April 10, 2025

Kill Tony is kinda getting killed by reviews....and what was with Joe Rogan?

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode of Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac reports on Tony Hinchcliffe's recent WWE RAW appearance and the mixed reactions it received. The discussion extends to Hinchcliffe's Netflix show, 'Kill Tony,' with opinions on its all-male lineup and Joe Rogan's notable but limited participation. Reviews of David Spade's upcoming special 'Dandelion' on Amazon and Rob Schneider's plans for a conservative talk show are covered. Additionally, Seth Meyers and John Oliver extend their New York residency, and David Letterman's conversation event with Paul Shafferr is announced. The show also highlights various comedy festival events, including performances by Nikki Glaser, Josh Blue, and Randy Adiva, and previews Shannon Christmas' new comedy special and album.

01:28 Netflix's 'Kill Tony' Special: Reviews and Reactions
04:44 David Spade's Upcoming Special 'Dandelion'
06:05 Comedy Festival Highlights and Upcoming Shows
08:42 Melbourne National Comedy Festival 2026
09:22 Comedy Reviews from Melbourne Australia International Comedy Festival
10:49 Shannon Christmas's New Special Announcement

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Kalaroga Shark Media.

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Hey man, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Let's start with Tony Hinchcliff again, sourcing here from coutahoulic

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ITR Wrestling and a fight ful select but apparently backstage

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at WWE Raw the other night, Tony Hinchcliff's appearance came

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across as a dud. Some fans did not think Tony

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was funny during his appearance. I thought he was okay.

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Some also didn't like the one joke that suggested that

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the only things differ than announcer Michael Cole was big

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E's neck. Big E has not wrestled since suffering a

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broken neck in March of twenty twenty two. Big E

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addressed the joke during WWE's Raw recap and said, I

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guess at might big age of thirty nine years old,

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people will say what they want about you. The opin

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interview has nothing to do with me. It's not my business. Looks.

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Say what you want. He was given a mic, he

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was given opportunity how they want to feel. There's a

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lot of discourse oftentimes as a public figure, people say

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things about you, whether the joke or not, and that's

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their right. And I think the one thing is I'm

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on here. It was set on the show. I'm supposed

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to talk, you know, especially when things are mentioned about me,

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I should have an opinion about them. It's just tiring

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going to have to weigh in on everyone's opinion or

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whatever they say. Look, I'm not hurt. I'm good. I

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want the discourse to be had without me. Honestly, I

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have no desire to weigh in on this. I didn't

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sign up for this. It wasn't aware of this. He

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did what he wanted to do. People signed off on.

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It has nothing to do with me, truly. MSNBC's headline

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Netflix is killed Tony Special proofs the entertainment manisphere lives on.

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They write in Trump's America, neither getting canceled nor refusing

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to say you're sorry amounts to career suicide. It might

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even land you a three show deal with Netflix. Oh

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is this thing? Only three shows? And one's already gone

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and they already played the Shane Gillis card I don't

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who knows? Actually, let me go on. I'll see how

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the show is doing. Got the Netflix Top ten. My

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source here is at netflix dot com. As I record

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this on Wednesday at eleven twenty four am Eastern Gone Girls,

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Adolescence Love on the Spectrum, Paul's The Medical Show, which

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is awful, The Residence, which is fun. W W E

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RAW at six Miss Rachel Devil May Care, Million Dollar Secret,

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Survival of the Thickest, So Kill Tony not up there

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and MSNBC rights. To my mind, the comedy was mostly predictable, derivative,

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and formulaic, but that misses the point exactly. I'm glad.

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He added that that misses the point because I was

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going to hit you with that as an artistic endeavor.

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Kill Tony is not cutting edge, but it is culturally

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irrelevant and massively so. Monday Night was definitely for the boys.

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Killer Be Killed featured lots of men, men who were

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happy to be in the company of other men as

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they ridiculed other men. Of the twenty or so comics

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who partook and Killer Be Killed, nineteen of them were

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dudes skipping ahead. Then there's the show's manly visual aesthetic.

