Matt Rife: Seems nobody but Netflix is excited about his new specials and sitcom

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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It's Saturday, and I love Saturday, and nothing I like more than spending

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the entire day on my laptop doing
my taxes, my kids taxes, my

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late mom's taxes. Oh, today
is going to be so much fun.

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Matt Rife, I tell you he's
got to deal with Netflix. Part of

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that is a comedy series. I
guess it's a sitcom. Comedy series is

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the language they're using. It takes
place at a gym. On the marysoud

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dot com, Rachel Weisman did not
react well to that, and she wrote,

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I guess we learned the wrong lessons
from Matt Rife's Netflix special Natural Selection.

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Remember when he turned on his entire
fan base during the special. None

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of that matters, apparently, because
now he's on the path towards even more

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Netflix content. Yay, Well,
at least he's going back to his roots.

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His next special will be Netflix's first
all CrowdWork special, So I guess

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you won't hear jokes rich by Rife, but instead just watch a show that's

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a longer version of his TikTok videos. Speaking to Deadline, he'd previously talked

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about acting and how much he loves
it more than stand up. Raife said,

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I love acting just as much,
if not more than stand up.

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I just haven't been doing it as
long, and I haven't been able to

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get my foot in the door as
well as I have would stand up.

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But now that I have freedom and
success via stand up, it opens up

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avenues in other areas that I'm passionate
about, like film and television that I'm

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hoping I can make that transition over
to because it can only feed itself.

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Rachel writes, this sounds like hell. Rife has proven that has written jokes

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lean towards sexism, So why would
I want to see an entire show where

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he's acting out said jokes. The
workplace comedy setup has been done time and

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time again, and while the deal
simply says that he can do it,

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I don't really want to see what
it means fun see. I'm all in

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favor of more Matt Rife content because
I like controversy. The eight hundred Pound

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Guerrilla talked to Kyle Kinnean about his
recent special I gave you Five Days?

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Did I give you five days?
Tesday One said, there's Friday, I

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gave you four and a half days
to watch Kyle Kanaine's special. I had

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mentioned I think in that special about
ten minutes in there's an all timer bit.

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I'm about to spoil what the bit's
about. I'm not going to discuss

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any of the jokes, but by
listening to me further you will find out

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what the all Time bit is about. You've been warned ready eight hundred prown

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Gerilla said, you're bitting a new
special about the Fast and the Furious franchise

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is inspired. Kyle said, I
mean, we all know what they are.

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It's not going to go down as
one of the best films of the

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century, but go have fun with
it. People like Star Wars, I

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don't care about that. These are
my Star Wars, that's my Marvel Universe.

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Gorilla was curious about the construction of
a bit, and Kyle said,

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I think you just have to allow
yourself to get carried away sometimes. Let's

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see how far I can go before
the audience is like, okay, we're

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now off board from this premise.
What bit took the longest to come together?

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In this new special, Kyle said, the full special, most of

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it is just a forty five minute
story about moving to the suburbs. But

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stuff like this isn't a conscious effort, Like this story starts here and ends

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there. You just start telling you
one night and then you remember another detail.

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You can add into it, another
story that seemed unrelated. But I

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can put into this before you know
it, You're talking for forty five minutes

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about moving to the suburbs. So
I'll chime in here. As I said

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the other day, I loved the
special, but it was like the difference

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between two beers and nine beers.
And I was loving it, and seventy

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five minutes in, I was like, okay, can we wrap this up?

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I went from like oom, is
this gonna beat a tell or be

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up there with a tell? To
okay, can we stop already? And

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I really liked it. I'm trying
to explain my emotions here. I both

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really liked it and thought it was
too long. And that's what she said.

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I'm sorry, I had to do
it. It was right there you

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were thinking it. I had to. I know. I try and keep

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it clean here, but it was
right there. Michael Scott does it.

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John Hehugh was saying, you aspire
to be Michael Scott. Yeah, maybe

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I digress. So if Kyle it's
got forty five minutes about moving to the

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suburbs, maybe that could have been
one special, and then the Fast and

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the Furious stuff with some other things
could have been another special, and I

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would have went, oh, both
specials are amazing. Again. It was

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really good. It was just too
long. You're thinking it. Stop thinking

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it. I didn't say anything that
time, thought it on your own.

