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Callaroga Shark Media. Man. I love doing this show. Hi.
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I'm Jenny Mack with your daily comedy News. Our leadof
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story today involves a fight, and I enjoy a good fight.
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This from pract dot com. Apparently a former Saturday Night
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Live intern caught Michael Chay's attension. The former intern posted
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an Instagram reel exposing the shows behind the scenes culture
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of manipulation. Now, I just want to point out I
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don't want to beat up on this person, who I
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think is younger than I am. But the person does
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share a surname with me. So if you look up
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the story and yourself, I do not know this person.
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I am not related to this person. I have never
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met a person who does share a surname with me
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who has this particular first name. So I have no
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association with this person. But I don't want to say
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their name because I just want to do the story
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and not like really beat up on this person, who
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I disagree with a lot of the opinions here. As
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you're about to hear, the former Saturday Night Live intern
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spilled the tea, repeating damning accusations against the show that
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made by plenty of others. Okay, well, wonder what happens?
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What is the tea? She says, Hey, you want to
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know why SNL has so much turnover? She blames Lorne Michaels.
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No way, the showrunner of Saturday Night Live is responsible
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for cast turnovers. Holy cow wow, she says. Loren Michaels
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loves power, and he loves creating emotional crises. Sees in
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the lives of people who are younger than him. Lauren's eighty.
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Everybody's younger than him. The former intern says, Ooh, it's
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creepy when you think about it. She says that it's
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nuts that accomplished comedian should sit on the floor of
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Lorne Michael's office to pitch ideas, with Lorne deciding which
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sketches make the cut. Really, what's crazy about that? Have
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you never worked in a bullpen? I've worked at radio stations.
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I ran a comedy radio station. We had a bullpen.
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We called it the bullpen. You go in, if there's
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a cherry, you grab one. Maybe you'll lean up against
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a desk, Maybe you sit on a floor. That's what
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you do. You weren't Saturday Night Live? What did you
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want him to have? How are we supposed to pitch sketches.
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Should we stand? Should we bring folding chairs with us? Like?
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What is the proper method to pitch sketches? To the
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showrunner of the show, this is crazy cracked, quotes the
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former in turn and saying, guess what he built the
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process in the seventies. It's an insane workflow that requires
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lots of caffeine at least to survive. Your mind and
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your body are going to break down. People go off
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on the deep end of the place all the time.
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You don't sleep for literally years of your life, which
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is a torture tactic. Now, now that's not true. I'm
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not a medical expert, but I'm pretty sure I'm confident here.
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If you did not sleep for literally years, Like if
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right now you said, Johnny Mackham, calling your bluff, it's
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twenty twenty five. I'm not going to sleep for years
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as plural, so we'll make that too. I'm not going
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to sleep until November of twenty twenty seven. I would say, oh, yeah,
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you're going to die. Please don't do that. I don't
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want you to die. Appreciate listening to the podcast. Please
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at some point in the next two years, literally sleep,
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The former intern says, you can't have sustainable friendships outside
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of that place for years at a time, for the
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duration of your time there. It's kind of like a cult. Crack, says.
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The former intern says she has a degree in comedy
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from NYU's Film School. The intern claims SNL asked her
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to interview after her senior year, but she turned them
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down and said you would know my name by now.
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Cracked editorializes note to former intern, nobody knows the name
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of SNL's writers. All this was noticed by Michael Chay,
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who jumped in on the comments. Michael Ja posted you
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learned all that getting coffee? Oh. The intern responded, it's
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incredible what people reveal in front of you when they
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treat you like you're invisible. Chase shot back, doesn't sound
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bitter at all. The intern, rather than folding, goes back
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in and says, I'm genuinely not. Chay responded yep, yep, yep,
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and apparently they kept going back and forth. Fans on
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Reddit believed that Michael Jay was truly one user. He's
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doing it for fun. His entire Instagram persona is being
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an edge lord. Another editor said, honestly, you learned all
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that by getting coffee is such a great line that
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I don't see how Jay could resist. Speaking of Saturday
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Night Live, Eddie Murphy, he's been in the press lately.
