Sept. 25, 2024

Key & Peele - will they ever get back together?

Key & Peele - will they ever get back together?

In today's episode, host Johnny Mac discusses a range of topics including Keegan-Michael Key's reflections on his partnership with Jordan Peele and their subsequent career paths.  

 
00:11 Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele: A Comedy Duo's Evolution...

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In today's episode, host Johnny Mac discusses a range of topics including Keegan-Michael Key's reflections on his partnership with Jordan Peele and their subsequent career paths.


00:11 Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele: A Comedy Duo's Evolution
01:13 Behind the Scenes with Keegan-Michael Key
02:35 Marc Maron and Sam Murrell on Working with De Niro and Joker
03:25 Saturday Night Live: Insights and Anecdotes
04:27 Sarah Silverman on Comedy and Coping with Dark Times
05:33 Josh Gad's Voice Acting Regrets and Frozen Updates
06:20 MAD Magazine Exhibition and Adam Conover's Stand-Up
08:23 Bowen Yang and Maya Rudolph on Comedy Careers
09:04 Kevin Nealon and Tim Meadows Reflect on SNL

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Callaroga Shark Media. Say there, I'm Shohnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news Keegan Michael Key. He's in the macpack.

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I'll tell you why. At the end of this story,

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he says that although Key and Peel were once an

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iconic duo, they don't see each other that often anymore.

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Keigan said, we lived together for a few months. We

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would write and talk about comedy, who we liked and

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why we liked them, and how that worked in the

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architecture of what we were trying to build comedically. When

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we were on camera, it was alchemy. It was just like,

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why is this working. It's been almost a decade now

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since that show ended, and we don't see each other

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that often anymore, which is to me a tragedy. Peel

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lives in la Key lives in New York. Our evolution,

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I think is tied to both of what our desires are.

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His desire was to start exploring the horror genre. My

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desire was to do more dramatic work like had been

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trained in school. After Kean Peel, both of us jumped

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to another platform, but we needed that first platform. He

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talks about in the early seasons, I was playing the

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clown more and doing more physical comedy in the beginning

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of our time together, and then I find myself into

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playing more of the straight roles and teeing up Jordan

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to play the clown. I got to work with those guys.

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A few times. I've mentioned I helped put together a

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Comedy Central radio for series XM, so I was in

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the room with them several times. Here's the reason why

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I love Keegan. Michael Key and Jordan Peele totally cool,

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but I love Keegan for this. So it's my last

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day at Sirius. We're at the super Bowl radio row

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and I've called in every favor. I have to get

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Comedy Central to give me really good guests for the

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super Bowl because it's serious. The super Bowl is a

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big deal. So we've got the cast of the work

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Alkoholics here, and we've got Key and Peel there, probably

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five minutes too early. Again, it was my last day.

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I had been let go, but I'm a professional, so

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I was like, I'll stay on and finish the super

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Bowl broadcast. I called in the favors. I'm a pro,

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I will produce the show, and I did so. Now,

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about two months later, they were on the cover of

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Newsweek is like comedy's hottest thing. So on this Super

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Bowl day, one of the bosses just didn't get it

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and got all excited that Jamie was there and the

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Cardinal of New York was there, and decided we were

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going to put the Cardinal and Jamie fox On together,

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which took away the set that I was going to

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use for Key and Peel. So the engineers put together

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I called it the kiddie table with like a snack

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table and the leftover equipment and stuck Key and Peel

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in the corner. And I'm just apologizing to those guys,

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and Jordan's cool with it, and Keegan looks me out

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and he goes, dude, I see what's going on. I

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get it. It's all good. And I will always appreciate

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that guy for reading the room and seeing that I'm

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trying and it ain't me. So Keegan, Michael Keay, I

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love you. Mark Maren talked about watching Robert de Niro

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film the First Joker movie. Maren on his podcast said,

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I did that one scene with de Niro and Joker,

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and I was literally watching him because I was on

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the set all week and he's playing that talk show host.

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He doesn't know his lines and they're doing it over

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and over again. It was totally demystifying de Niro to

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me because I've watched him my whole life. Obviously he's

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a great actor, but they understand something. People live their

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lives on cameraon be doing it that long. Because I'm

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watching it, I'm like, this is a disaster. How they

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got cut this together? He knew was gonna be cut

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up alright, He's been on set so many times. I

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was just gonna do it and do it, do it,

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and they'll find one. Sam Morrell talked about his time

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on The Joker. He told Howard Stern, I think they

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expected me to suck, so I was kind of pumped.

