Oct. 4, 2025

Is Taylor Swift on Saturday Night Live tonight? PLUS Theo Von discusses DHS on This Past Weekend

Is Taylor Swift on Saturday Night Live tonight? PLUS Theo Von discusses DHS on This Past Weekend
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Theo Von addresses a government-related incident that left him paranoid, including receiving threats and a strange offer of extra security.

Saturday Night Live's return is highlighted, covering upcoming hosts and musical guests like Bad Bunny and Doja Cat, and speculations about a potential Taylor Swift appearance.

The episode also delves into SNL's new cast members and Lorne Michaels' evolving casting strategy.

Additional content includes a humorous take on Al Michaels taking ove SNL, Carol Burnett's absence from SNL hosting duties, and the return of Mr. Bill on YouTube. Oh noooooooo.

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Kalaroga Shark Media.

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Hi there, I'm Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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The news continues to be feisty. I just wanted to

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do U, S and L today, but I do need

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to cover some THEO Von stories. I'll take out a

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little light on Riodd today. I have plenty about Riod

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and Sunday Show, and I'll do the late night jokes tomorrow.

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But let's get to theo Von. On his podcast this

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past weekend, he addressed that whole thing with the DHS

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using his clip, and theose comments here get pretty interesting.

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I have made edits for both language and pacing, but

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listen to theo here.

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My father immigrated here from Nicaraugule, right. Like one of

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my prize possessions is I have his immigration papers when

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he came here, and I have him in a frame

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and him and his siblings when they came here, and

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so I have tons of thoughts about him. It was

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like on all platforms and stuff. So SOD had me

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really kind of paranoid. You know. That had me start

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to get kind of paranoid, and you know, like closing,

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like you know, I had the curtains in my house

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kind of closed I was just like, you know, you're paranoid.

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I woke up the next morning to a text from

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a high government official saying, Hey, if you need uh

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some extra security in your neighborhood or some extra police

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cars on patrol, let me know. And I'm like, what

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what are you talking about extra security? I don't have any, Like,

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you know, I don't even know the code of my

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RINGT camera, Like I don't even know how to log

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into it. So it's like and then, and like, what,

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You're just gonna put police cars in my neighborhood? What

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are my neighbors gonna think? Now? They're fearful? Like it

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just like I don't know, man, that that like really

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kind of shook me. It really kind of shook me.

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But you just you keep marching on.

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If you listen to to this podcast early on Saturday morning,

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and why wouldn't you you have time yet? THEO will

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be the celebrity guest picker on College Game Day today.

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Vanderbilt at Alabama will mark Theovan's second appearance on college

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Game Day. He previously was on the panel as the

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guest picker at the twenty twenty three SEC Championship between

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Alabama and Georgia. Saturday Night Live is back tonight, Bad

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Bunny as your host, Doja Cat is the musical guest,

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next week Amy Poehler on the fiftieth anniversary of the

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show proper musical guest role Model, and on the eighteenth,

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Sabrina Carpenter will double up as both host and musical guest.

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Some people are wondering if Taylor Swift is going to

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make an appearance tonight. Here's the theories. She already has

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done the Graham Norton Show, She's doing fallon on the

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sixth for some inexplicable reason. She's going to do Seth

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Meyers on the eighth. I mean, at that point, Taylor

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do my podcast. Now Here are some of the clues.

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Taylor Swift's official social media team, Taylor Nation, created quote

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time Card of a Showgirl, which highlighted all her upcoming

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late night appearances on a calendar, as well as the

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theatrical release party of the Life of a show Girl yesterday.

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But there's a blank space on October fourth, which is today.

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There's a punch hole on a time card with one

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word stand by. So that's not stand by, that's stand by.

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Is that a hint of you might want to be

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on the standby list for Saturday Night Live tonight. This

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if it was stand by, that would be two words,

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would it not? Oh? There is more. The punch card

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suggests something might be happening around seven pm today on Saturday. Now,

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you know what usually happens around seven pm on Saturday.

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The Saturday Night Live standby line opens. You see what

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we're doing here? Yeah? Now, bad Bunny, who's the host

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of SNL tonight recently was in Happy Gilmour Too, that

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awful Adam Sandler comedy. You know who else was in that?

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Travis Kelcey, who is Taylor Swiss fiance? Do you see

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this conspiracy?

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Yes?

