Jan. 6, 2025

Jim Gaffigan on Parenting and Sarah Silverman on Midlife Confidence

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode of Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac highlights Jim Gaffigan’s reflections on parenting and his latest special, Sarah, reflecting on midlife confidence and her love for 'Detroiters'. Kathy Griffin shares her journey to regain her voice and her views on keeping busy, while Weird Al reminisces about getting Michael Jackson's approval for 'Eat It'. The episode also features Paul Reiser discussing the Beatles, Seth Meyers on balancing personal and professional anecdotes, David Spade’s podcast with Dana Carvey, and insights on his game show 'Snake Oil'. Plus, fun tidbits about Youngmi Meyer's unexpected cockroach encounter and Caleb Heron's love for Midwest culture.

00:16 Jim Gaffigan on Parenting and Comedy
00:56 Sarah Silverman on Midlife Confidence and TV Shows
02:09 Kathy Griffin's Voice and Career Insights
03:23 Weird Al's Breakthrough with Michael Jackson
04:16 Paul Reiser on The Beatles' Cultural Impact
04:45 Seth Meyers on Standup and Family
05:36 David Spade on Podcasting and Game Shows
07:41 Youngmi Meyer and Caleb Heron on Life Experiences

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. I'll catch up about the Golden Globes

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in a couple of days. I was traveling yesterday and

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again today. Jim Gaffigan spoke to The La Times about parenting,

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and Jim says, I would say I was a very

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good teen. I was very hard working. I would say

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that my dad was unnecessarily annoyed by some of my behavior.

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And now I'm kind of like, oh, I get it.

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I totally get what his annoyance was. And these are

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your children and you do anything for them. But there

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is a baffo mint. I talk about it in my

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latest special, where you have this sweet twelve year old

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and then they change, And obviously I'm using hyperbole and exaggeration,

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but there is a shift. And what's so great about

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touring with the material is that it's a conversation. So

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the feedback from the audience can prove your premise or

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your theory. So even older parents, empty nesters can say, oh, yeah,

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that's true. The hyperbolic humor statement you're making is only

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funny because it's grounded in a shared experience. Sarah Silverman

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spoke to the Detroit Free Press about the feeling that

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many women have in midlife about being more self confident

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and less worried about pleasing others. Sarah said, not everybody

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grows with age, you know, but it's kind of thrilling

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to be like, yeah, I'm not doing that anymore. I'm

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not gonna put up with that anymore. Also, I'm in

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a relationship I'm so happy with, but I also know

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that I love being alone. A relationship has to be

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pretty great for me not to want to be alone.

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I think that's a great place to be, and it's

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a place I don't think I could be at a

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younger age. Sarah has been digging the TV show Detroitters,

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the twenty seventeen series from Comedy Central that's been showing

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up on Netflix. My boyfriend and I are watching Detroiters again. God,

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I wish there were more than two seasons. Anytime we

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order dinner, we throw in Detroiters. It's such a beautiful comedy.

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It's very tricky to do comedy that's warm and loving

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but has hardcore funny jokes with Sarah want to do

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a similar series with one of her female peers. She says,

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there are so many brilliant women I would love to

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start with. She was blown away by Kristin Malodian the

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Penguin and said, I was like, please, can I play

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her young mom? She's so brilliant. Sarah's out on tour

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through February first, and said, it's funny merch this time,

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which I usually never have. I say in the show.

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I just really feel like my parents would want me

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to monetize this. It just kills me because my dad

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would have borne every single thing. Ah, they would just

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love it. Kathy Griffin is increasingly happy with her voice

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and says I sound like me again, shouting and cursing

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or my love languages. I tend to yell at the audience,

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even though I love them. I haven't lost my hustle.

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I love the stage. It's the only time of fully relaxed.

