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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
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I'm gonna deliberately do some different names off the top
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of here today. I feel like all week I've just
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been talking about Nate Brighetsi and Bill Burr. It's gonna
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work in some other people, although we'll get to those guys.
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John Oliver says a UK version of Saturday Night Live
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is a terrible idea. John told Seth Meyers, it just
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sounds like a bad idea. We've had sketch comedy before,
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and it just feels like Saturday Night Live is such
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a unique group. It's a cult. I'm trying not to
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say the word. It's a cult, and I don't know
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how you can impose that cult on the UK. Seth
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Meyers asked John to identify the most cult like thing
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about SNL. Oliver said, what night is it? You stay
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up all night? Meyer said Tuesday night. You stay up
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all night and Tuesday. Oliver said, that's ridiculous. I'm saying
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that's the kind of a thing a cult leader would
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make you do. We stay up all night on Tuesdays.
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By the way, John continued, I think it's been proven
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that SNL is the outlier. It does don't have to
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be dictated to the day that you must not sleep
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on that day or the great Leader will be irritated.
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I'm looking forward to Snluk gives me more things to
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talk about. David Cross will be at Bellingham's Mount Baker
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Theater tonight. He explained touring and said, it's what you do.
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You work up a bunch of material and you take
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it on the road, you shoot a special and when
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that airs, you work up new material and then you
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go out again. This set, though, is not quite as
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topical or political as it usually is. That's surprising, isn't it.
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You'd think you'd have something to talk about right now
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because the first half of the set, with one exception,
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is just a true embarrassing situation. I found myself in
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another difference about this tour. Cross stopped in the middle
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of the tour to go to Broadway as part of
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All in a Comedy about Love. Remember that show? It
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had the rotating cast. Cross said it was a limited
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ten week run or something like that, and they asked
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me to be part of it. It was great. It
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was really a feather in my cap. Cross is doing
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all sorts of things He's also on season four of
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Netflix's The Umbrella Academy. He played Zi Grossman and said,
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I don't think I've worked on a show quite like that,
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especially with the reach that one had, and I'd never
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seen it before. I got the offer and it was
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one of those things where it was like, if you
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could do this, you need to fly out. On Monday.
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I shot a couple scenes and then I went back
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and started watching it with my wife and we immediately
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got hooked. Don't worry about David quitting a stand up,
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he says to me. It's just what I do, and
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I'm doing stand up if I'm not working on a
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project or TV show, movie, whatever the thing is. But
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I'm always doing stand up. I've never stopped doing stand up.
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How did he get a podcast, he told the Bellingham Harald.
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I woke up one day and checked the mail and
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there was a thing saying it was my time to
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do a podcast. It was required by the government, and
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my number came up, so I went down to the
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studio and just started doing it. Jimmy O Yang is
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going to do a show in Hong Kong, and the
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Hong Kong press was all excited about this. My comedy
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trackers were like, oh my goodness, Jimmy O Yang is
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doing a show in Hong Kong. He will play the
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Hong Kong Coliseum on June fourteenth. Time Out reminds us
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Yang can speak Cantonese, Shanghai's and Mandarin Chinese, so they
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are guessing some of the material will be in Cantonese
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at the Hong Kong show. Now, at first, I freaked
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out at the ticket prices, which I saw as three
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hundred and eighty, five hundred and eighty and seven hundred
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and eighty dollars. Now, love Jimmy Oyang, but seven hundred
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and eighty dollars is a lot. But then I learned
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I was not aware there is currency called Hong Kong dollar,
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so the prices are in Hong Kong dollars. And as
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I record this, Google tells me seven hundred and eighty
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Hong Kong dollars is one hundred US dollars. So that's
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not too bad. That's reasonable to see Jimmy Oyang, and
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those are the price he seats. I mean, if we
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want to get the three eighty HK dollars, that's just
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fifty bucks. Tickets on sale today at two pm, which
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time zone that I can help you with for HSBC
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credit Card Priority bookings only. So if you're like, I
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gotta go see Jimmy Oh Yang in Hong Kong, I
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suggest you start looking right now. There's also a kluk
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pre sale on May twelfth at noon. Klook, what's that?
