Dec. 31, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel done in May 2027? Kumail Nanjiani affair with Michelle Obama?

Jimmy Kimmel done in May 2027?  Kumail Nanjiani affair with Michelle Obama?

Johnny Mac delivers the latest in comedy news, highlighting New Year's Eve celebrations with Bert Kreischer hosting on CBS, Other events include Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN, and Jim Gaffigan and Wanda Sykes on NBC.

 Los Angeles sees performances by Nikki Glaser, Patton Oswalt, "Iliza" and more. Ricky Gervais releases a new Netflix special and comments on evolving his humor.

Rumors swirl about Jimmy Kimmel's late night exit after one final year. Sarah Sherman discusses her special, Tiffany Haddish reunites with a pivotal mentor, Joe Rogan critiques Trump, and Kumail Nanjiani dispels bizarre affair rumor. Kanye West teases a new album at Deon Cole's comedy show.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hi there, I'm Johnnie Mack, who with your daily comedy

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news at daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in

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the comedy industry, which is a sense that you might

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say if you were retraining the Spotify transcription algorithm. But

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we don't have time for that because Bert Kreischer is

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hosting New Year's Eve on CBS tonight. Social media star

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Haley Bailey will handle the East Coast celebrations. Then it's

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off to Nashville and Bert Krascher, who would do midnight

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Central Time. I will be asleep by then, but I'm

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sure it'll be wonderful. Dusty Slay is also part of

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tonight's telecast. Some other things you could watch tonight On CNN,

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It's New Year's Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.

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Your guests include Stephen Colbert, Sarah Sherman, Leanne Morgan, and

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bj Novak. Over on NBC, It's The Exciting Toast To

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twenty twenty five. Guest appearances include Jim Gaffigan, Tom Poppa,

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Rob Riggle, and Wanda Sykes. If you're in Los Angeles,

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Pretty Good Show at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for

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New Year's Eve. Now, I saw an event Bright pushing

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tickets on Tuesday as I recorded this, so apparently this

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is under sold. It's New Year's Eve with Nicky Glazer,

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Eliza Selessinger and Patton Oswalt. Actually it's called New Year's

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Eve with Nicky Glazer, Eliza and Patton Oswalt. I assumed

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it's Eliza's Lessinger, but it doesn't actually say that. It

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says Nicky Glazer, Eliza, Patton Oswalt, Todd Glass and Moore

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eighteen and up a two item minimum. Doors open at five.

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Parking is just three dollars with validation, and the listing

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says line up always confirmed, but subject to change. I

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wonder why we're keeping Eliza's last name a secret. Has

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she rebranded and I missed it? Patton Oswalt, Nicky Glazer

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and Eliza last name can't sell out on New Ye's Eve?

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That's odd. Ricky Gervais, he's got a new special ad

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on Netflix. He says he would no longer make jokes

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at the expense of disadvantage people and would do things

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differently on the office. If you could go back in time.

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Ricky was on Radio four and said people understand most

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power struggles. They understand why racism, homophobian misogyny are wrong,

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but they're very disparaging about the working classes. It's the

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one thing that it seems to be fine to take

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the mickey out of with no blowback at all. As

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for the office, he would change things. He has no regrets.

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He says, you're a product through your toime. You do

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make things for people of your time. I'd put trigger

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warnings on things, but I wouldn't go back and change anything.

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Do I regret anything?

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No?

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What I do things differently now? Probably Ricky Special has

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always create controversy. He told the one show most offense

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comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke

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with the actual target. So it starts and they go,

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what's he going to say? And I tell the joke

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and they laugh. It's like a parachute joke. It's scary,

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but then you land and it's all okay. And I

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think that's what comedy's for getting us over at taboo subjects.

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They're not scary anymore. So I deal with everything. Did

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you watch Ricky's Special on Netflix? Yet? I did not.