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It sounds corny, but I get anxiety attacks. I can't

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stop vomiting. I was in a restaurant recently and had

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to go into a corner. I had flops weat. I

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was hoping nobody would recognize me. I had to get

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it together and drive home. She said. Joan Rivers told

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her to keep on working and never leave a blank

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page on the calendar. I worked with Joan. Joan's days

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were packed. I worked with her around two thousand, well,

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not around two thousand, when it was the fall of

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two thousand and one, two thousand and two. She would

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go up to Toronto or Philadelphia and do QVC and

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walk into the studio at five to six or five

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to seven. I guess it was a seven o'clock show,

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sit down, knock out a two hour show, and then

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go do something else. She like to work Joe Rivers.

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Kathy said, I'm cut from the same cloth. Unlike Ellen,

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Kathy Griffin has no plans to leave the country. I

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assume that's election related. She says, I'm not moving. I

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own a house in Malibu. I love I have four dogs.

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I'm gonna keep touring after the inauguration. I'm good at

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saving money. I have no debt. My house is paid off.

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I work with famed financial advisor Suz Orman. She never

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steers me wrong. Weird Al look back on getting permission

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from Michael Jackson for Eat It and said, I was

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completely surprised that he gave me his blessing. My manager,

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I guess talked to Michael's representatives and we heard back

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fairly quickly that he was okay with it. At the time,

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I was virtually unknown. I had one album out that

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didn't do that great. I couldn't believe we even got

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his attention. There's a contract somewhere in the world that

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is my signature next to Michael Jackson's signature, saying you

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know we are the co writers have eat it. Prior

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to that, it was tough to get anybody's permission because

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nobody knew who weird Awl was. And then after we

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got to eat it, we had that for ammunition. We

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could say, well, you know, Michael Jackson was okay with it,

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why you give me a hard time. If anyone song

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changed my life, that one certainly did. Because, as I've

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said many times, the day they aided video went into

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rotation on MTV, you hear of overnight fame, and it's

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sort of a myth in most cases, but it was

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really true for me because right after that video hit MTV,

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all of a sudden, people are staring at me in public,

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which you know, never happened before. Paul Reiser was on

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the Everything Fab four podcast discussing the Beatles and said,

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my older sister was into them, and I have a

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vivid recollection of being drawn to live TV. There was

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just this imprint of importance. You didn't know it was

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going to be the cultural touchdown that it is, but

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you knowew to watch it. The night in question February

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nineteen sixty four, the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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Reiser said they made good on it with one album

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after another. Specific Beatle songs are imprinted on the moments

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of my life, all our lives. Really, the music is

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so good it seems silly to even give it an adjective.

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Seth Meyers told Variety he is consistently writing down funny

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ideas in real life situations on his phone and can

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gauge what works by reading different nuances in the audience's reaction.

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Seth says, it's how you feel and telling it sometimes

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even the way people laugh. You invented it in your life.

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That's my wife I'm talking about. But if it's ever anything,

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I'm worried she wouldn't love. I tried it first, and

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if you can't make it work, there's no reason to

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have it brought to her. Only when it's a feasible.

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Bit to her credit, if it works, She's always very supportive.

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I love doing stand up because it's so different, not

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just in format, but also in topics. There's something so

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universal about my family and should be noticed that even

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though I bust on them pretty hard, I love talking

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about them. They're my favorite people. Sometimes with Late Night,

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which is the show I love doing, I spent a

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lot of time talking about people. I don't have a

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great deal of affection for us, so it's nice to

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be out there spending an hour sharing anecdotes and observations

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about my family, the best people on Earth. David Spade

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caught up with Southjersey dot Com about his podcast, He

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Does What Dana Carvey Spade said, I wanted to do

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a podcast, but I didn't want to do it alone

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and it was too hard. It seems very easy, and

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that's why there are three million podcasts. I didn't know

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who to do it with, and I was trying to

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think of people. I just get an unknown sidekick, but

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I felt there's safety in numbers. I was casually seeing

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Dana more than usual. He lived near me after always

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being in San Francisco. I'd hit him up for dinners

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and would always crack up and then we realized that

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we always talked about SNL. We have the same manager.

