March 30, 2025

Is John Mulaney's Netflix show Everybody's Live broken?

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Johnny Mac provides updates on the Night of Too Many Stars event hosted by John Stewart in New York City, along with highlights of the Boston Comedy Festival celebrating its 25th year. The festival lineup includes performances by Eddie Pepitone, Emo Phillips, and more. Mac also discusses the return of comedy festivals, John Mulaney's new Netflix talk show, an Andy Kaufman documentary and a new comedy album by Andy Woodall are mentioned. Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle-free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed! You also get 20+ other shows on the network ad-free!

00:00 Night of Too Many Stars
00:50 Boston Comedy Festival Highlights
01:46 Comedy Shows and Tours
02:49 John Mulaney's New Netflix Talk Show
05:02 Gossip Corner: Shane Gillis and More
05:44 Andy Woodall's New Album and Andy Kaufman Documentary
08:04 Bergam Comedy Festival and Conclusion

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. Tonight in New York City at the

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Beacon Theater. It is the Night of Too Many Stars.

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John Stewart is your host. Some of the performers Chris Rock,

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Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, Ronnie Chan, Alex Edelman, Susie Smond,

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Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Sherman, Max Weinberg's Jukebox, James Austin Johnson,

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and Sam Morrell. In a statement, creators Michelle and Robert

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Smigel said, we created a Night of Too Many Stars

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with our friends in the comedy world at a time

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when most organizations focused only on research for a cure.

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Seeing so many parents struggle to find appropriate services and

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schools for their children inspired us to create an event

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to support the vital programs and services that individuals with

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autism need right now. This was started back in two

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thousand and three. Also back this week, the Boston Comedy

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Festival it's twenty fifth year. Congratulations to those guys. The

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lineup includes headliners Eddie Peppatonimo Phillips, My Michael Costa, Brooks

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Wheelan from Saturday Night Live. Remember Brooks Know Me Neither

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and Amy Miller, a bunch of stand up contests, a

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benefit show for comedians affected by the fires in LA,

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a diversity showcase, and a clean comedy show. Founder Jim

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McHugh says, every year we do stuff that works, and

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we do stuff that doesn't, and we just keep rolling along.

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I love that sentiment fire call correctly. Jim asked made

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me a judge at the festival a long time ago.

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I had babies and couldn't go up to Boston to

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do it, but that would have been a lot of fun.

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The idea is to appeal to a wide range of taste.

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McHugh says, We've always had the feeling of whoever you

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think is the best comedian.

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You're right. The Boston Globe did a bit of a preview.

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The contest starts tomorrow. The idea is to showcase local acts,

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Jim says. The whole purpose of this thing we started

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twenty five years ago, was trying to get the industry

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to come here and see the acts. April third, the

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Funny Together Tour is Clean Comedy Providence. Comedian Ronda Corey

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is joined by Bug Coulson and Mike Murray. Bug Coulson

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is a great name. Eddie peppatone also on the third

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at City Winery at two thirty pm. On the fourth

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at seven o'clock, a more reasonable time celebrating diversity in comedy.

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Your host is Beer with a Queer Jeff Klein. Also

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a fun title, Emo Phillips on the fifth at seven o'clock.

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On the fifth, Daman Miller says, I think the most

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forty year old thing I do, though, is I have

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a special word for when I've had too much white

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wine and I want to get at a Fistfightchie headlines

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two shows with Courtney Reynolds, and on the fifth it's

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the Boston Comedy Finals, where the final eight contestants will

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compete for the top prize in front of a panel

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of judges. Ryan Hamilton will receive Comedian of the Year.

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Seems like a really good festival, and the one over

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the weekend in Rhode Island also fantastic. Nice to see

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the comedy festivals back. Somebody you may know started a

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comedy podcast six months before the pandemic, and boy in

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twenty twenty size stretching the New Republic seems to agree

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with me that everybody's live with John mulaney is an

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ambitious mess. They write, John Mulanie's new Netflix talk show

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is filled with ideas that are funny in theory but

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only barely working practice, echoing some of what I talked

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about with zivin yesterday. How do you tell the difference

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between a talk show that reinvents the form so radically

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that it confounds the viewers' expectations about what a talk

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show is and a talk show that just doesn't work.

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The young man Philip who wrote this piece says, I

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wasn't old enough to experience the nineteen eighty two Late

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Night with David Letterman, but I suspect that it did

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something like the former Letterman worked almost immediately. The Letterman

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was quirky, but it leaned into the it's twelve thirty,

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the NBC bosses or asleep, No one cares. Let's just

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make ourselves laugh, which is kind of what Mlanie's doing,

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but with a much brighter spotlight. This writer is wrong

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when he writes I imagined that the early viewers of

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Letterman's Late Night initially he may have been confused about

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how the gap tooth Goofball was using the hour allotted

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to him. Nope, not at all right from the get go,

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even the initial opening credits for Letterman, let you know,

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it was low key. You know, over the years, the

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Letterman theme evolved into this big show busy theme by

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the time we got to the CBS version of it.

