Is Theo Von (This Past Weekend) paying owners $100??? PLUS Who sold it better? Ricky Gervais vs. Jim Gaffigan

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack
with your daily comedy news. When we

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last left, I was recording Sunday's
episode. Now I'm recording Monday's episode immediately

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after. Why because I have the
house to myself. Now, let's see

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how long that lasts. What happens
is sometimes people come home and they start

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sneaking around doing the laundry. My
studio is right next to the laundry room,

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and they think I can't hear them. I can hear them, and

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the sneaking around is actually more distracting. If you came downstairs here to the

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basement level and you had a drum
and a kazoo and you were super loud.

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At least I could make a bit
out of that, like when my

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dog barks. At least I can
make a bit of that. But sneaking

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around, Hi, do I sound
grouchy? There's only one way to get

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out of grouchy. Let me move
a story up to the top. This

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was not originally elite story, but
just to shake the mood here already.

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Have you figured it out yet?
Netflix has announced Joe Coy Live from Brooklyn,

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the latest special from comedian Joe Coy, see him already in a good

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mood. Will premiere on Netflix June
fourth. In Line from Brooklyn, Joe

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Coy shares his unfiltered opinions on social
media, aging and moving into a new

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phase of his life. His Zaddy
Face taped at the King's Theater in Brooklyn

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last November. Now we all know
Joe Cooy can have some pretty unfiltered opinions.

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One time, Oh boy, he
was just so mean. He went

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after Taylor Swift. Poor Taylor,
She's just out there trying to sing her

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songs, make everybody happy. She
shows up with the Golden Globes, and

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then Joe Koy had to go and
do this. As you know, we

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came on after a football doubleheader.
The big difference between the Golden Globes and

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the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor

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Swift. All right, while I'm
in this kind of mood. Ricky Gervais

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versus Jim Gaffigan Battle of the alcohol
salespeople. Jim Gaffigan went on the WGN

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Morning News. He was as Bourbon. Let's listen, how did you come

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up with that name? And does
it have a double meaning? It does

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well, it's not about the old
guy that kind of rings in you know

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who we you know, get rid
of at the end of the year.

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And it's not about the time that
a father which is very important that a

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father spends with their children. It
is the time when a father can drink

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alcohol. And you know, I
love it. Like alcohol is not the

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solution, but it's pretty close in
and so all right, you know,

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kind of funny line there, but
the energy is just off. Ricky Gervais,

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please show Jim Gaffigan how it's done. Hi, I'm Rickey Gavaz and

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this is Dutch Bond vodka. It's
a premium quality spirit made from British apple,

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so it tastes great and it's friendly
to the environment. I'll tell you

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love this, Einstein, it'd be
like, oh, he equals MC or

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SIT squared. In all seriousness,
alcohol isn't good for clear thinking at all.

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It's a neurotoxin that can disrupt communications
in the brain. It also affects

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the function of brain cells and that
can lead to intellectual impairment. If anything,

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so Dutch Bonn, that'd be fair. If Jim did that exact same

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material. I'm not sure it would
have worked as well, and I could

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see Jim deliver go back and write
a transcript for yourself. Actually, no,

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you're on an Apple podcast. Now
there's a transcript scrawled back up and

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read in your head to Jim Gaffigan
voice what Ricky just said. Jim could

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absolutely do that material. But Ricky, I don't know. There's just something

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about the way he munkes for the
camera. Maybe I don't know. Speaking

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of Ricky, the Advertiser and Times
dot co dot uk tells us Ricky Gervai's

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fans weren't leaving anything to chance.
They started lining up for tickets at four

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a m. On Friday. One
fan said he got up at five point

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forty five and arrived at fifteen and
there were ready twenty people ahead of him

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in the queue. By the time
the doors opened to the ticket office,

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the line stretched all the way up
High Street. Regent Center house manager Chris

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Cole said it's a real honor to
be selected as the only venue outside of

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London for Ricky Gervay's new material show. This is one of the most high

