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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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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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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