Sept. 16, 2025

Nate Bargatze disaster fallout, Colbert’s emotional Emmy speech, and Saudi Arabia pays big for standup

Nate Bargatze disaster fallout, Colbert’s emotional Emmy speech, and Saudi Arabia pays big for standup

The Emmy fallout continues as Nate Bargatze’s hosting is blasted by critics, comics, and writers. Stephen Colbert delivers an emotional speech. John Oliver drops an F-bomb on Nate. Meanwhile, Tim Dillon reveals he’s being paid $315K for a Saudi comedy gig — and Chappelle, Burr, and Hart are set to join. Plus: SNL cast updates, Bowen Yang stays, Ben Kaner’s debut, Craig Ferguson’s new special

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Kalaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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I'm still bothered by the Emmys, and I'm particularly bothered

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because they just prepped this podcast and read all the

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Emmy recaps. It seems like I'm not wrong. A writer,

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Michael Markowitz on Threads posted for the Emmy writers to

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keep sending Naperghatzy out there with nothing but a tote

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board is WGA malpractice Writers Guild. The sitcom writer slang

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term for this is a knackamoora. The story is that

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The Bob Newhart Show had a joke about a Knockamora

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tape recorder that died, and the writers knew that there

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were a lot of Knockamora jokes to come and they

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would surely die too. You don't go all in like this,

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It's unprofessional. I kept thinking about how Nate did arena

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shows over the weekend. No, normally we hear that whoever's

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hosting the Awards shows usually does like a couple of

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club sets on the down low and works out the

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material for the week. But Nate didn't even do a monologue.

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The whole thing was weird. Paul Shecher posted why are

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we so obsessed with cutting off award speeches? Nobody's at

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home going. Oh, get back to the presentations and montages.

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Less of the humans. I like having a genuine moment, well,

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said Paul Sheer Variety's review. The Emmy's exciting winds were

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overshadowed by an uninspiring host and countdown clock gimmick. Yeah,

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I had recommended that we hold our innate berghatzy stock.

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Now I'm wishing we had sold on Friday. We're definitely

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selling this week. I'll tell you that, Variety rights. From

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his opening monologue, Burghetzi said an almost lackadaisical a political

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tone for the evening. He lacked the enthusiasm and gumption

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needed to lead a three hour long award program, and

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often seemed stunned to be in the spotlight. Well that's

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kind of his act. At one point, he even done

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a dreadful Canadian tuxedo which was like made out of

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denim and like I didn't get the joke until somebody

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pointed out, which may have been a nod to Sidney

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Sweeney's controversial genes ads. He was wearing that to introduce

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Sidney Sweeney. I didn't even put that together Friday Ads.

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It would have been nice if this and many of

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Bargatzie's other jokes lended more clearly. Then they get into

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the timer thing that we talked about yesterday. Winner seemed

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flustered and rushed, almost racing through their big moment instead

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of being allowed to bask in something they've worked so

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hard to obtain. Amen. Brother. This misstep became glaringly obvious

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as presenters droned on and on, eating up the time

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that could have been given to the winners. There was

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also the random caveat of Burgatzy enlisting JB. Smooth and

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four adorable children to represent the Boys and Girls Clubs,

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which lets you obviously confuse children coming out each time

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to help escort presenters and winners off the stage. Yeah,

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did you catch that? The kids were like, what do

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we do? It like? It just didn't work, and in

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the end, Burghetzie announced the whole thing donation Frenzy had

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been a bad joke. Of course, he and CBS were

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donating three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Boys

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and Girls Club after all, even though the speech club

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was very much in the red. If they wanted to

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look at wasted time. The call was coming from inside

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the house. Now many things can be true at once.

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One three hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a very

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generous donation. You know, no one made the make so

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it's very generous too. How much was an add on

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the Emmys. I tried looking that up. I couldn't find anything,

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so I won't speculate. The big winner of the night

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Stephen Colbert. Early on he got a standing ovation, standing

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center stage in a tuxedo when he looked all the

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part of the host. And then there were the nominees

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for Outstanding Talk Series. The winner Stephen Colbert. He gave

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a great speech, Let's listen.

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May you to children, May you children, thank you, thank you,

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thank you for this honor. I want to thank CBS

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for giving us the privilege to be part of the

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late night tradition, which I hope continues long after we're

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no longer doing this show. I gotta thank that these people,

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those people up there, the two hundred incredible professionals.

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You are the pros from Dover.

