May 12, 2026

John Mulaney’s RFK Jr. Impression, Night of Too Many Stars Highlights, and More evin Hart Roast Reactions

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac delivers daily comedy news, leading with John Mulaney’s Night of Too Many Stars set featuring sobriety jokes and an extended impression of RFK Jr., while a report calls out Matt Rife for homophobic material. The benefit also included a celebrity band, The Very White Stripes (Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, and Abby Romeo), plus appearances by Bill Burr, Steve Carell, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Ali Wong, and others. Mac notes little coverage of Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Is a Joke shows, and mentions Pete Davidson taping his Netflix show with Mulaney. He previews Josh Johnson’s HBO special (May 22) and Dan Soder’s first Netflix special taping (June 13). He critiques the Kevin Hart roast’s lack of star power, recaps Katt Williams, Tony Hinchcliffe, The Rock, and Chelsea Handler–Shane Gillis moments, and adds quick items on Nish Kumar, Ricky Gervais’ animated Alley Cats (Aug 7), and Bill Bailey praising King Charles’ wit.

00:16 Mulaney Does RFK Jr
02:41 Night of Too Many Stars Recap
03:44 Chappelle Shows Missing
03:56 Pete Davidson Show Tape
04:08 New Specials and Taping
05:13 Roast Star Power Debate
06:00 Katt Williams Roast Set
06:55 Roast Jokes and Feud
08:05 Tony and Pete Controversy
08:58 Chelsea and Shane Clash
10:01 More Comedy Headlines
10:53 Wrap Up and Sign Off

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Hitter.

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I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily Company and Hews. We'll

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talk more about the roast of Kevin Hart later in

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the front half of the podcast. Let's talk about John Maliney.

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He was at the Night of Too Many Stars and

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busted out an impression of RFK Junior. I will share

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with you a couple out its here for both pacing

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and the language.

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Five and a half years sober. I was very excited

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about that, very nice. I'm still not allowed to have

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more than two hundred dollars cash on me at any time.

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Two hundred dollars is an agreed upon a mount between

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my wife and I after a lot of trial and error.

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Thank you all for coming to a Night of Too

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Many Stars. How what this is is the best benefit

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I've done since Robert F. Kennedy Junior's river Keepers benefit

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ten years ago. Robert F.

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Kennedy Junior was in charge of a group called the Riverkeeper.

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If you don't know Bobby, and I know him at Bobby,

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that's how much he shouldn't be in the government. I

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know him.

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He's comedy adjacent.

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You know he's married to that woman from Curb Your

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enthusiasm and cheets on are like a dog, but he

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likes to be around comedy people. Sorry for the pearl

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clutch here the West Side, people who know exactly what

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I'm talking about, trying to drop that public domain information

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on the Hollywood Bowl.

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Robert Kenny was in charge back when I lived in

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New York. He was in charge of a thing called

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the river Keepers. They were in charge of keeping the

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Hudson River clean. That was his job. That's how good

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he is at jobs.

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His old job was.

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Keeping the Hudson River, whose native fish is tied off

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used condom clean.

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I'm in charge of your bones and your dummy. Your

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thing can't be of measles? Did you get the measles?

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Did you read the cardiffs from me? Do you like

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having the musals very much? You don't? No, Bobby Jr?

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What have we gone? Oursevenjo? My father was in public service.

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Father's not a good word for you, dude.

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Try dad anyway. My father was a good man, and

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I'm a very bad man guy. Look at my gatorade,

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green eyes, my skin like snake. Can I be in

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charge of the way you feel in your body?

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Welie Entertainment had somebody at the Night of Too Many Stars,

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they said. The one sour note of the evening was

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Matt Rife's homophobic material about a time a sewer he

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believed was attracted to him hu the collective Eyeroll, they write.

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Among other things that happened at the Night of Too

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Many Stars was a band of sorts Conan O'Brien on

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guitar and vocals on Stewart on the drums, Jimmy Kimmel

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on the bass clarinets, and Star of Love on the spectrum,

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Abby Romeo on vocals. They performed as the Very White Stripes.

