John Mulaney was affected by Matthew Perry's death, Ricky Gervais invests in Vodka

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Calorouga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Ricky Gerviz has become the co owner
of a distillery. He will now be

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helping to sell the products of Eller's
Form Distillery, starting with its Dutch Born

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Orchard vodka. Hi. I'm Ricky
Gerbets and I am thrilled to announce that

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I am now the proud co owner
of Ella's Farm Distillery and we make Dutch

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Barn vodka. It tastes great,
It's made from British apples. We're committed

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to sustainability and the protection of the
ecosystem. And the best bit is this

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could literally make me hundreds of millions, so please buy it. Yeah.

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Sure, like all strong liquor,
it may damage your liver and your well

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being, but think how happy it'll
make me if so. And the saving

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the planet thing Dutch Bomb, Ricky
said, I'd been looking to invest in

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eco friendly businesses for a while and
as soon as I found Dutch Born,

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I want it in. I love
the planet and I love a drink,

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so it was the perfect combination.
On a serious note, Dutchborn is a

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really quality product. I love the
fact that it's done differently and I can't

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wait to let everyone know about it. Chris Freezer, who founded the distillery,

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gave some wonderful pr quote. He
said, we're so excited to have

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Ricky joined the team. With so
many hollow celebrity cash for face brand endorsement

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deals out there, we're really pleased
to forge an authentic partnership with Ricky,

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involving both investment and creative leadership.
Ricky will be an integral part of the

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business going forward and will help shape
how Dutchborn is seen around the world.

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Last year, Ricky spoke to the
website Joe and said, I have a

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glass of wine at six o'clock.
I mean, I'm looking at the clock

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at five to six. I just
think I enjoyed doing it. I think

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if it started ruining your life or
affecting your life, or you can't get

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up the next day, then it's
probably not a good idea. In fact,

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it's probably not a good idea to
drink full stop and pick one SNL's

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back tonight. Emma Stone joins the
Five Timers Club, which I find absolutely

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fascinating because I was like, where
do I even know Emma Stone from?

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And I googled her. I'm sure
she's wonderful, and I'm like, I

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still don't know who emastone is.
But she's up there with Tom Anklin,

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Steve Martin there, congratulations and Noah
Kahan is your musical guest next week.

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Adam Driver, I know who that
is. And Olivia Rodrigo, Oh,

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my daughter's going to be very excited
about that. She doesn't know about that

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yet. I will tell her.
And Lorne Michael's whipping it out for December

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sixteenth, the Christmas episode before the
Break. Kate McKinnon and Billie Eilish.

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Nice, you know not that Adam
Driver and Olivia Rodrigo is slacking? Good

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bookings there, Lorne Michaels, He's
apparently good at the whole Saturday Night Live

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thing. Deadline caught up with Bert
Krascher, who says he has a scripted

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series and multiple films in the works, including Fat Astronauts with Tom Sigore.

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I've talked about this before. He's
into acting, he said. When I

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got home from Serbia, I assume
from filming The Machine he wasn't just randomly

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in Serbia. When I got home
from Serbia, I will say that very

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candidly, I was like, I'm
not an actor, but I think I

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want to be a movie star.
I don't think I have a passion for

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acting. I think I have a
passion for being the center of attention.

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But you've got to know your strengths
and weaknesses. He hopes to get more

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ambitious with his production company, Bertie
Boyd Productions. He names Kevin Hard as

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a role model. If anything,
I'm an idea guy, and Tom sigor

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is an execution guy, and I'm
a little bit of a sponge. I

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bring everything our way. Last week
I told him we need to start a

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bedding app. One of the ideas
is the Two Bears racing team that will

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see Tom Sagora followed passion he's been
recently entertaining. Bert says, Tom is

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racing. We do have a race
car. We're definitely going to be running

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the Gumball three thousand this year from
Cairo to Singapore. That sounds like it

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would be a fun TV program.
Bert says, comedy's hot. There's tons

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of theaters out there, tons of
fans. None of us are slowing down.

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We're all going to continue with our
podcast. We're all working on a

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new special. We've all got five
projects in the Fireweight and it happened.