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I'm in my trailer and director Todd Phillips is going

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over with me and I was like, it says I'm

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an open micro this. Do you want me to be

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crappy like an open micer? And he was like, yeah,

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well you're doing any jokes. Sam said, well, I'm not

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gonna bomb my stuff. I'm gonna kill Joker too. Out

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on October fourth, do you like Saturday Night Live? Well, good,

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because we are going to talk about Saturday Night Live

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every single day for the next nine months. Did you

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hear SNL's turning fifty? Michael Chase says, as the writing

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staff grows and as the cast grows, SNL's like an

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apartment building, not a house. We all live together, but

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we don't really live together. A cold open could go down.

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I'll be like, I don't like it one bit, but

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it's not my voice and it's not up to me.

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I can't agree with everything political we've had on the show,

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and I'm sure this stuff I've written that's made some

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castmates bristle or some writers go, what are we putting on?

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We can't say that, but we have to live with

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each other. We're rid digging the space and trying to

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get this real estate for our ideas. So there's no

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one mission statement. I don't believe beyond Funny's funny maybe

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Lauren idea of what he wants the identity to be.

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As I always say, as Corny s it sounds at SNL,

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we're not the A students. We're the kids in the

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back of the class learning spitballs with the teacher. But

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I think the audience might feel like comedy is going

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to tell them the truth because they don't trust politicians anymore.

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They don't trust news even and so they're very protective

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of it, and they feel like if you say something

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against the side, it's almost traitorism. It's almost trees. It

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as to make fun of Biden or the left when

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Trump is running, and I get that feeling. But as

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time goes by and we face more disasters and crisis,

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we'll understand that this was all a ridiculous time. Sarah

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Simmerman spoke to Saint Louis NPR. She said, I think

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the one consistent thing with me is I've always kind

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of tackled the darkest reaches of humanity. That kind of

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started with speaking at my dad's funeral and eulogizing him

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and realizing there was a lot of funny stuff in it.

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I've always felt that all comics become funny and developed

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their sense of humor as a means of surviving childhood.

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I would say one hundred percent of comics become funny

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that way. So it's been a survival skill for us

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since we were kids, and so it's very natural to

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me that processing death, especially big ones like this, feels

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very natural to process it through stand up. I think

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the two things that helped me grow as a person

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our therapy and stand up. I think a lot of

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comedians have really feared getting well because they feel like

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their comedy comes from not figuring out their stuff. For me,

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I disagree. I'd rather be happy because I think we

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lived just one time on this rock and outer space,

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and it's crazy not to figure out your joy, but

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to be able to utilize it and use it in poignant,

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ridiculous and silly ways. That really works for me. Chris

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Rocks Everybody Still Hates Chris premieres today ten pm East

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and West on Comedy Central. Not sure why they made this,

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but Everybody Still Hates Chris features Chris Rock as adult

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Chris narrating stories inspired by his experience growing up as

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a skinny nerd and bedsty I like this one from

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Josh Gadd speaking to people. He says he wishes he

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hadn't used his regular voice to voice all Off in Frozen.

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Josh Gadd said, if I could do it all over again,

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I would have not lent that snowman my voice, so

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I would have created a different voice because it's very

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weird being in a supermarket and having a little child

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stare at him. So that was my first big mistake.

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But you know, if people tell me I have a

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very unique voice, people seem to like my voice. I

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try to give it to them when I can. I

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saw Josh he was in the Book of more And

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when it first premiered million years ago, he crushed in that.

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Oh what a good show if you've never seen the

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Book of Mormon. Apparently they're making more Frozens, he told

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Kelly and Mark. All of a sudden, my phone's blowing up.

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People are like, I'm so excited about Frozen three and

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Frozen four, and I said, so am. I I had

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no idea. Nobody thought to call us up and be like, oh,

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by the way, we're doing two sequels to your movie.

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Bubba shared this one on the Facebook group, which is

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daily comedy news podcast group. At the Norman Rockwell Museum

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an exhibition called What Me Worry The Art and Humor

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of Mad Magazine. It's the Norman Rockwell until October twenty seventh.

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The exhibition explores the unforgettable art and satire of Mad

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from its beginning ens in nineteen fifty two. I'm scrolling

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down here on NRM dot org. They've got some of

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the cover arts, some of the old Mad fold ins.

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Remember those. There's an online symposium on Friday October eighteenth

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from six to eight and again on Saturday, October nineteenth,

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called the Usual Gang of Idiots and other suspects. Mad

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Magazine and American Humor join us for this lively exploration

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of the art and history of man. That's cool NRM

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dot org if you want to check that out. The

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museum is in Stockbridge, Massachusetts if you're up that way.

