June 26, 2025

Marc Maron goes off PLUS Shane Gillis to host ESPYs

Show Notes
Transcript

Highlights include Marc Maron's critical comments on American authoritarianism, a synopsis of Andrew Schulz's controversial New York Times piece, and the announcement of Marin's new HBO Max special. Shane Gillis will host the 2025 ESPY Awards, and Nate Brize is the focus of a new podcast episode, 'Comedy Means Business.' Margaret Cho shares her experience with Ellen DeGeneres, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's recent Atlantic City show featured some unexpectedly harsh jokes.

00:00 A Day at the Beach and Unexpected News
00:18 Marc Maron's Take on American Authoritarianism
01:52 Andrew Schultz Controversy
02:24 Marc Maron's New HBO Special
02:45 Shane Gillis to Host the 2025 ESPY Awards
03:21 Nate Brize and the Comedy Means Business Podcast
04:42 Beth Stelling's Upcoming Special
05:10 Margaret Cho on Ellen DeGeneres
05:33 Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Atlantic City Show

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Callaroga Shark media. Man, you take one day off to

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go to the beach. It was one hundred degrees in Jersey,

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so I pretage Wednesday show on Monday. It's like, I

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go to the beach Tuesday, and it was like all

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kinds of news. I mean, good problem to have, because

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I got plenty to talk about today. But I'm sitting

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there on the beach watching my inbox and I'm like, really,

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come on, why today? All right? Mark Maren, he's kind

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of at it with the whul Andrew Schultz thing. I

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told you about Andrew Schultz the other day Maren put

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out in his newsletter. And I'll try and do this

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in a Maren e Ish not impression, but I'll try

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and do his cadence. This is it, people, It's finally here,

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American authoritarianism with a fully functioning fascist cultural apparatus. We

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did it. Took us about two hundred and fifty years,

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but we did it. I'm not sure which was more

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horrendoucent damning, the deploying of troops to la or the

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bombing of Iran, but they were of a kind orders

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of a leader who cares nothing about the people of

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this country and is autocratically creating a government that serves

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only his whims and power. This is the cost of

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a mindocracy and feeds the fire of inhumanity for his myopic, brutal,

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and dangerous followers. We get to live in real fear

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all the time now, not made up or generated internally,

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but actual terror of our government and our fellow Americans. Sorry,

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I don't want to be grim, but the unconstitutional attack

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of Iran and La will put in place the machinery

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to make this a military dictatorship. I hope all those

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people that voted for this passively and based in emotions

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are happy and proud of the America we're becoming, where

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pain feeds their excitement, and corruption and moral bankruptcy becomes

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their proud day to day way of moving through the world.

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I hope all the anti wool comics are happy about

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pushing this all through. The big question is when will

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they shut up about trans people intellectually challenge people, immigrants,

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that disabled, the minorities. I mean, they won the policies

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they were supporting, whether they knew it or not, aren't happening.

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I hope you can now stop playing the victim and

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just enjoy the amazing lack of diversity and diminishment of

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human rights and collective fury of supported. Because it's here,

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I assume you'll just keep at it. It's one thing

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to mock the week and another thing to celebrate their

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pain and deaths. I assume you have nothing else. Now

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that what you made is become hack, you can just

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go back to the standard. Maren made similar comments in

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the opening to Monday's podcast with guest Jordan Klepper. It

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is believed a lot of this obviously the news over

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the weekend with Iran, but a lot of this is

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also about the Andrew Schultz piece from the New York

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Times over the weekend. I talked about that on Tuesday's podcast.

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In the Times piece, Andrew Schultz told The Times he

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feels comfortable saying the R word. Schultz explained, if a

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parent ever said that word hurts me and I want

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you to not say it. I'm never gonna say in

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front of them. I don't want to hurt you. That's

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not my goal. But if they're like, I don't want

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you to ever say it again in your life, that's

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not going to happen. In other Mark Maren news his

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new special will stream on HBO Max starting April first.

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It is entitled Mark Maren Panicked. Maren says, I feel

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this is the best work I've done. Everything came together,

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the direction, the production designed, the shirt and the bits

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HBO gets me, and I'm thrilled it'll be presented by them. Now,

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this is interesting. It will air at eight o'clock Eastern,

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not ten o'clock. Well, that's cool. The other big news.

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Normally this would be the lead, but somebody went to

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the beach. Shane Gillis is hosting the twenty twenty five

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sp Awards. That is awesome. Shane told The Hollywood Reporter.

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I'm excited to be at the SP's of this year.

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I like sports, so this should be a good time.

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He's like the perfect post for that too, and good

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content for the podcast. Craig Lazarus is the executive producer

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of the SP's. He said Shane is not only one

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of the top comedians today but also a huge sports fan,

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which made him an easy choice to host the SP's.

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We're through all the work with him, blah blah blah.

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We then recap Shane's career. You know, LESNL podcast doing

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just fine. It's being a podcast, Deadline has a new one.

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This is interesting. It is called Comedy Means Business, so

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it shows just how big the comedy industry has gotten.

