Aug. 4, 2026

Jim Gaffigan’s Father Time Bourbon Wins Big

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Johnny Mac covers comedy news including Jim Gaffigan’s Father Time Bourbon winning Best New Bourbon at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition for The Caboose Empty Nester Strength (double gold, 97 points), with details on mash bill, proofs, and the $200 retail price. CBS will air a two-hour 20th anniversary primetime special of Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed on Tuesday, September 29, and Funny You Should Ask returns to production August 11 with new CBS late-night episodes starting September 21; the show nears its 500th episode. Seth Meyers’ Day Drinking becomes a Peacock series compilation. Ratings notes compare summer late-night numbers for Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, and a James Corden after-hours show. Comedy Central announces Stand-Up Selects on YouTube. Mac also recounts a failed YouTube Live due to audio cutting out and reflects on friend Vinnie Pastore’s death, then mentions a trailer for season two of Netflix’s Leanne.

00:12 Jim Gaffigan Bourbon Win
01:34 Comics Unleashed Anniversary
02:38 Funny You Should Ask Returns
03:46 Day Drinking Goes Peacock
04:48 Late Night Ratings Roundup
05:40 Comedy Central Stand-Up Selects
06:24 Kevin Hart Golf With LeBron
06:44 YouTube Live Audio Fail
08:21 Remembering Vinnie Pastore
13:29 Leanne Season Two Trailer

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Caalaruga Shark Media. Hey man, sometimes you just gotta hand

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it to somebody. Hello. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Congratulations to Jim Gaffigan. His whiskey brand Father

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Time Bourbon, the one I made fun of, has won

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best New Bourbon at the twenty twenty six San Francisco

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World Spirits Competition, with the Caboose Empty Nestor Strength. The

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cast Strength Kentucky Straight Bourbon also received a double gold

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medal and an impressive ninety seven point score on the

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Father Time website. Jim Gaffigan said, I'm obviously not a

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bourbon expert. Oh, Jim, I disagree. You are an award

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winning bourbon maker. I salute you, sir. I fall on

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my sword. I made fun of you. You are the man.

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Jim Gaffigan said, I'm obviously not a bourbon expert, but

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I did do my research and I know what I like.

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I handpicked the bourbon and personally signed every bottle of

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Father Time. And no, this isn't some big spirit company

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behind this adventure. It's just me and a buddy from college. Well,

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congrats to Jim and the buddy. The Caboose is a

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Kentucky Strait Bourbon whiskey source from an undisclosed distillery and

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made from a mash bill of sixty three percent corn,

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thirty percent rye, and seven percent malted barley. It's sold

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to two proof points. The precious batch clocks in at

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ninety two point four proof, while the award winning Empty

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Nester Strength is an uncut one hundred and twenty one.

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The suggested retail price for Empty Nestor Strength is two

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hundred dollars. Congratulations again, Jim Gaffigan, CBS will LERR a

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special two hour presentation of Comics Unleashed. That's the Byron

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Allen thing. It is celebrating that shows twentieth anniversary and

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you're like, what, John, That's only been on since May.

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Oh no, this has been around in like syndication and

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Late Late Night for twenty years. Byron Allen's a billionaire.

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Don't make fun of him either. The primetime special air Tuesday,

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September twenty ninth. The program will offer clips of Byron

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Allen's monologues interview using comedic panels from the past two decades.

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Guests will be announced at a later date, said CBS.

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Comics Unleash debuted in first run syndication on local TV

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stations in two thousand and six. The show produced more

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than two hundred thirty episodes before taking quote an extended

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production hiatus in twenty sixteen, during which repeats aired. Then

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in twenty twenty four, when Taylor Thomlinson walked away from

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After Midnight, CBS was like, yeah, let's throw this on,

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so they started making more and then CBS was like,

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do we even need Stephen Colbert. The answer apparently no.

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The show has been attracting more than eight hundred thousand

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viewers over the age of two and in the eighteen

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of forty nine to eighty three thousand. The other Byron

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Allen show, the one that's on at twelve thirty now,

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is called Funny You Should Ask, and that is returning

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to production on August eleventh. New episodes will start showing

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up on CBS at twelve thirty five am September twenty

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First hosted by John Kelly, Funny You Should Ask has

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produced four hundred and fifty episodes across nine seasons and

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is going to tape its landmark five hundredth episode this winter.