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We're all really happy to be here. John mulaney shared that although he didn't

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know Matthew Perry, he finds himself
affected by Matthew Perry's death. Aline He

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says, addiction is just a disaster. Life is a wobbly table at a

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restaurant and you pile all the stuff
on it and it gets wobblier and wobblier

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and more unstable. The drug just
kicked the legs out from under the table,

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and I really identified with his story, thinking about him a lot.

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The Motion Picture Sound Editors announced award
winning actor, comedian, and author Patton

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Oswald will host the seventy first Annual
Golden Reel Awards seventy one Yeah apparently.

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The seventy first Annual Golden Reel Awards
takes place Sunday, March third, in

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LA Patton said, as a film
buff, getting to highlight the hidden artisans

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to create movie memories as important as
any moving image is a joy for me.

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I can't wait for this year's Mpsee
Golden Reel Awards sounds like a crafted

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quote. It's not how people speak
inside. Spoke to Cheech Marin, he

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talked about how Chi Chi Chan came
about. I went to Canada in my

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early twenties as part of the draft
resistance movement during the Vietnam War. I

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started doing comedy because they paid me
more for doing comedy than delivering carpets,

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just what I was doing in Vancouver
before I met Tommy Chong. We were

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really just trying to get paid so
we can make rent. We moved to

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la in Our early goal was how
are we going to find a dollar fifty

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every day? That was the amount
of money we needed every day to buy

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a bag of rice or some beef
and greens to make a Chinese meal.

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We went from club to club trying
to look for a gig while carrying this

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little red wagon with us. Whatever
we found, pop bottles or soda cans

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would throw them in the wagon to
get the five cent deposit per can.

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By the time we finished our journey, sometimes we wait a dollar fifty and

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we could go buy something to eat. That was our quest. If you

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want to see our motivation, that's
motivation. I think what audience has loved

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about Cheechenshong is that we represented what
was going on in the times in a

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kind of benevolent way. We learned
how to create this inoffensive, pointed humor.

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When creating our shows. We used
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where the show has just the right
amount of meat, the right amount of

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tomatoes, a little bit of mustard, because you could serve it in an

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appetizing way. In Atlanta one day, in New York City the next Subashton

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Maniscalco making the rounds. The New
York Times asked him some of the things

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he likes. Some of the things
like to buy, Sebastian Maniscalco include Italy.

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They have lobsters in an aquarium where
the kids can look, and they

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have big hole fish with the eyeballs. They have a little pasta station.

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I asked them, okay, pick
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make you tonight. I feel like
they have more of an appreciation of the

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food because they're invested in it.
I also want to open up their palates

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to different sauces on the pasta other
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golfing. I like cooking for people. It's a little nerve wracking because something

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could go wrong and you've got thirteen
people over The problem with me is I

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like to do it too much.
I like people to be full before they

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even start eating the entree. Sebastian
always likes surprise date nights. Sometimes you

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become ships passing of the night and
you need that time together as a couple.

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So she picks a night and surprises
me where we're going to go,

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and then the next week I'll pick
a night and surprise her. I think

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it's very important to have those date
nights in a marriage that let you reconnect.

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He's also a fan of Succession,
saying it's more of a comedy for

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me because I find myself laughing and
a lot of things they say, particularly

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Brian Cox who is hysterical in this
thing, and Kieran Colkin the zingers that

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they throw out. I think I've
got about four episodes left. Amy Pohlar

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is going to be doing a masterclass. Let's listen. Hi, I'm Amy

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Pohlar, and I'm standing in front
of a bunch of books, which means

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I'm smart and you have something to
learn from me. Let's get started.

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Amy tells The Hollywood Reporter the principles
of improv'd be more creative, more resilient,

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and more collaborative. My class is
an attempt to show how preparing to

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be unprepared can add value on how
we approach life and relate to other people.

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In Prepared to be Unprepared, Amy
Poehler shares nine principles of improv,

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including don't bail on your partners,
don't worry about being cool. In my

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class, we're going to discuss how
these improv principles affect your real life.

