Nov. 12, 2024

Jim Gaffigan's new special - here's The Skinny

Show Notes
Transcript

Jim Gaffigan's New Special, Bernie Sanders on Rogan, and More Comedy News
Johnny Mac discusses Jim Gaffigan's upcoming Hulu special 'The Skinny,' its intriguing trailer, and some concerns about the authenticity of crowd reactions. Tony Hinchcliffe reappears on social media by sharing a political article and news about the next White House Correspondents Dinner. Bernie Sanders defends his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, criticizing Democrats' attitudes towards alternative media. The episode also touches on Vir Das's new tour clip and its reception, various comedy events at the New York Comedy Festival, and reflections on popular TV shows like 'Yellowstone' and the anticipated 'Gladiator 2.'

00:00 Jim Gaffigan's New Special
02:35 Tony Hinchcliffe and Social Media
03:29 Political Humor and Bernie Sanders
03:49 Vir Das and Crowd Reactions
06:07 Black Comedy in America
08:21 New Russian Comedy Series 'Goodbye'
09:08 New York Comedy Festival
09:52 TV Show Recommendations and Reviews

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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He and Aaron Chunning Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Jim Gaffigan has released the trailer for his upcoming hilarious special, Hey, publicists,

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get back to me. It's called The Skinny. It'll be

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out on Hulu November twenty second. Taped earlier this year

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at the Wilburth Theater in Boston, Great Venue, Jim offers

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The Skinny on everything from appetites of presints to raising teenagers.

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We'll take a listen to the trailer. I like that

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Hulu released a longer than usual trailer. This one's like

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a minute and a half, so we'll listen to it.

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My take on it, and I want to share my

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take before you listen to it. I think the material

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is really funny, but hear me out. I've got ears

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with a capital E. I notice things. A few of

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these jokes get the dreaded clapter, and I think the

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material deserves a lot better than the clapter it gets.

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And pay a lot of attention to the final joke.

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The crowd noise doesn't sound natural to me. I get

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it's a trailer, but I think they added in some

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laughter there at the end. But hear me out though, like,

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I'm not here to say, oh, Jim Gaffkin sucks. I

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think the material here is excellence. I'm just critiquing the

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art of the trailer. Let's listen. I don't know if

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you know.

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I'm normally a fat guy, but since I've lost all

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this weight, now I'm just arrogant.

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People.

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They won't even say anything to me. Y'll just go

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to my wife and ask is Jim okay? Because to

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them it's more likely that I'm sick than I would

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ever have any self discipline. I know I complain a

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lot about my family, but they've ruined my life. You

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ever noticed in commercials for alcohol, people are always laughing

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and having a good time. I'd just like to see

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one print ad that shows some expressionless dads sitting alone

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at a kitchen table with a bottle of booze. My

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wife was like, don't gaslight me, and I was like,

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I've never heard that term before. She was like, you've

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never heard of gas lighting? And I was like, I

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don't think anyone on this planet has heard of gas lighting.

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You might be going crazy. And I really had met

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my wife has it harder, much harder, But this whole

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thing is kind of her fault. These children didn't come

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out of my body in a way, they're not even

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my kids.

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The Skinny on Hulu November twenty second, looking forward to that,

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Tony Hinchcliff has resurfaced. I guess the coast is clear Tony.

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On social media, Tony re shared an Axios article which

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revealed that Trump was backed by forty six percent of

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Latino voters. Hinchcliff also jumped on Instagram Sunday and shared

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the date of the next White House Correspondence dinner. Boy,

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imagine if they let Tony Hinchcliffe host that thing On threads.

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I've been hanging out on threads more. The Comedy congresss

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get a lot more interaction than Twitter ever did. And

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over there, I'm actually at Daily Comedy News. John Marcos

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Rasi tweeted or no, threaded, that's gonna take him a

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minute threaded. I'm the opposite of Joe Rogan because I'm

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pro vaccine. I voted for Kamala and nobody listens to

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my podcast. Nathan McIntosh said, I like stand up. When

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I was a kid, I thought it was cool, but

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then I heard George Carlin in an interview, talking about

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how expensive his watch was before reading a DraftKings Ad

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and I went, WHOA, that's awesome. Bernie Sanders has criticized

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Democrats for their attitude towards Rogan and other podcast Sanders

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was on CNN. He was asked by Dana Bash about

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the blowback Bernie received years ago when he went on Rogan.

