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Callarogas shock media. David Letterman is on Colbert Tonight. I
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am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news, a daily
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briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry.
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A senter the algorithm loves. We'll talk about late night.
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In a bit uh from Variety, Jeff Ross talked about
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the real tension behind the roast of Kevin Hart. The
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rose continues to be the big topic and that'll get
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us through this week and the next week is Colbert Week.
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Lot going on in comedy. Jeff Ross was asked if
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anything hurts his feelings, like when somebody says you look
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like the inside of a clam. The Roastmaster General said,
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if the joke is funny and well crafted, it doesn't
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hurt my feelings. It makes me proud. If the joke flops,
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then I'm insulted. Like write a better joke for me.
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I'm the roast master. If you watch the entire roast.
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At one point, Kevin was making fun of Jeff, but
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Jeff was in the bathroom. Jeff said, I was panicking
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because the bathroom next to my dressing room was locked.
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I thought I had a time where I could make
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it back for that part of his speech. Imagine literally
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peeing while I'm hearing the audience laughing jokes about me.
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It was one of the most surreal roast moments of
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my career. I really did him dirty, and I did
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apologize after the party. I should have been in my seat,
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But by the time he and the rock plug the
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tequila brands for the second time, I whispered to Pete
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Davidson and said, all right, I gotta go pee. Ross
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talked about the after party. I think everybody was there.
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The vibe was over the moon. Kevin seemed like he
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was on cloud nine. Was there any real tension behind
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the roast? That's the million dollar question, Jeff said. The
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only real tension I felt was when Cat Williams appeared
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out of nowhere and started going in on Kevin. Kevin
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definitely looked a little tense, like these guys may not
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have seen each other for a long time. But Kevin
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asked for the hatchet to be buried, and immediately the
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tension turned into celebration. Whose idea was it to bring Cat?
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Jeff Ross says, Kevin's a great comic, but he's also
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a really smart producer. He loves to follow the discomfort.
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If something's making him uncomfortable, it's going to be great TV.
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I would say it was a group brainstorm of who
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would be a funny person to bring into this thing,
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and Kat Williams was game. He came out with a
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cape like a villain, and he left like a friend.
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I don't believe they actually talked until he came out
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on TV. Jeff shared a joke of his that did
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make it into the roast. He would have told it better,
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but it goes like this, Kevin, your dad sold crack,
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and you literally sell everything except crack. From his comedy
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to s tequila to his chain of vegan fast food restaurants,
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Kevin is always looking for new ways to make people
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throw up. Ha ha. Friddy says, at least inside the room,
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Cheryl Underwood crushed. Jeff said, I remember at some point
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flopping on the floor when she was on. That's how
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hard I was, falling out of my chair. She had
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one of the best sets of the night. She's a pro.
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She used to walk on stage with her person in
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her hand. We worked such dumps together. She didn't trust
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the staff or the other comics with her purse in
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the back, She's the real deal. Good question here by variety.
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Where is this roast rank in terms of crossing the line?
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Jeff Ross said there were definitely some lines crossed. The
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jokes were super edgy. When Tom Brady came out and
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started talking about Kevin's personal life, right out of the gate,
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I thought, this truly is a revenge roast. That's how
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I actually approached Tom about it. We were at a
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party in Las Vegas and I said, Tom, I got
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another one percolating. He said, I'm never coming back. Why
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would I come? And I said revenge? He goes? Who
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you got? I whispered Kevin Hart and his next question
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was when he needed a reason to come back. Those
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jokes were super reggie, and I could feel the tension
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in the room. Even though it was funny, there was
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a realness to it. I will weigh in here. I
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think having Tom Brady in the laid off spot was
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a mistake. I wrote about this on my substack, and
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I think I talked about earlier in the week. I
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think the move might have been open. With the shaker
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of Kat Williams and having confidence in Cat to be funny.
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I think that would have prepped the room a little bit.
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Tom just not being a comedian, I don't think warmed
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up the room well enough, which affected a lot of
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the first half of the show. When I finally watched
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the whole thing, I think the second half was a
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little stronger, mainly because of Tony Hingecliff and Kat Williams.
