Feb. 10, 2025

Kanye West's Tirade Against Dave Chappelle

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode, Johnny Mac discusses Kanye West's recent controversial tirade targeting Dave Chappelle and other comedians. The episode also covers the Critics Choice Awards where Chelsea Handler made headlines with her edgy remarks, including a dig at Melania Trump. Additionally, the episode features insights from comedians like Sam Morril, who emphasizes the importance of creating your own content, and Jay Leno, who prefers live performances over Netflix specials. Various winners of comedy awards are also highlighted. Johnny Mac wraps up by briefly addressing Amy Schumer's recent public comments and teasing more Super Bowl talk in the next episode.

00:27 Kanye West's Controversial Tweets
03:05 Vir Daz on American Politics
04:05 Chelsea Handler at the Critics Choice Awards
05:24 Comedy Awards Highlights
06:21 Sam Morril's Comedy Advice
07:42 Jay Leno on Comedy and Netflix
08:26 Listener Feedback and Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Wow, what a game. We

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gotta talk about that. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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Daily Comedy News. Boy. I think I need to collect

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my thoughts about the game. We'll talk about that on

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tomorrow's podcast. John did you pretape this? Did you not

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wait until after the game to record this episode of

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Daily Comedy's Okay Busted? Kanye West has been in the news.

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I'm sure you saw why well. He added Dave Chappelle

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to the list of target's. Complex reports that on Saturday,

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Kanye launched it to another tirade. I'll read it verbatim here.

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Let me be clearer, Daily Comedy News and Johnny Mack

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do not support the words I'm about to say. I'm

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reporting on a news story. Kanye West tweeted, why do

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I target Dave Chappelle because y'all think he's speaking for

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black people when he's really a voice for Jewish agendas.

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Some offensive language coming up here that I'm going to

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paraphrase and eliminate a few defensive terms, but paraphrasing mister West,

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he said, And now put this fella up on a

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stage and let him do his stuff while I name

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comedians that are way funnier you that don't have as

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big a name. How you gonna call yourself the funniest

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man on earth right in front of Chris Rock, whose

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name is actually bigger than yours, mister West and then

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shared several posts of comedians that he thought were genius

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and funnier than Chappelle. West list include Gerard Carmichael, Corey Holcombe,

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Mitch Hebberg, Louis c k, Anthony Justinic, and d Ray Davis.

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He also claimed he still love it Dave Chappelle, before

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giving a few more unclear details about why he's dragging Dave.

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Next tweet, Gerard Carmichael is funnier than Dave Chappelle. I

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miss you, family, and I'm sorry if I ever said

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any gay jokes in front of you, not knowing you

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was gay. You were one of the most brilliant people.

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And yes, I said miss you, knowing people will try

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to flip that for Corey. He just wrote, Corey Holcomb

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is funnier than Dave Chappelle. Next tweet, the goat Louis

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c K is funnier than Dave Sapelle. Did you all know?

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He wrote? Poody tang brilliant, Anthony Jessinic. I actually think

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some of my bars of this past two days have

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almost been just a nick level. Mitch Hedberg was the

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most brilliant. All Right, I'm gonna continue here. I'm struggling

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here because I'm trying not to just do unsavory speech.

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Let me paraphrase here, Yea continued and I still found

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a good picture because I love you, n word. But

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this stuff is not about emotion, quoting West, this is

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a war. We have to get your jokes approved by

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Jewish people, but you don't run your jokes past the king.

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You banished, you lanky ass, dry Travis Scott lipped mf

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or every joke you tell. I'm on yo, ass. You

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used to be my heroday if you were one of

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my inspirations to go to war with Adidas, and after

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you thought I lost that battle, you showed your true colors.

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You're envy the hate in your blood because you want

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to be a rock star, but you just can't get

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the same uh loving from women. I'll paraphrase that as

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me and John Mayer and d Ray You ugly. You've

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been ugly. You was ugly again. I am quoting mister West. Here.

