Feb. 23, 2026

Joe Rogan to host 60 Minutes? Letterman at JFL Vancouver, and Political Comedy Controversies

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Johnny Mac delivers a Daily Comedy News briefing previewing Nate Bargatze’s game show and a new Taylor Tomlinson special, then cites a Naughty but Nice Substack report claiming CBS News leader Barry Weiss is considering booking Joe Rogan on 60 Minutes, though sources say Rogan likely wouldn’t do it and would not be motivated by money.

Jim Jefferies recounts meeting Dave Chappelle backstage shortly before Chappelle’s onstage attack, and Jefferies discusses preferring shows with his own fans, concerns about longevity, identity tied to audience approval, and family time.

The episode shares audio from Mike Chisholm describing David Letterman’s sold-out JFL Vancouver show featuring Trump jokes, Paul Shaffer, a rendition of O Canada, career retrospectives, and an interview segment with Zach Galifianakis that included Andy Kaufman-style moments. Other items include an upcoming SNL-related documentary titled Lorne about Lorne Michaels, 

00:26 Rumor Watch: CBS News Considering Joe Rogan on 60 Minutes
01:19 Jim Jefferies’ Chappelle Backstage Story + Touring Philosophy
02:49 Mike Chisholm Reviews David Letterman Live
06:26 Lorne Michaels Doc + Sarah Sherman’s Slasher Movie
07:33 Rory Scovel on Building a Bigger, More Personal Hour
09:16 Industry Bits: Paisley Fundraiser + Chelsea Handler’s Hulu Series
10:31 Politics Segment Begins
12:09 Washington Post: Ben Palmer’s Fake ICE Tip Line and What It Reveals
14:38 Is Trump Funny? Late-Night Writers Weigh In + Wrap-Up

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Caloroga Shark Media.

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Hello, I'm Seannie Mack with your daily comedy news, daily

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briefing on stand up comedy, comedians, on the comedy industry.

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A sentence the algorithm loves. This is a big week.

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We're gonna have Scrubs, Nateprighatzi's game show that's out this week,

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and we know that's gonna be great. A new special

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from Taylor Thomason very exciting. Have you paid attention to this?

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You know Barry Weiss, that's the woman that's running CBS

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News right now, and boy is she doing a great job.

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A report from the Naughty but Nice Substack, which tends

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to be a little gossipy, says that Barry Weiss, who's

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running CBS News and doing a hell of a job,

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she's considering putting Joe Rogan on sixty minutes. You know

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you didn't, misse hear me, You're like John, you misspoke there? No,

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I didn't. I'll say it again to be clear, Joe

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Rogan sixty minutes. A source says Barry respects disruptors. Joe

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built a global platform without legacy media that matter to her.

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A second source said they want oxygen in the room.

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Not someone preaching to the choir. They're looking for reach.

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A source said, Rogan's not gonna do it. He makes

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more from podcasting than CBS could realistically offer. However, this

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wouldn't be about money. It would be about finally being

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accepted by the people who hate him. I don't think

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Joe cares at all. Jim Jefferies told a story about

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meeting Dave Chappelle backstage at a Netflix event. Jim explained,

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Chappelle is playing the Hollywood Bowl two nights in a row,

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and I got the Dave wants to talk to you call.

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So I went off to a room and I met

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Dave and he's obviously smoking a cigarette and all that,

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and he goes, I was just chatting to Bill burd

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and he showed me the video of you being punched

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on stage. What was that like? I told him the

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whole story. We chatted for about five to ten minutes.

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He's very friendly, he knew some of my stand up.

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Was all very pleasant. Anyway, the next night he gets

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rushed on stage by that guy with the fake knife.

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The next night, like eighteen hours, he gets attacked on stage.

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The coincidence was insane, ha interesting Jeffries went on to

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say he prefers doing his own shows and set of festivals.

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To be honest, I like performing in front of my fans.

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My comedy's gotten a stage now where I can start

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referencing old jokes of mine, or I can reference my parents,

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my brothers, or an ex girlfriend or something, and people

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can sort of follow that. My shows are almost serialized now.

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You know, on this tour there are three venues where

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ten thousand people will be coming. Jim sounds pretty groundy.

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He says, I'm not someone who needs to get up

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every day just to have the elation of the crowd

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and all that type of stuff. But I'm also hyper

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conscious of that it won't last forever. I'm not gonna

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be selling out big venues in Australia in my eighties.