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profile acts we've ever welcome to the
Regent, so we're expecting tickets to sell

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incredibly quickly Ricky Gervay's and Friends Regent
Center, Tonight's end Tomorrow your original lead

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story before I shuffled the order on
the fly. There theo Von currently supposedly

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possibly maybe I don't know, never
met the guy, I've never opened for

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him, but possibly perhaps baby doesn't
pay his openers too well. Yeah,

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Dan Soder was on the REGs podcast
and set a spectacularly successful podcasting comedian only

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pays his openers one hundred dollars.
The Rags is hosted by Soda, Joe

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List, Lewis Gomez, and Robert
Kelly. This article points out they're all

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deep enough in the comedy industry to
reliably spread rumors and gossip about comedy's biggest

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name. So Soda revealed he had
heard from a working comic who may or

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may not have opened for Theovonne.
Soda then mouthed words to his co host

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that looked like he said Theovon,
but he didn't actually say it. Whoever

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this comedian is, that's cheap allegedly
only pays out one hundred dollars a show.

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The rest of the cast were appalled. Soda told Bobby Kelly, and

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this ain't when you started in the
sixties, Soda said, the Chicago Theater

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seats over four thousand people. I
think around there. I'm gonna look that

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up, thirty six hundred seats,
so yeah, around four thousand. Soda

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said he's doing two sold out shows
a night at least eighty dollars a ticket,

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and you're making that's two hundred thousand
a night, and you're paying your

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opener one hundred dollars. Other comedians
corroborated the rate. In the comments,

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users found instances of stand ups such
as Ari Manis opening for Theovonn and revealing

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during their sets they were only paid
one hundred dollars. Iowa based comic Dante

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Powell offered his own story of opening
for Vaughn in a thread. According to

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Dante Powell, this article I opened
for Theota Theater a couple of years ago

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and didn't get paid at all.
That said, not only did he get

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us into some really cool spots in
that city as well as some dope restaurants.

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He paid after the shows, but
he was a welcoming hang and tagged

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me at a bunch of social media
posts that got me a bunch of followers,

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So even out in the end for
me. I can't stress enough how

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kind he was. I'm a regular
feature for Kyle Kanad and Gary Goleman,

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and they both make sure I do
really well financially, really in all caps,

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really well financially any weekends I do
with them, so I try to

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take it all in stride. I
don't know what Ari and the other opener

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got paid, but they didn't mention
any issues with it. Soder said he

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was inspired by this story to value
up and coming comics, saying I'm gonna

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venmo all my old openers. Bobby
Kelly said that's nuts, because the podcast

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money is bleeping nuts, never mind
the money from the shows. Joe Liszt

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teased that THEO isn't the only comedian
at that pay grade who doesn't trickle down

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the wealth, but he would not
say who. He was talking about.

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Good stuff from Vulture about Joe Malani's
late night show. They wrote, here's

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the thing, Netflix and Malanie don't
need to keep doing Everybody's in LA as

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it exists now. A future effort
from Malaney could be adjusted to air just

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once or twice a week. That's
what I think the move is, rather

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than every night. The weirdness could
be dialed down just a bit to bring

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in a broader audience and make the
show feel more about pop culture and world

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events versus a la travelog. Or
maybe Malanie could do this format four times

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a year, pulling a twenty twenty
four ConA and traveling to a different city

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each quarter. I'd sure watch Everyone's
in New Orleans. That all a great

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suggestion. The Grio with a great
take on Kat Williams. I share this

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in the Facebook group on Friday Daily
Comedy News podcast group The Grill writes,

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we have to be honest about Kat
Williams because I watched his new Netflix special

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and I have questions. Williams is
a comedy icon, no doubt, we

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love him, but there's something missing
from his act, and I think a

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lot of people are afraid to say
it. In the spirit of comedy where

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nothing is unsable, I'm gonna say
it. You know the old joke about

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how you go to a Chinese restaurant, need a whole meal and you're hungry

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thirty minutes later. Well, when
I watch a comedy special, I don't

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want the comedy slip out of my
mind thirty minutes after the show. I

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want more than laughs. I want
jokes, at least one that I can

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walk away thinking about. I want
those well constructed moments I can repeat to

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myself, maybe to friends, to
remind myself how good the comic was.