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But that initial version very very chill, and the understated

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vo no, no, no, this was not screaming showbiz. This

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was screaming It's twelve thirty and nobody cares. The writer says,

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I don't yet know how to watch Mullaney. Mlaney opens

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with a monologue that is followed by pre tape bits

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of varying quality, occasional audience gag, celebrity guests on couches,

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and a musical performance. There are Johnny cars and Ed

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mcmh's style exchanges between Mlanie and Richard Kind. I personally

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don't know if Richard Kine was the right choice either.

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I'm sure that's an unpopular opinion, but I just said it.

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And there are lutterman esque absurdities, like the same old

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delivery robot that ranges freely around the set. That is true.

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This next paragraph is on point. There's a kind of

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punk wonderment about shows like Letterman's or Eric Andres throwing

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things at the wall to see if it'd stick. As

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acidic as they are. There's a hopeful spirit of formal

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exploration at work, but Mullaney show as a certain sourness,

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a deliberate lack of wonder that's most detectable in his

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management of the panel portion. On one hand, it's slightly

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funny to watch deliberately in Congress guests awkwardly squirm as

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they tried to offer advice to callers, uncertain what exactly

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they're supposed to do. On the other hand, it kind

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of sucks to watch that good analysis there. Let's stop

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off at gossip corner. Shane gillis dating an Instagram model,

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Grace Brassel is building up her follower collection and people

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aren't paying attention. On Instagram. Last week, she shared photos

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of the couple's recent trip to the UK. They attended

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UFC Fight Night Edwards versus Brady in the O two arena.

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She captured one of her posts, drink fifty five Guinnesses

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and fifty five beers with my buddies in Europe that

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got a lot of attention. One person accused her of

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being after Shane's secret grilled cheese recipe. Another person wrote

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about Shane's choice of hat, Shane hasn't taken off that

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Eagles hat since we won the Super Bowl. All right,

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You're not getting a forty five minute episode today. You

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got three in a row. We're back to normal. Andy

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Woodall has released a new album. It's his seventh comedy

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album called Beach Brain. He says it is his silliest

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album yet. Andy says, my hope is it will appeal

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to like minded beach Brains. Have given Beach Brains a

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little taste of life by the water. On the album,

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Andy explores the humor in second marriages, gaslighting, and buying

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toilet paper in Bulk. I am working with Andy's publicist,

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have Andy on the show in a little bit. Yesterday

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you heard Jason Zennemann mention an Andy Kaufman documentary. The

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Guardian wrote about it. They point out Andy Kaufman constructed

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so many clever hoaxes to house this work that many

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assumed he must not have died young at the age

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of thirty five. Can I tell you when I was

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at serious? I know I mentioned it every day. Sorry,

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it's big chunkle my life and I am posting a

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comedy podcast. It's relevant. I was having lunch with Andy's brother,

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Michael Kaufman, now their sibling. So Michael Kaufman obviously looks

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a little like Andy. And as I sat there letting

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my mind wander, looking at Michael Kaufman many years after

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Andy's death, I started to wonder, is it possible I'm

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sitting here with Andy Kaufman. We had a cool idea

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for a broadcast at Sirius. So Sirius does these. They

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call them town hall, so you have a celebrity in

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like we did one with Bruno Mars, and you have

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a bunch of fans come up and the fans get

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to ask questions. The Kaufman estate, led by Michael, was

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willing to announce Andy Kaufman town Hall, and I wanted

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to do a whole big put on of promoting this

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is the return of Andy Kaufman. They were on board.

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We had a press release drafted, and the Big Boss

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just didn't get it. You know. I was planning on

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doing a live broadcast where we just dragged this thing

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out as long as possible, but again Big Boss didn't

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get it, so it didn't happen. But I kept wondering

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is this actually Andy sitting here with me? The new

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documentary is called Thank You very Much, and the Guardian

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tells it's it's upfront about how alienating Kaufman could be

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to audience members, to casual observers, even a coworkers, while

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at the same time never framing his work as pure

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endurance tests. There's a glee in his blurring the lines

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between reality and fiction, even when he does his best

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to hide it under voices or makeup. Thank You very

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Much doesn't depend on the same old clips, and watching

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all this Kaufman footage emphasizes how inimitable the man was.

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Funny sentence here. What's more difficult to replicate is Kaufman's

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dedication to his strangest whims. When Tim Heidecker passes away,

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it will probably not kick off a thirty year ambiguity

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over whether he's genuinely dead. Thank You very Much is

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out in movie theaters in the United States. Out in

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Santa Monica, it's the Bergamont Comedy Festival. The La Times

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covered it. The lineup consists of ninety three percent female

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identifying BIPOC, LGBTQ, plus acts and other perspectives. Historically overlooked

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by gatekeepers and stand up. They spoke with Joe Stetler,

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who's a third grade teacher who lives with an incurable cancer.

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Joel says, comedy has become away for me to sort

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it all out. My response has remained one of the

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few things I can control. Storytelling and stand up given

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me a space to turn something dark into something meaningful,

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not just for myself but for audiences who know what

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it means to have life. Kick the door in among

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This article tells me now I know what it is, okay,

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and that is your comedy news for today. If you

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skip the weekend for some reason, good stuff about Mitch

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Hedburg over the weekend. You might want to go back

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and check out both Saturday and Sunday's episodes. If you

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are into Mitch Hebburg, meet you here tomorrow.