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Hopefully we could play this footage back when I'm selling

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these stadiums out in my eighties. My future is not

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always going to be like this. I put so much

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of myself in a stand up comedy, and so much

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of my identity of self worth is whether an audience

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likes me or not, and I'm trying to be very

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zen about it these days. I'm trying to enjoy my

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family while they're young. If I'm at home in LA,

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the best night I can have is watching movies with

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my kids and having an edible. They say, don't meet

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your heroes. We're gonna have to get Mike Chisholm from

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the Letterman Podcast on this program because I have photographic

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evidence that Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast met David Letterman.

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I haven't asked Mike about that. We text regularly almost

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every day, but I haven't asked him about it because

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I just want to do that on Mike rather than text.

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But last week at Just for a Last Vancouver, Mike

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went to see David Letterman's show and he sent me

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this audio.

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Okay, I'm sitting here, leaning up against the stage at

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the Queen Elizabeth Theater in Vancouver. I'm watching everybody file out,

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all twenty one hundred people. It was a legit sellout.

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The place was absolutely jam packed and it was a phenomenal,

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phenomenal show. It started with Dave doing his own intro

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and he did a couple of bits about the Canadian

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curling fiasco that's going on, made some Trump comments. So

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he's doing the intro off stage, and then he brings

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himself on stage and it was absolutely hilarious. It was

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so good, and does some trump jokes, very funny. Then

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brings out Paul Schaeffer and brings out Paul Schaeffer. A

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Canadian flag drops and we all sing Oh Canada. The

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Vancouver Canucks singer of Oh Canada came out and they

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brought her out as well, and so we all sang

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Oh Canada together. Dave talked about how much he loved Canada.

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It was amazing. He then went and did a very

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funny rundown of his entire career, helped by Walter Kim

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who came on the trip here, and so there was

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a big screen behind Dave and they did hilarious bits

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about Dave growing up and I don't even want to

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spoil it all, but an he was growing up and

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it had really funny pictures attached to it, and then

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through his show business career as well, absolutely spectacular. And

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then of course he brought Zach alphan Akis out and

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it was so good. It was so good. They talked

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about the mechanics of comedy, they talked about Zach's career,

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they talked about where Zach is right now. They talked

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about the impact about technology on our world. Zach lives

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in an island near Vancouver Island, and so we discussed

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that kind of become a bit of a I wouldn't

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say a recluse, but he talked about why he wanted

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to be away from city life, and they talked about

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the show business and all.

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Sorts of stuff.

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It was absolutely hysterical. There were a couple Andy Kaufman

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type moments in the show where Zach just did a

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phenomenal job of taking the entire audience one way and

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then flipping it a little bit and then flipping it

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in a completely different direction that you had no idea

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it was going to go. He actually like broke down

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in tears at one point, and it seemed like it

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was a really really touching like Barbara Walter's emotional moment,

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and then he realized it was a bit and he

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even fooled Dave. It was fantastic. Dave recalled it many

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times throughout the show because he felt he legitimately fooled him.

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It was a fantastic show. I'm so grateful met him

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before the show. I met fans of my show before

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the show, which was really weird and it was absolutely spectacular.

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So if you have a chance to see Dave interview

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somebody as they take this thing on tour, they can't

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record them because that would violate the Netflix deal. I

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think that's my inkling anyway. But it was absolutely spectacular

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and highly recommend Again.

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Thanks to Mike for covering Vancouver for us. Thanks to

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the JFL Vancouver folks for letting Mike cover Vancouver for

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US SNL fans. A documentary is coming out. It is

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called Lorn. Want to Guess who It's about? The log

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line tells us, while SNL is one of the most

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examined in celebrated shows in TV history, the man who

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built and sustained the institution for nearly five decades as

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largely remained out of you, We're told this is the

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first ever behind the scenes look into the life of

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Lorne Michaels, and that the film reframes a cultural story

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audiences think they know, offering unprecedented access to the quiet

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force who shaped American comedy. Am I allowed to say

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out loud? Too soon? We just did a whole year

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of SNL too soon? You know who's on SNLIS. That's

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Sarah Sherman, Well, she's going to be in a movie.

