Nov. 27, 2025

Jonathan Kite's Anthony Bourdain impression is one of 2025's Best Things

Jonathan Kite's Anthony Bourdain impression is one of 2025's Best Things

Johnny Mac delivers the Thanksgiving edition highlighting comedian Jonathan Kite's spot-on Anthony Bourdain impressions on social media. Sebastian Maniscalco reflects on his love for cooking and its similarities to comedy, while Fortune Feimster shares amusing anecdotes from her tour and her culinary preferences. Jim Gaffigan and Kathleen Madigan discuss their families' roles in their comedy, with Gaffigan touching on parenting and social media. Stephen Colbert debates the relevance of late-night TV and its sense of community. Additionally, Lorne Michaels donates his vast archive to the Harry Ransom Center, featuring memorabilia from his storied career. 

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Callaroga shark media heavy Thanksgiving.

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Jonathan Kite

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has been doing these impressions of Anthony Bourdaine. He posted

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them on threads at Jonathan Kite. He goes to actual locations,

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he dresses up like Boardane. He does a great Boordaine impression.

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He's got the body type to pull it off too.

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I was watching this one that I'm about to play

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for you, and I was like, even if I did

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a great Boardine, I don't have the right body type

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at all. I could never pull off toll and Lean.

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But Jonathan Kite has this thing down. I'm gonna go

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a little longer with this one than I normally do

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because it is Thanksgiving themed, and you know Kite's putting

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He's up on social media, so I don't think he's

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really trying to monetize them. I come in peace, really

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like your work. But here's Jonathan Kite as Anthony Bourdain.

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Welcome to America's Endless Harvest and the Feast of all

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you can eat Golden Corral, where Pilgrim's progress meets the

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Age of consumption. Because here Thanksgiving isn't a holiday. It's

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a lifestyle, a face style. So buckle up, throw on

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your stretchy pants. This is manifest destiny. It's the United

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Plates of America, and at sixteen ninety nine ahead you

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get liberal portions at conservative prices. As is tradition, we

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begin with the bird, our annual sacrifice. The golden butter

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soap turkey glistens under heat lamps that could tan a corpse,

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and like Travis Kelcey's dating history, you can enjoy both

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white and dark meat. The first Thanksgiving was a fragile

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truce between worlds to survive the Hunger Games of sixteen

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twenty one. Today we gather with loved ones just trying

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to survive each other. Left wing, right wing. It's all

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the same bird.

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Absolutely fantastic. Jonathan Kite is his name, Give him a follow.

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Sebastian Manuscalco, he spoke with us weekly. He had a

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cooking show, remember that it was called Well Done with

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Sebastian manusuks Alco on Food Network. And now in hindsight,

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I'm realizing I didn't make nearly as much fun of

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that as I should have. I should almost go back.

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If we ever have another pandemic and I need a

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bit like George Lopez Tacos. Maybe I'll just critique well

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done with Sebastian Manascalco on Food Network. But hopefully we

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won't have another pandemic and I won't have to do that.

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But as you know, it's this is a food story

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and it's Thanksgiving. I do put these shows together. A

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Sebastian said, I became passionate about cooking around the time

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I met my wife. I like cooking because it's similar

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to comedy and that you're doing it alone and making

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stupid faces for no reason. If it sucks, it's your fault.

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If it's great, it's your fault. Same thing with stand up.

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It's very therapeutic for me to go into the kitchen

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and get lost in the sauce. I do a beautiful

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French toast. The next thing I want to master is pizza.

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Switching to comedy. You have to live in everyday life

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to extract humor, and that's why I'm an active parent.

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I drop my kids off at school, I go to

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the soccer games. I'm taking my kid to gymnastics. You

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find a lot of humor in those things. You do

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have to be cautious about talking about some of the

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fancy things you do. I went to the Oscars, but

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my Oscar story is not one of fame and fortune.

