Aug. 9, 2024

Kill Tony live at MSG, Nikki Glaser Reacts to Taylor Swift Concert Cancellation PLUS new Adam Sandler special!

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode, host Johnny Mac excitedly discusses several top comedy stories. Highlights include the trailer for Adam Sandler's new stand-up special on Netflix, a look at the trailer for the new 'Saturday Night' movie featuring iconic SNL cast members, and Kill Tony's live show at Madison Square Garden. Other stories cover Nikki Glaser's reaction to Taylor Swift's concert cancellation due to a terror threat, Steve Martin declining an SNL offer, and Kelsey Cook's special moving from YouTube to Hulu. Additionally, former SNL cast members are doing a live reading of 'Star Wars: Episode II', and Tenacious D is back on track. The episode also touches on Kevin Nealon's comedy outlook and anecdotes, and updates on Brett Goldstein and James Austin Johnson's health issues affecting their performances.

00:00 Introduction and Excitement for Today's Show
00:21 Adam Sandler's New Stand-Up Special
01:40 Saturday Night Movie Trailer Breakdown
03:15 Kill Tony Live at Madison Square Garden
03:48 Nikki Glaser Reacts to Taylor Swift Concert Cancellation
05:14 Steve Martin Declines SNL Role
05:46 Kelsey Cook's Special Moves to Hulu
07:17 Jack Black and Tenacious D's Return
08:26 Podcast Updates and Upcoming Episodes
10:21 Kevin Nealon's Comedy and SNL Memories
12:11 Star Wars Live Reading Event

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Callaroga Shark Media. Oh Man, oh Man, oh Man, I

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can't wait to do today's show. Hello. I'm Johnny Mack

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with your daily Comedy News. I could not wait to

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talk to you guys. There's like five six stories that

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could be the top story, but let's start here. New

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Adam Sandler stand up Special. Oh my goodness, can't wait.

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Netflix released the trailer for Adam Sandler Love You, his

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first stand up special since twenty eighteen, remember that one.

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I want to play the trailer for you, but mister

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Sandler apparently he can't go more than five seconds without

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saying something naughty, so I'm not going to do that.

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I did share it in the Facebook group, which is

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Daily Company News Podcast group, and boy, I'll tell you,

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Adam Sandler just as funny as he's ever been. In

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the teaser, Sandler says, I talk a lot and then

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I sing, and then we do a bunch of stuff.

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So all right, here it goes, and yeah, that's pretty

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much what Adam's act is and what the trailer. He

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talks a lot and then he sings and does a

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bunch of crap. Yep, I agree. In the trailer, Adam

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Sandler serenades the crowd with a riff of his guitar.

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Fans erupt in cheers. He then announces the song he's

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about to play was written about a man sitting in

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the audience. We then see a dog join him on stage.

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Mister Sandler says, what the f is happening? That's why

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I can't play the trailer for you. Try and keep

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it clean over here unless Alex Bennet's the guest. The

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trailer also features clips of Adam Sandler making funny faces,

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cracking jokes I hope so during a comedy special, and

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telling the crowd I love you before diving into another bit. Boy,

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this is exciting. Adam Sandler, Love You, Tuesday, August twenty

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seventh on Netflix. Another thing that could have been the

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top story, the trailer for the Saturday Night Movie is out.

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It looks great. I played this thing and I was like, oh,

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I want to see this. It looks fantastic. The casting

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in particular looks really on point. Vulture went through it

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and wrote down who played who? All right, Gabriel LaBelle

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as Lorne Michaels to me felt like Lorne Michaels without

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doing Lorne Michaels by way of Mike Myers, by way

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of Doctor Evil. You know the lorn Michael's impression. Everyone does,

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but this did it, and if you look at them

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side by side, it's really good physical casting. I won't

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read everybody. Matt Wood is John Belushi. You see Belushi

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in the background on the trailer, and just to the eyes,

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look good. Dylan O'Brien as Dan Ackroyd also caught my

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eye on the trailer and looked like a really good Ackroyd.

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Corey Michael Smith as Chevy Chase. There's some Chase clips

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in the trailer. Same note. Ellen Hunt as Gilda Radner,

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whoever did the costuming for this movie should get an oscar.

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Is there an oscar for costuming? If not, let's create

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one and give it to them. Matthew Reese as George

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Carlin looked good enough, said some things that Carlin would say,

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but to me sounded like Matthew Reese. Maybe I'm too

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close to all this, so I guess he's not really

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doing a Carlin impression there. My note would have been

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to get a little more gravel e. I missed this one. JK.

