Aug. 25, 2025

Jay Leno Responds to Rosie, Lorne Michaels on SNL 51 and Shane Gillis wants a beer

Jay Leno Responds to Rosie, Lorne Michaels on SNL 51 and Shane Gillis wants a beer

Jay Leno responds to Rosie O'Donnell.. Lorne Michaels weighs in on Colbert, TikTok, and the future of SNL (plus news on the UK version!). Marc Maron delivers a brutal but thoughtful monologue on the current state of podcasting. Also: Ralph Barbosa rebuilds his act, Shane Gillis shouts for beer, and Ken Jeong is your King of Comedy for some reason.

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Shoonni Mack with your daily

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comedy news. You may recall last week Rosie O'Donnell took

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a shot at the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno.

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You know that guy. Yeah, she took a shot at

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him for something he did with a guest with one

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of the biggest losers. Jay Leno has responded and outrageously said,

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I don't dislike Rosie, She's a funny comedian. Jay added,

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I don't know where Rosie's coming from these days, and

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said when he hosted The Tonight Show for twenty two years,

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which makes it outrageous that he would even have opinions

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about how late night television should go or not. I mean,

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who are you, Jay Leno, to say what late night

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is or isn't. So you beat David Letterman and they

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had to bring you back to rescue Conan O'Brien's failing ratings,

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I mean, what do you know? I like this bit.

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Jay said he would meet with guests before filming to

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discuss what would be happening during their segment. Jay said,

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I'm pretty sure I asked beforehand if it would be okay.

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If not, we wouldn't have done it. It's why we

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got stars who wouldn't do many other shows. In Puck,

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Matt Bellany caught up with Lorne Michaels, who was asked

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what was Lauren Michael's reaction over Colbert Gate. Lauren said,

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I was just stunned. I'm on the side of the

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people who do shows. But there's two audiences now. There's

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the audience that is watching on TikTok and YouTube, and

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there's a linear audience. Both Seth and Colbert are heirs

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to David Letterman. You know what I mean. Conan O'Brien

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as well. Yeah, I mean they all have shows that

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David Letterman used to host. If you're gonna draw a

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line from David Letterman to Seth Myers Late Night, it's

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gonna be a little crooked in my humble opinion. But

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what do I know. I'm recording a podcast in the basement.

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Lorden Michaels has been on SNL forty six out of

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fifty one seasons. They like to pretend that those other

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five years didn't happen. Lauren hasn't been with SNL for

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fifty years. He took a break there. Look it up

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Johnny Mack. Now you're killing Lorden Michaels. No, just pointing

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it out where were Lauren said, They're going to be

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that type of late night show, just as I'm still

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doing SNL as if everybody's watching that night. But Jimmy

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Fallon does a lot of stuff you can watch all

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day podcast. Do you think that Colbert cancelation was political?

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Lauren said, I don't think any of us are ever

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going to know that. He talked about the Smothers Brothers

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thing back in nineteen sixty nine. That happened before I

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was born, so I mean, you know, I guess it's

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t gentally related. Good question here. Have you been assured

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by comcasts that the Jimmy and Seth shows are safe

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for the foreseeable future? They're both signed through twenty twenty eight.

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Lord Michael said, yeah, I think the CEO who I'll

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be working for for the rest of my life has integrity.

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But at the same time, everybody has broadcast licenses, everyone has,

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you know, but I don't really believe that we affect things.

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Interesting answer onto SNL, Lauren, do you feel pressure to

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reinvent it this season? Yeah, for sure, it'll be announced

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in a week or so. This article came out late

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last week, so it may have even happened this morning.

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Will James Austin Johnson be Trump? Yes, I personally hope

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James Austin Johnson goes back and listens to his original

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Trump depression. It has really started to drift last season.

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Lauren didn't want to talk about retirement, but Puck asked,

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are you going to give anyone in particular on your

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team some added responsibilities this season? Good phrasing there, Lauren said,

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that's already been happening in the past year or so.

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More people are involved in the choices and in the decisions.

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But I'm not worried about AI because AI won't guess

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what I'm gonna do between ten and eleven on show nights,

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because I have no idea. There's a lot of people

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in that room with opinions. I make the final decision, obviously,

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but it's not as if people don't let me know

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how strongly they feel. I guess I'll pull up this story.