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We discussed it and thought maybe this would be a

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good way to start a podcast. We wanted to do

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it on video and they didn't. After a while, they

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want to do a spinoff, and I said, I'll do

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one if it's on video. So now they do the

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spinoff called Superfly. So it's kind of the same thing.

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It's just me and Dana. We get have people on

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if we want, but the core of it is just

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he and I. It's like when you were on SNL,

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you'd always be kind of aware what's going on. What

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feels like a story that's going to stick around, So

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we'll scribble headlines just stories that are funny to me,

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like when Kanye asked his wife if he could have

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sex with her mom. Really that happened, yikes, And then

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we just talk about it. What would you tell your wife?

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How would she react? And we just riff on that

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for as long as we can, and we go to

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the next story, and then sometimes Dana talks about what

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it was like on SNL this week, and then I

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talk about my weekend on the road. It's a little

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more fun than Fly on the wall because Dana and

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I just blabbed like we're at a dinner. Spade also

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talked about hosting the Fox game show Snake Oil. I said,

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I'm not right for a game show, and then the

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production company, owned by Will Arnett, said, we want a

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host where you're almost annoyed with the game. We're trying

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to find different angles on it. Spade said the fun

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part of Snake Oil, which was on Hulu, is that

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he had no idea which items were real and which weren't.

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I said, don't tell me which ones are real, and

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then when I'm playing the game, I'm trying to chime in,

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going like I have no idea. I'm not allowed to

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steer them. But I'm like, I could fully tell you

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I will guess wrong on this one, because even when

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I'd watch a rerun, I'd go, I don't remember if

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this is real. But that's the fun of it for me.

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That's the hook. I like someone out there is working

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on a Chris Farley bio pick and Spade said, I've

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talked to the writers and the director, and I think

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they've got a handle on it. It's a big, big

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story to tackle and it's not my story to tell.

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It's whoever's doing a movie about it. But I'd hope

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it all goes right. I think everyone that's involved seems

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pretty cool, and they're doing the best they can. So

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we'll cross our fingers and hope for the best. The

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New York Times profiled Young me Meyer great opening sentence,

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the comedian Young me Meyer didn't mean to bring a

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cockroach into a downtown Manhattan food hall. And maybe she didn't,

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but when one scampered across her body, under the table

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and out in the while, she just assumed that she

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was it's host. Quote. I'm like ninety nine percent sure

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that was in my coat the whole time. My apartment

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is so cockroach infested that they're like my pets now.

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I mean, I try to clean, but they just won't

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go away. I've given up. They're hanging out with me now,

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they're coming in my interviews, Caleb Heren spoke to The

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Cut about growing up in the Midwest. His favorite part

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of the Midwest Midwest nice. I love it. A lot

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of people are like, oh, they're nice to your face

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and meet behind your back. It's not been my experience.

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Midwestern people are genuinely nice. I love When I'm in

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Kansas City, people hold the door for you. They say, hey,

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how you doing. They really mean it, they really do

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want to hear about your day. It's part of the

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reason that I still have a home in Kansas City,

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because I literally need it, and I love that Midwestern

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people will put seven foods were straight up not supposed

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to eat on a platter and be like, this is dinner.

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A cast roll is such a messed up concoction. You

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shouldn't even be doing stuff like that in the kitchen,

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and I actually need it to live. I love cheese

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where it doesn't belong. I love four kinds of meat

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where none are called for. I love an appetizer sampler.

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I love a big chili with a cinnamon roll. You

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ever heard of that chili with cinnamon roll that's happening

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in the Midwest. The Midwest is our cultural capital of

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the United States. I don't care what anyone says. That

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program without commercial interruption, there's a link in the show

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not it's five bucks a month. I'll get you this

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one and like twenty plus others on the network commercial

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free five bucks a month. It's nothing, do it. See tomorrow.