March 26, 2026

Netflix Disputes Mark Normand ‘Muslim Joke’ Call, Vince Vaughn rips Late Night Shows, Colbert to develop Lord of the Rings!

Netflix Disputes Mark Normand ‘Muslim Joke’ Call, Vince Vaughn rips Late Night Shows, Colbert to develop Lord of the Rings!
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Johnny Mac delivers a daily comedy news briefing led by Mark Normand’s account on Tuesdays with Stories of Netflix wanting a "Muslim joke" removed from promo clips, which a Netflix source strongly denies, saying only his reps were on the call and the story is embellished.

The episode also covers Vince Vaughn telling Theo Von late-night shows became agenda-driven and less authentic than podcasts; Johnny’s continued criticism of Stephen Colbert amid news of a new Lord of the Rings project involving Colbert and his son; costs and ratings for SNL UK; SNL’s new short-form “The Rundown” with Colin Jost and the next live show on April 4 with Jack Black and Jack White; Last One Laughing UK’s return; Tim Dillon on TSA lines; Louis Theroux with Stuart Lee; Netflix developing a scripted comedy with Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo; Eliza Schlesinger’s Jeep campaign; a Laughing on the Lake festival headlined by Bert Kreischer; Melbourne Comedy Festival picks; Langston Kerman joining an NBC PI comedy; and a last-day vote reminder for Comedy Survivor.
 
00:24 Normand Netflix Clip
03:19 Netflix Source Denial
03:57 Vince Vaughn on Late Night
06:13 Star Trek Ruiner Colbert and Lord of the Rings
08:32 SNL UK Costs
10:33 Last One Laughing UK
11:20 Tim Dillon idea for TSA
11:56 Van Halen's 5150
14:14 Festivals And New NBC
17:04 Wrap Up Survivor Vote

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Oh boy, Hello, I'm Shohnny Mack. This is actually take

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two of the podcast. I went down a road and

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I'm like, why don't you do this one again? This

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is a daily briefing up stand up comedy. Comedians of

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the comedy industry has said it's the algorithm loves your

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big headline that gets the attention. Mark Norman is second

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controversy of the week. The headline Netflix source disputes Mark

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norman claim that an exec called Muslim's dangerous people. So

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in the now deleted take of this podcast, I started

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to read the transcript and I'm like, you know what,

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let me let Mark Norman speak for himself. This is

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from episode six forty eight of the Tuesdays with Stories podcast.

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Let's listen to part one. They said, send us a

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couple jokes you like.

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We'll chop them up and use that as promo on

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social media. So so I go, oh, no problem. I

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like this joke. I like this joke. I like this joke.

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And I said, great, they come back in a week.

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We got to do a conference call, and I go, oh,

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that's not good. I hate a conference call. There's eighteen

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jews on there with a speakerphone and my Jews and

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they go, well, yeah, we got some bad news there.

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We reviewed the special again. We'd like to take out

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the Muslim joke. I got a big joke about Muslims.

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And I go, oh why, and they go, well, last

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time a comic did a Muslim joke, we got bomb threats,

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we got death threats. They'd said they were gonna kill us.

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They ruined the whole studio, blow the place up to smithereens.

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So we'd like to not use the Muslim joke. And

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I go wha. I like the joke, it kills it's

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a hot joke, and you know, no one touches muzz Okay.

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I let Mark and Netflix speak for themselves. But then

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Mark continued with this, which got an eyebrow out of me.

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Well, I'm on the call, like, oh, I thought this

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was gonna be like we're cutting your money, we're taking

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this special, Dad, we don't like you don't stop stop

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writing as letters. But they were like, we want to

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take out the Muslim joke, and they're very whole special,

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not just the clip. Well that's what I thought, So

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I was like, I've got to fight for the joke.

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Here folks. You approved it. Now you're going back. And

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they're like, well, okay, we'll keep it in the hour,

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but we got to get it off socials. And I

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said why, what's the difference and they go, well, socials

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is where all the shit starts. You go push it

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on the internet. That's where the fire fucking pick up,

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the pilon, the retweets, the sharing. You can't comment on

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a TV screen, you know. So they're like, well, we

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gotta take it off. So that's a that's a no brainer.

