July 23, 2026

Marcello Hernandez Breaks Down His Kevin Hart Impression

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers comedy news including Marcello Hernandez promoting Netflix’s “72 Hours” with Kevin Hart, sharing Today Show banter where Marcelo jokes about Hart’s nonstop hustling, wardrobe, and sockless style, plus a less-funny Late Night with Seth Meyers segment mocking Hart’s “#da kid” persona. A “kerfuffle/kerfluffle” arises after Whitney Cummings says a Trump joke from the Mark Twain Prize broadcast was requested to be cut over lawsuit fears; Netflix denies cutting it and says the Kennedy Center had contractual rights, while Cummings states Netflix supported comics. He updates the “Scrubs” revival: Joel Kim Booster exits and Ava Bunn becomes a series regular, with many originals and new recurring cast listed. He previews JFL Montreal listings, notes Rhys Darby’s special release, discusses a Telegraph critique of Sacha Baron Cohen reviving Ali G, reports James Trickey was punched during an Edinburgh Fringe evacuation and turned it into a new show, and marks the death of late-night producer Peter Lassally, 93.

00:15 Marcello and Kevin Hart
00:35 Today Show Clip
02:39 Outfit and Socks Roast
03:22 Seth Meyers Segment
05:12 Kerfuffle Pronunciation
05:44 Whitney Cummings Cut Joke
07:48 Scrubs Revival Update
09:17 JFL Montreal Lineup
10:24 Telegraph vs Ali G
12:31 Fringe Street Punch
13:38 Peter Lassally Tribute

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Hi.

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Mar Solo

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Hernandez is everywhere. He's out promoting seventy two Hours. That's

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the exciting movie that'll be out on Netflix tomorrow where

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Kevin Hart, who's forty seven years old, plays a forty

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eight year old guy. They appeared on the Today Show together,

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and eventually Marcelo, we'll get around to where he's making

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fun of Kevin Hort liking to work and make money.

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Here is the clips, the.

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First time we work.

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It's the first time we worked to How is it?

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How would you describe it is?

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Uh?

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Do you want to see it? Yeah?

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Sure, I show you?

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No, don't.

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Yeah, this is what is Kevin Hart. I've told a

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few people this, but I'll tell you so tell us.

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Let's say pretend like we're on set, right.

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Am I Kevin?

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No, you're me? Okay, I'm Kevin. You're me?

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Hey?

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Yeah, okay, I don't know. I don't know what I

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was Okay, okay, Kevin, Okay, all right, that's okay, okay,

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let's do this. I'm you're mean, you're trying to get

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some advice from you know, Kevin Hart. Yes, already, already

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three to one action. I'm sorry. I just add. The

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thing is that I got a little Yeah, just give

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me a moment. They got to bring the money up.

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Money's got to be up, and they want me to

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do that. Listen, I'm good, I'm good. But he's going

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to cost I'm good, I know what I'm doing. Yeah,

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I'll be there for a price. Here's a zero.

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Is he lying, Kevin? Listen, this is ridiculous.

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By the way, he got the AirPod behind him. He

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got it behind the thing just in case, just cause

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of Jesus CEO calls and it's like, we want Kevin

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to be the face of fruit loops. He's only like,

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of course, this is the fruitiest loop in the world.

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I'm Kevin Hart.

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Hello world, I'll have him, y'all have him. Wait, come

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in the morning and pick me up. Let me pick

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you up with the loop that smiles back.

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Get that's a lot of laughing over there out A

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currently al roker the Today Show lady whose name is

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Chanelle Jones, I was unfamiliar with her work until this clip,

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and Kevin hart himself found that quite funny. I guess

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the fruit loop shoke wasn't too bad. I have a

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second clip, I know, right, yeah, And the second clip,

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Marcello makes fun of Kevin's outfit.

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Why don't you ever wear socks? How about we talking

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about that?

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Because I'm Dominican. This morning is a perfect example, because

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Kevin is waking up in the morning going which shirt

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should I wear it? Should I wear a normal shirt

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like a human being? Or should I put on this weird,

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rusty silver combo. It looks like I'm golfing, but also

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I'm the matrix D casual. I think it's a very casual.

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Why don't you ever wear socks?

