Sept. 23, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel returns TONIGHT

Jimmy Kimmel returns TONIGHT
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Christella Alonzo closes her comedy trilogy with Upper Classy. Bert Kreischer stars in a new film Homecoming, Adam Sandler tours Syracuse, and Scrubs revival updates. Plus: The Paper heads to NBC, Matt Berry and Natasha Lyonne launch a spy comedy, and a Friends café opens in Times Square.

There will be a bonus episode with Mark Malkoff of Inside Late Night and the Carson Podcast at noon eastern today.  Mark's book is called Love Johnny Carson.

There will be a Kimmel bonus sometime this afternoon.

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Callaroga Shark Media. My, oh my, we're having some fun now. Hello,

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I know

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I'm feeding your feed every ten minutes with stuff. On

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Monday after noon, just as I was editing this show,

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I got a text from my business partner, Mark Francis.

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He's like, Kimble's back tomorrow, and I'm like, oh good,

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because I have to teach In an hour. ABC announce

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that Jimmy Kimmel Alive is returning two nights after thoughtful

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conversations with parent company Disney. So here's the plan for today.

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You're about to get the normal Tuesday episode as I've

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been doing. I've just been doing the normal stuff as

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their own regular episodes. Around noon today, assuming I actually

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got a chance to do the edit and a new opening,

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I have recorded an hour with Mark Malcoff, you know

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him from the Inside Late Night podcast, which is back

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today with a new episode. And he's got a book

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coming out called Love Johnny Carson. So I asked him

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on to mainly talk about Carson, but we also said

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words like Fallon and Leno and Letterman and oh yeah,

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Kimmel and Colbert. We got into that too, so I

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gotta put that out around noon. Now. Luckily, my spidy

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sense must have been tingling, because at some point I

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said something like Mark, I just want the audience to

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know that it's like one pm on Monday as we're

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recording this, because I have a feeling the news cycle

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will change seven times between us recording this and me

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actually publishing it. Johnny Mack was right, it's not dated

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at all because we really were focused on the carson

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of it all. But that's coming up around noon today,

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and then I have to catch my breath and I'm

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going to get out a Kimmel bonus episode later today.

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I'm also scheduled to record with friend of the show,

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Jason Zinneman from The New York Times, so I'll have

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to figure out how that slots into all of this,

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and you know, and then tomorrow on Wednesday, it'll be

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super busy because I'll have to tell you what Jimmy

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Kimmel said and all that. So plenty, plenty of stuff

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coming up in this feed. And let me now just

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abruptly cut what I had said before the Kimble news broke,

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and I was talking about Caleb Heern. Caleb Heron had

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that new special. This was an HBO Max special. We'll

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get back to that. He commented on why President Donald

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Trump and other conservative Republicans are some of his favorite

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straight guys. He says, because they hate gay people so

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much and they're such and then he used the F word,

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not that F word, the other F word. Why did

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he go political in a special? Caleb said, because every

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day I feel e fing insane. These people in charge

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are liars, They're evil, and I'm not scared of these mfors.

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These right wing fascist freaks are trying to make a

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Christo fascist government in the United States. Right now. I

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see right through them. They're weakend pathetic. I feel like

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in the national conversation there's a lack of normal people

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just telling the efing truth. So I did watch some

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of the special on Sunday night between the main football

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schedule and Sunday Night football. I was surprised this thing

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made HBO Max. Now. I share this thought in the

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Facebook group Daily Coming his podcast group. It might just

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be that I live on old Man Mountain and I'm

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always protective of brands, and I felt like this thing

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airing on something with an HBO logo anywhere near it

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it felt very below par. This looks like a YouTube special,

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like you know, Caleb at the Chuckle Hut and just

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thrown up on YouTube. It looks like one of those,

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and that to me does not say HBO like if

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I look at the recent Mark Maron special, visually, it

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looks like something on par with a George Carland special

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from thirty years ago. That in my old man brain

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is what HBO comedy is. But I guess we live

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in this era where between this whole HBOHBO Max, HBO

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now Max Max plus, so all that and plus putting

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the HBO shows on the same platform, on the same

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level with Doctor Pimple Popper, They've watered down their brand.

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And I think this is a great example of that

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of this to me is not HBO comedy. Apparently it's

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HBO Max common And I don't think the civilians understand that.

