Jan. 1, 2024

Kevin Hart's Legal Battle, Chris Rock's new lady friend. and no that's not Amy Schumer falling down stairs

Kevin Hart's Legal Battle, Chris Rock's new lady friend. and no that's not Amy Schumer falling down stairs

In this episode, we discuss Kevin Hart's legal actions over cheating allegations by a former assistant and a related extortion attempt.

Romantic rumors surrounding Chris Rock and Amber Rose.

An update about Amy Schumer's recent pick for the top film...

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In this episode, we discuss Kevin Hart's legal actions over cheating allegations by a former assistant and a related extortion attempt.

Romantic rumors surrounding Chris Rock and Amber Rose.

An update about Amy Schumer's recent pick for the top film and a debunking of a rumor involving her and a TikTok trend is also included.

A critical take on Ricky Gervais's new special I don't agree with

Jim Gaffigan's opinions about kids' movies.

Finally, we explore the current trend of meta-criticism and satire in standup performances, featuring comedians like Marc Maron and Joe Pera.


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Kalaroga Shark Media Coming he here.
I'm Jennie Mack with your daily comedy news

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from Yahoo. Kevin Hart is taking
legal action over cheating allegations made by a

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former assistant. The assistant and made
these allegations in an interview with YouTuber Tasha

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Kay. Heart's complaint was filed in
the Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by

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People magazine. The complaint centers on
an online interview between Heart's former personal assistant

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and YouTuber Tasha Kay. The assistant
work for Heart's company from August. The

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interview includes allegations from the former assistant
that Kevin Hart had an affair at his

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office. She also claimed that she
told Hart's wife that Kevin was cheating on

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her and that the comedian had a
gambling problem. A preview from the conversation

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was captured the interview that Kevin Hart
will wish never came out. The document

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alleges that November, someone affiliated with
Tasha Kay contacted a representative of Heart,

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informing them that the interview would be
damaging the Heart's reputation. The individual stated

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that Tasha k would publish the interview
unless Kevin Hart paid a ransom of two

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hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Heart
contacted the police and issued a cease and

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desist order. It cited an NDA
between Kevin Hart and the assistant. In

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twenty twenty two, musician Cardi b
won a libel case against Tasha Kay,

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whom the rapper accused of making malicious
claims against her. Let's stop off at

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Gossip Corner. According to page six, Chris Rock and TV personality Amber Rose

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were spotted hanging out New York City
last week. Page six reports that Chris

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Rock and Amber Rose were all smiles
during their quote unquote stroll and then made

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their way back to Chris Rock's apartment. Page six says the couple did not

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show any signs of PDA and noted
that the nature of their relationship is unknown.

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People are mad at Amy Schumer again. She named her top film of

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twenty twenty three. She picked the
movie The Zone of Interest. That is

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a movie about a commandant at the
Auschwitz concentration camp. It was also a

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wacky rumor last week that Amy Schumer
had been hospitalized after falling down the stairs.

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Not true at all. I don't
know if you saw this video.

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There's some sort of TikTok trend where
you do stuff on stairs. I don't

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know. I'm an old man.
It's all stupid to me. Anyway,

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I've seen the video. In it, you see a blond woman dressed in

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a black long sleeve top, leggings
and white socks bouncing sideways up a set

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of wooden stairs. Then the woman
falls down the stairs. Some people said

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it was Amy Schumer. The caption
was Amy Schumer hospitalized after attempting TikTok trend

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and sources say she's in critical condition. It was viewed over thirteen million times.

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It is not Amy Schumer. The
gang at the av Club apparently didn't

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like Ricky gervas as New Special as
much as I did. It made my

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top twenty three of the year.
They wrote, Ricky Gervais isn't David Brent

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from the office. He's worse Aavy
Club, writs Ricky Gervais Late as Netflix

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Special finds a new low for the
once revolutionary comedian. Ricky Gervas no longer

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does comedian. He does grievance.
Two minutes and two his latest hour long

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outrage bait for Netflix Armageddon. He's
talking about the backlash he generates and now

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he's putting woke in his Twitter bio. Later, amid ad libbing about Chinese

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people eating dogs, taking an applause
break for saying that white people invented the

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inWORD and bragging about his nine bathrooms, he cries out f my legacy Today.

