March 7, 2026

Jim Gaffigan Cast as Grover Cleveland in The Gilded Age; Nate Bargatze Tops Billboard Comedy Boxscore

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac’s Daily Comedy News reports Jim Gaffigan will play President Grover Cleveland in Season 4 of HBO’s The Gilded Age. Billboard’s January comedy boxscore has Nate Bargatze back at No. 1 with $5.1M and 64,100 tickets across seven shows; other mentions include John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Matt Rife, and Bert Kreischer with their grosses, ticket counts, and show totals. Jimmy Kimmel argues he should host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, joking that a mentalist (Oz Pearlman) is hosting instead. Chelsea Handler tells cleveland.com comedy should address the uncomfortable and says she won’t make fun of children. Chris Fleming discusses Mike Birbiglia on Caleb Hearon’s podcast. Jim Breuer describes finding local material, keeping his shows PG-13, and shifting toward writing dramedy. The episode also previews the 2026 Sydney and Perth Comedy Festivals and critiques a Vanity Fair piece on online talk shows.

00:18 Jim Gaffigan Cast Reveal for those who read this part but not the epsidoe title
01:08 Billboard Comedy Box Score
02:02 Kimmel Wants WHCD Gig
02:59 Chelsea Handler On Purpose
04:00 Chris Fleming Birbiglia Talk
05:03 Jim Breuer Local Material
06:48 Breuer On Career Control
07:37 Australia And Festival Plans
08:32 Sydney And Perth Lineups
10:20 Vanity Fair Talk Show Rant
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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. A daily briefing on stand up comedy

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comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves,

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so I'll keep saying it. Boy, Big exciting news from

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Jim Gaffigan. You're never gonna believe who he's going to

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play in season four of HBO's The Gilded Age? Are

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you excited for Season four? In Season four of HBO's

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The Gilded Age, Bertha changed society at a cost. Now

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her family must reckon with the consequences as Agnes seizes

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an opportunity to regain her position. Meanwhile, Marian forges a

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new path for herself, and Peggy works to be accepted

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by her future in laws. In this new era, you

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must be careful what you wish for. And you'll never

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guess who Jim Gaffigan's going to play in season four

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of HBO's The Gilded Age. Have you guessed correctly? That's right?

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He will play Grover Cleveland, the twenty second President of

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the United States. In season four of HBO's The Guilded Age,

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Jim Gaffigan's President Grover Cleveland comes to New York to

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curry favor with the elite class. Congratulations to Nate Berghatzi.

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He is back on top. In Billboard's monthly Comedy box

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score recap for January. Nate had been on top from

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August through November, but John mulaney took the top spot

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in December. Well, Nate is back on top. His seven

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shows grossed five point one million dollars and sold sixty

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four thy one hundred tickets. The rest of your list

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in fifth place, Jim Gaffigan grossed a million and a half.

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He sold seventeen thy nine hundred tickets across ten shows,

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So Jim is playing two thousand seat theaters. Thought he'd

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be playing a little bigger room. Matt Riife grossed a

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million and a half two shows, seventeen thousand, nine hundred tickets.

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Bert Kreischer a million, six seven shows, twenty six thousand tickets.

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Number two, John Mullaney two point nine million, twenty nine

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one hundred tickets twelve shows, and again Nate six shows,

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sixty four one hundred, five point one million dollars. Jimmy

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Kimmel has a great idea that Jimmy Kimmel should host

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the White House Correspondence Dinner, and his logic makes a

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lot of sense. Unfortunately, Kimmel is not hosting it. As

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Kimmell explains, this year, I guess Trump didn't want to

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be made fun of by a comedian, So the host

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is a mentalist. We'll have a mentalist and a mental

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case on stage together. Send your letters to Jimmy Kimmel.

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Kimmel explains, the mentalist is a guy named Oz Perlman.

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He's an amazing performer, and I'm sure he'll be able

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to predict what Trump isn't thinking. But this feels like

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a cop out to me, and I want to address

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the President directly on this. Mister President, please let me

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host this dinner. I've never asked you for anything before.

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Can you imagine you, me, the commissioner of the FCC,

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all at a table together. Think of the ratings. That's

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not a joke. That would be amazing. Kimmell said, I'll

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even throw an award. You like awards. I'll give you

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a brand new award. The corresponding the Dundee corresponding, no

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one will ever get it. Besides you, please give the

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people what they want for once. This is our destiny together,

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you and me think about it. Let's make it the greatest, hottest,

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most spectacular dinner of any kind ever. Chelsea Handler, who

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wants data, Joe Cooy, who once hosted The Golden Globes,

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who once made a joke about Taylor Swift, but I'm

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not doing that bit today. She caught up with Cleveland

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dot Com. They were curious if Chelsea Handler feels more

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free on stage now is supposed to ten years ago.

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Chelsea said, freer and more responsible at the same time.

