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Callaroga Shark Media. Don't go calling what Mark Maren does
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an interview show? Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with a robust
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Sunday edition of Daily Comedy News. More from Maren with
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the Hollywood Reporter. Maren's as it's not an interview show.
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I needed to be in that show, and it was
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instinctial to insert myself into the conversations. It took some
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people a little time to adjust to that. They were
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used to interview shows, and I've never ever seen it
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as an interview show. They asked if Maren envies any
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of the one hundred million dollar plus deals that some
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other folks have gotten. Maren said, we did all right, definitely,
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well enough for us to live the rest of our lives.
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But those kind of deals come with extreme responsibility. Why
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would I want to start scrambling now? The Holly Reporter
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writes he'll mock the podcast industrial complex, but Maren's also
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happy to play the mayor. Between a meeting in July
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and a phone call two weeks later, Maren guessed that
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on no fewer than nine podcasts, the conversation changes to
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you unnamed podcasters. But the Holly Reporter says, there's little
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doubt he's talking about Rogan Schultz and THEO Vaughn. Maren says,
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how they became the orbiters of what comedy shood or
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shouldn't be as an effing nightmare. This anti woke idea
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around free speech with comedians is bs. Whether they knew
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it or not, they were being used by the right
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to push this anti woke agenda which is now disassembling
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every progressive policy. They're responsible. I can't let them off
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the hook for that, even if some of them are
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kind of backpedaling now. As for the future, maren says,
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my social life has really been the podcast, mostly in
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comedy clubs. I'll probably go back to AA meetings for
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a bit of support to not spiral out with the isms,
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as they call it. But I don't do dinner parties.
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No one invites me anywhere. I don't vocation with friends.
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I need to nourish more relationships. Does he want to
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be invited out more? Yeah? I won't want to do it,
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but once I'm there, I'll be good. I think that
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some people like to have me around. Maybe this is
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all the change talking. Maybe I'm just an old man
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yelling at the burning sky helf. Cosmetics is catching heat
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for including Matt Rife in their latest campaign. People are
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bringing up Matt Rife's domestic violence joke from his twenty
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twenty three Netflix special I will be honest here. I
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had forgotten about that joke. People on social media are
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mad at ELF Cosmetics for including Matt Rife, who they
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claim does not respect women. One person wrote, bruh, not
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matt Rife. I love y'all as a brand, but Matt
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Rife is not a good person. Nicki Glazer told Variety
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that society glamorized not eating. Nicki said, the most notable
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thing you could do was to not eat or follow diet,
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and I was like, Okay, finally I'm good at something.
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But it started killing me. This next part's pretty serious.
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In college, she said, I didn't want to get better.
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I didn't have any reason to because I was like,
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my life sucks. I kind of went off to college
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to die. Was my path to suicide pretty much, because
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I look so freakish. I just turned my personality up
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real high because I needed to make friends. I was
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more funny, more outgoing and always telling stories. I was
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louder than I've ever been in my life. She started
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to get feedback about how funny she was. There was
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a poster for a stand up showcase. A friend took
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the sign and ran into my dorm room, slammed it
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on my desk and said, you're doing this. She started
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doing research, came across Sarah Silverman. Glazer said, she gets
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to be yourself and you want to be friends with her,
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and she also seems like a nice person, but then
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she gets to say these really weird, out of context,
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terrible things, and he still like her. That fascinated me.
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She eventually winds up on Last Comic Standing and says,
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I thought I had arrived. I thought things were starting
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to come in, and they didn't. I had to move
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back home with my parents. She did smaller rooms, appeared
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on some podcasts, started participating in roasts and said I
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didn't want to do another roast because I was approaching
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forty and I don't want to get called an old
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horse faced horror over and over. It hurt my feelings
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every time I did a roast previously. Then she heard
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about the Tom Brady roast and away we go. She
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pitched herself as the Tom Brady of roasting and says,
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I don't even know what that meant, but I stand
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by it now because as I researched Tom Brady, I
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learned how he was kind of underrated. He was good,
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but like the one hundred and fifth draft pick. But
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he trained perfectly and optimized every moment of his life
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to make sure that when he stepped down on the
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field he could be as good as possible, and he
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didn't take any shortcuts. I always thought that talent was
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something you were born with or not, but I've learned
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you can be great at things if you just work
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harder than anyone else. Not sure that's true. Part of it.