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It is called Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

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It is a slasher film. The premise is after years

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of slapdash sequels, the Camp my Asthma franchise is handed

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over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection, But when

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she visits the original star, a now reclusive actress, shouted

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in mystery. The two women fall into a blood soaked

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world of desire, fear, and delirium. Also in This Thing,

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Heinah Einbinder, and Julian Anderson. Voni Lan caught up with

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Rory Scovell. He was recently in Boston. He said the

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tour has been great because you get the repetition of

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the shows, and the shows themselves start to really mold

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and smooth out the edges of the actual show as

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you go. He compared this torch to the last and says,

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that's say, the difference between that show then and this

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hour now is that I've learned structurally how the show

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needs to go in these bigger spaces. So instead of

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just taking the jokes that I had now, I kind

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of prepare a show from the beginning knowing that I'd

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be saying it in bigger spaces, and I decided, at

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least with this one, to be more personal and more

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honest about my deeper opinions about politics, religion, and family.

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Even though there are moments that are silly, there are

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also moments where I really try to take the opportunity

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to say something I really feel now that I have

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more people's attention. As for politics, he says, people exist

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on both sides of the EYEO politically in our country,

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so it feels validating to know that I feel like

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I'm in the right space about it. And I think

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what feels good is I'm on stage telling people I'm

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not necessarily a good guy either. None of us really

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are in the way we'd like to believe, but we

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could all be better. If that gets a good response,

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that's great. I don't want to just be a comic

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who goes around and gets paid to tell jokes. I'd

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like to think maybe someone sees the show and it

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changes their perspective of something It is really important and

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something that really matters. I agree with Rory there, and

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you hear me struggling with this show. I'm trying not

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to get too political, but We're going to be political

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in the second half today, trying not to chase anyone away,

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but I'm also trying to use my time on the

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planet wisely. This is interesting, he said. I see a

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lot of my friends and I see their success, and

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it gives you that little seed of jealousy because you

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want that success as well. But also because of the jealousy,

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it plants the seat of motivation to work arder and

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figure out how to get there. I think I kind

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of needed to see my friends prove that we can

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succeed on a massive level in this business if we

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really apply ourselves. And I'm milaukey. I do think I'm

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good at stand up and I think the only thing

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I needed to learn at forty five years old was

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how to apply myself. Brad Paisley and Kimberly Paisley will

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present the fourth annual Groceries with Dignity and Comedy Without

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a fundraiser at Zany's Comedy Club, Nashville April nineteenth. That

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happens to be during the Nashville Comedy Festival. It benefits

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The Store, a nonprofit org co founded by the Paisleys

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that offers a free referral based grocery store to empower

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families and individuals in need across Middle Tennessee. Past events

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have featured appearances by Naprighetzi, Henry Cho, Kevin Neil, and

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Dusty Slay and others. We'll see who shows up. Hulu

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is developing a comedy series about a washed up reality store.

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Who could play a washed up reality store Chelsea Handler,

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That's who. The series follows Chelsea Handler's washed up reality

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star with her living entourage of misfits as they scramble

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to rehab her image and reboot her career. When her

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estranged daughter unexpectedly moves in the TV has been is

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confronted with the one role she spent her entire life

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avoiding motherhood? Did an Ai write that that sounds like

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the most generic thing ever? Who's this for again? You

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just told us John Hulu? Oh, that's right, the Hulu

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comedy brand where you go when you're on the down

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side of the mountain? Did I say that out loud?

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Get back to me, publicists, all right, the rest of

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the show today is political. If you're not in the

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mood for that, come back at newon Eastern for Comedy Survivor.

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I haven't recorded yet I don't know who's in or out,

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and we'll have a normal episode tomorrow. Everybody else enjoy

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these commercials which pay my heating bills, and then we'll

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get political. The CBC had a discussion about that guy,

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Ben Mankis. You may recall Ben. He went viral for

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a quote joke about Renee Good Renee the woman who

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was driving the car and shot and killed by ice

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in Minneapolis last month. As Bankas has been touring, some

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people have protested his shows on the CBC co meaning

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Ali Hassan said, Ben, and there are many other comedians

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like him. They believe they're speaking truth to power, and

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they believe at some level there's some type of George

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Carlin Bill Hicks type of reincarnation. And this has been

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said by many people many times. Dude, George Carlin would

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hate you. George Carlin would absolutely despise you. Those are

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men who actually spoke truth in power. Power felt ashamed

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hearing the jokes that George Carlin made about them. He

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exposed people in power and talked about how they were corrupt.

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Ben's comedy is all punching down. This is easy, easy pickings.

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It's low hanging fruit. I don't consider good comedy. There's

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no actual joke writing going into the boltk of it.

