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Caalaroga Shark Media, Heidley Ho Johnny Mack with Your Daily
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Comedy News. Nate Forgatzy said, when I was younger, someone
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said you always reminded me of Bob Newhart, and I
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thought about that and like, I can totally see it
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delivery wise, the low keenness of it all. Nate said,
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they meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence.
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But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved
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his albums in sitcom, so I like that. I was
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way more deadband at the beginning, and I didn't move
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around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South
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and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded
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pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So
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I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel
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like I'm getting more in my voice now. I'm still
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not convinced Nate is the greatest actor. But if you
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told me the new Heart sitcom where Bob owned the inn,
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if you for some reason remade that and you had
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Nate as the straight man in that, I could totally
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see him crushing in that. Kelsey Cook told Fox News Digital.
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I think the thing that probably helped comedy explode. The
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most was the pandemic. You know, everybody was inside on
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their phones, watching TV, watching their phone, and that became
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a time for comics to make as much content as
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you could because there was such a demand for it.
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I think you saw people finding their new favorite comics
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over the pandemic. And then once things open back up
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and people could start touring again, people were like, great,
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this person's coming into my city. I've been cooped up
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inside forever long. Now I want to go out and
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do stuff. And I think a lot of us saw
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a big touring boom, especially once people could go out
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and kind of resume normal life again. Yeah, there was
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Initially it was hard to get an arena because everybody
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was booking dates and everybody was out, so some big
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comedians had to play smaller rooms. I think now a
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few years later, we're seeing it cool off a little bit.
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Tom Papa has talked about that on his podcast, and
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Jim Gaffigan didn't agree with him. We'll see. I think
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comedy is hot now, but maybe we're starting to step
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down from everybody playing huge places. Russell Peters talked to
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the LA Daily News about social media elevating comedians at
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a rapid piece. This one comes up a lot, Russell said,
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it's a double It's great for the kids that get
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to be seen sooner than they normally would have. The
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bad part is they're not really getting to put the
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time in, so they don't have the chops they need
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when it happens. There's definitely an incubation period that needs
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to happen. Think of comedy like a baby. Each year
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is a month in baby years, and in about the
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nine to ten year mark, you should be comfortable with
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who you are and what you're doing and have a
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much more stable way of navigating through this game. When
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these kids come in after a year or two because
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they've been successful because of popular clips on TikTok and Instagram, congrats,
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but that's not sustainable. The News said you were one
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of the first comedians to go viral on YouTube early
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in the platforms start. This must be a young ling
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who asked this question. I saw a lot of comedians
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there for the first time, including George Carlin. I know
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you met him and worked well them. What was that like?
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Russell said, he was my everything. I met him in
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ninety two and I've only done stand up three years.
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At this time. At the end of the meeting, I said, hey, George,
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maybe we'll work together, and he said, you never know
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a kid, it's crazy business. And there we were working
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together ten months before he passed away. Was a great
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way to book end that story. He was extremely nice
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and so gracious with his time. He gave me some
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real good advice. He could have pulled rank or done
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anything he wanted to, but he didn't. From when I
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hear from everybody else who met him knew him, he
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was always that guy. That's probably why he stayed in
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stand up and avoided the Hollywood we're at race to.
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People who were always survive in the long run are
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the ones that keep it real. George was able to
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cut through the bs. He was always on the side
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of John Q every man. That's something that politicians can't
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do because they may try to make it sound like
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they're there for the people, but really they're there for themselves.
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George was definitely not. He was literally there for us.
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He was our voice. Chappelle is great at doing a
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similar thing, but Chappelle is also skewed. You know which
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side he's on. George is definitely anti establishment. NPR and
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talked to Ronnie Chang about death and how his feelings
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about death have changed over time. Ronnie said, Oh, yeah,
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it's become more real. It used to be this kind
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of conceptual, abstract, right, and then it's become very real
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the last couple of years seeing it up close it
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becoming more real was kind of frightening. I was studying
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Buddhism recently, and there was this very interesting concept that
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I'm going to butcher because I'm gonna give you the
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ciff Notes version of it in like five seconds. But
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the idea was something like, we're a different person in
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every moment anyway. Our thoughts are different, our cellular makeup
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is different in every second moment, meaning we're different people
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in every second of every moment anyway. So the concept
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of me doesn't really exist because I'm constantly changing anyway,
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and so when I die, it doesn't matter because I
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never really existed. That's kind of like the Buddhist dancer,
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one of the Buddhist dancers to that. In Sebastian Man
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of Scalgoes reason special is at me. He wore a tucks.
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The Minneapolis Star Tribune asked Sebastian what happened to the
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day is when standard comics dressed up. Sebastian said, I
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grew up in the eighties looking at the showmanship of
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it all, Eddie Murphy with that full leather suit or Prince. Today,
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the guy on stage could be a guy in the crowd.
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He can't distinguish the two. I try to pay homage
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to the rat pack in the sixties. He didn't see
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a guy gambling in Vegas wearing flip flops in a swimsuit.
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You dressed up, and I hope that comes back. Sebastian
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talked about the physicality of his act. I'm very conscious
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of the way I'm moving proud across the stage. People
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today have no attention span, so you have to be
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active out there. I need room to run around. Clubs
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are the best place to do comedy. But when I
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do that, I often look at the stage and think, geez,
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that's all the space they're giving me. I've always expressed
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myself through body language. Even as a kid at the
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dinner table, I'd stand up to ask someone to pass
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me in the mash potatoes. I don't see a lot
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of other commit using their body this way. Brian Reagan does,
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but I think other comics want to look cool, cool
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us to go out the window. We're not musicians. Philippea
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Sparza talked about life on the road and said, it's
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a young comic. You're like a baby out in this world,
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you know. But it's different from being a singer, actor
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or a Broadway performer. When you perform as a comedian
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in a small town, you're usually there for five days,
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two or three hundred people see you every night, so
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you're pretty famous in that town. For that week. Everything's
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new and exciting. I remember being on the road in
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al Paso and Paul Rodriguez was headlining somewhere nearby. He
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was doing a corporate gig or something like that where
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he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we're
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performing at a regular club where they're paying us chicos tacos.
