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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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comedians and the comedy industry. Acent is the algorithm loves.
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Cultured magazine put out their Cultured one hundred. One of
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the Cultured one hundred is Marcelo Hernandez, who, in my opinion,
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does one thing, and does one thing well but culture
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It said. In his four seasons of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez
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has played, in no particular order, an emo teen, a
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soul patch wearing wife stealer named Domingo. Yeah he's done that, one,
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a frozen embryo, and himself patron saint of short Kings
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for the culture. At one hundred, he was interviewed by
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my former coworker Jimmie Fox. Fox said, you're good looking,
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he got the swag. Now that the specials in your
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review mirror. How are you feeling, Marcelo Hernandez said, looking back,
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I can say to myself, I gave it every single
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piece of me. When we called you, I was sitting
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there going crazy, and after a conversation, I was like, yo,
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Jamie Fox is the regulator. You put it in perspective,
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like it's already shot. It's too late to be freaking out.
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I wasn't enjoying it. I was suffering it. Fox said, Okay,
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let me give you this Michael Jackson Billy Jean Motown
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twenty five iconic. But he went backstage after and cried
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because he thought it was the worst performance of his life.
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You can't always see what we see, so I told
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you get in the Ferrari pull out and have a
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great time. That special had like forty six and a
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half million views. I just want to see how that feels.
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What's it like to be on top of the mountain? Man?
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Did it at forty six and a half? What was
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that even on other Remember it was on Netflix. I
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will have to take Jamie Fox's word for the forty
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six and a half million views. Marcelo said, I'll tell
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you what, Jamie. When I first started doing comedy, I
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wrote down on my little yellow pad the two people
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I wanted to be like. I wrote, I want to
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be physical like Eddie Murphy. I want to be meticulous
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like Jerry Seinfeld. And that As I got older and
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I started to see more, when we started thinking about
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how we want to shoot the special I thought, I
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want to shoot it like prior. I want to be sweaty,
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I want to flowy shirt. You know. Richard Pryor filmed
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in Miami, and so did I. I wanted to tef
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Greens look old school, look vintage. Yeah, so when you
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said you wanted to be like Eddie Murphy, that was
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the point. Eddie Murphy's just doing. Richard Pryor watched the
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specials back to back. Now, this is interesting aut of
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Stephen Colbert. In that New York Times profile, Colbert said
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CBS tried to renew him for as long as five years.
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During negotiations in twenty twenty three, Colbert went for a
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three year extension. Oops, one might say, Colbert told the
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Times less than two years before they called to say
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it's over. They were very eager for me to be
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signed for a long time. So something changed. As for
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what's next, the show takes like ninety five percent of
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my brain. He won't seriously consider new opportunities until he
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has a little more time to breathe. Now, Colbert reportedly
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makes fifteen million dollars a year. And here's some advice
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from Johnny Mack. If somebody ever offers you fifteen million
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dollars a year, Just say yes. That's generational changing money.
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And if they're like, hey, we'll give you fifteen million
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dollars a year for five years, and now if you
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do some math, that's seventy five million dollars, you say yes.
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Especially on the talent side. You know what was gonna happen.
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NBC is going to go, hey, we'll give you sixteen
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million dollars a year. That wasn't going to happen. Just
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say yes, What are you doing, dude. Conan O'Brien, who
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settled with NBC for reported forty five million dollars. When
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The Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno, took the
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Tonight Show back, Conan was seen in the Netherlands. He
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was taping a new episode of Conan O'Brien Must Go.
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Conan was spotted celebrating King's Day in Amsterdam, then went
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on Dutch talk show Eva. Conan said, we showed up,
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my wife and I got here at six in the
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morning and I went out on King's Day, absolute madness day, drinking,
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which I'm used to. That's my sport. They seem to
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be making an episode involving fashion. Conan explained one of
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my fans. It's a high fashion model here in Amsterdam,
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and she said she could teach me how to be
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a male model. I showed up, I met with her,
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and she told me at the end, this isn't gonna work.
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She was very disappointed in me. Conan says his show
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is less interested in educating viewers about a country than
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putting Conan in absurd situations. We've all watched travel shows.
