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Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Matt
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Riife surprised everybody he shared that he got baptized earlier
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this year. Rife was on the History Hyenas podcast and
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said I got baptized in August in a dude's pool.
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Raife told Hosciannis Papas and Christa Stefano that he didn't
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grow up in a religious household, but he'd occasionally attend
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church with friends a few times a year. Rife said,
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I've never been a super religious person, but when my
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grandpa pasked away, something hit me that was like, I'll
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never see this person again, so something has to exist.
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I skewed Christian so I started going to church a
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little bit more. But he says, I hate church. I
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find it excreminatingly boring. But I want to believe in
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God and it's obviously a huge part of the process.
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Matt Rife, if you're listening, and I know you are,
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I'm gonna recommend Deacon Mike's podcast. Deacon Mike's podcast is
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called Question of Faith, and Deacon Mike and the crew
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they found a good way to like just be like
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normal person from the community who also attends church, Like
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they did a whole thing in the summer talking about
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the church softball league, so it's not like preachy question
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of faith. Back to the comedy John, Nicki Glazer was
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on CBS this morning earlier in the week. She's getting
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ready to host the Golden Globes on January fifth. Nicky's right,
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a big wave of press right now. Her PR team
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is taking on Nate Bergetzi's a PR team in the
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or Super Bowl this weekend. Nate's team put up three
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touchdowns yesterday. If you heard yesterday's podcast anyway, here's Nicki
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Glazer reached.
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Out to Ricky. He called me right away to give
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me advice. Within like two minutes of me sending an
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email being like, would it be okay if you maybe
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copped on the phone for ninety seconds he called me.
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I'm like at an airport, ducked in a corridor being like,
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oh oh yeah, trying to hear his advice. And his
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advice was just be yourself. You're not one of them.
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Don't try to walk out there acting like you're an
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a lister just because you're invited. You wouldn't be if
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you weren't the host, which is a very heals so real,
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it's so real, and that's really important. And he also
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wrote me and had great advice of you know, their
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advice that I chair so much that can only you
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would only get from someone who had done it was
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that the room is super noisy, they're all talking. Don't
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try to quiet them down because the audience at home
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can't hear them. And I thought that was very valuable
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because I would have been out there. I'm not used
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to performing for a crowd of people talking. Still, I
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would have been like, can everyone take your seats? The
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show has begune, you know, And now they just saved
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me from that moment, which would really possibly have been
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an awkward moment.
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Yes, if you're a fan of me, I'm the guest
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today on the Letterman Podcast. Mike Chisholm and I talked
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to comedy for about an hour and a half The
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Letterman Podcast wherever you get your shows and if you're
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too lazy to click on that, that will be the
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January first episode on this feed. But why don't you
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give Mike the download no listening. You can listen to
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my version, but give them the downloads. It feels good
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about himself. There's also a video version of that. If
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you want to see how boring John sitting in the
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basement looks, you can go on YouTube and check that out.
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I wouldn't your usual mental image of George Clooney sitting
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in a Chase lounge with a microphone recording off Lake
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Como in Italy. That's the image you should keep. You
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don't want to see what this show actually looks like.
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There's a reason this is an audio only podcast. Speaking
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of David Letterman, he did an interview with GQ and
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we learned Dave does meditation. Dave said, yeah, I do
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a little meditating. Sometimes I just meditate hoping I fall asleep.
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GQ was like, does that work? I can tell you
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firsthand it works, but Dave said, yeah, sometimes it does. Yeah,
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it's pretty good. When I was working, I would meditate.
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Because you're doing five nights a week. You go out tired, sick, lonely, happy, scared.
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You gotta go out, Dave, you're doing four nights a week.
