June 7, 2026

Kevin Hart’s High Stakes Poker Losses, Plus Gaffigan, Seinfeld & Bargatze, Kreischer, Glaser News

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers comedy news, starting with spoilers from PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker Season 16 featuring Kevin Hart, who had nearly $1 million, rebought for $500,000, and saw losses eclipse $1.4 million after two major pots. Jim Gaffigan tells Goldenglobes.com that streaming and social media transformed stand-up into a healthier part of entertainment and says comedy is about listening to evolving social norms. For Forbes, Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bargatze discuss aging jokes, accepting getting older, wearing the same thing daily, and Bargatze’s experience writing and starring in a movie and his belief in theaters. Bert Kreischer previews Free Bert Season 2 and balancing fan expectations. Nikki Glaser recommends meditation apps and 12-step programs and recounts awkwardly meeting Dave Matthews. David Cross says stand-up and dance may be safe from AI. The Toronto Guardian profiles comedian Kendell LaBella and her influences and favorite bit.

00:00 Poker Spoiler
00:22 Kevin Hart High Stakes Losses
01:28 Jim Gaffigan on Stand Up Evolution
02:25 Seinfeld and Bargatze Talk Aging
03:45 Nate Bargatze Movie Chat
04:54 Bert Kreischer Freebert Season Two
05:39 Nikki Glaser Mental Health Tips
05:56 Nikki Glaser Celebrity Fan Panic
06:51 David Cross on AI and Comedy
08:02 Wrap Up and Subscribe

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Caloroga Shark media spoilers for season sixteen of High Stakes Poker,

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which streams on Poker Go. I know you were gonna watch,

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so I don't want to ruin it for you. Hi.

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy. He was John

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Why are you talking about poker? Because Kevin Hart was

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on the show. We are told, with nearly one million

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dollars in front of him, Kevin Hart had a rough night.

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So I don't understand any of this. So here's Kevin

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already's playing against somebody else who's five hundred and forty

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four thousand dollars in the pot. We're told his opponent

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improved to the nut flush on the first runout. You

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know what that sentence means. I don't. And on the

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second run out, Kevin Hart's misfortune increased as the board

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left him drawing dead on the turn. A few hands later,

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Kevin Hart looked down at the four thousand dollars double straddle,

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live and lots of action in front of him. We're

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told Big Owl kicked off the party with a limp

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from upfront with Senior Tilts, who bumped it up to

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twenty thousand dollars. Attacking the dead money in the middle,

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Kevin Art opted to flat the rays with his jacks.

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I love reading this story to you because I the

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words are in English, but I don't understand a word

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I'm telling you. So anyway, Kevin Art had to buy

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back in, but the majority of his five hundred thousand

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dollars rebui vanished in two pots, and Kevin Hart lost

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his losses eclipse the one point four million dollar mark.

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Someone will have to send me cliff notes on what

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I just told you. Jim Gaffigan caught up with the

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Golden Globes dot com. We're told Jim began his comedy

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career in the nineties. He said, I started prior not

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only to streamers, but also social media, YouTube, and even

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satellite radio. Hmm, you're welcome, Jim. The arrival of these

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elements transformed stand up from niche born club, dead end

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career into a vibrant live performance business You're welcome, Jim,

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which is presently properly the healthiest part of the entertainment industry.

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Jim says, stand up comedy's about listening. I feel most

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good comedians understand that comedy, like liberty, is ever evolving concept.

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Of personal liberty or a reverence in the nineteen twenties

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was very different from what we now have in the

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mid twenty twenties. I feel like he's changed topics here.

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Jim Gaffigan said these changes can be incremental or dramatic,

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but if one is listening, you could pick up trends

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on social norms. If you're a comedian who primarily deals

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in a reverence or shock, these changes can feel punitive

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and unnecessary. If you talk about being lazy and complain

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about your children, that's pretty evergreen. Jerry Seinfeld and Nate

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Bergazi kind of had a conversation for Forbes. Nate told

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Jerry I had a joke about being older. If the

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TV captions are on, I'm not taking them off. I'm

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not saying I deliberately put them on. But if they're on,

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I'm not at a stage where we don't want them on.

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I have a whole thing I'm doing because I'm forty six,

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so I'm like the old of the young. I get

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to fifty, which is the young of the old. Once

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you get to fifty, you're like, well, I could beat

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up everybody above me. But the back end of the

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forties is the frustrating part because you're like, I bet

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I can clear that fence, and then you need to

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be fifty to go. Why would I want to clear

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that fence? Jerry says, forties is the most dangerous time

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because you don't really know that you're not young anymore.

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Nate chimed in and at fifty you accept it. And

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when I say, in the joke is that's why everybody

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tells you when they're fifty, No one tells you their age.

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They go from like a child to quiet to like fifties.

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Then they're just walking around just like fifty three years old.

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They start yelling it and you're like, all right. Jerry said,

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I like when people go, I don't want to date myself, Like,

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we can't tell by looking at the extra wide light,

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gray new Balance, We have no idea how old you are.

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It was only because you knew Frankie Valley in the

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Four Seasons that we could tell. Nate said, I'm at

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the age now where I want to wear the same

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thing every day. Jerry said, ah, yeah, I've been there

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a long time. That's Einstein Steve Jobs. They got to that.

