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Callaroga Shark Media from Knickstown. Hi. I'm Johnny Mack with
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your daily comedy news. People in this area are really
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hopped up for the New York Knicks, who last week
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eliminated the Boston Celtics from the NBA playoffs. Josh Gommoman
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is a Celtics fan and wrote a funny piece for GQ.
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He wrote at nine to twenty six on a Wednesday night,
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I was at a concert in Queen's when my friend
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texted me, you know you're so loved in this world
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six exclamation points. The six exclamation points told me that
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the Boston Celtics had lost Game two of the Eastern
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Conference Semifinals, falling down zero two in the series to
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the New York Knicks. Despite having an otherwise wonderful night,
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I grew despondent as sarcastic wellness checks from my nick
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friend sent my phone into repeated spasms. My despair continued
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to increase. I've lived in New York City for nearly
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fourteen years, but I am deeply immutably from Massachusetts. I
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regularly have my beloved Celtics trash talk to me by
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both the New York City natives and other transplants too
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cowardly to have imported their native allegiances when they arrived here.
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Last year, in a turn of events that was huge
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for me personally, the Celtics won the NBA Finals. But
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now the critics are back in full force. The criticism
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is stressful for me because I'm not, by nature a
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confrontational person. I apologize to my dog when I screwed
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over her so I can climb into bed. I help
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strangers cary strollers up subway stairs. When people describe my work,
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they often refer to me as nice, even though the
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word funny is sitting right there. When basketball is involved,
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I'm an irredeemable hater. Should the Celtics lose this series
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to the next, which they did, I will suit my
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hometown squad for their effort and accomplishments, and I will
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warm myself by a blazing trash can of spite. I
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will take Solas and the fact that Lakers fans convinced
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themselves they were contenders in Lucas first season without having
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a legitimate starting center on their roster, the way your
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most delusional and tone deaf friend thinks they could win
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American Idol if Paula Abduel was still judging gone him
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and continues, I'm doing the Knicks. This is Knicks down.
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I'm sorry if I'm being honest, though I'm a little
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jealous of Knicks fans. Let me be clear here, it's
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not because of the Knicks themselves. People love to say
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the league is better when the Knicks are good. That
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is true, okay, but real quick, when is that? No?
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That is also true. The Jalen Brunson era has been
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a thrill. I tied through gritted fingers. But before that,
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the team hadn't been relevant for what a quarter of
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a century? I'll answer since nineteen ninety four. There was
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like six weeks of insanity once. But other than that, yeah,
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it's been a while. They haven't won a championship since
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nineteen seventy three. Still, deep down, I am envious of
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Knicks fans' ability to feel their feelings when the Knicks lose.
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I don't remind you that historically that happens a lot.
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They feel bad, as they should, But when the Knicks win,
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their joy radiates through the streets of New York City.
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That is absolutely true. This is Nicks Town. Josh leaves
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us with this thought. As a Massachusetts native and a hater,
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I'll settle for the eighteen rings. Ouch More basketball. Shaquille O'Neal,
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he's still doing his podcast. David Spade was the guest.
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They started talking about roasts. Shaq said, yeah, I actually
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did a roast a long time ago. I'm talking to
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Jeff about doing another one. Fans assumed Jeff means Jeff Ross.
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Shack said, nothing is off limits with me. Somethinking about
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calling my roast black and white. I'm gonna have five
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black comedians and five white comedians. David Spade floated the
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idea of Nicky Glazer. Shaq said, yeah, she'd be great.
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No actual plan there, but you'll watch. Oh, by the way,
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on Sunday, don't miss Sunday's episode. It's a holiday weekend.
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You can download it, you know, Tuesday when you go
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back to work. That's cool. But Sunday's episode is my
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official declaration of the Mount Rushmore of late night comedy.
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I've picked the four names that Sunday's episode, I've already
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recorded it. I'm very happy without came out. So don't
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miss Sunday's episode again, holiday weekend and totally get it.
