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Kill Tony? Did Tony Hinchcliffe Cross the Line..... in Poker?

Kill Tony? Did Tony Hinchcliffe Cross the Line..... in Poker?
Kill Tony? Did Tony Hinchcliffe Cross the Line..... in Poker?
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Kill Tony? Did Tony Hinchcliffe Cross the Line..... in Poker?

Tony Hinchcliffe had already folded when he called out Scott Gaughan’s pocket kings on PokerStars’ Big Game on Tour. Johnny Mac breaks down what the Kill Tony host said while Gaughan was still deciding what to do against Doug Polk.

Amy Schumer calls out how animated movies portray moms, and Diane Morgan returns as Philomena Cunk in Netflix’s Cunk on Cinema, a mockumentary that takes on everything from the invention of the camera to CGI and AI. Johnny Mac also gets into Jordan Jensen’s New York Times profile and Iliza Shlesinger’s USO comedy tour in Italy.

Plus, the New York Comedy Festival wraps up with a preview of Jake Johnson’s Sunset P.I. and a screening of Dane Cook’s documentary. Johnny Mac runs through Vulture’s stand-up picks, including Kate Berlant’s Parmesan and Benny Feldman’s Butterfly Pavilion.


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0:01 Hello, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily comedy news from PokerNews.com, your home for poker news and apparently comedy news. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe may have gotten a bit out of line during what was an entertaining brand-new PokerStars big game episode. Okay, what happened? Well, the star of Kill Tony, May Hinchcliffe, Have influenced the outcome of a hand that he had already folded? Yes. We're told to lose cannon Scott G. Again, is it Goggin, Goin, Goggin, Goggin? I don't know. I'm calling him Scott G. He was staked $ 50, 000. And has to turn a profit over 150 hands to go home with money. The loose cannon found himself in a tough spot.

0:47 He had pocket kings. But we're told that Doug Polk was bullying the table. Moments later, a crucial pot for the loose cannon ensued. John, do you even know what you're saying? I know you're saying the words. Do you understand a single word you're saying? No, not at all. Not at all. But, you know, it's not so much about the story. It's about the spin I put on the story. Hinchcliffe limped from under the gun. With a jack of clubs, seven of clubs. Scott G., who hadn't been involved in any pots up to that point, raised to 1,100 with two kings. Polk called from the bottom with a pair of nines. Hinchcliffe also called to see a flop of four of clubs, seven of hearts, two of diamonds. Blah, blah, blah. Scott G. had to make quite a decision. Polk asked Scott G., what do we got down there, Cannon? Tony Hinchcliffe says, I know what he has. You want me to tell you what you have?

1:30 You have two kings. Doug's got an ace, and he made the straight on Fifth Street. John, what are you even talking about? I don't know. Seems like, I don't know, Tony Hitchcliffe did something. If you're really curious about this, put on YouTube today for more PokerStars big game action. Not sure that was the best idea for the lead off story. I'm leaving it in. How about this one? Amy Schumer criticizes sexualized depiction of moms in animated movies. Amy Schumer went on Instagram and asked, why do moms in animations have to look like porn stars on the same age as their kids? During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2022, probably seen by six or seven people. Make 1230 great again. Amy Schumer said she was taken back by Risa's sexist and offensive material in movies she wanted to show her son, including Peter Pan, The Jungle Book and even Tangled. Schumer said, I'm sure you've seen the way they have all the warnings now.

2:21 Just like we're sorry, you know, we're still going to show it to you. Amy was like, I don't want my son to see this. You know, it's out today and I can't wait. Cunk on cinema. Some podcasters have a crush on Diane Morgan. I'm just saying I've heard about these these people that have a crush on Diane. and can't get enough kunk in their life. If you're like, what's kunk, John? Well, Kunk on Cinema is a new mockumentary starring Diane Morgan as her British comic character Philomena Kunk. Six 15-minute episodes on Netflix. Now, here's the problem. The 49ers play the Cowboys at 4.30 today, and the Knicks are on at 6. So that's tying up the TV until 9 o'clock. And what's even the Sunday night football game?

3:01 Is this the week that SNF is terrible? Steelers-Bengals. I mean, I could skip Steelers-Bengals, but by 9 o'clock, I don't know how much Kunk I'm going to watch tonight. Actually, the Monday night game is pretty terrible. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow night, but I'd love some Diane Morgan. Anyway, Kunk on Cinema is billed as Kunk's most glamorous outing yet, as Kunk charts the history of cinema from the invention of the camera and the new wave filmmakers of the 60s right up to the entrance of CGI and what the future of AI holds. Kunk! will attempt to demystify it all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn, asking herself, where did cinema come from and why, what does it want, and why can't it tell us? Philomena Kunk told Variety, Cinema has given the world some of the most profound, memorable, and moving visual moments in its unswerving depiction of the human condition, the shower scene in Psycho, death playing chess in that Swedish thing, and Tom Selleck's glistening mustache in Three Men and a Little Lady, to name but all three of the examples I can think of at the moment. Lover. Jordan Jensen is well aware many people think she's a lesbian. That from the New York Times. I didn't just freeform that sentence. I'm not crazy.

4:05 That's in the New York Times, who wrote her gender presentation is to use her words like a Hansen brother. The Times said Jordan said with her typical low voiced masculine swagger, I'm not going to date a woman because I have three lesbian moms and a dead dad. We will get to that in a second. She says, I don't get a kick out of people being so shocked that they're forced to laugh. I do get a huge kick out of them being able to laugh at something really messed up. You see, her mother, Susan, came out when she was two and Jordan and her older sister lived with her. Her father, Jack, as the joke goes, was upset my mom was a lesbian, which is crazy because he met her coaching her rugby team. Quality joke. Jordan says, dropping my voice like full Elizabeth Holmes changes everything. When I tour with men, sometimes I'll have to be like, hey, I need you guys to remember for a second that I'm a woman because all men are worried about is being a good guy. And if a woman says you're a good guy, they get to sleep at night. Eliza Schlesinger recently partnered up with the USO. She toured Italy.

