April 29, 2026

Melania Trump Calls for Jimmy Kimmel Firing

Melania Trump Calls for Jimmy Kimmel Firing
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Johnny Mac covers backlash to Jimmy Kimmel after a resurfaced joke about Melania Trump was recontextualized following an incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, prompting statements from Melania’s account and the President demanding ABC/Disney fire Kimmel; Mac explains he tried to remove the clip from his show but it accidentally remained. Kimmel responds on-air, and other comics (including Jimmy Fallon, Greg Gutfeld, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) add jokes; George Clooney comments on dangerous rhetoric, and reports mention the FCC may launch an early review of ABC’s broadcast licenses. Other news: King Charles reacts to Matt Friend’s impression; Stavros Halkias breaks his arm and postpones his Baltimore special taping; Tom Segura nearly booked Garth Brooks amid the “where are the bodies” meme; Fox’s Red Seat Ventures partners with Kill Tony; Laugh Factory launches comedian trading cards; Trevor Noah captains a South African comedy team for a September festival; Seth Meyers and John Oliver extend Beacon Theater dates; and Anjelah Johnson’s “Ugly Baby” special hits YouTube May 10.

00:00 Kimmel Controversy Begins
03:29 Kimmel Responds On Air
04:15 Other Comics Weigh In
06:05 FCC Review Rumblings
06:24 King Charles Roasts Matt Friend
07:16 Stavros Halkias Injury Update
08:15 Segura And Garth Brooks
09:25 Kill Tony Goes Corporate
10:39 Laugh Factory Trading Cards
11:46 Trevor Noah Comedy Festival
12:36 Jon Oliver Seth Meyers Beacon Theater Residency
12:56 Angela Johnson New Special


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Malania Trump has demanded that ABC take a stand and

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fire Jimmy Kimmel over what Malania Trump described as his

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hateful and violent rhetoric, calling Jimmy kim L a coward

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that engages in atrocious behavior. Now, last week, Jimmy Kimmel

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had done a fake White House correspondence dinner again last

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week before the incident on Saturday night, Kimmel did this

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comedy routine last week. In the comedy routine, Jimmy Kimmel

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had joked that missus Trump had the glow of an

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expectant widow. I wasn't in the writer's room, but as

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a semi comedy expert, I will suspect that the nature

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of that joke was a commentary on the President not

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always looking healthy. Anyway. After the incident on Saturday night,

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the clip resurfaced. It was now recontextualized, obviously on social media.

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Milania Trump's account wrote, Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is

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intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family

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isn't comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens the political

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sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity

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to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward,

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Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will

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keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It's

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time for ABC to take a stand. How many times

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will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense

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of our community. I'm not going to replay the clip

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because I'm not looking to stir that pod. Also, if

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you're in the Facebook group, you know about this. So

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here's what happened on my end in Sunday Morning show,

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I had the Kimmel bit, so if you do want

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to hear it, it's there if you want to go

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back and hear it. And then I was watching the

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Knicks on Saturday night and as the next game was

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wrapping up, I saw the news from the White House

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correspondents dinner and I switched over to CNN and at

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around nine thirty, I thought to myself, you know what,

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I shouldn't play this Kimmel material because it is now recontextualized,

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and I don't want to make fun of potentially tragic event.

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And it's breaking news here and we don't know what

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has happened yet, So let me take the Kimmel stuff out.

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And I sat down and I made an edit, and

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I uploaded a new version of the show that didn't

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contain the Kimmel material. So then on Sunday morning, I'm

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driving to the National Donut Chain listening back to the show.

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I always listened back to the show to see if

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they're new mistakes, and to my horror, the Kimmel material

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will still in there. I'm befuddled as to how that happened.

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And I'm positive I made the audio edit because A

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I have it, and B I specifically remember having to

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move the commercial marker because when you change the audio,

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the show got shorter, so the commercial marker had to

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move to where the commercial hole was. So I'm positive

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that I uploaded it. I don't know what happened. Maybe

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I didn't hit safe, maybe something happened with the computers.

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I don't know, but anyway, the point being, I heard

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the Kimmel clip and I was like, oh no, so

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the Facebook group knows that I felt truly bad about that,

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and I come in peace. I like to make fun

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of stuff. I like to be rascally. I don't come

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in hate at all. So back to Kimmel again. He

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made these jokes last week, and I don't think these

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were violent jokes. I think he was just goofing about

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the president's age and general health. And I don't think

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Jimmy would have done the same bit on say Monday

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Night show. After a potential shooting later in the day,

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the President of the United States weighed in, saying, I

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appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel's despicable

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call to violence, and normally would not be responsitive to

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anything that he said, but this is something far beyond

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the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney

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and ABC. Jimmy Kimmel hosted his show on Monday Night

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and responded. Jimmy said, you know, sometimes you wake up

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in the morning and the first lady puts out a

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statement demanding you'd be fired from your job. We've all

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been there, right. He then cleared up the joke, which

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is kind of what I think it was Obviously it

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was a joke about their age difference, and of joy

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we see on her face every time they're together, who

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is a very light roast joke about the fact that

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he's almost eighty and she's younger than I am. It

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was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call

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to assassination. And they know that I've been very vocal

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for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.

