April 9, 2025

ill Tony blow its Netflix debut by burying Shane Gillis 10 minutes in?

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac discusses the recent WWE Raw after-show featuring cameos by comedians and wrestlers. He reviews the Netflix debut of 'Kill Tony,' critiquing its start but praising performances by Shane Gillis and others. Sam Harris's comments about Joe Rogan spark a debate, and Mac shares a personal anecdote involving Rogan's podcast. The episode also covers Amber Ruffin’s new hosting gig, Elie King’s remarks about her father Rob Schneider, various comedy festivals, and upcoming specials by Mike Birbiglia and Dave Chappelle.

00:00 Bert Kresicher and WWE
01:30 Tony Hinchcliffe on WWE Raw
02:09 Review of Kill Tony's Netflix Debut
04:17 Sam Harris Criticizes Joe Rogan
06:50 Mike Birbiglia's New Netflix Special
07:50 Dave Chappelle Celebrates Haitian Community
08:50 Amber Ruffin's New Gig
09:23 Ellie King on Her Relationship with Rob Schneider
09:51 John Mulaney's Netflix Show Review
10:54 Comedy Festival Highlights
12:46 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Reviews

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, we've got some Netflix synergy

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going on over there. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. Let's start with WWE RAW. Apparently there

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was some sort of after show. I've seen the video

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clips of it, but the announcers weren't sticking around. Bert

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Kreischer jumped in the ring. There's a fun clip if

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you want to go search it out. During the main show,

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Bert was seen in the audience drinking and chugging beer.

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He did a backstage interview that was interrupted by the

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faction American Maid, which as you know are Julius Creed,

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Brutus Creed, Chad Gable, and Ivy Nile. But then a

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different faction showed up, the Alpha Academy, who as you know,

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are Otis, Maxine Dupree, and Akira Tozawa. They showed up.

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Luckily everyone got along. Kreischer and Otis both tore off

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their shirts. But then after sign off, CM Punk was

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in the ring. As I understand things, Grace and Waller

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and Austin Theory you know them as atown down Under.

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Of course, they targeted CM Punk and try to take

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him out. Krazier jumped the ringside barrier to confront Grace

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and Waller. Luckily, Cempunk recovered, Punk invited Krasier into the ring.

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Then Bert Krescher executes a choke slamb on Waller. The

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crowd loved it. Not sure why that didn't make the

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live show. I don't know how wrestling works, but a

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lot of fun and I love the crossover. It's just

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such an environment to have the comedians on. For example,

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say you were promoting a fellow show on Netflix, you

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could have Tony Hinchcliff on ww RAW. What would that

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sound like? Hmm, let's wonder Tony Hitchcliff.

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I am happy to be here. This is so exciting.

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I've been watching since the Attitude era. Michael Hole has

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been watching since the Jurassic era.

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So West, congratulations on your show, Kill Tony debuting on

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Netflix today.

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Couldn't be happier. Happy to be here on Rock. This

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is a childhood dreams come true. This is absolutely unbelievable.

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Mcfee's the man, Michael Coole. I've been watching you forever.

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The first match you called was David versus Goliath.

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I did watch Kill Tony's Netflix debut, and I think

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they blew it. There's no way a casual is going

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to make it through those first ten minutes. Maybe the

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Hinchcliff crew doesn't care, but somebody should being on scene going, hey,

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it's episode one, to a lot of new people, don't

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introduce the band, nobody cares, get right to it, and

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the first comedian out of the box was horrific. There's

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no way a casual watch those first ten minutes when oh,

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I really like this show. This is good, which sucks

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because if they had made it to minute eleven out

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comes Shane Gillis as Trump and I will tell you

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as I watched and skimmed the two hours, Shane tried

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really hard to carry the show. Luck of the draw.

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The names coming out of the hat weren't that good.