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So I'm not sure they sequenced this thing right. Roddy
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was curious what was actually off limits. Jeff Ross said,
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people always asked that. Kevin never once said to me,
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please don't do this, Please don't do that for me.
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There's a sportsmanship to it. I want to scratch the skin,
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but I don't want to break it. Nothing was off limits.
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I don't think there was a single topic from Kevin's
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life that didn't get brought up. It's really just a
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question of how avert you want to be. Do you
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want to be subtle or do you want to smash
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them over the head with a dollhouse. I don't know
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anybody could look at the roast and call it water down.
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Roddy did a good job with this. They asked, you know,
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the show's very tightly produced. There are writers in rehearsals.
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How do you balance that with the element of surprise.
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Jeff said, I gave a lot of the credits to
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my partner, Casey Patterson. Joe put fake names on dressing
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room signs. The scripts don't circulate to the entire staff.
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The crew doesn't read the comics material. I don't know
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what Chelsea's speech is going to be. She doesn't know mine.
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Kevin doesn't know what's coming from anybody that keeps it real,
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you are genuinely messing with somebody live on television. There's
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a lot that goes into that side of it, and
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I'm only surprised. Another good follow up, There were a
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lot of times when people would skip a joke they
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had on the teleprompter. What goes into the decision to
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edit yourself in real time? Jeff Ross said, I'm careful
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not to let that happen because I hate going skip it.
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It looks so written. But sometimes in a live show,
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it's inevitable that people want improvise, or maybe the joke
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was too similar to the joke that was made earlier
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in the night and doesn't seem funny anymore. Is sometimes
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the non comics get cold feet on a certain joke. Honestly,
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the most important job in that entire show is probably
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the teleprompter operators. That's a high wire act. You get
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all sorts of deliveries. Some people are mumbling somemmer rushing,
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and those operators stay right with us the whole time.
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It's remarkable. Two more. Will you be able to get
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another goat in a couple of years, Jeff said, I
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think so, Kevin do. It opens it up to almost
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anybody whos at the top of their game wants to
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show the world they're a good sport. All right, Who
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do you want to roast next? Jeff's aid a pop
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star or a rock star would be great. A rapper
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would be great. I could see Drake getting roasted in
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being a great one. One of my all time favorite
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ideas is Stevie Wonder. I always say the roast of
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Stevie Wonder. You got to hear it to believe it.
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Vulture had the headline how Cheryl Underwood won the roast
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of Kevin Hart. Despite being one of the least recognizable
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faces on a dais that included celebrities like Chelsea Hanler
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and Pete Davidson, Underwood had consistently been the target of
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some of the Knight's sharpest barbes, adding to the weight
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of the moment. Underwood followed Tony Hinchcliff, but when Underwood
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got on the podium, the room's atmosphere reset. Her set
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was a triumph, in part because her energetic delivery injected
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life in the proceedings after the show had slipped into
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a monotonous rhythm halfway through its bloated, nearly three hour runtime.
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There were only so many times one could see Handler
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called a horror or heart marked for his height before
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it grows tedious. And an event that featured surprise appearances
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from Venus and Serena Williams, Heart Enemy Cat Williams and
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The Rock, no one got ovation like Underwood following her set. Boy,
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I just looked at the we are going to be
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long again. I got like seven stories of been kicking
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since Monday. Remind me I said that when it's July
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fourth week and I'm googling George Lopez Tacos to fill
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some space all right. Radar Online is a gossip website.
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Their headline Jimmy Kimmel pushing himself out the door at ABC.
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How cost A Comics shot himself at the foot with
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dead Trump gags. I don't believe the story at all,
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no offense. Radar Online. One of the reasons I say
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that is because ABC had Jimmy Kimmel host the Upfronts.
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But anyway, Radar Online says ABC executives are allegedly reconsidering
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Jimmy Kimmel's future after backlash over his Millennia Trump joke.