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As a comedian. Right now, it feels purposeful to give

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people a reprief from the world we're living in, which

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is a very dark chapter in this country's history. I

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take having a good time very seriously, and I take

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making sure my audience has a good time very seriously.

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That matters. Cleveland was curious, what do you think comedy

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is actually for right now? The comfortable or the uncomfortable.

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Chelsea Handler said, definitely the uncomfortable. Comfortable people don't usually

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have the best personalities. I'm not trying to supply comedy

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for them. Comedy is for people who are struggling, who

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are being targeted, who want more humanity, not less, people

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who care about community, about families staying together. That's who

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I'm talking to, all right, Chelsea, anything off limits in

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your comedy, she said, I don't make fun of children,

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especially not ugly children. That's not funny. Otherwise, I pull

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from my stories, my adventures, my magnetic attraction to outrageousness.

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That's where everything starts. Chris Fleming was on Caleb Heron's

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podcast and the name Mike Birbiglia came up. Now, you

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may recall recently Mike Birbiglia passed a note to John

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Mulaney and Berbiggs apparently had written down the name of

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a comedian that those two think might possibly, perhaps maybe

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be doing an impression of John Mulaney. Now, in the

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Great Comedy War of twenty twenty six, I'm on team

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John Marco SERSI against those mean bullies Berbiglia and m'laney,

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And I think we could put Chris Fleming on the

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side of John Marco again. When the Great Comedy War

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breaks out, I'm choosing sides and I'm going with team fun. Anyway,

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here's Chris Fleming. You say things about people that I'm like,

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if I did that, I would be in trouble. No,

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but it only makes them wilder for me when I

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say it. Yeah, Barbiglia won't stop ringing me. Yeah. Have

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you said things about Mike, Oh, so many things. Yeah,

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I can't stop talking about You really get away with

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these things? I don't know how. Yeah, I think it's

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a kink people have. We'll have to say. See if

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for Biglily a response to that. Maybe he'll pass a note.

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I don't want to get a note. Jim Brewer caught

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up with The Advocate ahead of some recent shows down

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in Baton Rouge and they were curious if Jim would

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be doing any Baton Rouge jokes. Jim said, Yeah. Before

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the show, I usually hit a downtown area and I

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walk around. I hitting coffee shafts, so I haven't lunch

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in town, maybe listen to conversations, or I just try

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to get the feel of the area. And that's usually

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my opening couple of minutes, trying to get the local

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field before I launched into what I've loosely planned for

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the evening. I have told this story before, but I

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will tell it again. Absolutely he does that. I'm positive

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that we were at the Aspen Comedy Festival. I went

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out to breakfast with Jim and Pete Corielly. We got

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like pancakes or something. It was snowing outside, and at

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one point Jim goes, there's no festival in this festival,

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and it was just a thought, and we went on

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and had our breakfast, and then I don't know, fourteen

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hours later, at a show that also included Dave Chappelle,

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Brewer got up and did ten minutes on there's no

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festival at this festival, and did a whole routine about snowballfis, etc.

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That I can guarantee you did not exist before we

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sat down for breakfast. So I absolutely believe it when

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he says he walks around town and looks for inspiration.

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Been there, done that, seen it? Jim, can we bring

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kids to your show? He said, I never suggest small kids,

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and only because they can't understand half the material. But

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I call it PG thirteen. And the only reason I

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say PG thirteen is more the awareness. I don't curse,

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I don't swear. I'm not going to go into subjects

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to make you cringe. I've been doing that for fifteen

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years or so, maybe more so. No worries about bringing

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younger people. Jim described his comedy style as observational. He said,

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I say clean Richard Pryor, if that makes sense, because

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Richard Prior make deserve life and we tell it, and

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that's all. I'm a storyteller. I'm too dry today, ice coffee, everybody.

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I can't get my Brewer growl on. I live life

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and then I turn around and tell it and whatever's

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going on in life that everyone relates to. Jim, what

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did you take away from your time on SNL. I

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know it sounds crazy, but what I took away from

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it was I mostly wanted to control my own destiny

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in my career and being home more after that show

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and set my own pace in life and in this business.

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Again I worked with Jim. It's probably twenty years ago now, Yep,

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that's exactly where he was. Just wanted to be home

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with his family, taking care of his dad, looking out

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for the kids, and did not trust the industry at all. Jim,

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do you still pursue film roles? This is a good interview,

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Jim said, I never really got to do films I

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truly want to do. I'm literally at the stage now

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where I started writing more and honestly, I'm more in

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a drama than anything I've ever done. Back then, I

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was chasing harder to be in movies and being the spotlight. Well,

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that's the last of my desires these days. To me,

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I'm more about inspiring, inspiring, healing, helping people through with laughter.

