March 23, 2026

Mark Normand’s Taylor Swift Joke Backlash, Josh Johnson’s HBO Special, and Netflix’s Funny A

Mark Normand’s Taylor Swift Joke Backlash, Josh Johnson’s HBO Special, and Netflix’s Funny A
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Johnny Mac covers Mark Normand’s Club Shay Shay comments about Taylor Swift and a BBL, explains what a Brazilian butt lift is, and notes online backlash aimed at Normand and Shannon Sharpe. He shares mixed reactions to Normand’s new special, saying the relentless one-liner pace wore him out and arguing sets should ebb and flow. News items include Josh Johnson’s upcoming HBO special “Josh Johnson: Symphony” this spring; Netflix’s standup competition “Funny AF with Kevin Hart” premiering April 20 with judges including Keegan-Michael Key, Tom Segura, Chelsea Handler, and Nikki Glaser; Theo Von and David Spade’s self-distributed film “Busboy” in theaters April 17; Stavros Halkias joining a Judd Apatow-directed Glenn Powell comedy set for Feb. 5, 2027; Jo Koy and Gabriel Iglesias selling out SoFi Stadium; Zach Galifianakis’ Netflix “This Is a Gardening Show” on April 22; and Mystery Science Theater 3000 raising about $2.7M on Kickstarter for four new episodes.

00:00 Swift Joke Fallout
01:49 BBL Explained
02:37 Swifties React Online
03:24 Mark Normand Special Thoughts
04:14 Josh Johnson HBO Special
05:05 Kevin Hart Comedy Contest
06:02 Volleyball Side Quest
08:02 Busboy Movie News
09:35 Stavros Joins Apatow Film
10:08 Riyadh Fest Backlash
10:32 SoFi Stadium Success
11:55 Comedy Survivor Plug
12:46 Zach Gardening Show
13:55 MST3K Kickstarter Win
14:39 Wrap Up And Goodbye

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, this should be fun. I'm Johnny Mack with

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your daily comedy news, the daily briefing on stand up comedy,

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comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves now,

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longtime listeners of this program, I don't have to tell

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you that one time Joe Koy was hosting the Gold

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the Globes and told just the most horrible, mean joke

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about Taylor Swift. I'm not gonna play that one because

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we have a new candidate. And the big question here

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today on a Monday, is Mark Norman's career completely over

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because he told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

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That's right, Mark Norman was there on the Club Shayshay

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podcast with Shannon Sharp, and the discussion got into Travis

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Kelcey and the body types that Travis Kelcey has been

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into during his dating career. Now, I don't want the

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Swifties to cancel me. Actually I kind of do. I

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could use the publicity. I don't want the Swifties to

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cancel me. So I'm gonna let Mark Norman speak for

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himself here. Let's listen, because.

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We've seen his exes yes, compared to old surfboard buddy.

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I mean, this is not the besmirch the lady, but

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that's quite a quite a jump in and type.

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Yeah. Yeah, I only know that was his last girl. Now,

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I don't know anybody that he dated before her, Kayla.

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But I think sometimes people like, oh he fumbled, he fumbled.

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I mean, if somebody makes you happy, er, is that

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a fumble?

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No, not a fumble. But I wonder if he misses

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that fat ass.

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I think he, I think he.

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I think he do it. Okay, I think you do it.

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I think she could get a BBL.

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No, that's that's that doesn't fit. That doesn't fit, that

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doesn't feel what you got going on?

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Man? Now, if you're curious, bb L is a Brazilian

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butt lift. Now, you might not be familiar with the

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Brazilian but left. Fortunately, the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery

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has an f a Q webson. They tell us a

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Brazilian butt lift is a specialized fat transfer procedure that

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augments the size and shape of the buttocks without implants.

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Excess fat is removed from the hips, abdomen, lower back,

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or thighs with liposection and a portion of This fat

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is then strategically injected into the buttocks. A skilled cosmetic

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surgeon can improve the proportions of the entire lower body

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with Brazilian butt lift surgery, helping a patient lose fat

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and common quote unquote problem areas and enhance the buttocks,

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with results lasting many years. There's a before and after

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gallery in case you're curious what this might look like.