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I don't know either, but I'm the one hosting this thing,
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so I guess up to me to figure out what
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kluk is. Google tells us on Kluk you can find
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discounted attraction tickets, tours with unique experiences, and more. They
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seem to purvey in theme park tickets and airport transfers
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and other things. Kluke Time Out reminds us the Hong
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Kong Coliseum, which sounds like you would be this huge building,
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right you think Jumio Yank's playing the eighty thousand people
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know the Hong Kong Coliseum only seats twelve five hundred people.
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We'll see if he adds a second show. Isn't this fun?
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I haven't mentioned Naperghetzi or Bill Burry yet. Howie Mandel
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was on with Nestor from Baltimore Positive. Nestor was curious
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if everyone should try stand up comedy at one point
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in their life, Howie said, I think if everybody got
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up Benet's stand up, it'd be a huge crowd on
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stage and one or two people in the audience. That's funny.
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I love an audience. I think you should be an
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audience member. I think people should sit comfortably in the
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theater and just watch one person on the stage try
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to regalue with humor. I look at it like a
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giant party, and I'm just trying to be the center
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of attention. As for working Clean, Working Blue, how He says, obviously,
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after all these years in the business, I have many
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hours of prepared material, but I love to be reared off,
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whether it be because of something that's happening in the moment,
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technical problems, something else or whatever. I don't have an
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edit button. I'm just a human. Hannah Berner got one
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of those big profiles by the Hollywood Proforter. I'll zero
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in on the stand up comedy part of it, and
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they were curious if Hannah finds it odd to find
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herself on TV doing stand up instead of reality TV.
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Hannah said, these stand up specials my therapy. Reality TV
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was one of the ways I was put on. So
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I'm grateful for it, but I can't watch reality TV anymore.
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I do think reality TV, as I saw, is that
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everyone was put into characters, and you're pretty much putting
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a box. The rampant misogyny. It gave me this chip
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on my shoulder to be like, I want to be
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seen as me. When I say me, I mean all
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the sides of me. I want to put out the vulnerability,
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the mistakes I've made, the confidence I have, the anxiety have.
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If I'm going to be judged, I want to be
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judged based off at least a human rather than an archetype.
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I do think I always emphasize just how women are
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so multifaceted, and I try to in my comedy say
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things that maybe women were afraid of or insecure about,
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so they can say, Hannah just said it, so it
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can't be that bad. Alright, I'm editing on the fly
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here in my a block. Here, I've got leftover Burr
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and Nate. I'm a little NATed out. Want to take
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a Nate break. Let's do Burr. This piece in The
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New Yorker a really good profile with Burr where he
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got political. It is behind a paywall. But if you're
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good at the internet, like really good at the Internet,
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you gotta have like internet skills, you can get to
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this one, or of course, pay for a subscription to
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The New Yorker like I did. Bill said, why is
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there Fox News? Because there were CNN. No president has
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allowed to be president since the first Bush. So what
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he's saying there, because I've read ahead, is that the
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news networks give every president a hard time. Here are
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some examples, Bill Burr. Once they went after Bill Clinton
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for lying about you know, the thing with the intern.
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Let's not go there. Everybody else. George W. Bush, he
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stole the election. Obama, he's not from here. Trump everything
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that he did. Joe Biden, let's get something on him.
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We can't get something. Oh, his kid does cocaine. As
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it helps if a certain percentage of the president's stays
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deal with the other side trying to take him out
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and peach him, which is never gonna happen. Burr, who
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was there to promote Glengary Kelen Ross, said to the interviewer,
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are we gonna talk about the player? Am I just
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gonna come across as the political guy? We've gone out
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three times do you want to go out? I'm recording
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a podcast, but I'm recording the podcast. But I just
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let you out. Okay, I guess I gotta take a break. Boy,
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where were we? The dog does not understand that Johnny
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Man's got a lot to do today. She just snuck
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back in. I had closed the door for a reason.