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I'll give you just a little bit of it because

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it's a little hard on the years, guys, But here's

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what that sounded like. Night of Too Many Stars also

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featured appearances by Bill Burr, Steve krowt Ron Funches, Nikki Glazer,

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Tiffany Hattish Lee and Morgan, Bob Odenkirk, Matt Rife, dramatic

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actor Adam Sandler, Comedy Survivor winner Sarah Silverman, Ali Wong,

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and dramatic actor Noah Wiley. Interestingly, I haven't seen anything

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about the Chappelle shows from the Netflixes of Joe Comedy

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Festival you know, three shows, nothing out, no clips, nobody's

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writing anything about it. That's a little odd. Pete Davidson

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recorded his low budget television show for Netflix his guest

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John Mulaney. They discussed being girled ads. Pete Davidson said

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his five month old daughter, Scottie Rose is quote so

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cute and chunky. Catching up on some items from last week.

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It's been super busy. I am excited for this one.

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Josh Johnson will have a special on HBO May twenty second,

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Josh Johnson Symphony will err on HBO Max at h pm.

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HBO says the special highlights the comedian's unique point of

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view and signature creativity, as Josh Johnson reflects on strange

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childhood experiences, the perils of being labeled nice, challenging family dynamics,

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and navigating life's most awkward moments, leading the audits to

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laughter the way a conductor guides musicians relax. Josh Johnson

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Symphony showcases the comedian's humor, warmth, and relatability to offer

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a truly original and unforgettable experience. Josh Oshel puts out

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an hour of new stand up material every Tuesday on

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his YouTube channel. Dan Soder is getting his first Netflix

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comedy special. He will tape a June thirteenth at the

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Throckmorton Theater in San Francisco, OH Variety tells us Soda

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is a comics comic whose sharp, observational style and affable

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demeanor has earned him a strong reputation on the club circuit.

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You may know Dan Soder from the TV series Billions. Okay,

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onto the roast. I'm still reflecting on it, and there's

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a good thread in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News

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podcast group. When I posted my thing on Sunday night,

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I was like, I wonder if people are gonna say

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like I was just wrong on it, But it seems

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like I'm not. It seems like people agree with me

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that the roast could have been better. I'm still stunned

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at how lack of star power. That's not good English,

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but how lack of star power the roast of Kevin

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Hart was a few people did show up after I

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went to bed. One of them, Kat Williams. Kat said,

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I'm surprised they invited me. That's how little star power

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you have. They had to start inviting your enemies. I said,

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I hate him, and they said, come anyway, there's a

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joke in there, but there may be some truth in

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there anyway. I mean just stunning that people like Where's Chappelle?

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And I was pointing out in the Facebook group, maybe

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Nicki Glazer was smart to run away from this thing.

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Here's a quick clip of Cat.

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But I want to be clear, just because Kevin went

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to didty parties does not mean he did something wrong.

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The fact that he gets all flag when you bring

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it up, that means he did something wrong.

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Now, please understand, I can't just like play endless audio here,

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So I'm gonna tell you some Ofkat William's jokes. Both

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you and I would rather hear Kat Williams tell these jokes.

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I get it, But just understand, I can't just sit

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here and be like, and here's Kat Williams said, Here's

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Pete Davison said, it doesn't work that way. My phone

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would ring. Some of the jokes Cat Williams said, which

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were obviously told way better by Kat Williams. Kevin, You're

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gonna hear some things tonight. Those are called punchlines. Fantastic

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writing there.

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That is great.

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Is this the best the industry could put together? I'm

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not sure if the Illuminati is real, or if this

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is the junior for our City version. But for those

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of you just joining us, Kevin and I have beef,

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and I'll tell you what because privately, this mfor stole

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everything from me. Before he saw my act. He was

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a six foot three white man, great writing, fantastic Next. Yes,

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I said some things I'd like to take back. Some

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things were misunderstood. I said Kevin was a Hollywood puppet.

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What I mean was the head of Netflix literally had

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his hand up Kevin's ass telling him what to do.

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One word Kevin doesn't say in his act, which starts

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with an N.