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So the internet recaps say the Swifties have gone after

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Mark normand one person set on social media Shannon Sharp

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betraying his long friendship with Travis Kelce by disrespecting his

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fiance is disappointing and unexpected. They don't make loyalty like

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they used to. My mother said, this is disappointing, Shannon,

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as Travis looks to you as a mentor and you're

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over here monetizing as fiance's name for clout. Take this down,

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be better. Another asked, So we're canceling this mofo, right,

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So we'll see if Mark Norman is canceled and suddenly

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Joe Koy joking about the NFL. Not so bad there, Taylor, huh,

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As you.

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Know we came on after a football doubleheader. The big

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difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the

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Golden Globes, we have fewer caliber shots that Taylor Swift.

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I swear I have some thoughts about Mark Norman's news special.

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I'll do the quick version. Was really into it for

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like thirteen minutes, and then my brain fried because of

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the relentlessness of just one liner after one liner, after

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one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner,

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after one liner, after one liner after one liner. You

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get it, so I couldn't. I was really thirteen minutes

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in my brain was like, please stop. I've had that

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same experience at a Stephen Wright's show. But I want

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to illustrate this. We've been discussing it a little bit

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in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, and

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I just want to discuss a little bit what I'm

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talking about, how a set needs to ebb and flow.

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And I'm not a comedian, you know that, but I

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was taught that by George Carlin's manager. And if you

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listen to my interview with Pete Holmes, which probably three

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weeks ago now at this point, Pete agreed with the theory.

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So we'll get into that. I want to pull some

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clips and We're really busy today, so we'll try and

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get to that maybe on the weekend. A lot of news.

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All of a sudden, Josh Johnson is getting an HBO special.

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If I had a guess which streamer Josh would show

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up on, I don't think I would have guessed HBO.

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But this is pretty cool. The special title Josh Johnson Symphony,

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will premiere this spring. No date on it, but it

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is now officially Spring, so soon. Nina Rosenstein is the

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executive vice president HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials. Nina

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observed Josh Johnson releases more comedy in a year than

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most people do in a career. He tells stories with

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an incredible rhythm, and it makes the whole room feel

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like they're listening to a friend. There's a musicality to

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his work, and Symphony captures that perfectly say what she

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did there. She added, We're so proud to bring Josh

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to HBO. Josh Johnson said, I'm excited to have my

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breakout peace be with a company that nurtures vision like

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HBO does. I'm grateful to them and you for watching.

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Looking forward to that one, I'm not looking forward to

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be watching funny AF with Kevin Hart that's going to

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be on Netflix. This is one of those stand up

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comedy competitions. Why I'm not excited about it is because

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the nature of such a competition when you put it

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on TV. A lot of these things in the past

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have had comedians who have had a minute of material

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and they get on there and then everybody goes, oh,

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so and so is really really funny. Hey John, how

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come you don't play him on your show? Zach we

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know talk about him, and then I have get to

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go because they have one minute of material. So I'm

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a little biased against these shows. Hopefully this one is

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a little better. A lot of names attached to this

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Funny AF with Kevin Hart. It'll premiere April twenty f

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with four episodes on Netflix, and then episodes five and

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sixth of the week after that, and then two more

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episodes live May fourth and fifth. What day of the

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week is that that means I'm gonna have to work?

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Please be the middle of the week May fourth and

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Monday Tuesday and the fifth eight Tuesday. Perfect. Thank you

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Kevin Hart for that, because Wednesday, by the time May

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roll's around, Wednesday's volleyball night. By the way. I'm not kidding.

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I'm more or less in Morristown, New Jersey. If you

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are a female beach volleyball player, or a volleyball player,

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or just a female who would like to be on

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a beach volleyball team with a bunch of guys in

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their late fifties, hit me up. My email is in

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the show notes. We could use another player. You don't

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have to be good, you just have to come. Yeah,

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we play four on four and you always have to

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have one woman on the court. We've had this team

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for over a decade now and our female player is

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pretty good. She doesn't always come. Then we have to

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bug somebody's wife or I make my daughter play except

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my daughter's way of college. So we could use another player.

