Aug. 10, 2025

Jimmy Fallon lets Jay Leno off the hook for 10 minutes

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Transcript

A chill summer Sunday of comedy news..

00:19 Jason Zinoman's Insights on Comedy
01:23 Marc Maron's Podcast and Interviewing Style
03:37 Bill Burr's Podcast Appearance
05:07 TJ Miller's Beer Pong Challenge
05:56 Nish Kumar on Social Media and Comedy
06:55 Sebastian Maniscalco's Tour Insights
07:27 Jimmy Fallon and Greg Gutfeld's Night Out
09:36 Gossip Corner: Tiffany Haddish and More
10:41 Comedy Festivals and Fringe Highlights

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Meck with your

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daily comedy news. Friend of the show, Jason Zinnemon, he

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writes for The New York Times. He was really writing

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about Mark Meron, but I was really interested in the

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Jason Zinneman part of the article. Jason wrote. When I

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got the job as the comedy columnist for The New

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York Times, I prepared by talking to people in the industry,

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reading as many books as I could, attending myriad shows,

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and listening to every episode of Maren's podcast. Spending time

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with him was by far the most useful. Now, I'll

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jump in there, I personally have taken a different route,

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going all the way back to when I first started

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running comedy for serious satellite radio twenty years ago. Now, wow,

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I pretty quickly decided to take an eye level approach,

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so to talk more. In modern parlance, say more Jim

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Gaffigan and less I don't know, so will say one

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of the new faces or somebody who's lesser known. And

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that approach informed how I programmed the comedy channels back

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in the day with more of a hits format. Back

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in the day, it was Dane Cook and Jeff Dunham

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were super popular, and then along the way you bring

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the audience along by sprinkling in newer faces. And that's

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how I try and handle this show. If you listen

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every day, you'll hear how it's structured. And I always

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try to lead with names. What we're in the middle

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of now ostensibly is a Mark Maron story. He's a name,

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and then I do the esoteric stuff like the fringe

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in the second half. But back to Maren and Zinneman,

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Zinewin writes, it's not just that Maren's podcast is a

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superb oral history of the art form, or that his

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conversations can be insightful. I specially savor the discussions with

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less famous peers who share a history. The most important

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thing I learned from Maren's podcast is the art of interviewing.

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Maren has two unusual tactics for a celebrity interviewer, going

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on the attack and becoming widely introspective, often in the

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same conversation. He attacks by introducing a bone to pick

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to create conflict and seeing how his guest response. When

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I went on show in twenty seventeen, this is in

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him and he did this by taking issue with a

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column I wrote on Lenny Bruce. Not only did it

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force me to think aloud become more present, it also

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gave the conversation a shape, injecting dissension that may or

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may not be resolved. It's why Maren often ends his

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podcast with the phrase that is the title of a

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new documentary about him. Are we good? I am starting

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to stress. This is John speaking that Maren's podcast is ending.

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I have started filling my phone with back episodes. I

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worry that they'll disappear or go behind some sort of paywalls.

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I've just been scrolling some away. Jason writes. Maren is

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one of the few comics whose podcasting has made him

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a better stand up. I put the spin on the

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word better there, precisely because he's integrated this double focus

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looking at the outside world through himself into his specials.

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Unlike most podcasters, Maren refused to pivot to video. It's

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why when he announced his retirement, my first thought went

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to a book by another highly respected cerebral comedian, Fred

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Allen Titan of the Golden Age of Radio. Fred described

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how the move to television robed the essential part of

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the imaginative work of the listen he predicted it would

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ruin comedy. Unlike his rival Jack Benny Alan never made

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the transition and faded from memory. Jason points out, of course,

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the shift from radio to TV did not ruin comedy,

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but it doesn't mean that something precious wasn't lost, or

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that the new world is always better. Do you have

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any idea how innovative, talent rich, and brilliant radio comedy

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was in the thirties and forties? Probably not. I agree

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with him there now, I personally do not only that

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I program the comedy channels at times, I think I

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had two stints as the program director of Radio Classics

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on Serious Slash Serious XM, so I'm probably a little

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more educated than most in that subject. Continuing to pick

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away at Bill Burr's appearance on the Good One podcast.

