Aug. 31, 2024

Kill Tony and Tony Hinchliffe, the Hottest thing in comedy right now.

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac provides the latest in comedy news, highlighting the success of Tony Hinchcliffe's Kill Tony podcast, which sold out Madison Square Garden twice. The episode covers various comedic milestones, including the participation of notable comedians and celebrities, insights into comedy shows, upcoming film releases like Stavros Halkias' 'Let's Start a Cult,' Hulu's new stand-up comedy specials lineup, and awards from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Additional segments feature John Mulaney's Netflix project insights and the making of the 'Saturday Night Live' movie.

00:12 Kill Tony's MSG Triumph
00:58 Behind the Scenes with Tony Hinchcliffe
04:36 Upcoming Comedy Projects and Releases
07:06 Comedy Awards and Recognitions

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Callarogas Shark Media. Hello Jenny Mack with your daily comedy

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news from Pollstar eating SNL's Lunch. How Tony Hinchcliffs Killed

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Tony podcast became your favorite comedian's favorite show and sold

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out MSG twice. Pollstar tells us the MSG shows sold

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twenty ninety three tickets across the two nights, averaging twelve

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five hundred ninety six per night, engrossing a total two million,

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three eighty nine. According to the Box Office report submitted

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to Polestar, that a really nice profile about the show.

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I shared it in the Facebook group, which is Daily

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Comedy News podcast group. Polestar says, if you do well

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as a regular on Kill Tony, you might become a

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Hall of Famer like David Lucas, introduced by Tony Hinchcliffe

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as the dark Roast God when he came on stage.

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Pollstar said he lived up to his name, shredding anybody

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sitting on the panel next to Hinchcliff, including Rogan, Shane Gillis,

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David tel Adam ray Is, Joe Biden, and Shane Gillis

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Is Donald Trump. On night two, Tony said, watching my

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regular get to have the moment of their lives up

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there to watch people that got pulled out of a

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bucket have an opportunity. Going from sitting in the audience

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not knowing if they're performing the performing in the greatest

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arena of all time made me feel so happy. I

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feel like I haven't even begun to come down yet. Luckily,

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a lot of my friends that were part of the

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show been calling and telling me the same thing. It

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makes me feel more human. Getting a call from Andrew

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dice Clay saying that was the greatest thing I've ever seen.

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I've been having trouble sleeping because of the adrenaline. Diyce

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was the first comedian to ever sell out MSG, and

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here we are, many decades later and he's losing sleep

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over it. It makes me feel like I'm okay. And I've

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been getting those calls from absolutely everybody. The Black Keys,

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Aaron Rodgers, Joe Rogan, and another person who some people

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feel is the worst person they've ever met in the

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history of life. I'm not going to say the person's name.

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Everybody that was part of it. The Black Keys opened

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the second night of kil Tony and MSG. Aaron Rodgers

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came out to throw kill Tony footballs in the audience.

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Rogan appeared after being called a coward by Shane Gillis

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for endorsing Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Over the two days,

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Brian Holtzman, Paully Shore, Big, Jay Ogerson, Jeff Ross, Ari Shaffer,

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Jim Norton, Harlan Williams, Joe Rosa, and Moore had performed

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don at least one of the episodes. That is great.

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I don't think they've released it on YouTube yet. Last

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time I checked, it wasn't up yet. I hope they do,

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unless they're saving it for something. Tony said, It's just

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surreal to have those guys be part of it. It's

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absolutely a milestone in my life. It took months and

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months of hard work and me sitting at a desk

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all by myself, trying to picture how this could go,

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what the flow would be like, just envisioning the two

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nights of explosion that everybody got to see. It was

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a lot of manifesting, a lot of picturing. Executing it,

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quite frankly, was the easiest, less stressful, most fun part.

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I got to sit back and just watch my vision

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come true. One of the things that makes our show

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special is that you're seeing different people, different shapes and

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sizes and races and ages and everything. Usually with long

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form podcasts, you're watching two people have a conversation about

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different topics for a long time. But on this show,

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I don't even know how to describe it. It's fireworks.

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There's different colors and explosions, different moments, and even some

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duds that make you realize that the whole thing is

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live and anything can happen, which makes you appreciate the

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great moments that much more. Ange Cliff also talked about

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the Roast of Tom Brady and said I was adapting

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it up until the very last second. Everything was changing.

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I was making edits, adding things, cutting things out, and

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repositioning things. I've prepared a lot of those shows for

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the roast, but I didn't know how and when I

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was going to do it. I decided very early on

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when I got there that I was going to go

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from left to right and be the only one that

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moves around. Was trying to figure out what the main

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cameras were seeing so they could see me and also

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the person I was roasting, so I was directing while

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I was performing. It was a lot of work and

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a lot of adrenaline, a real blur and an absolute blast,

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one of the highlights of my life. A lot more there.

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I'll hold on to this because traditionally, the week after

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Labor Day is a slow week, so I might need

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the rest of that story next week, and I'll hold

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on to it. Let's see, I'm editing on the fly here.