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And I was like, okay, okay, I don't love it,

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but okay, I will take it off on one condition.

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And they said, all right, what do you want to hear?

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What do you want? And I go, I want you

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to admit on this call that they are dangerous people.

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Oh And they were like what no, what are you crazy?

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And I'm like, you gotta admit it or I'm keeping

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it or I'm posting it. I mean, I'm half joking.

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But they were like, ah, you can hear like a

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in the back, like a horse was walking through and

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I was like that's all I need and they go, well,

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we're not going to do that, and I'm like, why not?

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They go, well, that's offensive, and I go, that's what

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the call is. You're calling about this and I just

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need you to say it out loud.

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A source to the hollerd Reporter strongly denies most components

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of Mark Norman's story. You just heard it. I'll let

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you decide how serious or not Mark was. But the

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source said we advised him that were a global company

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and to be careful with the clips and jokes he

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used to promote the special on his own social channels.

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The source says the idea that a Netflix executive would

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portray Muslims as a dangerous thread on a conference call,

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let alone verbally agree with Norman that they're a dangerous

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people is quote not true, not correct, completely false. The

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source says Mark Norman wasn't even on the call, only

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his reps, so the idea of a back and forth

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dialogue between Mark Norman and the executives didn't happen. They

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say it's an embellishment. Meanwhile, Vince Vaughan making headline. Vince

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Vaughn was on THEO Vaughan's this past weekend. He criticized

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late night programs for becoming the same show and saying

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that they are really agenda based. Here's a lung ish

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clip from Vince Vaughn.

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Why a lot of the late shows have struggled because

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all they did during life, all they did. The only

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person they can make fun of it at a certain

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point was just like white redneck kind of people. And

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then everything tanked after that. Think about that this is

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but see they never get it right. The podcasts have

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gotten so much more popular with less production, less riders

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left staff. Two people working here and both of them

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are hung over. The one guy is shingles, but the

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place is clean. I like that you keep a clean plank. Yeah,

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we did vacuum. But but yeah, because people want authenticity. Yeah,

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and I think that the talk shows to a large

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part became really agenda based.

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Yeah.

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They were gonna evangelical people to what they thought, you

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know what I mean, And so people just rejected it

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because it didn't feel authentic. It felt like they had

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an agenda being funny, and it started feeling like I

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was in class. I didn't want to take Yeah, do

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you know what I mean? I've been scolded one hundred percent, Yeah,

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one hundred percent. And so I think that's the phenomenon,

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isn't what they say they always blame technology, but the

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reality is it's the approach. You know, someone could go

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watch a stand up at Madison Square Garden and they

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want to go because it feels dangerous. The crowd is alive,

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I don't know what theo is going to do or say,

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and I love taking that experience so it's fun. I

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don't want to stay home and watch it on a

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TV because I want to experience that live, right, So

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when it cares where you're coming from, that's the that's

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the main point. And I think people are going to

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tune into a podcast more so because they want to

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feel like people are having a real conversation. It's interesting

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to them. But if you look at what happened to

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the talk shows and why their ratings are low, it's

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got only to do with the fact of what you

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just said, which is they all became the same show,

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and they all became so about their politics and who's

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good and who's bad. And it's like, imagine sitting next

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to someone like that on a plane. Oh bro, you'd

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be like, how do I get out of this? Probably

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fart right next to cow. You fart your way out

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of that.

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Now, if you listen every day. You know, the President

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of the United States and I don't agree on all

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the issues, but one of the issues we're aligned on

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is that Stephen Colbert has to go. It is the

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right move that CBS has taken his late night show

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away from him and now taking Star Trek away from him.

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That's right. CBS has canceled Starfleet Academy, in which star

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trek Ruiner Stephen Colbert was the voice of the computer.

