Sept. 7, 2025

Kill Tony Kam Patterson stirs SNL controversy, Nate Bargatze goes big, and Howard Stern’s renewal game

Kill Tony Kam Patterson stirs SNL controversy, Nate Bargatze goes big, and Howard Stern’s renewal game

Kam Patterson’s old jokes about Rochester resurface just as he joins Saturday Night Live. Johnny Mac also covers the UK’s SNL spinoff, Nate Bargatze hosting the Emmys and launching a 62-arena tour, Howard Stern’s contract drama at SiriusXM, Marc Maron’s evolving WTF legacy, Paul Rodriguez’s drug charges, Fred Armisen’s Uncle Fester transformation, and harsh reviews for NBC’s The Paper.

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. NFL Sunday Going Niners looking forward to

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the Jets getting destroyed as expected. People are just wigged

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that Cam Patterson, the guy from kill Tony and among

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other things, but best known for Kill Tony, is joining

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Saturday Night Live. Syracuse dot Com went digging and they

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found new SNL cast member has strong feelings about Upstate

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New York and the poll quote that place is terrible.

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Upstate New York is actually very, very beautiful. Anyway, back

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in January, Cam Patterson was on Kill Tony. The Syracuse

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folks pulled a clip in the cliff Patterson says, I'm

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gonna look into the camera when I say this f Rochester,

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New York. Tony Hinchcliff, who's from Youngstown, Ohio, said, I

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fully endorse cam statements about anywhere in Upstate New York.

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It's incredible for anyone to stay there after being born,

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and he's there. Patterson chimed in and said, yeah, that

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place is terrible. Tony Hinchcliff said, people in Upstate New

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York settled down with the first person they said, like you,

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they get pregnant and then become stuck there forever in

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eternal hell, while literally the rest of America laughs at you.

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Patterson cut in again and said, f Rochester a garbage place.

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F all two hundred something thousand now. During a stand

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up show last December, apparently Patterson made some comments about

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the food in Rochester. He showed a photo of the

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garbage plate. We've talked about that in the past. The

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garbage plate typically includes a base of home fries or

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macaroni salad, top with meat like hamburgers or hot dogs,

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and finished with a spicy meat and fused hot sauce, mustard,

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and onions. Patterson called the meal pig slop. I'm saying,

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if you want to come over today and watch football,

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I have rid zone. If you bring home fries, top

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with meat type with spicy sauce, mustard and onions, I'll

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bring the beer. While I'm already home. I already have

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the beer. You bring a garbage plate. There is a

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lot of strife going on over at SNL. I've got

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you stories I'm saving from Monday. Why John, Because Monday

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shows are slightly more listened to than Sunday shows. So

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I'll make those the lead on tomorrows. Over in the UK,

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they're getting their own version of Saturday Night Live, and

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they're going to be able to say some swear words.

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The Sky Television network explains that in the UK, swearing

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after nine pm is allowed. My recommendation, don't swear. I

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mean the occasional swear word for effect works. But you know,

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don't turn this into Saturday afing Night Live. You know

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who doesn't swears that. Nate forgets it and he's doing Okay,

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did you buy stock in Nate? Because he's hosting the Emmy.

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He's a week from today. I hope you bought up.

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He also announced a tour. See we're already making money

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on our bet. The Big Dumb Eyes Tour in twenty

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twenty six, sixty two Arena stops stretching through next August.

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The tour begins January fifteenth in Eugene, Oregon, where most

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tours begin. I'm not going to read you sixty five dates.

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He's probably close enough to you. Like for me, I

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could wait until set Saturday August eighth and go to

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Newark and see him there. That's the third last show.

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Who wraps up August fifteenth in Toronto little Howard Stern

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news at the end of last week. The boss is

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there over at Sirius XM must see the scuttle butt

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and probably just knowing how people think over there, they

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probably were a little nervous about the stock and need

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it to protect it. The CEO over there, nice woman

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named Jennifer, said it certainly has to make sense, meaning

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a Stern deal, But we feel pretty good that we've

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done this before and we'll see where it goes. I

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think he's been quarter o a platform for over twenty years.

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Some confident we'll get to the right place. A different

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boss over there was asked how serious XM determines whether

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or not they should do with deal. He said they

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look at hours, listen to add revenue, social media and publicity.

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As I have been saying, Howard will renew. I think

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they'll drag this out and capitalize on all the free

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publicity they're getting. This boss even said publicity is basically

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in kind free marketing. So they'll drag out the story

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and in December it'll be like, what do you know,

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Howard's staying? What a shock? Good piece and slate under

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the headline. Mark Marin thinks he's Comedy's Jay Robert Oppenheimer,

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is he right? Luke Winkie writes, you can find the

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formula Maren established all those years ago pretty much everywhere

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in the industry. The Joe Rogan Experience, which debuted mere

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months after w TF, shares the exact same DNA long form, meandering,

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sometimes surprisingly personal chats with miscellaneous stand ups and gadflies.

