Sept. 11, 2025

Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon obsession, Nate Bargatze’s therapy confessions, Patton Oswalt angers Trekkies and is The Paper BAD?

Jim Gaffigan goes full bourbon nerd at Louisville’s Bourbon & Beyond festival and preps a whiskey-themed special. Nate Bargatze opens up about therapy and fame. Patton Oswalt plays a Vulcan despite never watching all of TOS, sheesh. Plus: Jordan Jensen backlash, Oscar Nunez gets political, Rainn Wilson evacuates (again), Liz Miele drops a new special, and the San Francisco Comedy Competition kicks off.

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

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daily comedy news. If you are in Kentucky, you're excited.

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It's bourbon and beyond. Attendees can enjoy bourbon tastings, culinary demonstrations,

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and interactions with celebrity guests like Jim Gaffigan. Oh yeah,

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this is a whole thing in Louisville today through the

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fourteenth not just Jim Gaffigan, but the lumineers who I'm

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a big fan of fish, not actual fish, you know,

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the Jam band, those guys. Terry Bradshaw's gonna be there

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talking family cooking with no G. I didn't drop the

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G there. That's not the Queen's accent. That's Terry Bradshaw's

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family cooking. Jim Gaffigan told The Courier Journal, I've been

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completely sucked into the bourbon world. There's something almost mystical

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about my affinity for bourbon, which goes beyond the taste.

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It's also the history and the culture that fascinates me.

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Jim describes himself as a former beer guide turned bourbon

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NERD talked about his friend Stu. They were friends in

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college and since we're both in the entertainment industry. We've

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stayed in touch. I've been approaching a couple of times

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about doing a celebrity spirit, but I was worried about

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the quality, so I called Stu because I knew he

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was from Louisville. That makes sense, Jim. Besides the taste,

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I love the history and culture of bourbon. I discovered

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this whole nerdy bourbon world, and the more exposure I

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can get, the more I enjoy it. Jim says, wife

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Jeanie is happy he's doing this as a hobby. He jokes,

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She's happy that I'm obsessing about bourbon rather than having

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an affair. My bourbon obsession is a productive use of

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my time. Well, Jim will be at the festival on

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Sunday at four to ten on the really cool Fork

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and Flask stage. Then in October, Jim is recording Jim

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Gaffigan a Bourbon set, four separate shows that will include

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content based on his observations of bourbon culture. They're going

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to cut those together and make a special out of it. Apparently,

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something called the Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program is helping fund

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all that. Your tax dollars at work. I guess because

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I googled Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program and they've got a

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dot gov email address. The purpose of the KI program

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is to encourage the film and entertainment industry to choose

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locations in the Commonwealth for the filming and production of

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entertainment productions. Hey guys, I'll sell out. I'll do my

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podcast from Kentucky. Invite me down. I like money, Gaffigan said.

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My shows at the Kentucky Center are going to be

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a love letter to American whiskey. It's all a labor

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of love because learning more about bourbon is something I

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really enjoy. I hope others will enjoy the shows, but

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if not, I've really enjoy developing the material. Well, if

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you enjoy it so much and it's a labor of love,

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why don't you turn down the tax dollars. I'm just

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asking a question. Maybe there's a reason why you don't

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just asking It's not like your easin. Sorry, all right,

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there's more stuff. Sunday one thirty pm. Jim is doing

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Listen to this. This is really cool. He's at the Kruger.

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He's doing a bottle signing and a meet and greet

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at the Kruger Supermarket. So what can you do at

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this thing? You can purchase a bottle of father Time

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Bourbon while supplies last, they point out, and have it

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signed by Jim Gaffigan, and plus snap a photo together

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to remember the moment. Boy, that sounds cool. He's at

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the Kruger on twelve five oh one Shelbyville Road, you

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know the one, then at four to ten on the

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really cool FOURK and Flask stage. Told you about that already,

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And he's got some more events coming up in October.

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Very exciting, seems. Triple H let the cat out of

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the bag. He was on the Pat McAfee show. They

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were curious why Triple H wasn't at a recent WWE event.

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HHH said, to be honest, I wasn't there. I haven't

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had a chance to watch the show yet. I did

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kill Tony last night. Oh shoot, I'm not supposed to

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say that. I forgot. It was a secret that I'm

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on there until Monday. It was fun, So I guess

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that means he's on the Monday kill Tony. We'll find out.

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The Hollywood Reporter did one of those big cover stories

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about Nabrigazzy. Now trust me, on my resume. I know

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about how these things get made for my time at

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Series XM, because this was like the holy grail of

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publicity in the certain offices in the building. This isn't

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somebody waking up out of bed and going, you know,

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I think I gott write a story about n Abrigazzy. No, no, no,

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this was like the full on agency involved, PR team involved.

