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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi, there another busy one. I'm Johnny
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Mack with your daily comedy news, daily briefing on stand
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up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. David Letterman did
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a big piece in The New York Times with friend
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of the show Jason Zenneman. Nice get by Jay Z
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the Subhetterer. David Letterman no longer feels a sense of ownership,
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but the program's former host has harsh words for the network.
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The topic Steven Colbert's show coming to an end. By
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the way, Colbert did a ton of press. Now I'm
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holding on to all that for Colbert Week because we've
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got the Netflix Festival to talk about this week. But
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you know me and Dave, if Dave drops something, I'm
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going to jump in on it. Jason asked Dave, Hey,
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what were your first thoughts when you found out late
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show was ending? David Letterman said, disbelief. Then it seemed
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like a botched hold up. When we got the facts
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about the Ellison family, it's a great delight in referring
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to the principle as the Ellison twins. I was later
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corrected and told it's just one guy. I didn't care
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and I still don't hurt him as twins. There's also
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the old Man, Larry, is it in fact? Larry Jason said, yes, Letterman,
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as best I understand it, he invented the slinky and
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the Ellison Twins are really hill. He's spending the old
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Man's money. So that was what ran through my head
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that I wondered, what the hell have they done to
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Stephen Colbert? And I would say, farther down the list
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is your point, Wait a minute, this used to be
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my show. It's like driving by your old neighborhood and
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realizing that where he used to live, they're putting up
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an adult bookstore. They've said, time has separated me from
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the genealogy of the show. On the other hand, if
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there's outrage to be directed at management, either reel or imagined,
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I'm all in, let's go. Does Dave believe they cancel
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the Late Show over financial reasons? Dave said, they don't
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share the books with me. All of television seems to
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have been nick by digital communication and streaming platforms, and
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on and on TV may not be the money machine
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it once was. On the other hand, what about the
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humanity for Steven and the humanity of people who love
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him and the humanity for people who still enjoyed that
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eleven thirty respite. He was jumped because the people who's
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selling the network to sky Dan said, oh no, there's
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not going to be any trouble with that guy. We're
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going to take care of the show. We're just gonna
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throw it into the deal. When well, the ink on
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the check dry. I'm just going to go on record
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as saying they're lying. This is David Letterman speaking. Let
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me just add one other thing, Jason, they're lying. Weasels.
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I love that, the article said. As to comment, a
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spokesperson for CBS said unequivocally a financial decision that he
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apparently did not respond to the weasel comment or The
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Times chose not to overprint their response to the weasel comment.
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The topic switched to Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed David Letterman
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til The Times. I was recently driving around on an
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interestate and all I would see with these rental blazes
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where we could store your stuff, And I just thought
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these didn't used to exist. You used to have to
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be responsible for your own stuff. But now everywhere you
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look there's warehouses and rental facilities, and I think that's
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not a bad parallel for what's happening in network television.
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We now have this, but we're just going to lease
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it to Byron Allen and you'll make penny us on
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every dollar or whatever he's making. But you know, everything
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changes in life as people of a certain age understand
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both good and bad. He's been more wildly successful than
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any hundred of us. I periodically talk to him, and
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neither he nor I understand how he became a billionaire.
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God bless him. Tell let's seeb to hell with skydancewer
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to help with the Winslow Twins or whoever the hell
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these guys are. But Byron he'll still be providing comedy
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in that time period. I think that's a valuable bit
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of resolution. Here, hold on to a little bit more
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of that for next week. Normally this would be your
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top story. Louis c K gets standing ovation at raunchy
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comeback show during Netflix Comedy Festival. This from the Hollywood Reporter.