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The other late night hosts weighed in. Jimmy Fallon said,

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everybody was talking about how bad the security was at

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the White House Correspondent's dinner. The good news is everyone

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is safe, and I think now security has figured this out.

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They said, for now on they're going to put Trump

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in a lock the owner in case like CVS. All right,

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fallin again. When the incident occurred on Saturday Night, Oz

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the mentalist was performing for Trump, Trump looked at him like, yes,

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I did have the six of diamonds, but why didn't

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you predict this? But Trump wants the event to be

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rescheduled within thirty days. An FBI director Cash Burttel said

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he expects the security at the next dinner to be

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entirely different, because by then he'll be fired. That's a

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solid one. Now people often say, hey, John, how come

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you know both sides things that I say, because anytime

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I do a recap there's nothing from the other side.

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Well today there is. Greg Guttfeld said good news Nancy

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Pelosi was safe as she was wearing a a proof face.

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Gut felt again. When reached for comment, Joe Biden said,

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it's times like these that made me glad I'm already dead.

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George Clooney weighed in on this. Now, it's unclear if

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the reporters knew they were speaking to George Clooney or

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if they thought they were talking to me, and we're like, okay,

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he hosts daily comedy news. We should get a reaction

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from him. Clooney and I are often confused for each other,

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so it's unclear who the reporters thought they were talking to.

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But it wasn't me. It was actually George Clooney, who said,

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Jimmy's a comedian. And I would argue that Carolyn Levitt

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didn't mean shots should be fired. You may have seen

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earlier in the day, prior to all this happening, Carolyn

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Levitt had encouraged everyone to tune in, using the phrase

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shots will be fired. Clooney continued, saying she was making

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a joke. Fair enough, you look at that side and go, well,

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jokes are jokes, but the rhetoric is a little dangerous,

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and we've seen it a lot lately. Triumph, the insult

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comic Dog was at the White House Correspondent's dinner, which

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sounds like something you'd make up. Nope, he was there

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and he spoke to John Stewart about it. Were you

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worried about, to be honest, getting killed, Yes, but mostly

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because I didn't want the RFK Junior to eat my carcass.

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Late Nighters said that multi reports say that the FCC

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is taking steps towards launching an early review of ABC's

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broadcast licenses. This may or may not have something to

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do with the Kimme Old joke. CNN's Brian Stelter said

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that the review could have come as early as yesterday afternoon.

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I'll let you know what happened. Meanwhile, King Charles, he's

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visiting the President of the United States, and if you

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want coverage to that, check out the podcast Palace Intrigue.

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I'm the writer on that. I was actually quoted in

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USA today Pop on my LinkedIn. There's a link to that.

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But anyway, King Charles was asked about Matt Friend's impression

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Matt Friend not having a good week. Let me play

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a clip of Matt Friend doing King Charles. This is

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not the clip that King Charles was reacting to, but

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here is Matt Friend doing Charles on Sky News. But

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I'm trying to figure out other dialects. You know, the

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King Charles is quite fun when I come here to

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and I try different voices, and it's more based off

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of the crowns interpretation. Now, honestly, that's not a bad

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King Charles impression at all. However, Matt Friend attempted to

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do King Charles two King Charles, and the King said

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keep working on it. Ah, let's all wish Stavros Halkias well,

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he went on Instagram and said, Hey, bad news. I

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broke my arm. I fell off a scooter. I wish

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I was telling you that I heroically stopped a burglar

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from harming a woman and suffered harm as a result.

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But no, I flat lay rode a bird scooter. The

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wind took my hat almost and I reached up to

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try and stop it, lost my balance and fell arm

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first into the street, two hundred and eighty pounds of

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me directly onto my arm, cracked it smooth in half.

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It hurts like bleep. I'm pretty fed up, and I'm

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going to be fed up for a little while. He

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has had to postpone the taping of his comedy special.

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He was going to tape one in Baltimore July eighteenth

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and nineteenth. He said, there's just no way for me

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to do the special any justice right now. I want

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to do a good job for you guys. I don't

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want to put out some fing half assed bs just

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because I would lose money not doing it when I scheduled.

