Jay Leno's Pizza Adventure, Sam Morill's Comedy Influences, and Sarah Cooper is back!

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I'm
Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Going to start with something different today. If you've been listening for years,

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you know that I gave Sarah Cooper
a hard time. Anytime her name came

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up, I usually followed it with
something like, you know the woman who

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pantomimes the Donald Trump videos on TikTok. Well, Nichelle is a listener,

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and Michelle put a clip in front
of me of Sarah Cooper doing actual stand

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up and you know what, this
is really good. Let's listen. I

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think I'm gonna just, you know, do things differently this time. I

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was in an interracial marriage. I'm
black and my ex was a software engineer

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at Google. He was white.
He was hard h white. He was

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heartache, hardage quite. He was
quite. His middle name is do Blanc.

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And if you know French, you
know what the blanc means. All

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lives matter. Good on you,
Sarah, do that. Paul F.

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Tompkins spoke to the Last Laugh.
He'll be live streaming his variety show riots

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Hopa on February tewod. Paul likes
being on stage with a group. He

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says, if you bomb, you're
not alone. Part of the game is

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that you're going to fail sometimes,
and everyone understands that, and then of

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course there are the people that refuse
to believe that improv is real. He

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talks about how people walk up and
say, well, you must have written

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some of that, and he goes, no, that's the whole point.

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Paul says, there's no one right
way to do comedy. Paul F.

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Tompkins had an interesting quote about Patrese
O'Neil saying someone had quoted Patrica's saying a

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good joke leaves fifty percent of the
audience laughing and fifty percent of the audience

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horrified. Paul said, what that's
insane. As for his own career,

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he said, when I was younger, I assume that success meant you'd be

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a household name, And then as
I actually got into the business, I

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was like, oh no, there's
a whole other sort of middle class that

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you can be where you're supporting yourself, doing what you're loving and having a

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good time. So I'm lucky that
I enough of an audience that I can

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work. I can get enough work
on TV to keep my health insurance,

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and I can be creatively free,
which is all you can really ask for,

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and I'm not trying to be totally
blithe about that. Of course,

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I've had moments of doubt and fear
and buying into the invisible ladder of show

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business, like, oh no,
I didn't get to the next wrong.

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You know what, Actually it's fine
because I'm still here. It's not like

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I lost my job as an entertainer. Of course, there's a lot of

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ego stuff that you have to go
through. You have to deal with that.

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But I'm a middle aged dude and
I've meted a lot, and I

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look around and realize I have a
pretty great life. I'm also past the

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point where I have to worry about
that kind of success. I'm at a

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certain age where it's like, ah
aah, I'm not gonna be the next

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shining bright face. I'm into the
second half now, so that's kind of

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relief. And what I'm hoping for
is that in ten to twenty years I'll

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really come into my own as the
funny old guy on a sitcom. That's

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a fine life for me. The
Miami New Times asked Samrell who influenced him

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coming up. He said, I
love David Tell, I loved Greg Giraldo.

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I loved Chris Rock, Louis c
K, Bill Burr, any of

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the obvious New York style people in
terms of stand up, but you're influence

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in other ways. Madam Saidler and
Ronnie Dangerfield were my introduction to comedy,

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and I still love them both very
much. Interesting tidbit that I don't think

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i'd heard before. He said that
Mark Norman and Sam are trying to make

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a movie. Does he want to
make a TV show? He says,

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I do, but I don't want
to be on NBC. I love Jerry

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Seinfeld and Ray Romano, but I'm
not like them. To be true to

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me, it have to be more
like my stand up, but have to

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be on an adult platform like Netflix
or HBO. I emailed Louis c K

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two in the morning last night and
I said, I'm rewatching Louis. It

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makes me so happy the show exists. Sam's about to film a new special

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and he said, I think my
style is changing. This hour is definitely

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more story heavy. They're punchy,
they're not boring stories. When you're a

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brand new comic, you say whatever's
funny, even if it's not completely you,

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because you're like, well, I
gotta laugh then, you get older

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and your type of humor is more
like, Okay, this is something I

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would say to a guy to bar. Even if it's still reminiscent of the

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style he started with, just feels
more conversational. Joe Koy talked about his

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writing process when he's on tour.
He said, it'll take me about a

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year to write an hour. But
in that year, we're talking about maybe

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one hundred something shows, maybe more
one twenty five, and non stop working

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out and crafting it and just yelling
at myself like why isn't this coming together.

