Is Comedy stagnant right now?

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with you Daily Comedy News.

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I don't think I'm in a mood, but I just have this feeling today

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as I record comedy is a little
boring right now. I just feel like

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there's a rhythm of Hey, it's
Tuesday. There's a Netflix special, okay,

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fine, and HBO does one a
month, and the comedy podcast there's

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like a circle of ten people and
they all go on each other's podcasts and

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that's all fine. We're doing some
comedy festivals every weekend, and there just

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seems to be nothing new, and
there's not a new face. There's no

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one shaking things up. There's no
one bringing anything new to the format.

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I don't know what I want,
but I feel like it's been a minute,

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you know me. I'm always looking
for a good controversy or something to

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goofon at George Lopez, Tacos,
at Jim Gaffig and Bourbon. There's just

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nothing. It's just very workmanlike in
the industry right now. So let's see

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if that's just summer doldrums. There
has an announcement that I think maybe fed

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my malaise. The New York Comedy
Festival will put out their initial lineup the

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twentieth Anniversary New York Comedy Festival,
and this November will feature more than two

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hundred comedians in more than one hundred
shows throughout the city. I've spoken about

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this festival in the past. The
people who work with it, especially back

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in my serious XM days, nothing
but great to me. But New York

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is so large that this festival,
it's New York City. Man, it

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disappears. It doesn't have the presence
of, say a, a Montreal comedy

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festival, or a comedy festival in
a smaller city. This one. They

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all hang a couple banners up.
But if you don't know about it,

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you won't know about it all right. It's November eighth through November seventeenth.

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The headliners include Judd Apatow. This
is alphabetical order, David Tel, Bill

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Moore, Tracy Morgan, JB.
Smooth, and Jabuki Young White. I

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mean those are your headliners, mar
Morgan, JB. Smooth, at Tel.

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Yeah. Other headliners include Jeff or
Currie, Zorna Gorg Gabe Iglesias.

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I'm surprised he's not that topless there, Joe List, Matt McCusker, Nurse

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John, Miss Pat, Adam Ray
is Doctor Phil. The rest is history,

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justin Silva, Dan Soder and Jimmy
o'yang. The New York Comedy Festival

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is the largest and longest running annual
comedy festival in the United States. That's

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kind of stunning, but probably also
true. Launched in two thousand and four,

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not that long ago, festival founder
Caroline Hurst said, from up and

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comers to a less stars, a
diverse town lineup brings laughter to a wide

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range of comedy fans and venues all
across five boroughs of New York City,

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with even more shows to being out
soon. At a time when we need

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laughter more than ever, We're thrilled
to make New York laugh once again.

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Here's the lineup so far, Friday, November eighth. You can hear my

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excitement and I'm trying not to be
a Debbie Downy here, but just like

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like I said in the open,
I just feel like comedy's going through the

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motions right now. Seven o'clock Jeffy
Currie, seven o'clock, Miss Patt,

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nine to forty five, Dan Soder
at town Hall. Okay, Saturday Night

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Joe listed Town Hall Jimmy o'yang and
Carnegie, Jed Appatow and Friends at the

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Beacon and Justin Silva at town Hall
Sunday the tenth, Nurse John Wednesday the

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thirteenth, The Rest is History Live
at town Hall, Thursday the fourteenth,

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JB. Smooth of town Hall,
Jabuki Young White at the hard Rock,

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David Tell at town Hall Friday the
fifteenth, Tracy Morgan at town Hall,

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Jubuk Young White Again, Gabe Iglesias
at the King's Theater, Adam ray Is

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Doctor Phil Live at the Beacon Saturday, a podcast taping, Matt Moncusker,

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Jibuki Young White Again, and Bill
Maher at the Beacon, and then on

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Sunday Zarna Garg. That'll clearly fill
in more. But I'm on the New

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York Comedy Festival dot com history page
now I wish they went a little further

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back. The farthest background go is
twenty thirteen, and as they write,

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the festival marked its tenth year featuring
Now listen to this lineup? Is this

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a little more exciting? Maria Bamford, Hannibal Burs, Bill Burr, Whitney

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Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Jim Jeffries
Anthony, jessinek Nick Kroll, Bill Maher,

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John Mulaney, Charlie Murphy, j
Farrell, Nix Wardson, and Wanda

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Sykes. There was a stand Up
for Heroes show, which included Bill Cosby

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all Right, Jim Gaffigan and Jerry
Seinfeld, and musical performances by Bruce Springsteen.