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Why do you think I pre taped it, but you know,
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make sure you listen to it at some point Sunday,
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the Mount Rushmore of late night comedy. One person who
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might be on it you never know is Conan O'Brien,
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who's in the news every day now joining the cast
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of Toy Story five. He will play a new character
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called Smarty Pants. I love it already. Toy Story five
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hits Theater's June nineteenth, twenty twenty six. No plot details yet,
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but the movie is said to involve the toys dealing
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with modern day kids fascination with electronics. Ernie Hudson takes
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over the voice of Combat Carl, that character previously voiced
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by the elite Carl Weathers. Conan O'Brien confirmed the news
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on Instagram, saying these films are amazing. I can't believe this.
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He added that his role is better than that of Buzz.
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He says it's the best character of them all. Ah.
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Ricky Gervais will be honored with the twenty eight hundred
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and thirteenth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This
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will happen one week from today, Friday May thirtieth, Joining
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journalist mc Angelique Jackson on Vine Street will be Netflix
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executive Ted Sarandos and this is Spinal Tap star Christopher guest.
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They will be the guest speakers. Why I don't know either.
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Walka Fame producer Anna Martinez says the Hollywood Chamber of
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Commerce is honored to welcome comedian Ricky Gervais the Hollywood
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Walk of Fame. Finally, a star that will give snarky
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commentary every time somebody walks by. I always knew we
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needed a comedian's touch on our themed sidewalk. If you
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want to go sixteen twenty eight Vine Street, May thirtieth,
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eleven thirty am Pacific time. If you don't want to go,
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but you want to see it, they'll stream it live
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worldwide for free at walkafame dot com. Also getting a
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star Mike Sure Mike the showrunner of shows like Parks
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and rec in the Good Place. You may know him
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as Moe's from the Office. Variety caught up with him.
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Sure said, the thought crossed my mind that The Office
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was so popular they're even giving one out to the
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twenty fourth year character on the show. This didn't seem
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to be the kind of thing I was eligible for.
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I'd think of stars and the Walk of Fame as
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going to George Clooney or Julia Roberts. I didn't think
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of them going as folks with my job, but I
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like that go to writers. I'm a very pro writer guy,
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and I think there are plenty of folks who deserve
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to be honored in this way. He joked it would
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be more meaningful if they put his star near a
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chipotlet because of the amount of chipotle that we've eaten
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in writers' rooms. Sure was a writer for SNL. When
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he told his friends that he was taking a job
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at the US remake of the Office, they thought he
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was nuts, He said, everybody thought it was a terrible idea.
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Every one of my friends they was like, oh boy,
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this is going to be a disaster. We were such
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fans of the British show. Sure got to know Greg Daniels,
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who was adapting The Office, and soon became his mentor.
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Sure says I left a meeting with him and sent
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my agent and manager an email that said, I don't
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know if the show's going to work, but if he
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offers me a job, I'm going to take it because
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he's going to teach me how to write it's exactly
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what happened. Even if that show only lasted six episodes
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and have been canceled, would have been the right move.
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Greg taught me everything I know about half hour TV writing,
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how to break stories, how to write jokes, how to
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create interesting characters, and not to just run a show.
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He taught me a billion things. But the thing that's
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most lasting is best idea wins. He didn't care if
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the idea came from a staff writer, co EP, or
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an EP with twenty five years of experience. He didn't
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care whether it came from someone in catering, a best boy,
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a camera operator, or a costumer. Whatever, the best idea
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was for the moment that he's trying to solve, for
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the problem he's trying to solve, he took that idea.
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It's such a simple thing to say that, but it
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takes an extremely eagless person to actually enact it. I
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really enjoyed Sarah Silverman's new special. It is not the
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funniest thing I've ever seen. So there's basically a short
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chunk and a long chunk. The short chunk at the
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beginning seems to be joke Sarah had worked on that
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had been sitting around and that part was very, very funny,
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and then eighty five percent of it is Sarah talking
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about her parents. It's one man show ish or one
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woman show ish. I did notice she plants herself in
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front of that stand up microphone and never moves, not
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working the stage at all, just standing behind the microphone,
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telling stories about her parents. As I've been saying about
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specials lately. Really nice company. I'm not sure it was
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the funniest thing I've ever watched, but I really really
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enjoyed it as it was playing. Here's my list of
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the best of twenty twenty five so far. The top
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tier Number one by a mile is the Mark Twain
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Prize Conan O'Brien thing. Number two Tom Sigora's Bad Thought
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is hilarious. Neither of those are stand with Specials, so
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Getting to Stand Up top Stand Up Special, slash three overall.
