kelly

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Carlin put out a statement saying,
I'm grateful that the defendants acted responsibly by

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swiftly removing the video they made.
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at all, I hope this case
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by AI technologies and the need for
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and creatives, but every human on
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Another donuts chain opened, this one. I don't give free commercials for donuts

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chains, as you know, I
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This one, I'll just give you
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know what I'm saying. So the
family came home yesterday with a box of

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quack quack and I was like,
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quack and wow. They're good.
They're like thick and meat. He's not

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the right word for a donut,
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They're not airy, you know how
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it and it's like mostly air,
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guys. That's like, I don't
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on a pocket of air. I
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those in one sitting because they're mostly
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to them. But quack quack,
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I don't know, good thing for
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a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy
News and bought not one, not two,

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not three, not four, five
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Avon. Thank you, Avon wrote, I appreciate your opinions on the

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industry. That's the best part of
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been a little more candid lately.
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lot more candid on LinkedIn. In
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of it is being candid to get
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that in my real opinions, but
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and you work when you work for
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doesn't like your opinions. But now
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from the hip. So thank you
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com slash daily Comedy News I keep
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Number five good news Stories. I
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Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The
gimmick word of the week is that I

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tell you five stories and they're all
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Billy Joel calls it a hackey podcast
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only difference between that podcast and The
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pictures of Taylor Swift. I agree, I got it, but five good

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news Stories. I'm hopped up this
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promoting it, so the numbers have
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this show, which is kind of
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Mack, but five good news stories
wherever you get your shows. I put

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out a new substack yesterday discussing Apple
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substack dot com. Link in the
show notes. Again, if it ash

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you for money, just click the
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money off that. Houston Red Yards
will host the Riot Comedy Festival at the

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bar's local comedy Addict. The Riots
Comedy Festival kicks off tonight and we'll go

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through the seventh. Robert Kelly is
one of your headliners. Ricky dl Davis

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Paris, Sasha Jordaana Fisher, Tom
the Carr Up, and comers like Kim

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Congden and Casey Rockett the Riot Comedy
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Kelsey Cook will tape her special at
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tonight, three tapings tonight through the
sixth. Kelsey Cook is the daughter of

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an international Yo yo ch and a
professional foosball player. She's got a special

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on the eight hundred pound gorilla if
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called The Hustler. And again she's
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see what's happening at Melbourne. Where's
my favorite bookmark? There you are?

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It is April fifth in Melbourne.
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for the moon. Yeah, that's
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Nick White's show is called Teenage Dream
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avails, almost sold out. Apparently. Let's see what this one is.

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I'm doing ones without clips today because
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is something Nick White is always hear
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easy. Join Nick as he looks
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from his youth to now. The
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no reviews. I guess he's nice
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why that particular show sold out.
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Abby Howells show is called La soup
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Jade Room, which sounds like a
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is the name of a screenplay Abby
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It's a romance set in the Navy
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No historical research, verification or corroboration
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of the prestigious Billy T. James
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International Comedy Festival. Periodical the spinoff
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and made me laugh in a way
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siblings and we're just being silly.
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hilarious as it is transfixing. I'm
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Apparently there are several Chinese museums with
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in Melbourne box office. There's no
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the Comedy Festival front of house staff
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The entrance to the Silk room is
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is on level one. From the
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approximately fifteen plus stairs to level one. Approximately fifteen plus stairs. It's not

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one thousand stairs. Can somebody please
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can you go over to the silk
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fourteen? Is it sixteen? Is
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we not at approximately fifteen? Like
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that would be like more than twenty
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silk room. We shouldn't have even
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laugh. The entrance to the Jade
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performance space is on level three.
See if you're on level one, you

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wind up with a silk room.
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From the foyer, proceed up the
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to level three. All right,
hold on, I'll give you the it's

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like fifteen stairs. How many flights
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look? It's three, it's two, it's four. What is the issue

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here? Melbourne Comedy Festival. I
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one. That's your comedy news for
today. If you join the program,

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tell a friend about it. They
might like it too. Tomorrow is going

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to be long as well. I'm
having a lot of fun. Thank you

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for listening. To see you then,