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I had to watch USC football last night. Saving Ricky

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for New Year's Eve, filmed at the London Palladium. Spoilers,

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Ricky Gervais says, it's great to hear the sort of

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laughter again because you probably don't notice it as much

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as comedians. But we had a really weird ten years

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where we're really second guessing jokes. People find anything offensive,

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but we push back and we won so f them

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until the next time. They haven't gone away, they're just

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looking their wounds. They'll be back with something matter, But

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remember who it is next time. Right. It's always these

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sort of educated, middle class, privileged elitest sort of people

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telling ordinary working class people what they can and can't

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do and say and laugh, not realizing how important comedy

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is to ordinary people. Ricky Gervais, who's just a regular

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working class blow key, as an estimated net worth of

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one hundred and seventy million dollars. You may recall he

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co created the show The Office, which has had numerous

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international adaptations, including one on NBC in the United States.

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Ricky one time played the Hollywood Bowl and made one

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point seventy five million dollars for that one performance. So

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he's just a regular old working class guy. Ricky says,

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there have been numerous attempts to get him canceled over

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the past fifteen years, including from fellow comedians who criticize

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him for punching down. Ricky says, they've always failed. I'm

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too old now not to say what I want. I

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want to say and do what I want all the time.

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I want to do my favorite thing all the time.

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He explains the rise of cancel CLD were saying there's

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still two ways you can raise your status in society.

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One be competent in something like, oh he's a good hunter,

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go with him, He's good for the tribe. The other way,

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you can raise your status to have virtue, like, oh

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he's not a great hunter, but he's wiser kind of whatever.

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And then with the advent of social media, people suddenly

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discovered they could just say they were virtuous, no evidence,

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no proof, just loads of flags in their bio. Ricky

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says he is not going to attend the Golden Globes.

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He says it's too far to go and I prefer

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to stay at home with his girlfriend Jean and their cat. Ricky,

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of course a notable former host of the Golden Globe's.

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Other famous former hosts include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler,

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and of course that one time Joe Coy hosted the

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Golden Globes and told this awful, mean, horrible joke about

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Taylor Swift.

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As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

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The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

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On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber shots of

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Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go

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to here?

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Sorry about that who unbelievably harsh, No wonder she gave

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him the stare down. I mean, how could you even

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Joe like that? After she walked through the room, arriving

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late somehow and then distracting everybody as she walked from

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the far side of the room to her table, and

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then Joe Koy drew attention to her. Ugh um, cool

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dude on Rob Shooter's substack, which tends to be a

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little gossipy, not incorrect, but tends to be gossipy. I'm

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just familiar with it because I write for the Palace

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Intrigue podcast about the royal family and Shooter comments on

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them a lot. It tends to be gossipy. He's saying,

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Jimmy Kimmel's renewal is for one year and then Jimmy's

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done it, said Jimmy signed the one year extension on purpose.

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It wasn't advertised that way, but everybody at ABC knows

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exactly what it means. This is his last lap. Full

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stop Shooter says network executives want to give Kimmel a graceful,

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celebratory exit after more than two decades of late night dominance.

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Another sore says the audience has shifted to streaming, ratings

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have changed. Jimmy knows its time. Internally, they're calling it

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is good bye year. Everybody expect him to finish big.

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That would leave the Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon as

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the last show standing. Everything old is new again. Now

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I'm I'm not sure I believe this next port. You

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know who Jimmy supposedly wants as his final guest. A

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source said he thinks ending with Trump would be the

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ultimate finale, one last laugh, one last headline. According to

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ABC insiders, May twenty twenty seven will be the end

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of Jimmy Kimmel's show. We'll see Sarah Sherman told people

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that Bow and Yang liked her special and said this

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is so you, Sherman said, you know what I mean,

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that's all you could ever hope for is you've created

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a project with all these amazing people who are also talented.