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Simmons is Milton Burrele. Why Nicholas bron plays both Jim

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Henson and Andy Kaufman. I did catch the Kaufman clip

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in the background, Nicholas Braun if you don't recognize the

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name is cousin Greg from Succession. I would play the

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trailer for you, but it's all like quick visual things

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and just won't make sense here. But that is super exciting.

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Another thing that could have been the top story of

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the day kill Tony live tonight in Madison Square Garden

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and not like the theater at this is Madison Square Garden.

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Madison Square Garden, where like the Knicks play and the

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Rolling Stones play two shows, kill Tony Madison Square Gordon.

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Last time I looked, seats were available. That is not

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a dig, It's just a thing. The article I'm cripping

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off's as Night one price is started fifty six seventy five.

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The Saturday Night show is more sold out tickets starting

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at three hundred and thirty eight dollars. Wow. Also could

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have been a top story. Nicki Glazer reacted when she

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found out Taylor Swift had to cancel her Vienna concerts

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in response to a terror threat. Did you hear this news?

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Police warded an Isis plot to attack one of Taylor

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Swift's concerts. Nicki Glazer appears distraught in one image uploaded

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to her Instagram story, in which she shared Austrian promoter

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Barracuda Music and Taylor Nation's statement confirming the cancelation. She

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covered her face with her hands, and a follow up

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post she explained she had endured a thirty two hour

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layover in Washington, d C. Before heading to Vienna for

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the show. Nicki and her sister Lauren recorded a video

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of themselves singing a song they made up inspired by

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the past few hours, to the tune of Taylor Swift's

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Cruel Summer. The lyrics go, we were stuck at an

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airport gate on our way to Vienna, on a flight

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that was late, planning outfits and singing songs. We had

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no idea how things could go wrong. Then we get

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a text from our mom the shows have been canceled

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from a threat from a bomb, and we screamed in

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a Hudson News what the hell do I do with

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these bleeping sparkly shoes. I dyed my hair pink for nothing.

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We're eft. This is pretty scary, as the news goes

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the suspects plans, including driving a car into groups of

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Swifties expected to gather outside the venue before tacking with

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machetes and knives. Security officials said the nineteen year old

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fully confessed to his plans to kill as many people

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as possible outside the concert venue. Pull the show back

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to comedy, John all Right, nothing funny, there is staying topical.

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Steve Martin will not play Minnesota Governor Tim Walls on

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Saturday Night Live. Steve Martin, who's seventy eight now till

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the L eight Times, he turned down an offer from

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Lourene Michaels. He said Lauren called him on Wednesday to

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offer him the deal. Steve told The Times, I wanted

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to say no, and by the way, he wanted me

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to say no. I said, Lauren, I'm not an impressionist.

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You need somebody who can really nail the guy. I

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was picked because I have gray hair and glasses. Paul

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Sheer tweeted, call me crazy, but I think one of

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the SNL cast members should play Tim Walls. This is interesting.

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Kelsey Cook had released her special The Hustler on YouTube

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got three million views, but now it's going to Hulu.

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So you have been able to watch it, but now

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you get too pay to watch it. But I guess

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you get to pay it watch it without the commercials.

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I don't know. Maybe if you have the bad Hulu

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tier you'll get commercials. Dorg it interesting move. It'll get

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her more eyeballs, for sure. I haven't heard of a

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special going from YouTube to a streamer, so this is interesting,

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Kelsey said. My whole life, my parents would stand me

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on a stool so i'd be tall enough to see

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the top of the foosball table. Then they'd put their

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hands on my hands and teach me how to shoot it.

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It's the reason I exist, which is really sad, but

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I'm grateful to foosball. Comedy is competing against yourself, and

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I feel like that with foosball. Obviously you're playing against

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somebody else, but I like sports where if something goes wrong,

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you don't have other people to blame to really on

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you to get better and do your best. So it's

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similar to comedy in that way. I'm smiling to myself.

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I had so much fun playing volleyball once the night.

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Did we win? No, we never win. I'm picturing my

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late mother asking me, did we win. I would have

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this exchange every week, did you guys win? No? And

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she would laugh and say you never win and no,

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I can't even tell you the last time we won

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a game. Did I mention them? In my mid fifties,

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Kelsey cooks It's funny. If you think of meditative activity,

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you don't think of a beer covered foosball table in

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the back of a bar. But if you're playing at

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a higher level, you can barely blink because the ball

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is moving so fast. You have to be locked in

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the entire game. It's the same with stand up. You

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can't just be like, hey, guys, can you just do

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your own thing for a few minutes while I check

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my phone. You're locked in the whole time. All right?