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That means fellow star trek Ruiner Tignatoro and fellow star

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trek Ruiner Genius Sheer are out of a gig. Good.

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Now I have bad news for Lord of the Rings

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fans star trek Ruiner Stephen Colbert soon to be Lord

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of the Rings ruiner. This is not getting a good

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reaction on social media. The headline a new Lord of

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the Rings movie is in development from Stephen Colbert and

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his son. Does anything about that sentence make you go oh,

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I can't wait for the new Lord of the Rings

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movie developed by Stephen Colbert. The announcement came from Lord

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of the Rings director Peter Jackson, giving an update about

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the next film in the franchise, that will be Andy

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Serkis's The Hunt for Gollum, Jackson said, and he's doing

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a terrific job. It's looking amazing. The Hunter Forgllum will

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be out in twenty twenty seven. Jackson then teased that

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his very special partner who will help develop the next

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film after The Hunt for Gollum, Stephen Colbert. This film

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currently titled The Lord of the Rings Shadows of the Past.

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The plots of Shadows of the Past will come from

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chapters of the Fellowship of the Ring that did not

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make it into Peter Jackson's two thousand and one adaptation.

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Colbert told Jackson, you know what the books mean to

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me and what your films mean to me. But the

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thing I found myself reading over and over again were

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the six chapters early on in The Fellowship of the

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Ring that y'all never developed into the first movie back

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in the day. It's basically the chapter three is Company

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chapter three through fog on the Barrow Downs chapter eight,

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And I thought, oh wait, maybe this could be its

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own story. They could fit into the larger story. Could

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we make something that was completely faithful to the books

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while also being completely faithful to the movies that you

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guys had already made. Now that all sounds good, but

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I'll remind you that Stephen Colbert took part in Starfleet Academy.

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He's a star trek Ruiner. I don't trust him with

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the keys to Lord of the Rings the official log line.

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Fourteen years after the passing of fro Do, Sam, Mary

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and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of

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their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam's daughter Eleanor has discovered a long

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buried secret and is determined undercover why the War of

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the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began.

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Good luck Lord of the Rings fans. Meanwhile, snl UK

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apparently is costing around two point six million dollars per episode,

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except they pay in pounds two million pounds depending on

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your currency exchange Variety says. SNLUK hired the largest studio

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in Central London's Television Center on a standing exclusive basis

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for the entirety of its eight week run, meaning the

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cast and crew don't share the space will have any

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other production. Graham Norton on the premiere pointed out that

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the ten thousand and eight unit square foot TC one

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is uly home to the Graham Norton Show. The exclusivity

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means the cast and crew aren't sharing the space when

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let any other production, nor did they have to dissemble

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the sets and clear out the offices and all that

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in between episodes. SNLUK was originally going to get six episodes,

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they decided to make it eight. An episode of SNL

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USA goes from around four million dollars. A typical British

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sketch show usually costs around five hundred thousand pounds. One

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expert said they're expensive, which is why no one does

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them anymore. Topical shows also have no repeatability on like dramas.

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The Innaral episode got two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers,

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a number called respectable. Meanwhile, in the US, there's a

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new short form series from SNL called The Rundown. The

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Rundown streams on Peacock YouTube and SNL social channels, and

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it asks current and former cast members to choose their

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favorite sketches and musical performances to build a fantasy episode.

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Episode one is Colin Jost. He explains the cold open

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for SNL is often truly cold because after a warm

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up comic, the like ten minutes of jazz from the

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in house band, and the show waits to go Live

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at eleven thirty says you're going from an ice cold

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vibe in here, and if you're good as a performer

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and good as a writer and being able to get

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that audience laughing early on, it's a feat. His choice

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for The Rundown is season thirty four is opening with

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler playing Sarah Palin and Katie

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Kirk in a parody of the CBS News interview between

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the two seth Myers wrote that sketch episodes of the

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Rundown debut on Wednesdays when SNL is off, which is

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this week. SNL's next live episode is scheduled for April fourth,

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Jack Black hosts Jack White, musical guest Love It. Last

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One Laughing UK is back. If you haven't watched it,

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start with season one, which was hilarious. If you don't

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know what Last One Laughing is, a bunch of comedians

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get locked in a room. Jimmy Carters, your host, and

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the comedians try to make each other laugh. If you laugh,

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you're out. It's fun because A it's funny, and B

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you can play along at home and try not to

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break while you're sitting on your couch. Vulture said, it's

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arguably a game show about comedy comedians, but mostly it's

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a show about walking away from people mid conversation, light society.

