May 28, 2025

Mulaney's Sobriety, Birbiglia's New Special, Schumer's Real Estate, and More!

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac recaps the latest in comedy news. Topics include John Mulaney discussing his sobriety journey on Ted Danson's podcast, Mike Birbiglia's reflections on family and writing, Ronnie Chieng's journey to American citizenship, Jo Koy and Ram Yousef's commencement speeches, and Amy Schumer's real estate ventures. The episode also highlights new comedy shows announced by the BBC, a recap of a comedian roundtable by Hollywood Reporter, and a unique story involving a comedian's personalized license plate auction.

00:06 John Mulaney's Sobriety Journey
01:39 Mike Birbiglia's New Show and Personal Insights
02:16 Ronny Chieng's American Citizenship Journey
03:49 Jo Koy's Commencement Speech
04:31 Ramy Youssef's Commencement Speech
05:17 Seth Meyers' Bombing Story
05:43 Stephen Colbert's DC Comics Cover
07:22 Amy Schumer's Real Estate Ventures
08:23 BBC's New Comedy Shows

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Calorogus Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. John mulaney was on Ted Danton's podcast.

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He told Ted that he was able to resist the

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temptation of grabbing his wife Olivia's cancer related painkillers and

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other medication. John says, the obsession of it was gone.

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I brought her a tray with apple juice, something that

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she wanted to eat that her mom had made in

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the kitchen, and then it had oxyconton and some sort

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of nerve medication and a Xenax which they also gave

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for just rest and recovery. It never crossed my mind

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that I was holding these medications in my hand. The

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obsession of it was gone. I thought, Oh, I'm so

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far beyond that, and I can be a good butler

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with the best client. That's great, great to hear about John.

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He says, people stay the same in so many ways,

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and I'm still the same person I was when I

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was like five in so many ways. But I'll admit

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it's a huge change, just a huge way of looking

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at everything. I'm shocked I did it. I'm shocked I

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was able to do it. Dancing was like become sober,

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you mean, John said, to actually stick to it in

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every way, do not have well I still do this,

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or well I'm trying like nothing wrong or shameful about relapse.

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I mean, I'm just shocked always that it landed dance

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and asked mulaney if he can see triggers quote two

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miles out. M'laney said, oh, yeah, I'm very lucky that

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life's been so great that it's always thirty miles out.

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But I'll be doing something. I go, huh, you really

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want to be this exhausted, stretched, thin, a little aggrieved.

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Luckily those things are miles and miles off. That's part

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of it. It's just always knowing, so addicted to the

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self control of it in so many ways, and so

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happy that I'm always present when I'm with my kids

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and Olivia and friends and everything. I was in a

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bad neighborhood in my brain for a while. You always

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ever expect for it that it's still there. You go,

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I see you and know you're there. That's not my

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daily life. Good job, John Mulaney, that's awesome. Mike pro Bagley,

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it's all Vanity Fair. They're writing this show. The one

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out on Monday, forced me to try to understand my dad,

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because if you don't see the humanity and the characters,

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it's not interesting. It's extraordinarily challenging when someone's had a

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cute stroke but it's calmed him down. My early specials,

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my dad would shout. He wouldn't even understand why. I'd

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be like, I'm eating Bretzels. I'd be like, is he angry?

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Is he hungry? What's the emotion being expressed in this special?

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I forced myself to unpack the emotion being expressed. He

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oddly doesn't have the edge or the weight of the

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world on him. He's sort of a protagonist. He's not evil,

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He's just a human being. I think that's my personal

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journey with him as well. Ronnie Ching recently became an

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American citizen. Congratulations. He joked about it, saying, anyone can

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apply for a citizenship during Obama that's easy, Golden age great,

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so applin. Now if you really want it, do it now.

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And that's what I did. It's kind of thirty years

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in the making in the sense I've been trying to

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come back to America since I left in ninety three

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when I was seven years old. I've been trying to

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come back to do stand up comedy, and I finally

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came back in twenty fifteen, ten years ago, and then

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citizenship nine years later. And it's a weird time to

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do it because the things that attracted me to America

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were back to the future. It was Seinfeld, it was

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Michael Jordan, it wasn't the Iraq War. So it's weird

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to join. It's like you're joining this evil empire, but

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that's not why you join it. It just so happened

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to the evil empire. Some really nice TV shows and

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they do stand up comedy and The Death Star that's

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really funny. Send your letters to Ronnie Chang. I turned

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down offers to tour overseas all the time. I've got

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no interest in it because I came from there. I've

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been trying to come here, So it makes sense for

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me to get citizenship because if I do leave the country,

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I know he can come back to the stuff I've

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been building here. I came to The Daily Show at

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the end of twenty fifteen, so this Trump thing is

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all I've known. This isn't that new, to be honest.

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Since I came to America, the shadow has been looming

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or in charge. He's been talking crap for a long

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time now. We're used to him talking crap. He's been

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throwing chaos in the mix for a long time now,

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So in that sense, doesn't feel like anything new. In

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terms of coverage, obviously his efficacy is stronger now, undoubtedly,

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But in terms of the daily show, it's almost like

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being in an emergency room. You kind of get done

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to it because there's always a car wreck every day.