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Did you see the documentary in it? Eddie Murphy explained
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it was Lorne Michael's idea to ask Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle,
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and Tracy Morgan to join in Eddie Murphy's monologue. Boy,
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this Lauren Michael's person just sounds horrible. Chris Rock said
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the Eddie Murphy return episode went so well that he
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told Lauren Michaels it was one of the greatest SNLS ever.
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And I walked over to Lauren Michaels when it was
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over and I said, you should quit right now. It's
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not getting any better than this. I think Chris Rock
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has been right. Has there been a better episode since
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that episode? Now? There's been some good ones. Firstly, I
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think the time to get out was SNL fifty and
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eighty years old. I think everybody would have been like,
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good job. Josh Johnson tells Billboard Every Tuesday I post
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a new set. Sometimes it's extremely topical or political, and
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sometimes it's more cultural pop. I really love doing it.
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We premiere live every Tuesday at nine pm and hop
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in the chat, meet other people and have good conversation
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with everybody. Then the sets are available for free and
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YouTube for the rest of time. Billboard was curious, you've
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been to a writer since twenty seventeen. At what point
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did you think I want to be on camera? Josh said,
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it wasn't something I was gunning for years and years.
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It started to set in as I got more comfortable
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with the show. I was having great time writing for
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everyone on the show that's been years past, and I felt,
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all right, this could be a cool move and I
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could write material for myself when I'm hosting. Do you
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feel like you're performing a public service? Josh said, I
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can only speak for myself. I very much appreciate that
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people love and enjoy what I do, but I think
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the people doing public service are doing real public service.
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I don't want to conflate making TV with making change.
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At the end of the day, it's a comedy show.
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There are plenty of people out there doing their best
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to change things, whether it's in their local community, their state,
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their world. The best I could do is raise awareness
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of who they are and what they're doing. The Wall
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Street Journal asked Louis ck, Hey, Louis c K, when
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you got in trouble, some people wrote you off for good.
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That's exactly how the guy at the Wall Street Journal
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phrased it when they talked to c K, exactly in
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the tone I just did it. That was a perfect impression.
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You should have been in the room for the fans.
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It's stuck around 's Some were disappointed that you didn't
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dig deeper into the roots of your behavior. Did you
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consider doing a special devoted to that, Louis c K.
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Louis said, well, that's suches on some really tender stuff
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for me, and it's hard to talk about. One of
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the fundamental aspects of an experience like that is that
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your life departs other people's ability to understand it. There's
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a gap there, a gap of how much people can
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understand what I'm going through. There's some things that people
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will probably wish I wouldn't have done or said, maybe
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I just wasn't good enough, maybe I just wasn't strong enough.
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Maybe they want to hear more about it, but not
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everybody does. Also, maybe it's none of your effing business
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why I can't. These are the things that go through
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your head. I don't want to displease anybody. It's hard
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to know that there's people who feel disappointed, but you
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know the feeling's mutual. I could see the strain in
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someone's face who wishes for more, and I can understand it.
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There's only so much I can do about it and
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take good care of myself and my family and people
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who love me. By the way, for a special I
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did coming back, had a huge joke about it. C
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K said, I'm not like a guy who breaks down
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on stage. I got to do my job up there.
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When I return to work, it was like, how many
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people are willing to just watch me a crap ton?
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That's more important to me. There may be a day
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when I talk about things more. I did an interview
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with THEO and said a lot more than I expected to,
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and it felt really good. I listened to that episode.
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I actually didn't make it to the end. I just
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the part of the street they were hanging out on.