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And I'm so proud to be one of you. We

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got to thank the people who've supported us for the

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last twenty years Carrie By, like James baby Doll Dixon personally. Personally,

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I want to thank my beautiful, brilliant wife, Evvy, who's

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the real brains of the outfit, my three children, Matteline,

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Peter and John. I'm going to dedicate this to my

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mom and dad, her mom and dad, and a young

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woman who should be here tonight, Amy Cole's. Ten years ago,

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in September of twenty fifteen, Spike Jones stopped by my

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office and said, Hey, what do you want this show

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to be about? And I said, Ah, Spike, I don't

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know how you could do it, but I kind of

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like to do a late night show, you know, a

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late night comedy show that was about love. And I

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don't know if I ever figured that out, but at

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a certain point, and you can guess what that point was,

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I realized that in some ways we were doing a

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late night comedy show about loss, and that's related to love,

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because sometimes you only truly know how much you love

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something when you get a sense that you might be

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losing it. Ten years later, in September of twenty twenty five,

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my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately.

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God bless America, Stay strong, be brave, and if the

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elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch

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a higher floor.

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Whoa Democrats? You should call him now. If you're curious,

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who was Amy Cole that was referenced in the speech.

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Amy Cole was Colbert's executive assistant for many years. She

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passed away in March twenty twenty five. Her obituary red

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working with Colbert for sixteen years was more than a

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job to Amy. He gave her a purpose and provided

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an opportunity to showcase herself as an incredible teammates everyone involved.

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She was adored by her entire late show work family,

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and she will be greatly missed. Her cause of death

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was not publicly shared. However, one of the producers from

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the show had posted on Twitter at that time f cancer.

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John Oliver during his unnecessarily rushed speech was bleeped out.

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We have found out what he said. John said, thanks

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to h especially thanks to Casey and Elena. Thank you

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to our staff especially. He then said, f you, Nate Brigetzi,

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this is a lot of money for you. You can

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add enough to the swear jar as well. That's got

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to be enough. Thank you. Goodbye, and then rushed off

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the stage unnecessarily website. The playlist did their best and worst.

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Under worst, they have the Boys and Girls Club embarrassment.

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I know I'm beating the dead horse here, but I

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this annoyed me. In case you can't tell, they write

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this is spaghetti stick to play with the donation clock

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all night long? And why did we waste time with JB.

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Smooth propping up kids from the club when speeches are

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being cut? And who thought having the ticket displayed on

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screen next to the talent when they went over was

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a good idea? Listen, giving the charity is a great idea,

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but this was a passive, aggressive bit that disrespected not

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only the charity but the winners in their one moment

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in the spotlight. And it just got worse and worse

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as the night went on. They also added under their

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worst Nateprigetzi, a super popular stand up comedian Forgetsie, was

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always a questionable choice to host. He's not industry enough

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to even throw out the casual jokes regular viewers would

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chuckle at, and he's never demonstrated consistent acting talent. Shockingly,

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his opening monologue was almost entirely setting up the aforementioned

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bit either, which here the producers thought would get winners

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to keep their speech a short. As it started to fail,

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he began to flounder. At one point he even joked

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had never been doing this again, that is true. Honestly,

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we had sympathy for Baghetzie until we realized the ind

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of production had no intention of giving up the penalty

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clock bit. He almost seemed embarrassed, and not in a

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comedic way, that it was going so badly. The l

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eight Times was more generous. They wrote, If your goal

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was to avoid insulted celebrities, social media outrage, or petulant

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notes from the White House, you could have done no

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better than the higher Baghetti. His appeal is not so

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much mainstream, which is to say, soft edge, as it

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is broad, something for everybody. However, the state of the

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world was addressed presenter Julianne Nicholson. Instead of living in

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a post apocalyptic bunker in Paradise, great show if you've

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never watched it. She compared that show to current headlines

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as positive, feel good TV. Again in the Apocalypse If Hiller,

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who won Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, thank the

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writers for writing a show of connection. And love in

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this time when compassion is seen as a weakness. Last

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week Tonight writer Daniel O'Brien dedicated the award to all

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writers of political comedy while that is still a type

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of show that's allowed to exist. Gene Smart ended her

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speech saying, let's be good to each other. Let's just

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be good to each other, and Hannah ein Bender finished

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with I just want to say go birds, f ice

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and free Palestine. Time magazine's review was naperghets he might

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be stand Up's biggest star, but he blew it at

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the twenty twenty five Emmys. They made the same point

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most other articles did. My favorite review comes from my

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favorite reviewer, Daniel Feinberg and The Hollywood Reporter. He writes,

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given that I live in Los Angeles and work for

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an entertainment industry trade publication, I'm not supposed to admit this,

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but most of the country, not most, but probably more

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than some, has a particular perception about Hollywood writers and

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directors and producers and movie stars. You sometimes hear live

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in a liberal bubble and emerge only for the occasional

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awards shows. Gallus dedicated to famous people patting themselves on

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the collective butt, espousing left wing talking points and generally

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ignoring the possibility of the whole whole industry is having

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a corrosive effect on society, especially young people. I'll jump

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in there, the padding themselves on the back thing. Yeah,

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no surprise that the studio won a lot of awards.

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I find that show very overrated. Daniel wriits very few

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minds will likely to have been changed by the emmes.

