Oct. 24, 2025

It's Stavvy's World and you're just living in it

It's Stavvy's World and you're just living in it
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On today's episode of Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mack shares some late-night jokes about the East Wing of the White House. The episode features Jimmy Kimmel discussing his unexpected rise to his talk show andhow Jon Stewart should have gotten the show.

Johnny also critiques Netflix's categorization of Adam Sandler's new film, 'j Kelly,' in the comedy category, and comments on the good and bad aspects of Sandler's career.

The show also highlights Stavros Halkias' career profile in The New York Times, Leslie Jones' new special, and a mix of other comedy stock market insights. The episode concludes with a humorous take on a Japanese comedian, Takashi Wakasugi, who finds success in Australia.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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I am psyched and feeling good today. Hello, I'm Johnny

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Mack with your daily comedy news. Why you're so happy,

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Johnny Mack. If you've been around me lately, you've heard

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me say things like I don't want to talk about

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politics all day. I just want to make fun of

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like Jim Gaffigan. Well, good news. Jim Gaffigan did a

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lengthy interview about his Bourbon project on tomorrow's show. I'll

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lead off with that so I can put my feet up,

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take it easy, and goof on, Jim Gaffigan. That's what

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I want to do. But today there's some actual news

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that we do need to cover. But let's start with

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late night jokes. Did you see someone's knocking down the

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East wing of the White House. Now hold on, now,

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if you're like John you just said you want to

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do politics, This isn't politics, This is just silly jokes.

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Jimmy Fallon said, Guys, a lot of people are angry

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at President Trump because it was just announced he's demolishing

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the entire East wing of the White House to build

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his new ballroom. Yeah, the entire wing is gone. Normally,

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if you hear that you're flying front to your airlines.

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See that's not a political joke, that's a clean joke.

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Seth Meyer said, this is the first thing aliens do

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in movies to announce their evil. They blow up the

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White House. Trump is just cutting out the middle man

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of invading aliens. Love it. And if you're a long

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time listener, remember during the pandemic, I had to create

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and rely on the late Bot. Well, late Bot is back,

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Baby late Bot says the east wing used to be

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where the first Lady's office was. Mulaney is reportedly thrilled

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she's finally getting her wish. She doesn't have to be

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in the White House. Officials say the ballroom will fit

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a thousand guests, which is great because that's just enough

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room for Trump's lawyers. As I'm sitting here recording just in.

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John Stewart as commented on the ballroom on his weekly

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show podcast. John said, just make mar Alago the new

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White House and Palm Beach the new capital. That's fiscally responsible.

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That's somebody looking out for the debt. Speaking of John Stewart,

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Jimmy Kimmel gave an interview and said that ABC should

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have given eleven thirty to John Stewart way back when

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Kimmel was on Ted Danson's podcast and said ABC wanted

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a traditional late night talk show in that slot. John

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and I have the same manager, James baby Doll Dixon,

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and James was about to close this deal for John

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to host the show. The ABC chairperson watching my tape

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and he was like, I think this might be the guy.

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And he brought the tape to Bob Iger and Iger said, yeah,

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this might be the guy. It was a very strange

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thing because James was in the difficult position of having

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to tell John Stewart, You're not going ABC, but Jimmy's

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going ABC. That was a mistake. By the way, they

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definitely should hire John. If I'm in that position, There's

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no question I hired John one hundred times out of

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one hundred. Kim Mill said he was confused over winning

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the gig. He remembers saying, I was like, why, this

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is quite a leap you guys made. I was on

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The Man Show. I was doing football picks on Fox

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NFL Sunday and Iiger goes, well, you were cheaper, and

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everybody laughed, but I knew he wasn't kidding. Kim O'll

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recalled the early days of the show were rough. I

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think my vision of hell is being forced to watch

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my first year of shows, because it's just as painful

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as anything could get for me. It took us a

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long time to figure it out, and we're very fortunate

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to get a long time to figure it out. Somehow

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we wound up getting good ratings. I still don't know

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how that was, but they were good enough to keep

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us on the air, even though I was causing trouble.

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Every like two and a half months, some major thing

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was happening. Something came out of my mouth, you know,

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and caused a whole thing. It was tumultuous. Kim Will

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has asked about Colbert Gates. You know, it was a

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little quid pro quo make the famous politician go away.

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What the merger through, Kimmel said, we don't know for sure.

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What I do know for sure is that some of

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the information that's been released by the people who let

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him go can't possibly be true. There's no way he's

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losing forty million dollars a year. There's no way it's

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even close to that. I know how finances of late

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night television shows work, and it's just ridiculous. It doesn't

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make any sense at all. So when you hear things

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that are obviously lies, you have to assume that there

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are more lies behind it. And that's what I think. John,

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How you do and not being political today, It's going great, guys.