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You got to have the charisma. I got to have
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the look. I'm not sure I agree there, Nicki Glazer.
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Nicki says Tom Brady changed my life. The next day
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I started seeing headlines, started being recognized everywhere. Things went
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back to normal within three days. But it was twenty
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years to being an overnight success. Yep, you hear that
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a lot with comedians. Glazer says, there's a lot more
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interest in me from the industry over the past couple
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of years. Now I'm in a position where people want
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to develop things around me. One of her dreams is
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to be on White Lotus. Leanne Morgan tell's time people
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want authenticity and they want to learn who somebody really is.
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I think that's my advantage. People accuse her of doing
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a fake accent because they can't pinpoint where it's from.
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Her first husband had suggested she get diction lessons. She says,
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I know it's thick, but I think it's made me
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stand out. Nate Pergetzi says her accent is her accent,
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and that adds the flavor. As recently as twenty eighteen,
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club owners were turning her way. She says. Club owner said,
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we love her. She doesn't get drunk and fight in
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the parking a lot, but we're not having her back.
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She can't sell a ticket. She's happy that she got
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famous in her fifties, but I'm too tired. Something awful.
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Billboard talked to Sebastian Manascalgo about Pete Corielly the Gator.
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Pete hates that nickname. Jim Brewer had tagged Pete with
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that nickname when Pete was the co host on Jim
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Brewer unleashed paraphrasing here, it's because Pete has big teeth
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and he would all of a sudden come out of
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nowhere and bite you with. He was like a sniper
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on the show. Jim would tell ten twelve minute stories
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and Pete would come in and say one line and
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get the bigger laugh. Pete's fantastic, Sebastian said, we've been
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doing the Pete and Sebastian Show about twelve years. We
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started it out of the sheer enjoyment of calling one
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another on the phone and laughing. I said, you know what,
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we should record these phone conversations because if we're cracking up,
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I'm sure other people would crack up. Pete's more of
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a beer and peanuts Neanderthal, and I'm more of a
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wan and cheese guy who likes the finer things in life.
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That's a great description of Pete Corielly. At first we
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were just doing audio. He'd be in a car inside
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of Starbucks, ripping Wi Fi off the Starbucks, and I'd
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be in a hotel room in Denver. It's not guest driven.
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We've had maybe twelve or thirteen guests on our show
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over the course of twelve years. It was just two
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guys talking. We're not making a dime, but it's always
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been a passion project for us. Yelly Times talked to
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Charlie Day about shaving off his beard for a gag
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in the current season, it's always sunny. It's having a renaissance.
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vintage season. I don't know what happened. A lot of
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people think it's because they did the podcast and it
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got them revisiting the earlier seasons. But you know, I
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wonder what we have to season seventeen, the Ireland season
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was off but COVID and last year was okay. There
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were a couple funky seasons, but this season's On point
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of shaving, Charlie Day said, it was horrible just to
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see how old the man is under the beard. Once
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you take off the eyebrows, that's when it really starts
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to look freaky. We had that idea, and we knew
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we had to shoot at last, because if I was
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gonna shave, that'd be the last thing we're gonna shoot.
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Right after we wrapped, I went on a little vacation
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with my wife and son and I rarely got recognized,
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which is funny. Every now and then people were fans
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of the movie Pacific Rim because I didn't have a
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beard in those movies, they'd be like, Hey, where you been?
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Were you not working? The funny thing is I couldn't
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unlock my cell phone with that look because I look
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so different. All right, let's click on this. Vulture did
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a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty
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five so far. This was last updated on August six.