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I actually had it in the second half last week,

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Sky revealed plans about bringing SNL to the UK. Sky's

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executive director of Unscripted Originals, Phil Edgar, Jones said it's

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exciting a bit scary as well. Edgar Jones spent some

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time embedded with Lauren in the SNL USA team. He

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has confirmed that James Longman, the executive producer of The

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Late Late Show with James Cordon, will become the showrunner

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of SNL UK. Edgar Jones hopes the show will be

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true to the American original, but quote has to be

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a very British thing if it's going to resonate with

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audiences in the UK. The Sky UK SNL will launch

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in twenty twenty six. There have also been remakes in China, Germany,

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Italy and South Korea. Out on Netflix today, kill Tony

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guests include Jim Norton, Mark Norman, Matt Rife. Boy you

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combined kill Tony, Tony Hinchcliff and Matt Rife. The Internet's

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gonna explode. There's gonna be a whole set of comedians.

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We're not gonna be able to deal with that. Guys.

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It's just a show. Just watch it. It's fun. Slate

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had done a big article probably ten days two weeks

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ago now about kill Tony. Slate writes, some veterans stand

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ups find themselves wondering if kill Tony is less of

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a comedy exposition and more of a vindictive freak show.

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James Adomian said there's a visible through line here back

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to shows like Opie and Anthony. He describes such shows

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as occasionally funny but mostly just offensive. Kil Tony on

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Netflix today, Shane Gillis he's appearing in another bud Light commercial.

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This one is titled Vender Voices. You see Shane Gillis

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shouting across Darryl k Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Shane is

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wearing a Texas Longhorns polo shirt. He's attempting to get

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the attention of a vendor. They go back and forth,

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Hilarity ensues, then his friend spoilers for the Budlight Commercial's

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friend comes back from a successful beer run. This is interesting.

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The paper that's the office spin off. Remember I told

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you they were gonna put like four episodes out and

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then do like two, two and two and burn the

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whole thing off in September. Well, Peacock has changed their mind,

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but not the way I recommend. They're now dropping all

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ten episodes on September fourth, when we're all watching Cowboys Eagles,

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and that means you know sits like av Club Involve.

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Sure they'll have reviewed the entire thing before you and

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I even have a chance to watch it. Like I'm

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a podcaster who works from home. I can't watch the

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paper at six thirty in the morning before a review

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of ten episodes of something drops. You gotta give me

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a minute. I think NBC Peacock is making a mistake here.

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I think they should do a weekly thing and get

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some buzzing around it and get people talking about it.

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The ten episode drop makes me think they don't have

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confidence in it. I have seen some internet chatter from

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people who have seen it who said it's actually pretty good.

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But I don't know. This is just really weird. Why

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would you drop all ten? On September fourth, Ralph Barbosa

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spoke to the La Times after his special came out,

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and he said, now I've got about ten minutes worth

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of jokes to my name. I'm broke comedy wise, I'm broke.

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He grinned and said it's the funniest place to be.

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The Times asked Barbosa about the perspective he brings as

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the next generation of Latin comedian. Ralph said, I don't

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necessarily think it's important to get my voice out there.

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But I do like making jokes about ice in immigration

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because it's like the only way I know how to

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bring attention to it. I'm not a big political dude

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or anything like that, but yeah, I've made jokes about

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things like immigration stuff, I stuff. I feel like there's

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certain topics, certain subjects you can't avoid. After a certain point,

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we should talk about it. We should at least put

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it in the faces of the people who aren't going

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to talk about it. Like, if you're not going to

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talk about it, that's fine too, but you got at

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least hear about it. Congratulations to Ken Jung. He is

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receiving an award from the fifteenth Annual Catilina Film Festival

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on September twenty seventh. The award the King of Comedy

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Award the King of Comedy Ken Jung, presented by the

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Catalia Film Institute. The King of Comedy trophy is given

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to a performer who has mastered the craft of comedy

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and uses it to uplift, inspire, and bring joy. Jung's

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credits include Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Role Models, Right Along Too, Transformer,

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Stark of the Moon, Tom and Jerry and of course

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his roles in the Hangover trilogy and as Senior Chang

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on Community. The New York Post was catching up with

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Eddie Peppatone and they pointed out your IMDb list two

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upcoming projects. Can you spill any details? Eddie explained, untitled

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Neil Brennan project was filmed a bunch of years ago

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and never went anywhere. Neil was working on a pilot

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for Fox and they passed on it, and I don't

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know why it's up there like that. He's also working

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on Dead, an indie film where he plays a rabbi.