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Jervase starts jokes within my day and
ends them with two genders alone on

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stage. It's hard to imagine the
types of people Jervas targets. A praid

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of straw men, women and children
populate Jervas's flights of fancy, but offer

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no truth. These are just jokes, Jervase reiterates, and therefore don't have

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to make sense or, in the
case of his musty Michael Jackson material,

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even be relevant. They simply have
to garner a wave of laughter and applause

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at the idea that white able body
people are really the victims and all this

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treat people respect nonsense. I don't
think the folks at the Avy Club understood

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Ricky Special. It's pretty funny.
What do you want a comedy special?

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Debate? Like what are we gonna
do? Get up and do climate change

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jokes for an hour. I don't
know what people want from a stand up

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comedian Jim Gaffigan does his U I
think they're weekly comentary's for CBS, and

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the recent one he talked about kids
movies. Jim said, parenting as a

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series of sacrifices financial, physical,
and emotional. You know how many horrible

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kids movies I've seen in the theater, Way too many. I've voluntarily driven

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to the theater, bought multiple tickets, and sat through absolute garbage, objectively

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bad movies. I didn't need to
read a review. I didn't need to

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watch a trailer. I knew nobody
asked themselves. I wonder if the Smurfs

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is any good. It's not.
They try to warn us by calling it

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the Smurfs. Hardest part the self
censorship. After suffering through a movie like

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My Pretty Pony, any censured being
would need to turn to someone and say,

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well, that was painful. But
you can't say that's an eight year

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old, so you smile and go, hey, what did you think?

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Yeah? I hope they make another
one too. Vulcher wrote about the rise

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of crowd work crowd Work. They
even have a photo castioned three of the

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most notable anti CrowdWork comedians. They
are Kyle Kanaan, Mark Marin and Joe

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Parra. In an October episode of
Pete Holmes podcast You Made It Weird,

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Pete was speaking with guest Sam Jay
about crowd work and they agree that they

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I hate it and the crowds are
roudier. Sam Jay said, they absolutely

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think they're part of it now and
they're like, I'm giving you a leg

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up culture writes. Over the past
year and change, comedians have gone meta

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with the trend by needling crowdwork's laziest
tropes and satirizing CrowdWork using crowd work itself.

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An example the Gary Golman bit that
I told you about yesterday, I

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won't do it again. Maren recently
started doing some crowd work, but not

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before offering the caveat that his crowd
work would be pure and honest and boiled

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down to what crowd work really is. He's a Dynasty typewriter in LA and

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he starts asking audience members basic questions, then mocks their responses with intentionally juvenile

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insults. One tells him his name
is Joshua, and that's met with a

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reply of that's effing stupid. Another
says he's originally from LA and he gets

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a reply of that's where we are
now, stupid content that he's generated enough

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content. Mark Maron triumphally collects his
phone from the audience member declares there's like

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three tittok videos. In Joe Parra's
twenty twenty three special Slow and Steady,

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he pretends to engineer a spontaneest moment
by abruptly asking the audience anyone here bang

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he used the F word. Para
instructs the camera operator to turn the camera

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around and proclaim Chappelle would probably like
that. Crowd work. Australian comedian Sam

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Campbell started doing some crowd work and
asked an audience a member, what is

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that a jumper? Or what is
that they do that? For another thirty

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seconds or so, I beat passes
in Campbell Declaire's We've got a destigmatized crowd

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work. I'm trying to talk to
this lady. You think I like her

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stupid hoodie? It's the worst hoodie
I've ever seen. And that is your

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