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I just didn't want to hang out on. But I'm
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glad they enjoyed it. SEEK said, but I don't read
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what people say anymore. I don't read the internet. My
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phone is extremely restricted. I threw the keys Away out
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today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. It
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is the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. Premiere of
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Josh Wolfe's Four Stories. Kathy Griffin was on The Good
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Guys podcast and said she had her third facelift. Now
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it's really easy to just be like, oh yeah, Kathy
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had her third face lift. Let's just step the break
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for a second. Kathy Griffin had a third facelift. So
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she had a facelift, then had another face lift, and
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then had another facelift. Kathy Griffin told the hosts, I'm
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no beauty, but he did a good job. I went
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to Chris Jenner's Last Guy, but it was not cheap.
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They asked her how much facelift number three was. Do
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you want to guess? I'll give you second here, you
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guess how much was facelift number three. Facelift number three
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was two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Kathy Griffin described
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getting stitches in my eyelids with a cat eye stitch
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to lift the corners. She also had a stitch in
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her chin. Kathy explained, I actually think when you're a
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chick comedian, they just go for your looks. I think
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that's probably why Joe Nervis did so much, because she
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was really pretty. I'm from a generation where agents thought
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nothing back of the day of saying stuff like, yeah,
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they loved your audition, but they're going to go attractive sorry,
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or with a nose job, you might have a chance.
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So I went and got a nose job. Hey, let
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me in on this one. I've wanted to get to
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this one. I've got a little room today. This from
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AOL dot com Johnny Mack, did you prep the show
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in nineteen ninety six? No, ap Pearly there's still AOL
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dot com. And this came up in the course of
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my travels. Fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in
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the nineteen sixties to two thousands. Okay, let's count that out.
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The sixties, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, and the zeros,
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so fifty years of comedians. And these are the fifteen comedians.
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Remember I said the word comedians. Here the fifteen comedians
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everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to
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the two thousands. Ready, here we go. Here's what AOL
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dot com says. I'm not sure how these are ordered,
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but they did have a Number one here, Robin Williams.
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I was a boy when Mork and Mindy came out.
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I don't remember people having a crush on Robin Williams.
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But you know, he's not the worst looking person I've
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ever seen, so okay, fine. Number two Lucille Ball. Now
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this is the sixties to the two thousands. Did people
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have a crush on Lucy especially like in the eighties
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old Lucy with the cigarette voice. Now the very young
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Lucille Ball. Nice looking lady, but I love Lucy's from
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the fifties and the aol dot com article are the
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fifteen comedians. Everyone, not just some people. Everyone had a
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crush on in nineteen sixties to the two thousands. I'm
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not slagging on Lucille Ball born in nineteen eleven, so
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in nineteen sixty which is part of the aol dot
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com article here, Lucy Ball was post I Love Lucy
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and forty nine years old at a time when people
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aged a little older than they do now. If you
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want proof of that, watch the movie Diamonds Are Forever.
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I say this quite seriously. If you gave me six months,
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I would get myself in shape, get myself a suit,
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and I would look as good as Sean Connery does
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in Diamonds or Forever. Seawan does not look great in
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that movie. He's only thirty nine years old, and at
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fifty six, I can get myself in Diamonds for Forever Shape.
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Can I get myself into Doctor Noe Sean Connery? Shape?
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Absolutely not. With Sean Connery the sexiest man alive in
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the eighties, he sure was. That's the thing that happened
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nineteen eighty nine, Sean Connery was fifty nine years old.
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But I'm not talking about fifty nine year old Shan Connery.
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I'm talking about thirty nine year old Diamonds Forever Sean Connery.
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Watch the film or just google it. He looks fifty
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six years old anyway. Number two on the AOL list
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Lucy ol Ball forty nine years old or perhaps older again,
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nuts slagging on her, just saying this is a This
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is a list, and we're not done with the list yet.
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Continuing the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in
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the nineteen sixties to the two thousand, so for we
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have Robin Williams and Lucille Ball, Eddie Murphy I was
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around in the eighties. Eddie Murphy hilarious. I don't remember
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people having a crush on Eddie Murphy, but again, maybe
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I just misremember. Number four Bill Murray. I think people