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He then gets into the forty five second bit. Instead,

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it was left to CBS, a network perceived as churning

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over its ideological keys, to Donald Trump to donate one

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hundred thousand dollars, and Brigetzie, a compulsively wholesome comic from Tennessee,

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to donate two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So the Boys

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and Girls Clubs of America ended up big winners on

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Sunday thanks to a network eager to befriend the administration

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and to a red state comic, and no thanks to

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the Hollywood elite. Was that a narrative the producers or

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CBS or Baghettie not a political comic in any way

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intended to build a show around or just want to

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happen hard to tell. But if you asked me to

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summarize the plot of Sunday's Emmys, that's the plot let.

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It never be said the Burghetzie and the producers didn't

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have a tough job, made even tougher by the precariously

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polarized nature of our country, perhaps more this week than

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ever before. They failed completely, But I'm not really sure

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what success would have looked like. Now I don't agree

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with this next sentence. Don't worry, Joe Coy. You still

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hold the distinction of being the worst host in my

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not insignificant memory. That's taylor'sw's fault. Joe Coy was way

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better than Nate. Come on, way better. I'm not saying better,

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I'm saying way better, Dander says of the Emmys. It

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was an ill conceived mess, punctuated by well deserved winds

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and emotional and effective speeches, but rarely helped by Burghetzie's

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consistently uneasy performance. I figured he was more likely to

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deliver a low key charm, keep everybody comfortable, and spend

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very little time in the spotlight. Instead, he decided to

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make everybody uncomfortable, sometimes as a choice and sometimes just

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as a matter of course, Burgetzy bungled the names of

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people and shows, rarely looked at home finding and addressing

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the correct camera, and somehow was given only one recurring

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piece of business, that tally of how much money Hollywood

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stars were trying to steal from kids. Wow. The only

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thing saving Burghetzy and the show from its natter status

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is that there was no sense of hostility in the room,

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which could not be said when Joe Coy was bombing

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at the Globes and decided to turn on his writers

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and then basically vanish from the show. Structurally, brigets He's

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hosting was strange. There was no monologue, and Steady repurposed

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his extremely funny George Washington's sketches, et cetera, et cetera.

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five facelift, she joked. Bo and Yang told people to

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show up over the weekend. Lauren Michaels encouraged him to stay.

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lot of my life to that show. So I love

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working there. The people are the best. I really love

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I'm so excited to see what they do, and I'm

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excited for the new cast. A couple of releases out today,

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Blonde Medicine and Ben Katzner Please to announce the release

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of his debut comedy special album, both titled Supple Harlot.

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around him. Fellow comedian James Stanley summarizes the theme of

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Supple Harlot in three words, Fat Black Adopted, which, according

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to Ben, honestly nails it out. Today on the eight

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hundred pound gerrilla Is YouTube channel, Craig ferguson I'm so

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happy CBS News who has noticed that major US comedians

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abuses and not to be quote complicit in covering up

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the Riodd Comedy Festival, which organizers say will be the

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world's largest comedy festival, September twenty six to October ninth.

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events like these in a deliberate effort to whitewash the

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country's human rights record and deflect from the egregious abuses

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that continue to happen inside the country. Those investments are

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part of the broader strategy to have people thinking about

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a comedy event, for example, rather than the soaring number

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of executions that are happening inside of the country. Tim

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hundred and fifteen thousand dollars for single show, and that

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some of his more famous colleagues would receive around one

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point six million dollars for their appearances right CBS. CBS

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has contacted the publicists representing Bill attendees, Bill Burr, Mark

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has received no comment from any of them regarding their

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expected appearances in Saudi Arabia. W Camal Bell on Substack

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says he has no compassion for Charlie Kirk's death. Kirk

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would be fine with my lack of empathy for him,

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not that I needed his permission that Substack is titled

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Charlie Kirk said, I can't stand empathy. Well, if he insists,

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Bell wrote, deep breath, everybody, we're now in deeper crap

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than we already were as a country. I certainly won't

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be gas light into performatively pretending that Charlie Kirk was

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some sort of saint death when it's actually just a

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truly awful person in life. I know what it's like

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to feel you are personally in danger for what you

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have said or done. I know what it is to

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be targeted by the people you disagree with. I also

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know what it's like when being surrounded by hostility is

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part of your job. When I see Charlie Kirk getting

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shot and killed, presumably for his beliefs, I'm reminded that

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I've imagined myself in that same position many times. Charlie

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Kirk was like a used car salesman. At the end

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of the fiscal year. He was literally giving the hatred away.

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A slogan might as well have been and come through,

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have got hatred for you. Charlie Kirk was a bad

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faith actor who spent all this time coming up with

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new ways to create more bad faith. He did it

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for money, for clicks, for giggles, for clout, and worst

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of all, he did it for his dear leader, Donald Trump.

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Bell says the best way to honor Kirk is for

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politicians to enact gun legislation and says, ironically, Charlie Kirk

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would hate that. You'll find that piece on w comout

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Bell's substack, and that is your comedy news for today.

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See you tomorrow.