Nov. 20, 2024

Katt Williams shares thoughts about SNL, Gaffigan flat on Manningcast, Pete Davidson in rehab again?

Show Notes
Transcript

Katt Williams shared his thoughts on being parodied by SNL, while Jim Gaffigan's attempt at live humor on the Manning cast falls flat. Pete Davidson is reported to have checked into rehab amidst career struggles post-Bupkis. John Mulaney engages with fans on social media, and Andy Kindler criticizes SNL's Lorne Michaels.

00:32 Katt Williams on SNL Parody
01:22 Jim Gaffigan's Manningcast Appearance
02:34 Pete Davidson's Rehab Check-In
04:21 John Mulaney's Favorite Special
05:13 Andy Kindler's Twitter Rant
05:53 J.K. Rowling vs. John Oliver
06:13 Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Sylvester Stallone
06:30 Vir Das on Comedy and Censorship
09:04 Wanda Sykes Announces Tour
09:19 Yash Rathi's Controversial Performance

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Callaroga Shock Media.

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Hi there, I'm chunny Man. Interesting one today. There's not

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like a lot of critical mass for comedy news, but

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what I do have is good. So like, I can't

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give you a twenty minute episode, so this might be shorter,

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but it involves major people and we'll see if my

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voice holds out, because I just recorded eight episodes of

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the other podcast I host, which is five good News

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Stories trying to get ahead for the holidays. There with

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that one, anyway. Cant Williams had this to say about

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Saturday Night Live.

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A lot of times when people are doing an impression

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of you, they're really showing you how they feel about you,

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you know what I mean. So for Saturday Night Live

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to have an impression of me and have a woman

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do that means they think I'm a bitch. There has

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never been a person that has been parodied nine times

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on Saturday Night Live and yet never been invited other

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than me, So I at this point take it as

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a badge of honor. I understand how the game goes,

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and I understand that if you love me, I know

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why you do. And if you don't with me, I

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understand why.

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Jim Gaffigan was on The Manning Cast Monday Night. Now,

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pay attention this week, Jim's going to be doing a

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lot of press. And I've noticed this more and more.

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Jim Gaffigan comedy specials obviously very funny. Jim Gaffigan trying

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to be funny in the moment doesn't have that skill

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a lot of other comedians have. If you'd like some

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evidence of that, listen to Jim Gaffigan on The Manning

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Cast and it's here.

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Listen to be honest with me, have you ever played

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to a worse crowd than two brothers distracted by a

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football game?

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Well?

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You know, I I feel like, I mean, at least

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you guys are both wearing the quarter zips, and that

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is just really encouraging. I feel like the whole like,

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is it a Manning thing where you have to wear

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the quarterzip? You always have to look like you're ready

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to play golf? Is that ed? I love everything about

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the quarter zip. Do your pajamas do they have a

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quarter zip on them? Also? That would be great? Right? So?

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Yeah, I think Jim's a little better writing and performing

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than maybe doing on the cuff stuff there the way

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another comedian might successfully a field of that the US Sun,

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so that's the US version of a British newspaper. The

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Sun is reporting that Pete Davidson has checked back into rehab.

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As I record this on Tuesday, and I'm recording a

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little earlier than normal. I'm not seeing this in any

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of the major sources that I would normally use here,

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but the US Sun is reporting that Pete Davidson has

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checked in a rehab after a secret romance and breakup

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with bachelor alum Maria Georgia. An insider said they had

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a fling before parting ways. The insider says Pete checked

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in a rehab in Florida fairly recently, flew in on

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a private jet. He's in pretty bad shape this time around.

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He's not in a good place. The insider said the

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check in was very recent. Well, we know that Pete

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was on the set of SNL on November tewod He

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was spotted in a restaurant in Kingsport, Tennessee on November fifth.

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It hasn't been seen since, including his thirty first birthday

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last week. Let's know Pete is doing okay. In the

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New York Daily News, Richard Johnson had recently said that

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Pete has been having trouble booking new projects after canceling

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his show Bupkiss. That show seemed to be doing okay

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and then Pete walked away from it. He voluntarily sent

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payments to his co stars, including Edie Falco, Joepeschi, and

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Bobby Cornavale, for the work that they've lost. According to

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Richard Johnson, Hollywood is taking a break from Pete Davidson.

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His management team is trying to book him his guest

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host of SNL. Johnson says Pete is working on a

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Netflix comedy special and has some small parts in some movies,

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but when he canceled Bupkiss, the source says Pete canceled himself.

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I get it. I mean, you know, if you're gonna

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do a development deal and the story is gonna walk

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away and again, I hope Pete's mental health is fine,

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but there's also the business aspect of it. If we're

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gonna put all this money in development, we're gonna start

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a show and have a hit show, and you're just

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gonna walk away, nobody's gonna want to do business with you.

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I get it. From The Irish Times, your home for

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comedy news, John mulaney was online responding to fans' questions.

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One fan asked John mulaney, if you had to choose,

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what is your favorite John Mullaney special and why. Mullaney responded, Now,

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what's interesting about this question is that favorite is spelled

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with a you, and that means that the person is

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not from America. They are from Great Britain, and as

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an irishman, I will not answer your question. Now, we

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can go all sorts of ways there. We can get

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into the whole history of Ireland, and I'll point out

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I'm sourcing this story from the Irish Times, which is

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probably why they found it interesting. Mullaney then responded to

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the question with an Irish flag emoji instead of a

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real explanation. Fans pointed out that Mulaney didn't realize Ireland

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also uses the British spelling. Some fans were shocked that

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John mulaney would proudly claim his Irishness without knowing that fact.

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Others thought he was just being satirical. Andy Kindler tweeted

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the following, Now before I read the tweet, Kindler used

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to do the just for laughs Montreal State of the

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Industry and was really popular In the last few years.

