May 5, 2026

Netflix Exec addresses Louis CK backlash, no more John Mulaney late night show, plus Robert Smigel Launches New Humor Me Podcast

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Johnny Mac delivers Daily Comedy News, led by Robert Smigel’s new weekly podcast, “Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends,” premiering May 8, featuring guests including David Letterman, Bob Odenkirk, Ellie Kemper, Jim Gaffigan, and others helping people make real-life tasks funnier. Netflix sets Tom Segura’s “Bad Thoughts” season two for May 24 (six episodes). Variety interviews Netflix Is A Joke organizers Robbie Praw and Tracy Podesca, teasing festival highlights (Pee-wee Herman celebration; Larry David with Jerry Seinfeld), noting success with “The Pete Davidson Show,” saying there’s no current talk of another season of John Mulaney’s “Everybody’s Live,” and hyping the Kevin Hart roast hosted by Shane Gillis. Praw addresses booking Louis C.K. this summer. Louis C.K. discusses India vs. New York poverty on Jim Norton’s podcast. Alex Jones attacks Tim Heidecker amid an Infowars-related court ruling; another hearing is set for May 28. Additional items include reports of King Charles’ jokes being tightly written, LA festival show picks, and Eugene Merman’s YouTube premiere of “Here Comes the Whimsy.”

00:18 Smigel Podcast Launch
02:04 Segura Bad Thoughts Return
02:30 Netflix Is A Joke Insider Talk
04:08 Roast Debate Kevin Hart
06:57 Louis C.K. Netflix Backlash
08:49 Louis C.K. India Clip
10:53 Alex Jones vs Heidecker
12:33 King Charles Joke Writers
13:08 Festival Picks LA Schedule
15:23 Eugene Merman New Special
16:10 Wrap Up And Sign Off

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Very busy one. Today, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians

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and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. I'm excited.

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Robert Smigel has launched a podcast in which he and

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his comedian friends try to hush up the hilarity of

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everything from a eulogy to a Tinder profile. Now, who

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are Robert Smigel's celebrity friends? No, no Cone enlisted yet,

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but he does have David Letterman, Bob Odenkirk, Ellie Kemper,

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and Jim Gaffigan. As you may know, Robert Smigel best

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known for his TV funhouse segments on SNL. I would

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say he's best known for Triumph Maybe not anyway, He

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is the host of Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends,

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a weekly podcast. It premieres May eighth, so that's later

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this week. I know the trailers already out because I've

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subscribed to it. On Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends,

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Smigel and a rotating panel of his friends assist people

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seeking help been making something in their real life funnier,

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Smigel told Variety. We've had several rabbis wanting help with sermons.

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There was a woman who wanted to break up with

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her mom group in a diplomatic way that was still funny,

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he told Variety. The original idea was to do like

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a writer's room of sorts. He said, the only dream

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I had was how much fun I have in writers' rooms,

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because almost the fun part and being in comedy is

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just generating ideas. Then you actually have to execute them,

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and that's where the pain comes in. There is a trailer.

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I'll run some of it. I wish the trailer were

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a little better. Being honest, Hello, I'm Robert Smigel.

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I did lots of things, cartoons, ONSNL, Conan stuff, Triumph,

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The Insult, comic dogs, some movies, but now I'm past

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my peak. So I'm hosting a podcast Humor Meet with

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Robert Smigel and friends. Each week, me and my favorite comedians,

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writers and whatnots help regular people just like you, presuming

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your regular who have some project or task that they'd

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like us to help make funnier. You'll see guests like

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Bob Odenkirk, Jim Gaffigan, David Tel, Mikey Day, Ellie Kemper,

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Pete Holmes, Alex Adelman, Bruce McCollough, David Letterman, David Letterman,

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and many great writers dedicated to helping the less humorous.

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Netflix has announced the date for season two of Tom

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Sagora's Bad Thoughts and It's Pretty soon, May twenty fourth,

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will get six episodes. As you may recall, the series

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follows Tom Sagoras. He navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies within

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a cinematic world. Tom Sigori said, it was such a

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thrill to get the opportunity to entertain in horrify audiences

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with our very bad Thoughts on Netflix. We're all so

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excited to push things further. Speaking of Netflix, Robbie Prau

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and Tracy Podeska they are behind the Netflix as a

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Joe Comedy Festival, and they got the fancy schmancy industry

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interview in Variety. They asked, Robbie, what do you think

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is the wackiest or most ambitious idea you'll pull off

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this year. Robbie Prost said, I'm excited to see the

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celebration of Peewee Herman as a Seinfeld dork. I'm excited

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to see Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. That was last night.