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There was Friday Night videos for a while, and then
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I think when you went to five Days on NBC,
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one of the days was on tape and the CBS
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Friday night shows were clearly pre tape. You doubled up
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one day a week, you gotta go out, and the
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meditation sometimes would give you a boost of energy. But
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I found when I did it religiously, it just gave
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me more energy to be angry. So I thought, well,
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this might not be what they're talking about. Dave also
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said he took medication. Yeah, yeah, medication. Doctor. The guy
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who saved my life begged me to go on an
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SSRI because he used to get so upset. And we
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had an office, an adjunct office, an office in the office,
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I'm sorry, a closet in the office full of telephones
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because if things went wrong, I pick up my telephone,
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yank it out of the wall and heave it across
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the room. And so we had to deal with Westinghouse,
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and people used to make the phones that have a
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regular delivery stops applying us with phone. So that was
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a cue that maybe I needed help, GQ. And you
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don't have that feeling anymore. I urged your hurl of phone, Dave.
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How have I been today, GQ? I haven't seen him
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throw one phone? Davey retired? Send me retired? What's a deal?
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Dave said, retirement is a myth. Retirement is nonsense. You
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won't retire. The human mechanism will not allow you to retire.
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What do you do? Sit there and wait, give me
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the name of the show, Judge, Judy to come on.
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As long as you're healthy, you still want to produce,
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and you'll find ways too. Once I stopped doing the show,
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took me a couple of years to figure it out. Ah,
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this is a completely different rhythm, and without the rhythm
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that you're customed to, largely unsatisfying. So you gotta find
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something that's important to you. Hello, Dave, Hi, I'm podcasting
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in the basement for that very reason. I understand. I'm
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on the back of my career now, I get it.
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But I like doing this show. This show is a
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lot of fun, and it gives me a rhythm to
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my day. I hear you, David Letterman. Dave, do you
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think about the show in general these days? Dave said,
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from the day I stopped doing it till last night,
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two or three times a week I have an anxiety
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dream related to the TV show, and it's maddening. It's
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just manning the dream is I show up and here
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I am I'm read do the show. I'm on the
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old show's schedule. I've been a rehearsal, I've been a
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hair I've been to makeup. I come down and it's
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people I don't know looking at me, saying, Okay, we'll
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get to it. But what about the audience. I guess
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they're here, So it's me in the same mode everyone
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else is incomplete, and it's anxiety. It usually wakes me
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up at a start. What does he think it means?
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I think, as it came to the college, dream of
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Oh I forgot where the English building is, or it
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could be some sort of psychosis Davis seventy seven. How
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much longer will he work for I don't know. Like
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I said, I'm surprised at the number that I'm still
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doing it now. I think if I start in the
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middle of talking to a world famous guest, I fall asleep.
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I was doing some show for Netflix a couple of
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years ago, and the schedule was ridiculous. We were doing
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three shows a night twice, and then three shows another
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night twice, and it was insane. And the stage manager
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came up to me between one of those shows and
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she said, you're gonna have to sit up straight and look,
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I know you're ehausted, can you sit up straight? And
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I thought, ah, maybe that's a sign. So does that
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mean he's not doing anything more for Netflix? Interesting anyway,
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if you want to hear me talk about Letterman Letterman podcast. Today,
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the La Times asked Ronnie Ching, do you think comedy
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has the potential to become part of that extremist algorithm
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when it comes to how some people view the world
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socially politically? Ronnie said, yeah, but that goes both ways,
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politically right, some of that type of content can influence
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you to go left or right. There's comedy for everybody,
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so it can influence you in any direction. I think
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what's sadder is guys, and I can speak to straight
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men because I'm a straight man sometimes have legitimate grapes
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that get kind of focused on and exaggerated by being
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on the Internet too much. It's not even about politics,
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about losing your mind. It's not about conservative or liberal.
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You could lose your mind as a liberal, you could
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lose them as a conservative. I think just losing your
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mind is very scary. In the new special on Netflix,
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which is one of the top of the year, I
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will share my Top Specials of the Year list on
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the twenty seventh. But Ronnie in this special has a good,
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strong political chum. Hilarius has their second special out today,
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this one Alana Glazer. They don't seem to be pushing
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this one all that much. And that's not me being
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catty at the Hulu publicist who won't get back to me.
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I'm just not seeing much at all. This is Glazier's
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second stand up special. It's called Human Magic on Hulu today.