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Surprise they this thing belongs on YouTube or maybe possibly hilarious,

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but this is not an HBO special. The material is

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also sea level. Cristella Alonso has a Netflix special out today.

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She opens her hour with this joke. I'll spoil one

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joke for you. I had to make sure I drank

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some water room temperature because I hate ice, all right,

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So that tells you where this special is coming from.

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Coristella caught up with the La Times. Upper Classy is

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the culmination of a trilogy of specials. Cristella explains it

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started off as this random idea where I thought, what

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if I did a trilogy and showed life as I progressed.

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I got the idea because when I had my sitcom,

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one of the biggest notes from the network, which was ABC, right,

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if I'm remembering quickly, we're mad at them? This week

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from the network in the studio was it has to

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be about a sension. The family has to improve grow.

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And I always thought, well, what does that mean in

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your mind? What do you think making it means? Because

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I can tell you that for my family, what making

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it means was very simple. We have money to pay

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the bills, but they're like no more and more, Well,

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I don't know the more. I'm still here. So I

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started thinking, what if in a weird way I document

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the ascension of me coming into my life. Lower Classy

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really was this is my bile, this is how my

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mom was, this is how my family was, this is

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how I'm doing I shot the first special in August

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of twenty sixteen. Then the election happened, and I was

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so depressed because I assume people were better than what

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they turned out to be. I actually didn't know what

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I was going to do, and I decided to take

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a break from stand up and everything because I couldn't

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mentally handle it and I didn't feel like being funny.

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I didn't feel like being anything she talks about middle classy.

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I started making a list of things that were different

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from me, and I wrote health insurance, and that's when

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I realized I didn't know health insurance work. That's kind

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of how middle classy started. Upper classy has a play

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to it in two ways. Look at how rich I am.

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You didn't think I was gonna be that rich because

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of the story that I share. But also look at

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the persona my family made me to be. Bert Kreischer

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is going to star in a comedy movie called Homecoming.

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In Homecoming, we follow divorced dad Bert. The character Bert

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attends his college homecoming and an attempt to reconnect with

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his eldest daughter, who attends is Alma matter. This sounds

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like an Adam Saylor movie so far. When Bert arrives

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on campus, he realizes his kids have parent trapped him

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with his ex wife. From there, the weekend's focus turns

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to competition to boscherus Mayhem, and perhaps a chance to

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reunite his family. That actually doesn't sound horrible, but I'm

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kind of surprised that doesn't star Adam Sandler and say

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Sonny Sandler. Speaking of Adam Sandler, he was at the

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Buffalo Sabers game before performing his comedy act. He met

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some members of the Sabers. The team boasted on social

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media do the guys think shampoo is better or conditioner?

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They also posted a Sabers GoAhead jersey with Gilmour on

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the back and a bandaged jersey with Sandman on the back.

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Syracuse dot Com went to see an Adam Sandler comedy show.

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Adam Sandler, as you know, is a fine dramatic actor.

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He made several good movies, including uncut gems in the

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Spaceman movie, in the Basketball One, and a lot of

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terrible movies. Syracuse dot com tells us. On stage, dramatic

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actor Adam Sandler told the audience he loves Syracuse and

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share that he and his crew plan a head to

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Dinosaur barbecue after the show. Earlier in the day, he

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had visited the Carmelo Anthony Bastball Center, where he played

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pick up basketball with the members of the SU men's

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and women's basketball team. Sandler was dressed in his classic

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oversized style, bright red track pants and a baggy pullover. Wow,

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I'm actually dressed better than Adam Sandler. I have a

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properly sized gray sweatshirt on that I got in California,

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and my often worn gray sweatpants, and of course my

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neon blue like Miami Dolphins blue. Hocus, those are sneakers.

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I digress. At one point, the great dramatic actor Adam

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Saandlor invited audience members up to the stage so we

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could sing totally unstrue songs about them. Special guests Rob

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Schneider and Kevin Neelan were the openers. Sunny Cortland alumnus

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Kevin James got one of the biggest ovations when walked

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on stage wearing a Syracuse lacrosse shirt. The local Syracusians

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is that what you're called enjoy that, Syracuse dot Com

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tells us. By the end of the night, Syracuse has

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gotten more than a comedy performance. It was an evening

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of laughter, nostalgia, and music, tied together with enough local

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shoutouts to make the crowd feel like part of the act.