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It's something new coming in, it's something you have to

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comment on. It seems outlandish, but at the same time,

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it's been outlandish for nine years, so is it outlandish?

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That's the feeling. Joe Coy who once hosted the Guild

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and Globes and told a joke about Taylor Swift, but

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we're not gonna talk about that today. He delivered the

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keynote speech at cal State LA's commencement ceremony. Koi told

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the students it's not easy. Getting to where you want

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to go takes a lot of hard work, takes a

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lot of sacrifice, takes a lot of falling flat on

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your face, and that's when you find out who you

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really are. That's when you build the grit the heart

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and the strength to keep pushing. Joe Koi was conferred

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an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts. Words of

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wisdom from Joe Koi in no matter how many times

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you bomb, it doesn't matter. Just don't give up, keep

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showing up, keep believing in yourself. You don't need everyone

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to believe in you, just you believe in you. And

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if there's a Lionel Richie impersonator, it likes you too,

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that's also good. Rommy Yusef gave the commencement speech at Ruckers.

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Rommy accepted an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. His parents

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were there and Rommy said to his parents, I just

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want you to know part of why I dropped out

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was because how expensive it was. And now I am

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here with a PhD that I got for free, and

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I believe it's the greatest and the biggest Arab discount

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of all time. The Hollywood Reporter did a big round

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table with many many comedians. I shared it in the

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Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. By the way, boy,

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the porn bots are really trying to get in Lona

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spam lately. Luckily you've got to answer three questions and

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the pornbots don't answer any of the three questions. Plus

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the admins helped me keep the pornbots out. Thank you admins. Anyway,

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I'll pick at this roundtable for the next few days.

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Seth Meyers talked about the hardest he ever bombed was

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at Madison Square Garden. It was that concert for Hurricane Sandy.

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They asked me and Bill Hater to do us to

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fawn thing and Bill said, I'm not going to do it,

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and then they said, what about Bobby Moynihana's drunk uncle.

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So we'd written this thing. Chris Rock saw us backstage

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costume and he goes, you're going to follow the Who

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with sketches. All of the confidence strained out of our faces,

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and sure enough we went out and they were so angry.

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Stephen Colbert is going to be on a variant cover

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of DC comics upcoming Batman Superman World's Finest Issue number forty.

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On the cover, super Man is guesting on The Late

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Show at Stephen Colbert as Batman stands against the City Skyline. Backdrop,

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Superman is seen holding a cover of his book I

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Am Superman and So Can You. That is a joke

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referring to Colbert's Colbert Rapport era book I Am America

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and So Can You. Another cover for the issue reportedly

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depicts Batman and Superman in the clutches of late night

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TV on the fictional late night show Gotham Tonight. Wonder

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who host Gotham Tonight? I could probably look that up.

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I should look that up. Hmm. Gotham Tonight was a

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six episode docu series mini series Creating directed by Christopher Nolan,

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which was included in these special features. For the Dark Night,

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Anthony and Michael Hall played Mike Ingel some fun facts.

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Over the years, Marvel Comics has given the cover treatment

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to stars like Letterman, Kimmel, and the original SNL cast.

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I've got a I think it's a what if. I've

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got a Letterman cover somewhere in the boxes, in the

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back of the closet, in the back of the bay.

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But I have that one. A nineteen sixty three issue

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of There was a comic book for real called Superman's

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Girlfriend Lois Lane. In a flashback, depicts Lois Lane appearing

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on The Steve Allen Show Steve Allen on the Mount

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Rushmore of Late Night. In case you miss Sunday's episode,

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go back and listen to it. I know it was

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a holiday weekend. I really liked that episode. Go back

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and listen to Sunday The Mount Rushmore of Late Night

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Comedy includes Steve Allen Batman's Superman World's Finest Number forty

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out June eighteenth. Let's stop off on gossip Corner. Fortune

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dot Com was keeping an eye on Amy Schumer's real

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estate purchases, and they tell us when Amy wants to

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get away from New York, she flies to New Orleans,

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where she and her husband have invested in a second

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home in the French Quarter. Fortune tells us, though primarily

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based in Manhattan, where she moved recently. After listing her

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Brooklyn Town home for fourteen million dollars, Schumer told Reelder

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dot com that her New Orleans Highway was her dream

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come true. Forbes estimates Amy Schumer's net worth today be

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thirty seven and a half million dollars. That sounds high.

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I believe it, but wow, Forbes tells us. After finding

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wealth and fame, Amy said about investing in real estate,

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the first of which was the family form she lived

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on as a child, but was forced to leave when

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her parents filed for bankruptcy. Another of her purchases is

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a two hundred thousand dollars treehouse, which the listing site

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speculates is on the grounds of her home in Martha's Vineyard.

