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Callaroga Shark Media. Ah, we gotta talk about that guy
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Jay Leno again. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy.
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Is you know Jay Leno? He's just, you know, the
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worst person who ever lived because he dares to have
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opinions about late night comedy. I mean, what does Jay
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Leno know about late night comedy? He hosted the Tonight
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Show for twenty two years. That makes you some sort
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of expert, Jay Leno. So he last weekend, you know,
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he was out doing the fundraising stuff that he does,
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and he caught up with People magazine and talked about
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taking care of his wife, Mavis, and Jay said, I
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like taking care of her. I enjoy your company and
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we have a good time. You know familiar. Mavis has
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advanced dementia. Jay spoke with People at the thirty fourth
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Annual Love Ride last week. Jay said, I've been very
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lucky in my life. My wife's fighting to mention all that,
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but it's not cancer, it's not a tumor. So I
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enjoy taking care of her. It's not work. People come
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up and they say they feel so sorry. I understand
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their sympathy, but you know, a lot of people are
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going it's okay. I like taking care of her. I
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enjoy your company. We have a good time, we have
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fun with it is what it is. There's going to
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be a couple of years in a tricky so the
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first forty six really great. But it's okay. It's not terrible,
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not a woe is me person. I'm just lucky that
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I'm able to take care of her. As soon as
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this rise over, I'm going home and I'll make our lunch. Boy.
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You could see why people hate this guy. He's just horrible.
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What a horrible, horrible person. Jimmy Kimmel was on glennon
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Doyle's podcast. He talked about Kimmel Gate and said, if
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I'd not been allowed back on the air, I'd be
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a martyr. It's not a terrible position to be in
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as a comedian, but it's not the position I wanted
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to be in. And it's also not the way I
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wanted the show to end. I wanted to end in
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a graceful way. I want to have a farewell party
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with our staff. I want to do all those things
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he wanted to say, the things I want to say
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to people. But the idea of having an all shut
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down abruptly and unjustly would have been awful. It's not
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just how you want to go. It'll be twenty three
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years in January. Well, so Kimmel's been hosting twenty two years.
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That does not make you an expert. What are you,
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Jay Leno? Now you think you know something about late
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night comedy after hosting twenty two years? Please kim will
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But we weren't fired. We were suspended, and I think
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suspended means come back. It just didn't feel like that
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to me at the time. Been a busy week. I
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never circled back to that Stephen Colbert or to do
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with GQ. As I read through this interview, it seems
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like I got really feisty at times. Colbert said, I've
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had recreational anxiety for a lot of my life, starting
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with my teens, I had different answers, then checking out,
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basically just never doing my schoolwork, only reading the books
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I want, eventually smoking a lot of weed. Stuff like that.
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When I was twenty nine, I had an honest to
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god nervous breakdown. I don't know what the clinical term
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is these days, psychological collapse. I had an implosion, and
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I was newly married. Didn't know what I was going
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to do. Suddenly I was paniced that I'd chosen something
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to do with my life that would give me the
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life I wanted. And I don't mean I wouldn't be successful,
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but that somehow the life I'd chosen would not allow
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me to be a husband and the fodder the way
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I wanted to be, because of the demands of how
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hard it is, the sacrifices you have to make it.
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I tried xanax, the stuff like that, but I could
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still feel the gear smoking, you know what I mean.
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And I woke up one morning and my skin wasn't
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on fire. I was like, what was different? Oh, it
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was the first day of rehearsal for the new show
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Comedy Keeps Me Sane. I woke up one day and
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I thought, Oh my god, I get to go to work.
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And then I thought, oh no, Now I can never
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stop working. I used to think that. Now I actually
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think a lot of those things caused me great anxiety.