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Nicki Glazer, she's got the right agent. Hollywood has decided

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we're gonna put Nicki Glazer in front of everybody. That

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is not a backhanded comment about Niki. They do that

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with people every so often. The next person you're going

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to see everywhere is Rachel Sennott. Write that down. We'll

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come back in two months. You'll see what I'm saying.

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Nicki Glazer is going to starve and produce a new

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film that Judd Apatow will produce for Universal Pictures. It

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is described as a modern, edgy romantic comedy. That's all

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we know about that. Nikki Glazer will host the Golden

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Globes this year, which brings me to the next story,

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which has me very upset. Netflix. You know they made

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that movie Jay Kelly with George Clooney and Adam Sandler,

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the great gramatic actor, Adam Sandler. Yeah, they're putting it

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in the comedy categories. For the Golden Globes. Now, why

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does this bother you, Johnny Mack? Because everyone is saying,

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Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, is fantastic in it,

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and why wouldn't he be. He's a great dramatic actor. Now,

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if you nominate this as a comedy and he wins,

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he's gonna think he's a good comedian, which he's not. Guys,

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put this in as a drama. They're planning on nominating

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Adam Sandler for a Best Supporting Actor. But don't call

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this thing a comedy? What are you doing? Obsessimately whole plan.

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I thought I had this figured out, that we were

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gonna convince Adam Sandler, you know what, rest of your

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life you do drama. Jake Kelly in theaters November fourteenth.

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It'll be on Netflix December fifth. The Golden Globe nominations

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are out to say eighth. In the Chicago Tribune, Christopher

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Burrelli writes, we are currently entering a new Sandler season,

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one of those brief, occasional windows of time where we

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are reminded that, hey, you know what, life's too short.

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Everyone likes Adam Sandler these days. He makes some bad movies. Yes,

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and he makes some smart movies. We might even root

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for him to win an oscar for j Kelly. That's right,

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we would. Would he wear a hoodie and jogra State

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Academy Awards, we would hope. So let's see what am

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I wearing right now on the Sandler thing. I've got

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a pretty nice looking gray sweat zip jacket. That's pretty good.

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But I am wearing my traditional podcast in gray sweatpants.

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So if I jump on a zoom call, you'll think

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I'm dressed nicely, But then waist down, I'm all Sandler today.

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Barelli talks about walking into the United Center to see

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Sandler's stand up tourney. Writes, says, I waited across the street.

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I listened to a pair of traffic cops get into

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a confusing but somehow relatable argument about what's actually endearing

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about Adam Sandler. One cop said he's a good actor.

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The other cop said, I think all these people here

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because he's funny. Yeah, Adam Sandler the comedian, Well he's

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a good actor, but I don't know what's funny about him.

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Am I a cop in Chicago? Is this like an

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HBO series where I'm leading a dual life and like,

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in the daytime, I'm a podcaster in the basement and

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at night I'm a traffic cop in Chicago. Because that

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sounds like this guy overheard a conversation with me. And

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by the way, this is what I want the show

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to be. I don't want to talk about Therion Comedy Festival.

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This is more fun this piece right. Sandler's new shows

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are titled You're My Best Friend, and as Alan quarters

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that sounds, it's a pretty spot on way of describing

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a show so driven by the audience's warmth and goodwill,

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it transcends what we typically expect of a performer. To

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put it bluntly, Sandler is not a particularly funny stand

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up and he has never been. Thank you, Christopher Borelli.

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Oh my god, I might have to reach out to

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this guy and have this guy on. Where was I

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he was telling us to put it bluntly, Sandler's not

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a particularly funny stand up and he has never been. Yeah,

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you can't say that enough. I know, I repeated it.

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He paces and arrives at jokes that sound half from

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membered and talks in a speedy mumble. I would say

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about half the people seated around me. Never laughed out loud.

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Once you preach, Christopher Brelli preach, but they were smiling.

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Saandlor is almost nothing new to say about the topics

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he's been talking about at fifty nine and growing old,

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surviving teenage daughters, stumbling through married sex, and somehow it

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still kind of works. The New York Times that a big,

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big profile of Stavros Hockey as the premise Stavros Hockey

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has wants a career, well, his fans let him have one.

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This thing is really long. The person who wrote it

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really knows Stavus's career. They wrote, If you think he

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recognize Halkias, you probably do. At five seven and three

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hundred pounds, he has a ninety five percentile body type

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that he does not try to hide. His wardrobe centers

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on loudly powdered shirts and European tracksuits. All right, so

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so far today, I'm definitely dressed better than Stavros, and

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I'm probably tied with Sandler unless we're on a zoom,

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in which case I'm in first place because of my

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nice gray is Zip hoodie. I digress. They talk about

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Stavros's last which people often accuse him of faking, but

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which burst forth so often that if it was ever

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an affectation, it seems to have become natural long ago.