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My mic just crashed again. This
is that's my mom's ghost. My mom

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didn't like that humor. There see, I got to keep it clean heer.

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Brian Reagan spoke to the Montecito Times. They wrote, critics, fans,

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and fellow comics love him, including
Jerry Seinfeld, who had him guessed

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on two episodes of Comedians and Cars
Getting Coffee. Times was curious how Reagan's

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approach to comedies changed over the years. Brian said, I want to talk

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about things that are interesting to me. When I was younger, my material

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was about coming out of my childhood. I had Little League baseball routines and

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things about feeling stupid in school.
But now I like to touch on things

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that are maybe a little bumpy or
edgy, which might surprise people, right.

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Imagine if Brian Reagan suddenly went into
it that's what she said, that

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would be pretty edgy. I still
don't want my audience to get to the

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point where they feel uncomfortable or wish
they hadn't come. But I do like

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to talk about guns and crime and
philosophy in a lighthearted way as possible.

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But I do sneak a point of
view in there. I think sometimes audiences

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might go, WHOA, we didn't
expect this. We're the donut sprinkle jokes.

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Yeah, you gotta be careful of
those audiences. You know, you

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might be this comic on the rye
and suddenly you tell a horrible, mean

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joke about Taylor Swift. I mean, remember Joe Coy did that one time.

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If you don't remember, let me
refresh your memory. The big difference

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between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have

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fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.
Oh that's so mean. It's just cruel.

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I mean, Joe Coy, what
are you doing? I wonder Taylor

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Swift apparently murdered his career. He
deserved it for that one. That was

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just vicious. I mean, suggesting
that they showed tailor shift on football games.

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How dare you new? Vo dot
Net spoke to Brad Williams, who

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said it first, having Dwarfism was
a great benefit to his career because people

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wanted to put me on all their
shows. They wanted to have something different

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on their shows. So at first, when you're different, it helps because

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you check a box and you get
put on shows that you probably don't deserve

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to be on. They need somebody
who doesn't look like every other person on

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the show, so it helped me
at first. But once you start getting

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good agents and club owners and all
that, just see he was the gimmick

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they don't see as a person who's
just really good at comedy. So that

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was the challenge I had overcome.
Now I'm in theaters and it's taken me

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twenty years. When people say,
oh, Brad Williams, he came out

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of nowhere, I'm like twenty year
overnight sensation. Okay. Sure. Brad

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was apparently the first comedian to headline
a Cirque to Soligh show. He told

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the story, they reached out to
my manager, Barry and they said,

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hey, we're thinking about having a
comedian in a Cirk show. Who do

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you think would work? My manager's
first response was Brad Williams. Cirk was

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like, cool, that's great.
We're gonna look at some other people too.

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They did for a month and they
came back to my manager and said

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we looked and yeah, you're right, Brad Williams is who we want.

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My first reaction was hell, yes, I liked being part of a team.

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It was a challenge to go on
after the guys who literally juggle each

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other with their feet, but it
was fun to try and win people over

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who weren't exactly there for stand up
comedy, but I would and it was

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great. I love doing it.
Sorry, I couldn't stay there longer do

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more, but it was coming to
a time where I was like, well,

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I could stay here, do circ
to Sleigh and make this money for

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the rest of my life, or
I could bet on myself and go solo.

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He said, Thank god I did, because so I was still in

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Vegas, I wouldn't be playing the
Egyptian Room in Indianapolis. All right,

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Let's see who's at the Melbourn Comedy
Festival on Sunday, April seventh. Again.

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The way time zones work you know
if the mill burner has got up

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today and grabbed the episode. They're
like, John, it's already Sunday here.

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I don't know why you're telling us
who's playing Saturday night. So that's

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why I don't do that. I'm
telling you who's playing Sunday night? And

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I actually have the website loaded for
once. Now you're probably thinking, John,

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you lying to us. Did you
record Friday and Saturday back to back

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and the website was already loaded?
Busted? You think I would actually remember

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to load it? Now? What's
weird? When I pulled up the Sunday

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page. Usually I have vertical lines. Here, today I have boxes.

