Oct. 3, 2025

In Saudi Arabia, Dave Chappelle claims he might be censored in America

In Saudi Arabia, Dave Chappelle claims he might be censored in America

Johnny Mac discussds key stories such as Pete Davidson's participation in the Riyadh Comedy Festival despite his father's death on 9/11, and the backlash this has received. Other topics include Bill Burr's controversial comments, Dave Chappelle's claims of being censored in America, and updates on several comedians' upcoming performances and projects.

Scott Matthew Davidson was a firefighter killed on 9/11.  His son Pete Davidson performs today at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

The Marc Maron doc is out today.

In the comedy stock market where David Cross and Atsuko Okatsuka are recommended buys, while Pete Davidson, SNL, and Louis CK are suggested sells. 

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Let me just tell you there's so much going on.

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This is another one of those days where there's like

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seven things that could be the lead story. Some things

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normally would be the lead story, and I'm bouncing them

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to tomorrow. What's an example. David Letterman's gonna have Adam Sandluran,

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but we'll get to that tomorrow. I got to tell

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you what Dave Chappelle had to say, and we got

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to talk about this Reodd Comedy Festival. But I wanted

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to start with Scott Matthew Davidson. Scott Matthew Davidson became

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a firefighter in nineteen ninety four with Latter Company one eighteen.

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Scott was on duty on September eleventh, two thousand and one,

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and he died in the line of duty that day.

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His son, Pete Davidson, is performing tonight at the Reo

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Odd Comedy Festival. Pete Davidson spoke about this with Theo

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Vaughn on the This Past Weekend podcast. Pete had this

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to say, I'm gonna quote it verbatim. I've been getting

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a little bit of slack just because my dad died

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nine to eleven, So they're like, how could you possibly

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go there? I've heard there's subreddits of I think all

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these people are in bed with being influenced by the

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Saudi Royal family. I just, you know, I get the

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flight routing and then I see the number and I go,

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I'll go. Pajiber Rights, is there's something to be said

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for Pete Davidson's radical honesty? I mean no, they say

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not really, it's the same reason every other comedian who

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accepted as going. They're selling out for the Saudi royal family.

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By the way, Bill Burr did not help himself at all.

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People have not reacted well to Bill Burr's comments here

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you can hear them on yesterday's podcast Pajiber Rights. They're

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selling out for the Saudi Royal family, and while they

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like to claim it's just another gig, it's not. Again,

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they're being paid vast sums of money so that Saudi

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Arabia might be thought of as a destination for popular

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comedy instead of the country that engages in forced labor

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and executes journalists. The comedy festival is literally being promoted

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on Saudi Arabia's tourism page if you can't make it

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too ri Odd to Pete Davidson will be in Berlin

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on the fifth, then he's hitting Amsterdam London double and

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then Belfast on October tenth. If you're in town in

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Riod this weekend, you cannot only see Pete Davidson, you

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can see Mark Normand who pairs tight writing with fearless wordplay.

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Fearless wordplay. Go for it, Mark, fearless wordplay, spinning anxiety, language, quirks,

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and everyday awkwardness into big laughs. Look forward to that

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fearless wordplay at the Reod Comedy Festival, Mark Norman, Mark

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and Sam were recently on Greg fitzimmons podcast. They talked

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about the festival. Let's listen. You both got to Saudi Arabia.

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A lot of comics are going. It's a big festival.

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It's a no women person's going. Oh she is, oh

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all right, great they got one. She can't do any

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facial jokes because she'll have that wrap around her head.

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One of the rules is you can't. I can't kiss

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my wife in public. Yeah I want to bring her wow.

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Oh yeah, just a show up because in public. And

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then Mark told a joke that I can't. I looked

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at it. I'm like, I don't even know how I

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would possibly clean this up. So I'm quite paraphrasing here,

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but Mark said he joked with his wife saying, you

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think I'm a jerk hole, and then he said they will,

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and then he used a very vulgar term for a

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female circumcision. I don't know how I would clean that up.

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I couldn't figure out an edit. Dave Chappelle, we found

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out what he said. I'm sourcing here from both the

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Hollywood Reporter and the New York Times. But when Dave

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Chappelle played the Riodd Comedy Festival last Saturday, Chappelle, if

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nothing else, always interesting, Chappelle said, Right now, in America,

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they say if you talk about Charlie Kirk, then you'll

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get canceled. I don't know if that's true, but I'm

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going to find out, which is a very Chappelle like thing, right,

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Like I could picture I'm just reading the transcript here,

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but I could see Chappelle doing the but I'm going

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to find out, and doing that thing where he mugs

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for the camera and slaps his knee. You could see

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Dave doing that, right. I don't know if that's true,

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but I'm going to find out. Chappelle later said that

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he feared returning to the United States because they're going

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to do something to me so that I can't say

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what I want to say. Here's Dave Chappelle in Saudi

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Arabia claiming that he's being censored in America. Is there

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evidence of Dave Chappelle being censored in America? If there is,

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I'd love to hear it. My email addresses in the

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show notes. You could shoot me a note. I'm happy

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to be wrong here. I personally I can't think of

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any I'm really trying to think. Did SNL tell him

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to lay off something I can't remember? Okay, I want

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to be fear here. This is from Deadline February sixteen,

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twenty twenty five. The headline Dave Chappelle says SNL producers

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forbade him from talking about GAZA and trans people. So

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this Deadline piece is talking about how SF gates Dan

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Gentilly saw Dave Chappelle at the first of his three

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San Francisco stand up appearances. Chappelle alleged he was not

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allowed to speak about GAZA and transgender people. NBC did

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not immediate respond to a request for comment. I'm not

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sure they ever gave a comment. So that's not censoring

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free speech. That's SNL saying that's not what we do here. Like,

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for example, if I booked Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast.