4:58 That's pretty cool. You know, when I was back at the satellite radio company, I always thought I would wind up on one of those overseas comedy tours things. I always thought we would get involved with one of those and cover it, and I probably would have assigned myself to go on it. You know, obviously a little scary, but on the other hand, I was like, when are you going to get to fly like a military transport and go to USO shows in like Afghanistan or whatever? Maybe I'm just stupid and foolish and was young and naive, but... That's the thing that didn't happen. And I don't see a situation now where I'm going to wind up on one of those. But Eliza Slettenger was in Italy, which is not Afghanistan, with the USO. She said, I love my country and I love our troops. That's why I keep coming back to the USO. It's my greatest honor to perform for our military and their families. And getting to make them laugh is one of my favorite parts of what I get to do. On the trip, she got to tour an F-16 fighter and spent one-on-one time connecting with service members on base. The New York Comedy Festival wraps up today. Let's take a look at the lineup. Now, the first thing on the festival is called NBC 100 Presents The Next Great NBC Comedy. OK, NBC, you've had some pretty great comedies over the years. So if you're going to whip it out for that. All right. What are you promoting at four o'clock at Hard Rock? They're promoting Sunset P.I. IMDB says Sunset PI follows a smart, cynical private investigator in Los Angeles who has a knack for solving cases, formerly an LAPD cop until his life imploded three years ago. It stars Jake Johnson. Now, if your brain right now is like Josh Johnson, he's pretty funny.

6:29 I didn't say Josh Johnson. I said Jake Johnson. And I think Judah Friedlander is in this thing, if I remember correctly. Anyway, is that the next great NBC comedy? Even the way TV works right now. Can there be the next great? I don't know about that one, guys. And let's see if there's any headliner on the final Sunday night. I doubt it. Matthew Broussard. He was on the show once. He's pretty cool. He's at the Bell House at seven o'clock. Not the biggest name out there. Here's a name. Kevin James Doyle versus the city of New York. Wait, I thought that was Kevin James when I started reading it. Then I got to the word Doyle. Yeah, that's not Kevin James. That's Kevin James Doyle. No offense, Mr. Doyle. Sorry, leave it in. And Dane Cook, he's screening his documentary at the Hard Rock at 7 o'clock. So, I don't know if you want to hang out with Dane. All week, there was more Dane articles about that documentary and, like, enough already? Like, we did that a month ago. Like, Dane, love you, man. But, like, enough already. Okay, the documentary came out. Can we stop talking about it? Jeff dies at the stand at 8 o'clock. And that's it. Another underwhelming year of the New York Comedy Festival in the books.

7:36 Vulture recommended five new comedy specials. You should definitely watch when you have a moment. See, that assumes you have a moment. John never has a moment. Their recommendations include Mandel's Dollar Signs. You'll find that on YouTube. They call it the most inventive comedy release of the year. Between its throwback costuming, production design, and grainy video quality, it evokes a 1970s soul train by way of public access television. That sounds like a lot of fun. But there's the Niners and the Knicks today. Punky Johnson's long titty short story also on YouTube. We are told it is not a tell-all expose about why she really left SNL. Her four-year SNL stint mostly gets summed up in one memorable bit about how, as a butch lesbian, she felt so uncomfortable portraying stereotypically feminine characters in sketches that she would wear... John, you gotta pre-read these sentences. She would wear a... Hmm.

8:30 I don't even know how to clean this up. Something you would strap. I'll leave it at that. Strap will get you to the thing that I'm trying not to say. Just think about a strap, and let's just move on. Your next special... Is Gavin Matt's present also on YouTube? Caring about the world is a good pastime, he says, because it's one of the only things in society that's free and is as good as an excuse as any not to think about himself or his depression. Kate Burland's Parmesan on HBO. I can remember to get to that one. We've talked about that one. And Benny Feldman's Butterfly Pavilion on YouTube. I don't even think friend of the show Dylan from the Facebook group has seen that one yet. I mean, now that I mentioned it, he's clicking play on his Roku right now. He's not even going to listen to the rest of this episode. He's like, a comedy special I haven't seen? And he's watching it right now.

9:19 I should just have him handle these segments for us. Like, he's really good about watching stuff. He's a lot better than I am. So what happens in Benny Feldman's Butterfly Pavilion on YouTube? There's a spoiler here. Sounds pretty good, though. I don't want to read the spoiler. But they do say he is one of the most celebrated one-liner comedians working today. Now, just reading this paragraph here has me excited to watch this one. So maybe I will get to that at some point. But I got to watch Six Conks and football and the Knicks are on every night and there's trivia night on Wednesdays. Basically, I need like a blizzard to happen when there's no sports on. That's the only way I'm going to ever catch up on anything. It's a busy life. Oh, wait, there's more. Oh, no, this is previously featured. Nimesh Patel by The Dip. Vanessa gonzalez momoa yeah we did all this we did all this last month all right vulture vulture is a really good resource there and that i guess is uh probably not the strongest episode of daily comedy as we ever had i was a little disjointed in this one but it's sunday you know and uh i might have pre-taped this one earlier in the week to accommodate my schedule Anyway, back tomorrow, we'll recap John Mulaney hosting Saturday Night Live.

10:20 I'll see you then.