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I digress funny af with Kevin Hart on the premiere.

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Some big names these aren't performers as a judges Keegan,

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Michael Key, Tom Segura, Kameil Nan, Gianni, Chelsea Handler, and

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Nikki Glazer. So this is, you know, this is the

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agents in Netflix. This is pulling out the stops because

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let's rank these people out of Kevin Hart, Keagan, Michael Keat, Samsigora,

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Kamil Nan, Johnny Chelsea handler, Nicky Glazer. Who's the sixth

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the biggest star there? Sigora right, and he's selling out

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huge places. Maybe it's Chelsea, maybe it's Keegan, maybe it's Nicky.

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But these are all pretty big names. A press release

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not attributed to any human. It's just a press release quote.

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Who said this quote? Why won't they tell us? Do

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the AI rate this quote? A press release said, Kevin

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Hart knows what it takes to turn a mic and

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a dream and a comedy superstardom in funny af He's

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searching for the next comedian ready to follow that path.

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In this uncensored comedy competition, rising stand ups from across

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the country step into the spotlight, hoping to make the

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same leap Kevin once did, from grinding it out in

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small clubs to headlining their own specials. Along the way,

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Kevin and a circle of comedy heavyweights will decide who

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progresses in the competition, offering a behind the curtain look

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at the pressure triumphs an occasional bomb that shape a

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career in stand up. Theovon announced his comedy bus Boys,

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starring David Spade, will hit theaters nationwide April seventeenth, and

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we're told, for the first time, two of comedy's biggest

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names or skipping studios entirely to distribute their raunchy buddy

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comedy themselves. Your cast Theovon, David Spade, Tim Dillon, Bobby Lee,

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Jay Farrow, and Trevor Wallace runtime one hour, thirty three

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minutes of pure absurdist comedy gold. We are promised, Okay,

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then what happens? Well? Theo and Spade co wrote this

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ridiculous buddy comedy about two hapless friends who believe becoming

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waiters will solve every problem in their lives. Cidber, There's

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no chance the Yvon can act like at all right,

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there's like zero chance that he's a good actor, right

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like zero. Spade's going to be Spade. There's no chance.

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All right, shut up, John, all right, We're promised the

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dynamic between Theovon's absurdist Louisiana Fried humor and David Spade's

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sharp season comedy creates some thing totally fresh. What makes

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bus Boys revolutionary isn't just the film itself. Listeners, Oh no, no, no,

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you see, Vaughn and Spade didn't sell out to the

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studios or traditional distributors. No, they were like, hey, Paramount

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Warner Brothers, we don't want your money. We're going to

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do this ourselves. We're going to show them in And

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then the big movie studios were like no, no, here's

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a lot of money, and THEO and Spade were like no, no, no, no,

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no no, we want to distribute this ourselves. That's what happened. Everybody,

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You understand this that they all the studios been on

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this film and they're like, no, we want to release

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it ourselves. That's what happened. Stavros Halkia says joined the

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cast of Glenn Powell's upcoming comedy movie about a country

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music star in free Fall. Sources tell Variety Stavros will

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play the agents of Glenn Powell's character. It'll be directed

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by jud Appatol and premiere February fifth, twenty twenty seven.

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I've been on my soapbox lately about people who seem

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like outsiders or insiders, so you know, you might just

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look at Stavros Haukis and be like, no, he's not

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one of those Hollywood insider types. He's in a movie

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directed by Judd Apatow starring Glenn Powell he's in the club.

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As George Carlin once said, there's a big club and

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you ain't in it. Hey remember last summer when comedians

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played the Riod Comedy Festival, and like you know, they

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were just the worst people who ever lived, and everybody

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was all upset. Well, two of the comedians who play

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the Rood Comedy Festival, which, by the way, in my

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class Thursday, one of the students brought it up and

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he was not happy with comedians playing the Riod Comedy Festival. However,

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I hate to tell everyone, including my student, it has

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not affected anyone. Gabe Iglesias and Joe Cooy they both

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played Riod and on Saturday night they played a jam

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packed Sofi Stadium and got the big shiny piece in variety.