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It's for people working in relationship,
parents, you know, how do you

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deal with the kind of everyday humanness
of life. Yahoo asked some comedians if

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stand up still has a place in
the age of YouTube and streaming. Angela

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Johnson Raya said, heck yeah,
I think it's growing. I mean,

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there's always been random rooms you can
go in and do stand up comedy at

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this cafe, car wash whatever.
Car wash awesome. But I think even

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more so and even more towns.
But I think in even more towns comedy

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is growing. It used to be
La or New York, like, those

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are the spots if you want to
do stand up. Now Nashville has become

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a little hub for stand up comedy. There's a thriving scene of stand up

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comedians out there. She left out
Austin Fortune. Fiemester said, I think

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stand up is bigger than it's ever
been. It's so difficult to find availabilities

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at theaters every night. I just
put out a ton of new dates on

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this tour. I've been touring this
material for the last year. We did

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the next leg of the tour and
I think things like TikTok and YouTube we're

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getting people a lot of exposure.
They're getting very popular from those mediums,

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and then they take that and they
take it out on the road. The

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Express spoke with the creator of Father
Ted and The id Krowd, Graham Lenihan.

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He said there's been a chilling effect
on comedy due to quote a sudden

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atmosphere of censoriousness. I like that
word. Graham was recently canceled due to

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his views on transgender people. He
was banned from Twitter and had his Edinburgh

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Fringe show scrapped by the venue.
He talked about the successes of the shows

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he created and said I think everybody's
beginning to realize was kind of the golden

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years for British comedy. I'm getting
a bit nervous now that this kind of

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wealth of comedy that we might not
see again for a while because of the

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sudden atmosphere of sense in what you
might call a psychonic politeness that means you're

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not allowed to make fun of anyone. I think there's definitely a chilling effect.

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And you know, by the lack
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years, there's very few strong ones. He said, it would be impossible

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to make something like the Young Ones
now, he said, these people take

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themselves so seriously. You simply wouldn't
be allowed to be entering in a lot

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of these third rail issues that you're
not allowed to talk about, the trans

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issue, race issues. You'd have
to speak about those things. But I

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think now if someone came up with
an idea with the same kind of anarchic

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quality, the same kind of desire
to grapple with the reality of what it's

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like to be young in the UK, the moment, you wouldn't be allowed

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to do it. I mean not
allowed to do it. Wouldn't occur to

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you to do it, because you
just wouldn't be able to imagine getting it

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off. The Telegraph highlighted Father Ted's
success as being down to its gentle nature

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humor. Have you ever seen Father
Ted. Let me see if it's streaming

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anywhere. Father Ted follows three Irish
priests, the old drunk priest, the

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young priest who really isn't sure he
wants to be a priest, and then

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the main guy who's just trying to
get things going. Let's see. There

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are three seasons on Roku Crackle Free
V. I highly recommend Father Ted.

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You would enjoy it. Graham said. We always felt if someone's doing one

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kind of thing, do the opposite
and we'll stand out. And that's what

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we always did. We just thought
if every other character in sitcoms at the

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time were cynical and rude, we
had characters who would say feck instead of

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the bad word because they're so polite
and they're so innocent, and there's something

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about that and it just allowed us
to stand out from everybody. Is that

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where feck comes from? My Irish
friends use that word, So I don't

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know if that's a thing that then
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the other way. Anybody from Ireland
out there, let me know. Hit

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me up. My contact is in
the show notes. Renowned German comedian Henning

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When best known for his appearances on
shows like eight out of ten cats.

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When on Twitter to vent frustrations at
the exorbitant cost of renting a simple two

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bed flat for the duration of Fringe
in twenty twenty four, Wenn said yesterday

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I was flat hunting for the Edinburgh
Fringe. Going rate for bog standard two

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bedroom flat for the month seems to
be nine thousand pounds. Nick Coppin has

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spotted a camper van on someone's drive
for seven thousand for the month. I

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think that's me done with the Fringe. Others took to the thread to say

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they too felt priced out of the
festival. We heard a lot about this

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the last two years. One user
said, as a punter, I've booked

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a room at student Halls in Holyrood
nine nights at around nine hundred quid.

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The whole comedy side of things could
move to Manchester Liverpool be a lot cheaper

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all around, Probably cheaper to get
a flat in Inverness and rent a helicopter

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for the month. Susan Russell's the
head of marketing for the Fringe Society,

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and said we spent hours, days, weeks and months dedicated to this issue

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across our team. Continue to do
all we can in a challenging market of

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privately owned accommodation at a city struggling
with a housing crisis. Plans proposed for

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the twenty twenty four Fringe including an
Olympic style village by performers, as well

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as campsites set up around the city. Hum that's your comedy news for today.

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