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The set pieces that were planned Shane of course, Adam

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Ray coming out, Ron White as your clothes, those were

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all good as expected. But the civilians, it was a

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particularly poor group of civilians. Ai Johnny mack here Hume

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and John forgot to record his observation that Joe Rogan

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is there, and did Joe Rogan speak at all? He

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was silent. Tom Sagora also joined the panel at one

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point and didn't add all that much except suggesting a

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landscape or get a website. I'm not sure how much

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the casuals are going to like episode one of Netflix

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Kill Tony. The show looked good, but I'll tell you

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I was trying, and at some point after an hour

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in Now, I did watch the first hour entirely, but

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then I just started skimming ahead to is Shane gillis

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doing Trump right now or not? I think for me

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the show works better as an audio podcast, where I

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can listen at two x and if a comedian isn't

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working for me, I can go SA sape, safe, Sape, sape, sape, sape,

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say Scape, which is a little easier to do on

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a podcast app than my Roku. Anyway, I do like

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the show a lot. I am a fan, as I

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just I think it works better for me as an

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audio podcast. And I feel bad here because I think

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people would like the show if exposed to it, but

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they're not going to get through that first ten minutes.

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Shame production. Somebody produced it wrong. Sorry, guys. Let's stay

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down in Austin for Now podcaster Sam Harris is getting

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into it with Joe Rogan on his own podcast, Sam

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Harris recently discussed Joe and said Joe is a genuinely

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good guy who wants good things for people, but he

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is honestly in over his head on so many topics

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of great consequence. Harris says society is politically shattered in

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part because of how Rogan has interacted with information. Quote

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A lot of this is inadvertent, but it's also voyable.

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Rogan could actually take the responsibility that really is his

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to take at this point to get his facts straight.

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He could have two brilliant journalists who's full time job.

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He could pay them each a million dollars a year

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to just sit there and make sure he doesn't put

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his foot in his mouth in a colossally irresponsible way.

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Harris criticized comedian Dave Smith, who was recently on the show.

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I have not listened to that episode yet, but I

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did listen to last night they had on the Guy

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that is bringing Back the Dire Wolves. That was a

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really good listen. I do like Rogan's podcast, especially as

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a late night listen. Among other reasons that the volume

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doesn't go up and down so as I drift off

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to sleep. And this is actually a compliment, not a dig.

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I find Rogan very calming. Last night, I was having

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a lot of trouble falling asleep, so I enjoyed the company.

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And did I tell the story of when I was

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in Antarctica? If not, I'll tell it again really quickly.

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So we went out camping overnight on the ice in Antarctica.

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I've never been so cold, and I'm not doing a

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bit here. I was so cold at one point that

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I was starting to blink out, wink out, and I contemplated,

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is this what dying feels like. I'm not doing a bit.

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I'm not being melodramatic. I've never been so cold in

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my life. Now. I had brought my headphones and my phone,

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but to operate such a thing was an ordeal because

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I just wanted to keep I was wrapped up on

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the sleeping bag, so so cold. So I hit play

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on a four hour Joe Rogan episode because I knew

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it would get me until four am when the boat

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would come back and get us off this iceberg. Actually

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it was an island, it wasn't an iceberg. So I

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got my hand out of the glove and I hit

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play on Rogan and Tulca Gabbard and I listened to

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the whole thing as I sat there miserable, shivering. But

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it was four hours long, So thank you Joe Rogan

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for that particular night. But back to Sam Harris versus

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Joe Rogan, Harris criticized Dave Smith, who was recently on

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the show. Smith wrote back on Twitter, Sam's correct. The

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only reason that anybody even knows who I am is

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because of Joe Rogan. I should have earned it the

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old fashioned way by having my mother create the Golden Girls.

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That reference is that Harris's mother is Susan Harris, a

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TV writer and producer who created The Golden Girls. It

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is a busy news day on a lot of other days,

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this would be the lead. Mike Birbiglia will have another

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at Netflix special. This one is called The Good Life.