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Paul Rodriguez kidnapped us. Bro He kidnapped us and took
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us to Jures. He didn't even ask if we had
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passports to grab. One random guy said a man, you
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want to go to Juarez and nev tacos. The guy said,
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are you Paul Rodriguez? Oh yeah, let's all go. So
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Paul Rodriguez made me and the other comedians go in
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a van. He had picked up two girls and he
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took those two girls and us to Juarez def Tagos.
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When we got to the border, though, there were already
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too many people in the van and nobody had luggage,
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and of course we're only there for about an hour
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and a half. The border patrol us over and they
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were searching us and stuff, and they were just busting
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our chops. They wanted autographs and photos. And there's a
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picture of us, you can look it up. It's Palward, Vegus,
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Gabriel I Glacias, Armando Cossios and me in front of
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the border with our hands on the hood. I remember
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when we made it back and he was changing his clothes.
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Gaby Glacias and I were still in the room. He
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never told us to get out, so he finally closed
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the door on us. Our friend was standing outside waiting
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for us and said, bro, I thought you guys were
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going to go with the shower with a pall. Riser
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described his act to the oc registered and said, let's
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just say on the opposite of circ dosilat, no jumping,
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no acrobatics, no singing or dancing, nothing out of the ordinary,
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just straight up comedy. I do nothing out of the ordinary.
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People have seen comedians before. I have a good filter system.
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I sorted out what makes me laugh in private and
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what I want to share. And I've always avoided politics
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or social commentary. It's not the way my brain works.
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Some are good at poking sticks and the sacred cows.
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That's not my personality. I'm not smart enough to make
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things up. I tell people what happens in my house
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stuff that happens at everyone else's house. We look at
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people as friends. People enjoy knowing they're not alone. I
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talk about my life, my marriage. It's all very cathartic.
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I tell people about an argument with my wife. I
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convent and hope the audience my side. How does he
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dress on stage? I dress on stage the way I
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dress in life. Jean's rolled up at the hem, he says.
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I like to cut out as many decisions as possible. Paul,
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you're going to retire. Sometimes I'm tempted to stay home
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and take it easy, but I do stand up every
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other weekend, and it invigorates me. Really, I've been very lucky.
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It's true what they say. I work for free. And
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only get paid for the trip to the airport. And
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Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glenn ross Odinkirk told Playbill, I've
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wanted to do this play for years. I wrote to
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David Mammot twenty years ago and I said I have
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two requests. One can we do an all comedy version.
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Two can we change it from land at they're selling
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the pots and pans. I never got a response. He's
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very excited. He said, I can't effing wait, and then
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smiled and said, feel free to use the word f
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in Playbill. It's certainly in the effing play. Andy Haynes
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was down in New Orleans. He had been there before
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and said that time it was from Mark Norman's wedding.
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He rented out Tippettinas. It was all comics who were
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guess at the wedding, so everybody was there. Haines also
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spent a year in England with a weird job. He
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had created an animated show The Champions for the sports
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platform bleacher Report. The show was based on the teams
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and players in the European Champions League. When a bunch
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of crypto investors bought a British soccer club, they wanted
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a comedian to generate online content for it. Haines got
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the gig, but he explains they hired me to be
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their in house comedian. I made content for them, but
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the team was so bad and the fans hated the owners.
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Everything I made never got released. His Instagram, Brio says
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he's a libtart, but says that's a misunderstood joke. For
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the longest time it said Patriot as a joke, and
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people were like, you guy, call yourself a Patriot, so
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I changed it. I'm from Seattle. The second he leave Seattle,
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it's the wilderness. Most of Washington is rural, conservative, gun
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and all that cowboy stuff. In Seattle, I had a
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rowdy adolescence, would go to the woods and shoot stuff.
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We shot up a porta potty. There was a husk
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of a burnt out van that we used to go shoot.
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He left Seattle for la and staid being unemployed in
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to get their next audition. I was gonnahit, pause on
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everything and go back to Seattle. I went to New
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York on a whim and had an amazing experience. He's
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got a podcast with Mike Cannon called Beautiful Boys Chevyhardcore
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dot Com You're home for comedy News. They talked about
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Kevin Hart's nineteen sixty six Chevy Chevelle and said it's
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no joke. Chevy Hardcore tells us whether it's his nineteen
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fifty nine corvetteor is nineteen eighty seven Buick Grand National.
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Kevin Art seems to find the coolest cars and some
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of the finest builders to shape them to his automotive desires.
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Kevin sixty six Chevelle started as an original SS three
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ninety six car. Work on the car, dubbed Darkness with
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two capitals's at the end, was completed by Timeless Customs.
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What they created was a true work of restomad art,
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built upon an Art Morson chassis. The work involved keeping
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the car relatively simple, but in the best kind of way.
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Emblems were exchanged for Darkness in the same type face
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replaced with an LSx four five four topped with an
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LS nine blower. Can you tell I have no idea
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what I'm talking about that's right. With seven pounds of boost,
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the car makes six to twenty horsepower the wheels, but
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it's capable much more. However, the Ideata was keep the
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car drive and comfortable, makes plenty of power for cruising
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the boulevard or the highway. The four Lady transmission adds
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to the driftability. The engine bay of the Chavelle is