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The roast speaks for itself. As for the wackiest things,

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I'm personally running a five K for the first time.

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I assume that's the Tom Sagora Berd Krasher five K,

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but you never know. Here's an interesting one. Netflix has

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invested quite a bit in the podcast space. How's that going,

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pra said, we can't speak to the whole strategy. The

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podcast that our group has been working on is The

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Pete Davison Show, and we're really happy with that that's going.

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He's doing two shows that are going to sell out,

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one with Nikki Glazer, one with John Mulaney. He was asked,

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is John Malini going to do another season of Everybody's Live?

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What did Johnny Mack tell you? Well, Robbie Prau admitted it, No,

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we don't think so. No, John is on a big tour.

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There's no talk of him doing that right now. Told

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you so. Any interest in Stephen Colbert, Tracy Pocosta said,

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we haven't talked to Steven. We talk about how much

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we love him. We're big fans of Stephen Colbert in

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his show, but nothing specific. All right, What about the

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roast of Kevin Hart. Robbie Pross said, it's going to

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be a real night of surprises. You have Shane Gillis

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hosting and Kevin Hart is the roasty. Two of the

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biggest comedy superstars of all time. Might be a little

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early to put Shane Gillis on the list of biggest

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comedy superstars of all time. I think we need a

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little more work there. You know, if you were a

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baseball player, he's in like season four, Like, relax a

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little with that. He's great, but relax, you know what

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I'm saying. Don Maddingly didn't make the Hall of Fame.

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Keith Hernandez not in the Hall of Fame. Robbie Prost says,

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there has never been a comedian at Kevin's level that

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has been in that hot seat. He's going to be

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ruthless at the end of this roast, and I'm excited

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to see it. Now, I'm going to fact check that

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my gut is telling me. I'm doing this live. My

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gut tells me that is not true. Let's see celebrity

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roasts of comedians, because he got the Dean Martin ones.

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All right, let's start with the Comedy Central roasts, Drew Carry,

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Jerry Stiller, Rob Runner, Hugh Hefner, Chevy Chase, Dennis Leary, Foxworthy, Family, Anderson, Williams, Shantner, Flavor,

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Flave Saggott, Cable Guy, Joan Rivers, David Hasselhoff, Trump, Charlie Sheen,

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Roseanne Barr, James Franco, Justin Bieber, Rob Low, Bruce Willis,

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Alec Baldwin. You could argue Kevin Hart is bigger than

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all of those guys. There was a TV show called

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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Governor Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon,

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William Conrad Kirk, Douglas, Betty Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson.

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You want to put Johnny Carson up against Kevin Hart

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in a battle, It's at least a discussion, right. The

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roasters on that were Jack, Benny, Joey, Bishop Foster, Brooks,

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George Byrns, Ruth, Buzzy, Truman, Capoti, Dom Deluiz, Red Fox, Rich,

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Little Bob Newhart. For nineteen seventy three. You know, I

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don't know man heads ahead that lineup in nineteen seventy

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three with Johnny Carson versus whatever they're gonna throw up

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Sunday Night. It's at least the discussion. Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey,

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Carol O'Connor, Munty Hall, Plugman and Randall, Jaja, Leobta Roscher, Truman, Capodi,

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Don Rickles. It could be Ralph Nader, Jack Benny red Fox,

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Bobby Riggs, George Washington is portrayed by Jan Layton. That's different.