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A high percentage of the people who approached him and

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Madison turned around after hearing this laugh. Then the next

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section is a long recap of his career. Starvos says,

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I don't really like being famous. I don't really like

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seeing people like stopping me on the street. He said

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he might have to adopt a more discreet look. The

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question of Halkius's performance on Tires and he's really good

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in that. That's a great show. You know, I think

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I haven't watched like the last four. It got distracted.

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Thank you for New York Times reminding me have to

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go back and watch that on Tires. Is any indication

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he's not disappearing into his roles like many comedians who

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transition acting. He seems to have been hired to play

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himself on a TV show, a thrill for fans who

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previously knew him as himself on a podcast or himself

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on a stage. Every comedian is to some degree trap

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by what their audience has come to expect, asked Jim Carrey.

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But the podcast comedian who's invited into listeners' homes, cars,

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and ear canals for multiple hours each week is especially

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likely to evoke a sensation of familiarity as people he

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has not met. These people may not want their imaginary

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French to change. Good stuff. Leslie Jones her new specials

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out today on Peacock. It is called Leslie Jones Life

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Part Two. Leslie Jones tackles aging relationships, fame, and life's

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unexpected to us with a kind of honesty and fire.

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Only Leslie Jones can.

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Bring comedy stock marketine.

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Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look

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at some comedians and we talk about buying proverbial stock

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in their careers. We try and sell high, we try

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and buy low. To the point, I'm tempted to buy

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some of the comedians who appeared at the Riod Comedy Festival,

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but on principle I will not. All right, some recommendations

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this week, let's buy Stavrel's hockey has I mean, you

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got to see the length of this profile in the

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New York Times. This is a major, major thing and

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that doesn't just to happen, Which makes me think, as

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I said earlier in the show, Hollywood decides somebody's going

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to have a moment, Nikki Glazer, Rachel Sinnott. Somebody's pushing Stavros,

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so let's keep an eye on that. I bet we

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see a lot of Stavros press now. Will buy Stavros

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Hockey as before his stock is expensive. Let's sell Joe Rogan.

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Not that the Joe Rogan articles have been pretty positive

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this year, but they're increasingly negative, and Joe is getting

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increasingly dragged into the political rabbit hole, and I don't

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think that's a place he wants to stay. Let's sell

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our word Joe Rogan stock, and let's start to accumulate

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some more Sandler. The buzz on this Ja Kelly thing

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is really good, and he is, of course a great

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dramatic actor. Why would you not want to support that.

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Let's buy some Adam Sandler. That's your comedy stock market

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for this week. Out today an audio album. I always

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like that. It's Luke Haiggees have that also Outsiday on

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audio mal Halls. What are we doing today? Becky Robinson

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will self release her debut stand up special. It is

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called Becky Robinson entitled It'll be on her website today

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in this hour Becky Robinson dives into the chaos of

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coming out as a lesbian during the pandemic, the pitfalls

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of being way too friendly as an adult in her

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unapologetic love for Taco Bill. But that night wouldn't be

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complete without an appearance from her character, the entitled Housewife.

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There's not just a Special. Becky Robinson will release a

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thirty minute documentary offering a behind the scenes look at

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its creation. From The Japanese Times, your home for comedy news,

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the headline a Japanese comedian walks into an Australian bar

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and stays there. Takashi Waka Wakasugi stop by the Tokyo

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Comedy Bar in the Shibui Award. Waka had just gotten

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back from Edinburgh performing his show Comedy Samurai. He opened

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his set at the Tokyo Comedy Bar saying I live

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in Australia, so that's why my English is a little craiky.

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This was Waka's first time back in Japan's it's moving

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to Australia in twenty eighteen. He says, toilets are always

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a reliable bet for laughs. I also like to make

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fun of Ozzie people. From a Japanese viewpoint, and they

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love that. They love Japan, he said. Australian audience says

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know a lot about Japan. Edinburgh was more of a challenge.

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I told them Japanese people make things better. Toylet's we

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fix that whiskey. We fixed that for you. They hated

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that joke. He says. His writing approach is planting a

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seed and digging for oil. Both take time, but they'll

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pay off if you're patient. He says, I love doing

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four minutes one joke, adding the longer approach works better

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with live crowds than on the internet. Yes, he'll do

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language jokes and one bit. A misheard word sends him

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spiraling into a series of imagined meanings. For example, the

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slang term yolo for you only live once. He spun

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that into a joke about Buddhism's belief in multiple lives.

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That sounds like a great premise. What he loves about

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Western stand up is how personal it is, unlike in Japan,

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where comedians often play exaggerated characters. Takashi wagga waga suki.

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And that is your comedy news for today. Fun show.

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We'll see tomorrow. We'll talk about Jim Gaffigan's bourbon can't wait.