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Now? A TikToker pointed out that an Instagram pro for

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SNL released on October first features the voices of people

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close to Taylor Swift. Some people think you can hear

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Travis Kelsey's voice saying let's start the show. Others think

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you can hear Selena Gomez saying get the host on

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the stage for the monologue. And it also sounds like

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Taylor herself maybe saying standby in the clip. The color

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scheme in the SNL promo clip is a very tailor

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swifty Orange. So we will see and I will tell

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you about that on Monday, because I'm not staying up

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to one in the morning to record Sunday's episode. Deadline

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talk to a bunch of insiders about the various hirings

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and firings at SNL and what it means for the show.

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One source told Deadline, I think what you're seeing right

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now is SNL operating in a new era. Is that

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another clue where the talent has more of a voice

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than ever before. In previous years, when you would hire

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a cast member, it would be a total discovery. This year,

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I think it's the first we're all for. The comedians

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they've picked have fairly sizable, kind of ish, but dedicated

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audiences they've already built on their own. Lorden Michaels at

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the Emmy said the show was always people in from

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different ages and different generations, and that's how it revives itself.

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It's always hard when people leave, but there's a time

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for that in our audience, as I've always stayed relatively young,

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and more so now TikTok and change is good. The

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people were bringing in. I'm really excited about the new

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cast members. Jeremy Colehyne, described as an improv sketch comedian

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in the traditional mold. Veronica Slowakowska. You may recognize her

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from Shane Gillis's Tires show. She has a substantial following

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on TikTok and Insta. Tommy Brennan was a twenty twenty

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three just for Laughs new face. One source jokes that

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he looks like every white dude, meaning he might be

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in a lot of the everyman sketches. And Cam Patterson

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you know him from Kill Tony regular appearances on Kill Tony.

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Also Ben Marshall from the Please Don't Destroys he gets

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bumped up. Insider say the hiring process at SNL all

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started in August with showcases in LA New York and Chicago,

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followed by screen tests and an unusually large round of

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final meetings with Lorne Michaels, who met around ten comics.

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A source compared the casting to a wide rather than

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the usual clarity, saying it felt more like a Sports

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League draft with I almost said al Michaels. Lorne Michaels

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ultimately see al Michaels calls football. Did you see the

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forty nine Ers win that game? I don't know how

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they won that game? How did they win that game? Rams?

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You had that three times. I'm a Niners fan, I

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can't believe the Niners won that game. With Lorne Michaels

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ultimately picking the best talent available on the board, Insiders

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say Lorn was leaning away from hiring stand ups. One

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said snl at one point was openly saying says he's

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done hiring stand ups. He wants to take a break

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from hiring stand ups. Another insider said, I must set

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al Michaels again. Boy, Lorne Michaels. You know what, al

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Michaels should take over Saturday Night Live for a year.

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I would watch that. I'm not sure wre Lorne Michaels

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would be good at Thursday Night Football, but I would

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watch an al Old Michael's produce show. I like al Michaels.

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He's very personable. Lorne Michaels and team have smartly covered

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the bases in their casting for this season. The insider

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says it makes sense to reach out to different circles

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because if you're building a show for everyone, then you

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pick me from every sort of comedy circle. They also

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point out that Marcelo Hernandez who has broken out, particularly

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with his Domingo character. Yes, his wonderful Domingo character. He's

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really good at that. And the seventeen variants on that

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exact same character that he does show me some range

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tonight Marcelo. But they say Marcelo has broken out, even

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if there have been some whiffs with newer talent. They

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say the sheen is off a little bit. That Pete Davidson,

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who will yesterday, was just at THERIODD Comedy Festival. His

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father's called a nine to eleven. Pete was atriodd. He's

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the last example of someone that quote everyone wanted a

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piece of People coming off the show are not getting

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propelled into the comedy sky in the same way. Things

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are just different. They put their time and energy and

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hard work, and the platform just doesn't have the same

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weight that it used to. Insiders. Again, I think five

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years ago, if you asked any young comic if they

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wanted to go all out and make a tapes to

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audition for us and l the automatic answer would be yes. Now,

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it's a difficult process. It's obviously hard to get on

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the show that I feel a lot of people are split.

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David Simms in the Atlantic says, what could signal a

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meaningful change are the show's newcomers. It's notable how me

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new SNL cast members can now be evaluated by the

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public thanks to the Internet and dopes in their basement

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with podcasts. I don't think David said quite that, but

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you know what I mean. For most of the show's existence,

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Lauren Michaels and his team would gather folks from around

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the country's most acclaimed improv troops and sketch comedy feeders,

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Second City grand Ling's UCB. The SNL diehards would gather

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information about the upcoming performers live acts. Most of this

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year's editions have resumes that reflect the collective shift of

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comedy production in recent years. They found their footing not

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on stage but on podcasts, TikTok and streaming platforms. David

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then breaks down the cast members we were ready did

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that today and points out that Cam Patterson's most popular

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material includes lots of tacit admiration for Trump and casual

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use of slurs in front of guests. Until now, Lauren

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Michaels has almost entirely avoided recruiting performers of that elk.