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You've heard me talk with Mike, we clearly get along.

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If Mike, for some reason came on here on my

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show and I don't know, went into some sort of

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crazy hate speech. I don't know why Mike would do

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this because that's not his personality. But if he did,

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I would choose not to air it. I'm not taking

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away his right to say it. He can walk around

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Canada all he wants. He can come down to Seattle

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and yell into the streets. I don't care, but I

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would choose not to have it on my show. So

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SNL telling Chappelle chill out to me is different than

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Chappelle saying he fears returning to the United States because

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they're going to do something to me, so I can't

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say what I want to say. Again, Chappelle's been flying

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this flag that he's being censored, and I don't see it.

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Chappelle joked, if he is censored, he'll use a code phrase,

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and I think this material is the same that he

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did in the San Francisco shows, if I'm remembering correctly.

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Chapelle said, it's got to be something I'd never say

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in practice, So if I actually say it, you know,

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never to listen to anything I say after that. Here's

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the phrase I stand with Israel. Next up, Louis Ck,

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performer at the Reod Comedy Festival, is going to do

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Bill Maher's show. But I'm confused here. I believe that

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appearance is tonight, but the media is reporting fresh off

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his performance at the Reodd Comedy Festival, Ck will be

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on Bill Maher. But CK's dates at the Reodd Comedy

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Festivals not till October sixth, and today is October third,

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so something is crossed there. So if you watch Bill

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Maher tonight and Seeks not on, don't blame me, but

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I think he's on tonight. HBO announced the booking on Thursday,

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so that should be all sorts of interesting. I'll see

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when it so, assuming that's tonight, I'm not gonna stay

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up to one of the morning put out a Saturday episode,

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and I was already planning on recording Monday on Sunday,

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so I can cover SNL. So I'll probably deal with

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that on Monday's episode, just being honest. In other news

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things that would normally be story number one, Nicki Glazer

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has announced a new special for Hulu which is Disney Plus,

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which means Nicki Glazer supports fascism. That's the message we

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got off Jimmy Kimmel. Right, you were supposed to cancel

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everything Disney, and now Nicki Glazer supports fascism. I'm joking,

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sort of. Nicki Glazer supports fascism by doing a deal

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with Hulu. She will tape a special supporting fascism at

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the fabulous Fox Theater in her hometown of Saint Louis.

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No date on that one. Here's a question for Jessica Kerson,

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who will be appearing at the Riodd Comedy Festival. Jessica,

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when I Google your name, is this the headline you want?

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Because this is what comes up in Yahoo under Jessica Kerson.

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Jessica Curson, comedian who performed a controversial reod comedy festival

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coming to Alabama in the spring, and then the sub

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edit a stand up comic who took part in a

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comedy festival criticized for being held in a country with

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a spotty track record on human rights, will be coming

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to Alabama this spring. So Jessica, that's what you did.

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I hope the money was worth it. Out today, Mark Maron,

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Are we good? That is the Mark Maron documentary. Filmmaker

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Julie Seaball was on this very program last Sunday. Check

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that out. I feel a little bad for Julie and Mark,

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as this is going to get buried in the riad

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of it all, theplaylist dot Net says. For all its melancholy,

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the film is also surprisingly funny. Maren's stand up remains

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laced with self deprecating humor, which cuts just as deep

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as it consoles. He finds unexpected punchlines and bleak confessions,

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turning tragedy into a communal release. Valve, I've seen pretty

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good reviews on that. One of the questions coming up

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answered in the doc is Mark Maron going to quit

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stand up? David Cross said he's like the Who. Didn't

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they have like eleven last tours ever? Which is true.

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I saw The Who's Fareworld tour at Giant Stadium in

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nineteen eighty nine. Check your calendars. Maren's tour was called

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this may be the Last Time. John Delaney is in

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disbelief at the title. He said, that's what he called

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his last tour. What an exhausting thing. What He's going

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to get a boat and sail around corsicar some cramp

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as if he's going to move to Vancouver and just

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be Mark Maron. That's an insane idea. I was thinking

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as I listen to that Maren clip show episode the

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other day. You know, Mark Maren has stylized himself, positioned

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himself as some sort of outsider. He's not. He may

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have been at some point, but as they were playing

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the clips, the clips were like Obama and Springsteen and

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as he's taken this last lap here Jamie Lee, Curtis,

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Mark Hamill, Spike Lee, Jeremy Allen, White, Ben Stiller, Bowen Yang,

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Seth Meyers, Mulaney, Sarah Silverman. You know I'm cherry picking.