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That was a very very interesting interview, but was getting

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a little feisty. Good One said, you appeared at the

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Conan O'Brien Mark Twain Price ceremony. Yes, I did. What

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was that experience like? Terrifying? Not given much there, Bill,

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You gotta have more than one word answers, dude. So

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Vulture followed it up in what way set of shadaway

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from doing those things because I think I find a

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lot of the chop busting I do staying in a

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protective place. So if I actually have to go out

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and say something nice about somebody, I get uncomfortable or

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emotional or something. But I knew it was something I

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was going to continue to be asked to do, and

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I jumped at the opportunity when they asked me, because

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I need to get better at it, said, I'll tell you, though,

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howd I know John mulaney was gonna open up and

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kill that hard? I would have turned down the gig.

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He's unbelievable in general, but how good is he at

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these things? I remember U sitting next to Sarah Silverman.

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She had to go on too. I'm like, what the f?

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They don't need us. I didn't need to be here.

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I started freaking out. Then Will Ferrell went on. It

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was like the twenty seven Yankee is a comedy and

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I'm that guy you don't remember from the team. It's

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one of my favorite things I ever did because I

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was so afraid to do it and it went well. Bill,

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do you think you'll ever receive the Mark Twain perrize.

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I'm not one of those guys, which guys A list? Guy,

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I don't want any stuff. I really don't you know

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what I really want when I walk down the street.

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When people from different walks of life go ay man,

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I appreciate what you're doing. Oh, I liked your special

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I like saying in the crowd, like when I go

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to sporting event, I want to get good seats, But

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the closer you get to it, the choir gets and

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less funny gets. I was always like mezzanine level. I

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don't want to be up there with binoculars and young

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people paraphrasing. But I like the mid we're the alcohol intake,

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the view, everything looks mid whatever, the second coloro seats,

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that's what I like. Chrissy from Q ninety seven point

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nine Radio told a great story about TJ Miller. Apparently

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TJ agreed to fly to Maine and accept Chrissy's beer

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pong challenge. Chrissy had tagged at TJ on social media

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to challenge him to beer pong. DJ went up and

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did it, told Chrissy, this is the coolest radio interview

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I've ever done. Thanks for being fun, and then said

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all right, let's go get another drink on a lobster

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roll I'm in Maine. We have to go eat lob

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rolls immediately. Chrissy says, there I am with TJ as

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manager in our lobster rolls before noon, when we continued

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the adventure of visiting every dive bar on the wharf,

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Portown Public House, three dollars, Duey's Commercial Street Pub and

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so many more. DJ said main as chill. It's a

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very viby state. Reminds me of Colorado, and Colorado's my

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favorite state. Like beat you so hard in pong dude,

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Grassie said, I'm never drinking again. Thanks for a great time. TJ.

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Nish Kumar spoke to Yahoo Canada about social media and comedy.

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Kumar is pro saying it has helped the comedy festival industry,

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saying I think the Internet is sort of supercharging these

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things rather than taking away from them. A British comedian

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of my standing twenty years ago wouldn't have been able

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to casually come to Canada and America and sell out

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tour shows that didn't exist. It's only because of the

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Internet and podcasting and task masters specifically. I think there's

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a lot of negatives it has for our industry and

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the art form more broadly, but from a perspective of

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getting people to come to shows and live comedy and festivals,

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I think it's actually really helped. He does say having

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the ability to see what every single person thinks of

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you can at points be paralyzing, and I've definitely gone

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in waves with it. I don't want to praise him ever,

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but the one thing I will say is Elon Musk

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buying Twitter has been really great for me because it

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means I've stopped using it. It's like a reverse Raiders

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of the Lost arc where he opened this box and

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Nazis went everywhere, and I think that made a lot

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of us examine our relationship with it. Is this all

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part of a long game for Elon Musk's attempt to

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improve all our mental health? No, definitely isn't. Billboard ask

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Sebastian Manaskalka how much longer he will tour the current tour,

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the eight Ain't Right tour. Sebastian said, the arena a

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phase of the tour is over. What's left is a

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lot of casinos between now and the end of the year,