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I've already passed through the fire of that trial and
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that stage of my life, and I'm not a young
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man full of doubt anymore. And I think if I
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stopped work, if I choose to next may I'm done
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and I get a catamaran and just sail. I don't
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think that would come back. I really feel like that's
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no longer Who I am? GQ asked kolbertready fantasized about
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walking away from show business. Colbert said no, because I
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love creating things, and I still want to work with
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the people I work with. I don't know how you
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work with two hundred people, two ten something like that, right,
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it's an enormous amount of people. I love them, and
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I want to continue to do that with them to
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degree that I can. And I want to find that
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with other people too. I just love making things, GQ.
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So you're not even like, we'll see you're saying we're
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going to keep going. We're going to make something else.
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Colbert said, yeah, why not? Politico wrote this comedian just
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showed Democrats how to solve their messaging problems. I wonder
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who this comedian is. Well, I know because I put
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the show together. A new comedy special captures the Democratic
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Party's messaging challenges and a way forward. All right, who
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is this commit it's friend of the show, Jen Marcos Siresi.
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David Litt wrote this article for Political David Litt left
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the White House in twenty sixteen as a special Assistant
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to the President any senior presidential speech writer. He's currently
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the head writer and producer for Funny or Die. So
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you go from writing for Biden to Funnier Die. I
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guess I mean John Favreau went from writing for Obama
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to hosting a podcast. Not the film guy, John Favreau,
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potse of America, John Favreau, two different guys. I digress.
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David Litt spoke to Jen Marcos Siresi, who said there's
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something about the term sex worker that just feels belabored.
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Is longer than hooker or prostitute. David litz Sisi and
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I are both professional word people, and in my professional opinion,
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He's right. Sex worker sounds clunky, and I'm starting to
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think getting to the bottom of this kind of clunkiness
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might be the secret to resurrecting a Democratic party whose
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brand remains to borrow a term from political science in
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the toilet. Ser Raise possesses an increasingly common kind of
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Internet fame. You've either never heard of him where you
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see him absolutely everywhere. Then this is interesting. Jenmarco says,
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I have a joke, and then I'm going to say
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later tonight, and that joke uses the term illegal immigrant,
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and listen. I've had progressive friends who pulled me aside
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and said, hey, you should reconsider that. It's a hurtful phrase.
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It implies that someone's existence is illegal. And I listened
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to them. I'm not an a hole about this stuff.
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This is really interesting. Tred Marco says, it went around
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the country in Canada and Australia using the term undocumented immigrant,
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and you know what happened. Stop getting laughs. So I
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had to go back to my progressive friends and be like,
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I'm sorry. Unlike you guys, I have to win the
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popular vote. John Marco, who you've either never heard of
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or is everywhere, was in Playbill and he told them
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I was someone who wanted to be on Broadway from
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the time I was a child. I used to dance
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in the living room with my parents. I love musical theater.
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I was on every show every year. Definitely one of
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the stars of the high school theater program where the
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love was beaten out of me. He has the recurring
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show Theater Adult at Joe's Pub in New York City.
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He explains, if I bring a pianist on stage at
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the Comedy Seller. I'm going to get a lot of
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flak from other comedians, but theater adult, it's safe. And
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the last one we did we found a lawyer. Her
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last role was Sarah in Ragtime. She hadn't sung since
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two thousand and eight, and I said, get on stage,
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and she sang your Daddy's Son for the first time
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well over a decade. It was amazing. John Marco's comedy
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album Thief of Joy Live in San Francisco is out now.
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This is an audio version of the special and has
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bonus album only content. Can we give him the Grammy
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Hamptons dot Com spoke to Rosebud Baker. Hey, rosebud Baker,
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Where did the nickname Rosebud come from? She said, I'm
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actually not sure. Several people in my family have taken
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credit for it, which makes them unreliable narrators. I can
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only assume that my parents wanted something unique but Southern
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Gothic enough that i'd either become a writer or haunt
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an old house. I think I've managed a little bit
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of both. She visited the White House as a child.