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This also goes for this past weekend with theo Vaughn

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ponent O'Brien. You can even hear its influence on the

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Ezra Klein Show, Luke continues. For a few years there,

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the world of comedy was remade in Maren's image. Comedians

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spield their guts both in his studio and on stage,

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and comedy clubs increasingly began to resemble group therapy clinics.

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As the WTF brand grew, Maren moved away from the

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Rinky Dinks stand up anks that originally attracted me to

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the show. He remained a sharp interviewer, but the star

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power of the guests slowly grew brighter and more distant

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from his own world. Over time, WTF lost its status

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as this sacred place for embittered stand ups to try

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to deduce the meeting of their careers. I think this

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piece is on point. Instead, it just became an other

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big ticket interview podcast, competing with a wide array of imitators.

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Luke writes, tuning into the podcast every week didn't feel

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quite as crucial as it once did. I belonged to

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a demographic of people that is capable of caring massively

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about the life and times of alt comedy lifer Brian Posain.

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The show, in its original conception was exclusively concerned with

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those nerdy fixations. But how can you find time for

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him between Jeremy Allen White, Alexander Scoresgarden and Risque Hargatea,

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all of who appeared on WTF this summer. And I'll

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add personally, I didn't download those episodes. I'm with the

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writer here. I've got a bunch of Marens in my phone.

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Let me call it Maren. I'll tell you how I'm

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doing this. So not downloaded Spike Lee, Regina King, Ben Stiller,

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downloaded Tim Heidecker, Bow and Yang. I've listened to those already,

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Sarah Sherman, I listened to quest Leven Aquafina, didn't listen

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to I'm with Luke I would be much more excited

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if the next guest was Brian Posain talking about comedy

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for an hour. So the conclusion to this thing piece

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is and I agree, maybe Maren has timed his exit

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from WTF perfectly. I did put years on that Kyle

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Mooney Beck Bennett podcast and the guest was Mark Maren.

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As a professional podcasting expert, despite me broadcasting in the basement,

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I do have some thoughts for the guys. Beck and Kyle.

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You gotta pen write this down. Your audio is terrible

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now as a podcasting expert, I'm going to guess the

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reason your audio is terrible is because you're really making

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a YouTube video and putting it out as a podcast.

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The audio is so bad that, despite me being on

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a very much Marin kick right now, I couldn't even

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stick around for Maren. I just like, this is unlistenable.

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It sounds like it's underwater. They got to get their

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act together over there. Let's see how it's doing on

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the charts. It's actually Thursday as I record this. I'm

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pretty honest, I record the weekends in advance. What is

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this thing called again? What's our podcast? The name of

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this thing is even terrible is that what it's called? Yeah,

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what's our podcast with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney. The

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name's Terrible. It's up to number one sixteen overall, up

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eleven spots and now number fourteen in the comedy subcategory.

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So it's possible. Johnny Mack has no idea what he's

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talking about, but personally I couldn't listen at all. Who

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are their dream guests? They were asked. Beck Bennett said,

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not necessarily my dream guest, but I think it would

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be really fun to have Lorne Michaels on. You think,

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especially right now, you think here, here's my dream guest list,

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Taylor Swift, Lauren Michaels. I guess this week I would

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take President Trump and RFK Junior. Beck Bennett was asked,

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do you think would go along with it? I don't know.

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I think it's below his standards. Kyle Money thinks Paul

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McCartney would be interesting. You think one of the biggest

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stars of all time, like not even musicians, just stars period.

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Do you think a guy who is in the Beatles

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would be interesting? Good guess? Ambitions for the podcast be Bennett,

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I'd like to get it to a point where Rible's

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tour and do some live shows, whether that's a guest

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or doing mini versions where we take suggestions from the

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audience to try to do a couple. It would be

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fun to use this as a platform to perform live

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and get in front of an audience. So I don't

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do stand up, but he miss getting in of an audience. This,

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my friends, is a cash grab podcast if I've ever

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seen one, And they're doing okay so far. Kyle Mooney said,

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I love the idea of doing live shows and letting

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audience members potentially pitch podcast ideas for us, that would

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be a terrible live show. Tell you, guys, it's fun

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for us that it's ever changing and we don't know

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what the rules are yet. We're sort of making them

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up as we go along. Good luck. Paul Rodriguez has

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been charged in connection with his arrest last month at

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a Burbank restaurant. This from the Burbank City Attorney's Office.