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It's me sitting up at the third balcony while everybody

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from Greenbrook is accepting the Oscar. When I was announced

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on the red carpet, it was a bathroom break for

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the photographers. They were cleaning their lenses. Ryan Seacrest was

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there with his camera guy in lights on a pedestal,

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and they take me all the way down to the

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guy who's a one man shop with his iPhone and

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is from the Ecuador Times. So four dot com spoke

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to Fortune Femmester about taking care of Biscuits. That's the

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name of her tour. She said it came to me

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as something that lets people know they're in for a good,

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silly time. She said, Now, at all the cities I

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go to, people are dropping biscuits off, and I'm grateful,

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but I'm like, oh, I'm gonna have to name my

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next tour taking care of Salads, because it's a lot

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of biscuits right now. One Instagram video showed Fortune in

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her green room. The room was filled with biscuits from

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heart Ease Biscuit shaped pillows custom merch. She said that

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was all a surprise. My writer is so boring. I

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literally asked for water, ice and a cup. I used

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to have big, extravagant green rooms, but then I was

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never hungry, and I felt like I was being super

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wasteful because normally I either eat before or after. The

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show asked for her biscuit preferences. Her favorites are a loaded, savory,

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yummy biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese, and a little honey,

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or just the opposite, just a jelly biscuit. I'm trash,

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so I love grape jelly. If Fortune Feamster could only

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eat one thing twenty four seven three sixty five, it

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would be pad thaie. She says, I went to Thailand

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and ate pad tie for a week and a half

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straight and did not get tired of it. I love

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it so much, I think I could do it. I

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could just eating it forever. I usually get it with chicken,

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but if I were gonna eat it every day, I'd

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try to switch it up, try some shrimp or tofu

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or bounce back and forth. All right, Fortune was the

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first thing you learned how to cook grilled cheese. But

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I learned by doing it wrong. I was babysitting and

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the kid won a grilled cheese to turn the oven on.

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And I said, I don't know baking it. He told

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me just throw in a pan or the toaster oven.

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It was too much for me. You don't need to

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go throw that for a grilled cheese. But he was right.

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I was pretty old to learn that. Like sixteen more

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food stories from Fortune. It's Thanksgiving, you know, she said.

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Grilling is brand new for me. I never had a

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grill until I got this house, and it came with

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a grill, and I was determined to learn how to

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use it. Getting beef to the right temperature is the

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trickiest part. You don't want it to be too rare

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or red or too cooked and dry. I'm learning the

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happy medium there. And there's an editor's note pun intended.

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Fortune told Savor I'm a dessert gal. I have such

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a sweet tooth. I'm near a cheesecake factory. I will

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hit up that Adam's peanut buttercup fudge rippled cheesecake. That's

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a real treat. Any foods from your childhood that you

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liked Grandma's chicken and dumplings, so comforting and classic. Biggest

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flex to impress guests. Fortune said, I love some good

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scented candles. They're inviting warm then all you eat is

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good food. I don't have a signature scent yet, but

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I love holiday candles all the time, so we're getting

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closed to the holidays. I'm pumped because the ones that

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I love smell like Christmas trees. Jim Gaffigan spoke to

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The Today Show. They were curious how Jim's wife and

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kids feel about being in his comedy. Jim joked, I

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don't care. Then he got a little more serious and said,

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the good news is that my children all the things

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I say, I don't have to feel guilty because they

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have no interest in my comedy. I'm more concerned about

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accidentally posting a photo where they appear in it on

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Instagram than me saying something in my stand up. Obviously,

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I try to be respectful, and I think anyone who's

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apparent is aware. We've all made mistakes. But parenting is

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you try your best and then as a parent, become

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their septacle for all the blame. Kathleen Madigan spoke to

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the La Times about her family and the stuff they

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bring over. She's proud of the chicken salad or stuff

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they bring over like tunicast roles, and they're very into

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hardy grandma type food, meaning fattening, which I'm all in on.

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She talked about a Midwestern sensibility and said everybody's got

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their little things, like I would have a big fight

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about their corn being better than anyone else's stupid stuff.

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But to us, it's what's happening. It's what we're talking

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about sports. Everybody's got their thing with the packers and

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that kind of stuff, but it's not anything we were given,

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like the ocean, the mounts of Colorado. Don't know, we

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don't have that either. That's why when people say, oh,

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do you like where you're from, or always like, yeah,

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it's fine. We know it's not great, but it's not horrible.