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The set is dark, it is lined with beefy, shiny

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bald guys and others in weird hats. There's a live

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man whose musicians perplexingly crack up at every joke. The

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audience stoked prime for an endless cavalcade of hot man

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on man smackdowns. The episode in parts of basic bro

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code fellas, crave, competition, and combat. These stand ups who

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do well are sometimes invited back. There was also a

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Mexican drum off, a killed Tony tradition apparently Yes Yes,

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MSNBC rights. At some point in the episode, Hinchcliffe eventually

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noticed that few women were on his Netflix special. In

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an attempt to diversify the proceedings, he forsook the bucket

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and called one amateur female comic to the stage. Even

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though her minute was unremarkable, He later invited her to

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perform at his Madison Square Garden show this August. I

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was surprised that Gillis slash Trump didn't dub him Tony

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DEI Hinchcliff in response. In all, it was a very

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manly night. Okay. Newsweek wrote about kill Tony. They saw

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what the civilians are saying, and the civilians are echoing

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what I forgot to put in yesterday and had to

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have the AI voice once I realized I forgot to

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make the point. Joe Rogan was there for two hours,

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and I'm sure he spoke at some point, but he

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sure wasn't participating. On the kill Tony subreddit, one user wrote,

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Joe Rogan is the worst guess ever why they keep

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bringing him on? Somebody replied, the guy owns the place.

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He's gonna be there if Netflix is going to come

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out to film the episode. Someone else said, like, I

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get it, he kind of has to be there if

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he owns the club, and you know it's on Netflix,

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But come on, at least engage more. I feel like

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he's like that on every episode he's a guest on.

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I feel like you should have definitely engaged more. No,

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it's gonna air on Netflix. I feel like the whole

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Netflix show was unauthentic. I spoke my pec yesterday in

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case you missed it. I think the show works better

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for me as an audio podcast. I can listen to

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a double speed and hit skip six times in a

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row and something's not working. I also feel that the

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first ten minutes was way below par, and they put

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a roadblock to the casuals. The casuals are never going

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to make it to minute eleven. When Shane Gillis's Trump

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came out, David Spade will have a new special for

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Amazon out May sixth. It's called Dandelion. In Dandelion, David

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Spade takes on the pearls of flying charity auctions, the

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evolution of porn, and more. They put out a trailer

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and here are the jokes David's bade chose to share.

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How's that for a lead?

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I was eight years old. I almost got kidnapped. I'll

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make it funny. I came out here blonde hair, look

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like exactly mcaulay culgan and I was kind of tan.

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I was like shorts. I mean it was almost in trapman.

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I'm a bit of a dandelion. I don't know if

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you can tell. I looked tough on TV, but these

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quads are deceiving.

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Down ladies. Okay, that's Dandelion May sixth on Amazon. Put

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it on your calendar. Status tells the story of Rob

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Schneider paying a visit to the Los Angeles Times headquarters

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accompanied by Cheryl Hines. Schneider was active talk with the

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owner of the La Times about launching a conservative version

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of the view. He envisioned it as a talk show

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with a rotating panel of host that would appeal to

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the mega crowd and would be filmed live in front

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of a studio audience. Status says the talks fell apart

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for one big reason. In particular, Schneider proposed a budget

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of fourteen million dollars to pretty use the show. The

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two sides could not agree on a budget. Fourteen million

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dollars is excessive. Seth Myers and John Oliver are extending

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their residency at New York's Beacon Theater. They'll be there

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through the end of twenty twenty five. You can go

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see them July twenty seven, September twenty one, October twenty sixth,

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November twenty third, or December fourteenth. If you want to

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see them in August, you are currently out of luck.

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Each performer does forty five to fifty minutes of stand up,

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and then they come on stage together to take questions

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from the audience. Seth. If somebody actually offers you that

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SNL gig, take it. Twelve thirty talk shows are dying.

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Speaking of twelve thirty talk shows today in New York

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City conversations David Letterman with Paul Schaeffer. Yeah, they're at

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the Perlman Performing Arts Center. The official description Late Night

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Legend David Letterman brings his trademark dry humor, irreverence and

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sincere curiosity back to Pack NYC for conversation with his

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longtime friend and former music director Paul Schaeffer. You know

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we could film this, guys. I'm just saying, Okay, let's

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see what's happening at the comedy festivals tonight at the

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Rhyme and Nicki Glazer there again, seven o'clock, Jared Freed

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at the labt Zeni's at seven at main Zanies. Right

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now with John Goblcan. I'm not familiar with John. I

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don't recall ever seeing the name before you guys can

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shout at your phone all you want and just being honest.