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He not so canceled. Louis c K took the stage
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in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. By the way, if
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you keep noticing, I keep saying Los Angeles that's a
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lettermanism than I am absolutely appropriating. The Hollywood Reporter says
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the Hollywood Bowl was seventy five percent full, mostly of
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male fans in their twenties and thirties who came to
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life when Louis Cik started. After four opening acts, Louis
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apparently never addressed the misconduct allegations. Are they allegations? Quoting
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the hollyd Reporter, the women alleged that he masturbated in
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front of them or on the phone with him. C
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K later admitted to the behavior unquote, So that's not
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an allegation if he admitted to it, right, not really
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to the point maybe, but they're not allegations. If you
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said I did it, John, we're leging that you. Hosted
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Daily Comedy News Today, TK open up about his dating life,
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revealing he has a girlfriend and believes in dating women
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his own age. He quote from CK is, if you
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date young women, there's pressure sexually. But the women in
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my age, I'm like, do you wanna, you know, do stuff?
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She's like nah, And I'm like, yeah, good, And if
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you do, there's no condoms. He later mused, I think
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it's crazy that it's legal for me to date eighteen
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year old. That's fed up. That's forty years difference. You
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shouldn't have sex with somebody if the years between you
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would be the age of a woman who can't get
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pregnant naturally. BK got a standing ovation at the end
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of the set. He said, that was my last show,
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last time telling those jokes, and I'm really happy I
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got to tell them to you. Thank you very much
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for coming. Thank you to Netflix. I really appreciate the
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gig I did see on Threads. One of the comedian
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whose name gets dragged into the K news cycle said,
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please stop asking her about it. So I'm not going
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to say her name, nor am I going to ask
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her about it. But I did feel bad for her.
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She said, the press keeps reaching out to her. He
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has me blocked on Twitter for some reason. I think
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I must have used her name in a headline, not
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blocked by her on Threads. Whatever beside hers headline, what
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Louis K's Netflix is a joke comeback says about the
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sad state of our culture. In twenty twenty six, Sean
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McCarthy writes Louis c K didn't received consent from many
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of the women he exposed themselves to over the years,
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and yet Netflix eagerly consented not only to showcase the
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comedian at the Hollywood Bull but also to prevent his
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forthcoming a ridiculous special on the streaming platform. Is anyone
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actually surprised but this turn of events in twenty twenty six.
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Before you come at me, please know that my disappointment
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at this point is no longer so much at Louis c.
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K as it is with the system. It's the system
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that continues to fail us, even more now than a
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comedy hero may have failed you or me in the
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recent past. It's giving down. The media has also failed us,
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whether by negligence or laziness. In reports of his new
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Netflix deal in Hollywood Ball, Performance, Variety claims he quotes
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mostly disappeared from the public eye for a few years
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before returning unquote, while the Holly Reporter said his new
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Netflix deal quote here's to mark a churning point for
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the comedian who'd been exiled from many mainstream comedy spaces unquote.
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The side of writes for Netflix says, with so many
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others in our capitalist society, there's no moral code, only
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a look at the financial bottom line, and only then
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in terms of how decisions impact the c suite and
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the shareholders, not the subscribers, although the press releases will
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tout how subscribers vote with their views. And if Dave
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Chappelle and Ricky Gervais could generate such high ratings while
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trolling us by tracking in transphobia, then why should they
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leave the potential profits of a new Louis c K
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special off the platform? But again, it's not just about
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c K. Christalia remains disgraced fallowing revelations of his improprieties
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with underage fans, writes to Cider, and yet several of
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his specials are back on Netflix now. Pucker Carlson started
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a book in print and probably gave a deal to
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Russell Brands giving ahead. C K couldn't apologize last year,
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but he could promote his novel with Bill marn Bank
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riches from the Saudi royal family by performing at the
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Rion Comedy Festival, and he could write this new hour
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of material that his ending his tour with in Hollywood
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and filming for Netflix. Might the real amends come then
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or thereafter giving a head Again, What matters now and
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still is whether or not he can make an honest
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amends to the people he's directly harmed. Whether or not
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they accept his efforts is beside the point. For us
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and for him, all the noise around it is just ridiculous.
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Dave Chappelle brought Kanye West on stage. A source tells TMZ.
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This happened at the Comedy Store. Kanye did not perform,
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but made a quick appearance at the end of the night.