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John almost forgot to do the Toronto Comedy Festival again.

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Why don't you put Toronto in the scripts? John, because

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John has been recording a lot of Jimmy Kimmel related stuff.

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I have not had a minute to myself since last Monday.

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Knock a playing. I'm just telling you why I don't

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have this in the script. But I didn't forget. I

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am having a lot of fun doing this. I'm pumping

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out a lot of content for good reason or for

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bad reason actually, but just having a lot of fun. Okay,

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today is September twenty third. As I mentioned yesterday that

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the new owners haven't done a great job with this website. Okay,

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here we go, eight o'clock tonight. Matthew Brissard. He was

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a guest on this show and I like him a lot.

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He's fantastic. He's at the Bloor Blor Comedy Bar at

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eight Sabrina Wu at eight thirty of the Dan Firth

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Comedy Bar. One of the things I like about the

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Toronto Comedy Festival, it's mostly bar scenes and you can hop.

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I haven't checked, and I should know this. You know,

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I only host the program. In the past they would

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have like a bar hopper pass where you could just

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go to a bunch of shows. Now I had media

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credentials because I'm fancy, but it was a really good

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deal and it's a great way to do the festival.

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It's pretty quiet on a Tuesday that there's a couple

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other things that you haven't heard of. That's what's happening

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there tonight. If he needs something to watch on the

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eight hundred Pound Guerrillas YouTube channel, Chris Gethard's The Father

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and the Son. Got a lot of TV news that

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I didn't get to, none of it having to do

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with late night. Doctor Cox is back. John c McGinley

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is joining the Scrubs revival, so I think they have

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everybody now. I don't know if we have the Todd.

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I don't know if the Todd is back, but we've

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got JD and Turk Elliot's back. Haven't heard anything about

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Neil Flynn as the janitor. I don't think. I mean,

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Neil's got that modern family money right, he might not

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need to work anymore. Neil Flynn might have like secret cash,

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but I could see Neil Flynn showing up Carla's back,

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and Doctor Kelso was played by Ken Jenkins Ken eighty

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five years old now, so it wouldn't make any sense

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for him to actually be on the show. But I

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wouldn't be surprised if we check in with him at

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one point. And the Todd. The Todd appears in one

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hundred and twenty six episodes of Scrubs. Wow, we'll see

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if he turns up. The paper is going to Proper NBC. Now.

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I've been watching this thing. People keep asking about it.

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It's not funny, but it's watchable. The main two characters

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are likable. The secondary cast I think is actually subpar,

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but the main two are charismatic enough that they're carrying

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this show and it's something to have on while you're

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playing on your phone, prepping your podcast, killing time until

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Thursday night football starts. It's like, I think I like it.

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I definitely don't love it. If it got canceled, I

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would go on with my day. I guess what I'm

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saying is it's better than I initially thought, but it

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is not funny. But anyway, it's going to air on

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Proper NBC. Lisa Katz, who's the president of Scripted Programming Entertainment,

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said in a statement, knowing how much The Office was

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beloved by a broadcast audience when it aired on NBC,

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we wanted to give the paper a similar opportunity to connect.

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Then you should have put it on NBC in the

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I thought that was over. That's still going huh, all right,

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maybe I'll check that show out too. Rain Wilson was

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on the Last Laugh podcast. Is Dwight going to show

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up on the Paper? Rain said, I don't think so.

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I mean the paper set in Toledo and it's a newspaper.

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I don't know why Dwight from Lakwana County would be

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visiting Toledo. The answer would be, Rain Wilson needs a paycheck.

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That would be the answer. So you're telling me, Rain Wilson,

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you don't need a paycheck. Let me ask you a

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really difficult question. Hey, Rain, we want to make you

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the co lead of the paper. Don't worry about why

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Dwight is wearing a newspaper. But we're going to give

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you steady work. Now, what's your answer. I'm just curious.

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sure they could come up with a reason, Rain Wilson said,

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I think it would be fun. I mean, one thing

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get like a billion people to watch a two hour

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office movie. The producers, Greg Daniels, they don't think of

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a movie will make X amount of dollars that will

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much more lucrative to have a show that goes year

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after year after year. But I think it would be

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a lot of fun, and I think you get most

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of the main cast to participate. Eric Rayhill plays Travis

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on the paper, he said. Right after I got signed,

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my agent sent my stuff to Greg Daniels, who would

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come in for an interview in the winter of twenty

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twenty three for a writer role. I thought it went well.