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I've written some I'm writing one now. I don't even

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think i'd be in it. To be honest with you,

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I think I'm too old to play the part. I

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got to get down to Australia. I was in Australia

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at the end of twenty fifteen. I loved Australia like

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I love it, I'm obsessed with it. I mean, the

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weather's awesome, the people are super nice, the country's pretty,

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and it just seemed like less complicated, maybe just less developed,

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yet not everything was a TJ Max and a Target

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and a Starbucks. Like it just seemed like, in some ways,

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a simpler version of America. I'm not sure the Australians

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would appreciate that description, but I mean that with love,

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and I would love to actually live there, at least

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for a while. I also love living in America. Let

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me be clear, I'm not saying I'm not saying America sucks.

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I'm just saying I also like Australia. I also really

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like France. I also really like Ireland. I also really

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like Italy. So what we're gonna have to do is

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run more mid roll commercials so I can fund my

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international nomad life telling you about comedy festivals like the

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twenty twenty six Sydney Comedy Festival. It will present over

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four hundred shows in its biggest program ever. I'll be

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coming up in April. If you've listened for a few years,

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you know that I like to cover that one a

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lot and play some cliffs on some people that are

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not normally talked about on this American focused program. Some

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names you don't know. But I think it's just fun

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to take a look at what else is happening in

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the world. And it is a great festival. You know,

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if you guys want to write me down and cover

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it Sydney Comedy Festivals to shoot me a note. The

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festival announced some international and local talent, including Daniel Slass,

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David Darney, Josh Thomas, Cilia Pacola, Joanne McNally and Reuben Kay.

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They joined the already announced Tiffany Hattish Any creator of

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Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd. The Sydney Comedy Festival General manager

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James Declass who should email me? Invite me? He said,

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With almost four hundred shows over five massive weeks of coming,

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We're pleased to welcome you to the biggest Sydney Comedy

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Festival program ever. Get ready to laugh, Sydney. We have

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many surprises in store for you. Meanwhile in Perth, also

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in April and May. Hey, Perth, guys, I'll come. Shoot

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me a note. They have also announced Daniel Sloss, Joanne McNally,

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Barcelona based Irish comedian Kyla Cobbler, and Canada's Colin Mockery

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Very International Festival in Perth. They are also announcing the

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return of Malaysian doctor turned comedian doctor Jason Long UK

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born Australian resident nurse Georgie Carroll, Hong Kong's Shawn Locke,

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Tim and an annual visitor to Perth, Ireland's David o'darty.

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Some more Irish folk coming Chris Kent Andya Martin, Mike

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Rice and Alison Spittel from England, elf Lyons, Russian British

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comedian Oga Koch, Festival stalwart Stephen k Amos, He's really

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great and UK drag Queen Myra Dubois. Vanity Fair had

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put out an article a couple weeks back. It's been

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busy around here. The headline Bowen Yang, Brittany Broski and

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eight other hosts who are shattering the talk show format.

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Tap the brakes there, Vanity Fair. They tell us the

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talk show is alive and well and living online. It's

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Jennifer Lawrence sobbing convulsively as the effects of Hot one

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Spicy Wings kick in, Tina Fey reading Bowen Yang, the

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Riot Act on Las Culturistas, and some other examples. Vanity

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Fair tells us for decades cheeky daddy figures from Jack

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Paar and Johnny Carson to Jimmy's Fallon and Kimmel sat

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atop the Hollywood food chain. You know, I love Late

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Night at all, but if your premise here is going

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to be like poking Jack Parr, I mean really, I mean,

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why don't we talk about like comedians like Mark Twain

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used to wear seer sucker suits and now Matt rif'ces

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on TikTok. I mean, what are you talking about? Did

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Mark Twain wear a seer sucker suit? Is that an

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accurate description? It created a mental picture, It got the

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job done. They were industry gaatekeepers presigning over es, central press,

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tour pit stops, and thresholds where an up and comer

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could become a household name overnight. The newer and more

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democratized model, where digital influencers wield more clout than many

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traditional stars, relies on realness. Dude, None of this stuff

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is real? Are you kidding me? Between the sets and

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the filters and the gimmicks like, for example, Hey, celebrity,

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come over and eat some spicy wings. You think that's real?

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Come on. Royal Court creator Brittany Broski said, the whole

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point of these internet based shows is people crave a real,

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parasocial connection with their favorite celebrities. There used to be

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this barrier between celebrities and the average person, and that

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is kind of dissolved. Has it is Pete Davidson having

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you over to his garage Vanity fairs? Brain kickback in

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and they wrote, talk shows have always been performative, conjuring

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an illusion of intimacy between strangers surrounded by lights, cameras

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and a studio audience. And then they're brain short circuit again,

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They wrote, the new crop up celebrity interviewers have found

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their own ways to short circuit the artificiality and illicit

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real human moments. Yeah, like you know, feeding somebody spicy wings.

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Nothing artificial about that. To stop with this, I can't

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with this. Go read Invanity Fair. This makes me want

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to throw my computer across the room. I'm gonna wrap

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up for today and go back to my cabin in

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the woods. Up on Old Men Mountain Metric Company News

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