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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with your
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daily comedy news. I had posted on threads people are
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just giving Jay Letto so much crap about his comments
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about Late Night the other day, and I posted Jay
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should just come out because Jay was a really good comic.
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He understood what the Tonight Show is and isn't. Jimmy
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Fallon understands what the Tonight Show is and isn't. You
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can't have Dice Clay hosting the Tonight Show. It's not
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what the gig is. So I encourage Jay, you know what,
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come out and just show everybody what you can do.
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Come out and just go all right, your sons of guns.
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Do ten minutes about Conan O'Brien, then do ten minutes
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about Letterman, then do twenty minutes of political and then
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change gears and just do your whole Hey, you ever
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noticed did you see this thing? And just do that
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and just drop the mic and let everybody know you
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can do it. What brought that to mind is this
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first joke from Late Night during the week from Jimmy
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Fallon wanted to set it up by saying, did you
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see the thing where Trump was cheating at golf because
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that's the setup and the did you see the thing
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made me think of Jay anyway. Jimmy Fallon joked, it's
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just refreshing to see someone cheating without being at a
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Coldplay concert. Great joke. New topic. Fell and Russia just
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started direct flights between Moscow and North Korea. It's one
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of those rare trips with a fun part. Really is
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the journey and not the destination. Seth Meyer is getting political,
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he said. The Justice Department has reportedly granted limited immunity
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to Jeffrey Epstein associate Julane Maxwell in exchange for information
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on one hundred people linked to Epstein, as well as
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full immunity if he gives them zero information on one person.
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Seth Again, an inmate at a New Orleans jail, was
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mistakenly released after authorities confused him with another prisoner with
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a similar name. So congratulations to Maxwell's Jolaine. Colbert had
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on Las Culturistas, Bowen Yang, and Matt Rogers on his
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show the other day. Colbert said, I'm gonna need a
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gig soon, sell me on podcasting Is it fun? Rogers
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advice to Stephen cop keep it real. Seth Myers was
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on a podcast, specifically Armchair Expert, and he was asked
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by Dax Shephard, do you have the fear that this
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is going to end tomorrow? Meaning Late Night? Seth said, yeah,
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I do. I mean only because it's such a time
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we're living in as far as the entertainment industry. I
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shifted from fearing that it wouldn't be good enough, and
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now my fear is weirdly more outside of my control,
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which is just at some point the ecosystem might not
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support it. I guess that's better than thinking it's your fault,
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but it's weird not to feel any control over it.
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His strategy is just show up and do the work.
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That's the only part they're paying you to do. It's
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the only part you're good at. All the other problems
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we have people that are good at that don't mess
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around with it. I sometimes take stock of, oh, this
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isn't the best time to be doing what I'm doing,
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but at least I got in. Myers recalled Late Night
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being on shaky ground during its early years. Whatever time
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we're living in now, I've had lower points in the
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body of the show. Early on in the show, we
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had some NBC executives actually say to us like, we're
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very worried about how the show's going to go with
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no real instruction has how to get out of it.
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Seth just surpassed David Letterman as Late Night's second longest
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serving host. Conan would be number one. That means Fallin
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is number four, and he's got a deal through twenty
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twenty eight. My guess maybe it'll end then. I mean,
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I feel like that show has zero cultural impact and
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I don't know who's watching it. Seems nice enough, but
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I don't know why that show exists in its current form.
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Out today HBO Max Mark Maren's new special Paniced. Interesting
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to me that it's on Friday night, Saturday. Interesting to
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me that it's at eight pm Eastern, not ten pm
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on a Saturday night like they usually do. I am
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planning on watching a bunch of comedy specials tonight. I
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know I host a podcast called Daily Comedy News. Maybe
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I should actually watch a special because I do this
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for a living. By the time nighttime rolls around, I
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don't want to do comedy. Does that make sense? I
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was the same way when as it's serious, I'd come
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home and watch the Universe and just stare at Neildograsse
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Tyson telling me about Saturday, you know, things like that.
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As there's just some nights, I'm like, I don't feel
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like thinking about stand up anymore. But my plan right
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now is to watch Maren, Dusty Slave, Veered, Zedi Pepatone.
