Joe Rogan is 3x more popular than the next podcast, The Office reboot details, Craig Ferguson may return to Late Night!

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnnie Mack with your daily comedy news chat.

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Prather is a humorist and a podcast
host. He went on Facebook to

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complain about the cost of his lunch
at the airport in Houston. Showed a

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picture of a burger and said,
at Houston's Bush Airport this was sixty two

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dollars and sixteen cents. There's so
many directions I could go with this post

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right now, Unfortunately, have bigger
things to worry about. As I sit

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in seat one E of the United
Boeing seven thirty seven awaiting takeoff, people

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started blaming Biden for inflation. The
thread went crazy. The burger's actually fourteen

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dollars, folks. I'm gonna start
with a little inside baseball here. This

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is from Ashley Carmen's SoundBite newsletter.
It's about podcasting. This is on Bloomberg

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dot Com. She writes, whenever
I've spoken to folks about who might have

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a sense of just how big the
Joe Rogan experience it is, I always

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get the same answer. Huge.
Last month and Spotify quietly began testing a

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feature that shows just how popular Rogan
and other pot casters actually are. The

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metric we're looking at here is followers. By the way, if you don't

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follow this podcast, please do,
Ashley writes, and I think this was

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from Thursday Rogan Show. As if
this morning has fourteen point five million followers,

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that's nearly three times more than the
next follow up program, Ted Talks

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Daily. So this is on Spotify. Anecdotally into the I test, the

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podcast audience on Spotify tends to be
younger than Apple podcasts. Generally speaking,

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I find Apple podcasts listening about sixty
percent of the audience and Spotify about ten

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to fifteen, depending on the show
different shows. I'll pull up right here,

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I'll tell you what this show is
doing. So for the last thirty

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days on Daily Comedy News, fifty
six percent of fifty five point nine three.

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That's my hesitation there. I will
make the I did fifty five point

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nine three on Apple Podcasts and twelve
point four to eight on Spotify. Overcast

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at four point seven three, iHeartRadio
three point five six, and then a

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bunch of others. Just see you
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here in terms of relative popularity.
Point being, you know, Rogan fourteen

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and a half million followers, Ted
talks daily five million. I won't read

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them all, but let's see here. Call her Daddy's third with three point

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seven THEO Vaughn with one point one
million followers. That's more than Jason and

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Travis Kelcey Travis you may know at
Dave's Taylor Swift Ashley Writes, a podcast

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with Katy Perry as a host,
only reached five thousand followers. Wow.

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Seth Rogan's story Time got to one
hundred and two thousand. Matt McCusker and

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Shane Gillis's podcast has eighty five thousand
Patreon members, yet they only have three

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hundred and twelve thousand Spotify followers.
Chopo Traphouse has forty one thousand paid subscribers,

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earning them one hundred and seventy five
thousand, nine hundred dollars per month,

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slightly more than I'm making here,
and they only have one hundred and

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twenty seven thousand Spotify followers. This
show here on Spotify as a record on

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Friday, has on Spotify thirty four
hundred and ninety three followers. Again,

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Katie Perry five thousand. According to
Spotify. For my show, thirty six

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point six percent of view between forty
five and fifty nine, with another twenty

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six point four to one between thirty
five and forty four, and almost twelve

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percent twenty eight to thirty four.
Now, so we'll see here, there

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was a spike on March thirteenth.
What happened to March thirteenth? That episode

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was titled was Cat Williams Right?
Was John Cena Humiliation Ritual plus Aamy Schumer

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head her Uterus Bronze and Jerry Seinfeld
loves mad Men? All right? Apparently

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people like that one. Looks like
we might actually, perhaps possibly maybe get

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that Office. Reboot's not the right
word here. Showrunner Greg Daniels is looking

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to create a new series in the
world of dunder Mifflin. He's tapped the

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co creator of Nathan for You to
help lead the project. It's not a

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reboot of the Office, but it's
set in the same universe. So I

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guess, like, I don't know, Twight could drop by, but it's

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I don't know, a different paper
company, or maybe it's a guy podcasting

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in this basement. Who knows.
You'll watch. We're all gonna watch.

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Craig Ferguson might return to Late Night. He told the spokesman. I have

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meetings next week. Next week is
now this week in Los Angeles for a

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show. I'm considering doing a show, but I just don't want to do

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one every day. I like doing
a talk show, but not enough to

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do it every single day. When
he left the Late Late Show, he

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said, I had enough. I
enjoyed it, but it was all consuming.

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Some people are all about it.
I'm very good friends with Jay Leno.

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We do gigs together sometimes, and
he talks about how much work there

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was with our talk shows. Jay
was much more professional than I was and

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spent more hours working on things every
day. The tough part for me is

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all the time I spent away from
your family. The talk shows just take

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over your life. I'm grateful for
the show, but I had to step

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away from it. I'm thinking here. So it's now twelve twenty nine.

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I probably started prepping the shows.
I often will be prepping several ones.