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The lead off guest is Nate Brigetzie. I talked about

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this in the Facebook group and I'll talk about it

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a little bit more tomorrow. You can just tell that

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Nate's people are pushing the heck out of Nate right now.

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Every now and then, the industry gets together and decides

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this person's next. If you listen to the show every day,

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we see a couple of these, maybe twice three times

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a year. But right now now everybody's in on Nate,

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and we're pushing Nate, and you're gonna like Nate. Nate's

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a superstar. And if you don't like that, too bad,

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because here's another article and I like Nate. But it's

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like tap the breaks, people tap the breaks. On the podcast,

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Nate says he's moving away from the all consuming nature

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of the most expansive globe trotting touring a comic can do.

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He'll do so now because he understands how much obsession

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you have to have, how much focus you have to

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have to get to where he's currently. What he needs

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to do to achieve the same level of success with

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the ventures he takes on. Next Nate's hosting the Emmys

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in September, so more push Push, Push, Push Push. The

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Comedy Means Business podcast every other week on Monday, although

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for the first month they're doing a pod every Monday.

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The Nate one is out. I just discovered this as

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I put the show together this morning, so I haven't

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listened to it yet. Next week's episode is called long

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Live the State, a documentary on the iconic sketch group

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The State that's stilling. We'll have a special called The

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Landlord July seconds on the streaming platform Veeps. There will

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also be an audio version. I always like that. On August.

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The Landlord was filmed in Denver and described as a

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story heavy caboose about nosy, unhinged landlords. If you've ever

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had to pay irritating lunatics in exchange for shelter, then

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this is the special for you. I like that a lot.

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Delling hopes everyone watching laughs so loudly they make their

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downstairs neighbor jealous. Hell, let's clear this out. This has

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been around all week Margaret Show for some reason, talking

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about Ellen Joe recently revealed Ellen was really weird not

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nice to me for most of my career. I opened

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for her in the nineteen eighties when she was a

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headliner in comedy clubs. Later, when I would do her

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talk show in the two thousands, she would act like

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we just met, and I'm like, bitch, what that's weird?

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We go way back. It's so creepy and weird. Wow,

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I can't believe Ellen isn't a nice person? Did we

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know this? Tina Fey and Amy played Atlantic City over

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the weekend. They opened with a rapid fire monologue similar

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to what they do with the Golden Globes. Tina told

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the crowd Ben Affleck is not here. He's home going

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through his contacts looking for more Jennifers to bother. It's

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a wacky Tina. That's a hack joke. Tina, come on,

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that's a hack. Probably played well with the crowd, but

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that's a hack joke. Amy Pohlar on Nicole Kidman. Nicole

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Kidman is not here tonight. She's too busy being in

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every single movie a TV show in her name. Whoa whoa? Amy?

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Are you making fun of people? Are you appropriating the

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Nicole Kidman character whoa whoa, whoa whoa? Los Angeles is

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gonna disown you. You better fall on your sword like

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you did last week for whatever it is you feel

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guilty about doing on SNL. WHOA what a brutal swipe?

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And Nicole Kidman, who are you? Joe Coy it's gonna

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face turn Leo DiCaprio is not here, I assume because

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Amy and I have a combined age of one hundred

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and five. And then the entire reason I'm bringing this

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up is because there's a Megan Markle joke and I'm

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the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast where we talk

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about the Royal family seven days a week and often

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make fun of Megan Markle, and unlike Amy Poehler, I

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don't feel guilty at all. Amy Pohler, though, going full

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Joe Coy here said Megan Markle's not here tonight. She's

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putting flower sprinkles on cookies and Piers Morgan is furiously

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raged masturbating about it. Wow, boy, you better apologize to

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Piers Morgan. What a vicious Amy Pohlar, What has gotten

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into you? Unbelievable? We're gonna have to cancel Amy Poehler,

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for these vicious jokes. Friend of the show John Marco

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SIRESI podcast must be doing pretty well. It's called the

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Downside and it's moving to Headgum. John Marco saidam So

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Jazz to bring our listeners. The one thing they've always

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complained our podcast is missing ad reads. I feel you,

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you know, otherwise this is just an expensive hobby. As

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I like to say, are you watching Love Island? Everyone

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in my house under the age of me is watching

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Love Island. This is like the biggest topic in the house.

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And I'm like, what are you people watching? What are

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you talking about it? And then I go down to

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the basement and record podcasts. Ian Sterling, comedian and voice

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behind Love Island USA, is returning to the US with

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a brand new stand up comedy show, Ian Sterling Live.

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My kids will be excited. He'll be in LA on

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October twenty second and New York City October twenty ninth.

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Sterling told Deadline, hopefully people that have enjoyed me on

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Love Island and particularly enjoyed my voice, just seen what

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I've been doing for fifteen years, which is stand up.

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It's my chance to show America this is what I

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do and I'm not just a guy in a dark

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room behind a microphone. That is your comedy news for today.

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I can't even imagine what Amy Poehler is gonna do next.

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She's really out there. I mean, those jokes were just vicious.

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She should apologize. Just terrible. All right, I'll see tomorrow