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I didn't know. I called my parents like, I think

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I have a good vibe from this, but then I

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didn't hear anything for five months. Yeah, welcome to getting

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writer's room started on a Monday. I found out. I

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the north Strom boss at nine am, and Monday it

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of an NBA. But I'm out. They were nice. My

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Great company, by the way, and then at eleven am

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I joined the Zoom for the Writer's Room. Natasha Leone

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and Matt Berry are going to co create and star

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in the new retro comedy adventure series Force and Majure

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for UK Sky Network. I Love Matt Barry. The show

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up against international villains. Sky describes the show as a

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retro infuse playfully, I referent take on the classic TV

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action adventure detective genre in Force and Majure. British art

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expert Thomas Force love It, Matt Barry and American mercenary

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Jennifer Majore Natasha Leote. I love this. Back in the

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serious days, we used to play this game. I would

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travel the country with Mark Says, I was our on

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air talent and we would just play. Either we would

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either make up air Bud movies my fair We came

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Force and Majure is about Thomas Force and Jennifer Majure.

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Love it. The pair are recruited by an eccentric, justice

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obsessed billionaire named Amanda Daventry and find themselves tesked with

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defeating the evil plans of international villains operating in locations

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across Europe. But as Force and Majure team up to

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defeat the forces of evil, they must also work together

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to escape the clutches of Amanda, a billionaire woman who

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may not be telling them the whole story. Force and

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Majure will be s to us buyers. You can ingest

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that into my veins. Somewhere on the internet. You should

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watch Toast of London and Toast of la Let me

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just pull up just Watch and see if that's available anywhere.

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Do you know about Just watch? And I do this

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every time I mentioned just watch. It is a website

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that will tell you where these things are. Let's see

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Toast of London, one of my favorites. It's right now

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on britz Box if you have BritBox. Mitchell and Webb's

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return doing well Mitchell and Webb are Not Helping has

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Channel four's biggest new comedy launched since twenty eighteen. The

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opening episode, which launched September fifth at ten pm, hold

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in one point eight million viewers across linear and quote

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big screen streaming. In its first seven days got a

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twenty nine share among sixteen to thirty fours. Charlie Perkins

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see a resurrection underway with Mitchell and Webb are not

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helping in these increasingly serious time It's no surprise people

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only get from watching a dog explode because it's seen

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in expensive suitcase. David Mitchell said, I've never been worried

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about the future of comedy really, whether people make sketch

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indw forbid and still is, but I think it's general

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people of comedy in this country more than anywhere in

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the world. It's why comedies get so savage by the

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media when they don't work, because people really care and

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they're offended by comedy being bad or not to their taste.

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we're passionate about comedy. And the Golden Globes is getting

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a companion TV special. This called Golden Eve. Well air

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Thursday January eight, three days before the Golden Globes, which

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this year once again hosted by Nicky Glazer. I haven't

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heard from her in a while. She was all over

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the news for the first half of the year. The

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Golden Eve will honor recipients of the Cecil bs Mill

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Award and the Carol Burnett Award. Oh one more, I see.

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This is all the stuff I didn't get to because

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of the kibbl Do you like friends? Well? Central Perk

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Times Square ever. I used to have to walk through

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Time Square. It was the quickest way to get to work.

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New York City, I get it. I get it's really

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cool to stand there and look at all the electronic

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billboards and the big space, and you've heard of Times

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Square and you've heard of the New Year's Ball drop.

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I get it. But you're from New York, you don't

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go there. And then you see things like the Bubba

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who goes there? Are the tourists, and the tourists are

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going to be excited that Central Perk is opening a

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is a quote modern day version of the place the

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Friends used to hang out at. Central Perk promises artisanal

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coffee drinks meaning nine dollars coffees, and Friends inspired food items.

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Central Perk will include a replica of the Orange Sofa,

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so enjoy standing online for your five second insta merchandise

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and take home coffee blends available for purchase. You'll find

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this on forty seventh and seventh. It is the second

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permanent outpost for Central Perk. There's one in Boston. And

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that's your comedy news for today. Keep checking the feed

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because stuff's gonna pop up. Normally i'd say see it tomorrow,

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no idea what's happening anymore. Just keep checking the feed,

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like once an hour ago, did he put out an episode?

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