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Gabe was telling the tale as I've shared with you before,

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after selling out Dodger Stadium, I was kind of thinking

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to myself, what do we do now? Are we done?

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Have we jumped the shark? Should we call it a day.

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I still feel young enough to keep doing stand up.

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I still feel relevant, but I don't know that I

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could do something like this again. He reportedly paid two

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hundred and fifty grand penalties and overtime fees for going

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over his time slot at Dodger Stadium with his curfew

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and stuff. So the question was, can I find something

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big to do? What's gonna be the next big thing?

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Gabe suggested to Joe Coy that they do a show

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at Sofi Stadium, and now they have, Gabe said. Joe

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Coy was like, I don't know, Gabe. Gabe said, I'm like, oh,

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come on, how many sold out forums are gonna keep doing?

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He says in the end, I bullied Joekoy into doing it.

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Joe Coy, He's told Variety. I lived in that area

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and I remember driving past the Forum and just thinking

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to myself, someday, but to be able to play so Fi.

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It's the biggest venue in LA. This is the most

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special moment of both of our careers. We went there

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two weeks ago to do a photo shoot and we

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hugged each other and said, Wow, this is crazy. So look,

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maybe Mark Norman told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift,

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but I think the moral of the first half of

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today's episode is you can tell a horrible, mean joke

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about Taylor Swift and you can play the riodd comedy festival.

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It doesn't affect your career at all. Coming up at

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nowon Eastern today it's the results of Comedy Survivor. I

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who everybody voted off. So come back at noon Eastern

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we'll see who's gone. And then on the other side

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of that, go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News

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podcast group. You'll find a cartoon drawing of me and

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whoever's off, and then we'll vote again. We're starting to

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get down to it now. A different student in my

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class on Thursday, who wasn't the student who mentioned the

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Riyod Comedy Festival. This was a different student. She is

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a big Chris Fleming fan. She stayed after class to

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grab me and just had this look on her face.

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She was sad, and she said, Chris Fleming is mainstream

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now now. She told me this on Thursday before I

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and I was like, you know, I said the exact

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same thing on the show tomorrow when we had this conversation.

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So it's interesting, Chris Fleming mainstream. This is fun. Zach

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Allafanakis has announced a show for Netflix it's called This

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is a Gardening Show. It'll be out on Earth Day,

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which is April twenty second, with six fifteen to twenty

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minute episodes. It is described as a refreshing and whimsical

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take on gardening. Rather than positioning himself as an expert,

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Galvanakis approaches the subject with curiosity and self effacing humor,

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with the goal of learning alongside his audience and giving

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viewers valuable, accessible and educational tools to use in their

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own gardens. There is a trailer. It's a lot of fun.

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Let's listen. Hello, what are those cameras? Okay? What do

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you want to talk about?

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If I were to offer a remedy to the human condition,

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it would be a garden.

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Or acid.

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The way we get food is so perverse.

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Right now, I think it's worth talking about it without

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sounding stupid.

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What is a tomato?

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And what we're leaving this next generation they may have

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to know this stuff. What's your favorite fruit? Cal's not

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a fruit?

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Can you look at me and go that's fascinating, That's fascinating.

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This is a food gardening show with your host, Zach

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Gaspa Vedaski.

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Congrats to the guys at Mystery Science Theater at three thousand.

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The new, New, New, new, new, new revival of it.

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They did a kickstarter. They have raised two million, Wow,

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two million, six hundred and ninety eight and forty nine

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dollars from twenty and eighty nine backers, while not as

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much as raised by previous fundraising campaigns survived the show

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in recent years. The initial goal was to raise twenty

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thousand dollars to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Riff Tracks.

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They are going to make new episodes, and we're back

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to the not quite original cast, but at least like

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you know, not one of the derivative casts that we've

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seen in recent years. This version will star Michael J. Nelson,

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Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbette. They will return in their

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original roles for the four new episodes. And I think

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I'm gonna wrap it up there because I have duplicates.

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I've got another Gabe story, I've got another Joe Coy story.

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But you only get one story day on Daily Comedy News.

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So that's it. We're going home. I'm al ready home.

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I record the basement, you know what I mean. Come

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back at noon Comedy Survivor see then,