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You see what I'm saying Like I'm
having trouble getting too excited for this

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one. I'm sure it will fill
in. I don't know. Sorry to

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be a downer. There is a
controversy. Jack Black says he was blindsided

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by band made Kyle Gas's remark,
and Jack Black has canceled the Tenacious D

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tour. Kyle Gas made a comment
after the assassination attempt on Saturday. Tenacious

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D band member Kyle Gas joked,
don't miss next time. Jack Black said,

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I was blindsided by what was said
at the show on Sunday. I

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would never condone hate speech or encourage
political violence in any form, amen,

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Jack. After much reflection, I
no longer feel its appropriate to continue the

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Tenacious D tour and all future creative
plans are on hold. I'm grateful to

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the fans for the support and understanding
this is a great job by Jack.

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I mean, it sucks for the
fans, but I like someone having the

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courage of their convictions. And no
one should advocate violence, and obviously no

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one should say something about, you
know, not having someone killed. Does

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that not go without saying. We
can disagree on the politics of stuff,

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but I mean, come on,
Gas apologize for the comments and an Instagram

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post on Tuesday morning, he said
the line I improvised on Sunday night and

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Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous,
and a terrible mistake. I don't condone

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violence of any kind in any form
against anyone. What happened was a tragedy

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and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe
lack of judgment. I profoundly apologize to

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those I've let down and truly regret
any plane I've caused. Don't forget someone

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was killed on Saturday. Today's st
was planning to perform seven shows across Australia

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and New Zealand over the next two
weeks. Sounds like that partnership may be

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over. Taylor Thomlinson's publicist deserves a
raise. A coworker used to call these

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articles wax jobs, and Taylor got
quite the wax job from Variety the headline

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how Taylor Thompson overcame debilitating fear and
became the sole woman of late night with

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After Midnight. Some publicists worked real
hard to get this one in. At

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the center of a simple but colorful
stage stands the thirty year old Thomlinson,

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the picture of calm in a pantsuit
that manages to tow the line between professional

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and hip. Thomason, the only
woman currently hosting a late night network series,

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will later reveal that when she first
took the job, Steven Colbert gave

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her some value of advice, which
was You're not going to be amazing right

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away. He let me know that
this would take a while to learn and

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not to expect to nail in the
first week. And that helps so much

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because I still feel like I'm learning
how to do this job every day.

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That is true. Like any profession, things get better with reps, including

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this dumb show here that you're listening
to. Tomlinson was a natural since it's

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January seventeenth debut. To this day, she reads like a season pro,

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rolling with the punches, putting her
guess at ease, and keeping the audience

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entertained. Again, I'm not here
to make fun of Taylor Thompson. I'm

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making fun of the publicist deserving a
raise for getting Variety to print this thing.

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Even Colbert is impressed by how quickly
she seems to have adapted, as

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why he first selected her for the
job. He says, I like that

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she's young, grew up in social
media, and can work at a high

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reference level world, but still seems
suspicious for what social media feeds us every

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day. What I didn't expect was
how someone so young can be so confident

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in the role and adaptable to changes
so fluidly. She's thirty years old.

