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Kaloroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Jenny Mack with your daily
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comedy news, A daily briefing on stand up comedians in
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the comedy industry, a freeze that will boost your Spotify
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numbers by twenty percent. But I can't bog down on
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that right now, because the folks at the Hollywood Reporter
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they watched Free Bert on Netflix, and uh yeah, sounds
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like pretty much what I thought it was gonna be
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their headline. Bert Kraser strips away the shirtless party boy persona,
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but also the laughs. Uh oh. They have compared this
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to his often partner Tom Sagora, The Hollywood Reporter, right,
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Sigora used his opportunity to deliver twenty twenty five's Bad Thoughts,
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a vig yet driven sketch show that steered into everything
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that is amiably off putting and in your face about
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sigora stand up slash podcast persona. Bad Thoughts might be
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a show primarily for established Toom Sagora fans, but man,
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if you're a Tompsagora fan, it's on brand. On the surface,
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it appears that Krasier's Free Bird aspires to something more
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like what Dave did for Dave Little Dicky Bird or
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buck Gist did for Pete Davidson? Did bub GISs do
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anything for Pete Davidson? Pete Walked Away Man, wherein it
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takes a comic with a specific and established persona and says,
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what if we show you the human behind the stick?
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Or perhaps what Krascher is doing with free Bert is
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almost a parody of that genre. It's hard to tell
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for sure, because although Free Bird is successful on some level,
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it's not especially funny, and when free Bert is funny,
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it's actually funny because of the three teenage girls who
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were Krascher's co stars. The article that then gets into
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plot spoilers and they tag it with free Bert proves
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there's more to Bird. Krascher. I'm just not sure this
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is the best vehicle for it, so I haven't seen
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it yet as I record this Thursday at three pm
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in the afternoon. It's on my list of things to
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watch last night in your Universe. But this was the
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question I had off the trailer. Who is this for?
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It seems dumbed down for the Bird audience, but too
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naughty for the non Bird audience, so I don't know
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who the show is for. Bert also got the Big
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Wax Job interview from The Hollywood Reporter. They're curious how
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did this project come to be? Bert Kreischer said, here's genesis.
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I was fired from the Travel Channel. Everything was going
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away for me and I had to refigure out who
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I was, and I was having an identity crisis. At
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the same time, we were at a school for my
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daughters where it felt like everyone I had money, everyone
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had nice cars, everyone had big houses. Our house was
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eleven hundred square feet and it was right by Jack
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in the Box. We felt like we were the Beverly Hillbillies.
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So I was trying to encapsulate that time, and the
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quickest way to get to the identity crisis was pulled
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for my life. And the comments I get, which are like, oh,
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well he is is the fat guy that takes his
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shirt off. Bert says, I got hired for a private party.
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One time I tried doing material on. The guy goes, hey, man,
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put the shirt on and take it off again and
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just tell the machine. I was like what, and he goes,
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we don't want to hear the other stuff. Just do
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the shirt rip off one more time, tell the machine.
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Then let's go party. Bert says it was twenty five
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thousand dollars and I did it. Yikes. Lying in bed
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that night in Vale, Colorado, I thought to myself, I
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just got paid twenty five thousand dollars to take my
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shirt off and tell one story twenty five thousand dollars.
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I was like, what if that's my life? So we
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had that scene in the show, and then we infuse
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the identity crisis that happens when you go to a
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new school and you're trying to fit in. And just
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did Netflix go to bird It? Did Bert go to Netflix?
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He said, I brought it to them. They were obviously
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up for hearing a pitch. But My White Whal has
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always been a sitcom, a TV show about my family.
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There was an Artie Lang sighting from the National Inquirer.
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A new photo suggests that Artie Lang is doing well.
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He's now fifty eight. He was spotted in a photo
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taken at Davittel's birthday dinner. We're told in the photo,
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Arti Lang is wearing a backwards baseball cap, sporting a
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mustache and beard, and had his right hand in the air,
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acknowledging the camera. A tell caps on the post, what
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a birthday? Thank you? For all things of me see
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down the road at a club sometime soon. I worked
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with Lady several times during my years. It's serious, good guy,
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exactly who you think. He is. Friendly as heck. If
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we invited him to come down the hall to the
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comedy stations to do some sort of stunt, he always did,
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very very friendly. I wish him the best. But I
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can also tell you I've been in the audience. I
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remember one night at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival watching
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Already on stage, and I said to one of my coworkers,
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if we wake up tomorrow and he's dead, I'm not
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going to be shocked. I didn't say that dismissively. You
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could just tell that Already had demons. He's quite open
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about his demons, and they were on stage that night.
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So I'm really glad already Lang appears to be doing well.
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Good guy. I wish the best. Forum Jimmy Kimmel on
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Wednesday Night suggested that the FCC has him and his crosshairs.
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On Wednesday, the FCC clarified its guidance on the equal
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time rule. That rule suggests that broadcast stations must afford
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equal airtime to competing politicians. Talk shows have been exempt
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from the rule since jay Leno fought against it in
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one in nineteen ninety six. Jay Leno's team argued that
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he was conducting interviews that qualified for the same carve
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out granted to news programming. The FCC, in a ruling, said, importantly,
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the FCC has not been presented with any evidence that
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the interview portion of any late night or daytime television
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talk show program on air presently would qualify for the
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bonafide news exemption. Moreover, a program that is motivated by
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partisan purposes, for example, would not be entitled to an
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exemption under long standing FCC President. Kimmel said, we're once
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again threatened by the FCC. I might need your help again.