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They remind us the Kimmel repeated the joke on a
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show and said critics overreacted, and network insider said the
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original joke was already viewed internally as reckless, doubling down
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turned it into something potentially costly to the network. They
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can't be too concerned because they had Jimmy host the Upfronts.
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Jimmy Kimmel's all the Upfronts audience. I didn't think i'd
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see you guys again either. Yeah, the bad boy of
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Data and Measurement Solutions is back. I've been through so
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much BS this year it actually made me appreciate this BS.
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You know, usually in order for ABC to pull you
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off the air, you have to throw a cher at
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your Mormon boyfriend. Yes, the President tried to get me
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canceled over the last six months. That's one way to
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look at it. Another way is you could say I've
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generated unparalleled engagement across a variety of platforms. Luckily, thanks
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to our partners in Washington, we're up twenty five percent
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among viewers. It's a big deal to have your numbers
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go up nowadays. But that said, if Johnny Carson woke
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up one day with my ratings, he'd have gone straight
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under the sink and chugged all the DRAINO Oh, Kimmel
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had more. He said, I cost our company a lot
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of money this year, billions. It's very possible that no
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employee in the history of any company has caused their
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employee more than hiring me twenty four years ago. Just
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from a purely mathematical standpoint, it was the worst personnel
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decision that Disney Corporation has ever made. Not even the
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captain of the Exxon Valdiz did more damage. Jimmy said,
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this will be the first Super Bowl on ABC in
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twenty years, and we're gonna milk the but Jesus out
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of it. We're gonna spend the whole year promoting what's
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already the most popular thing on earth. And as if
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the country isn't divided enough, we put the game on
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Valentine's Day just to be dicks. Let me tell you
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what the Havetime Show was going to be this year.
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The whitest stuff you've ever seen. Goodbye, bad Buddy, Welcome back,
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Oh Town. Jimmy talked about his appearance on Colbert the
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other night. As you know, CBS is turning eleven thirty
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five PM into the least time slot, least likely to
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fend the president, with a rerun of Byron Allen's comics
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on Leash from two thousand and seven, featuring Paula Poundstone
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and Andy Dick. Poor Steven. It's bad enough to lose
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your job, imagine getting replaced by the owner of the
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Weather Channel. So I look. Jimmy was on fire. He said,
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you know, in the past, I've come here to mock
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the other network shows. Was all very competitive, but now
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we're like a bunch of dirty, starving little chihuahuas under
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the table waiting for a chicken leg to drop. For
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the first time of think ever, I'm rooting for CBS.
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They've got a lot of great returning shows, and they've
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got some great news shows. Ncis New York answers the
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question what if LLL coolj partnered up with another white
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guy in a different city. They're also doing the Prices
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Right at Night now. Oh we tagged this with a
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dirty pun. The price is right at Night on the
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nighttime version instead of a flat screen TV, the winner
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gets something men like in an alley behind the studio,
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Naughty Jimmy. For the first time in eighteen year, CBS
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was not number one in total viewers. NBC is number one,
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and they're saying they're number one. Are you allowed to
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brag about being number one when you had the Olympics
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in the Super Bowl? Only if you have them again
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next year and you don't. Meanwhile, poor Fox was in
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last place again and their big plan to turn that
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around as a revival of Baywatch. This is a reboot
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for those who watched the first eleven seasons of Baywatch
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and thought, but that can't be the whole story. As
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for us at ABC, except for all the domestic violence,
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we're really doing great. Dancing with the Stars is hotter
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than your grandma's underpants at a Michael Boublaz show. The
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Rookie was among the most streams shows among viewers under eighteen.
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Young people love The Rookie and do you know why
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I'm actually asking? Does anyone know why this is happening? Meanwhile,
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over at NBC, Seth Meyers hosted their upfronts. Seth Meyers said,
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we have taken down CBS, referring to for the first
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time in two decades, NBC will take the broadcast crown
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for total viewers in the TV season. He tagged his
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premise with, well, the Ellisons did, but I'd like to
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think we helped. Seriously, what's going on over there? They're
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so in the pocket for Trump that I heard next