Oct. 4, 2025

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

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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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,