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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack, who with
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your daily comedy news today honestly weekend filler. Look, man,
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it was Christmas and I've had a couple of lists
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that I've just been holding on to for you. Now,
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this first list has been completely blocked by an ad
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for Brad Pitt's f One the movie. Now I could
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just edit this out, but that's not fun. Hey guys,
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I'm trying to read the list here. How do you
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clear this ad? Oh? There it goes from Deadline Comics
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who Won twenty twenty five? The ad is back again.
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I could edit this out, but wouldn't you rather just
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hear me slowly lose my mind as I tried to
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do this? Where was I? Comics who won twenty twenty five?
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A look at fourteen? Who leveled up with explosive professional Growth?
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Why fourteen? What a weird number? This is by Matt
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Grobar in Deadline, as I like to do with most
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of these lists. I haven't looked at it yet, but
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I am going to hit command plus plus to make
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the font bigger. Somebody's scatt and old. You can't see
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anymore Deadline rights. We've honed in on fourteen comedic performers
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who achieved explosive professional growth in twenty twenty five, whether
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by substantially boosting their ticket sales or social media following,
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landing a coveted roll or development opportunity, or elevating to
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a new tier of venue as a headliner. It should
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be noticed this list isn't all encompassing. You won't find
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Jim Gaffigan listed here, even if he did the unthinkable
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by putting together nearly forty five great minutes just on
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the topic of bourbon. I'll push back on the word great. There,
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I'm gonna use both hands to push back on the
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word great. You won't find Nikki Glazer, who's elevated to
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the A list with an array of starring vehicles lined
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up Nord Tom Sagora, who landed his first Emmy nominee
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for Bad Thoughts, and I'll point out play at the
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reON Comedy Festival. Deadline says, we generally try to avoid
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arena tier comedians, though a couple's not through. Let's look
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number one, Max Amini. Now I'm already fascinated by this list.
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Max Amini. You know how many times I've mentioned Maxsimini.
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This year prior to today's episode, none, and I can
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see I suck at this. I'm the worst. I don't
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know anything about comedy, and I'm terrible at hosting a podcast.
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But I can tell you almost every day I google
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the word comedy, and I also google the word comedian,
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and I also read several entertainment websites, including Deadline and
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I'm sitting here right now going Maximini, who Deadline tells
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us this year he has performed one hundred and fifty
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sold out shows in nineteen countries, selling over two hundred
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thousand tickets. In March, Amani released his latest special, Randomly Selected,
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seeing it pull out a whopping sixteen million views on
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YouTube Deadline rights. Remarkably, this special is not only the
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top performing special of the year across all platforms per
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Nielsen numbers, it's also the ninth and most viewed on
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YouTube of all time. Now again, I'm terrible with this.
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I suck, But I did read other people's lists. No
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one mentioned this. The La Times didn't mention this. Vulture
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didn't mention this. The YouTube algorithm hasn't put this in
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in front of me. What is going on here? Did
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I move to like a parallel universe where this guy's
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the top comedian, described by Jerry Seinfeld as one of
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the hottest comedians to watch in the next generation of comedy.
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As of this month, he's Instagram's number two creator period,
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behind only mister beast a Meani, generating two point seven
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seven billion views on the platform this year and has
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now surpassed six billion all time. I know somebody out
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there is screaming, okay boomer at me right now. I
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get it. I totally get it. I see these numbers
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and I'm like wow. And I'm not saying anything negative
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about him. I'm just saying, wow, how is all this
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happening without hitting the mainstream media at all? Like zero?
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I listen to podcasts about comedy. Haven't heard the name.
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I read Deadline, I read Vulture, I read Variety, I
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read the Hollywood Reporter. I haven't seen the name. Am
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I insane? Am I losing my mind? All right? I
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guess we got to pay attention to Max Amini. Respect
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and fine, I'm an old man. Call me whatever you want.
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I'm just I'm stunned right now, which is why I
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don't read these articles in advance. I'm just done, Okay,
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Number two Leanne Morgan, Leanne, I've heard of She's in
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the news all the time. Number three Josh Johnson again
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makes sense. Is Josh in the mainstream press every day? No?