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I love jokes I've been working on
for like thirty shows, and I'm

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just like, ef it, bury
it, and you give all your emotion

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and all your thoughts to a two
minute joke just to be like, yeah,

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it's not working. And then there's
those nights where you stumble onto something

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and you're like, oh, there
it is. Then you keep it and

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you work it and tighten it.
Then there's ideas where you say, oh,

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don't do that again. That's the
process, and I love the process.

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It's so crazy to me that people
think this is easy. We all

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know the number one fear is public
speaking, and that's over skydiving, Like

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there's people that would rather jump out
of a plane with a nylon bag on

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their back than get in front of
twenty five people in a coffee house and

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tell a joke. Jay Leno tell
The Hill he's given up on touching politics

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in his comedy because it tends to
suck the funny out of a stand up

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shows. He says, we live
in an era now. I don't do

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politics anymore. An audience is like
an orchestra. You're up there and you're

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getting laughs. Then you get into
the political stuff and he goes, uh

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turns mean. They want to hear
what the joke is, whether it's about

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my guy or against my guy,
but they're not thinking of the joke.

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They're thinking of the implications of the
joke. So to me, I just

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don't do it anymore. I just
find it so annoying. I find the

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audience likes it better. Hopefully they
come to a comedy show to get away

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from politics. I think we get
enough of everybody's opinions. It's nice to

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hear a singer just sing or comedian
just be funny. Jay Leno is today's

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item on Gossip Corner. He stopped
to grab a slice of pizza at a

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Safety Harbor pizzeria. Last Saturday,
he went to the Nona Slice House right

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at noon. Owner Jimmy told the
Patch, we had no idea it was

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coming by. It was actually at
my house when my manager called and said

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jaylen was here. You need to
get down here right away. Other than

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it's cool that jay Leto's there,
why do you need to get there?

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Like, we don't know what to
do. Jay Leno's ordering pizza. What

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do we do right? J Probably
just walked in and like, yeah,

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let me get slice. It's not
that difficult. I just threw clothes on.

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I didn't want to miss an opportunity. It was pretty cool. Jamie

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the manager tells us jay Leno was
super super friendly. It's the last day

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of the last ever Snowjam Comedy Festival. That's kind of sad. That was

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a cool festival. Five o'clock snow
laughing matter ten comedians. If you want

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to get out and breathe the cold
and see that, and then it's seven

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o'clock, the last show ever at
the snow Jam Comedy Festival ever. Timmy

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Williams at Club at two twenty four. Your forecast for Soup falls South Dakota

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today a balmy high of twenty four
at a low of seven. But it

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will be easy. That windshiw might
be tough. Congratulations to Dan Bublets and

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the crew for putting on that festival
all these years. I've heard about this

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for a long time. I remember
my assistant Rory at Serries telling me about

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it, so great job. I'm
sorry to see that you guys aren't continuing

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with it, but I get it. Meanwhile, today, at the San

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Francisco Sketch Fest at eleven o'clock Pacific
Time, Mo Williams and the story Time

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All Stars, weird Al is on
that one. I won't read all the

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shows, Amber Ruffin at one o'clock, Doug Loves Movies at three, The

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pen Pals Podcast with Rory Scoville and
Daniel van Kirk. At four, Thomas

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Lennon is a guest on that one. Five o'clock Dave Hills Caveman in a

