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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi, Wow, I'm Shineck with your daily
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comedy news. This is the normal episode for Saturday. Let's
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talk about some other stuff. Huh, if you want to
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talk Jimmy Kimmel. I dropped two bonus episodes yesterday. I'll
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drop another one later today. But uh, you know, sometimes
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you're at working you just need to like go outside
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and take a walk. This is the podcast equivalent of that.
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Let's talk about something else again. I'm really into the
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Kimmel thing, but it's all I've been doing since Wednesday night.
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The Muppet Show is coming back for a one event
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special in twenty twenty six to coincide with the original
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show's fiftieth anniversary. In this special, the Muppets returned to
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the Muppet Theater to produce a variety show. Sabrina Carpenter
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will guest star. Have the Muppets listened to her lyrics?
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Seth Rogan's got his hand in this somehow as an
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executive producer. The Original Muppet Show, created by Jim Henson,
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ran from nineteen seventy six to nineteen eighty one. Wait
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aren't they owned by Disney? Now? Oh, aren't we boycotting
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Disney because we're all mad about Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, Disney, Hulu, Marvel,
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Star Wars. You can't partially boycott John. Why'd you lead
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off with the Muppets? You're promoting Disney, you horrible person.
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The Original Muppet Show, back when it was good and
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not owned by those Disney people, aired from nineteen seventy
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six to nineteen eighty one. I watched it all the time.
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Aired in one hundred countries. Featured guest stars including Elton John,
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Johnny Cash, Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Gladys Knight, Elizamn, Ellie,
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Paul Simon, and many others. There were a lot of
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great people on that show. I actually liked. A couple
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years ago they sort of brought it back. It was like,
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what if the Muppets did The Office? I thought that
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was actually pretty good. Greg Daniels, you know, the guy
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from the Office and the guy from the Paper. He
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apparently at one time was trying to revive the Muppets.
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He told the Hollywood Reporter. I didn't have a treatment,
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but I was trying to figure out what would be
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the next thing for the friend. It felt very baby
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boomer and millennial, but I was more of a gen
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xer and didn't get where it fit. In two thousand
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and five, this was just before the Office, so I
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ended up getting that instead. You know, I think should
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do it next Robert Smigel. He'd figure out a way
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to reinvigorate the Muppets and make it cool. I try
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to work with Robert on Space Force, but he always
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has a lot going on. Once we clear the current
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news cycle, All Eyes will be on Saturday Night Live.
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They have announced the first three hosts for season fifty one,
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up first October fourth, Bad Bunny Why. I don't know either.
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People seem to think he does a good job hosting.
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I mean his music school, but I don't think he's
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that good of a host. But he's only hosting. He's
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not the musical guest. Doja Cat will make her debut.
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I guess we'll be getting a lot of more solo
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Hernandez who does one thing and does one thing well,
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but he does one thing well. October eleventh. Amy Poehler
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musical guest role model Amy Poehler is hosting the show
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fifty years to the day of the very first episode
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of SNL. Some people have I wondered, why didn't they
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just wait till October eleventh? Why are they going October fourth?
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I don't know, ask Louren Michaels. I'm a guy hosting
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a podcast in the basement. Lauren knows better than me.
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Sabrina Carpenter second mench of the Day. She is the
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host and musical guest on October eighteenth. Have people heard
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her lyrics? I mean, these lyrics have words like horn
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and wet in them. At eleven thirty on a Saturday night, Okay,
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we might be wet on the Uppet Show, I'm not sure.
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I was so busy with the Kimmel stuff. I got
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offered a screener to watch Friend of the Show Marco
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Serezi's a new special, Thief of Joy, and I was like, thanks, publicist.
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And you could tell the publicist doesn't work for Hulu
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because they actually offered me a screener and correspond with me.
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But I was like, thanks publicist, but I don't have
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a free minute. I haven't even had anything to eat.
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So I told her, I'm like, I'll just wait till
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seven o'clock Friday night when Thief of Joy premiered. You'll
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find it on YouTube. Other friend of the show Jason
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Zinneman at the New York Times. Now, I almost reached
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out to Jason Zinneman, and Jason, if you're listening, you
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could reach out to me. But I saw when kimmelgate
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broke out, I saw Jason tweeting that he was about
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to get on a plane for vacations. So I'm like,
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all right, I won't bug the guy, but Jason, if
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you're listening, I'd love to talk to you about all this.
