Sept. 15, 2025

Nate Bargatze flops at the Emmys, Seinfeld backlash grows, and Tim Dillon gets serious about Charlie Kirk

Show Notes
Transcript

Nate Bargatze’s Emmy hosting debut wasn't good, with a countdown clock gimmick angering viewers .

Jim Gaffigan recycles bourbon jokes at Kroger. Jay Leno and Tim Dillon weigh in seriously on the Charlie Kirk shooting. Rainn Wilson defends his Office comments, and Seinfeld criticism escalates at Duke.

I guess we know who we're selling on Friday's Comedy Stock Market.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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I just called an audible. It's nine point thirty and

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the Emmys are actually making me like angry. It's just

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a terrible, terrible telecast, poorly produced for reasons we'll get into.

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And I hopes for this episode, and the episode's good.

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I've got stuff because I ready recorded the second half

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earlier in the day. But I was like, all right,

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Nate will be pretty good. We'll see what happens with

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the late night guys. And the show is just dragging

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and not interesting. And one of the big problems is

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Nate Berghatzi is not up to the task of being

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the host. The thing is misproduced from the start. So

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they begin with a variant on the George Washington sketch

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where Nate played the inventor of television. He was joined

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by Bowen Yang, mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson. I'm

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sure it played well to Middle America, but you know

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we've done this already, Nate. You got to show us

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something else. You can't just keep doing this bit over

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and over. So that dragged, and then the next thing

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that's misproduced is the very first presenter is Stephen Colbert

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and I wrote on the Facebook group, I'm like, Colbert

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is just gonna you know, is Nate gonna be able

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to escape his shadow? The answer is no. Stephen Colbert

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comes out, gets a standing ovation chance of Steve and

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Stephen Stephen, he makes a joke while I have everyone's attention,

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is anyone hiring? So now we're several minutes into the show.

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Nate hasn't done a monolog yet, but Stephen Colbert has

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stood at center stage, I think in a tuxedo if

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my memory hasn't failed me, and kind of looks the

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part of a host where Nate doesn't. Then Nate comes

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out and explains to America the thing I told you

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about where he was putting one hundred thousand dollars in

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the pot and gonna dock everybody a thousand dollars for

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every minute they went over. Boy, that does not work.

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When somebody is up there thanking their family and they

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finally had their big moment and they've worked their whole career,

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they're finally winning this award, and the clock comes on

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and starts counting down. It actually makes me angry. I

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Einbinder's up there giving a speech and this clock comes on.

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It's just ticking down, Tony Gilroy thanking his crew and

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his family and the clock comes on. It's just it

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was really obnoxious because it puts the winners in a

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bad position. Why would you do that as a producer?

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And it kinda puts some stink on Nate for being

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a bad guy. So I'm just really really annoyed at

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the Emmys, and I can't be bothered to stay up

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till eleven o'clock to find out the rest of the winners,

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because we'll just do that. On Tuesday, Vulture wrote this

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acceptance speech Timer is ghoulish. It's that thing where a

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guy puts twenty dollars on the table and makes the

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server work for it. Servers hate that guy. Joe Reid,

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I forget if this was Vulture or The Times. Joe wrote,

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I want all the winners to go extra long and

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have the audience chant the money total as it approaches zero.

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John Oliver gets up there. He raced through his speech

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to put some money back on the clock, which is

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kind of funny. But shouldn't John Oliver get to give

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a proper speech? I mean, what are we doing. There's

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another segment where Nate came out and started talking about

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the how many award winners and he finds out from

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the staff announcer. I found out from the staff announcer.

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Apparently they gave this out during the week. I had

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no idea I would have mentioned it. And again maybe

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I'm terrible at what I do. I do read every

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entertainment website and I google a words like comedy and comedian.

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I didn't know. But apparently Conan O'Brien won the Emmy

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for Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded for the Mark Twain Prize,

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which is the right answer, but like, I don't know,

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where did that go? So the staff announcer was telling

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Nate live on the air that Nate didn't win, as

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if Nate didn't know, and that felt flat two. So

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you can just hear the frustration of my voice. This

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thing just annoyed me tonight. Some other stuff I scribbled in.

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They tapped JB. Smooth to try and explain the money bit.

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He ate it. Leanne Morgan did her thing, but I

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was wondering, as a presenter, does America even know who

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that is?

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I don't know.

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So the winners in the first ninety minutes anyway, lead

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Actress in a comedy Gene Smart for Hacks. I like

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that pick. Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Hannah Einbinder.

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During her speech, she said free Palestine and f ice.

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Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy went to Jeff Hiller

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for Somebody Somewhere. Seth Rogan has won a couple already because,

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as I said in my preview, the industry loves celebrating itself.

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So no surprise there, and that's the Emmys. I'm just

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kind of disappointed, and I'm sorry. I'm in a bad mood,

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but the show put me in a bad mood, so

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let's switch to stuff that makes me laugh. Jim Gaffigan

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went to the Krueger on Shelbyville Road. He was signing

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bottles of father Time bourbon for hundreds of fans that

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line up outside. As William Shanner one said, get a life.

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Gaffigan said, while comedy is a gift and of passion,

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so is his love of Kentucky bourbon. It's a beautiful thing,

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the whole bourbon journey. But also I think it's important

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for marriages too. You want your husband to be interested

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in bourbon, then they're not going to have an affair.