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Now the timing makes sense because Nate is hosting the

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Emmys on Sunday, but this was a big deal and

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I'm not sure this is the best look for Nate,

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and I think even he is aware of it. I'll

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have some thoughts on a comedy stock market tomorrow, but

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I just I don't know Nate. I don't know. I

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don't know. I mean, Nate's gonna have an awesome weekend,

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but I don't know. Lacey Rose writes in The Hollywod Reporter.

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I noticed Nate Bergetzi's car before I notice him. The

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burnt orange Portia has just pulled up to the bustling

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Nashville restaurant where we've agreed to meet, and the valet

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is signaling for Bagetzi to park out front. Once he's

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made his way inside. He'll tell me that his primo

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spot is a perk of driving a stick shift. What

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he won't say, and what he'd hate having to read here,

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is that it's also a perk of being the most

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successful touring comedian in the world. At this stage, he

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could afford a whole fleet of them without noticing a

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dent Inis bank account. But there's also a genuine discomfort

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that comes with the spoils of success. Nate says, I'm grist.

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I hesitate to even talk about it because I don't

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want anyone to think that I'm better than them. Lacey

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writes on The Hollywood Reporter, and Brigetzi has spent a

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fair share of his time lately grappling with concerns like

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this one in therapy, which is another thing that he's

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embarrassed about. He's terrified it'll come off as some out

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of touch elitist and not the comfortably relatable Oafish dad

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that's earned him legions of fans. But he's just come

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from his therapist office and he ate a good session

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and maybe a breakthrough, And once he starts talking about it,

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he can't seem to stop skipping ahead. In his high

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school yearbook, students were asked what they thought they'd be

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doing in ten years. His response performing against Zani's That's

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the Big Club in national there, Nate says, I think

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it used to feel stupid for me to want to

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dream this big. I thought this tidbit was interesting. Even

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after his twenty twenty one Netflix special The Greatest Average

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American got a Grammy nomination. Netflix is said to have

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encouraged Nates to explore other distributors for his next special.

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He went with Amazon. Netflix came around with a bigger offer,

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but he took Amazon instead. He was hurt, not surprised.

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Nate said, it wasn't that I wasn't doing well, but

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everybody started getting a little opinionated and was like, man,

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they're getting all this industry love and they're the coolest thing.

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And when I'd get off stage, people would be like, Oh,

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he's the funniest, but I wasn't getting any of that,

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and it was really frustrating. Patt and Oswald too, I'm

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a fan of but I'm mad at him because he's

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part of the people ruining Star Trek. He recently played

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Dug the Vulcan. Do you want to hear what it

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sounds like me throwing something across the room. Have me

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watch that episode. And then he goes on Star trek

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dot com and the question what was your relationship with

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Star Trek Here I'll go first, Are you kidding me?

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I started watching tv WPIX Channel eleven, New York City.

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They showed it six nights a week at six o'clock

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Monday to Saturday. Watched it seventy nine episodes, watch them

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over and over. As a kid, I figured out, oh,

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season one has these credit, Season two has these credit.

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Season three has the blue credits. Season two the Enterprise

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flish from the side season when the Enterprise comes out

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of the middle. I watched this thing and I'm memorized.

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But Patton Oswald to play Doug the Vulcan said, I

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was born in sixty nine, so it was always the

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thing in the background. I never sat down and watched

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the entire YA series from start to finish. Some people did,

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but it wasn't a big part of my life. What

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you're like, the guy doing nerd comedy and you've never

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watched Star Trek tos and you're playing Dug the Vulcan.

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Patton says, I remember really really loving the movies and

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certain episodes of the Next Generation it was the best

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of both worlds and other episodes that really just had

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amazing writing and directing. So there's been that level of awareness,

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but it wasn't a realm that I completely was into

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from the get go. He talked about playing Dug the Vulcan.

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He said, everything was in the script. In true Star

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Trek fashion, They're going to leave it open an interpretation.

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What was their background, how did they meet, how did

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they sustain this relationship. I'm going to leave that up

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to the viewers. It's more fun that way, as you're

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playing Doug with the vulcan ears and makeup. He said,

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it was incredible. I'm in the chair. I'm doing what

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Leonard Nimoy has done, what Christy Ally did, what all

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these greats did. I'm not sure how many greats played vulcans.