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A friend of the show, Jason from The New York
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Times called John Marcos special superb, marrying the flare and
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showmanship of a Broadway baby with the ruthless irreverence of
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a club comic. Zinneman writes about one of the particular bits,
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I will not spoil it for you, and that's not
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a dig. Friend of the show, Jason Zimmon from The
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New York Times let us let you experience it yourself,
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but he wrote, the particular bit is a funny mix
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of cringe and cutting, tryhard and eye roll, lip biting emotionalism,
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and cynical snark. We tend to think of the stand
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up comic as the natural enemy of the theater. Kid
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but Cirezi makes them seem like old friends, a complimentary
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double act. Jason writes, American comedians have increasingly stood up
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by shaping their jokes into a narrative arc, putting on
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solo shows that are more ambitious thematically and emotionally, sometimes
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at the expensive laughs. That's not what Sirezi's doing here.
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If anything, Thief of Joy represents a breakthrough for him
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because of its commitment to the craft of jokes. Eric
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idl in the news for two reasons. Of first reason,
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he was asked about Stephen Colbert. He made these comments
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before Kimmelgate broke out, but this comment was about Stephen Colbert.
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Eric Idol said, there's a reason Hitler and Trump got
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rid of the comedians. First, they hate being laughed at.
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I'll suck her back to the second Eric Idol story
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after I tell you that. Andrew Colvett's, an executive producer
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of The Charlie Kirk Show, said Charlie loved that he
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was featured in South Park and would have wanted the
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episode satirizing him to continue airing. The August sixth episode
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of South Park saw Cartman do Charlie Kirk kind of thing.
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Comedy Central has pulled the episode from airing on television.
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I believe it's still available on Paramount Plus. Andrew Colvett,
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that friend said, as someone who can speak with some
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authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured on
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South Park. He told me many times he'd won the episode.
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Right back to Eric Idol, he gave a health update.
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He was hospitalized twice in three days. Is eighty three
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years old, lives in Los Angeles. Jumped on Twitter and
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said he's suffering from gastro in tritis and an inflammation
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of the stomach intestints, typically caused by a viral or
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bacterial infection. He said, so, I'd like to thank all
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the doctors, nurses and staff, and the Cedar Sinai La
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Hospital gi Ward for their kindness and helped to me
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today the second time in three days. I love you people.
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Johnny macbot here he forgot to tell you about the
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Toronto Comedy Festival Tonight at seven, Ron Funches, Sarah Milliken
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at seven, Jay Jorden at seven, Al Madrigal at seven,
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Zarna Garg at seven, James Odomian's Alt show is at
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seven to ten. John would probably tell you let's go
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see Madrigal at seven and then have two beers and
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go to bed. So let me catch up on this
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story because it's sort of apropos of the theme of
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the second half of the week. Anyway, Variety's headline. Again,
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this was before Kimmelgate. NBC bets Jimmy Fallon's advertising antics
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will help ward off TV's late night woes, and they
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talked about the episode Fallon taped in Detroit last Sunday
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that aired Monday. Ford Motor Company had a hard to
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miss roll in the program. The Detroit Opera House was
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filled with an audience of Ford employees and partners. Ford's
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chief marketing officer said, what we like to do is
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tell stories, and Jimmy's the same. He does it in
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such creative ways that it really lands well with the audience.
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Variety got into the numbers of the late night business.
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In twenty eighteen, five late night shows, the two on CBS,
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the two on NBC, and Kimmel combined around four hundred
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and thirty nine million dollars, according to Guideline, who tracks
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ad spending. By twenty twenty four, that number was down
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to two hundred and twenty point six million, there's no
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more twelve thirty on CBS. Soon there will be no
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more eleven thirty on CBS, and I don't know if
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there's an eleven thirty on ABC anymore. Fallons Tonight Show
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brought in one hundred and four point seven million dollars
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in twenty twenty three seventy eight million in twenty twenty four.
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The article tells us that Jimmy Fallon maintains a relationship
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with the Ford CEO and meets with Ford X secutives
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regularly to find out what products and initiatives are on
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top of their minds. In the past, Jimmy Foun's team
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created a video that had Jimmy raising a baby Bronco
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and another that spotlighted the Electric f one fifty. The
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CMO over at Ford says, when you have a partner
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who's truly interested in co creating with you, the result
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is not cookie cutter. It's not a one size fits
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all program, and that's what we love about it. Now
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we can all sit here and eye roll Jimmy Fallon,
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but this is what you gotta do. This is gonna work,
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and that is your comedy News normal episode for a
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Saturday morning. I'll be back in a few hours and
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we'll update you on kimmel See in a bit.