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It'll be out May twenty sixth on Netflix. Interesting to me,

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May twenty sixth is Memorial Day, a Monday. Normally Netflix

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specials come out on Tuesday, but I guess they wanted

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to pull it into the holiday weekend. In the Good Life,

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Verbiggs combines jokes and storytelling as Mike talks about his

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father suffering a stroke and how that led to Mike

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reevaluating his own ideas about fatherhood. Berbiglia said in a statement,

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over the years, I've done a lot of personal shows,

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but somehow this one is the most personal because it's

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not in my past. It's my life right now, so

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there's really no filter. At certain points during the hour,

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I literally thought, on stage, WHOA am I really going

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to tell the story? But that's sort of the idea

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behind these shows. I try to probe in it what's

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most painful in order to figure out what's most funny. Personally,

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the Verbiglia storytelling shows don't grab me. I understand. I'm

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in the minority there. I really liked his early stand

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up comedy when it was stand up stand up, but

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I try and watch these specials and I'm just like, eh,

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it's just not my thing. It's fine. He's very popular

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and he'll do fun without me going, hey, I'm excited,

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but you know, not my thing. Dave Chappelle did a

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show Saturday night. On a lot of other days, this

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would be the lead Dave and musician y Clef Jean.

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We're celebrating the Haitian community. This happened in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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You may recall there were some false rumors about eating

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cats and dogs, you know, about a year ago. Chapelle said,

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the negativity has been so loud, and this celebration was

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to amplify positive voices. Dave said, I think they hear

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so many negative voices that it's good to hear some

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positive voices. And let's see a hero from Haiti meaning

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white Cloff Sean saying we love y'all. All these people

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were brought here legally, all the unrest in Haiti, and

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they put this extra burden of xenophobia on them. Chapelle

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said he called Jean as soon as those rumors spread.

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Sean was on tour at the time, but Dave says

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he stayed on me. I stayed on him, and finally

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this thing happened, and I think it needs to happen.

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I think it's an important lesson, not just for the

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Haitian community, but for all communities, like look, there are

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people trying to assimilate in America. It's a very difficult

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thing to do. I think would all be better by

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embracing our new neighbors than marginalizing them. And I think

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that why Cleff was the perfect combassador. Amber Ruffin, who

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was disinvited from the White House Correspondents Dinner, has a

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new gig. Pen America I announced that Ruffin will host

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the Free Expression Organization's gala fundraiser May fifteenth. Penn's co

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interim CEO praised Amber Ruffin for her brilliant social commentary, satire,

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and exceptional talent. She is truly emblematic of the talented

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creators who we need on stages and in writers rooms

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during a time of unprecedented censorship in this country. We're

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both delighted and honored to have her here with us.

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Ellie King was on the Dumb Blonde podcast. She talked

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about her father, Rob Schneider. King said, I go like

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four or five years without talking to my dad. If

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I would ever spend a summer with my dad growing up,

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it would be on a movie set. I would just

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get lost in the shuffle. She described herself as quote

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a really, really heavy child and said Rob sent her

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to a fat camp. She also said her dad forgot

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about every single birthday, including when she turned eighteen, and

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called Rob Schneider very toxic and very silly. Tonight, on

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the John Mullaney Netflix show Bill hater Chelsea Peretti Johnny

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Knoxville human Resources executive employee coach Katie and music from

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Bortize Strange. After I watched kil Tony the other night,

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I put Melanie on to give it another shot, and

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it's not good and people are on threads. You're very

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upset at me for voicing that opinion, anyone who's listening

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to the show four years. No, I like John Mlanie's comedy,

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but this show is not good. The Atlantic wrote a

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funny article about it, and I'll just push back that, sure,

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we should all applaud John mulani for trying and trying

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to do something different, but at some point shouldn't the

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show actually be funny? Don't we actually need results at

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some point? Let me give you a straw man argument.

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What if the show was called Everybody's Live with Spike Ferristed.

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Would people be like, boy, Spike's really trying hard, He's

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trying to do something different with his late night show

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on Netflix. No, the show would be panned Mlanie's coasting

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on the Goodwill. I'm just calling a straight shot here.