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He continued and said Ben's roots are racist. From the

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beginning is comedy was mediocre and when he discovered during

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the pandemic was this impersonation of a former chief public

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health officer of Canada. I've been doing this for twenty years.

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I follow all kinds of comedy. Comedy people would be like, Oh,

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I can't believe you like that comedian. Yeah, I do,

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but I'm not sure where this doesn't descend into hate speech.

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There's a comedian who can be like, imagine if I

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said something like this and it's couched in that, and

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then there's the I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm obviously kidding.

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There's none of that. It's direct head on racism and

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pulling out the worst of the audience. From my perspective,

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it's garbage. The Washington Post profiled Ben Palmer told you

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about him maybe a couple months ago. He set up

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a fake tip line that people could use to report

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anyone that they thought was an undocumented immigrant. Wash Post

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says one tip came from a teacher reporting the parents

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of a kindergarten student at the school. According to the Post,

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the woman told Palmer on a call, I mean, they

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seem like nice people or whatever, but if they're taking

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up resources from our country, I'm not into illegal people

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being here. So that apparently is why the woman thought

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it'd be a good idea to call a hotline to

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report on the parents of her kindergarten student at her school.

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Will Johnson, described by the Post as a pro Trump

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podcaster and content creator, said Palmer is leading people on

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who think they're reporting a crime, and suggested that perhaps

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possibly maybe who knows, Palmer could go to prison for

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impersonating law enfce Horseman. Johnson said in an interview, he's

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making people who are reporting people taking advantage of the

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system look like just bad human beings. The Post ads

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neither Palmer nor the website say they represent a government agency.

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The site's privacy policies include disclaimers at the bottom saying

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they're intended only for parody, joke purposes, and sociological research.

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In one call post Online, Palmer told a tipster that

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he is affiliated quote in a non affiliated way with

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the government, and then he works quote coherently and cohesively

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with the isis unquote. Some of the examples on the hotline,

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one woman reported the new girlfriend of her ex husband.

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Another homeowner reported a neighbor. The neighbor had used the

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first person's trash can. One person was at a Publix

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and said the worker who helped her find water didn't

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speak English. Palmer asked on the call and then did

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she help you find the water? And the woman responded, right,

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she walked me right to it. Palmer said, if these

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are the calls I'm getting as a fake, not legitimate person,

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imagine what's happening at the actual ice. As for the

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kindergarten call, the teacher, oh, I didn't realize it was

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a teacher. Wow. A teacher decided to report the student's

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parents after looking them up in the school files and

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seeing they were born in Honduras and El Salvador. According

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to the Washington Post recap, the teacher said the student

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was born in New York and was five or six

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years old, but the teacher didn't like people taking up

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resources from our country. Palmer read back her report in

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a flat tone. The teacher apparently said, according to this recap,

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you make it sound terrible. Later in the call, says

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wash po The woman asked to speak to Palmer's supervisor

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and said, I can't help that they have a six

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year old that's on them. Tomorrow is the State of

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the Union, and the state of the Union is strong.

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Deadline caught up with writers from The Daily Show last week, Tonight, SNL,

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and others to solve the riddle is Donald Trump actually funny?

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Zubin Peg writes for The Daily Show and said Trump

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is very funny, both intentionally and unintentionally. I don't think

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he can deny that. The guy knows how to tell joke.

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The guy knows how to be mean in a very

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funny way. Late Night with Seth Meyer's writer Jenny Hagel

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said there's a difference between him being funny and him

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being good for comedy. That's the thing people ask me

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about a lot. They're always like, wow, your job has

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got to be pretty easy these days. Trump's great for comedy,

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and I think it's the opposite because I think so

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much comedy is heightening and he's so extreme all the time.

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I don't know how you're right about it, because it's

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already the version i'd make up as a joke. John

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Glazer was part of this Glazer was a writer on

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They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelcey, one of

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the very very famous late night shows. Glazier said, I

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don't think he's funny at all. I really don't. It's

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like watching some crappy hack clean that up a little

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who thinks he's funny because there's so much confidence in

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that delivery. I just feel like that confidence is so

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unearned when it comes to him trying to be funny.

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That's the other thing that makes me so mad about

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It's a kind of comedy that I personally love. The

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overconfident smug a hole could be such a funny archetype.

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The twenty twenty six State of the Union address is

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set to be given tomorrow at nine pm Eastern, And

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that is your comedy news for today. Back at noon

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Eastern with the results of a comedy survivor. Back tomorrow

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with a normal episode. Hopefully it's fun stuff. See it

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