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Perhaps he was discouraged by the firestorm that erupted after

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he hired Shane Gillis. Six years later, Michael seems ready

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to take another swipe but the hot stove. Kate mccannon

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she was on Saturday Night Live for while and was

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pretty good at it. She spoke to CBS News about

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comedy in today's world. Kate McKinnon says, political sattire is

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a very important part of a functioning society. I also

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think that just goofiness and laughter are vital, not only art,

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but in between people. It is healthy. And I think

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just kindness and joy and laughter are such important things

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and just the reason we're live. And so that's what

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I like to bring to people. She misses SNL, but

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I really love going to bed early, and that's what

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I've been doing more of, and I really enjoy it.

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I missed the people so much. I hear you that

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forty nine ers gave the other night Johnny Mack was

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up till eleven twenty on a school night. Are you crazy?

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Carol Burnett has never hosted Saturday Night Live. Carol was

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recently profiled in the New Yorker. I want to dive

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in on that at some point it's been busy around

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these parts. She was asked why she thinks Laurene Michaels

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has never asked her to host Saturday Night Live. Here's

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my question. Has al Michaels ever asked Carol Burnett to

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be the guest analyst on Thursday Night Football? And if not,

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why not? But I digress. Carol Burnett, asked about Lauren Michaels, said,

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I don't know what I did upset that?

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Man?

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Do you think it's misogynistic? The New Yorker says, elm,

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I'm leaving that in. I'm leaving it in. The New

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Yorker said Lauren Michaels declined to comment. Response, I'm not

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even doing a bit now. To be fair here, I

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didn't think this was weird until someone brought it up,

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meeting The New Yorker or Carol Burnette. So Carol Burnett

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in her heyday. The Carol Burnett Show ran from nineteen

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sixty seven to nineteen seventy eight on CBS, So okay,

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it makes sense. I guess that Carol Burnett didn't host

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Saturday Night Live those first few years when she had

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her own show on CBS. Plus. Think of Carol Burnett

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who's in her nineties now, as a different generation than

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say Dan Ackroyd. So I don't think that's crazy that

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they didn't have Carol Burnett host then. And then as

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SNL became more establishment and programming, Carol Burnette really hasn't

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been in the public eye, and so the last few

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years when she started showing up on things like Better

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Call Saul. I mean, we all love Carol Burnett. I

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worked with Carol Burnette ten twelve, fifteen. I don't know

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how long ago it is years We did a thing

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at Sirius XAM when they were promoting a Carol Burnett

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DVD box set Question work Anyway, I got to meet

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miss Burnett and she was fantastic. Gamy Schumer hosted that.

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I'm sure you can find some clips online somewhere. But

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I don't think it's crazy that Carol Burnett never hosted SNL,

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and I think it would be awesome if she hosted

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it now, although she is in her nineties. Does Carol

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Burnett want to do that? She says no, I don't

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think I would maybe, like twenty years ago or whatever,

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but that ship is sailed. Remember, mister Bill, you got

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to be old to remember mister Bill. But if you're

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old like me, you remember mister Bill and how awesome

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mister Bill was. Mister Bill is back. Oh no, mister

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Bill tonight at eleven thirty on YouTube. Interesting timing there,

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I mean, guys, put it out at eleven. What are

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you doing going head to head with SNL? This new

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show is mister Bill's Saturday Night Mattene, a new weekly

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variety show Tonight eleven thirty Eastern, hosted by mister Bill

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from his cozy apartment in the Hollywood Hills. The new

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series features restored public domain comedy clips reimagined in Bill Vision,

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vintage commercials, surprise guests, and yes, the mister Bill classic

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SNL shorts that started at all. Mister Bill started as

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a no budget home movie sent in by Walter Williams.

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Williams is part of this new project and says these

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are the shows that inspired mister Bill in the first place,

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The Three Stooges, Harold Lloyd, the Beverly Hillbillies restored and

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reimagined for a new generation. But don't worry, there's still

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plenty of pain and destruction of waiting our host. In

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recent months, mister Williams has taken a social media to

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challenge Lorne Michael's long standing dismissal of the character of

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mister Bill. There's a quote in the recent Susan Morrison

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biography in which Lorne Michaels said the Mister Bill films

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carried quote a certain kind of racial tension. Now, I

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can't tell you the last time I saw a Mister

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Bill sketch. My brain is going it is And maybe

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I'm tone deaf, or maybe I was set years old

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and didn't notice it. I don't remember that. I just

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remember a Plato character kind of get messed up. So

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I'm sorry if I'm self canceling right now. I'll as

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soon as I finished recording here, I'm gonna go watch

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some Mister Bill and refresh my memory. But I don't

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remember it that way at all. Say, mister Bill, where

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are you going? I'm on, I went to a big

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Hollywood Bertie and Kenning Barby's.