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If I'm still rolling, we'll see. Mark Maren's Panicked is
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his second special for HBO, is sixth stand up special overall.
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Mark says, I feel this is the best work I've done.
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Everything came together, the direction, the production design, the shirt,
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the bits HBO gets me, and I'm thrilled to be
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presented by them. A lot of the Mark Maren news
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cycle was getting sucked up by Taylor Swift. This week,
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Maren was on the Good One podcast That was actually
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a pretty good listen. I'm not that hot on that
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particular podcast, but that was a good listen. Maren shared
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that he licensed Taylor's song Bigger than the Whole Sky,
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which is a bonus track on the three AM edition
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of her twenty twenty two album Midnights. The cost a
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license Bigger than the Whole Sky, Maren said about fifty
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thousand dollars. Maren explained, I know Jack Ansid Off enough
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to text him, and he's the co writer on that song.
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I said, I don't know what's proper how to do this,
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but we're running out of money on this thing. It's
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probably gonna come out of my pocket. Is there anything
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you can do about the song or talk to Taylor?
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Antonoff told him go through official music licensing channels. Maren
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said it was doable, but fifty grand only covered use
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of one minute. He said, I would have gone over
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the minute, but it would have been more money. Wow,
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I thought this was an interesting press release. The Martha's
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Vineyard African American Film Festival announced it will present a
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special screening of Dave Chappelle's unreleased documentary Dave Chappelle Live
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in Real Life. That's a documentary that exists. Well, it's unreleased,
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which might be why I don't know about it. Why
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is it unreleased? Dave Chappelle. Well, I'll go up to
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Martha's Vineyard on Friday, August eighth at two point thirty pm.
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Hit the Performing Arts Center and Martha's Vineyard. The exclusive
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screening serves as a fundraising event. So between that and
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the travel, and you'll probably need a place to sleep.
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This isn't going to be cheap if you want to
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see this thing. The documentary captures Dave Chappelle's Pandemic era
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comedy series back in summer twenty twenty in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life follows Dave Chappelle as
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he provides the community he calls home with two things
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desperately needed in difficult times, economic and comic relief. Kathleen
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Madigan is going to be at the Venetie in Las
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Vegas tomorrow. She was asked about her favorite places to play.
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She didn't say the Venetian. She barely lights up talking
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about New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah, Georgia. This from Las
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Vegas magazine, and Kathleen said, I must have had a
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pass life as a swamp person. She's grown weary of
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the homogenization plaguing many cities, explaining every city's got it.
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Here's a strip mall, here's DJ Max, here's Applebee's. But
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then she did say good things about Vegas. I can
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leave Vegas alone for six months and come back and
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something new will be built. You guys move faster than
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anyone as far as change goes. Zero respect for history,
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which I do find kind of funny. If she weren't
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a comedian, she would want to own a bar called Madigan's,
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combining her love of bartending, social interaction, and sports. Kathleen
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at the Venetian tomorrow night, thirty nine bucks, you should
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go ten pm. Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson are out
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promoting The Pick Up, a heist movie that sees them
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sparring as a pair of incompatible armored truck drivers. Inspector Acluseau.
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Eddie Murphy, who's sixty four, said it was a bucketless
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thing for Pete Davidston he was thirty one now. Eddie explained,
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Pete comes from SNL. He's a stand up comic. We're
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both from the East Coast. I love to get in
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a scene with somebody else that's funny, improvised with them
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and start playing. I love it. He Davidson said. We
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do take as written, and then the director was like,
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everyone just go nuts and would end up just trying
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to one up each other. We're just trying to make
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each other laugh. Keeky Palmer, who stars in the film,
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said they were improvising constantly. It was really sweet to see.
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It's so cool because you see two different generations from
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the hub dot Ca, a Canadian website, I used to
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live in Canada. Last week, and Steven Stalely writes, the
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Late Show at Stephen Colbert is a perfect distillation of
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everything that went wrong with mainstream comedy over the past decade.
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Jokes replaced by talking points, laugh substituted with applause lines,
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and comedians more eager to affirm than amuse. It wasn't
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always this way. For decades, late night television had an
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irreverend edge. David Letterman poked holes in celebrity self importance.