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But is he in the comedy press a lot? Yes?
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Do the people I interact with regularly mentioned Josh Johnson, Yes,
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Maximini not so much. Again, I'm just confused, London writes.
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This year, Josh Johnson elevated into the rotating host schedule
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on The Daily Show. His tours kicked off in January
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and continues through February with three hundred shows and one
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hundred and eleven markets. Is all more impressive that he's
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done it with zero promoter marketing money. He's gonna play
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four sold out shows at the Palladium in London at
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the end of January, and we'll play five shows of
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the Beacon in New York City, then five sold out
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shows at the Chicago Theater on Valentine's Day weekend. Yep. Massive.
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He's known for taking the YouTube with his new long
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form topical stand up set on a weekly basis. Forty
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nine of his last fifty videos have reached over a
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million views. Absolutely breakout Yearnumber four Ali Sidik again, a
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name that has come up a lot per Nielsen numbers
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reviewed by Deadline. My Two Sons was the third most
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viewed special on any platform in the last year. Sadiq
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is also on the twenty stand ups to keep an
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eye on in twenty twenty six. I'm saving that list
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for January first. Haven't looked at it yet, but now
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I just got spoiled by one of the names. Number
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five Jimmy O Yang. Johnny Mac loves Jimmy O Yang.
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Deadline deep dives here into Jimmy O Yang's international success.
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Good call there. Number six Nurse John. Now, Nurse John
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is someone who's been on my radar, but not someone
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who I talk about on the show. A nurse turned
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viral creator and comedian who blew up online with relatable
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portrayals of life working in healthcare. Number seven Morgan Jay again,
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a name that has come up a couple times, which
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is why I'm just totally just bewildered by Maximini And again,
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maybe you're all listening to the podcast hitting delete, going
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what is wrong with this Johnny Mack guy? But I'm
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just bewildered because the name did not come up this year.
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Morgan Jay now has a full live band a company
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him at some of his larger shows. This year, Jay
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boosted his profile and film and TV with appearances on
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Apple TV's Stick Opposite Owen Wilson and Mark Marin, and
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on NBC's Saint Dennis Medical eight Osco at Cotska. You've
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heard me talk about her for the past few years.
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Good call there. Number nine Moe Ammer. I'm a big fan.
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I've liked all of his specials and as I always say,
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he's got something to say. I like him a lot.
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Ten three time guests. John Marco Soiresi still comes on
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the show, hasn't. Jim Gaffigan me cool guy. I've been
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a follower since I saw him at New Faces and
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he's hilarious, and you watched his YouTube special, and I
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think we all love John Marco Siresi. Number eleven on
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Deadlines list. Robbie Hoffman, yep, like I said, once I
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saw Mulaney was producing her special, I was like, all right,
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I got a beef up on Robbie Hoffman and I
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became a big time believer, and I think a lot
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of you became big time believers when you watch that special.
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Robbie Hoffman is fantastic. I mean the trivia guys have
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conversations with me about Robbie Hoffman at the Brewery. Umber
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twelve Caleb Hearn not my cup of tea, but sure.
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His top episode of his podcast reached over five million
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viewers on YouTube. That's not how podcasts work, don't get
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Johnny Max started on podcasts versus YouTube shows. You listen
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to a podcast, read my substack if you want to
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hear me rand about that. On number thirteen, jeff Ercurrie.
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All right, let's see what they say here. The other
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comic who won twenty twenty five, who was part of
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our twenty twenty four Comics to Watch the list is
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jeff Er Currie, who recently completed a nine sold out
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show residency at the Wilburn Boston with nine thousand tickets sold.
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Curry rescheduled a good chunk of this year's tour to
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be by his wife's side during her treatment, and pledged
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to donate one dollar for every ticket sold on the
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tour to breast cancer research. Recently, he taped a Netflix
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special during five shows at the Celebrity Theater. Number fourteen.
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Zakir Khan, India's Zakir Khan leveled up from theaters to arenas,
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going from playing the theater at MSG to Madison Square
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Garden itself. He did CON this year, became the first
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comedian performing in Hindi to play Madison Square Garden, New York,
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as well as Scotiabank Arena Toronto twice and the Coca
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Cola Arena in Dubai. He's also the first Asian comedian
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in a headline and sold out Royal Albert Hall in London.