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Bernie said, yeah, I think that's fair enough. Look, you're

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gonna have an argument with Rogan, agree with him, disagree

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with him. But what's the problem with going on those shows?

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It's hard for me to understand that Verdaz has started

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up on social media. He shared a clip from his

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Mindful World Tour show on Twitter. In the video, we

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hear Verdaz say congratulations, America, you are great again. It's

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probably wisest for me if I let Verdas's words speak

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for themselves. I'll play them here. I have edited the

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clip for language, and Veer or his team have edited

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the clip. I see some video jumps as I play

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it on X Before I play it, though, I also

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want to call your attention to here's what a crowd

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normally sounds like, because I keep bringing up and I

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brought it up earlier with the Gaffigan trailer that sometimes

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on these comedy specials, my ears go, that doesn't sound natural.

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Listen to this clip. This is a natural sounding crowd,

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and you don't always get that in the comedy specials. Anyway,

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here's Verdas.

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Hey congracts America. You are great again. Donald J. Trump

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is going to be your president for the next four

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to twenty five years. Yeah sure, yeah, yeah, absolutely grand.

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At least now the mosque is off. You know what

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kind of country you are, You know what kind of

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messaging it is. Because your messaging was a little outdated.

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It was like America, Land of the Three. And we

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were like, yeah, outdated America, yes we can yeah, outdated.

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But now you know, it's like America.

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They're eating the dogs.

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This is you. Now.

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He was always gonna win. He's too entertaining. You have

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an addition to entertainment in this country, right Your president

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has to be entertaining. And I don't know another seventy

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eight year old white man who is more entertaining than any.

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On last week tonight, John Oliver said on Tuesday, Trump

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won reelection, which is to put it mildly and not

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what I was personally hoping would happen, and honestly, in

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Trump's victory speech, she couldn't seem to believe it either.

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Oliver then played a clip from that speech where Trump said,

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we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible and is now

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clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing, adding,

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look what happened? Is this crazy? Oliver said, yeah, it

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is crazy. It's really crazy. He's basically one sentence away

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from saying, I mean, you guys saw what I did right,

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and you're still voted for this. That doesn't make any sense.

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If you need more political humor, check out the Ballot

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Podcast wherever you get your shows. Switching topics, the series

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Black Comedy in America is back tonight at ten pm

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Eastern and Pacific on Vice. The Hollywood Reporter spoke with

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Chris Spencer and Dion Cole. Chris Spencer said it's great

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watching co host Ryan because some of the stuff we

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assume everyone knows, he doesn't know. He was like, I

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didn't know about Eddie murphynsil nineteen ninety eight. I didn't

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want watch Richard Pryor until twenty thirteen. He's young, twenty

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seven or twenty eight, so hearing his frame of reference

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and watching us grow up and the things that were

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immediate to us are still above him. Dean Cole said,

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black comedy is truth, pure, raw, uncut truth. Ain't no

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bouncing around it, and ain't no metaphors, ain't no puns,

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ain't none of that. It's just straight truth. Spencer said,

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I agree, and I have an example of the straight truth,

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especially with black audiences and stand up. We don't care

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who you are. If you don't bring it, then we're

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gonna let you hear it. When audiences go, well, it

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must be professional. He's on stage. I paid my money.

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Let's give him a chance. We don't care who you are.

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Eddie Richard Dave Cole said, it's not just the comedian

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the truthful, it's the audience too. It's the whole experience.

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It's not an untruthful audience when it comes to black comedy.

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They're gonna let you know. I don't care who you are.

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To Chris's point, I've seen some of the hottest of

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the hottest go on stage and the audience will give

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you a graceful five minutes because of who you are.

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And then after that, Spencer said, no, sugar coating black

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comedy in America tonight ten o'clock on Vice. I don't

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know if you know this Saturday Night liveter. It's fifty

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this year, and we're going to talk about it every

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single day. Entertainment Weekly caught up with Dana Corvey, who

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I don't understand why he was on SNL this week.