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Jack Black has had a minute to see which way

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the wind is blowing, and the wind is now blowing

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in the other direction, So Tenacious D is back. You

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may recall that the other TENACIOUSD member, Kyle Gass, said

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something jerky after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt. At

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that time. Jack Black immediately was like all future creative

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plans for Tenacious D you're on hold. As a backlash

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to the joke. But now I love Tenacious D. We

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had to take a break, but I love the D.

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Everybody takes a break sometimes. He also announced this as

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he happens to be promoting the new film border Lands,

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which apparently is really terrible funny how that all happens.

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So I'm promoting a movie and Tenacious D is back,

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and everybody's kind of moved on from the Trump assassination,

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which was I don't know, five six political stories ago.

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So yeah, whatever, Tenacious D's back. Way to hold of

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your principles, Jack Black. At the premiere of Borderlines, Jack said,

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we're friends. That hasn't changed. These things take time sometimes,

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and we'll be back when it feels right. Borderlands, by

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the way, is a live adaptation of the video game

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of the same name, featuring Jack Black voicing a wise

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cracking robot. Also in this movie Kate Blanchette and Kevin

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Hart Never Afraid to work. Oh let me take a

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breath here to tell you, I wanted to jump right

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in because there were so many big stories. It's interesting

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doing the podcast. This was, except for today's show, a

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pretty slow week. You know, you could sometimes tell if

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the episodes are a little shorter than other days and

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if you pay a lot of attention by what stories

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I put in there. But today's very newsy. The rest

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of today's podcast very newsy, So I just want to

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point out Sunday's podcast is also very newsy. I've been

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pretty open that I often pretape the weekends, and you know,

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sometimes those stories are a little more femeral and not

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really tied to the news on a particular Saturday or Sunday.

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But this Sunday is a lot of stuff, some newsy

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stuff about Bill Bird that's in there that I just

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couldn't get to today. There's so much going on now.

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One thing I can't get today there is an article

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in the Hollyood Reporter about the comedy industry and how

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the streamers are bidding for comedy. I have a lot

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to say about it. I've already recorded that section and

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it is quite lengthy, so I'm holding that for Sunday's podcast.

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But again, Sunday's podcast, very robust, very very very interesting

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article on the Holivd Reporter, So make sure you catch

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Sunday's episode. Huh. Tomorrow's show is a preview of the

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Columbus Comedy Festival. I'm speaking with Walker Evans, who's putting

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it together. If you're into the business of all this

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and how a festival gets put together, pretty good. And

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I came away being very impressed by Walker Evans' comedy knowledge.

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He's not just some dude who's like, Hey, let's put

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on a festival and make some bucks. He knows his stuff.

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So that's Tomorrow, and then a lot of stuff spilled

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over into Sunday, which is a more robust episode than

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sometimes a Sunday episode might be. I'm also trying to

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be better about reminding you guys. I also host a

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podcast called five Good News Stories. It comes out three

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days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and there's smile stories,

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happy stories, you know, kind of what Krazinski was doing

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during the pandemic, only good news. So that's called five

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Good News Stories. The number five good News Stories. If

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you're in Pittsburgh today, so as Kevin Nalan, He's appearing

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at City Winery for three shows. Kevin tells a Pittsburgh

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City Paper, my act is always evolving, and I'm always

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trying to look for new avenues of comedy and originality.

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It's also conversational and not in your face kind of

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stand up comedy or renting. It's kind of a red

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wine comedy. I see and you're at City Winery. I

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see what you did there. Neilan published a book in

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twenty twenty two called I Exaggerate My Brushes with Fame,

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a collection of full color characteratures and humorous personal anecdotes.

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He says, it's a hardback, it's not a coffee table book.

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You can put it on your coffee table if you

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want to. He said, I wanted to get approval just

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as a courtesy from some of the people I pay,

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and Steve Martin was fine with it. Jim Carrey was

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fine with it. I did one of Matt LeBlanc and

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he texted me back, I'm honored. I think Kevin was

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asked about SNL fifty. A lot of people will be

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asking anyone associated with SNL. We're going to talk a

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lot about SNL fifty on the next year. Kevin says,

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it's amazing that it's fifty years coming up. I can

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vividly remember walking the lobby of thirty Rock and getting

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off the elevator and everything, even where my papers were

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placed on my desk. I do still keep in contact

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with Adam Sandler, David Spade, Dana Carvey, and Rob Schneider.

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And here's a good story, if it's even true. He

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one time filled a commercial with professional golfer Arnold Palmer.