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I used to have a really good joke. You may

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remember when I was in my sixties that I don't

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want to turn around anymore. Someone says, you got to

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see this, and I go, I'll see it. On the

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way back. We're all google it. I'm seventy one now

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with nothing funny about the seventies. I can't even tell

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them because they'll get depressed. Jerry asked Nate Brighetzi. What

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was it like making the movie? Oh boy, Nate said,

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I liked it. I wrote it. I was in every scene.

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I didn't got to do a ton of editing. I

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love taking stuff out. That's a comic. That's all you do.

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It's frustration. But some of my favorite parts is going

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it doesn't work, cut it down. I want to see

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what I could do adapting to this movie world. This

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is a movie that I think you would think I

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would make. I'm not playing a stand up comedian, but

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telling those stories and having it all connect. Nate had

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told Jerry, I'm not a believer when people were like,

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no one wants to go to the movie theaters and

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no one wants to do this. I disagree with all that.

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Traveling into the country doing stand up and hearing laughs

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in different places and different reasons. That stuff matters. Well,

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no one went to see the movie, sorry, Nate. So

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as gutting back to comedy, Jerry said, I loved doing

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comedy clubs. Whoever the middle act is that week, we're

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hanging out every day all week. I spent the past

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twenty six years being married. I've learned to be with

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regular people. But the language of comedian and comedian is

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just a different language. Right now, this was interesting, Jerry said,

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do you imagine you'll maintain the pace here on now

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for quite a while. Nate said, well, see what happens

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with this movie. I have a plan of what I

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want to do. I think this big tour, I see

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another big tour. I've said I want to stop doing

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comedy and all this. Jerry said, no, you're not. Bert

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Krascher is both to Fox News Digital about what to

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expect from season two of Free Bert. Bert told Fox

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I said to my wife, we're getting dressed to go

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to an FYC event for a TV show that people

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seem to like that's been renewed for season two. Our

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kids are doing good. We're living the dream. If you

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had told us twenty two years ago when we were

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giving birth over at Cedars, Sinai and broke. Not sure

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we could afford it that would be here. We made it.

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We made it as for free. Bert. You hope it

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comes out as fun as the first one. But the

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first time we had no expectations, no realizations. We're just

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going to make something that made us laugh. And with

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this one, you're like, well, you've got testing. You know

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what people like. People seem to appeal to this and that,

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and you know the characters that stand out. I want

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to give them a little more of that, but also

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one of the things, you don't want to give them

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too much of that, you know, it's like cocaine. Upworthy

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asked Nicki Glazer about her journey with mental health. Nicki said,

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I would first try a free meditation app. That's what

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I did when I was broken, was in desperation for

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any kind of relief from my negative thoughts. It really helped.

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I'd also recommend twelve step programs. There's one for just

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about everything. The meetings and fellowship are free. You can

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go on zoom and just listen if you're scared to share,

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and you don't have to believe in God to go.

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Up Worthy asked Nikki, have you ever met someone else

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who's famous and completely freaked out. Nikki said, yes, I'm

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quite an obsessive fan of celebrities who I love, and

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I could never seem to keep my cool when I

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meet them. I was a Dave matthew Stan in high school.

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I met him in twenty eighteen, and I humiliated myself

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by saying the word sphere a lot. I don't even

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know why. It had nothing to do with the Las

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Vegas sphere as well before that existed. Thank god I

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got to meet him again a few years later and

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act relatively normal. My policy now with these kind of

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icons is that I don't really want to meet them.

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I just feel like a huge bother when I share

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how much they mean to me, unless, of course, they're

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new to fame or if faded from the spotlight, then

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I'm happy to tell them. As someone who's not a

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huge a listener, I get how much it means when

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someone tells you they like their work. But someone who's

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a global pop star doesn't need me shaking and crying

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and telling her she saved her in my life. I

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don't want to bother her with my anxiety. She needs

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to save her energy to write songs, not hug me,

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so I stopped convulsing. I assume we're talking about Taylor

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Swift there. David Cross talked about AI and said, as

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we understand it now, I would imagine dance can't be replaced,

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and I would imagine stand up comedy is safe if

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you can't replicate that experience without a replicant. M New

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West World idea, and he pitched New West World, but said,

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but it's all crappy stand ups. Who knows where the

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fit's going. It's clearly not going to be regulated. I

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mean not with the current people in office that won't

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regulate anything. Send your letters to David Cross and The

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Toronto Guardian caught up with local comedian Kendell Labella. Labella

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self describes as like if a Ted Talk and a

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panic Attack had a child and the child was raised

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exclusively on Much Music and y TV from the nineties.

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Port Sermon, part garage sale, part disco party. Favorite comedian

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growing up, mister Bean obviously a silent genius. That man

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was my Richard Pryor. Favorite comedians now Nathan Fielder, Chelsea Paridium,

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Maria Bamford, Patty Harrison, Josh Johnson, Dan soder Sheng Wang

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and Sam Speraza favorite bit you've written. He says, there's

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one way I compare can Tuda to the emotional availability

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of my father. I'm proud of it because it makes

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both older men and me and the audience uncomfortable. At

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the same time, I write jokes so people will remember

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me while microwaving fish. And that is your comedy news

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for today. All right, it's June. So you're sharing the

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