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So he's reusing that joke, right, because I told you

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yesterday that he had told the joke that Jeanie likes

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he's doing bourbon because she's happy he's not having an affair. Oh, Jim,

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Hey very busy Monday. Aside from the Emmy Awards. Adam

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sand is at Madison Square Garden tonight. I can't go.

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I have to teach on Monday nights. Otherwise I'd be

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at the garden. I mean, Adam Sandler are doing a

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comedy show. Sounds amazing, doesn't it? A couple serious topics.

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Jay Lenno weighed in on the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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I won't do the Jay little bit here because this

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is a serious topic. Leno called into the Tim Conway

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Junior Show, and here's what Jay had to say.

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It's not a random shooting. I mean it's a death

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of free speech. I think that you are so illiterate

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and so stupid you can't answer verbally and you have

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to shoot somebody with a gun to quote win the argument.

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Tim Dillon also uncharacteristically serious. He opened up his podcast

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I listen to that Walking the Dog Sunday morning, and

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Tim was very serious. I have made a few edits

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here for pacing, but let's listen to Tim Dillon.

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You know, that was one of the most disturbing things

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I had ever seen in my life. The man is

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a husband of father, even if he wasn't, he's a

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human being. He's sitting there, he's engaging in converse with people,

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and he was brutally murdered in front of his wife

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and children. I'm not a sanctimonious guy. I dressed up

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as a dead healthcare ceo on Netflix. I'm not someone

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who is out there being a purveyor of good taste.

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But I just don't understand how after witnessing that murder

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you could be gleefully celebrating this attack. I think you're

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in a very bad place spiritually in your life if

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you're celebrating the murder. If that's the first reaction you

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have to that video is to celebrate this, or I mean,

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you can't be doing great.

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Meanwhile, Jerry Seinfeld's controversial comments from last week, someone from

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The Duke Chronicle wrote, now that someone is a class

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of twenty eight. So I'm not going to say the

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writer's name, as that person may not be his experience

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in the ways of the modern media say I am so.

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I'm not here to beat up on the person, but

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I thought the article warranted to mention that person wrote

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Tuesday's demonstration continue to prove the outsized poll that Seinfeld

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has with Duke, which allows him to get free press

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at the university whenever he feels like it. Seinfeld's combination

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of familial ties and fame, it seems it entitles him

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to walk into Duke as he pleases and be given

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a mantle which espouse Ludcro's views as if he represents

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the university or its student body. His remarks prove the

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urgency in which we must divorce ourselves from this pattern

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and him. There are many reasons outside of Tuesday's comments

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for this, like the fact he dated a seventeen year

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old high school girl when he was thirty eight years old,

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or perhaps the greatest sin of all, which is the

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fact that he isn't funny. His recent comments, though, are

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what demand attention and then a breakdown of the issues

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at the core of the Seinfeld comments. Again, we are

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not going to solve that on the Daily Comedy News podcast.

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By the way, if you downloaded Sunday's episode, early in

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the morning before nine thirty Eastern, I messed up and

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I had double loaded Saturday show. Sunday's episode was pretty good,

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so if you missed it or you were like, I

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heard this one already, there's one in there that you

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might have missed.

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Now.

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I was extra frustrated because almost always, if you're a

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long time listening, you know, I get up in the

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morning and to go get coffee. But for reasons, I

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chose not to go get coffee and then didn't listen

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back to the show until nine thirty when I walked

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the dog and then I heard the reru and I

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was like, gosh, darn, because normally I would have caught

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that at seven am and fixed it. So you might

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have missed one there. Rain Wilson was in the headlines.

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Last week. I had shared the story where Rain had

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made some comments about the office. Rain went out of

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his way on Sunday morning to speak about what he

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actually said, and let's let Rain take it from here,

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as he makes himself very very clear.

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So while promoting this movie, Code three, I had a

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number of conversations, some podcasts, some interview shows. I did

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a perfectly nice interview with the gentleman who was asking

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about whether the Office could be made today, and we

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had very long, nuanced conversation about how, in some ways

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the Office could have some you know, unpc tendencies, some

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racist tendencies, because the buffoon leads of the show, Michael

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and Andy and Dwight, were pretty clueless, and you know,

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could you do that today. There's a great source of

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humor there, but it's a it's a very delicate balance.

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The interview is very nuanced, the headlines are not. And

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this is one of the reasons people hate mainstream media

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because now it's not printed on newspapers. It's all about clickbait.

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There's headlines that say, Rain Wilson, the Office was racist,

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exclamation point, click on me. Look at the banner ads

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coming up alongside subscribe, pay get behind our paywall. It's

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really gross.

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And obscene, and the media is adding to this land

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dscape of hatred, distrust, inflammatory statements, outrage right and left.

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So I certainly didn't mean to cause outrage. I don't

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think the Office was racist. Folks, listen to the actual interview.

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Look at what I actually said. That's all. It breaks

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my heart, and that showbiz.

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That is your comedy news on a pretty busy, robust Monday,

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I've got plenty for tomorrow. I almost wish the Emmys

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weren't last night, because there was a lot of good

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stuff today. But you know, we got another show tomorrow,

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so i'll see then