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You was ugly when the Jews took you in. You

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ugly now, and you're gonna die ugly. Dave Schappelle has

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not yet responded to these comments. Yikes, dude, Verdas, it's

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hard not to follow American politics. America wants nobody to

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be unaware of their politics because there's this grand assumption

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that it's the most important job in the world. It's

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the rhetoric I love. I think America has finally come

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around to the fact that all of a sudden, Africa,

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in the Middle East, East Asia and India have known

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for a while, which is that a politician could be

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a terrible person. I wonder what he means. He doesn't work

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as a human being, but he works for me at

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a policy level, so I'll vote for him. That's a

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compromise that I think the rest of the world has

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made a long time ago. I get to talk about

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America with more freedom, says Verdas than an American comic.

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American comedy is ideology connected. American mainstream comedy is now conservative. Ironically,

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it's gone from being punk rock to very conservative, right

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down the middle, or you're very far liberal. You're supposed

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to identify with a certain camps that you can gravitate

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towards that audience. But when you come in with an

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outsider perspective, which is I'm just visiting. I don't be

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part of any of these camps. That's freedom that no

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American comic has when you have no dog in the race.

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Such I'm tremendously enjoying doing political humor in America, but

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trying to show Americans what I see. Chelsea Handler hosted

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the Critics' Choice Awards on Friday night and took a

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swipe at Milania Trump. She compared Missus Trump to a

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sex worker. During her opening monologue, Handler said it was

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a huge year for biopics. She listed off some of

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the films, A Complete Unknown about Bob Dylan, Maria about

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Maria Callis, and anor about Milania Trump. Now I didn't

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get the joke, but A Nora is a film that

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follows a young prostitute who marries the son of a

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Russian oligarch that has not gone over well with some camps.

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Handler also introduced herself as the event's DEI host. I'm

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your DEI host, Chelsea Handler. I want to acknowledge that

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we've been through a lot lately, not just here in

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Los Angeles, but in our entire country, waking up every

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day not knowing what news we're gonna hear that will

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disappoint and horrify us. So it's in important times like

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this to have a distraction. And that's why I personally

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extend my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. Now,

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if you're not hip to that story, Justin directed and

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starred in the twenty twenty four drama It Ends with

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Us alongside Blake. Blake later accused him of sexual harassment.

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Justin has denied her claims and fired back, claiming that Lively,

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her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their friend Taylor Swift hijacked

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the film. Handler also took a shot at RFK, joking

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that anyone who lost out on their awards would be

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in the background questioning your life choices, like Cheryl Hines

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at a Senate confirmation hearing that's a good joke, all right.

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Best Talk Show. The nominees were Hot Ones, The Daily Show,

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The Graham Norton Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Late

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Show with Colbert. The winner, John Mulaney presents Everybody's In

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La Good Choice their Best Comedy Special. The nominees were

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Jim Gaffigan for The Skinny, Kevin James for Irregardless, Nikki

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Glazer some Day You'll Die, Rachel Bloom Death, Let Me

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do My Special, Rammy Yusef's More Feelings the winner, Ali

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Wang's Single Lady. Best Comedy was a tie went to

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A Real Pain and Deadpool and Wolverine. Best Comedy Series

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went to Hacks, beating out Avid English Teacher Nobody Wants

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This from Netflix, Only Murders, Somebody Somewhere on Max, Saint

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Dennis Medical on NBC and What We Do in The Shadows.

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Best Actor in a Comedy Series went to Adam Brody

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for Nobody Wants This. Best Actress in a Comedy Series

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went to Gene Smart for Hacks. Best Supporting Actor Comedy Series,

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Michael Yuri for Shrinking. Best Actress in a Comedy Series

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Hannah Einbinder for Hacks. Sam Morrell talked to The Eagle

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Online and they were curious, what's the best piece of

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advice Sam has received recently. Sam said, honestly, make your

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own stuff. It's more satisfying. Just make your own stuff.

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Don't wait for anyone. You have to have money to

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do it, you have to have made money. But then

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I also think, what else would I rather spend money

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on than this. I'm not really in the cars or anything.

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What would I rather spend money on? There? Just making comedy.