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They tried to teach you about the country. I want
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you at the end of my program to know nothing
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about the country. I want you to maybe even be
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dumber than you were at the start of the show.
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Conan is impressed by the Netherlands, particularly that people are
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tall and have bikes. He said, so many tall people.
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I've met, so many women that make me feel short.
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And everyone's on a bicycle, which I love. In the
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United States, when you get on a bicycle, people dress
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up in these crazy outfits. Here you just see people
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riding their bikes in normal clothes. Nicki Glazer admits she
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wasn't necessarily prepared for the reaction to her, saying that
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she's open to her man fulling around. You remember that
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old story, Yeah, Hollywood Establishment insider Nicki Glazer was on
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Karras Swishers podcast, So it's over. That's it. If we're
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gonna line up the comedians and say who's an insider,
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who's an outsider? Nicki Glazer's paling around with Kara Swisher,
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that's it. She's done. Don't expect her to be a
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roast comedian or doing any of that. The agents have
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successfully completed the mission. Hollywood insider Nicki Glazer told Kara
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Swisher I wasn't even thinking about censoring myself in any
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way that this podcast makes headlines, meaning call her daddy.
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But Nicky said she woke up to headlines saying that
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she likes for her boyfriend asleep with other women. Nikki explained,
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it was like five different headlines showing up in my feed,
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and I don't even follow myself. I don't look for
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news about myself. I avoided at all costs. It was
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just really embarrassing. Yes it was. Esquire wrote a piece
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the headline, this new comedy special completely shocked me with joy,
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they write. Michael Cruz Caine's son Fisher, died from sepsis
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in two thousand and nine, just thirty four days after
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he was born, Fisher's twin brother lived, and Caine and
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his wife Carrie also have a daughter. The family's world
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was destroyed. It needed to be rebuilt. Ten years later,
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Caine stand up comics started writing on Twitter about his grief.
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The comment started coming in by the thousands. The tweets
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turned into a one man show that Caine titled Sorry
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for Your Loss, which is the kind of phrase that
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shows up on cards. Caine told Esquire, Yeah, the show's
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about grief, specifically about how I felt, starting from the
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moment my son died, which was in two thousand and nine,
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untill now, because the grief continues. It's an honest reflection
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on those feelings, and a lot a lot of that
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is comedy, because I'm a funny person. Even in the
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worst possible situation, there are still things that, if you're
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a human, will make you laugh. I didn't want to
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hide from those things and pretend not to see them.
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I just wanted to feel free and be myself as
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opposed to trying to be a quote unquote grieving person.
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People have an expectation of what someone who's grieving will
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be like, but all that stuff made me feel alienated
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from people. What made me feel good was talking to
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people who talk to me like I was a person.
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I know you, you're my friend. Can we just talk
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how we normally talk? As for the special, he says,
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once you release it into the world, you lose a
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lot of control over how people receive it. It's funny.
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grief in comedy a few years ago that I was in.
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I read all the comments. A large percentage of them
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were like, what kind of sicko experiences some kind of
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tragedy then tries to turn it into jokes. I guess
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they hadn't seen it, so that's what they think. It
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is that one is called sorry for your loss. He
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is Michael Cruz, Keane Kay and E Interview magazine caught
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up with Ronica Slowakowska. They did a little free association
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short form. She said, easier in ways, harder in ways.
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SNL's a form of It's not exactly live. It's edited
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on the spot about attention, spans, short and screwed up.
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But I don't think all is lost. I can totally
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binge Sister Wives Delivery. I'm a corporate slot person. Rice
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Bowls protein a vegetable, something that's sustaining my energy and
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making me think good. I'm obsessed with this place that
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is Brussels sprouts. Whatever we order it. Everyone's offices smell
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like farts actors. She says, I feel like I was
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right in the middle of comedian and actor. But since
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getting on SNL, I've chosen a side as being a
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comedian cooler. I don't know. Maybe about sleep. SNL gives
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us time to sleep, but will you sleep is the question.
