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His John again. So what this is. This is the
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normal episode for Friday morning. I had recorded this before
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any of the Kimmel news broke. So what I often
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pretay Friday during the fall because I teach a class
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on Thursday morning. It just makes my life easier, and
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my rule is and if something happens, I'll just do
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a bonus episode. So that's exactly what's going on. In
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case you missed it. Yesterday afternoon, sometime a little before
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four pm Eastern, I dropped a bonus episode where I
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talked about some Kimmel stuff, and then a little while
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after I dropped a second bonus episode that was a
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crossover with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast. So we
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talked for about an hour about Jimmy Kimmel. This that
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you're about to hear is the normal Friday episode, and
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then I'll come back this afternoon and do another Kimmel bonus.
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So here's regular Friday.
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Calioka Shark Media.
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I understand you're not supposed to tell a story at
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the start of the podcast. I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily coming news, but I gotta find my fastball here.
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You know, when you come down off an adrenaline rush.
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I just had a caper, and as I always say
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in my family, I'll take a caper over a crisis.
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So long story medium, the dog doug a hole under
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the fence and got out. I found out because the
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other dog was crying. I couldn't find the dog. Was
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driving around doing loops and loops. About a half hour in,
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I ran into local PD and I'm like, hey, you
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happen to see a dog running around? He hadn't, but
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he's very friendly and he's like, I'll get the guys
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in on it. So basically, I live in a small
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town and thank you local police department. They were all
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super friendly, super helpful. So I was doing a loop,
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but I came back to my house and they had
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found the dog, and there's like three police SUVs in
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front of my house, all parked haphazardly. I'm sure the
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neighbors thought somebody was murdered. It did not look good
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at all. It looked like some serious stuff went down.
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But I'm coming off that adrenaline rush now, so I
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gotta figure this out. A week or so ago, before
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all the news with the Emmys and and everything else
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that's been going on, in the world. Vulture got David
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Letterman to sit down a very very interesting article, and
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I'm gonna pick away at it. Over the next few
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days and weeks, they started talking about Letterman's ten am show,
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Remember that one. I barely remember it. I remember it
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being a failure, and I've only seen a few clips
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of it. I wish that thing would get released. I'd
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love to watch it, Letterman said, looking at it now
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with age, that was a fascinating life experience. I left
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Indiana thinking everything that's wrong with television and TV comedy.
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I have the solution, and as soon as I get there,
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hang on, if you folks can wait it out another
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year or two, I will solve everything that's wrong with
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comedy on television. And we dropped it down I think
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at ten in the morning or nine in the morning
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across the NBC television network, and the producer of the
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show quit the friday before it was to go on
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the air because he didn't get it. We didn't get him.
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We locked heads. It was nothing but screaming fights. We
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had no other guidance, no north Star except you know what,
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We're sick of all these game shows. Just wait to
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get a look at us, And boy, so was that
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a huge lesson for me? I realized, Yeah, you don't
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really know what you're talking about. And then like a
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month and a half, sixteen weeks, whatever it was, we're gone,
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and we completely blew up the daytime network television schedule
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at NBC. The fact that they were able to keep
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me around and that year of not having anywhere to
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go except comedy clubs was a sad, sad experience for
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me because in show business, as with life, you get
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your one shot and if it doesn't work, you go
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to the end of the line, and who knows how
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long that line is. So against my own ego, against
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my own bitter judgment, we had to sit down and
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it was a learning process, but boy was it tough.
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It was really tough because just the ego involved with
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the wait until you get to look at us was
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so misguided. Vulture points out, if you've seen clips of
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the morning program, a lot of the DNA of Late
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Night was there, including jokes about New York and segments
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like small town News. They were curious how Dave decided
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what to keep and what to change for Late Night.
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Dave said, well, it was interesting because of the failure
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of the daytime show and the restrictions that were placed
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on us in order to protect our relationship with the
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Tonight show. It was nothing punitive, but there were certain restrictions.
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No monologue, no big orchestra. We couldn't book the same
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guests they were booking. All those things actually worked in
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our favor. We had a tremendous group of musicians. I
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wasn't carrying a Johnny Carson monologue for ourselves, and the
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people he was booking would probably have no interest to
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us at that time. That'll change, of course, but that
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helped us. Now. The other side of this, every second
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I was on the air, is waiting to get the
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hook because would come and gone so quickly, and the
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result of it was just darkness for a year. I
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feared that some I'm torn between the two things. It
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didn't work the first time. We have reasons now alter
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the show or to keep it the same way. But
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what the hell happens if this goes away? So the
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first two or three months, I think we're all nervous
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about the outcome, But then again, you have to remember
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those days there was nothing on opposite us, so no
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offense you could have had a show that would have
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been successful. Al dot Com Alabama dot Com caught up
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with Mark Norman. They were curious about his appearances on
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The Joe Rogan Experience. Always a good phrase to say
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in full for the Apple podcast transcripts. That's right, I said,
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Joe Rogan Experience, Mark Norman. What's something interesting behind the
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scenes of the Joe Rogan Experience. Norman said, Well, famously,
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Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience turns down a
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lot of people. He actually wants to talk to you.
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He doesn't want to have a guy on because he's
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promoting a movie, you know. So I think that show's
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in the show, which of course is called what That's right,
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the Joe Rogan Experience. Whether you watch The Joe Rogan
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Experience or not, I know it's a very divisive topic
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found with fastball, but if you watch it, it's pretty genuine.
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Watch No, it's a podcast. We listen to podcasts, Mark Norman,
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we don't watch them. If Joe Rogan doesn't think it's funny,
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he won't laugh, which is painful for comedian usually. But
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if he thinks it's funny to laugh, if he thinks
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it's interesting, he'll divulge. If he doesn't, he'll move on.
