John Cleese compares Trump and Hitler, Pete Davidson allegedly trashed a trailer, and Tom Smothers has died

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello again,
It's Tuesday afternoon. I'm Johnny Mack,

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and there's just enough daily comedy news
for me to throw in a mini episode

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here. Earlier today was the Normal
episode, which was the eleven most Powerful

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Comedians of twenty twenty three. Tomorrow
morning the top eleven comedy specials of the

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year. But let me tell you
a couple of things that are going on.

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John Clees is in a little bit
of a controversy. He compared Donald

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Trump to Adolf Hitler in a tweet. Clees wrote that there were five ways

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in which Hitler was preferable to Trump. His reasoning, one he fought for

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his country. Two he never used
to teleprompter. Three he was nice to

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dog's four he wrote his own books. Five he never played golf. Six

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he wasn't a big fat slob,
So that's actually six, not five.

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Then he continued listing five ways that
Trump is preferable to Hitler, writing one

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doesn't practice genocide, two he has
nicer hair, and then left the other

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three spaces empty. Got very upset, and Clees then wrote it was a

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very bad joke, especially on Boxing
Day. He then reposted a number of

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messages supporting a joke, including one
saying they both have a silly walk.

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One person tweeted at John and said
the original tweet was not funny and not

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true either. Clees replied, some
people think it was funny and not true.

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Someone else suggested that Clees's best comedy
as were behind him. John said

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at the age of eighty four,
I should hope so. Clees wrapped it

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up by saying some people thought it
was very funny, but they have a

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sense of context. Easily solved,
just don't follow me anymore. Yahoo had

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a little more detail about Pete Davidson
canceling a bunch of shows. Pete had

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been working on a movie called Riff
Raff. Apparently, there was a paparazzi

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photographer whose attempts to take some pictures
allegedly sent Pete Davidson off the deep end.

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According to in Touch magazine, initial
efforts to dissuade the photographer were ignored,

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which is said to have angered Pete
Davidson to the point where he attempted

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to engage in a personal confrontation.
The incident allegedly made Pete Davidson so angry

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that after multiple staffer stepped up in
an attempt to calm him down, Pete

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allegedly stormed off and then allegedly trashed
his personal trailer. A source said Pizez

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a good guy. Everybody likes him. He's obviously going through something right now

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and people are worried about him.
He has canceled upcoming shows in Chattanooga,

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Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Louisville, and
Milwaukee. The next show that is still

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on the docket is January sixth at
Foxwoods in Connecticut. Tiffany Hattish was on

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stage on Christmas and apparently made some
jokes about her recent arrest. She joked,

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I'm sorry, but you ain't live
until you got to rest in Beverly

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Hills. Okay, it's beautiful over
there. I mean in quite a few

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jails, just like the rest of
y'all. If you're gonna do something,

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I say, get arrested over there, because that jail is nice. It's

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so clean. But the food I
ain't eat. I was fasting. I

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already ate four times. I was
serving food all day at Thanksgivings. I

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didn't have nothing to eat, but
they did offer me juices and stuff.

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I was like, oh, this
is so nice. And then my cycle

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had started in while there, I'm
bleeding on the jail. But they are

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the best Maxi pads. I've never
seen a pad so big and went from

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the top of my belly button to
the top of my behind. And I

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was wearing a thong too, so
it looked like I had a pillow and

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a rope. I said, let
me get one more of those paths and

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use it as a pillow. It
was comfortable, was nice. They gave

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me one of those fleace blankets they
get in first grade or something to take

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a nap on, and I did
that. I took a nap. Was

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beautiful, wonderful experience and sad news. Tom Smothers, half of the famous

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Smothers brothers, passed away on Tuesday
at age eighty six. His death was

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announced on Wednesday by the family and
National Comedy Center. His brother Dick's Mothers,

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who's eighty four, said in a
statement, Tom was not only the

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loving older brother that everybody would want
in their life. I'm forever grateful that

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I've spent a lifetime together with him
on and off stage for over sixty years.

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Our relationship was like a good marriage. The longer we were together,

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the more we loved and respected one
another. We were truly blessed. In

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nineteen sixty nine, CBS canceled the
Smothers Brother's Comedy Hour. That was CBS

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reacting to the Smothers Brothers making fun
of the powerful in the country and boosting

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critics of the Vietnam War. In
twenty nineteen, there was an event to

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celebrate the fifty year anniversary of the
firing Tom. Some mothers told the AP

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at that time, it's really an
honor to be honored in this way.

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We're both alive and not having someone
speak for us, we can mumble our

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own way through Tom's Smothers was eighty
six years old, all right back in

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the morning with the top eleven comedy
specials of the year. See you then,