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Social media was kind as always. One person wrote, someone

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tracked down the CCTV footage of this, please it must exist.

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Another fan wrote, we can rebuild him the six million

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calorie man. One of the top comments read, did you

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immediately pull your shirt back down? Tom Sagora said he

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almost had Garth Brooks on his podcast You May Recall

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Back in twenty eighteen, Tom Segora started joking about Garth

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Brooks joining Facebook. Back in twenty eighteen, Sigora made the joke,

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what he's thinking about is all the bodies he's got

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stacked in graves in his yard. For sure, He's probably

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killed two hundred three other people in his life. After

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that episode aired, Garth Brooks's comment sections on social media

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began getting flooded by fans of Tom Sagora asking Garth Brooks,

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where are the bodies? Well, we're now learning that Segora

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was contacted by Garth Brooks team to have Gorth appear

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on Tom Sigora's podcast. Sigora told this story on Andrew

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schultz Flagrant podcast. Sigora said, I tried to get Garth on.

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At one point. They reached out and they said, Garth's

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going to do some interviews. Would you like him to

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be on the podcast? I said, of course. So they

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were like, write something that we could show to one

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of his people. Sigora said he took the request semi seriously,

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writing back that he'd love to have him on to

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talk about his career. Sigora thinks they weren't even sure

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if Sigora was the ware of the Body's guy. Quoting

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Sigora here, the agent told my guy instead of confirming,

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didn't he say something crazy about Garth? I feel like

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it could go wrong for him. I feel like that

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guy had said something. Eventually they're like, he's not coming

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on that show. Too bad. That would have been amazing.

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the Laugh Factory have unveiled the first line of collectible

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trading cards. That's right, the founder of the Laugh Factory,

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Jamie Masada, said, from the very beginning, Laugh Factory has

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always been about giving comedians a stage in a voice.

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To now see comedy honored in this way with its

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own collectible trading CARDDS is something truly special. Some of

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the comedians featured on the cards? Do you want to guess?

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Should I give you a minute, who do you think

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is gonna be featured on the cards? Well? Wrong? Deane Cook? Okay,

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Now we can draw a line and then go like

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three quarters of the way down the page. The first

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name is Deane Cook, and then Ornie Adams, Tom Dressen,

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Katherine Blandford, who I think is great, and moster Brownie,

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who I've always enjoyed when I spent time with him.

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But it's Deane Cook, Ornie Adams, Tom Dressen, Katherine Blandford

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and Monster Brownie laugh Aactory President David Feher said, these

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cards honor the voices, the risk takers and the artists

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who make people laugh for a living. We're proud to

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help them at the legacy of comedy in a completely

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new way, and that completely new way is with an

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Ornie Adams trading card. Trevor Noah is heading back to

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South Africa for South Africa's Festival of Comedy. Trevor Noah

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has been named captain of a national comedy team. Did

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you guys listen to the comedy draft last week? What

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happened to her? Trevor Noah said. The goal to grow

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the South African comedy scene and bring people back to

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live stand up. Trevor said, we want to create something

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that gives comedians a bigger platform and reminds people how

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powerful live comedy can be. The festival isn't being pitched

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as a typical lineup of shows. Instead, it's being framed

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like a sports rollout, with Eugene Koza as vice captain

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and the Tosh Madlin Gozi as coach, all working together

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to spotlight both established acts and newer voices. Trevor NOAs said,

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comedy has always been a reflection of who we are.

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This is about celebrating that voice on a larger scale.

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Major live shows are expected in September in cities like

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Pretoria and Cape Town. Seth Myers and John Oliver have

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extended their residency at New York City's Beacon Theater. They

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already had shows May thirty first and June fourteenth, They

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will now also do September twenty seventh, October twenty fifth,

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November twenty second, and December thirteenth. Each show features a

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forty five to fifty minute stand up set from both comics.

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Then a Q and A and Angela Johnson will have

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a new special, Ugly Baby, will be on YouTube Mother's

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Day Sunday, May tenth at noon Pacific time. At the

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heart of the special, as Angela's journey into motherhood in

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her forties, she opens up about personal struggles with fertility, pregnancy,

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and postpartum life. There is a trailer. However, whoever mixed

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the trailer mixed it too loud and it's going to

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sound like crap on the podcast, so I'm not gonna

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play it. Angela said, I'm grateful that I've been able

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to do this seven times. My boobs may be falling lower,

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but at least my career continues to reach new heights,

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all thanks to my loyal fans. Blah blah blah. And

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that is your comedy news for today. I will see

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you tomorrow.