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How about we talking about that?

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Because I'm Dominicans Dominican, I can't I need to wear socks.

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I'm hot hot, I'm.

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Hot mor solo than did Late Night with Seth Myers

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make twelve thirty great again? I mean, if we combine

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Seth Myers and Marcelo Hernandez, how could this clip not

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be funny? I'll show you how cannot be funny.

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Kevin hart Man I got to work with him and

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it's so great.

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It's he's a here's one of the thing. And he

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plays an older gentleman, as we can tell from the clip,

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who's on a bachel party weekend with you guys? Yes,

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and do you feel like in real life? I mean,

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Kevin's cool dude, right.

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Yes, he's a cool dude. He's definitely think about it.

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The movie is about an older guy that's trying to

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keep up with younger people.

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Yeah, you actually brought a few Instagram photos?

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I did, I did. I brought something because I want

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you guys to look at these photos and not tell

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me that Kevin is perfect for this role.

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He's a very handsome photo of him.

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I mean, come on, guys, he's fifty years old. Doesn't

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this doesn't this photo? Just say like, hey, let make

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sure you get this on me real good, let me

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let me let me post this on the Instagram. And

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by the way, the hashtag his caption is duck hid.

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If you're older forty calling yourself duck hid. Yeah, I

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mean this is this is give your son the phone

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and be like.

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Let me let me get you.

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Let me get me.

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Did you get it? Did? You can't make sure you

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get the boots in it. Caption says little swag hashtag

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duck kid. Right, he's still using hashtagh.

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Are you, Marcella? Are you telling me the kids are

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not using the hashtag? So this is nice. He just

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kind of cut candid moment in the elevator.

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Yeah, I love that. This is his new pose is

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the hands? Look, this is his pose.

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By the way, Marcella was not wearing socks in that clip.

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Marcelo is a nice looking guy and the Illuminati wants

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you to like him. So there was a little kerf

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fluffle and I pronounced it that way because it was

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brought to my attention that I've been saying it wrong

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and it's apparently kerfuffle no way. Yeah, Mary brought it

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to my attention that I've been saying kerf fluffle, which

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is incorrect, for seven years now, and nobody told me

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until New Well, thank you Mary for pointing it out.

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The problem is, kerfuffle doesn't sound right to me, and

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I'm going to keep saying kurf fluffle to be defiant

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and stupid. So what is the kerfluffle? Johnny Mack? Well, perhaps, possibly, maybe,

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but it doesn't sound like they did. Netflix cuts some

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Whitney Cummings jokes from the Mark Twain Prize TV special.

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There here's Whitney Cummings talking about the special.

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The Mark Twain Prize, which we talked about last time.

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Uh whatever. When I got back, not only did I

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have to cut a joke in rehearsal, then the joke

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I did, I ended on Donald Trump.

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Couldn't make it tonight. He got caught in sex traffic.

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It stayed in and then they said we would like

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to cut it out. And I'm gonna be very careful

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with how I say this, because the people at the

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venue have been amazing.

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They don't want to silence anyone.

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It is.

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True that their boss is Donald Trump. So they did

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their job.

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I was presented with a tricky conundrum. I just don't

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know if I did the right thing or not.

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They said it was very clear to me that they

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would lose their jobs. This is for the broadcast. This

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is for broadcasts.

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The joke was already leaked by someone that was in

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the audience, journalists or something. It was already in People

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magazine and Daily but it was already out out there.

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But then they said we need to cut it from

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the broadcast.

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We'll thirty out there who cares now like he will

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sue you, which is like, I don't buy it.

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I don't buy it. Number one, number two he might.

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Netflix then denied that they decided to remove a joke

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about the president of the United States they threw the

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unrenamed Kennedy Center under the bus, saying the decision rested

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with those guys. A Netflix spokesperson told Puck News. While

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it's our preference not to cut jokes from anyone set,

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the newly unrenamed Kennedy Center has the contractual right to

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do so. Whitney Cummings on Twitter added, I was super

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clear that Netflix did not cut anything from my Mark

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Twain price set. Netflix always supports comedy and comics. Quit

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spreading rumors, you weirdos. We got an update on the

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Scrubs revival. Now, shockingly, Joel Kim Booster is leaving the show.