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I don't know why they gave me
boxes. Today, here's a show that

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supposedly has a clip. We know
how that goes. It's Adam McKenzie hacked

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and with the box here I can
see his graphic. It looks like a

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man in a suit, and where
the head should be is a monitor like

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a TV monitor, like an old
four x three size monitor, with a

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man, presumably Adam McKenzie making a
funny face the description. In September twenty

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two, Adam was part of Australia's
largest ever cybersecurity disaster. In this hilarious

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new show, Adam dives deep into
the dark web uh oh, and finds

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out just how much of our identities
they've stolen. The age gave it four

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stories, and let's listen all the
edits you're about to hear and the bleep

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those are in Adam's clip. I
did not make any of these edits,

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but I have listened to this clip
already. You're gonna like it. I

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also used to watch when I was
sixteen years old, a little TV show

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called Beverly Hills nine No. Two. Juan, Yeah, you know what

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I'm talking about. I'll give you
an episode synopsis, Frandra Kelly. They

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were fighting over a role in the
school play and it got really intense.

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Guys, but then they realized their
friendship was way more important and they became

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best friends again. You what could
teenagers like to watch these days? Yeah?

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They watched a little teen drama called
Euphoria. Do you want an episode

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synopsis from you? Fouri? Okay? Nate watches every one of these dad's

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sex tapes. Meanwhile, Ashtraye Murder's
mouth with a hammerco Oh my god,

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Oh my god, what happened?
Brandon and Brenda had the front it on

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balling plants you stopt about their parents. Meanwhile, Room wid a Bob oh

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Laurie, She's dropping hero. Wow, that's really good like him alt Adam

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Mackenzie. That show is called a
hacked Let's do one without a clip.

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Alexander Hudson's show is called Making Lemonade. Alexandra believes if society thinks of her

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as a lemon, she might as
well use them to make herself some sweet

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lemonade. Alexander explores her experiences as
a disabled woman and challenges the misconceptions held

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about her. Alexander took joint first
place in Raw Comedy in twenty twenty two.

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That is a Big Award and was
a twenty twenty three Comedy Zone cast

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member. No reviews. Jess Pierman's
show is called Champagne Problems. It's a

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classic stand up about human behavior,
beauty, standards in society gone wrong,

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privilege and partying, all delivered in
a punchline heavy and confronting show. If

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you're a fan of the dark,
the filthy, and the philosophical, this

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show's not to be missed. Easily
offended need not apply, but it's for

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audiences fifteen and up, no reviews, and as my computer just reminded me,

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I have a conference call in nine
minutes. That means that your comedy

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is for today. Could I do
a quick story here? Danis Lass spoke

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to the Telegraph in India and they
said, in Indio, where we used

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to stand up comedian switching between two
or three languages, which is not the

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case in the UK. Do you
enjoy that approach to a show? Daniel

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Sloss said, yeah, I do
enjoy watching Indian comedians do their punch lines

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in Hindi and their setups in English. Yeah. I noticed that on the

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UH there's a version I don't want
to misspeak to which language it is,

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but there's a foreign language version of
the Office that is switching between English and

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I think Hindi. You'll find that
on Hulu. It's fun, but they

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just go back and forth, and
I figured out I can read captions.

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It makes the comedy hard to follow, but there's something very fun about mixing

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it up like that. I can
somewhat relate to the fact if I'm getting

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particularly angry for a joke, or
I'm performing in Scotland, I have a

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thicker accent than I do anywhere else
in the world. They asked, in

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what ways is Daniel Sloss the performer
different. I'm Daniel Sloss, the person,

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Daniel said, I guess I'm more
arrogant on stage. I'm actually confident

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off it, but I'm not an
in your face piece of crap. I

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guess I'm definitely more insecure in real
life. I think I'm a nicer person

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in real life. Maybe I'm much
friendlier when I'm on stage. In real

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life, I'll not talk to anyone, but on stage I'll talk to people

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quite happily. And that's because I
don't have to listen to their feedback.

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That's the problem with conversations. Other
people get input, and that's your comedy

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