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What was her favorite memory there? She said, I remember
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standing in the Hallway staring at the portraits of the
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first Ladies and thinking, Wow, these women look like they
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could all ruin my life in very different ways. It
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was surreal. As a kid, you don't feely get the
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weight of the place. I remember being unimpressed by the
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President living in a rental property at the Flyover Comedy
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Festival in Saint Louis today, back from Riodd, it's the
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You're not so canceled A Z's I'm sorry. Maybe there's
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a meat and greed for the show. He could ask
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Zee some things about his resume. No, yes, yes, he's
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your big name there Tonight Patty Harrison has two shows
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at seven and nine New York Comedy Festival. A lot
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of shows as always. Let's see if there are any
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names tonight. Gee, Jorden's at the Bell House at four o'clock.
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That's my kind of show. I could be back home
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by seven point thirty. A sleep in the chair by
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ten sounds great. Alex Edelman at Carnegie Hall at six o'clock.
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Todd Glass, apparently the most popular comedian in the United States,
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blow the radar, but he could sell out the New
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York Comedy Festival for two weeks in a row do
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two shows at night. Everybody's going to see Todd Glass,
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Margaret Show's Choligarchy at town Hall at seven, Louis c
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k at the Beacon at seven thirty, Adam Conover at
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the Bell House at seven thirty. All right, so this
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is far and away the best night that they've had.
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Chris Fleming at Carnegie Hall at nine o'clock. Now, I
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think Chris Fleming is fantastic. I just can't fathom that
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Chris Fleming is selling out Carnegie Hall. Now as I
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record this, the get tickets button is there, so maybe
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I'm not crazy. This is not a dig at Chris Fleming.
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I really like Chris Fleming, but Carnegie Hall just seems what.
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they'll let me order is eight tickets, and I'm going
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to hit best available, no matches for best available that
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doesn't make sense, and I'll choose my own seats. Now,
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there's not a crazy amount to hear in the second tier.
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I click dress circle, it's mostly the back row that's available.
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so it's close to a salout, so it's not absurd.
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I'm just surprised. I like Chris a lot. Todd Glass
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another show at nine o'clock. Again, Todd Glass, America's most
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popular comedian, could play two shows a night in New
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York City for weeks at a time, and everybody goes.
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The Jackie Mason Musical is at Triad Theater at nine
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point thirty, Ron Funch is at the Bellhouse at ten
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and some other stuff. So that is far and away
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the best night of the New York comedy so far.
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Vice is putting some spin on Kathy Griffin here, they
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write nearly two decades after his death, George Carlin remains
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one of the most prolific stand up comedians of all time,
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but he doesn't have the most specials overall. That distinction
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goes to Kathy Griffin, who holds the Guinness World Record
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for most stand up specials by a comedian. Okay, hold
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on time out. Carlin has fourteen HBO specials. When that
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was like a thing, you know. Now you get down
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on the chuckle Hut, your friend brings their phone and
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films you and it's up on YouTube twenty minutes after
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the show. The audio sucks, there's no editing, and you say, hey,
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my new specials available on YouTube. So you know, let's
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not quite compare George Carlin's HBO specials to some of
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Kathy Griffin's work. Bill Maher has eleven HBO specials, really
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he does? Why have I not seen any of them?
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Robert Klein performed on the first HBO comedy special in
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nineteen seventy five. He only did nine. Dennis Miller landed
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his first HBO special before war. Bill Maher he has eight,
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and we'll see if Fargo native John detoy Naram can
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catch up. John's getting a special through Nate Brigetzi's Nateland
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Presents the Showcase on YouTube. John said, honestly, seeing my
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special premiere, it brought me back to that first open mic.
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Ever did you have dreamed? But just knowing you actually
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took chances and they paid off. It's been almost unbelievable
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to this day. After seeing Nate perform live in Las Vegas,
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John and his wife made the decision to leave Fargo
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and moved to Nashville to pursue comedy. John said, we
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started talking at the airport after the show about where
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would go if we really want to do this seriously,
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Nashville was open, We're both clean comics, and it was
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a one shoe fits kind of situation. Totoy explained, I
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got asked to warm up for one of Nate's shows.