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Let's not act like she's twelve.
She's an adult woman. Disguise the limit

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for the comic who seems up for
any challenge. Asked if there's anything about

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Tomisin that might surprise people, Steven
Colbert says she spends her free time racing

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motorbikes and can bench press two hundred
and fifteen pounds. She also doesn't mine

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when friends lie about her to the
press. If you enjoy what I do

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here, one way to support the
shows, go to buy meacoffee dot com

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slash Daily Comedy News. I will
take your money and I will get a

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large iced coffee with caramel and milk. I haven't been getting any of the

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processed sugar products lately, and I
just feel a lot better. That's not

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a crusade. And I'm not anti
processed sugar products. Believe me, I

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like them. I just when I
came back from Los Angeles, I got

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on the scale and I was like, ooh, you need to chill out,

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buddy. And I've been chilling out
and I'm down six pounds. How

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about that? Huh? I mean
I'm up five pounds, but I'm no

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longer You're up eleven pounds. But
I do get my coffee every morning.

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I need my coffee to get going. Have you downloaded The Artist a Killer's

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Are about a serial killer that's called The

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Artist a Killer is Canvas. I
like this lead from the Stranger. They

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wrote Joe Para is the ace knuckleball
picture of comedy, and I think they

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nailed that there. What do they
mean? They say, Joe Parra's jokes

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come at you slowly and unpredictably.
While they may initially see maunderwhelming compared to

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those of high velocity comics. They
invariably wind up in the strike zone and

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make you shake your head in disbelief
and amusement at their off kilter trajectory and

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their revelatory thud they make in the
catcher's mid of your mind. His deadpan

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oki oki delivery belies a sharp,
sneaky wit. You nailed it. They're

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the Stranger. The stranger was curious. They asked, Joe, hey,

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Wikipedia, is your birth year is
either nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine.

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Can you set the record straight or
do you prefer to remain a mystery.

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Joe Paris said it doesn't matter.
The stranger said it might matter to

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so people, And Joe said,
am I thirty five, thirty six at

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thirty seven? Let that keep them
up at night. The stranger says,

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does it seem like an advantage for
your comedy to not have everyone know other

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thing about you? Joe said,
it's different nowadays. Before the TV show

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Joe Para Talks with You, it
was nice to go on stage with a

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complete blank slate and win an audience
over reveal a little about yourself bit by

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bit. But I feel like it's
not even possible nowadays, because people know

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a decent amount about me through the
TV show and my other work. It's

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a different feeling. At the beginning
of the shows, there is already a

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kind of a background of who I
am, what kind of comedy I'm gonna

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do. In some ways, it's
nice not to start from zero the audience.

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At other times it's kind of less
fun. You can't get to know

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each other together. At the same
time, I love this too. The

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stranger said, I haven't seen every
minute of your comedy, but I've seen

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a fair amount. Do you not
dip into the well of your Italian upbringing?

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Joe said, well, I'm no
Sebastian Maniscalco, but I got a

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couple of jokes about my Italian upbringing
this time around. There were some mild

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mentions of it on the TV show, the way the grandmother made the meatballs,

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the way she was always cooking.
I'm not an immigrant myself. I'm

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a few generations removed, so I
don't feel like it's part of my everyday

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reality. It'd be a little weird
if I was a blonde guy talking about

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being in Italian the whole time.
There's a new comedy album out today from

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Mickey Overman ROUBM is called This is
Me. You can get that on the

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eight hundred pound Gorilla. Dave Chapelle
has announced an intimate New York City show.

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It's this Thursday at the Grammarcy Theater. Tickets went on sale by the

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time you heard this. Sorry,
I try so. I imagine it's sold

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out and it's one of those cell
phone free events, which is just a

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pain in the hat. I wouldn't
even want to go. I need my

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phone. I don't want to deal
with your stupid pouches. A message from

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the venue reads, with your confirmation, you agree to place your phone in

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a lock pouch, which you keep
throughout the evening. If you need to

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use your phone, return to the
distribution tent at the entrance. Anyone caught

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using a cell phone during the show
will be immediately ejected. Stop it's just

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annoying. It's a twenty first century
dude, So someone's gonna put some crappy

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cell phone video of your joke on
the internet. Whatever. That's your comedy

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news for today. Let me know
your thoughts in the Facebook group A daily

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comedy news podcast group. Am I
just in a mood today. It is

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comedy, a little flat right now, and I'll see tomorrow