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It's fine. I love when people say Saint Louis is

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that kind of by Chicago, well kind of four and

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a half hours down the road to find kind of pie.

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That's what I say about my coastal friends. It's what

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they've been given. I mean, someone made it all the

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way out there, so I give those people credit, but

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the Midwest is like, you're gonna get bored driving around Kansas, Nebraska.

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At least in Missouri. When you get south of Saint Louis,

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we start to get big ills. We called them out,

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and it's a hill. We have good lakes. Coastal people

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don't like lakes because so like, yeah, that water is

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a little still. I'm like, yeah, and there's snakes in

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it too. She is hilarious, all right. No amount of

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food stories. Uh. Stephen Colbiert had spoken to GQ. This

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one is a bit of a leftover in the spirit

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of Thanksgiving. They were curious, does he think the late

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night format makes sense anymore? Do you think the times

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for these shows has passed? Have you ever felt that

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while doing your show, Stephen Colbert, He said, no, not

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doing the show. I do the show with gratitude. We

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have a really great time. We love doing the show

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with each other. We love all pulling on the same rope.

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I love being there with those four hundred fifty people

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and the Ed Sullivan Theater, in a Broadway theater. We've

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done our best to deliver something that the network can

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monetize in some way. I thought we were successful at that,

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so all things must pass. I think if there's a

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business reason for this. I know there's been a change

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in ad rates since the strike, and I know that's

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really never recovered for that, so all that makes sense

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to me. And I also know that these late night

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shows are kind of like symphony orchestras. They need a

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certain amount of personnel to do them. You can't relate

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to a show and the Ed Sullivan Theatre eleven thirty

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five on CBS with a band and sketches and field

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shooths and stuff like that for the cost of a podcast.

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And if you look and say, oh, well look, this

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is what a podcast makes, and this is what these

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shows make, then you're keeping these shows on because you'll

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love the form. Why would shows like mine continue and

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exist or Kimmel or Jimmy or whatever. Well, we're like

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your friend who at the end of the day paid

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attention to what happened today more than you did, and

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we curate that back to you at the end of

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the day. But it's really more about how we feel

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about or I as the person who's the vehicle for that,

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how we felt about it today. Boy, that speaks to

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me as someone who does this show, Like, presumably at

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some level you just kind of enjoy my voice and vibe, right, Like,

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I don't think you're like this is the only place

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I can get comedy news. But you know, we have

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this relationship, you and I. You listener, me host, and yeah,

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I feel what's Stephen selling here? He says. I share

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those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they

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don't laugh, and there's a sense of community there. Quick

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time out, it's a holiday, We've got time. I was

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teaching my class one week ago today, and I was

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teaching the college class about the concept of tribes and

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building community around shows. And I started to explain to

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the class how I almost always refer to one comedian

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as dramatic actor Adam Sandler. You're in on the bit,

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I'm in on the bit, and always saying dramatic actor

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Adam Sandler reinforces the thought there with me as the

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leader lowercase L of this tribe of comedy fans who

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have gathered around this podcast and in the Facebook group

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Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, please join us anyway. One

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of the students starts agreeing with me and goes on

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for like seven minutes about Adam Sandler is good in punch,

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drunk Glove and in uncut gems. And I just stood

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there mugging for the camera, making eye contact with students,

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and just gesturing over at the student who just kept

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going on and on proving my point of the power

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of the tribe and of the community. And I high

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five the student. I was like, you just proved my point.

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So I get what Colbert is selling here. He says,

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there's a sense of community and there are fewer, fewer.

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I don't know who coined this term, but there are

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fewer and few of what you would call third spaces

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in our life. Have you heard this term three spaces?

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This is John talking. My daughter taught me about the

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sea off home, work, and then somewhere else you go.

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For me, it's the brewery on trivia night, where I

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see my friends every now and then. I'm tired. A

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couple weeks ago, the night we want Actually, I was

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kind of tired and I said to my wife, I go,

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I have to show up or I won't have friends anymore.