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and then we'll put this to bed. It's been a

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great run. I think we did eighty six shows over

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the course of eight months. It was the best time

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ever had on a tour. I brought two of my

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good friends, Pat McGahn and Pete Corielli their headliners. In

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their own regard, I have my best friend John PETRELLI

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used my security come with us, and we've really enjoyed

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every city in the past, I do the show, sleep

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and go to the next venue. This time I enjoyed

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going out to different restaurants. Golfer, what have you? Jimmy

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Fallon giving Jay Lenos some cover. It looks like Jimmy

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Fallon is now the worst person in the world because

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he did not grill his guest Greg Guttfeld on Thursday

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nights at Tonight Show. They didn't get into politics. I

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don't think they got into the Gutfeld of it all.

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Greg came by and told a story about meeting Jimmy

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Fallon fifteen years ago in a quote illegal speakeasy in

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Hell's Kitchen. He explains, we were wasted inside. It looked

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like a place where Special Ops forces waterboard terrorists. Gutfeld said.

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Fallon and his buddy were wrestling before Jimmy ripped a

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cigarette out of his hand. And then he felt bad

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and bought him a new pack. Then they all went

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to another bar. Jimmy Fallon didn't seem to remember this

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and said it definitely happened. Gottfeld talked about how he

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got his current show, which he got because he used

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to host Redeye. As for Redeye, said everybody was drunk,

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even the cameraman at airs at two am, but they

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felt it was too edgy for two am, so they

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moved it to three am. As for Colbert, George Cheeks

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is the new boss over at Skydan, CBS, Paramount, whatever

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you guys are calling it, I don't care. Cheeks explained,

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the challenge in Late Night is that the advertising marketplace

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is in significant secular decline. We're huge fans of Colbert,

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we love the show. Unfortunately the economics made a challenge

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for us to keep going. Now, listen to this and

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I kind of got into this yesterday with Mike Chisholm

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as we talked about Late Night for over an hour.

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Mister Cheeks said, as soon as Taylor Tomlinson nicks the

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idea of continuing a host after midnight, it became clear

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the network couldn't stay in that day part. So this

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is I floated this theory before, and it looks like

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I'm right. Did Taylor Tomlinson accidentally get Colbert canceled? I

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think so. I'm not saying it's Taylor's fault. I'm not

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blaming Taylor, but I think that's what happened. Cheeks also

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commented about the timing, saying we were at a period

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from a production standpoint where every year, seasonally, this is

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when we negotiate new deals for writers and producers. In addition,

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this is going to be the third season of Colbert's

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three year deals, so in order to do these deals,

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we were gonna have to change the terms from what

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they traditionally are September to August to September to May.

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It was incumbent upon me to make it clear to

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Steven and his reps that's where we are. Gossip Connor

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whispers in the street, Gossip Conn, probably MAPI, gossip Conn

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away the Rumors meet with Johnny Mac. It's always a tree.

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Gossip Connor whispersiness Tree, Gossip Conn probably Gossip Cone where

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the rooms meet with Johnny Macs. All in the trees?

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Isn't that damn catchy? AI generated that? Isn't that pretty cool.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about this part. You'll be singing

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it later. May have to trim that a little bit.

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It's Sunday, It's fun. On gossip Corner, people are wondering

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did Tiffany Adish have a baby? Here's why she went

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on Insta shared a photo she was with her longtime

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friend Jason Lee and they held a baby, and the

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caption was cat's out of the bag. Hearts emoji. HM.

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Tiffany has not commented further. No one knows. Okay, Well,

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congrats if you were up in Jamestown, New York at

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the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival. James Austin Johnson is coming

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by today for Inside Saturday Night Live. He replaces Mikey Day,

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who was originally scheduled to appear. Mikey has a personal matter.