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Rodriguez faces misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance

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without a prescription and possession of a controlled substance. Paul's

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been in the news quite a few times this year,

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none of them good Fred Armison talked to the Observer

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about playing Uncle Fester in Wednesday. He was asked if

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it's intimidating to take on such a well established character.

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Fred said, it's nothing but awesome. I enjoy looking at

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pictures of the nineties film or sixties TV show going

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that's us, We're the Festers. It's like putting on a uniform.

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You have to honor previous iterations while also making the

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character your own. Who does he past his version on

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Jackie Coogan in the original Adams Family series. The things

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he did with his face, sort of smiling even though

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there was no reason a smile. It reminded me of

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Danny DeVito and one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. He's

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in this mental institution, but he's smiling the whole time.

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I thought that was kind of cool. All right, how

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do you look like Uncle Fester? Armison said, I shaved

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my head for a start. It's a better way to

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go than bald caps. I shave my face thoroughly too

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than put prosthetic covers over my eyebrows. Looking totally hairless

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makes my forehead kind of hulking. They paint Dirk circles

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under my eyes and give me a gray corpse like

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pallor what I always forget is my hands. They shaved

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them too, then put dirt under my fingernails as a

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little finishing to tail. Wow, that's fun. Seth Myers was

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happy he finally got on Trump's radar. Kamil Nanjianni was

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the guest non Johnny read some of Trump's rants out

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loud and said, what I love is that he called

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Colbert untalented, he called Kimmel even less talented than Colbert,

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and he called Fellon insecure. And for you, Seth Myers,

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he can buy it all three Bill Angvall, so all

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the stars Rebut and to think about golf is he's

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playing with his wife, and it's fun when you both suck,

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but when one of you starts getting better than the other,

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it's not so much fun. So I'm trying to catch

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up with missus Angvall. Now that I'm going back on

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the road, I'll have to cut back a little on golfing.

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And did you watch the paper? I haven't gotten to

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it yet. We're in the middle of five days of

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football if you're also into college football, so I don't

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know when I'll get to the paper. Maybe I'll pick

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in an episode here and there. I am curious about it,

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but I have low expectations. Now the reviews are interesting.

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Now stay with me here. Pay a little attention from

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the Seattle Times, which is a newspaper. Their headline Office

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spinoff and insult to comedy and journalism. You're paying attention here, right, yes, okay,

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they wrote The Paper is the sort of show where

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the moments it pauses for when you're meant to laugh

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just become agonizing pieces where you awkwardly wait for the

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next bit. In the ten episodes of the first season,

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there are few memorable lines to speak of, and even

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fewer actual scenarios that even elicit a chuckle yikes. Where

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The Office was largely sharply written and earned its more

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absurd moments, the Paper never has some of that spark.

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All the force modern jokes about everything from catfishing to

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clickbait fall completely flat, and there's no Jim Helper to

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cut away to the New York Times, which is also

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a newspaper. Right, They said, I have good news and

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I have bad news. The team from the Office has

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a new comedy of decline, but it still needs to

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figure out what the story is. They say it starts

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funny and competent, but the template is a problem. The

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show feels too much like a Madlib's version of the

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characters and dynamics from the Office and similar shows without

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a firm identity of its own. Rolling Stone, which is

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not a newspaper, that's a magazine, but they say the

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paper is a methodonneed version of The Office. Alan Seppenwall says,

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the new boss on this show Ned and Ned's worst

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moments are probably a bit closer to Andy Bernard in

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the post Michael Office seasons, when Andy himself became a

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watered down Michael. That's not good at all. I hated

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when Andy was in charge because it was like they

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had old scripts that just crossed off where it said

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Michael and scribbled in Andy. And that was when Andy

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was good. Then when they started writing Andy Andy scripts,

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it got even worse. Sepenwall says, what's odd is the

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morning before the show came out, Peacock ordered a second season,

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the kind of deal that was surely worked out long

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in advance, and announced the day before the mirror. To

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goose the hype cycle, he proposes that shows Daniels and

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the other creators knew they had a long runway. That said,

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Peacock has struggled mightily to launch successful comedies, even from

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the producers of Office Serah sitcoms. Some examples of fel

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the Peacock sitcoms include Girls Five Eva and Brother Ford Falls.

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Daniel Feinberg, who used to do a podcast with the

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aforementioned Alan Sepenwall. I think he got to the crux

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of the reviews. He said by treating the paper business

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as antiquated and doomed, the office probably offended some people

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in that industry. Then I'm going to conjecture that's what's

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happening here with people in newspapers. They don't like a

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show about newspapers dying, and they probably have the same

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kind of problems I would have if I watched a

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show about podcasts or where I'd be like, that's not

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how it works in real life. Anyway, that's your company

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news on a Sunday, Go niners, see you to morrow.