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Bert Kreischer is lucky on Netflix. It's just funny. Bret
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Goldstein's HBO special from April, or really like that. I
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have Sarah at five Mattel Lane al Dente that just
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came out last week as well. Same no to Sarah.
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Maybe it's not hilarious, but it's a real nice company.
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I got him at six and Tim Dillon's I'm Your
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Mother at seven. That's the top tier. In the middle tier,
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these are, you know, good, but not a level like
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the others. Roy Wood Juniors Act your age, you'll find
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that on Hulu. Marsha Fear's America's Sweetheart on Netflix is okay,
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and Gabe Iglesias The Legend of Fluffy was really funny,
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It's just way too long. And Jessica Curson Special from Hulu.
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That's the middle tier. If you're in Boston, w Camal
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Bells at the wilbur tonight he tild the Boston Globe.
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I still think that professionally, everything I'm doing is built
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on the operating system of being a stand up comedian,
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even if I'm directing or hosting. I'm a stand up
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who also knows how to director, write a produce. So
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I know how to handle this difficult situation because I've
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done stand up comedy forever. I mentioned this the other day.
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He chose to honor his date at the Kennedy Center
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despite some politics happening in the world. Bell was boarding
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a plane when he learned the news. Rather than canceled it.
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He decided to go through with it. Bell told the
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Globe Trump said I had to take it over because
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it had gotten too woke. Belle's reaction, he thought it
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was woki before. Well, I'm gonna have a woke fest.
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He joked that the W in his name stands for wokie.
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It's actually Walter. I didn't know that. To me, it
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was an opportunity. I'm going to show up and look
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this right in the face. Is the National Guard going
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to be there? Is Trump going to be there? Belle's opener,
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Dwayne Kennedy took the stage and said, this is the
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last time you're going to see two black guys in
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the Kennedy Center. John Lovettz is at the wind Creek
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Events Center in Bethlehem tonight. He spoke to McCall magazine,
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which is still a thing. They were curious how John
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Lovetz describes his style of comedy. Loved said, it's about
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my personal opinions about stuff and trying to understand what's
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going on in the world. It's funny everyone thinks of
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themselves as being young and hip, and all of a sudden,
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it's not. It becomes the opposite of what you grew
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up to believe in. Some people go along with it,
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and I just can't. The show's just me talking about
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different subjects and what's going on in the world and
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how I see it. Welcome to old Man Mountain, where
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I live. John LOVETTZ. I guess it's more about things
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that happen that make me do a double take. It's
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usually something I find ridiculous, and then I start making
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fun of it. The stuff that's going on now is
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foreign to me. As a comedian, it's our job to
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make fun of everything. That's what comedians do, point out
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the absurdity. John Lovett's favorite comedians include Woody Allen, Who's
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why I became a comedian. The guys on SNL were
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all funny. Robin Williams and Charles Grodin were hysterical. Charles
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that's very dry sense of humor where you could say
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something really dumb and he would just give you this
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look and you'd die laughing. Any advice for aspiring comics
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from John LOVETTZ. The main thing for any performer is
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to be funny. The way you're funny. Use your personality
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and what's unique about you, the little stuff and the
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idiosyncrasies you do alone when you're with your best friend
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or family. Put that in your work. If you do that,
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you'll be unique, funny and people relate to it. But
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you gotta really work at it. It's not gonna be
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handed to you. What's love it's working on stand up
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John Lovett's and Dice. Is that the same audience at all?
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Apparently it is. The Veil Comedy Festival is back this weekend.
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Andy Haynes is appearing there. He likes Colorado, he says,
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I usually you said as an excuse to go skiing
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or find some water to jump in. It was asked
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what he knows about the Veil Comedy Festival, knowing except
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it's in Veil, I presume, and out today a proper
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comedy album. I'm always a fan of those. It's from
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Shanna Christmas, highly intelligent. It's out on YouTube and Amazon
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already now. An audio version via Comedy Dynamics Today. Shot
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live at an intimate jazz club in the heart of