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I've got more from Nicki Glazer from that Vogue article,

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which I think is best done as Triumph, the insult

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comic dog channeling Nicki. But this is the third straight

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podcast I'm recording, and I'm already losing my voice. If

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I start doing Triumph, I'm going to lose it, all right,

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let me bounce you for now. Late Night I spoke

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to Langston Kerman. Langston was a writer on John Mulini's

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Netflix pseudo Late Night Show. Kerman said, you put Lunel

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and Pete Davidson and all these big personalities on a

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couch and they're going to do what they do, and

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you sort of have to be on your feet and

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malleable Mulaney's the best at that and just accepting whatever

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being offered to him and figuring out a way to

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navigate it. Mulanie's ask of us was not to write

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to him. It was to write to things we actually

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thought that we wanted to try, or things that we

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thought would be really interesting that would be able to

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take the helm on because he hired a bunch of

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producer level folks who we wanted to be able to

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activate and say, hey, go make this thing on your

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own with our money and our cameras. John mulaney noticed

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Kerman's show bust Down, which lasted just one season, and

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said John was so into it. At one point he

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had sort of reached out basically being like, Hey, if

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you guys end up doing season two, I'd love to

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come on as a producer, maybe even be your Danny

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DeVito fifth in an always sunny kind of vibe. We

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were like, that'd be awesome. Then Peacock was like, we

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don't give an f We're not doing this ever again.

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Stavros Alkiez is headed to the big screen. He announced

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on social media that his feature film Let's Start a

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Cult will be in theater's October twenty fifth. The log

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line for Let's Start a Cult. Having missed out on

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his cult's long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams

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up with his bogus x Messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune.

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Traveling together through Middle America, the constantly bickering duo induct

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a military wanna bee, a mentally unstable mom, and a

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mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult. But will this family

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of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny or decide this life

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might be worth living at all? I can already see

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the protests. People are gonna be so mad at that

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log line. Stavro said. It's really dumb and fun, with

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jokes every minute, and a ton of hilarious people are

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in it. There are appearances from Joe Para, Tom Poppa,

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and professional wrestler at cmpunk. Kelsey Cook hosts the Pretend

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Problems podcast. Whether they're partner comedian Chad Daniels, Kelsey says,

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I personally love it, especially because Chad has been doing

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stand up longer than me. He's my favorite comedian. His

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new special on Netflix is really good. It is in

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my top of the year, and so we have zero

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sense of competition between us and our careers, which is

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pretty crucial for two comics dating. You have to be

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actively rooting for each other and have no underlying feelings

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of fomo if one person gets something and the other doesn't.

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We've been really fortunate that we both feel like each

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other's success only helps the other. We just want each

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other to succeed. The only time it can be tough

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is our schedules. We both have to tour to make money.

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We're trying to figure out some ways next year to

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do tour dates together, which I'm really excited about. Hulu

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creating their own branches stand up Commenty. They're licensing a

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group of specials that have already been released. The Hustler's

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been on YouTube for a little over a year now.

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To continue to live on YouTube, which is great, but

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now to be on Hulu as well, which hopefully we'll

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reach a whole new audience that's super exciting. Lamar and

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Morris is in that new Saturday Night Live movie called

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Saturday Night, and he said it was a chaotic filming.

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He plays Garrett Morris. He told Vanity Fair, I gotta

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say it was chaotic. That might have been intentional because

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it's all one big cast, the same way it was

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back in Opening Night when there was so much confusion

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of what we were doing. There was a lot of

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that while filming too. He explained that filming involved a

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lot of big long shots which were really difficult to

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get right. Once you're doing take number twenty twenty two,

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twenty three, the pressure's on and the actors are tightening up.

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Really to see who's gonna mess up this shot? After

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a six minute take, you're like, which one of us

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is gonna screw this up? For everybody, Wright men directed

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the hell out of this thing. It's a great look

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at day one at SNL, the ups and downs, how

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the show almost didn't happen. The character is obviously now

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we know fifty years later what the show's become. But

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to see the origin of it and the actors in

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this movie will blow oh your mind. Saturday night in theaters,

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October eleventh, and my voice is shot. This is gonna

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be the last story of this recording session. Congratulations to

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English comedian Amy Gledhill. Amy has won Best Comedy Show

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at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The director of the Comedy Awards,

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Nika Burns, said the judges love the fact that she

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blends writing that echoes the genius of Victoria Wood combined

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with the magical physicality of Julie Walters. This show is

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make Me Look fit. Judge Byrne said Amy's show is joyful, delightful,

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and full of laughter. It's a show back with jokes

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and so much hard that everyone in the audience falls

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utterly in love with her and has a wonderful time. Also,

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congratulations to Joe Kent Walters, who won the Best Newcomer award.

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Judge BYRNS says Joe Kent Walters as great the extraordinary

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character of Frankie monrou which is both a love letter

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and satirization of a workingman's club MC. His accomplishment is

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such that it's hard to believe this is Joe's first

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Fringe hour. Joe draws on a range of skills including pantomime,

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musical comedy, and stand up to bring you into Frankie's world.

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My voice is shut comedy news for today. I got

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plenty of leftovers. I will be here tomorrow and I'll

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see you then.