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Open Thursdays through Tuesdays ten to five. They have an

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app as well, closed Wednesdays. Guys wait to schedule the article.

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John Adam Connover spoke to Variety. I think there's some

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spin here. Conover till Variety. A lot of people know

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me as an informational comedian, right, I do comedy about

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important topics. They don't know me as a stand up comedian.

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And stand up comedy is my first love. So I

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want to do a straight stand up show. I didn't

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want to do information. I didn't want to do Here's

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how you can change the world. I just want to

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do jokes about myself, about my life. It's personal story.

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What's the spin? John Well? He brought the quote to

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very personal special to drop out, to be able to

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care about every single detail and have it come out

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on this incredible platform where people are going to watch

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it and give a hoot about it. That's very rare

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to be able to do as a comedian now. So

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not a it's very special up on YouTube for free

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and hope that people watch or do it on a

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big streamer and hope their algorithm is going to show

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it to people. Yes, I mean the algorithm on Netflix.

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If you don't want Netflix money, that's fine, But you

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know Netflix, every Tuesday they put a big, giant special

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in front of everybody's face. It's not really the algorithm,

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but okay. Adam says the specials called unmedicated not because

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I'm against prescription treatments for add but simply because they

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never worked for me and they caused me problems. I

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felt addicted to them for a while and they caused

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me to have other addictions as well. And I turned

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out fine, but other people maybe not. Bo When Yang

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said he was obsessed with Gray's anatomy growing up and

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he was going to pursue medicine, he realized later that

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his interests had to do more with Sandra Oh than

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with healing the sick, but it was a convenient way

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to satisfy his parents. He tilled The New Yorker. I

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think I did the drag of saying, well, maybe I'll

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be a doctor. He then got into improv. Improv was

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my only wait point for a billion. We were all

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fifteen year olds performing with beer drinking thirty year olds.

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Maya Rudolph says, when you've seen his funny, tend to

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be pigeonholed as the wacky best friend because there's a

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lot of meat in that role. You think that's where

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the fun is. He wants to be the straight guy,

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but you're never the straight guy, and that's all you

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ever want to be. I remember at SNL sitting in

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Lauren's office saying I want to play the wife sometimes.

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Why can't be the girlfriend? He was like, you don't

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want to be the girlfriend, you want to be the

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crazy German art dealer neighbor Kevin neil In told the

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Union his biggest influence was Chevy Chase. It's been thirty

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years since I've been on SNL. It's hard to believe

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so things are different. Back then, I was portraying more

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of a newscaster like a dry delivery. And for the

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last fifteen years or so, people are more being themselves.

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They're like comedians commentating on things and smiling and laughing

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about it, unlike newscasters. But things are changing. Newscasters on

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CNN or Fox News of personalities that are more entertaining.

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I'd probably fall more into that category with the snide

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comments more myself. As for SNL's fiftieth they told me

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to save the date. It's almost overwhelming. At the fortieth

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after where I looked at it was like Madame Tussau's

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wax Museum of Hollywood. Eddie Murphy was there and Prince

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Taylor Swift. It was crazy. I'm so grateful for the

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career I've had and continue to have, to be honest

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with you, The highlight of my career was really early

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when I did the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. That

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was the only game in town for talk shows that

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validated he as a stand up. After the Tonight Show,

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I've never felt such a natural high. Tim Meadows also

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from SNL Third Straight SNL are here. Yeah, I line

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these up on purpose. He'll still we are in the

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CBS Comedy Pilot DMV, a single camera comedy pilot set

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at the place everyone dreads going most, the DMV. I'd

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put it second. I'd rather go to the DMV than

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the dentist our quirky and lovable characters and making minimum

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wage doing a thankless job where customers are annoyed before

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they even walk in the door. Good thing they have

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each other. Tim Meadows plays Greg, a former high school

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English teacher. Greg is the examiner who likes to get

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through the driving tests and the day as quickly as possible.

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Greg is sardonic, defeated, and would love nothing more than

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to retire. Zarna Garg is getting a CBS comedy Zarna.

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Garg will play Zarna. The ship was also called Zarna.

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In Zarna, Zarna plays Zarna, a proun immigrant woman who's

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been raising her American born kids on Indian values, but

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now that they're getting older, it's time for Zarna to

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focus on her own American dream. And that is your

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comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell

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a friend about it. They might like a two. If

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you would like the program without commercial interruption, there's a

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link in the show notes so to tell you how

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you do that. If you're hip to podcasting two point

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zero and you want to send some SATs my way,

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that's the thing you could do. And I'll see tomorrow