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I digress. It's almost like it's part of the Hollywood process,

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and they really have it down with science. I thought

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it was going to take hours. They're actually very, very

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good at getting vulcan ears on very quickly. It's not

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like it was in the sixties and seventies. Patton said,

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I did want to add lib they wrote my character

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very precisely. He's a vulcan. He's not going to do

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ad lib things or have emotional reactions to anything. I

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love that part of it. This is someone who very

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boldly states what he thinks and feels, and I was

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happy to stick to that. I was interested where Spock

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realizes and comes to terms and accepts the fact that

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he's an outsider and no matter where he is, he's

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an outsider among all those humans, different species. Then when

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his crew turned vulcan, Oh god, this show he's an

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outsider among them as well, because he's half fulcan, half human.

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When he ends up embracing his uniqueness, The unspoken thing

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about Doug is Doug loves the fact that Spock's so unique.

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You can't be so unique. You're either unique or not unique.

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That's what you really want, a friend, someone that actually

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likes the fact that you're different than anyone else. Are

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you guys still here? See I've told you on and

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off over the years. I'm very passionate about Star Trek.

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You heard the rage come out there, but you know,

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ostensibly that was a story about comedian Patton Oswald, So

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thank you for the indulgence there. Spinal tap is out tomorrow.

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They have done amazing amounts of press in character Nigel's

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it's no spoke to Guitar World, we learned. Nigel for

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the last fifteen years has been living on the border

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of Scotland. I've got a cheese shop there and we

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work together with his partner Mora. He still plays music,

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mostly with locals in the nearby pub and says, but

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it's not for the public to hear. Well, it could happen,

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but as it so happens, it's not. It's just for me.

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He makes cheese. He was asked if the pub sells

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any of his cheeses. He says pubs aren't really known

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for their cheese, now are they. If you know what

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a pub is, it's mostly people drinking side or a

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port or some sort of ale or lagger. All right,

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here is a shocking development. I actually watched a comedy special. Yeah.

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My wife was like, oh, I'll watch the paper with you.

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I'll be down in like twenty minutes, so I had

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to kill some time. I watched the entire Apple iPhone presentation,

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which was forty minutes long. She still wasn't there, so

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I'm like, all right, let me see what's on Netflix,

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and they stuck Jordan Jensen Special in front of me,

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and I hit play and I lasted one minute seven seconds.

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I think the material might have been okay, but Jordan,

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are you listening? Jordan and your people, are you guys listening?

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Stop adding fake laughter. I mean it's like, hello, Halla.

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I could not with this special. It actually made me angry,

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and I posted about it in the Facebook group, which

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is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and then one of

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the regulars over there, Dylan, made me laugh. I'm still

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laughing at this line. He wrote, this is the one

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you watch the day it comes out. He's so right,

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because I never watched them today they come out because

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I'm always doing something else. But yep, I watched Jordan

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Jensen minute seven. I don't know if it's good or bad,

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but the laugh track is unacceptable. So I did not

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give it a thumbs down in the Netflix algorithm. That's

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how angry Jordan Jensen's special made me. Apparently she went

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on Stoby's World podcast and people are upset about that.

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Cracked wrote, and I'm just gonna mostly quote here because

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these words her erratic behavior on the most recent episode

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of the Stobby's World podcast, which dropped up yesterday morning,

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so that would be Tuesday morning. Barely two minutes into

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Jensen's unteenth appearance on the show, made a point to

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mention that her next stop on the podcast press tour

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would be on The Joe Rogan Experience. Interesting, they say,

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the conversation steered towards her hot takes on such rogan

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and how, in her opinion, feminism is dead. At the

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same time, however, Jensen argued that the perceived failure of

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the feminist movement is linked to what she feels is

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an improper handling on the political debate over the rights

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of transgender women. They have a quote from Jensen there,

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and the quote reads, I think if you're a feminist

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you also have to have issues with trans stuff. You

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have to because when a trans person goes now I'm

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a woman and they get giant fake boobs, you have

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to go Hey, I haven't listened to it yet. I've

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added it to Mike Cue. I'll let you know what

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I think so. Anyway, my wife eventually showed up and

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we watched the paper, and as predicted, she made it

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to the first commercial break and then said it's not

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for me, and she laughed. At least it didn't take

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six months for us to watch it together. Boy, the

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first ten minutes of the paper is rough. Bro. I

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was sitting there using words like horrific, and the only

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reason I didn't hit stop is because they hadn't yet

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gotten to the lead guy. So I'm like, all right,

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at least let me see what the show's like when

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we get to the main character. But I watched two

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episodes on Goodwill. I want to like the show. It

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feels like comfort food because it feels like an episode

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of the Office, except for the parts where you laugh

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for like the characters. It's not good. Maybe it gets better.