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Bo and Yang will be honored at the fifth Annual

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Academy Museum Fundraising Gala. Also being honored Bruce Springsteen and

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some other has been elop the Cruz. She gets the

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Icon Award, Bruce gets the Legacy Award. Bowen gets the

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Vantage Award, which honors artists who challenge dominant narratives in cinema. Yeah,

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I mean love bo and Yang. But is that what

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he's known for challenging dominant narratives in cinema or is

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he known for like Las culturistas Okay. Deadlines spoke to

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some of jfl's new faces and ask them what it

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meant to make new faces. Chloe Radcliffe said, this has

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been the most genuinely, plainly excited that I've been for

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a thing in a really long time. It's funny because

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people talk all the time in the entertainment industry about

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how hard it is to let yourself celebrate, and it's

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hard to know when to celebrate, and so many people

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put off celebrating because they don't want to jink something,

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or because it's just one step but a bigger process.

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People say, now, you have to let yourself really soak

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in the winds, even if they're little, and it's just

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hard to internalize that. That has always been advice that

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I used to give to my staff and now I

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give to my children. When you have a good day,

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when you have the victory, when you have the thing

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to celebrate, take a minute and enjoy it. Not every

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day in this journey of life is awesome. When you

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get a good one, enjoy it. Colly said, for so

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many years it felt like a defeat not to get it.

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Now this is the first year I've ever had a

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role in a major studio movie. This is the first

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year I've ever had a TV deal. Is this the

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first year that I've been a WGA nominated writer. It's

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sort of the perfect year to have gotten it. That's great.

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The Guardian took a look at the fringe. Molly McGuinness

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is treating audiences to a buffet the sketch troop Simple

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Town and Jessica Barton as Mary Floppin's Molly McGinnis's show

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is called Slob and Molly says there should be a

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buffet at every comedy gig, and she is doing that

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Simple Town. They're out of the US. They make short

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films where everyday conundrums like what is the meaning of

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a droit, what happens if you're late for a funeral,

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escalate to extremes, or to send into meta narratives about

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the absurdity of online content. That sounds fun. They're at

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the Pleasants Courtyard through the twenty fourth. If you want

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the buff I forgot to tell you. That's at Monkey

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Barrel through the twenty fourth. Australian Jessica Barton's show is

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Dirty Work. She got her first taste of comedy at

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a French clown school and began messing around using song

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and movement, physical comedy and clowning. Her character Floppins, who

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is you know, not quite Mary Poppins is intent on

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cleaning up the stage. That's fun. That's at Underbelly colgating

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case you're in Edinburgh. Until the twenty fourth, The Guardian

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was excited about Ayoada bem Goboe. Ayad's show is called

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Swings and Roundabouts. Her short presence and sideways perspectives make

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her stand out on any lineup, says The Guardian, despite

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only doing this for three years. She says, I'm looking

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at everything as if I'm on safari. Spicy punchlines on

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racism and colonialism, but audiences should expect something bittersweet, okay.

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Sharon wan Johe in the House her fringe debut. Her

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show is about self help culture and the zeitgeisty coping

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mechanisms that are shoved down our throats. As I'm presenting

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myself as this nineties talk show host in the mold

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of Tricia and Oprah Pleasants Courtyard through the twenty fourth

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rodro O'Sullivan's Feckin' fe kk e n Americans will just

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roll past that word. The Irish are grabbing their ears.

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Roder O'Sullivan from Ireland explores his relationship with his farmer

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father via techn oh I see what you did there

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and the rest of Young Roger's favorite PlayStation games. I

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like it at the Apex until the twenty third voicemag

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dot UK caught up with Dylan Adler, who's at the

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Fringe one of the new faces too. Dylan says, my

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energy has been described before as theater kid who just

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escaped Alcatraz, and honestly, that sums it up pretty well.

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My show is an hour of high energy musical comedy,

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joke storytelling and a single backflip. I talk about having

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an identical gay twin brother, my Japanese grandpa who signed

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up to be a Kamakazi pilot, mental health issues, and

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getting bullied by kids who were shorter than me. The

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show is musical theater kid chaos. I caught him up

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at Montreal. He was the closer on the second show

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that I saw, and he did some material about his

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twin brother. That was quite funny. Dylan Aler is at

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the Pleasants Beside until August twenty fourth, but not on

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the twelfth. If you're planning on going on the twelfth,

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not gonna be there why, I don't know. And that,

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my Friends, is your comedy news for today. If you'd

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caught this guy James? He's crazy. He thinks the aliens

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