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The show's not good and I like John mullaney. Both

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things can be true. The Mountawer Comedy Festival kicks off

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Some of the comedians include Disease I'm Sorry, Tiffany Hattish,

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o'clock a Porner and I'm sure allowed get to see

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her back on stage it's seven. AZA's I'm Sorry not

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So canceled at nine thirty, and Kay Trevor Wilson at

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nine thirty. If we were in Austin, I would make

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you go see Aparna and Kay Trevor Wilson, who deserves

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more theme. Plus, I thought we canceled Disease. Didn't we

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cancel Disease? Disease is back. Meanwhile, down in Nashville, if

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you listen to yesterday's podcast, you know that Nicky Glazer's

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at the Ryman tonight. Yeah, she wasn't there last night.

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the Ryman. Nicki Glazer over at the Lab at Zanies

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at the same time. Jared Freed also at seven. Robert

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go see Nicki Glazer at seven and let's skip the

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late show and go take in some country music and

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a couple beverages and maybe some hot chicken. Nashville runs

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talk about. This week, The lgbt l L Queer Comedy

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Festival announced their lineup. Co founder Ryan Rodgers said, while

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extremists try to erase us, we're making it impossible to

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ignore us. Comedy has always been a form of resistance,

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and right now, queer joy is revolutionary. This year's festival

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is more than a celebration. It's a rally cry against censorship, discrimination,

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and the silencing of lgbtqia plus stories. This festival runs

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May twenty ninth through June first in New Orleans, kicking

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off Pride Month. Your headliner is Corey O'Brien, Paris Sachet,

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and Gabby Watts. More than one hundred comedians from across

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America apply to perform to do a couple of reviews

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of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Still haven't heard from Booblitz.

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I don't know if the Melbourne, Florida National Comedy Festival

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twenty twenty six is happening or not. Dan's probably one

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of those guys that catches up and listens to like

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seven episodes in a row, and all of a sudden

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hear himself called out every day for a week. Aye, Dan,

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all right, The Age has been hitting all the shows

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in Melbourne. I haven't figured out a way to get

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down there. You know, I could probably go down there

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and write it off, but I'd have to, you know,

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work it out with the family here, Like, Hey, I'm

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going to Melbourne for a comedy festival for months. See

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you who's watching the dogs exactly. Tom McCusker's show is

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b Gay Do Crime, Gay Spell Gae. The Age gave

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it four and a half stars out of five and

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tell us about dom from being born and raised in

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Hong Kong and living in the UK or Filipino Scottish

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upbringing and unique adoptive family to coming out as bisexual

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and even keeping the youth entertainment on a tall ship

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without the Internet. Tom McCusker really has lots of detales

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to tell. Dressed in a pirate themed outfit, Dom opens

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to the show with a lovely solo shanty to the

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tune of Last Saskatchewan Pirate. See this all sounds like

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a lot of fun richeld. Each shanty has two sets

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of lyrics to form the chorus. At the start of

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each shanty, Dom sings through the first two lines with

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some call and response called toosies twosies. How it works

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is Dom sings the first two lines, you and the

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audience sing back, and then finish the chorus off for

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the last two lines. That's fun. Sarah Pesco's show is

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called I Am a Strange Goop. As for Sarah, she's

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gotten married and had two kids. She's a family woman

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now and she wants to talk about it. The age says,

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in most cases, yawn. Is that some commentary on like

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what's going on with a lot of American women comics

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around age forty right now? I don't know that's the

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age in most cases? Yeah, and the audience really doesn't

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care about them. Of your domestic life with the nocturnal

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bubbs and a man who feigns ignorance to escape chers.

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We've heard that one a thousand times, but not in

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Pasco's adroit hands. She waves mirth out of monotony. Be

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it the allure of polygamy simply to divide housework, or

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the juxtaposition of sexual inclinations of both men and women

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once they hit their forties. Four stars. They gave that

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one and let's do one more. Lil Winker's show is

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called Bang That Tale. Lil Winker's name Real bank Tail,

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jumps into character as Alan, aka the Baddest man in Texas.

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Strets on the stage in leather chaps, face a dorn

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with drawn eyebrows and a mustache. This show as well,

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has audience participation. You could find yourself portraying a heifer,

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a cactus, the saloon doors, or the nemesis This one

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woman clown at Western Blinds. Physical comedy and silliness and

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a tightly constructive narrative. They gave it four stars. That's

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a lot of fun too, And that is your comedy

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