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Caalarogus, Shark Media Boom. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
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Jim Jeffries rejects the suggestion that he hates women. Jim says,
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I don't believe I'm a misogynist. No, but that's you know,
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that's probably what a misogynist would say. I'd rather this
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be part of an interview. This was with Rolling Stone Australia,
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New Zealand, when people could actually hear me talk then
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read what I'm saying, or have some idiot in a
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basement recording a podcast read the words from a transcript
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from what Jim actually said. Why would we do that?
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That's dumb, Jim says, But look, you never watched a
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female comic go on stage about some guy they had
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sex with, who had a little member who didn't make
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them finish. I've cleaned that sentence up three times and thought,
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how dare she? Right now? If I were to make
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a joke about some women's general tillia being too large
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and me not finishing, I'm the worst man in the world.
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Right There's no difference between those two jokes. There just isn't.
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But do you believe that that woman when she makes
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the joke hates men. No, you don't think that she
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hates men like you know, I don't. Women are half
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the population. I'm gonna make jokes about them. I do
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self deprecating comedy all the time where I make jokes
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about myself. Oh, I guess you could make an argument
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that I hate myself. He discusses his mother. She was
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a hard person to grow up with. She was physically
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very abusive and verbally a very abusive person. So sometimes
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I imagine I've had a chip on my shoulder about women,
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and it's probably been unfair for much of my life
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because my abuser was a three hundred pound woman growing up,
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you know what I mean. So that's where this might
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come from. Now, if you were here a female comic
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in an interview say their father was abusive and belittled
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them and was physically abusive and all this type of stuff,
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and then they said something about how men are, you
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wouldn't begrudge them. You can see where that's coming from.
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But for some reason, there's no gray are with this
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that you can't see where I'm coming from? Or why
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is this the one subject where you don't know that
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I'm joking? Jim are there any jokes you do regret,
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he says. One in his twenty sixteen Netflix special Freedom,
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he took aim at Jenny McCarthy and her son, Prison
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made a joke about whether or not the son was
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autistic or just Jenny McCarthy's son. Jim says, I was
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more doing it because she was an anti vax person
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and I thought which she was doing is very detrimental
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to the world, and I felt like she was a
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person who was more of a hindrance on the planet
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than anything. So I made a joke about her child
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as a parent. Now I'm deeply sorry I did that.
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I shouldn't have done that. Maria Bamford has a book out.
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She and her husband, the artist Scott Marvel Cassidy, have
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collaborated on Hodge Book and Laser Eyes, a graphic novel.
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It describes their relationship from the perspective of their dogs.
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Maria Bamford told The Express News, it's a beautiful sort
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of a memorial to all the dogs that we've had
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over the course of our relationship and how they supported us.
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Max was a marine and then he got into private
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detective work and that's why he did the perimeter of
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whatever room he was in. He'd go around the perimeter
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and make sure everything was safe. Then there were Arnold
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and Betty. They were a bonded bear and they were
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just completely in love with each other. Maria says they've
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typically taken in older dogs, even though it's a setup
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for heartbreak. She says, you know they're going to pass away,
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But I prefer an older dog because I think that's
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what I am. I like to sit down, I like
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to eat. Sarah Silverman spoke to NPR about her early career.
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You may recall it Sarah did blackface at some point.
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Sarah said, I think early on there was more character
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in her early work and certainly was purposely racist and
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all the ists because the character was an ignorant, arrogant person,
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and I felt like the truth would come through that,
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and at the time it worked. I can't imagine a
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level of ways in which that special does not hold
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up now. I think it would be hard to find
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any clip that works. It's very hardcore and it does
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not hold up in today's world. But that's also what
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art is. You know, you watch it in two thousand
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and five, and it's a very different show than when
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you watch it in twenty twenty four because you've changed,
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because the world has changed around us. I'm absolutely not
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proud of a lot of things in it looking back
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at it today, but I accept that that's what it
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is to be an artist who's been around a long
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time without the leeway of changing and growing. We're just
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defined by our singular moments. The world was bigger and
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it was way more ignorant. It's funny because the character
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was this ignorant character that I could point to and go,
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she doesn't understand, she says all these horrible things, but
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it's okay because it's a character. And then really, I'm
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super liberal blah blah blah. And then the irony was
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that the real meat behind that was ignorant. But I
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have to accept that because that's me. And in order
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to grow, you have to accept that you can grow
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and change me different than you were, and not to
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find yourself by your most ignorant moments. Kevin neil And
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spoke to the Union about explaining his comedic delivery, and
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he said, it's kind of like describing how you look.
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From what I hear, people would say that my stand
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up is very absurd, and a lot of misdirection, and
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I did to friends, tell me my comedy kind of
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sneaks up on you. When I'm onto the next little
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hunk I'm talking about. The laughter is just coming to them.
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It's very conversational. You know what makes me laugh? Or children?
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Children are so naive and they do things that are
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just funny. I also like to go on the Daily
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Dose on the Internet and they have videos of animals
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or kids or anything. It's really funny. My laughter comes
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from normal people doing silly things. Chicago Sun Times caught
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up with Langston Kerman. He graduated during the Great Recession
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and said, I ended up moving back to my mom's basement,
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which I vowed I would never do length since now
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thirty seven, it all felt dark to me. It was
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so antithetical to what I had envisioned in my head.
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I went to school, I got could grades and follow
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the rules, and now I'm back in this life I
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didn't want. He decided to take a risk and pursue
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a dream. He signed up to do a comedy set
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at an open mic at Doc Ryan's. I went up
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there and I bomb for five minutes. But it was
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the great kind of bomb that a sick person like
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me can somehow translate as you should go do this again.