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Really really fantastic list by Deadline here, great job, and
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I think it's just illustrative of just how much comedy
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I imagine we're off your radar, clearly, some of them
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off my radar. Really, really great job by Deadline. All right,
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let's take the break and then I've got a different
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list for you. I've been sitting on this one, and
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this list came out well well before the murder of
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Rob Reiner. This from the Boston Globe. They were ranking
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the top ten network sitcoms of all time, and their
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headline was All the Family Seinfeld ranking the top ten
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networks it comes of all time. So I'm just pointing
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out the timeline there to show it. Whatever is to
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come here was not influenced by the Reiner Murders's see
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what the Boston Globe says. Here are the criteria rules.
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Network only thirty minutes strictly comedy. I love Freaks and Geeks,
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but it was one show. I also love kerb but
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it was part of HBO, which, as the old catchphrase
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told us, wasn't even TV. All right. The Globe says
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they've tried to avoid recently bias, and here is their list.
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Number ten Good Time CBS nineteen seventy four to seventy nine.
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It's easy and not unfair to dismiss Jimmy Walker's dyno
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mites antics as a modern da appendage to minstrelsy. But
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consider how radical it was to put on a show
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about life in the Chicago projects, created by two black
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men on a primetime network in nineteen seventy four, and
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that gospel funk theme song. Hard to front any of that,
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all right. Number nine The Office NBC twenty five to
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twenty thirteen. I imagine if you listen to this podcast
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every day, you are familiar with the Office, so I
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won't bog down on that. But it's crazy to have
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the office behind Abbot Elementary ABC, twenty twenty one to
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the present. The Globe Rights, but Abbot moves towards the
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top of the class, largely through the easeful, good humored way.
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It addresses the perils facing public education. So were you
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saying the office walk so Abbot could run? On? Number
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seven The Honeymoons, CBS nineteen fifty five to fifty six,
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So they're including the classic Honeymooners. There there's a if
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later episodes and like TV movies and weird stuff. Number
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six Cheers, NBC, nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety three.
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The Globe Rights. Yes, I'd get run out of Boston
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if I didn't include Sam Alone and his beloved bar.
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Number five The Simpsons. Is The Simpsons a sitcom? Interesting?
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The Simpsons is a sitcom. I feel like it's a cartoon.
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I feel like that's its own thing. Number four All
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in the Family, CBS from nineteen seventy one to seventy nine.
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Debates raged over where the series was lampooning a bigot
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or celebrating him all in the family matter and known
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a way that few, if any other sitcoms have. Number
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three The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Now, if you ever
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go back and watch that, that has aged really well.
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They point out that Ted Knights Ted Baxter was Ron
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Burgundy before Ron Burgundy really really well said, I'm gonna
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steal that line next time. I'm about my love of
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Will Ferrell movies. Boy, that that is a great, great, great,
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great great point about Will Ferrell. Wow, Yes, okay, love it.
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Number two Seinfeld NBC from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen
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ninety eight. And I was going to sit here and
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wonder and speculate what they would have at number one,
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and then my eyes went down and I accidentally spoiled myself.
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So I know the answer. But how about you? What
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do you think? What haven't we mentioned yet? I'm just
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trying to rack my brain here, Happy Days mash. What
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else do people like? People like Parks and rec people
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have as number one. I Love Lucy from CBS from
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nineteen fifty one to nineteen fifty seven. Again can't argue
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with the pick. But on the other hand, we've been
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doing TV now for another seventy years and no one's
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been able to do better than I Love Lucy. That
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in itself says something they write. It's the fountain head
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of the sho genre. Not the first sitcom, but the
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one that showed how it's done. It still helps that
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it's still very, very funny. Okay. I won't lose my
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mind about that list. That list is not awful. I'm
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sure if I sat here and thought about it and
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made a list out of a different list, but not crazy. Okay,
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And as weekend filler goes, I enjoyed today's episode. I
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hope you did too. Tomorrow a look at the top