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Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Trevor
Noah. I think there are two types

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of comedians. There are people with
great material and there are people with a

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funny vibe whose whole on stage presence
is so hilarious that they could read the

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phone book and it would be funny. Chappelle is equally both, so is

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Wanda Sykes. Rock is much more
of a material guy. His work is

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meticulously crafted, and I think he
needs that to kill. Tracy Morgan,

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on the other hand, is much
more of a phone book guy. This

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is really well said, All of
this, this is on point, everything

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so far from the grio. Cant
Williams is probably the biggest phone book comic

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today. His vibe is energy and
his voice all make his comedy come alive.

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I'll jump in here, I had
commented when I reviewed the special last

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week. I felt like it was
taking him forty five seconds to set up

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an okay joke, but I was
entertained. The guy is entertaining. He's

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compelling. I like wat I like
listening to him speak. How funny it

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was, I don't know. It
was all vibe, and I think the

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Grio has nailed this here. He
plays a character on stage, a badass,

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hyper self confidence, super black man
who may or may not be a

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pimp. That character adds a lot
to the funny he's getting by on the

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cat persona and the voice and the
funny energy. He's not putting in the

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work to write great jokes, and
I know he can do that. I

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want that from him. Joe Rogan
had high praise for Tony Hingecleff. Tony's

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a lot more popular than he was
a week ago thanks to the roast of

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Tom Brady and well deserved guest at
Derek Post and said, when it came

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to roasting, I think Tony's the
goat. I think he's the greatest.

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Rogan said, Tony's the best.
There were some forces that were trying to

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limit him from his ability to shine. Hmm. Interesting, He's reckless.

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Fortune Fiemster and wife Jax will serve
as the Chicago Pride Parade Grand Marshals.

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Paride is Sunday, June thirtieth.
Parade organizer Pride Chicago said, Fortune and

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Wife will bring their infectious energy and
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LGBTQ plus community. I ninety five
Rock asked Lenny Clark, who is on

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the Mount Rushmore of Boston and boy
Dennis Leary. I hope you're not listening,

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Lenny Clark said, well, Bill
Burr, Louis c. K and

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as much as I hate to say
it, Dane Cook and Joe Rogan.

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Yeah, I think he nailed those
four. I mean, these are all

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incredibly successful stars that came out of
Boston. It's funny. I was listening

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to Bill Burr the other day and
he said, we left Boston because we

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couldn't crack the ceiling. The guys
there were Steve Sweeney, Don Gavin,

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myself, Kenny Rogerson, some unbelievable
comics you may have never heard of.

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But these guys. We used to
work a show in Boston and bring in

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these nationwide acts and would blow them
off the stage. Just three shows at

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the Sydney Comedy Festival, I won
the Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase. The second

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the best of the Fest International on
the third is I'm stumbling here trying to

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figure out how to clean it up. Faced Shakespeare. You know when you're

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drunk. Drunk faced Shakespeare, you
got it? Yeah, drunk face Shakespeare,

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let's go with that. Am I
actually going to get through this whole

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podcast without somebody coming home and doing
laundry? This? This is amazing.

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Chris Mahea spoke to the Stranger dot
com You're home for comedy news. He

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was playing the Egyptian, which is
rumored to be haunted. They asked Chris

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Mahia do you believe in ghosts?
Chris Mihas said, I'm ghost agnostic,

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but also I don't mess with ghosts. I'm not gonna test that out.

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If the Egyptian really is haunted,
you better not leave me alone in any

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rooms. I know white people love
to go to haunted places test that stuff

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out because you love being in places
you don't belong. But nope, I'm

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