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Kevin says, I hang out with him for two weeks

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and chat out a lot, and we became good buddies.

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We went into his clubhouse every day and I sat

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at his personal table with him. One day, Arnold Palmer

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ordered the drink Arnold Palmer, which you may know is

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a mix of iced tea and lemonade. The server asked

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me what I want, and I said Kevin Nielan. Arnold asked,

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what's a Kevin Nielan. Kevin Neilan says, it's exactly like

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an Arnold Palmer, but a little taller and better looking. See.

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I should get out there, but there's a lot of

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news today. I can't bump these stories. I have to

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tell you about this one now. This event is happening

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tomorrow night, but I tell it I've got Walker Evans tomorrow,

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so this has to go now. Former SNL cast members

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Loreene Newman and Bobby moynihan are joining James Austin Johnson

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in a live staged reading of Star Wars episode two

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Attack of the Clones. They said Dynasty Typewriter in La

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Saturday Night, but there are also live stream tickets. It

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is called the Great Camino Caper, a live reading of

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Attack of the Clones. The event is being staged by

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the George Lucas Talk Show, which is wonderful if you've

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never seen that, and the Star Wars Minute podcast. The

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reading follows a previous live reading from the same team

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who did the Phantom Menace back in May. So I

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guess that answers My question? Is lucasfilm okay with this?

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So the lawyer's okay with this? Did you guys clear this?

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Apparently the yes, yes, and yes, because if they did

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the Phantom Medicine May and nobody called, they're doing this one. Interestingly,

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Bobby moynihan has lent his voice to several Star Wars projects,

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including Resistance and Legos, Star Wars Rebuild the Galaxy. Lorraine

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Newman voiced a character in the twenty eleven video game

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Star Wars The Old Republic Who Knew? Also in the

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cast actor Haley Joel Osmond, Seth Green, and Matt Gourley

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from Conan's podcast Now. However, remember the asterisk I dropped.

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James Austin Johnson announced via Instagram that he's home bound

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for the next couple days. He had to cancel a

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couple shows. He says, my doctor doesn't want me to

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fly until it passes, hopefully soon. What passes a kidney stone?

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I had a horrible kidney stone once. I can't explain

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You've heard people, says, I can't explain how painful it was. No,

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not the one it passes part that's nothing. Just when

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it's clogging up your system. The pain. If you had

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said to me, Hey, I have an axe and going

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to put it in your skull, I would have been like, yeah, cool.

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It was like it was like the Walking Dead, like

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just oh, I'm turning into a zombie. I can't take

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this pain anymore. It was awful. James says. It's truly

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a roller coaster of pain and meds. Sometimes it feels

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like bad constant patient. Sometimes it feels like I've been

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sabered in the gut. I remember I had so much

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pain that I was sitting on the bathroom floor puking

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into the toilet from the pain, and the puking made

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the pain go away, and I just closed my eyes

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and fell asleep on the toilet, but it was so

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bad I can't James, I'm so sorry. I understand your pain. However,

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he said his doctor expects him to be better by

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the time of the attack of the Clone show, so

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we'll see if he shows up on Saturday. And he's

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also supposed to appear at LA's logo at the Coronet

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on August twelfth with very special guests. Also on the end,

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Brett Goldstein he had to cancel some shows. Does he

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have kidney stones, No, he has the flu, which he

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says affected his voice. In a statement, Brett Goldstein says,

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the doctor has told me I won't be able to

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get through the shows this weekend, and annoyingly, I need

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my voice to do stand up comedy. I should have

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trained as a mime. I'd hate to put on a

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lackluster show where my voice stops working. I have no

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energy and you all deserve better than that. I'm truly

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sorry to have to cancel, and I don't take for

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granted for a second that you bought tickets and made plans.

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It means a lot to me. I was excited to

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be there with you. If you had tickets for the

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Saturday show that is now rescheduled for Friday, August twenty third.

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If you had Sunday, you can go to the ten

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pm show on August twenty third. If you can't make either,

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you will get a refund. In a statement, Brett said,

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it's not goodbye, it's seeing a couple weeks when I'm

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all better. Please forgive me. And if you can't make

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the new dates, you will get a refund. And that

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is your comedy news for today. Pretty robust for a

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summer Friday. Huh check the timestamp. Yeah, this was a

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long one, all right, Tomorrow, Walker Evans Sunday. Pretty robust

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for a Sunday. And I can tell you already Monday

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is good because I've been writing a bunch of these.

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And if you're driving cross country this weekend and you

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find yourself in the middle of the desert listening to

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daily comedy news, I appreciate you. See tomorrow,