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It's one of the rudest things you can do, but

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in last one laughing it's a necessity. This season's cast

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includes David Mitchell, you know him from Peep Show and

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Mitchell and Webb of course, also Diane Morgan you know

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she plays Filhemina Kunk in the various Counk documentaries. By

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the time you're hearing this, there should be five episodes

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out and the finale will drop on April second. Tim

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Dillon has a suggestion for the long TSA lines On

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his podcast, Tim said, you want to hear a solution,

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stop screening them. Get on the effing plane. Whatever happens happens.

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Get on the effing plane. If you want to go

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to Phoenix that much, just get on the effing plane.

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Who cares the cockpit door's closed? Who gives a hoot?

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Paraphrasing a couple people might have a bomb. You want

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to wait in line for an hour? Do you want

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a chlorine bomb to go off an hour outside of Orlando?

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It doesn't matter. Just get on the plane. Stop traveling.

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I don't know what to tell you. People, Find a

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place you like and stay there for a minute. If

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you're really into comedy, check out the podcast Louis Thurreux.

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He has Stuart Lee, a comedian, as his guest. They

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get deep into the weeds. I really enjoyed that conversation.

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As I talked about it earlier, I'm very excited that

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Starfleet Academy has been canceled. For the first time in

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many years, no Star Trek is in production. Now. As

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a Star Trek fan, you would think like, oh, doesn't

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that make you sad. No, it makes me happy because

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the people who have been in charge have done nothing

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but destroy Star Trek, and I'd rather have no Star

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Trek than canon busting Star Trek. I'll just sit with

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the seven hundred hours that existed through the end of

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the Enterprise series and ignore the rest. Glad it's gone.

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This has nothing to do with comedy. This week is

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the fortieth anniversary of the Van Halen album fifty one

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to fifty Boy. Forty years goes fast. As I wrote

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in my substack link in the show notes, I feel

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like it was maybe not yesterday, but not too long ago.

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I went to the Numbers record store in my hometown,

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popped to the fifty one to fifty into my cassette.

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Walkman was listening to it on the way home. Stopped

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off at Tommy's Pizza. Got a slice Back in the

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old days when like you could order slice through the window.

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Are you from New York City? You know what I'm

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talking about. Yeah, they would open the window, you didn't

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have to go in. You get a slice through the window. Great.

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Whatever happened to that? And when I was at Tommy's Pizza,

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I realized I had already lost the cassette box to

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fifty one to fifty. I retraced my steps, couldn't find it.

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Still bothers me forty years later A great album wrote

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about it today in the sub stack. Hannah Burner and

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Page Desorbo. You may know them from their Gigly Squad podcast.

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They're working with Netflix. Netflix is developing a half hour

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scripted comedy co written in headlined by the best Friends,

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produced by Amy Poehler, sat in New York City. Untitled

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Hannah and Page Project stars the two as fictionalized versions

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of themselves as they become the ultimate writer dies, helping

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each other shed their baggage and emerges the people they've

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always wanted to be that will probably do well. Eliza

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Seleznger is teaming up with Jeep again. The new ad

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campaign is called The Real deal Ership. Eliza Slesinger takes

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on her now official role as the brand's Chief Family Officer.

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She steps into a dealership setting where she interacts with customers,

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showcases features, and injects her signature humor into the experience.