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As for ESNL, it's a really intimate job. You get

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to know people really, really well, but you're creating work

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that fits a certain type of specific show, so sometimes

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you don't get to see everybody's true artistic selves. You

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know people inter personally pretty well, you know people's comedic

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voices really well, but I don't know the extent sometimes

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of people's full artistic visions. And so much of the

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specials like I'm a living cartoon, and maybe that's a

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little bit of what the Sarah Squirm character is. It's

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like a living cartoon, but she's very much alive and

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made of flush bones and skin and guts. And yeah,

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that's another thing, the relatability of the special I'm talking

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about things that everyone can relate to. I don't have

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some gross disease that one center of the population has.

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I have the gross disease of having too much body hair.

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Tiffany had to stop midset and turned on the lights

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at her recent comedy show. Tiffany shared a clip on Instagram.

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She heard a woman in the crowd call out to her,

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asking if her remember her. The woman yeeled out, I

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don't know if you remember. My name is Colletta Lewis.

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Tiffany went to the edge of the stage and said,

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turn the lights on. Tiffany said, you saved my life.

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I'm where I'm at right now because of you. Tiffany

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said Lewis encouraged her and was among the first to

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believe in her comedy career. Hattish said Lewis gave her

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two choices for the summer after she was getting in

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trouble at school. Those choices psychiatric therapy or the Laugh

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Factory comedy camp. Tiffany said, Colletta, I am forever grateful

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God made you and you never gave up on me.

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Thank you. Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis were speaking on

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the Joe Rogan Experience the discussion of the President of

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the United States comments about Rob Reiner. Rogan said, the

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Rob Reiner things not funny. Look, there's no justification for

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what Trump did that makes any sense in a compassionate society.

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It's no different than people that were celebrating when Charlie

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Kirk got shot. It just shows you how crazy it

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is the way Trump thinks and talks. It's just like

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the guy got sliced up by his kid. You know,

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anybody doesn't see that and go f man Cameil and

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on Jehanny. I'm noticing on threads that he's getting frusted

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by people. I don't think Kamil is all that popular

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with the comedy community anyway. Kamail was on Caleb Hearn's

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podcast and discussed the rumor, which I've never heard before.

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But what do I know? My guy in a basement

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recording a podcast. Apparently there was a rumor that Kamail

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and a Jihanny was having an affair with Michelle Obama.

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Is this a rumor that everybody knows except me? Okay, fine,

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I accept your premise. Anyway, Camel, who was promoting a

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comedy special, one out of his way to address this

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rumor that he was having an affair with Michelle Obama

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and said he's never met Michelle Obama. As for the rumor,

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I was so excited. My friend, our mutual friend, pulled

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Emily aside and was like, hey, I heard the Kamail

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and Michelle Obama are like doing it. And she was like,

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not even upset, but multiple people brought it up to me. So,

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as the story goes, a mutual friend went up to

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a couple and was like, Hey, I hear your husband

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is shagging Michelle Obama? Like do you do that to

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your friends? Is that a thing people do? Like you

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go up to married couple and go, hey, I heard

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your husband is shagging Jill Biden? Like is that something

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that people do? Anyway? Come on, A Gianni confirms he

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has never met Michelle Obama, which implies that they're not

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having an affair. I don't know if you could have

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an affair if you've never actually met. Not an expert

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in such things. I'm not having an affair. I've never

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had an affair. I've also never met Michelle Obama. I've

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been on a phone call at Jill Biden, who I'm

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not having an affair with. I just want to be clear.

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And I really was on a phone call at Jill Biden.

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I was producing an episode of a podcast called pod

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is a Woman. You can find it somewhere. I digress.

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Kanye West made an appearance at Dion Cole's comedy show

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at the Hollywood Improv At that show, Kanye West revealed

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he's working on a new album. Dean Cole shared the

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moment on Instagram, captioning it about last night, what a

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great time, laughter in love wins again Hollywood improv. In

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the video, Dion Cole invites Kanye West of the stage

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asked the crowd to give it up to a good friend.

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Cole asked, you got anything we could look out for?

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New music? No shirts, sweaters, some boots. Kanie West said,

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new album, which drew applause from the audience. And that

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is your comedy news light as it was for today.

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I will see you tomorrow. Oh, Happy New Year, have

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a great night. I'll see you tomorrow.