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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
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He was back in nineteen ninety seven, Rolling Stone called
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Bert Krescher, a sixty year undergraduate, the top partier at
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the number one party school in the country, which was
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Florida State University. Now Bert Kraser, three decades later, tells
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USA Today he's still partying hard. Bert says, I'd argue
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it's probably even worse. My game hasn't changed much, but
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I take bigger stints of sobriety now and I'm healthier now.
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I work out every day, I get hydrating ivs probably
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twice a week, I drink water, and I'm more cognizant
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of my sleep and my recovery. Now. What makes the
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Bert Krescher tour bus, He says, A ton of vodka,
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which is his own brand, because all comedians have to
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have some sort of sidehouso these days for some reason, water, snacks,
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and a full gym which is stowed in the bus bay.
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During his twenty twenty three tour, Bert Krescher packed three
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semi trucks with even more workout equipment. Boy, you've got
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some budget, dude. Bert said, we had five electric bikes,
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a cold plunge of sauna, a full gymnasium with rowers
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and assault bikes, compression boots with recliners. How much money
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is this dude making? He lost forty five pounds on
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the tour and said, I'm so much healthier when I'm
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on the road, without a doubt. Dusty Sleigh has been
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sober for over a decade. He told Fox. I like
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to party. I like to get into it, and so
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every night comedy became a party, and it's not sustainable.
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I just wasn't feeling good. I wouldn't remember my jokes.
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Getting sober changed my whole life. More than just comedy,
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but changed my life. He wondered, will I still be
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funny without the booze? When I quit drinking? I thought
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I might quit comedy because all my jokes are about drinking.
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I'm much better at comedy now now I have all
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these ideas. My brain's not constantly clogging flooded with poison.
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You know, Dusty said, I don't care if people drink,
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but for me, it changed my life and made everything
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better for me. I'd be a total wreck. I wouldn't
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be sitting here, and if I was, I'd be sweating,
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even though it's heavily air conditioned. I'd sweat and you'd think,
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have you been drinking? And I probably would have been
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I've had a beer before I'd go. You guys got
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any beers around here, and you guys would be like,
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this is a news station buddy who tells us George
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Clooney has achieved the impossible. He got Adam Sandlor to
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dress better. Nice job, George Clooney, although I kind of
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liked knowing that Adam Sandler is the one person in
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the world who dresses worse than I do. If you
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think I'm wearing some sort of ratty sweatshirt and some
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sweatpants and a baseball cap right now, you're right. But
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even that is probably better than the baggy basketball shorts
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look Sandler normally goes for. But now he's all George
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Clooney fancy pants. Colooney told people, I've actually been making
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Adam wear suits. Don't you think he looks nicer instead
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of those big, baggy shorts, Pony said, Adam Sandler, a
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great dramatic actor, is the sweetest man in the world.
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I love him. He's a dear friend. And the fact
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I got to work with him again is great. Sandler
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says he doesn't really think about his traditional baggy look.
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He says, it's as funny as hell. Whatever one of
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my kids or their friends talk to me about it.
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My wife's like, what are we talking about right now?
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How did that happen? Even when we were younger, others
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would say, would you put on something better than that?
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Your wife's dressed so beautifully. My wife would say, he's
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comfortable like that. Let him do that. Leave him alone. Yeah,
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She's like, dude's making five hundred million dollars a year.
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Leave him alone. He can wear Peggy Shortz. Shut up.
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Jay Kelly opens in Select theater is November fourteenth, will
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stream on Netflix December fifth, People saying it's an Oscar
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worthy performance by the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, So
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I'm looking forward to that one. Hopefully it's in the
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pantheon of Sandler movies, the great movies like uncut Gems,
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Space Movie, Basketball one and the two with Drew Barrymore,
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everything else complete garbage, but hopefully this one is up
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in that top tier. I saw this as part of
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my Adam Sandler googling. Far Out Magazine writes even though
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an alarming percentage of his filmography is made up of awful,
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awful comedies. Adam Sandler seems like a nice guy. I
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agree with everything in that sentence. It is made up
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of awful, awful comedies, and he does seem like a
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nice guy. And most of the people who know are
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of work with him think the same thing too. The
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most annoying thing about Sandler, apart from some of the
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characters he played, is that he knows he's been coasting
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for years, if not decades. Every now and then he'll
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show up in something like Punch Love, Uncut Gems or
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Hustled or Mine everyone he's actually a great actor. Then
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it's back to mugging for the camera and happy goomore sequels.