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Must be nice, all right. The BBC Director of Comedy,

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John Petrie, unveiled a bunch of new shows at the

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BBC Comedy Festival in Belfast. Some good stuff here and

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some names you will know even if you don't follow

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British comedy carefully. John Petrie said the BBC continues to

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be the biggest single investor in original comedy content in

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the UK and for the second year running, eight of

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the top ten scripted comedies were on the BBC. All right,

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let's take a look at the shows. Anne Droid like

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Ann New Word Droid. Anne Droid stars Diane Morgan, who

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I Love You may know her from the various Kunk series.

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Diane Morgan stars as a social humanoid robot created to

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keep outwardly people company and monitor to their health. It's

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twenty twenty nine. Sue's husband David passed away eighteen months

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ago and her only son, Michael's moving out again to

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try to fix his marriage. But the good news is

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he got Sue surprise to help her live independently, a

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care provider with the difference the latest D five hundred

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social humanoid elder care robot. What Develops is a buddy

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comedy between an older woman and her robot. Okay, that's fun.

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Bill's Included a typical sitcom punny name. Bill's Included is

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about Bill. Bill is a middle aged divorcee who staves

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off financial ruin by renting a spare room to students.

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Warm Hearted and eager, but neurotic and slightly overbearing, Bill

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is thrilled by the youthful energy his lodgers bring, but

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baffled by their difference to his laminated house rules and

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color coded cutlery. He's torn between wanting to be part

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of the gang, sharing banner, keeping up with trends, and

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clinging to his role as the responsible adult. Next up

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is Small Profits, a six port comedy created, written, and

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directed by Mackenzie Crook. Synopsis A comic tale of eccentric

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Michael Sleep, who, since his darling Clia disappeared seven years ago,

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has lived a very ordinary life. One day, his dad,

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Brian shares an old recipe involving rain, water, horse manure,

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and a little alchemy with recipie in hand, Michael sets

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about to create a magical prophesying spirit that can predict

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the future and hope the spirit has the answer to

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his burning question, will I ever see Clea again? Boy?

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That's complicated but fun. Michael Palin of Monty Python fame

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is part of that one in Stuffed after he receives

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an unexpected eight thousand pound Christmas bonus at work, Arcelon

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Ferrooki and his multi faith family set off on the

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trip of a lifetime when they swap Coventry for the

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Magic of Lapland his wife Hannah, his two daughters, and

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brother in law Jamie are all set for the ultimate

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festive adventure. However, you knew there was, however coming right

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when office worker Arsland discovers the bonus was a mistake

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and must be repaid immediately, Christmas chaos ensues. In The

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Reluctant Vampire, set in a timeless English village where everything

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is picturesque, everything except for the vampires living in the

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Castle on the Hill come out at night for a

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little drink of the locals. Val has been raised in

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a very typical vampire family, but has always felt a

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bit different and hopelessly inept at rising to meet Dad's

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high standards. Following a surprise encounter with his reflection, he

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realizes he's not undead, not in the least bit. Now

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the big secret to hide, Val must navigate finding out

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who he truly is by mingling with the locals to

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learn the intricacies of their behavior and what it means

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to be human. Well that's fun. Ashlan b has been

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hosting Who Do You Think You Are, which airs on

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BBC one. Her trip followed the well established form You Love,

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a genealogy series renowned for producing celebrities to tears as

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they find out about their ancestors. B finds out in

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Limerick that her mother's family were relative well to do

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landowners with forty acres to their name in the late

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nineteenth century, which brought the unwelcome attention of the dispossessed

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and less fortunate. In Carrie, she learns her father's family

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grew up in different circumstances. Her great grandfather was a

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member of the Volunteers and was set to participate in

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the nineteen sixteen Rising until it was called off when

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a German blockade running vessel failed to deliver the promised

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armstash more British stuff. A distinctive license plate belonging to

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late comedian Jethrow sold for thirty five hundred pounds at

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an auction. It was a personalized license plate J three

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five t or have you figured it out? J three

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five teer? It's like Jester but different J three five

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t or. Harvey Pyle from Stags to Auctioneers, was expecting

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it to go for twelve grand. He said, it's a

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very unique piece of comedic history. He was also seen

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on his Toyota land Cruiser on his final journey. He

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was carried to his coffin for his funeral. From pokernews

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dot com, you're home for Poker News. Lodge cart Club

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co owner Doug Pok is set to appear on Kill Tony.

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This may have already aired. Tony Hinchcliffe shared a story

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about meeting Poke for the first time. Tony said I'm

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good at poker and said to Poke, I'll play your

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heads up. The bet was that if Poke won, he'd

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earn a minute to perform on Kill Tony, but if

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Tony won, Poke would owe him twenty grand. Tony tells

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the story there we were at Mitzi's Comedy Club after

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an episode playing heads up poker me versus the best

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in the world. Twenty minutes later, guess who won twenty

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thousand dollars. Since it'd only been twenty minutes, I said,

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I'll tell you what, even though I won, let's double

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or nothing, forty grand versus a minute of stand up

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comedy in any day now, he's going to be popping

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up on the show. And that is your comedy news

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for today. Pretty robust week here coming off from Momworld

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to him. Enjoy the story's been a little different. That's

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