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Please let the current cast do their thing. Nothing against

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Dana Carvey. Dana, bring back the Dana Carvey Show with

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your original cast. I'll watch the heck out of that,

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but it's not your time on SNL. Let someone else

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have a chance. Dana spoke about meeting Kamala Harris. He

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was walking down the hallway. He was still dressed as Biden.

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Kamala staff said, Hey, so I had about a minute

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face to face with her, and I just did all

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my Biden hooks. She laughed so hard she was bent

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over laughing. Carvey was intrigued by her approval, saying that

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was kind of interesting. I guess she sees this from

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all different points of view, but it seemed cathartic or something.

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I don't know. People seem to like it. He was

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also impressed by the secret Service. They seem to be

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six foot five, they had helmets, they had flack jackets,

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big boots, night vision goggles, and then this assault rifle

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or machine gun or whatever it was. And you know,

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I'm dressed as a tomato and I'm like I fellas

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from the Moscow Times, your home for comedy news, a

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new Russian series titled Goodbye has hit the screens. Goodbye

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is the story of a character representing Joe Biden, who,

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by twist of fate, finds himself lost in Russia, stumbling

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through absurd, almost slapstick situations. The Moscow Time says the

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ambitions were lofty to present the leader of a global

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superpower of fumbling through unfamiliar situations in a foreign land. However,

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the series ends up being nothing but a loose chain

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of jokes, desperately chasing cheap lass while losing any depth

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in the process. Biden here is not portrayed as a

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political figure, but as a characature bumpling, tongue tiede and

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seemingly devoid of any control over surroundings. Is that any

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different than what we do here in the States. The

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folks at the Moscow Times might not Joy's Saturday Night Live.

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They call it Goodbye is less a comedic triumph than

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a farewell to quality SATs Hire on Russian television. All right,

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let's see what's at the New York Comedy Festival tonight.

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I'm laughing here as I'm recording on Monday. Somebody needs

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to update the website because the banner says the laughter

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starts in minus five days, unless that's supposed to be

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a joke, but I don't think it is. Let's see

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some folks you may have heard of. Seven thirty at

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Rodney's Comedy Club, the No Apologies Comedy Tour with Tom Cotter,

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Tammy Pascatelli and Jim Florentine. Seven thirty Union Hall, Pretty major,

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hosted by Jay Jorden and Zach Zimmerman. That's a good show.

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That's a good lineup. Kay. Trevor Wilson is at Chelsea

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Music Hall at eight thirty. I saw him at the

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Toronto Comedy Festival. It's over a decade ago. Now I'm

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getting old, but he was really good. And not too

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many other big names tonight. It is a Tuesday night

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and it'll pick up as the week goes on. Some

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other things I want to talk about, having nothing to

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do with comedy watch a lot of TV recently. Disclaimer

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on Apple I won't spoil it at all. Just trust me,

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you go for the ride. This is not a spoiler.

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Three episodes in and went, oh, that's Sasha Baron Cohen.

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I didn't even notice it was him. The plot is

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really good. Of that Penguin. Did you watch Penguin? Penguin

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finished on Sunday Night, very strong, no spoilers. Penguin is

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absolutely worth watching it. I have described it to people

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as Gotham City Sopranos. There's nothing Batman about it. It's

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really good. Yellowstone, Yellowstone is back. I won't say a

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word about Yellowstone. If you watched Yellowstone, you know why

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you would be curious about the return of Yellowstone. If

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you want to talk about Yellowstone, hit me up on

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social media. And the trailer for a Gladiator too. I

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recently watched the First Gladiator, which is a fantastic movie,

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so I'm looking at this one going all right, Gladiator denzil, Yeah,

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this should be pretty good. The CGI looks like it

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got worse. There's like monkeys and a rhino or something,

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a hippo. I don't know what it is. I guess

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it's a rhino in the trailer, and it all just

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looks fake. It looks better twenty five years ago. Sometimes

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cgi too much. Anyway. That is your comedy news for today.

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