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Did I write this? Maybe I wrote this and I
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forgot I wrote this. Anyway, the point of this article
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is to spotlight Andy Kindler, who has added himself to
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the list of people who believe that Sandler squandered his
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potential by becoming inordinately wealthy. Kindler, it's old last I've
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been making fun of him for years just for the
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fact that his movies are never reviewed. He doesn't even
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put them out to be reviewed, and just consider the
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Pixels movie. It doesn't sound like you listen to the
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whole pitch. Kindler then talked about The Ridiculous Six, saying, basically,
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I said that Native Americans who walked off the set
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of the movie said they'd prefer another genocide. They'd prefer
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once again to be slaughtered by the white man in
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the stay on this movie. I don't know if it's
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that bad. It's close. What bugs Andy Kindler is? He
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used to be a huge Adam Sandler fan until Adam
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became a movie star, which left him feeling that Adam
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Sandler could be doing better, but for some reason decided
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to go with the money. I wonder why he decided
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to go with the money. Is it? Let me think?
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Is it the money? Look? He puts out terrible comedies,
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But was Adam Sandler the re Odd Comedy Festival? He
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was not. At least he's like putting in the work
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to make happy gilmore too, So I'll give him that.
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He hooks up his friends. His daughters are some of
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the best actresses in Hollywood, so he's lucky enough that
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he knows them that he can cast them in the film.
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Is it terrible? Of course, it's terrible, but it's not
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the reodd comedy Festival. Am I becoming an Adam Sandler fan? Hmmm.
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Valcher spoke with David Letterman. Hey, Dave, any specific memories
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of the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
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Dave said, well, we had several first shows, the first
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show on the daytime show, the first show on the
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NBC show, on the first show on the CBS show,
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and it's always like you're getting ready for the Rose Parade.
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You have the Rose Parade, and then it's so, geez,
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what are we doing tomorrow? I think that was typical
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of the daytime show, the late night show, and then
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the late show. After all of the effort, all the
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energy goes on that first show, now what do we do.
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It's not until about a month and a half to
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establish a rhythm and production that will hold you, that'll
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prop you up for the rest of the run. But
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until you're comfortable with that, and it's going to be
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a struggle. Vulture asked about Johnny Carson's involvements, and Johnny
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was a producer of a Late Night with David Letterman
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at the beginning there, so that made the man you
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idolized your boss, or at least your partner. Was he
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a silent partner or did he chime in? Dave said,
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to my memory, Johnny couldn't have cared less except whatever
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the cut of the budget he got. We're of no
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threat to him. He was still the king of the heap.
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To him, we were just all right, call me when
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they're canceled. He was always very nice. He'd have me
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on from time to time we would promote the show.
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I think he found it amusing, and who knows. I
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never really asked him what he thought of the show,
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but always felt like, if you're not as good as Johnny, really,
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is there any point in leaving Indiana. But if you
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look at Johnny's work, now, my god, it was just solid.
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Pick one night of the week the first year of
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the eighth year, of the twentieth year. He's just rock solid.
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He's like the very best home healthcare person you could afford.
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He's constant, doesn't miss a beat, doesn't get you worried.
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I mean that, let me jump in there. Dave's so
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right about Carson. Doesn't get you worried again. It's another
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mark of a great host of just steady in the
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chair driving the train, not going to go off the rails,
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not going to get the network canceled. Dave said, I
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always felt like I felt short of that. I feel
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like everybody else feels short of doing it. The only
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person I think didn't fall short of that was Regis Philbin.