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Gee, shut up to your jell.

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We'll hop out some count first to help get you

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in the mood. Well, i'd rather ignorre it. Soda. You

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know I've been trying to.

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Cut it down on my sweets.

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Well, here comes your agent, slug O and he says

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Holly has his coat. Williams called the allegation hurtful and disappointing,

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and said if Lauren had been concerned about racial tension,

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he was the only human who could have stopped them.

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I made twenty five Mister Bill films over the first

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five years, and Lawren seemed quite pleased with the success

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and kept ordering more. William said neither he nor mister

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Bill were invited to SNL's fiftieth anniversary celebrations. And while

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we're talking about this, mister Bill had never appeared on

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Thursday Night Football. What is Al Michael's problem with mister Bill?

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What's going on there? I would watch that right So

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it's I don't know, a Jaguars game. Al Michaels is

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there with Kerk kurb Street, Trevor Lawrence throws an interception

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that's clearly going to be a pick six. Al Michaels

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goes quiet, Mister Bill goes, oh, no, come on, that

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would be awesome television. And the kids today say, I

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told you I had a lot of SNL, but I

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had to get to THEO Vonn thing. The kids today

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are watching SNL. No, they're not sitting in front of

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the television like US old people, and US old people

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are going to bed and just watching clips on Sunday morning, honestly,

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but Saturday Night Live. This shocked as a little strong

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surprised me. Saturday Night Live was the number one US

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YouTube channel by reach over the first six months of

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twenty twenty five. SNL's YouTube channel reached thirty eight point

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six million US users between January first and June thirtieth,

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outpacing things like ABC News, NBC News I, GNCNN, ESPN, Netflix,

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and the NFL. Another SNL article, The La Times, was

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curious about how President Trump might react to it. You know,

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President Trump has a lot of opinions on shows that

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air at eleven thirty. Back in twenty nineteen, the President

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tweeted nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on fake

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news NBC. Question is, how do the networks get away

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with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for

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many other shows, very unfair and should be looked into.

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This is the real collusion. We'll see if mister Trump

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enjoys James Austin Johnson and or Bad Bunny Tonight. Mister

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Trump didn't like Alec Baldwin's impression. In March twenty nineteen,

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Trump wrote SNL continues knocking the same person me over

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and over without so much of a mention of the

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other side. Mister Trump was upset about a rerun that night,

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like an advertisement without consequences, The Daily Beast said. Trump

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reportedly asked advisors and lawyers in early twenty nineteen what

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the FCC, the court system, and even the Department of

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Justice could do to look into SNL. Another late night

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comedy figures who had my tim again? Kind of a

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funny news story in twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty five,

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that's really interesting, right, the President has commented on Loren Michaels,

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saying that Lauren is angry and exhausted, the show even

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more so. Was once good, never great, but now like

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the late night losers who have lost their audience but

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have no idea why it's over for USNL a great

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thing for America now. A Google search of Trump and

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al Michaels did not turn up any comments from the President,

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but al Michaels back in twenty seventeen was responding to

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comments by mister Trump. Mister Trump had told a crowd

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that an NFL player who disrespects her flag should be fired.

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Al Michaels said, once the President made those remarks in

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Alabama at that particular point, it was just like throwing

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a match into a gas tank during the offseason. Both

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sides have to sit down and figure out a way

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to make this situation where it doesn't overwhelm the conversation

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about the NFL. This same article I'm reading from the

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Washington Post says al Michaels discussed a comment he had

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made during Sunday Night Football in which he joked that

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the Giants are coming off off a worse week than

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Harvey Weinstein. Later in that telecast, al Michaels apologize, saying

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I was trying to be a little flip about somebody

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obviously very much in the news all over the country,

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and was not meant in that manner. Live television is

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a tightrope. It's amazing it doesn't happen more often. Once

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in a while, you're gonna say something you wish you

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could reel back in. The one thing about our business

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is we don't have take two. You heard me talk

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about this recently with a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm,

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who hosts the Letterman Podcast that I've said. You say

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enough things into the microphone, you will say something you

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wish he had phrased better, or you wish he had

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never said. And I probably did today. And that is

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your comedy news. Saturday Night Live, eleven thirty. Also mister

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Bill on YouTube at eleven thirty. See you tomorrow,