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If you haven't seen the show and I know You Haven't.

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The show pits two contestants against each other as a

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panel of six comics cracked jokes and offer answers to

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trivia questions. Contestants must then decide whether those answers are

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correct or merely funny. Isn't that just the Hollywood Squares

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minus Tic tac Toe? Yes. After three rounds, the contestants

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with the most money advances to an end game for

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a larger cash prize. Some of the people that have

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appeared on this thing Tiffany Hattis, Sean Lovitz, Jamie Kennedy,

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Cheryl Underwood, Adam Carolla, Howie Mandel, Whitney Cummings, Carolyn Ray,

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Natasha Lazeiro, Jeff Ross, Tommy Davidson, Jimmy Walker, and Gabriel

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Fluffy Iglesias. Byron Allen said in a statement, Funny You

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Should Ask is a comedy game show with a simple premise.

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For every question, there's a funny answer. Congratulations to Seth Myers.

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His day drinking segment will be presented on Peacock as

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its own series. Today is Johnny Mack is wrong about

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everybody and everything day. What happens next? We're going to

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give a life time comedy Award, Adam Sandler and Say

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Marceller R and Eds is funny. This is an awful episode.

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You'll find day Drinking with Seth Myers on Peacock Now.

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As at the time of this recording, the collection includes

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all but one of the show's seventeen installments. The mystery

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holdout episode is Seth Myers. In twenty twenty two with

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post Malone, I saw on the Spotify comment somebody got

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mad at me that I often take shots at Seth

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Myers make twelve thirty great again? And as I wrote, look,

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there's a home for Seth and maybe it's Peacock, But

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I want to make twelve thirty great again. And I

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need somebody willing to throw watermelons off a tower, maybe

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have a bear masterbait. And I keep coming back to

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Chris Fleming. Wouldn't Chris Fleming be a wonderful host of

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Late Night with Chris Fleming twelve thirty seven, whatever it

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is on NBC, Wouldn't that be great? And then like

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Seth Myers could be on like Peacock or something. I

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think that would be awesome. Continuing today's theme of Johnny

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Mack is wrong about everything, Jimmy Fallon continues to trail

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Jimmy Kimmel's summer guest host and even lost some ground.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live Minus Jimmy Kimmel averaged one poin five

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seven four million viewers the week Coleman Domingo hosted. That

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same week, Fallon did one point four to two million

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In the eighteen to forty nine s Kimmel Minus Kimmel

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two hundred and three thousand adults. Jimmy Fallon won sixty

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eight at twelve thirty nine hundred and twenty four thousand

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people were watching Seth Myers Flat from the previous week

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eighteen to forty nine to ninety seven thousand people. Byron

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Allen Show Keeps Doing Byron Allen Things. The final week

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of Show after Soccer starring James Corden, properly titled FIFA

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total viewers, up fifty three percent, adults eighteen to forty

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nine one hundred and fifty seven thousand up thirty nine percent.

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The Daily Show is taking August off. I guess I

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can't blame them. Meanwhile, over at Comedy Central, they've announced

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a new series of Comedy Central stand Up Selects, short

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sets from fourteen comics that will tape in August and

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launch exclusively on the Comedy Central stand Up YouTube channel.

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Interesting that it's going to YouTube and not actually Comedy Central.

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Welcome to the future, John. We are told that Comedy

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Central Stand Up Selects will mix newer and established talent.

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The newer and established talent include Adam Ray, Daniella, in Nes, Calvo,

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Fume Abbe, Ian Edwards, Jay Jorden, Jeremiah Watkins, Jesse Jitski Johnson,

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Joey Sarone, Catherine Blandford, Leslie Low, Mendal, Ryan Goodcase, Sammy Maury,

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and Skyler Higley. Kevin Hart was hanging out with his

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golfing pal Lebron James, who is now a Philadelphia seventy

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six er. There's a video of them playing golf together.

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There were a lot of naughty words, so I can't

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play it for you, but Kevin Hart started using a

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lot of Philly lingo to keep Lebron updated on how

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his new fans talk. Bron said to Kevin Art, you

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back on your Philly lingo, young bull. So I am frustrated.