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I'm just damped up. I'm excited tonight's writing nights. Am
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I going to go home at midnight? Or am I
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going to go home at four am? It's kind of
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up to me. A few weeks ago, Ay Lorne Michael's
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documentary came out. The Oler reporter said, Lorne Michaels has
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been enigmatic and evasive for long enough that he doesn't
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seem more or less uncomfortable having a camera in his vicinity,
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knowing dorn Well that he isn't going to let anything
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slip by by accident. This same principle lets director Neville
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linger in Michael's office, and even in the film's closest
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to revelatory moments at Michael's lakeside get away in Maine.
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Nothing Michael says is all that revealing or candid, but
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Nevill's eyes are still loud to wander, inviting viewers to
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latch onto Michael's life ephemera and read meaning into it.
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It's his love of Gordoney and extension of his devotion
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to cultivating talent. He won't say so, but maybe is
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his office filled with fish that he refuses to name
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as a mirror of the constant rotation of cast members
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of his best known show, Don't Know, not surprisingly that
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people with the loosest lips are people who no longer
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rely on Michael's for a paycheck. With many of the
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highlights coming from John Mulaney, Fred Ormison, Bill Hayter, and
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Adam Sandler swapping stories, Mulaney, like Tina fay Conan O'Brien
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and a few of the veteran writers, gives the strongest
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impressions of knowing where the bodies are and buried when
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it comes to revealing details about Michaels, but each other
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people who appear to know him best has and I
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can never repay Lorne story that makes it clear that
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they aren't saying anything Lorn wouldn't once said if Michaels
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were to retire after the season, Neville's documentary could be
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shown at his retirement party without anybody feeling awkward. The
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av Club said that Lauren the documentary fights a losing
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battle against all the other Sketch Show history lessons. They write,
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SNL has been so celebrated, chronicled, and mythologized that it
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seems impossible to imagine anything new to say about the
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Sketch Show, but documentarian Morgan Neville gives it a shot.
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Narrated by Chris Parnell, Lauren establishes early on that Michaels
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isn't particularly interested in the movie being made about him.
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Michaels presents himself as we often see him, dressed up,
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gray hair, button down, a tad aloof The result does
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a likable film that auto appeal to SNL fans and
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hardcore comedy nerds. As an SNL history lesson, Lauren will
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feel rudimentary to those already be sotted up by the show.
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As a portrait of Michael's early years and comedy beginnings.
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The documentary passes by key biographical details too quickly for
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them to fully register. And the program's memorable sketches have
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been played to death by this point. If somehow you're
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just now getting an SNL and having a ready ingested,
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endless lore about the most aduring of sketch shows, Lorne
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might be a meaningful primer for everybody else. You've heard
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this joke before. All Right, the Netflix is a joke
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of festival is about to kick off. They are highlighting
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the short list, a showcase spotlighting nationally touring comment These
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are not newcomers, but rising voices on the cusp of
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their next chapter. We are told, so kind of new faces,
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but different. Here's your list. Comedian CP aka Chris Powell,
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writer and performer who's comedy special Sunday After Six debuted
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in twenty twenty five. Ethan Simon's Patterson a stand up
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comedian who's been featured on Comedy Central and is a
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regular at The Seller. Gabby Bryan is a New York
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based stand up comedian, actress, podcaster, and Emmy winning producer.
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Lucas Zilnik a stand up comedian, born, raised and based
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in New York City, featured on Comedy Central. Matty Wiener
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stand up comedian who made her fallon debut last year
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and his filmed to stand up sets for Comedy Central
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and Don't Tell Comedy Opie Alakbaju, La based stand up
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comic who's been recognized by Vulture as one of the
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comics you should and will know. Peter Ravello, stand up comedian, actor,
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and writer based in New York. He debuted on Fallon
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and has appeared on Comics Unleashed, Yeah Chappelle. Lacey La
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based stand up comedian who performed at the Comedy Store
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and hosts a YouTube series called Cooked in the Comments.
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Sophie Buttle, She's kind Of No No. Sophie was the
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head monologue writer for CBS's After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson
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and has appeared on Fallon Cordon and CBC's This Hour
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Is Twenty two Minutes. And Zach ned Towers, LA based comedian,
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actor and writer who appeared on Netflix's Dear White People.