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Eliza said, everyone loves a good sequel, especially me if

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I'm the one starring in it. At least that's honest. Also, surprisingly,

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I was told I wasn't just tired as just another

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pretty face, and that they needed to get to work

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as the Jeep brand's Chief Family Officer or they take

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away my company car. The real question is why I

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posted this story five times into my script. I don't

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remember doing that. Bert Krescher, you' never hear about him,

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Well he will The Laughing on the Lake Comedy Festival,

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which debuts May sixteenth at the ozarks Amphitheater. The Laughing

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on the Lake Comedy Festival, headline by Burt Krescher would

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also feature performances by Kathleen Madigan, Rory Scovel, Chris Porter

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and Shane Torres. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is underway.

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Arts Hub tells us this year the festival's pilot program

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showcases two different up and coming young Australian comedians each

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week of the festival at the work friendly time of

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five twenty pm, but on Sundays for twenty for some reason.

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Arts Hub Performing Arts editor Richard Watts suggests twelve shows

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that caught his eye and the lead up to the festival.

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We'll go quick here. Alex Eins and Sarah Stafford's Birds

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two women in swimwear and over the top makeup and

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Wiggs pose at the beach, one of them as a

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alled eagle toy perched on her leather gloved wrist like

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a hunting falcon. Sounds fun. Anissa and Nondula's No Small

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Talk promises, no filters, no small talk, just big laughs.

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We don't know too much about that other than she

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was born in Uganda. Casey Phillips, what a character, We're told.

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Casey Phillips doesn't just play characters, He shape ships through

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them and makes you forget it's the same person on stage.

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Elf Lyons show is called Swan We're told, if you

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ever wanted to see somebody mercilesully and hilariously mock ballet,

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especially Swan Lake, this is the show for you. Gary

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Starr's show is called Classic Penguins. Something something dressed up

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where a lower torso and legs are those of a

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penguin sounds fun James Barr's show is called Sorry I

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Hurt Your Son. We're reminded intimate partner violence isn't funny,

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but apparently this show is. Or explains that he's chosen

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to tell his story of abuse because silence is traumatizing,

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and he helps that and telling his story he can

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help others speak out if they too are suffering domestic

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abuse in silence. I think that's six. I'll save the

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rest for tomorrow. But I don't want to go out

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on that one, so I'll tell you that. Langston Kerrman

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has joined the cast of NBC's currently untitled comedy. Langston

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Kerman plays Justin Royle, described as a great, big teddy

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bear of a man. He works as a PI at

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an agency run by his father, Julius Royal. Okay, so

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we have two people called Royal. So this is going

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to be called something like The Royal Family, except I

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think that was a Red Fox show, so they probably

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won't use that exact title, but it's clearly going to

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be Royal something. Julius Royle, played by Keith David is

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a tough guy with somewhat antiquated views of the world

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justin That's Langston's character is the main investigator at the agency,

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alongside Mickey. Who's Mickey? Good question. I should have continued

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reading the sentence. I would have told you Mickey played

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by Jake Johnson, not Josh Johnson. Jake Johnson is a smart,

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cynical and heartbroken but trying to pretend he's not. I

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misread that in my brain and I was like, Josh Johnson,

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I don't know who Jake Johnson is. I'm sure he's lovely.

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Let's look him up. Jake Johnson is an American actor.

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He has starred as Nick Miller in A New Girl.

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Oh that guy. All right, my daughter's gonna like that show.

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Then all NBC will tell us is it continues the

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proud tradition of la Private Eye that began with Philip Marlow,

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and we'll end with this show. Good line there, and

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that is your Comedy News for Today, Mark Norman, Try

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and stay out of trouble for more than five minutes

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this week. What are you doing all right? See you guys. Oh,

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it's Comedy Survivor. Last day to vote for this week's

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Comedy Survivor, so head over to the Facebook group Daily

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Comedy News Podcast Group. You'll find the discussion Leslie Jones

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in Trouble. If you want to save Leslie Jones, you

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might want to find ten friends and get them to

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vote for somebody else. I'm just a host. I don't

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care who wins. See you tomorrow,