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Let's just fly through it real quick and see what
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they're into. Mark Maren Panic. Yep, but I have that
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at the top my list for this year. Steph Tolev's
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filth Queen didn't do it for me. Let's go at
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Kotska's father was okay. I liked your previous special better,
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Mike Berbiglia The Good Life. I just don't enjoy the
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Mike Berbiglia specials. I liked it twenty five years ago
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when he just did stand up. But I get if
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people like Burbiglia, Brent Weinebox popular culture is on YouTube,
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I've not seen that one. Vulture writes for every new
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cohort of clubby Punchline comedians and truth telling trauma explorers,
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somewhere a weirdo rises. In this case, it's Wineboch doing
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a bizarre smattering of impressions. With no coherent design except
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that they're all odd mashups and off center angles, regularly
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designed as setups with little payoffs. That sounds like my
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kind of special. I will have to get to that.
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I also have to watch Borbosa. I also have to
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watch Jim Jeffries on Dropout, Cameron Esposito's Four pill I
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haven't seen that because it's on Dropout. I do like Cameron.
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They have Bill Burr's Dropped Dead Years on Hulu. I
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didn't think that was good at all. Rosebud Baker's The
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Mother Load on Netflix. I didn't enjoy that one because
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of the back and forth between the two different sets.
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I get the gimmick, but it didn't do it for me.
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Roy Wood Junior Lonely Flowers. That's way back in January.
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That one was pretty good, right all right? So that's
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Vulture's list of the best so far. I might as
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well open up mine real quick, since we're talking about
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it all right ready. Top Tier, Mark Twain, Price Cut
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On O'Brien, Shing, Gillis, ESPN Monologue, Tom Sigorre Bad Thoughts,
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Mark Marin, Four Tires five, Justin Willman, Magic Lover, Dusty
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slay Bert Krascher, Brett Goldstein, Sarah Silverman Voice Mag's been
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talking to folks at the fringe. Susan Harrison said the
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fringe has definitely gotten bigger and more expensive as the
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years have gone on. That means my approach has been
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to wait for six years until I could afford it
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again financially, but also in terms of energy and time
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spent preparing and self producing. I keep saying this every
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time I do these fringe stories, inches sounds like a nightmare.
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Why does anyone go? It just sounds terrible. You're staying
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in like hovels, spending all your money. I don't get it.
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For what I mentioned on the back end of a
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summer Sunday Daily Comedy News episode, is it worth it?
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Her show? Is? Should I still be doing this? At
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the Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower PIP at seven point forty,
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Eric Idols spoke to The Guardian. They think in the
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Python TV shows and movies he seems to be enjoying
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himself the most. Eric Idle said some things in Python
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were very enjoyable and some were not. Holy Grail was
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cold and miserable sometimes that makes it funny. One of
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the worst things you could have in comedy is enough money.
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Python was quite a lot of arguing and fights, and
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good work is often like that. The best thing about
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show business is when it's over. I think if you're
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enjoying yourself, then you're non acting or giving. You're just
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having a good time. Well that's not funny. What was
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his favorite project? The Ruddles and spam Alot were both
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just fabulous times. One of the things I talk about
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in the show I call mock and roll because we're
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all the same generation. The art school kids went into
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music when we went into comedy. My theory is that
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Python is the first group of mock and roll because
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we ended up in the Hollywood Bowl just like the Beatles.
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And I think the second group in mock and roll
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was SNL. On the first show I hosted, John Belushi,
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impersonated Joe Cocker to his face. They sang together, there's
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something magical about that. Eric Idol, are you happy to
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be captured by AI for posthumous performances and royalties? Idol
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said they don't pay royalties. I always felt we ought
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to protect our images. After I saw that tacky commercial
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with Fred Astaire and the vacuum cleaner, feel very bad
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about that. So I felt that the pythons ought have
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done something to protect our image in a way that's appropriate.
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But I don't think there's a way that's appropriate. I
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have had my image done on one of those extraordinary
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machines where forty cameras captured from every angle, was for
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a film they wanted to make. But it worries me.