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I need to be with the guys. So that's my

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third space. Colbert says, we need third spaces in our life,

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not your home, not your work, but some other place

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we get together, and these late night shows are for

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millions of Americans a third space to come together and

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think about the day. Switching to politics, Colbert said, people

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perceive me as the sort of lefty figure. I think

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I'm more conservative than people think. I just happened to

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be talking about a government and extremists. What I'm giving

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to you is my reaction video to the day, and

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my reaction video is like the scream. So that makes

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me perceived as more left necessarily than I am, because

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I'm not sure what other reaction would be a an

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honest one. I was having a side text with a

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friend of the show who appreciated that he's not entirely

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sure which side of the aisle I'm on. Again, this

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is not a political show. I'm not sure what you think.

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I'm not even sure what I'm telegraphing might actually be accurate. Again,

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and I'm not playing a role. But like I like

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to say, the President and I don't agree on all

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the issues we agree on twelve thirty, we don't agree

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on other things. With previous presidents. I agreed on some things,

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didn't agree on other things with the next president. I'll

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agree on some things, I won't agree on some things.

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I think that's how most people are, right, Colbert said,

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we broadcast to a general audience. There's no entrance fee,

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there's no subscription. You don't have to look for us

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except on Channel five or wherever you are. And we

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have a variety of different guests. It's a variety show.

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It is Thanksgiving, and I hope you're all having a

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nice Thanksgiving. I do want to give a shout out

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to one particular member of the audience. That's Mike Chisholm.

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He hosts The Letterman Podcast, and I don't know if

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you know this. He's Canadian. So hey, Mike, hope you

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enjoyed October twelfth, or whenever Canadian Thanksgiving was. I assume

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you have to work today. Sucks to be you. The

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rest of us Turkey and football enjoy my friend. Love you.

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A new episode of The Letterman Podcast tomorrow, probably, I

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don't know. I don't know if Mike's skipping week. He

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usually puts out an episode on Friday. If not, you

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haven't listened to them all. Listen to on an old one.

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He's got this guy Johnny that goes on there every

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now and then anyway, Mike good Joy work today, I'll

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be getting even fatter. Lauren Michaels has donated his five

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hundred box archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the

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University of Texas at Austin. The exhibit is called Live

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from New York, The Lurne Michael's Collection. It is stuff

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going all the way back to nineteen seventy five, boasters,

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newspaper clippings, photos, Lauren's work with Lily Tomlin, Phyllis Diller

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and Rowan, and Martin's laugh in his other stuff Three Amigos,

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Mean Girls, thirty Rock Portlandia, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,

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and Late Night with Seth Myers. You can walk past

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that exhibit and be like, Kah, this isn't interesting at all,

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and just keep going. There are posters, annotated scripts, Make

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twelve thirty Great Again, costumes, production materials, and newspaper clippings

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from these projects. Guest curator Steve Wilson's exhibit labels provide

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excellent in depth guides the entire exhibit. Various network memos

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on display reveal the inevitable behind the scenes battles of

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musical tastes. Network execs like the classic rock. The youngsters

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like some different kinds of music. Also, apparently some memos

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discussing the departures of Norm MacDonald and the great dramatic

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actor Adam Sandler. Before email, the show regularly got mail,

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fan letters, complaints, sketching job pitches, scribbling on everything from

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scratchbats to toilet papers. There's a nineteen seventy eight letter

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from one of the writers describing the frustration of having

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to respond to the relentless barrage of unsolicited comedy materials.

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She wrote, no matter how funny you think it is,

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we cannot read, evaluate, or use any of your stuff.

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We never use outside material, and we're not looking for

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any new writers at this time. Really cross my heart

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and hope to die, which I may do soon if

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I have to write any more letters like this one.

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And that is your Thanksgiving comedy news for the day,

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normal episodes all weekend. I got plenty even from this show.

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I bumped four stories. It's not one of those weeks

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where I'm like, oh, what am I going to talk about?

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I got plenty. Enjoy your Turkey, Mike, enjoy work. See tomorrow.