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So what was the point We made nine episodes Joel

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Kim Booster was in like five of them, and now

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he's gone. What was the the point of the character

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of doctor Kevin Park then, Plus, now there's no antagonist.

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Ava Bon, who played doctor Sam Tosh in season one

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of the reboot, has been up to series regular status

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for the second season. Interesting. She must have the right agent.

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The rest of you interns step it up, get some

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better reps. Of course. Zach Braf, Donald Faizon, and Sarah

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Chalk are all returning once again. I mean, if they

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don't ride this thing for fifty years, they're fools. Returning

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and recurring guest star roles include Neil Flynn the former Janitor,

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John C. McGinley, doctor Cox, Judy Reyes as Korla, and

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Robert Machio as the todd Christer. Miller will also again

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guest star. Also appearing in recurring roles Vanessa Bear as

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the annoying new character, Rachel Bilson, Jacob Dudman, David Grinley,

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Layla Mohammadi, Amando Morrow, and Michael James Scott. I don't

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have to tell you who they play on the show,

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you know, I have no idea. I guess those are

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the interns and the sassy nurses. I don't know who

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they are. Season two Slash eleven, JD. Turk and Elliott

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have leveled up from interns to iconscred Heart now the

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respect to doctors inspire the next generation while balancing the

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ups and downs of working at a hospital. Uh, could

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you get me any specifics whatsoever? Gee? Thanks for that description.

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Together with characters new and old, they're navigating this next

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chapter with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.

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Let's head an up to Montreal for jfl at six

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thirty Jerry Seinfeld live, exciting. I saw they were all excited.

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They're like, dude, to popular demand, We've released an additional

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two hundred and thirty two tickets. Like, I don't know

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what that is. Probably they put the stage up and went,

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oh yeah, somebody could sit here. Brich Ish at seven,

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Chris Fleming at seven o'clock. Now, now this is interesting.

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Had I gone and I did not, and you asked me,

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do you want to go see Jerry or Chris Fleming?

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I would pick Chris Fleming. Welcome to Comedy twenty twenty six,

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Joel Kim Booster. He's not even on scrubs. He's there

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at seven as well. New Faces of Comedy Characters at

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Club Soda at seven, Ron Funches at nine thirty second,

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Jerry at nine thirty second, Chris Fleming at nine thirty. Okay, John,

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you should have read ahead. You could have seen both

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and Midnight's surprise at eleven to fifty nine. Again, this

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feels thinner than previous years. Again, this is the reconstituted festival,

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but this just doesn't feel as big as it has

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in the past. I definitely feel like there are fewer

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shows that said I'm glad the festival is back, rather

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than not existing at all. On the eight hundred pound

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Gorilla Plus channel today, Rhys Darby's twenty five years is out.

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The Telegraph fired some shots in the direction of Sasha

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Baron Cohen. He's been doing ali g lately, they wrote

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of the recent clips. At least it was amusing. Even so,

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it feels humiliating Baron Cohen, who's now in his fifties,

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So people in their fifties can be cool. I'm enjoying

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my mid fifties because I'm about to turn fifty seven,

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which he is late fifties. Get ready for that mental

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breakdown coming in a couple months. But as a guy

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in his mid fifties, I mean, Sasha Baron Cohen's way cool,

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is he not? Baron Cohen is essentially exhooming a character

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he drumped up in his twenties with the aim of

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wrenching a career that has noticeably faltered. What is he

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recording a podcast basement? His past decade has yielded more

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famine than feast, with few projects of note since twenty

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sixteen's absurdly underappreciated Grimsby Grimsby exists? What's Grimsby? Whatever it is?

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It's ten years ago. Grimsby. Let's say Grimsby Grimsby is

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a twenty sixteen spy action black comedy film. Nabbi Butcher

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has been separated from his little brother Sebastian Butcher for

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twenty eight years. During their years apart, Nabbie became an

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alcoholic football hooligan who started a life with his partner Dawn,

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and there were eleven children in Grimsby, while Sebastian, now

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known as Sebastian Graves, has become one of I six's

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top agents. This exists. Let's head on over to just

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watch and see if this is streaming, because you know,

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because soccer's over now and I can actually watch things.