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No.

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I could go on all night hating on Kevin Art.

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I've perfected it. But the end of the day you

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have to look in the mirror and say, do I

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really want to have beef with the rabbit Snowball from

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the Secret Life of Pets two? Yes?

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I do.

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The few It goes back to twenty twenty four. Cat

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Williams accused Kevin Hard of being an industry plant and

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stealing movie rolls from him. Cat told Kevin Kevin, I've

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won an Emmy Award, but this is going to be

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my best acting tonight, Is I pretend like you're a

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goat for the people at home. You're wondering, why's the

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cat man doing this for the money? Bitch? This is

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my Riod Comedy Festival, only one with a soul. Kevin

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Art responded and said, Kat, I can sit, I can watch,

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I can laugh because I'm a fan first. Cat, we

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have an opportunity, in real time, this is live television,

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to put our beef behind us. I'm offering you an

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eye olive branch of peace. I want to be a brother,

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I want to be a friend.

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Cat.

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I want to move on. Can we move on from Pete?

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Davidson said again, I can't just play like eight minute

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chunks of everybody. Pete went after Tony Hinchcliff, saying, Tony

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Hinchcliff's here looking like both the child molester and the

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doll they give the child the show where he touched them.

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Pete in a little bit of hot water over this one,

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Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk and then he's definitely

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been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat.

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Here's some audio from Tony Hinchcliff's set. I've made a

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few edits for language and taken out a couple jokes

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because I don't want to get canceled. Everything got to

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go in context, and I can't just let this roll.

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Like Bill Cosby, Hart is a black comedian from Philadelphia,

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and like Bill Cosby, women don't know when Kevin is

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inside of them. You've done good, though, Kevin. The black

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community is so proud of you.

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Right now.

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George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so

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hard that he can breathe.

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The Rock showed up and said Kevinhart's wife deserves an

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Academy Award for pretending she likes to clean it up

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have sex with you. Some people were paying attention to

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the dunam between Chelsea Handler and Shane Gillis Parade Magazine,

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which is like as mainstream as it gets. Shane said,

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Chelsea Handler went to dinner Jeffrey Epstein's house in twenty ten.

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Look it up the articles. It wasn't like it was

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a big party. There were like seven people there was

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like Prince Andrew and Woody Allen were there also in

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his set, Shane said Chelsea as a Zionist. When Chelsea

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got up, she said, Shane, just you know Judaism and

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Zionism are two different things, just like how Chinatown and

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Koreatown are two different things, but your favorite slurware works

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in both places. You may recall the clip from Shane

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Gils's podcast where he used some anti Asian slurs, leading

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him to be fired from SNL. Remember Shane Gillis was

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going to be in the SNL cast.

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As for the Epstein accusations, Chelsea has addressed this herself

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in the past. She told Rob Low on the Rob

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Low Podcast. I did go to dinner a Jeffrey Epstein's house.

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I didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was. I went with

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Katie Couric, Woody Allen and Sunny Previn were there. Charlie

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Rose was there. Oh yeah, Prince Andrew was there. One

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social media user said there was some serious animosity between

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Chelsea Handler and the entire roast cast hmmm on the

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eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube page. Today, Nish Kumar's Nish

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Don't Kill My Vibe. Netflix has announced that Ali Kats,

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the new original fifteen minute adult animated comedy series from

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Ricky Gervais, we'll premiere on Netflix August seventh. The series

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cast includes Ricky Gervais and Diane Morgan some leftover news.

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Comedian Bill Bailey had good things to say about King

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Charles underestimated skills. Bill Bailey was receiving his MBE and

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praised King Charles wit and comedy. You may recall the

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King was pretty entertaining when he visited America recently. Bailey said,

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the comments were witty, was beautifully measured, and it sort

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of shows that actually comedy is a way of getting

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under the radar a little bit. It's got a mercurial

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quality to it. I think King Charles is underestimated as

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a speaker. I think he's always been a great speaker,

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but I think the state visit really showed off that

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side of it was very well conceived and thought through.

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And that is your comedy news for today. I'll catch

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you tomorrow.