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If you work with me long enough, I will roll

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out of bed and have an idea and like I

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have no patience, I'm like, let's do it now. So

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on Sunday I was hanging out on the deck poolside

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and I was like, I should do a YouTube live

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and then I was like, yeah, the family's around, they'll

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just distract me. I'll do it Monday. So Monday one

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o'clock I went live on YouTube. And if you caught it,

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thank you. And if you didn't catch it, you're not

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gonna catch it. And here's why I'm frustrated. You know,

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I'm a newbie. I don't know what I'm doing. And

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the audio of the live stream cut off after four minutes.

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I did like fifteen minutes and a cut off after four.

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It was just me talking about stuff, including the death

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of my friend Vinnie Passtoor. Hold On, my wife wants

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to know if I want Chinese food. The answer is,

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of course yes, Do you want to order with me?

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We could do this. She's getting Panda Express, hm hot

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and orange chicken. Should I get that? There's like a

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black in chicken? Oh update required, Come on, Panda express.

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I just want to order. Let's say, how good my

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internet is? I it loaded super fast. The fiosky came

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by after the Storm's boy he hooked it up. My

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internet is quick. Now I'm going to get a bowl.

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It's this black pepper chicken. That's what I really like her.

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I don't get that. What kind of rice should I get? So? Good?

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Fried rice or white rice? I do? Is some fried rice?

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Why not? That's not going to be good for the

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salt anyway. So I did this fifteen minute show and

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I only have the four minutes of the audio. I

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don't know what happens, so I'm very frustrated. I might

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try that again on today Tuesday, assuming you're listening Tuesday.

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I'll see if my wife is around and how quiet

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the house is or not. But I did enjoy doing

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I want to try it out anyway. I was talking

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about Vinnie Passtdoor and a few minutes of the audio

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did survive. So let me just drop that in here

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and then I'll pick it up. But I thought I

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would start today talking about Vinnie Passdoor because I was

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friends with Vinnie, worked with him on The Wise Guy Show.

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At Serious Exam. I just was reading the press release

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in March of two thousand and four, that show came out. Wow,

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So that's do the math John twenty two years ago already,

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which is kind of crazy. Vinnie was a good guy.

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I was happy to see all the press that he

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got where people were celebrating his career and his life

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and the fun guy that he was. So when I

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worked with him, it was the wise Guy Show on

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Serious ExM raw Dog Channel. This was in the height

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of Sopranos menia, and the idea for the show as

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designed by executive producer Steven van Zant, you know Stevie

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as Silvio on The Sopranos and also from the EA

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Street Band. So he started the show to capture the

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feeling of the back room at the bottom bing. That

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was the idea there. So Vinnie was the star on

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the show. He played Big Pussy on The Sopranos, so

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he was the star of the show. And he was

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surrounded by some Italian American character actors, and they were

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quite characters. They were actors, and some of them might

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have known somebody and some of them might have been somebody,

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but they were always great to me. I enjoyed working

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with them. So we would lock them in a room

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for three hours. At first it was on Saturday. I'll

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come back to that. And then we did the show

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on Wednesday nights and Vinnie was the ringleader and we

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would do segments like What's your Beef, have some celebrity

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guests in, and it was just a really fun show

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to work with. I remember one night we had The

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Beach Boys on, and I'm a big Beach Boys fan.

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I was in the control room not quite pre sing

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more the adult supervision keep the train on the rails,

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and I was talking to Mike Love, the lead singer

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of the Beach Boys, and Mike says to me, are

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they real wise guys? And I just sometimes I just

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nail things and say things the right way. So I

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said to Mike, I don't know, it's kind of like

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being a surfer. And Mike got what I was coming from.

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You know, the Beach Boys aren't expert surfers. They've been

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to the beach, you know, so he appreciated that. We

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started the show it was on Saturdays, and I just

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as I looked up at the press release and saw

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that it was in two thousand and four. That reminded

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me of this house that I'm living in right now.