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Apparently Right now with John GOBLICHN is the official podcast

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from necro Goblet Cohn singer John Goblcan. He interviews his

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famous friends from comedy, music and entertainment. Seems he dresses

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up as a goblin and four weeks ago had Dan

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Soder and that video has one hundred and thirteen thousand views. Hey,

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you learn something new every day hosting this podcast. Huh.

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Jared Freed is another show at nine point fifteen, and

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that's it for tonight. All right. If we were in Nashville,

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did we see Nikki yet? I guess we'd go see

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Nicky in uh, I don't know, go get some drinks

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again for the late show at moontow or tonight seven

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o'clock paul Is Shore, nine thirty, the not so Cancel Disease.

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night we would go see k Trevor Wilson, So I

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guess would go see AZ's tonight for the late show

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and Paulie not many other choices. The Trevor's City Comedy

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Festival is up and running tonight through the weekend. The

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big show there is at seven o'clock Josh Blue at

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the City Opera House. So if you gave me a

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transporter machine and you were like, hey, John, we're gonna

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go see some comedy. Should we go to Nashville, Trevors

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City or moontower? Out of all the things I've talked about,

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and picking Josh Blue at Trevor's City Comedy Festival, good lineup,

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though some other headliners scheduled. According to the press release,

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Mark Maren J. Farrow, Natasha Laziro and a bunch of

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others will take a look at that. Over the next

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tells me he's working on the Melbourne Florida National Comedy

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Festival twenty twenty six. We were texting. Yesterday. I went

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to the brand new Bjay's wholesale club that just opened

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I was in the car and I got a text.

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Wife's like, who's Dan Boobletz. And I'm like, he's a comedian.

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He Litsen's show and he has your number. I'm like, yeah,

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he has my number. We text sometimes anyway. So Boobletz

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is working on this thing. I have asked him to

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book Adam Sandler as the headliner. I will keep you

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guys posted Melbourne National Comedy Festival this time next year

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in Melbourne, Florida. We are working on this. It is

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definitely going to happen. No chance that this is a bit.

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We are doing this. The folks at the Age went

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to see Randy Adiva's show Killer from Manila this at

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the Melbourne Australia International Comedy Festival. They give it four

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and a half stars out of five. Killer from Manilla

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is about Randy being proud of his rich Filipino origins

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his identity as an Asian Australian being under society's Western microscope.

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Guilty if they gat too much. A self confessed knowledgeable

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movie buff and a super diehard sports fan. We're taken

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through several what if scenarios movie scenes and we meet

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Randy's favorite celebrities that he looks up to. Sounds like

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a fun show. Also, the Age went to see Hannah

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tells us only Hannah could have an audience eating out

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of the palm of her hands just by mining two fingers.

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Falling in love Sammy Jay Is The show is called

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the Kangaroo Effect. In The Kangaroo Effect, Sammy j essentially

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It's a life clawing through an archive of VHS tapes

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that are to blame for him turning up at a

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house party in a kangaroo onesie. That's fun. They gave

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that one four stars. Luke McGregor's show Okay Wow, is

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a fifty five minute show, well paced through seemingly random

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Topics include flat earther ADHD diagnosis, step kids, the shape

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of his appendage, and finding the love of his life.

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The age gave Luke McGregor OK Wow four stars. Shanna

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Shanna Christmas publicist sent it to me. See if you

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work for Hulu and you send me something, I'll read it.

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Shot live in an intimate jazz club in the heart

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of downtown Las Vegas, the special captures Shanna Christmas doing

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what she does best, making people laugh so hard they

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forget they're in a dark room with strangers. There is

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a spoiler here. I don't want to tell you what

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it is, but Shanna says, I wanted to make a

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special that it felt like me. Loud, fast, honest, funny,

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but also full of real life because comedy is how

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I take my power back. There's a for YOUA and

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I want people to feel theirs too. Highly intelligent YouTube,

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and Amazon May twentieth, all remind you as we get

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a little closer. And that is your comedy news for today,

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See tomorrow.