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What happens is I do the new
sweep and I'll be like, Okay,

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this one needs to go tomorrow,
this can wait. Let me throw this

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one to the weekend. The weekend's
are a little more generic. So I've

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been working on the pod and I'm
not complaining. I'm just telling you about

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my day. About two and a
half hours so far, and I've done

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a bunch of prep and I've recorded
yesterday and today, and I'm going to

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do one more. I have a
cool idea for Easter Sunday that I'm going

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to work on next. Oh that's
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I'll just tell you for Easter Sunday, I want to explore up and

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coming Australian comedians because it's festival season
down there. So I pulled a lot

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of clips, so that'll be more
of it's not a generic episode, like

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I put a lot more work into
that episode than I did in to say,

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today's episode, because I pulled I
don't know twenty clips. So anyway,

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next Easter Sunday, you'll hear a
bunch of comedians that you probably don't

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know unless you're an expert in the
up and coming Ozzy comedian scene. I'd

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be impressed if you were. Anyway, So I've put in two and a

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half hours. I can only imagine
how much work Jay Leno did you have

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to prep for the guests. You
have to actually read their books or watch

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their movies. And you can't wing
it and like I can stop here and

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redoce something, and those shows,
for the most part would be live to

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tape, so you got to actually
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have fifteen writers. Ferguson talks about
being a stintup. He says that's the

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best part of going on the road. It's all on me. He was

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hitting Spokane, he said, even
though I'm coming for the first time,

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I must say Spokane is my favorite
city in the United States. He wasn't

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sure what he was going to talk
about, but I know I won't be

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talking politics. I made a rule
seven years ago that I wouldn't talk about

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politics on stage. It's a stylistic
choice. I talked about this with Jim

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Gaffigan. His stylistic choice is never
to cuss. Oh cuss occasionally off stage,

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but he's more comfortable not cussing while
performing. That's how I am about

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politics. I'll just be there to
provide levity when I perform. He now

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splits time between New York City and
Scotland. I left LA in twenty eighteen.

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It's a one industry town and I
had to get away. He misses

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interacting with his guests. He says, I had fun with it. I

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was happy to see Robin Williams,
Gary Fisher, Betty White, and Kristen

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Bell. Robin Williams was just what
you say he was, but a lot

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of people don't know how kind he
was. He was the sweetest man.

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You know, Craig, if you
miss interacting with people, you do have

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a podcast where you interview celebrities.
You know this right, I'm confused.

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Robin Williams used to talk about stand
up being jazz. I get it,

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since it could be improvisational. Leno
and I were just talking the other day

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about the music and comedy connection,
and Jay said, you start out with

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your big number and then you go
to a ballad. Comics think like musicians,

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and that's not a bad thing.
These have been long lately. I

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think the episodes has been really good, but I'm trying not to do like

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thirty five minutes a day. I
just bumped five stories again. Jerrod Carmichael

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was on Jimmy Kimmel during the week. This is one of the stories I

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got bumped Friday and Saturday, but
it's a good one. He was on

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with Kimmel and he talked about Taylor
Swift. Uh, oh, be careful.

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You know what happened at Joe Coy. So one time, Joe Coy

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was hosting the Golden Globes, right, and he told this horrible media here,

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let's listen to this. The big
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NFL. On the Golden Gloves,
we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.

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And basically what happened was Taylor Swift
and murdered Joe Cooy's career. That's

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what happened. So Gerrod Carmichael said, Taylor, that's my best friend.

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Taylor Swift is my best friend,
but I'm not her best friend. She's

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my best friend. Can you think
of a better friend to have than Taylor

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Swift? She's very smart and interesting
anyone else. There's more shots of her

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own the NFL than on the Golden
Globes. Whoa Seohnnie Mack? WHOA?

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Why'd you go there? Anyway?
They connected at a Bill's playoff game the

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Bills were playing the Chiefs. He
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I do. Kim Ol said,
did you ask questions about football? And

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Drod said, yeah, I'm the
girlfriend in that situation. Tignazaro has a

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special out Tuesday on Amazon. It's
called Hello Again. Here's a clip.

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My wife, Stephanie is directing tonight. Tonight's My night though. Okay,

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Stephanie hauled nine one one and a
gigantic fireman appeared. I thought, I

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get it now, I could get
used to this mommy's home. I came

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around the corner and our son said, it's just her. Does everything have

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to be a joke with you kinda? Yeah? Eh? Right, eh.

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Seems like you've become the defecto Hollywood
comic. Your social circle includes a

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lot of big names, so there
were jokes about Reese, Witherspoon and an

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A List party. I don't want
to spoil your last special. Do you

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ever worry about that causing conflict?
Tick said no, because I'm not ever

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saying anything that's mean. I don't
know. If you're familiar with my Taylor

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Dane story, see it's not a
Taylor Swift story. It's a Taylor Dane

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story. Sometimes people will misinterpret that
to think I'm bashing Gara, but I'm

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not. It's more like, yeah, she was rude to me, but

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I don't care. It's amusing I've
since met Taylor Dane, and I really

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appreciated that there wasn't a heaviness to
it. She was like, I've read

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been telling stories about me. Sounds
about right. I was probably a couple

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of cocktails in. I love ribbing
people, and I love when people rip

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me, so I don't run anything
by anyone. Well, take NATARO,

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I dare you to make a joke
about Taylor Swift going to an NFL game.

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I double dare you. You saw
what happened to Joe Cooy, didn't

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you? Not? Tig said my
special taping almost didn't happen because there was

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a moment where I thought I couldn't
do it. I was touring Europe and

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the airline lost my luggage. I
was just making rounds around Europe for two

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and a half weeks. When I
went to the airport to try and find

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it, somebody checked me with their
giant suitcase and launched me. I fractured

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my wrist I don't know, and
ended up on crutches with my leg and

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embrace. Three days before he taped, I still couldn't bend my knee.

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The outfit I was wearing for my
special wasn't what I planned because my suitcase

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was still on its own tour without
me when I fell. It was at

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the Manchester Airport and I never actually
picked up the luggage before the ambulance came

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and got me and ended up in
a storage unit. It was the biggest

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circus. And that is your comedy
news for today. Let's get out on

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the laugh. I just bumped another
five stories. We're gonna have long episodes

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for a few days here. If
you enjoyed the program, tell a friend

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about it. They might enjoy it
too. See you tomorrow.