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I am going to stick with it just because of

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the comfort food good Will brought into it. But it's

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not good. At least through two episodes it's not good,

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and the first ten minutes are horrific. I don't know

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how that even got handed In the La Times caught

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up with Oscar Nuniez, so the actors Oscar Nuniez, the

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characters Oscar Martinez, that gets confusing times. I personally I

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liked Oscar on the Office. I feel in the paper

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he's really really overacting. Every time he comes on, I

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kind of cringe. The main guy's very good, and the

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woman in the Jim Halpert role is pretty good, and

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everybody else's vanilla, and then Oscar's bad. How's that for review?

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And I'm in a good mood today actually, anyway, Oscar

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spoke to the La Times and said, I like this

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quote a lot. The best thing about Oscar Martinez is

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that I go home, I forget about the office and

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I'm just living. But we do these conventions once in

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a while, and there are kids, teenagers and young people

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in their twenties were like, hey man, I'm gay, and

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your character helped me come out of the closet. I

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like what Oscar said about Los Angeles. LA is a

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town where it's very easy to just go to the beach,

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hang out with friends, but you're not really concentrating on

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your career because everything's kind of cool. You're cruising by.

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I have often wondered if I moved to the West Coast,

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would I get anything done? I did more work on

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Sunday than I did between May and Saturday, because it

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was a really, really nice summer in New Jersey. Once

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it heated up, but I got a lot to beach

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it and sat poolside and shortened some days. And then

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you know, now it's fifty nine degrees in reading and

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I'm productive again. So yeah, I could say where it

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would just be easy to go to the beach and

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hang out. The conversation turned to politics. Oscar said, America

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is a racist country. You can get pulled over and

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be shot by a cop. It also happens to be

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a place where you can come from another country at

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three years old end up with property and a family

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and a career. Both things are true. That's the schizophrenia

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of this country. Oscar was born in Cuba. Stay with

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this next quote. A documented pathological liar who's afraid of

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the media and wants to throw critics in jail, who's

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anti gay, anti science, anti intellectual. Every time there's a problem,

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he's the victim. I'm talking, of course about Fidel Castro.

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That's why my parents left Cuba and now to be

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here and going through this, it's crazy. There are detentionent

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centers where we're not allowed to go see what's happening,

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and the people in there, that's crazy, and everybody keeps

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talking about something else. The Ely Times says that reference

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was to Latino's industry who have remained silent. Oscar says,

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George Lopez speaks up, but there are many huge stars,

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millions and millions of followers where Mexican or Latino or quiet.

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If you're quiet, you're not helping your people. You're helping

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Maga and you're helping Ice and that ticks me off.

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While we're in the office Verse Rain Wilson was forced

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to evacuate his home in Sisters, Oregon because of the

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flat fire. On Monday. He posted on Instagram, this is

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his fourth evacuation in the last six years. Wilson got

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into the science of it all and said, the wet

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years are really wet, and tons of undergrowth grows. Then

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there'll be two or three years that are super bone dry,

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and all that undergrowth provides excellent kindling. For God's sake,

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for the planet's sake, Let's do something for our great

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great grandchildren. Simply limit CO two and other heat trapping gases.

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In twenty twenty Rain Wilson hosted a YouTube series called

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An Idiot's Guide to Climate Change. Liz Meely has a

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new stand up special out. It's called Space Camp. You'll

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find it on Punch Up Live, recorded at the Billhouse

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in Brooklyn. Liz Meely hit the stage with her rapid

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fire story telling style to share tales of her boyfriend's

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botch vasectomy, oh No, faking marriage, being a sly Princess,

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cat mishaps, and more. If you're in the New York

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City area, She'll be doing a show in Brooklyn on

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September twenty first, Boston November sixth, and a bunch of

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other shows in between and Kicking off today is the

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San Francisco Comedy Competition that, over the year has launched

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some pretty big names, including Patton Oswald, who has helped

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Ruin star Trek, Robin Williams, and Ellen DeGeneres. The San

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Francisco Comedy Competition is an annual multi week judge stand

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up comedy contest over thirty comedians out of one hundreds

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to apply performance shows held in comedy clubs, bars, restaurants, casinos,

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and theaters in SF and around the Bay. Contestants perform

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three to seven minute long sets in one of two

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preliminary weeks. The top five from each of those weeks

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meets in the semifinals. Then I have to do eight

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to twelve minute sets for another six shows. Five from

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there moved to the finals. Then they do twelve to

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fifteen minute long sets, and then a winner is crowned.

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Doors open at six shows at seven to nine. Fifty

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bucks will get you in at the Center for the

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Arts three fourteen West Main in Grass Valley. And that

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is your comedy news for today. I like today. Today

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is feisty and interesting and fun. See tomorrow.