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Spaceship, seven o'clock Stupid Songs with
Kevin McDonald, the Benson Movie Interruption,

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Fast x Who. That's a tough
choice there, I'll circle back at eight

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o'clock Triumph Hmm. Weird Al on
that one too, all right, if

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we're going to plan the day,
obviously, at eleven o'clock we go see

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Moe Williams. Then let's hit Amber
Rouffing at one o'clock. Might as well

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hit Doug Loves Movies at three o'clock
seven o'clock. Do we do stupid songs

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on stories with Kevin McDonald or do
we do more Doug Benson fast X That

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could be a lot of fun.
I guess we'll see how much fun the

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three o'clock Doug Benson was and make
a decision there. Either way, we're

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gonna leave one of those early because
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No shows tomorrow at the Sketch Fest, but it picks up again on

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Tuesday. The Mary Sue writes few
shows brought me the joy that the George

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Lucas Talk Show did at the Upright
Citizens Brigade. Watching comedian Connor Ratleff run

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out every night to a David Bowie
song, sitting down and saying I'm George

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Lucas was an experience I would not
trade for the world. Have you ever

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watched this thing? It's up on
YouTube? So much fun. The show

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was quirky, weird, often had
people go into the box office asking where

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the actual George Lucas was. Well, there's a documentary coming out. It's

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titled I'm George Lucas, A Connor
Ratliffe Story. It's about the legacy that

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Ratliff and the show have left on
the comedy scene. It's described as follows.

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For five years, comedian Connor Ratliffe
has performed as filmmaker George Lucas and

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his monthly UCB New York cult comedy
show, The George Lucas Talk Show.

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The show allows Connor to both exalt
and poke fun at the vast world of

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Lucas, including Star Wars. However, Connor begins to question if the show

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should continue due to its ongoing stress
with a little financial and career gain and

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sticking with Star Wars. Tarren Killheim
spoke to a vultry about his time on

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SNL and they asked about the Undercover
Boss sketch with Adam Driver as Kylo.

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Wren. Terrence says, for whatever
reason, all parties involved SNL lucasfilm filming

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side wanted that sketch to go as
well as possible, so he's wearing Kylo's

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actual outfit that's not a replica lucasfilm
shipped out. I think mikey Day deserves

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the credit for the concept. That
night, Bobby moynihan and I had already

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written a full sketch where we were
the two maintenance guys working underneath the plankway

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where the dramatic Kylo Han scene takes
place, and we're mopping up the floor

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like, yeah, I don't know, I'm hearing rumbles outside. I got

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time coming off, so you know. Then you hear groan some and thud

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and Han Solo's corpse lands in front
of us. We're freaking out, and

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then Kylo comes and checks on us
and is saying, don't tell anybody about

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this, nothing happen. You need
to see anything. Mike was like,

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yeah, that's pretty good. I
think we can find something more fun for

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Adam to do, and then he
pitched the one line undercover boss, start

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a stre They then segue to SNL's
upcoming fiftieth anniversary. He says, my

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Eddie Murphy moment was pretty beautiful.
There was a party of the night before

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at the top of the rock.
I went from the Californian sketch rehearsal that

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we did that ended with David Spade
doing his Bye Bye Guy. David and

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I went to the party together.
As I was talking with him, We're

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sitting at the top of the rock
and he's telling me of his experience of

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the look Mammy a Falling Star joke. Then over his shoulder, Eddie Murphy

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walks in with Brett Ratner. I
was like, dude, dude, dude.

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And the first person Eddie Murphy walked
up to was David Spade. It

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was very gracious, a lovely exchange. Then I got to shake Eddie's hand.

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My first conscious memories of SNL are
his best of tape. He is

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the best one to ever do it. The circumstances of what age he was,

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who he was, what he was
capable of doing. The responsibility was

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on his shoulders as an ensemble member. Wow, that is a high praise

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and I won't argue with the sentiment. And that's your comedy news for today.

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