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She keep trying. So every week I'd go up to
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that open mic and bomb, and every week I felt
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a little bit better about the idea of pursuing this.
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He has a podcast called My Mamma Told Me, which
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showcases black conspiracy theories. For example, did Bill Cosby attempt
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to buy NBC? Does the Black Illuminati exist? Or aircraft
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chemtrails infecting the public with chemical or biological agents. Kerman says,
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we take a lot of pride in either of us
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being scared of any conversation. I think conspiracy theory is
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so important. I don't mean that we should all be
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conspiracy theorists, but I do think the conspiracy theory is
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sort of like the adult version of imagining and whimsy.
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It's fascinating me to unpack where these ideas come from.
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It is netflix special. He relays a time when a
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student made fun of his poetry, and Kerman said, I
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deeply resent that child. She's not a child anymore as
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a grown person. Should I ever come across her, I
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got smoke for her. Felippia Sparza said, I had great
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advice one time from Paul Rodriguez because I was worried,
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how is my comedy going to cross over? How's it
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going to transcend to other cultures, to other nationalities, And
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he told me don't worry about any of that. If
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you're funny, the audience will cross over to you. It's
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not your job to cross over to them. Deadline caught
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up with Matt Berry. Matt, what were you doing before
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you were an actor? Berry says, I was in the
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London Dungeon. That The London Dungeon is a lunch in
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tourist attraction. It's across between a museum and a live
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performance kind of thing. During the course of the day,
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you'd be Jack the ripper in the morning, and then
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you'd be a judge in the afternoon, and it's hired.
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You'd be doing something like twenty or thirty shows a
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day and I loved it. It was fantastic fun, but the
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money was horrendous, so I'd do gigs in the evening.
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And that's how Dark Place happened. I was doing a
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gig and Matt Holness and Richard Aoide come up to
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me and said, we're doing a TV version of their
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friend show Dark Place, and would like you to play
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the Spanish doctor. In my head, I was like, well,
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you're taking a risk there. Because I've never done any
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TV or any company before. I haven't got a clue.
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But obviously I didn't say that to them. I was like, yes, yes, fine,
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because I had nothing to lose and absolutely nothing going
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on at that point, so it was all to play for.
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I just said yes to everything and turned up to rehearsal,
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and I really enjoyed it. I didn't think i'd work
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after Dark Place. I didn't even know whether they would
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show the whole series, and I wasn't convinced it was
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actually going to air until the first night when it did,
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and no one believed I was going to be on TV.
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I told people, including my family, said I'm going to
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be on TV next month. It wasn't until the adverts
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came on. I was in one of those adverts that
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everybody realized it wasn't full of stuff. Deadline asked about
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the origin of Toast of Lunch and which is a
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fantastic show if you've never seen it, Barry said, I've
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always wanted to do it because I've been doing voiceovers
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for years and years with older actors seeing how they
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behave just finding it very, very funny. I knew there
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was something there, so I wrote all ideas for it,
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his name and everything, and then spoke to Arthur Matthews.
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Because I wasn't successful enough for anyone to say, yeah,
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he's written this, let's make it a series. I needed
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help in the form of Arthur. And Arthur's still the
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best of what he does. The character Toast. He's pompous
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and he thinks that better things should be happening to him.
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There's a never ending supply of things you can do
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to put him back in his place each time. But
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it's just fantastic to play because it's not set in
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any particular time and as a foot in the seventies
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and in the modern day, so we're not limited to
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what we can do. A bit like Shadows, those characters
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are in their own world and they can do anything.
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Will there'd be more, he said, Well, I did Toast
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of tinsel Down the fourth series where he went to Hollywood,
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and if you've seen that, you'll know what happened to
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him at the end. I don't know. I'm happy with it.
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I did everything with it that I wanted to do.
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Vulture as their list of the comedians you should know
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and will know. One of those comedians is young Me Meyer.
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Young Me, if you were immortalized as a cartoon character,
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what we were outfit be? She said, I already wear a
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cartoon character outfit aka the same outfit every day, hot
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pink tennis skirt, mesh crop top, pink bra. It's giving
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dumb bitch cartoon character that f's up everything and think
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she's the main character. And she sort of is, but
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in a villain adjacent way. Vibes worst show ever. Once
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upstate New York. I had to get a ride with
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the other comedians in the lineup. We got there and
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the show took place in a fluorescently lit dining hall
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during their dinner at four pm. When I got on stage,
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I started off by saying, so I'm a single mom,
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and this ninety year old grandma on the back just
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yelled boo and did a double thumbs down. I don't
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really remember anything after that. I just slowly walked off stage,
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like what could I even do to recover from a
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double thumbs down? Nothing? Writing process. I cannot write jokes
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while sitting down at a computer at nine am with
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a cup of coffee. No matter how hard I try.
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In the beginning, I would set aside writing jokes time.
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I just can't write jokes in that way. The only
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way I can write jokes is on stage. There was
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literally a two year period where I just stopped doing
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bits on stage when just riff By going up with
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zero material was horrible. But now I feel like I
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can do bits and they're more dynamic and fluid. I
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think joke telling has to be sort of spontaneous for me.
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There's something about being pushed into a hairy situation that
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makes me funny in a way that I can't, for
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the life of me, pre plan any financial hurdles. The
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biggest financial hurdle since becoming a comedian is becoming a comedian.
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I am so broke. OMG. I have to say that
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I was talking to my friend who was a normal
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nine to five job that she hates, and she's also broke.
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We all have to get side whustles as uber drivers
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and restaurants servers or anyway, so why not do our
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dream jobs on the side too. Best comedy advice was
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for my friend who told me just post anything I
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thought was funny, and not to be too precious about
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it or to think about it too much. He also