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I've found Andy Kindler to be really really aggressive on

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Twitter going after people. I don't know if I ever

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met Andy, and maybe I did it serious, maybe not.

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I can't actually remember, but here is his tweet. Did

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Lord Michaels turn eighty time to take the remote control

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away from Grandpa? He hasn't been funny ever. He still

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criminally takes Writer's Guild money for the writing. He continues

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to never do he let the fascist Trump post the show.

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He doesn't have an ethical bone in his body. That's

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Andy Kindler On Twitter. JK Rowling had some comments about

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John Oliver recently. On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said there

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were few trans girls competing in schools and there's no

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evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness. On Twitter,

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Ralling said Oliver was quote an undoubtedly intelligent person who

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spounce absolute bs to support something he wants to be

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true but isn't. Jimmy Kimmel went after Sylvester Stallone. You

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may have seen that Stallone called Trump the second George Washington.

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In his monologue. Kimmel said, I guess those punches Rocky

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took to the head were real after all. Kimmel added,

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George Washington was the father of our country. Donald Trump

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is the father of Eric. Big difference there. A hother

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reporter did a lengthy interview with verr Dawes. Veer said,

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every time at an American comedian complains about getting canceled, I'm like,

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grab a flight to India. Let me just show you

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something back. In twenty twenty one, ver Dawes performed the

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two India's routine at the Kennedy Center. During that routine,

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he said, I come from in India, where we worship

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women during the day and gang rape them at night.

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Politicians from India's ruling party accused him of defaming the

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nation and filed criminal charges. In his last Netflix special,

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said I had seven criminal complaints filed against me. Was

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being charged with sedition and defaming India on foreign soil.

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I was called a terrorist on three different news channels

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in the primetime news. Now, that's an interesting conversation with

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your mother. That evening. The Hollywood reporters said, Hey, you

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grew up around the world, Nigeria, India, the US. Whird

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should comedy perspective come from? I like this answer a lot.

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Vir Das said, it's definitely a misfit perspective. But ironically,

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I think that opens you up to a lot more

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freedom because as comedy becomes more ideologically influenced and people

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of dogs in the race. I get to show up

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and be like, I have no dog in the race.

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I'm not from here, I'm not really from anywhere. And

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that's how I see you, which I think a lot

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of outsiders don't get to do. They don't get to

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show a country back to itself. I get to be

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this misfit who's only Agenda's friendship. I get to talk

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about Americans with a lot more freedom than American comics.

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I'm not voting in your election. I'm not part of

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the wo crowd. I'm not part of this alpha male

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wing of comedy either. The Hollood reporter was curious what

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sort of TV he grew up on, and he said,

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I grew up in Africa and Lagos. We got something

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called bach TV, which was Buttswana TV. I remember being

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six and seven watching Fresh, Prince of bel Air and

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The Cosby Show. I remember watching Richard Pryor specials and

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Eddie Murphy's Raw and Delirious. We moved back to Indian

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cable TV arrived from abroad two soap operas, in particular

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The Bold and the Beautiful and Santa Barbara were massive

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in India. I went to college in Illinois, where I

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discovered stand up the first comedy Central half hour started

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coming up. My guys with George Carlin for sure, Eddie

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Zard for how he could make you feel like he

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was making it up all in the spot when in

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fact it was meticulously written in mhearst yes, and Richard

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Pryor for showing how to bring vulnerability and pain into comedy.

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So those are my big three. Carlin, Tizard Prior Well

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vierty Is still take inspiration from other comedians, he said absolutely.

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When I saw what bo Burnham did with his special Inside,

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I was a little ticked. That's so good, I thought,

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I got to step my game up. I don't watch

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a lot of stand up because I can usually see

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the punchline coming. Yeah, I feel your brother, But when

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something's visually very interesting or narratively very interesting, I get

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in on it. I'd watch any Micro Bailey a special

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for sure, just admire the structure and craft. All right,

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I guess I had a little more today than I thought.

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Not too much on the back end here though, to

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be honest. One of Psykes announcedate tour. It is called

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Please and Thank You Special guest Keith Robinson. Nine Cities

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kicks off March twenty first in San Antonio. She'll play Dallas, Chicago, Phoenix, Miami,

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and Moore. Wraps up in Saint Petersburg May eighteenth. And

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maybe I should have paired this story up with the

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Vera Das story, But I don't think any of us

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are too familiar with the comedy of Yash Rathi well.

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Yash faces a three month jail sentence if he's found

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guilty of using obscene words or acts under India's Criminal Code.

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He's being investigated for police for using bad language on

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stage after being reported by the people who booked him.

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Yash Ravi had performed at the Indian Institute of Technology.

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He was booked to play the annual festival, performing to students,

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their parents and staff. A clip post online shows I'm

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talking about, you know, doing stuff to yourself that makes

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yourself happy, you know what I mean. The clip shows

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shocked audience members putting fingers in their ears to block

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out his words. It shows the staff removing the comic

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from the stage half an hour into his hour long

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set when it was clear he was causing offense. The

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local police superintendent told the Hindustani Times that it was

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the college's management who reported the stand up to the police.

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Reports say the student union, as well as political and

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religious groups had also complained to the college's management. The

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director of the college, I think it is said during

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the show when Rothi allegedly started using objectionable words, the

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institute management intervened and asked him to get down from

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the stage. Stand up comedy acts were held during the

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institute's annual fest in the past, but such language was

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never used by performers. We were shocked when Rothi used

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such language. The official added that comedians would not be

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booked for the festival again. Rothi posted a copy of

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the report on Instagram and said, apparently adults in front

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of adults use language it's not right to use. And

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