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Jay Leno made Middle America wise cracks that actually landed,
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but over time the nightclub stage became a pulpit. The
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night before Colbert delivered the news the show is being canceled,
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Shane Gillis re might of the world that people still
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want to laugh. He then discusses Gillis's performance and how
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Gillis did the Norm McDonald joke, and Gillis didn't just
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deliver the line, he delivered a message comedy is back.
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The article then praises Norm MacDonald and then says Gillis
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is cut from the same cloth he was fired from
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SNL before his debut, and offensive comments on old podcasts
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triggered a pile on from the cultural enforcers, and like norm,
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he was eventually invited back to OS the show, not
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because he changed, but because the world did. Oh man,
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it's August. Now. August depresses me because August is like September,
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which is like summer's over, and I can't enjoy anything.
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I'm already counting down on the weekend. So so we
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got what tomorrow's aug at second, So got the second,
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the ninth, sixteenth, the twenty third. I probably have to
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teach a class a week of the twenty third, so
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summer's probably already over than the thirtieth. Oh at least
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it's a five weekend August. But on the other hand,
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Labor Day September first, so all of a sudden, summer's
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over and it's only September second. You're like, ah, I've
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had a good summer though with that, I mean it's
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been hot, Pol's been working nice, got to the beach
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a lot. It's been good. Anyway. August is fringe time
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in Edinburgh. Voicemag dot UK has been previewing a lot
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of the shows they caught up with Alex Stringer. Alex says,
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my show is about what it's like getting sober twenty
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three and realizing that you're still a d head, basically
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jerky faces. How I usually paraphized that Alex is excited
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about Fringe and says, I'm told the minimum I'll get
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is being a better comic, which feels like a really
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good minimum. I'm just gonna enjoy the milestone of it all.
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I'm sure I'll learn lots from it. I look forward
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to it. Best advice you got about the Fringe go home,
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as in when you're staying in Edinburgh and not Liverpool.
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Networking is great, but you need to rest and recoup.
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I'm planning on seeing another show a day, maybe no
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more than that. Initially, I think I'm going to leave
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watching any other debuts just so I don't compare, etc.
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And try to rast do some compilation shows, catch up
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with friends, as this is my debut. I initially did
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just forty five minutes of material with no through line
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or narrative or arc. Then I looked at my material well,
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I thought about what I wanted to say in the
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show I wanted to make. I then focused more on
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writing material. I didn't have to tell the story, I
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wanted to tell artistic influences Joan Rivers. I think her
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ability to bring lightness when joking about the darkest parts
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of her life is really inspiring to me. I also
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strive to be Rys Nicholson because they're excellent. Happy hour
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at the Pleasants Courtyard, Bunker three at six pm for
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the entire Fringe. Few Times of London caught up with
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Leo Reich. Leo says the Fringe is incredible. The thing
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that infuriates me is that it makes so much money,
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but it makes money at the expense of the people
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actually doing it. It'd be appalling if people allowed it
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to die. But if we split ourselves into a series
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of individuals looking after our own interests and trying to
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get on television, then it will dissolve. I will go
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up to the Fringe in five years and see one
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hundred people who got famous on TikTok perform the worst
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comedy you've ever seen in your life. He recently posted
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an ironic quote statement against the cancelation of Jimmy Carr
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on Instagram, reacting to outrage that Jimmy Carr had attended
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an event to celebrate Israel's seventy seventh Independence Day at
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the British Music The ironic statement said, if this spate
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of anti Semitic cancelations continues, soon we may find ourselves
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in a society where well meaning people are penalized simply
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for being willing supporters of a horrifying ethno state. He
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said he wanted to say something both as a comedian
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and as a Jewish person. I'm satirist fundamentally, and so
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it makes sense for me to do so. The idea
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that you should be able to implicitly or explicitly support,
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or make excuses for, or be indifferent to genocide. I
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don't want that person in my community. It's so spineless
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not to speak out. What do you think is going
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to happen? Oh, I'm not on eight out of ten cats?
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Does countdown? Thank God? I'd rather chew off my own