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You know, mixed in here are some lesser known people.

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But you know, Mark's not some crazy outsider. He's this

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more insider than I think he realizes. Comedy stock Markets,

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none of you figured out who the voice is on

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Comedy stock Market I'll tell you next week. I'll give

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you a hint. Mustache and trans am. Do you have

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a now go back and listen hit thirty second, rewind,

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go back and listen. I'll talk about that next week.

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All right. On the Comedy stock Market if you're a

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new listener, Every Friday we make some picks, We bet

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on people, and we sell on some people. This week's

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buys David Cross. I salute you for your piece on

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your website pulling out the performers of the Riod Comedy Festival.

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Nice job. Let's buy some David Cross at stock in support.

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Let's also buy some Otsco at Costco for that same reason.

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She's the one who had the courage to share the contract.

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Who are you gonna sell? This week? We are selling

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Pete Davidson. His father killed the nine to eleven Pete

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Davidson tonight at the Riodd Comedy Festival. Hey, bro, if

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you're okay with it, I guess I'm okay with it.

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But I'm selling my Pete Davidson stock. I want no

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part of it. Sorry. And let's also short sell some stock.

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We're gonna take some bets here that some other stocks

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are going to go down let's short sell Saturday Night Live.

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I think SNL fifty one is gonna be a bust

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and specific to this weekend. I don't think they're up

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to the task. Bad Bunny as your host that somewhat

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steers what the sketches are gonna be, so you're gonna

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get like a lot of more solo Hernandez doing that

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one thing more solo Hernandez does. He does it very well,

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but he does one thing, so you're gonna get that.

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I don't know how many sketches realistically you can put

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bad Bunny in. There's a certain moment in the universe

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right now. I don't know if SNL's up to the task.

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Happy to be wrong, but I'm gonna short sell some

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SNL stock and make some quick profit when everybody else

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panic sells next week. And I'm also gonna short sell

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Louis Ck ahead of this Bill maher thing after hearing

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some recent Louis Ck statements. I'm just not in the

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mood for the way Ck is spinning this. This is

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kind of going back to oh no, I'm the victim

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here and again Ck at the Riog Comedy Festival, combined

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with this Oh yeah, so sorry, women. But look what

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happened to me. I'm not buying it. So let's buy

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David Cross, Let's buy Otsco. Let's sell Pete Davidson, Let's

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short sell SNL and let's short sell Louis Ck. That

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is your comedy stock market. This weekend at Chicago, Cameron Esposito,

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she is very funny. She's taking on the theater in

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the re at Steppenwolf's Ensemble Theater. It's the debut of

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her new one person show Feet. A year ago, Cameron

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underwent a minor medical procedure for a foot injury, but

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after extended antibiotic dosing to treat possible infection, she contracted

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sea diff, which is a secondary colonic infection that threatened

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her life. Sea diff is no joke. I had a

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family member who suffered from sea diff. It is very,

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very very hard to get rid of, very contagious. When

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I would go visit this person, I had to like

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gown up, We're told. The rapidly escalating events forced Cameron

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Esposito to meditate on her own mortality, which convinced her

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to have a child with her wife, Katie. Cameron said,

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I made peace with the whole rest of my life.

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It changed my perspective and what kind of spouse I

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want to be and what kind of child I want

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to be. But it also opened the door to wondering

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about what's next and if I'll have a chance to

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leave a legacy. Cameron said. When I was a young comic,

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especially as a queer comic, my biggest goal was for

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people to say that they could be cool and confident

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on stage. Now I want people to know that while

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my story might be different, I feel the same stuff.

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You stick around long enough and sometimes things come full circle.

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If you can't make it to the re odd Comedy Festival.

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Hit the Birmingham Comedy Festival now and it's twenty fourth year.

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Five comics will be competing for the Birmingham Comedy Festival

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Breaking Talent Award twenty twenty five. Organizers said twelve thousand

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folks attended last year and it is the UK's second

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longest running comedy and arts festival. Joe Lycett might be

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a name that Americans know and that's your comedy news

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for today. The weekend will be quite robust again if

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you're a new listener. Columbus Day Weekend. Johnny Max taking

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is foot off the gas, I'd tape some stuff. What's

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some stories that I couldn't get to, Like, for example,

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I'm once again today I have in my script it's

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as Vulture Letterman, and like a couple of paragraphs I

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cannot get to it. So like that's the kind of

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stuff that when I pretape a weekend, that's the kind

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of stuff that I'll do. So I'm not saying like

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they're garbage episodes, but they're not as timely. Whereas this

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weekend I want to react to Saturday Night Live and

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whatever the ck thing is. Tomorrow I want to talk

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about ow there's a whole Jimmy Fallon thing we haven't

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gotten to. We didn't talk about Adam Sandler going on Letterman.

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So again, they're real episodes this weekend and that you're

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coming to news for today see tomorrow