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The story is about a young woman's dad who becomes

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a ghost and won't leave until there's something settled, and

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Eddie Peppertone's character oversees a quote Jewish exorcism. Tony Rock, comedian,

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he has a brother named Chris. Tony was doing some

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crowd work at a recent show. A video clip has

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gone viral. Rock asked a man in the audience, you

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want to fight m effor. It was all in good fun,

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but the man got up and took off his glasses,

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seemingly prepared to fight, and Tony Rock said, you better

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sit down. I ain't Chris m effor the crowd laughed

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at the joke. Tony Rock high five to his audience member, Hey,

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you know what happens when you pull an SNL story

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up to the first half of the podcast. You get

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to the second half and you realize, oh, you don't

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have any stories left. Hah. What you don't know is

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I had bounced this Mark Maron story because I thought

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the first half was getting long, but nope, now it's

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going into today's show after all. Newsweek asked Mark Maron,

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what do you think about the current state of podcasts.

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Maren said, at the beginning, it was sort of the

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wild West. It was an open format. You could do

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whatever you wanted done on like comedy, but with more production,

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especially what it was all just audio. And I think

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at the beginning there was sort of a movement. Was

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this kind of populous and that everybody thought they could

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do it, And it's the same with comedy now. A

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lot of people do it for a lot of different reasons.

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Some people are doing it just because their brand will

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enable them to have another cash flow by capitalizing on

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who they are, whether they're good at it or not.

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But ultimately it's created a lot of yammering, and once

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everybody went to video, and once old school mainstream show

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business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able,

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through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show

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business empires. And I think podcasting facilitated that, and that's good.

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I think in another way, podcasting help people get their

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voices out there and niche markets and really do it

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interesting stuff, but also lower the bar for entertainment in general.

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I think you have as much, if not more, unique

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and interesting content with interesting personalities and talent. But then

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you have a much larger portion of two to three

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white guys sitting in front of microphones talking about the

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last time they crap their pants as adults. So you

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have this large contingency of like afternoon drive radio that

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seems to speak to a lot of it, which I

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think lowers the bar. Then you do the other stuff.

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But I think it open doors to people having more

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control the type of show business they wanted to do.

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might not have thought they had a profound amount of talent,

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but at the very least could sit and talk to

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other people. I can't tell you whether it's a good

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or bad. There's a lot of both, and probably more

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bad than good. Mark, what advice do you have when

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a young comic comes up to you and says they

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want to start a podcast? Mark says, well, that timing

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is great, and you're gonna be up against a lot.

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I'm too old to know what it really takes. I've

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never really been a guy who produces content for content's sake.

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terms of the other tried and true ways of getting

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you and your being and brand out there, and it's

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all on you. So if you're going to do it,

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seems I wouldn't want to do it now to what

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you have to do to sort of serve this is

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a full time job before you even get to the podcast.

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In terms of social media, in terms of creating content

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that grabs people enough to bring them to you, and

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I think we lose that, and again it's lowering the

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bar what these art forms were, what these broadcast forms were,

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because of this desperate need to somehow grab people's attention

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and hold it for long enough, to keep it for

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long enough for you to turn a buck out of it.

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So I'd say go ahead, I guess, do what you can.

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But it's not the world I grew up in. It's

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not the world where people spend a lot of time

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trying to create interesting and provocative content or some sort

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of hyper personalized, well articulated comedic voices. I mean, everyone's

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chasing what their freedom of speech may be. It's all

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now kind of boxed in by social media platform expectations.

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So how free are you? What are you doing there?

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You know he's not wrong. At the end of last week,

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Howard Stern was accused of manufacturing all the recent Howard

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Stern controversy. A source till the Daily Mail the rumors

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actually came from inside Howard's camp. The source claimed they're

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desperately trying to make this thing go viral to boost

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his numbers for his return. The stunt was designed to

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make people tune in to see what Howard's going to

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say about getting fired from Serious because his numbers are

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quote pathetic. Also at the end of last week, there

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was a rumoring inside radio they were sourcing radar online

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that says Howard Stern has signed a new contract with Serious,

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described as a monster payday. We'll see at the time

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of this recording. They had not announced that, and late

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in August would be a weird time to announce that.

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I still think, and maybe I'm wrong by the time

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you're hearing this, I still think they'll announce it in

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December and milk this thing for all the publicity it's worth.

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I would. It's a lot of fun. And that's your

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comedy news for today. If you'd like the program without

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I recorded a whole bunch of them yesterday, but I

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have to actually edit and publish them. But I know myself.

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I'm pretty confident the episodes are actually there. And you

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have a good day.