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Dave had already done a full set. He brought Kanye
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out until the crowd Kanye West has lost more money
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than I've ever made, DMZ says. The crowd cheer did
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Kanye loudly. He got a full standing ovation and as
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he joined Dave. The lineup that night was Shane Gillis,
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Chris Rock, and Louis c k. That's not a bad
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show there, Dave Chappelle at a club. The roast of
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Kevin Hart is Sunday night. Now. I was on the
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Netflix site on Wood's Day Thursday, Wednesday morning. Even the
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Netflix site had no information about who's on. And I
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don't mean like there was an absence of information. They
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even had the phrase like stay tuned, We'll let you
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know here. I should check that hold on. Okay, it
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is ten twenty on Wednesday, and this page was update
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on May fifth, sixteen hours ago. Says the time stamp,
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and there's some FAQs. I'm on Netflix dot com, Slash
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to them, Slash Features, Slash the Hyphen, Roast, Hyphen of
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Kevin Hart, Love and Netflix the FAQs. What time is
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the Roast of Kevin Heart? The Rest of Kevin Hart
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streams live globally on Netflix on Sunday May tenth at
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five West eighth East. What's the lineup for the Roast
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of Kevin Hart? Now? This is Netflix's site. So far,
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the only confirmed stars to appear are Heart and Gillis,
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but be sure to check back on TODAM for updates
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as the event gets closer. That's a little weird, right
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that we don't know who's performing. I was catching up
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on Funny AF. I didn't watch any of the live
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events yet because I'm kind of a week behind, and
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I'm actually enjoying it as a comedy competition. It's the
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good version of it, so I didn't want to skip ahead.
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I did see some people saying during the semi finals
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on Monday night that Chris Rock appeared not into it
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at all. Speaking of Kevin Hart. TMZ acquired video of
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the Rock being stopped by the police for having a
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tinted window on his car. Paparazzi caught Kevin Hart walking
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by Miami's car Bone Beach Club. Kevin Hart was asked
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if he was responsible for calling the cops on the Rock.
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Kevin Hart said, was I either one that called the
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cops on the Rock? No, but I would. I often
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would because he's a piece of crap. That's why we'll
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circle back to Netflexi in a bit. Some other stuff
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in the news. Zach alifan Akis has criticized comedian podcasters
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who have interviewed Donald Trump without challenging Donald Trump. We
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reminded that Donald Trump has appeared on podcasts including The
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Joe Er of a Experience Andrew Schultz. The O. Vaughn
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Zach told Conan O'Brien, all the podcasters that have had
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the President on now, they don't do the court jester.
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They don't do it. They suck up to him. That's
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not the job of a comedian. You are to challenge,
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you are to make uncomfortable. You're not to sit there
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and fake laugh. That is not the job of the
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court jester period. Meanwhile, Andrew Schultz and Charlemagne the God
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not Seeing I too. I This happened on the Brilliant
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Idiots podcast. Darlamagine said the brutality of Trump's legal immigration
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crackdown could be a motivating factor for someone wanting to
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do See I don't need to visit from men in
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sunglasses to do something really bad to a famous person
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who used to host a game show on NBC. Schultz said,
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are you saying was justified because of that? Charlemagne said no, no.
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Charla Maaine said, we have to deal with the reality
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that some of Trump's policies have hurt people so much
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that some folks are willing to risk at all. Schultz said, well,
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now you're justifying it, Charlotmagne, I'm not justifying. It's just
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a reality you have to deal with. I think it
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would be remiss not to take a step back and
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not just of conversations about violent rhetoric. Let's just talk
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about violent policies that people have been watching over the
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last year and a half. I know a lot of
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people have been hurt by those policies, and some of
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those people are willing to risk at all because to
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your point earlier, they have nothing to lose Andrew Schultz,
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who on June twenty third, twenty twenty five, got a
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headline from The New York Times where they wrote, Andrew
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Schultz podcast bro might be America's foremost political journalist. I
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have to keep looking back at this to make sure
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that this is not the onion. This is a real
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thing that the New York Times printed somehow Anyway, the