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So I think if you surround yourself with really funny

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people and you make something that you like, then I

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think you bet on yourself. I agree with that. That's

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what this whole project is here. I don't want to

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make stuff for other people anymore. I make stuff for us,

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me and you. Sam had advice for those pursuing comedy

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and said, the truth is, I don't really know about

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getting it in a stand up now because it's changed

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so much from when I started, So my advice would

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probably send out of touch now. For me, it was

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get on stage as much as possible. That's what comics

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would tell me. That was the only way to be

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a good stand up. But now there's comics making a

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living online. I guess it's good and bad. There's other avenues,

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but also it's not great because you know they're not

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going to get better. Your currency was your act back

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of the day. When I started. It wasn't like some

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other things like a podcast or you know, TikTok or

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something like that. So my advice would still be like,

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if you want to be a really good stand up

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and do everything you can do, tour the country before

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you're ready. You know. I was cold emailing bookers every

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ten days and following up because I wanted to be

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a road comic because that's what the comics I liked

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were doing. So I think, look at what the comics

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you like are doing and emulate them in a creative way.

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Find your own spin on that trajectory. Jay Leno said,

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I like to tell jokes. People say you should do

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a Netflix special. Jay says, I don't want to do

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it once and get a big check. I'd rather do

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it one hundred times and get a bunch of smaller checks.

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You know what I mean. It's more fun for me,

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That's what I like. What he means is if you

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do the Netflix special, you've burned all your material, and

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Leno says, this way you can try things out and

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see how they work. He told a story about how

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an unnamed comedian came on The Tonight Show to promote

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a special and told Jay that he was going to

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keep doing the same jokes on the tour, arguing that

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it's like hearing a song. It's not like that at all.

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But after returning from the tour, the comedian told Jay

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that he regretted it. Leno said, they're watching it for

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free at home. Now they're paying forty five dollars or

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whatever it is. You're the same thing they just heard

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for free. You can't get greedy. You can't take the

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Netflix money and the personal appearance money. Always good to

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hear from the listeners. Justin checked in. He works nights

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in a boring part of Texas and says, I look

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forty your podcast every morning around two am the Central time.

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You were the only new drop after midnight, and I

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thank you. Keep up the good work, and he tagged

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it with also Amy Schumer wanted me to tell you

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to talk about her earlen let me throw maybe in

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Google here. I didn't have an Amy story prepared and

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trying to let that go. But let me see what

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Amy's up to. It's always fun. Let's see Amy Schumer.

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Oh Slate has an article called what happened to Amy Schumer?

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Oh my, and people dot Com has a story Amy

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Schumer calls out kind of pregnant critics for seeking more clicks.

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All right, Amy, you want us to talk about you? Sure.

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Amy posts it on Insta on Thursday, sharing a favorable

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mention from Variety's review, saying this means a lot to me.

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Didn't I read Variety's review? Maybe I read the Hollywood

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Reporters review. Anyway, Amy says, it gets more clicks to

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trash someone, especially me, if you don't like physical comedy,

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or you're a single guy who prefers sci fi, or

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sometimes the assignment is to trash something. So I appreciate

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the bravery to say you like something. Apparently what Variety

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had written, per Amy, Schumer is. And Schumer's a great

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comedian in part because she's a great actress. She keeps

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it real. When Leaney recites an ansect and poem to

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Josh's way of Wooingham, showing us the young woman who

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fell in love with literature, we suddenly see the character

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not as a joke. A moment like that makes a difference.

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It tells you that even a commercial comedy that just

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wants to crack you up can, for a moment, be

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more than that. And I'll save this Slate thing for

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tomorrow anyway, justin appreciate you, thank you for listening. And

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you know what, I'm recording this on Sunday because there

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wasn't enough news on Friday to finish out an episode.

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But thank you Kanye West for solving that problem. So

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that's enough for today. I'll save the rest for a

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Tuesday's show. I'm gonna go into super Bowl mode. You

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know what I'm saying. Boy, that was some game. Huh. Yeah.

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I'll share my thoughts with it tomorrow. By