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Rowan and Martin Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope. Okay,

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please understand, Bob Hope is on the mount Rushmore of

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comedy like an eight decade career. I know a lot

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of people judge him by the work he did after

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turning eighty, but watch the young Bob Hope. He is

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solid on that. Neil Armstrong, who's the first next man

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on the Moon? Johnny Bench, Jack, Benny Milton, Burrow, Foster Brooks,

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Howard Cosell, Phillis Dillars, Jajah Rich, Little, Ronald Reagan and

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a governor at that point in seventy four. I would

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assume Don Rickles and others. Telly Savalis, Lucille Ball, want

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you want to go head to heead against Kevin Hornt

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Lucy Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Junior, Michael Landon, Evil Knievel,

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Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali not a comedian, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver,

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Joe Garagiola, Red Fox, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gave Kaplan,

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Tad Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty Sinatra not a comedian, Clugman,

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Betty White, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Suzanne Summer's, Joe Namath,

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Joan Collins, Mister t In nineteen eighty four, and the

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last one on December seventh, nineteen eighty four, Michael Landon,

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I have quite digressed. The premise was Robbie Prost saying,

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there has never been a comedian at Kevin's level that

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has been in that hot seat. I propose to you,

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Johnny Carson, we have digressed. They asked Robbie prow about

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Louis c k. You remember Louis was canceled at one point,

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but now everybody loves Louis. Come out to the Hollywood Bowl,

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come see him. Pros said, when it comes to Louis,

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part of the job of my team is we listen

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to the type of stand ups people want to see.

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We also spend a lot of time looking at who's

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selling tickets around the world. Louis is at a really

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impressive run for the last two years, and it's a

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great special right now, so we're excited to see it

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on Netflix this summer, Variety did follow up, you must

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have anticipated backlash given his twenty seventeen sexual misconduct scandal.

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How much does that factor in? Pros said, When our

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members sit up and open up Netflix, they have a

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decision to make of what they want to watch. Oh,

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that's not a good answer. This is about giving them

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an option to see a really popular comedian that they

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may want to watch, who's still putting out great stuff. Sure,

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that opens the door to and I'm not gonna go

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there put up anything. I'll let you use your imagination

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as to what anything is. You don't have to watch it,

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Like if there's the hate speech show, you don't have

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to watch it. That's not a good answer. I'm sprised

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the pr people let that make it. Ato Variety, that

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is not a good answer. Oh here's a fun one.

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They asked, what do you make of Hulu push into comedy? Now,

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if you listen to this show and I've got some

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stuff I slept for tomorrow's episode. I don't like Hulu's

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nail on this at all. Right, he's phrasing, what do

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you make of Hulu's pushing to comedy. They've been able

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to secure big names for specials, some of which i'd

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imagine you also fought for. Do you view Hulu as

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a threat? That's hilarious? Bekostas said, I don't know about

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that part. But look, competition is always good because it's

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good for the comedy community. It means people are working,

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getting exposure and getting to tell their stories. See that's

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a good answer. I don't know if it's working or

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out for them. I know we continue to be in

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the business with a lot of the people that were

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on Netflix that have gone to do specials at Hulu.

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Because we offer an extension on the stand up brand

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for these comedians, We're able to work simultaneously with them,

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whether that be on the scripted side, on the future side,

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or what have you. Me Save some more of this

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for tomorrow, as we are already getting along. Because John

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read you a list of everybody who's ever been roasted.

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Speaking of Louis c k, he was on Jim Norton's podcast.

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C K was talking about visiting India as part of

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his tour, which is called Ridiculous. In a free Wheeling

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check Ye with Jim Norton, Louis c K opened up

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about what he saw in India, comparing it to how

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he sees poverty, specifically in New York City. Let's let

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Louis c K tell you here's a clip.

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Feeling in India is like the and I am ignorant.

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So I just saw what I saw.

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Nobody's on the street looking like shit, right, nobody's on drugs,

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and nobody's living homeless, do you know what I mean?

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Like the way in the streets here in New York. Yeah,

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I see guys with a little bubble sting like they're

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really they really like street syringe. I see guys shooting

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up broad daylight all the time now. And then you

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see guys you.

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Know that bent over it the way. Yeah this thing.

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I didn't see a single person like that. And any

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of the places we went to in India. From the hotel,

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we could see this area that was like corrugated steel

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uh cubes, yeah, with tarps over them, but like a

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whole city block. So there's there's a functioning poverty there

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and and there's many levels of housing that are way

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way cheaper, whereas here we have like a standard. But

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if you fall below it, if you're if you can't

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afford a home in New York City, you're on the

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street and you freeze to death, and you're and uh

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and nobody looks at you, and there's no job for you. Like,

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you can't you can't get a job if you don't

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have a credit rating in this country. You can't. If

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you don't have like a credit card and a real

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like identity, you can't just like hustle and see what

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you can get done. If you do, you probably live

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the time once I call them.