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So I'm not expert in this. So say Jimmy Kimmel
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had on Gavin Newsom, He has Gavin neusim on? Does
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kim all? Then now have to have someone else? And
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what's the equivalent of Gavin Ussom? So you have to
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have the Republican gubernatorial candidate on? Like, how does this
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even work? And like I get what it's trying to do,
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and part of me, I'm I rolling that because I
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get what it's trying to do. But putting my cynicism away,
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if you're like, oh, I wouldn't it be good to
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have both sides on things? Because there are some things
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you can't both side. All right, I'm not gonna get
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political here. Let me just use a ridiculous example. Say
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I talked about Adam Sandler comedies. There's no both siding that.
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I'm not going to have a guest on telling us
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that Adam Sandler movies are funny, right, that would be ridiculous,
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and that's not how this show goes. This show makes
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fun of Adam Sandler comedies. So if you told me
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I had to have somebody on to be pro Adam
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Sandler comedy, I just wouldn't do the Adam Sandler segment.
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Now I'm being very facetious here, But now apply that
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to politics. So now you look at it and go, eh,
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maybe we shouldn't have Gavin Usiman, We'll have nobody on.
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We won't talk about issues at all. And they get
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back to me, eye rolling, going, I see what they're
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trying to do here. Now who do you side with here?
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Bill Maher has detested Stephen Colbert for years now. If
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I had to weigh in, if you said, Johnny Mack,
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you got to pick here because Bill Maher is fighting
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with Stephen Colbert? Which side you pick? I'd be like,
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has Bill Maher been on Kurtzman Star Trek? And you
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would say no, And I'd go, I'm picking Bill Maher.
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I'll hold my nose and pick team mar because he
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hasn't ruined Star Trek. All right, what's the issue here?
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Bill Maher was on The Late Show in twenty fifteen.
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During the interview, Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic and Star
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Trek ruiner, challenged Bill Maher on his atheism. The conversation
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got tense. During the interview, Colbert referred to Mar as dull.
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Mar fired back and called the host Steve. Colbert said,
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who the f is? Steve? Are you my third grade teacher? Right? Relaxed, dude, relax.
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Apparently there's still a source, says Steven thinks Bill is pumped,
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and Bill thinks he's a smart alec people that gets
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an act. But these guys really don't like each other.
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Even a little more has explained. Yeah, but the good
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part is we don't hide it, like he doesn't like
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me and I don't like him, and we don't deny it.
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Maybe we'll become friends one day, said Bill Moore. I've
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had that happen before with people. You know, you get
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off on the wrong foot. I mean, there's no reason
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why two comics we have a lot of common. But
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you know, I'll say it now. I think I did
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the show twice. You could tell it's on screen. It's okay.
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It's not like we effing fought each other. Craig ferguson
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not coming back to late night. Craig told Variety, this
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is the truth of me and late night television. I
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didn't really watch late night television before I did it,
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and then I certainly didn't watch it while I was
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doing it, and then afterwards I don't really watch it.
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So it's not something I feel qualified to really either
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predict or coming on to be honest. I mean, I
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did my thing, but I don't know that my thing
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was ever really part of that thing, you know what
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I mean. Craig hosted The Late Late Show from two
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thousand and five to the end of twenty fourteen, back
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when twelve thirty was great again again. I encourage the
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president to make late night great again. We've got Seth
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Myers I don't know what's going on there at twelve thirty.
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At eleven thirty, we've got Stephen Colbert helping to ruin
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Star Trek. That show has to go with the news
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that Colbert Show was ending. Some people were like, bring
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back Craig Ferguson, who says, that's not something I'm into.
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You only do it two days in shawshank Right, first
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day and last day. I'm very proud of that talk
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show I did. I'm really glad I did it. I
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think we hit the ball more often than we missed,
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but I don't feel I need to do it again.
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It would almost make it not as valuable to me
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if I started doing it again. Variety points out Ferguson's
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late Late show clips live on via bootleg Clips. Creig
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explains it's weird because I think I'm probably less connected
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to that old show than people who watched it. A
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lot that was then and now is now. I'm glad
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I did it. I'm very proud of it, but I
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haven't lived with it on a day to day basis
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for a long time. Craig is now hosting Scrabble. He says,
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I've been playing scrabble since I was a kid. I
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suspect it's the reason I can actually read, given the
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way that my education went. So it's very keen that
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we got a TV version of Scrabble that I thought
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did justice of the game. What I did notice is
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how competitive scrabble players are. I used to think I
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was good at scrabble, but these people are great at Scrabble.
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Craig likes hosting game shows because there's no prep. I
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go in, I play the game of the contestants, and
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that's the only information I have, the contestants' names and
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how to pronounce them correctly. He says. The tapings have
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been going long a TV hours, around forty four minutes
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before commercials, and it takes us easily double that with
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me talking smack and bs about this, that and the
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next thing. I just play and then whatever has to
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be taken out in order for the game it's ordered.
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I suspect there'll be a lot of b rolling out
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I don't have a lot for you this week on
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the comedy stock market. I have zero buy recommendations. I
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don't think anybody had an awesome week where I'm like, oh,
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I gotta buy that. I mean, I do want to
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suggest you buy the Netflix Comedy Festival, but you can
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actually buy stock in Netflix, so I don't want to
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This is comedy stock market where you can't actually buy
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of those. I'm sure you're watching the same TV im
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where it seems like you could bet on anything. Now
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there probably is a comedy stock market who knows, but
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I don't have any buys. I have two cells. First
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sell Burt Kreischer, same note as last week, same note
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as the first half of today's podcast. I don't know