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I was on my way to see it. I was

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with my wife and we were going to tour this

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house and I got summoned in by one of the

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bosses for a Wise Guys show meeting. This was before

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the show had launched, on a Saturday afternoon. I was like,

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are you kidding me? And I had I was still

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new enough it's serious, and had been out of work

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before serious for long enough that I wasn't able to

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tell said, go host yourself. I'm not doing that. Later

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in my career, I one hundred percent would have been like,

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I'm not doing that. But in this case, it was

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early enough in the run and I needed the gig,

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so yeah, I said, okay, I'll be in. And my

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wife wound up looking at the house and you know,

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said it to me, this is the house you want.

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It's on a cul de sac and it as a pool.

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And I took her word for it and took the

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leap of faith. And We've been on this house that

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I hadn't seen and I've lived here for twenty something years.

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The Wise Guys show boy in the middle of Sopranos Mania,

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we took the show out to Las Vegas at one time,

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and you know again, I was just a guy along

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for the ride, literally along for the ride in the

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limousine with some of the stars of the Wise Guys Show,

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including Vinnie, including Steve Sharipa, who played Bobby Bakalan Sopranos,

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and I was one of the humans who got out

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of the limo. The crowds reacting to these people back

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in the middle of Sopranos media. It was insane. And

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I remember that Las Vegas show, particularly because the guys

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were being a little ornery, as they would get sometimes,

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and I remember Shrippa. I kind of snapped at them,

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and Shrippa backed me up and was like, you tell him, Johnny.

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they all stayed in line, and then the audio cut off, right,

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So what I was saying was that Steve Shirippa told

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the guys, you know, hey, John's in charge here, snap

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it back, and then all the guys listened. So that

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was nice. And I'm checking my notes here because I

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can't remember, you know, I told the full story, and

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I can't remember what you heard or not. All right,

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it looks like you didn't hear the part about The

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guests on that particular episode were Robert Goulay if you're old,

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you know who that is. If you're younger' like who

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I think mister Gulay may have had a beverage or

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two or five or eleven, or maybe not at all.

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And Debbie Gibson, who was beautiful anyway. Vinny good guy,

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had a temper. You can google some stuff about Vinnie

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and it'll show up in the news, the temper. Sometimes

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he'd be a little annoying to work with, but a

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good guy, and I stayed friends with him after The

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Wise Guy showanded, and after I left Sirious and for

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Reels last week, I was thinking of reaching out to

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him because I was talking to a friend about showbiz

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and how all these actors. When you work, you make money,

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but when you don't work, you don't make any money.

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And I was thinking about Steve Shriippa and Vinnie, and

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I almost reached out to Vinnie, and I did not.

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Vinnie Passtoor was eighty years old and a good guy,

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and I'm glad that people on the internet are remembering

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him fondly. Let's do one more and get out of

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here before the wife shows up with the Chinese food.

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There's a trailer out for season two of Leanne. In

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season two, we follow Leanne Morgan's character Lean as her

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world is turned upside down, and it takes place after

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the character's husband of thirty three years unexpectedly leaves her

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for another woman. I wonder how her real life husband's

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gonna feel about that. Supported by her family, including her

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Ride or Die sister Carol, Leanne learns to embrace the

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chaos and find strength, laughter, and hope in the most

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unexpected places. Leanne tells people to see how Leanne navigates

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this new chapter of her life, handling a divorce, caring

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for each parents, dating at sixty. How old are her

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parents if she's sixty and trying to make sense of

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it all the way we all do. I hope people

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find it both relatable and hilarious. Oh we learned. The

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season opens with my elderly parents, Celia Weston and Blake Clark,

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moving into my house. And now how old are they?

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If Leanne is playing a sixty year old character, how

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old are these parents? Celia Weston is seventy four, so

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your mom is fourteen years older. Than you, and alright,

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and Blake Clark held is Blake Clark. He's eighty all right,

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so he was twenty when he had Leanne. All right,

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then that works a little bit. John, It's a sitcom

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on Netflix. Why are you worried about if it makes

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sense or not? I don't know. Leanne says she can

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relate to this feeling. Her own parents are eighty three

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and eighty five. She says, they're still in their home,

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but they need more assistance with each passing year. There's

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real tension that comes with everyone living under one roof.

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We have to find the humor in it to get through. See.

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I forget my parents were a little older when they

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had me. I probably quote unquote should have been born

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in like nineteen sixty four, but I was not. I

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really digre. I mean, the live stream just made me sad.

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Like I said, maybe we'll try again today. Maybe not.

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That is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.