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I don't recall this existing at all. Let's see Grimsby.

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You can rent it four bucks on Amazon, four bucks

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on Apple, four bucks on fendango, and it's free with

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ads on two B and It's eighty three minutes long,

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so you know it's good. The Telegraph rights. But I

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can't agree that this dry stretch means that Baron Cone

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has lost his mojo. Rather, it's that the film and

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television industries have long since lost the nerve to let

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him deploy it. Can you imagine a young comedian swanning

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into Channel Four's offices today and pitching them a sketch

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show based around a feckless middle class manchild from Surrey

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who pretends to be black? Maybe not, perhaps not, but

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Netflix would go for it. Did you not see Tom

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Sigore's bad thoughts? Anyway? They say? Does the character still work?

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stir of this new forty two second clip. So happily,

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the answer appears to be yes. Is there a conclusion?

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James Tricky was performing his final set at the Edinburgh

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Fringe Festival last year when a fire alarm sparked the

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evacuation of the pleasant's courtyard. He decided to continue his

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set on the street. However, one man who had not

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been originally part of the audience did not take too

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kindly to the performance. Tricky explains there was a fire alarm.

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There was a feeling that the show must go on.

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It was the final night, so we carried on outside

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on the street, but someone passing by didn't really gel

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with it. He was obviously not very happy with the

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fringe going on and his shout it over. I just

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thought when he came over that if we hashed it

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out and I explained the situation, it would be fine.

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I'd already decided that point we would stop. It was

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quite late on a Sunday night, and we wanted to

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be respectful of the neighbors. However, the man took a

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punch at mister Tricky's face, split my lip pretty dramatically,

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and my glasses came off. It looked very intense, I said, shock.

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I couldn't believe what was happening. He ran off. Tricky

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said the instant punch somehow turned into me interrogating the

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male relationships in my life, and it's the basis of

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his new friende show love It. He said he would

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welcome his attacker attending the new show, adding I don't

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even know if he remembers my name, but if he came,

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the script would have to go out, the window would

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sit down, would be more like a talk show panel

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thing and sad news. The Great's Peter Less Sally, a

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producer who worked with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show

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and with David Letterman and Craig Ferguson on their CBS shows,

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has passed away. Sally worked with Johnny until Johnny retired

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in nineteen ninety two. Then he joined forces with David Letterman.

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Michael Natus worked with A Sally on Craig Ferguson's Late

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Late Show as the showrunner. Michael said Peter had few

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loves in his life that lasted more than half a century,

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the first with his lovely wife, Alice, and the second

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with the world of talk television. Each of those love

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affairs was a two way street, quite literally. Hundreds of

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millions of people oh their late night smiles and laughs

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of this beautiful soul whose gift for finding extraordinary talent

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and honing it is unmatched and unrivaled. An NBC spokesperson said,

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when Johnny Carson and David Letterman needed counsel in an

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honest opinion, they immediately went to Peter le Sally, the

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professor of Late Night. His relationship to each of these

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giants was immeasurable, and both of them would undoubtedly say

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his contribution to their success was so impactful it would

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be difficult to put into words. Peter Losali born in Hamburg, Germany,

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in nineteen thirty two, to a Jewish family that had

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to flee while there. Peterle Sally's sister went to school

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with Anne Frank or on a Franca. My daughter was

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in the theater show where I learned that he was

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supposed to pronounce her name like that, but most people

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would just know her as and Frank. Peter, his mother

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and sister were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp and

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later in a concentration camp. They survived the Holocaust and

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La Sally and his family moved to New York And

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Night eighteen forty seven. Wow. He joined The Tonight Show

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in the nineteen seventies, rising to executive producer. His final

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act in Late Night was identifying Craig Ferguson and transforming

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him into a talk show host. Ferguson wrote on Instagram,

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Peter le Sally was the best boss I ever had.

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His kindness, generosity and skill were incredible. He taught me

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how to do a job. I was deeply unqualified for,

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and he changed my life beyond measure. I'll always be

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grateful for what he did for me and my family.

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Thank you, Peter. Peterle Sally was ninety three in That

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is your comedy news for today. I'll see tomorrow