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Regis was, you know, get on him when we hit
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your stop, because I'm gonna keep going. He was fantastic,
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and Johnny the best since Regis came up. I'll tell
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a quick readis story. I've told it before. So I
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worked with Regis a few years. He would come into
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Serious and host bing Crosby Christmas Radio. He's a big
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fan of being Crosby and we wanted to have a
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cool celebrity host it. So Regis would come in and
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one year somebody on the serious end forgot to order
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a car for mister Philbin, and he was standing in
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front of the building waiting for a car that didn't come.
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He eventually got a car himself. He comes in and
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he's all Regis Philbin and he's churning it on. He's
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doing ninety percent the act ten percent letting me know
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that he's annoyed, and he's right, we're we're totally in
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the wrong here. We didn't order m car. He's out
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in the cold. We're wrong, we're wrong, wrong, wrong, We're wrong.
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Johnny Max's wrong. Staff is wrong. We're wrong. But so
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it's like ninety percent the fun ten percent give me
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the business. And he's like yeah, and you know, and
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I had to pay for my own car to get here.
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Now I don't know what made me do this, but
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I took out one hundred dollar bill for some reason.
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I had one hundred dollars bill and I put it
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on the counter and I looked him the eye and
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I smiled, Ago, we good, and he laughed and he goes, okay,
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he didn't take my money, of course, but he's just
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just like all right. I think we had an irish
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thing going on. Anyway. I loved working with Regis Philbin,
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a pros pro. One of the things I love working
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with people who are professional and understand, hey, we're here
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to do a job. Let's knock this out professionally. People
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that can hit their marks, people that can read a script,
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people that can do things in one or two takes.
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I love it. Now, Jay Leno, you know this guy,
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he's the kind of guy that like, weighs in on
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late night television as if he has any expertise on
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the subject, and you know, when he's not out doing
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charity work, he's just the worst. I saw this story
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here from Late Night Er. I guess. According to Bill
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Carter's book The War for Late Night, jay Leno could
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spend five hours straight choosing material for each evening's program,
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pouring over jokes until someone dragged him to a rehearsal.
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Jay Leno hated vacations and really went to parties. Listen
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to this guy working on the show. Between seasons, he
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spent his time off working the comedy club circuit, Bill
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Carter wrote, some might call him a robot with no
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apparent inner life, for all didn't care in or did
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it even seem to disagree all that much. Guy seems
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like the worst OT's called Costco, who did not play
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the Rioda Comedy Festival. In fact, went out of her
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way to make sure we knew she didn't. She's figured
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out another way to make money. She's teamed up with
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PF Changs. She's using her social media to introduce items
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from PF Chang's revamped menus, such as the return of
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the chain's popular grolic noodles. She's promoting their new eight
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to ninety nine cocktail options like the Laichi Martini, which
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she says gives elegance and mystery sounds like me not
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me not Johnny Mack sounds like Otsgo Go tells us
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the Jade Margarita is rich with flavor and vacation vibes,
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and aunces that the grolic noodles have flavor boulder than
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my wardrobe and my personality. Again, nothing bold about my
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walterrobe or my personality. She's speaking about herself. The new
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menu include sushi roles like Spicy Tuna, Kung Pow Dragon roll,
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and chimped Ti, and entres like Kung Poun chicken. Customers
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can now either select medium or traditional entrees sizes. The
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eight ninety nine cocktail collection also includes seasonal specials like
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the Blood Orange Margarita and the par Teeny And On
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The Guardian, George Francis Lee wants The Simpsons to end.
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Lee wrights the Simpsons hasn't been good since nineteen ninety seven,
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which means the show has been in decline for as
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long as I've been alive. Now we're beset with season
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after season of awful awful episodes. Ironically, the show is
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already lampooting the growing difficulty in keeping itself fresh all
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the way back in ninety five. As Troy McClure said
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in The Simpsons one hundred and thirty eighth episode Spectacular,
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who knows what adventures they'll hat between now in the
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time the show becomes unprofitable. Boy that was a good episode,
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and boy that episode was thirty years ago. The yikes
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that went fast. Lee writes, it's impossible to explain succinctly