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And it's the opposite of a guy like Jimmy Fallon,
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who's a sweet guy. But I mean, let's be honest,
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he's falling over slapping the desk over a mediocre joke,
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you know. Mark Norman was asked about the future of
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Late Night Company. Mark Norman said, I think there's always
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gonna be talk shows. They're just different formats. It's kind
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of like there's always gonna be a Jenner, but one
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day it's Bruce, the next day it's Caitlin. Things just change.
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That's a funny line. And I think podcasts have filled
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in the gap of talk shows. And so I did
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all the talk shows and those that were relevant and
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those that became a little more irrelevant. So then you go,
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what's relevant. Let me get on Bad Friends with Andrew
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Santino and Bobby Lee, or this past Weekend with Theo
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Vaughn or whatever the pod de jour. So it's just
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morphs it. In five years, it'll probably be a new thing.
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Thanks SEO friends, Caleb Heron has a special out on
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most absurd contradictions with his signature charm and razor sharp wits.
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I think I've pointed this out in the past. That's
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the description for every comedy special copywriters. Step it up.
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You can't just go oh yeah, you know, observations on
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things and he's funny, Yeah, we know. Thirty year old
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here On deploys's generational Midwestern wisdom to solve most of
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the world's problems politics, internet trolls, and learning that we're
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not that different from our parents. See that's good copy.
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That was good job there.
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All right.
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I bounced this yesterday. The Toronto Comedy Festival actually kicked
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off Thursday night, But if you listened to yesterday's show,
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I kind of landed in a soft place and was like,
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you should get out now, and I got up then.
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Plus the festival goes quite some time. It goes until
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the twenty seventh. Comedians appearing include Gave Iglesias, Sarah Millikan,
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Maria Bamford Out Madrigal Big, Jay Okerson, and Ron Funches.
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Now also mentioned here Gina Sheer. If you heard yesterday show,
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she had some comments about Charlie Kirk. So we'll see
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how that all shakes out. Well, let's see who's there tonight.
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Sarah Millican at seven, Ron Funches at seven, Jay Jorden seven,
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zarn A garg at seven, Safari Time live taping at seven,
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the JFL Live Sessions at seven, Dual Citizens at seven,
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Gave Iglesias at eight, John Mosten special taping at eight thirty,
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Britney Schmid at nine, more Sapory Time, more John Mosten,
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the Alternative Show with James Adomio and at eleven at
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midnight Mannus at eleven thirty. All right, if we were
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there tonight, just working backwards a Domian doing an all
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show at eleven o'clock, if I could stay awake that long, yeah, absolutely,
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Like Gabe is good, but we know what Gabe does.
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That's a bad use of the festival. The time I
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did the Toronto Comedy Festival is one of my favorites
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because you can really really bar hop in Toronto, and
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that is the best way to do things. I remember
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one time I saw Ryan Bellville and Kate River Wilson
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in a bar somewhere. They were just fantastic. So if
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you're up at the Toronto Festival, don't go see the
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people you've heard of. Do some smaller things. I mean,
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you've heard of James Adomian, but it's an all show.
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And for an early show, let's see Jay Jorden. We
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could do what was the other one? Funches Sarah Milliken?
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Maybe do Sarah at seven o'clock just or something different.
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Can't stop talking about the Emmys. Amy Poehler weighed in
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her guest Benedict Cumberbatch, who said, if you can comedy,
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you can do anything. I really believe that. Amy said,
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of course, you don't have to tell me, babe. Every
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single year the Oscars, everybody in comedy gets blanked and
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all the serious people get up and except it's some
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hot bs, because comedy's not easy. And I gotta tell
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you both you and Olivia Coleman can do both. Yeah.
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I saw a bunch of people mentioning lately like there's
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no best comedic actor. One person who made that point
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is Jim Jeffries on his recent special Shockingly. I watched
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some comedy specials the other night. I started out with
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my friend Larry the Cable Guy, his special on Amazon.
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It's fine. It's Larry doing what Larry does. I don't
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think Larry would tell you I'm trying to do what
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Mark Maron did in his last special. It's Larry being Larry,
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just up there checking jokes. I'll tell you the punch
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line of one, but I won't tell you the setup
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so he won't see it coming. But his no fry
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zone joke is a real good joke. I did notice
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the theater was a little smaller than expected, so it's
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not quite cozy, but it doesn't feel like one of
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those big giant specials. But Larry absolutely should watch that.
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Switched over to Andrew Santino, No, he's in. I think
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it was the Chicago Theater, which is a big, proper
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theater where you know, it's kind of what you're used
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to a special looking like. And I was watching and
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it was fine, and then all of a sudden it
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clicked into me two things. One Santina was just reciting
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the material. I noticed this a lot of times with
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stand up, and I get that the whole thing is
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a performance. I get that the whole thing is memorized,
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but sometimes when you're watching someone, you can tell that
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they're surfing the crowd and kind of feeling the moment.
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Santino was doing his act, not reacting at all to
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anything coming back from the audience. He was just like,
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and now I say these words he told them. Well,
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but I think he's getting by on charisma. I think
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Andrew Santino's charisma is better than the material in this special.
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But it's very watchable. People will like it, and I'm
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a comedy snob, I know that. And then I switched
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over to Jim Jeffery's Two Limb Policy, which is the
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second best special of the year behind Maren if we
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don't include things like the Conan thing, very very funny
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start to finish. Jim is on the surfboard. He's riding
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it well. At one point he does react to the
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crowd reacting to him. I loved Jim Jeffrey special, So
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make that the next one that you watch that will