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All right, she left. We'll see how far I get here.
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There was a good discussion on Threads. I'd asked the
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question just like it did on the podcast. Is Jay
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Leno a good guy or bad guy? Yeah, there's the
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Conan thing, but he seems like a good guy. That's
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when I was reading the stuff about Mavis and yet
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nobody ever seems say good things about him. I got
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some good responses here. Megan responded on Threads, as I'm
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at Daily Comedy News, Howard Stern has nothing good to
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say about him. After reading the War on Late Night book,
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it sounds like he's a backstabber who also wants everyone
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to like him and no hard feelings after he betrays them.
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Someone named Deva V. Wrote when I lived in LA
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in the late nineties, one of my roommates worked on
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The Tonight Show as a page and then eventually as
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a writer. From what I heard, Leno's a great guy
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to work for, and I was able to see his
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real comic self, which is much more cerpic and funny
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than what he was like on the show for obvious reasons. Yeah,
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I've talked about this. If you watch the old Late
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Jay Leno, you know, not that he was you know
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Tim Dillon or Andrew Schultz or someone like that, but
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he was a lot edgier than the Tonight Show persona.
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the Tonight Show, that is a particular shade of yourself
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that you have to do because that's what the Tonight
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Show is. John Roy, comic who writes for Vulture, said,
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when I did his show, he was very cool and
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hung out in the green room telling comedy stories. He
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also knew my act, which is rare for the host.
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No other host I worked for did either of those things.
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And then Ford probably had the best take. He wrote,
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Jay is a guy like all other people. There's some
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good and some bad in all of us. And I
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did not react well to this. Somebody came at me
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and wrote, how would you pair off? All your readers
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were asked the same question about you. Also, why are
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you holding him up for a public referendum? You can
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let us know your record, so I did. Here's what
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I wrote. Seriously, Okay, I ran SERIOSXM comedy for ten
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years out of a thirty year radio career. My reputation
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is that I'm a nice guy. I'm sure someone out
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there doesn't like me, because we're all humans and all
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comments on that. My reputation in the industry is that
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I'm a nice guy. Like I wrote to the person back,
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I'm sure someone thinks I'm a jerk fase and I
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can be a jerk fase, and I'm sure people who
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are reading my substack are like, this guy's a jerk phase.
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But I admit I'm writing the substack a little jerky
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for attention to promote the podcasts. So I'm sure people
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that don't actually know me and only read that are
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like that guy is a d and I would get
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it and I would totally understand. But people have actually
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worked with me. My reputation is that I'm pretty cool.
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And then, because I was highly offended, I wrote and
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then I explained the spirit of my inquiry is that
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the guy gets dragged by comics, but in interviews he
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seems nice. Anyway, I thought that was an interesting discussion.
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A real quick let's hit gossip corner. Graham Norton is
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selling his New York City crash pad. Must be nice
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to have a New York City crash pad. Listen to
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this crash pad. He's selling it for five point six
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million dollars. The murray Hill carriage House on Sniff and Court,
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which is a private gates muse Now I grew up
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in New York City. I'm like, where is Sniff and Court?
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Manhattan's murray Hill neighborhood. Sniff and Court has just ten residences.
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The homes were built in eighteen sixty three and eighteen
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sixty four. It's horse stables. At the turn of the
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twentieth century they were converted into single family townhouses. I
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looked at the pictures, which you'll find on the rob Report.
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Pretty nice looking place. The great room has fifteen foot ceilings,
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a fireplace, there's a dining room. The second floor guest
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bedroom has a marble bathroom. The third floor has the
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primary suite. There's even a rooftop. Not bad. Five point
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six million dollars if you got the cash. I don't.
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I wish I did, because the place looks pretty dorn, snazzy,
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and for a place in New York. It's just that