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The only press I had seen was with NPR, and
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even that wasn't really about the special, but something interesting
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in that interview in PR asked are you good at
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knowing when something should end? And Alana said, yeah, I
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am with broad City. We had signed a contract of
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seven seasons and then we both came to the decision
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and ended after five. Abby and I Comedy Essential was like, huh,
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but yeah, that's something I would say is elegant about
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me knowing when things are at their end. CBS has
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picked up the pilot for Zorna Zarni Gorg's multi camera comedy.
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The sitcom is called Zorna and in Zorna Zarna, Gorg
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plays Zarna, a pron immigrant woman who's been raising her
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American born kids on Indian values, but now that they're
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getting older, it's time for her to focus on her
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own American dream. Amy Schumer had a project called kind
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Of Pregnant, a comedy movie. It's now scheduled for February
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twenty twenty five on Netflix. It follows a woman wearing
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a fake baby bump because she's jealous of her best
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friend's pregnancy, and leads her into awkward comedic situations. Amy
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Schumer has a producer credit, as does Adam Sandler. So
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you know it's good. I mentioned yesterday that I've pre
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taped a bunch. You know, Holiday's Jonny Mack wants to
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take a couple days off, so you probably won't hear
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me talking about all in Comedy About Love. That's the
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Broadway show that's starring John mullaney. So you'll see a
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lot of John Mullaney press next week. So if I
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don't talk about it, it's because I pre taped. Malini said,
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I like every single thing about Broadway. I like that
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if you're not on the crew that should move a chair,
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you can't move a chair. I like that you run
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into everyone else doing shows. I like every single part
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of it. Malanie also talked to the Red Carpet about
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how fatherhood has changed his comedy. Let's listen to John
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and we'll take the break.
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Oh it's much less precise. Oh my god. There used
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to be limitless time in the day and tons of
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sleep to remember every little nuance and syllable of every
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little joke that's gone. So I think in some ways
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it's benefited from that ten percent less clever, but perhaps funnier.
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Kevin Hart will tape his next comedy special Tomorrow and
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Sunday at the Adrian Orsch Center for the Performing Orts
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in Miami. Ian Lara is taping his special Lapo Swan Rouge.
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Did I get my friends right there? I'll leave it
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in close enough? Who knows? I don't know. Ian Lara
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is taping his special Saturday at that place in New
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York City. Vince Vaughn's Bad Monkey is getting another season
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from Apple TV. You know, I like the Apple guys.
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You watch one of their shows, and all their shows
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are actually pretty good. They have a pretty good track record.
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Plus they renew things onlike Netflix, which you get into
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something and they're like, eh, we're not making any more
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of it, Well, like Shane Gillis's Tires, Like that's like
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ten minutes to make no offense to the writers, but
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that wasn't like It's not like they made an Indiana
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Jones movie. It's guy sitting around a tire shop riffing,
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and they only made six of them, make sixteen episodes
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of Tires. Well yeah, anyway, bad Monkey, we'll come back
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to Apple TV. It stars Vince Vaughan. They got a
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tax credit, so they're gonna film in California. I don't
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know how that's gonna work. It's supposed to take place
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in Key West. Who knows. The Toronto Guardian caught up
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with Kyle Bergstresser. He's been told his comedy style is
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a mix of Rory Scovel and Pete Holmes, but describe
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it without referencing someone else. I'm like a guy who
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does so many stupid act outs that it's basically sketch comedy.
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Some of his influences include some Canadians that I haven't
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heard of. I'm gonna guess you haven't either, Tim Gray Royan,
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Ashdana Smith. Right, you don't know who those are? Andy Samberg,
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Nick Kroll, Tim Robinson, Chris Locke, Maria Bamford, Tim Heindeker,
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Connor O'Malley, just anyone getting up there and being a
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crazy ass. Favorite comedian growing up, here's a curve ball
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Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor. I knew I wanted to
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smoke cigarettes and be a truth teller just like them.
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And he says, now it's embarrassing and weird, but my