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The Alex Jones is not happy with this Tim Highdecker stuff.

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it's too much now. Alex Jones weight in he captured

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the post appointed Onion news director and a vowed Satanist.

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Tim Hideker melts down over the court ruling blocking a

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transfer of Info Wars to the Onion. I am not

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and that might affect our relationship. And I am pledging

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myself to Satan and to the Prince of Darkness.

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a soldier for the Prince of Darkness, and I hail

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him in a lot and respect the hell out of

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the devil.

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when I have too much to talk about. I was

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Memorial Day, because that's when it gets a little quiet.

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I'm going to see if we get some press for

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this little podcast here. A Radar Online reported there was

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an effort behind King charles hilarious jokes. A source said

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Charles's words and to make sure the jokes traveled across cultures.

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It was less about improvisation and more about precision writing,

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similar to how late night shows workshopped their material. Another

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source said the King has natural wit, but this was refined.

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in a highly str extu environment without causing offense. It

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created the impression of effortless charm. Behind the scenes. It

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was highly curated. Every beat was deliberate. The Netflix as

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a Joe Comedy Festival continues in Los Angeles. The La

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at eight o'clock tonight. They describe Jerry Seinfeld as the

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king of the comedic rant. Jerry is joined by Tennessee

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funny woman Leanne Morgan. They're also excited about the Comedy

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and hosted by Brooklyn Jones. The Comedy Swap mixes fantastic

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stand up comics with a cool twist on a clothing exchange.

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incredible comedy show, a pop up shop will be created

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for you to take an item with you when you

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leave for free. That's fun. Anything left over goes to

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local charities. I like it. Let's check the schedule. We'll

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click the Tuesday May fifth button seven thirty at the

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Hollywood Bowl. Louis c. K not So canceled at seven

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thirty at the Intuit Dome Cat Williams. Those are two

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big shiny shows. The Greek Theater. Seinfeld at eight three

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shiny shows, so just to be fair to Netflix. Jim

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think Gaffagan is bigger than Kat and I'm not sure

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he is. Alana Glazer and romy Yuseffer at the Orpheum

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at seven, Jesselnick at the Sabin at seven, theovonn at

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the Wildron at seven thirty. Tom Pop is out there

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at the Woolshare. He's at seven seven o'clock the Maltabon Theater.

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David Letterman with special guest John mulaney. So just there

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right like, and I just stayed home. If you even

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go out to La of the like six seven shows

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I already mentioned, which do you even go see? I

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guess I'd go see Letterman. So you're blowing off Seinfeld

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and c K however you feel about him and Caton Gaffigan.

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I mean, this is just huge, nine forty five hanging

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planet of the Apes of Parody. Friend of the show,

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words sold and out on it. As I look at

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this Steph Toleves at the Troup Door at nine thirty

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and they just added at six thirty a the Laugh

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Factory the Best of Chicago hosted by Jeremy Piven. That's different.

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out at the Hollywood Improv at seven thirty. Cameron espositos

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in ten. I mean, this is what a huge, huge,

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and it's Tuesday. Now. If you're not in Los Angeles,

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fear at home like me, you can go on YouTube

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at eight o'clock Eastern and watch Eugene Mermons Here Comes

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the Whimsy. If you want to own it on vinyl,

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you gotta wait till Saturday, May thirtieth. But you can

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watch the special now. You can get a digital download

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on PGF Records. Now. It's Eugene Mermons first special in

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ten years. Is that true? Because maybe it is true

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because the last one had like eight trillion cuts. Maybe

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that was just an album album. Here Comes the Whimsy

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was recorded live in Summerville, Massachusetts, and features Eugene Merman's

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trademark Playful Spirit as he shares anecdotes on fatherhood, travel insights,

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rental car disputes, and more. You can also participate in

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a live chat with Eugene during the YouTube premiere tonight

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eight Eastern, five West. You can also see him at

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Largo on the twelfth in Los Angeles. And that it's

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your comedy news for today. I told you was busy.

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Tomorrow is going to be busy too, and I'll meet

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you back here then