April 26, 2026

Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival Ticket Struggles for Shane Gillis, Louis CK and others?

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers comedy industry news, focusing first on Nikki Glaser hosting the Time 100 event and questioning whether she bombed, noting the crowd wasn’t mic’d well and suggesting a “cool Hollywood” room may have been reluctant to laugh; he plays a trimmed clip of her monologue, including jokes about publicists, the list, Victoria Beckham, and Gayle King/Katy Perry. He also shares awkward clips from Glaser on Kelly Ripa where her short skirt is mentioned and they discuss her Time cover. Deadline’s ongoing reporting on Netflix Is a Joke frames the festival as “haves and have-nots,” citing many big names (Shane Gillis, Louis C.K., John Mulaney, Katt Williams, Nate Bargatze, Seinfeld/Leanne Morgan, Jim Gaffigan) with unsold tickets while smaller buzzy comics sell out smaller venues. Mac reviews Kevin Hart’s “Funny AF” competition format and discusses “Emperor of Rome syndrome,” then briefly praises Ramy Youssef’s special and quotes Ramy and David Cross on crafting sets and not catering to algorithms. Gossip items include a Giants manager attending Dave Chappelle at The Punchline and Chappelle commissioning a beeswax sculpture, plus Patton Oswalt voicing Stephen King’s upcoming Talisman-trilogy audiobook.

00:23 Nikki Glaser Bombing
01:05 Time 100 Monologue
03:40 Kelly Ripa Awkwardness
05:25 Netflix Is a Joke Sales
06:56 Kevin Hart Competition
08:47 Ramy Youssef Special
10:00 David Cross Approach
10:54 Gossip Corner Chappelle
12:16 Chappelle Art Find
12:40 Patton Oswalt Audiobook
13:08 Wrap Up Tomorrow

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Callaroga Shock Media.

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

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the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the

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comedy industry. A sentence, The algorithm loves Nicky Glazer was

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at the time one hundred thing of a jig. She

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was the MC. I've got some audio for you, and

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my question to you is is she bombing now? To

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be very very very fair, the crowd is not miked

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well at all, and you can do the best comedy.

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If they don't mike the crowd, it will sound like

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you're bombing. But even beyond that, and if you listen

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closely at times, you will hear the audience laugh. I

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think she's bombing here. I think the cool Hollywood people

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don't want to accept her, and the cool Hollywood people

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know that they don't dare laugh at the jokes. Oh no,

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a Katie Perry joke. We better not laugh at that one.

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We'll get in trouble. We won't be liked by the

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other cool Hollywood people. So this is a tough room,

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and I think she bombed. The original was quite long.

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I've clipped it down for both pacing and language. Here's

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NICKI Glazer.

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Hello everyone, I'm Nicki Glazer and welcome to the Time

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one hundred, the one list you actually want to be

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on this year. Yes, congratulations to everyone here tonight. This

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is such a phenomenal accomplishment for each and every one

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of your publicists, truly right. Personally, I am just so

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excited to be in the same room with people. My

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therapists told me to never compare myself to Donna.

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Was right.

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But I'm your host, Nicki Glazer, and this is such

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a thrill. I've of course hosted the Golden Globes, but

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this is different because this is time I will never

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get back, you know, No, I'm kidding, I'm I'm so

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excited to be on this list.

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I am.

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I'm also one of four people on the cover, which

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is a quarter of my dream come true. Yes, oh

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my god, I can't wait for all my friends family

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to see it three years from now in a dentist

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waiting room. Well, Tonight's ceremony is different than most stars

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studded events because this is an event where the greatest

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thinkers in the fields of science and technology are asked

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the big questions like who are you wearing? And who

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are you Because We're just not celebrating actors here tonight,

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you know, but the scientists, scholars, musicians, writers and athletes

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that those actors will play hotter versions of in movies.

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One of the most impressive people on the list is

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Victoria Beckham. Of course, oh my god. She was a

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global pop star, now a serious fashion designer. She's married

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to David Beckham, She's rich, successful, stunning. What's it gonna

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take to get you to smile? I mean, really, please smile.

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You're one of the only British people who should. Okay, wow,

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But there's just so many impressive people in this room tonight.

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But what really blows my mind is that we have

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actual astronauts here tonight. It's insane. Yes, these brave people

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who risked it all to go up into space and

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search for the unknown. And by astronaut, of course, I'm

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talking about Gail King, all right, Gail. I love you

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so much. Gail, Really though, Gail, you had the courage

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to do something that so many people wouldn't have the

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guts to do, spend twelve minutes alone with Katy Perry,

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and we we thank you for that.

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The other day, Nikki was on Kelly Rippers show, which

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is just like the most difficult thing to watch. It's

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not my thing at all, and a Verrely, Nicky's skirt

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was a little too short. Let's listen. That is just

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for you.

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I know, I'm right the barrel.

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Sorry, guys.

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Yeah, yeah, I don't mind at all. Oh god, God,

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I'll send you a picture later.

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And then they want on to have more of a conversation,

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which I just found nauseating. Let's listen, I realize there's.

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This recent development.

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You have something in common with Pope Leo.

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Finally, finally, I mean we've always both loved hat since

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can speak Latin, but it's uh no, we're both one

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time one hundred most influential people. Yeah yeah, I me

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your cover the Pope and mister Bees.

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Yeah, I mean that's extraordinary.

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It's so cool.

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And Nikki Glazer's.

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Babyhood, baby childhood, wildest dreams.

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Do you imagine that?

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Never? I mean, looking at that photo, I'm was just like,

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it just feels like one of those you know covers

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that you get made at like a carnival. That's like

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you can be on time.

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It seems like a joking Nikki, You're posing is really

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good there.

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Thank you so much do you do you naturally pose?

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They do you know how to do that stuff?

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That's so deeply uncomfortable. Mark, Oh my gosh, photo shoots.

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I think things look that comes so natural, But that

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is one photo out of like thousands, you know, and

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it's just so uncomfortable because everyone knows just like to

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buzz like this, like I can do this, like but

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then like in these you have to be like, right,

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this is not natural. You just have to think you're

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so cool and like it's just I think that's why models,

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the models are paid a lot of money because of that.

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They can't do that.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the maintenance.

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It's much much, much, much funnier. Jimmy Kimmel, So last

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night was the White House Correspondents Dinner, and for the

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first time in recent memory, they didn't have a comedian

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host it, so Kimmel decided to have his own. He

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called his the All American White House Correspondents Dinner, and

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I have trimmed this down for pacing and also on

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ABC Network television. He told the joke that I found

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a little too naughty for even this show. Those standards differ.

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Gisha curious. He told a joke about uh, I thing

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guys like anyway, Here's Jimmy Kimmel live.

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From the Trump Kimmel Sinner, Washington, DC. It's the All

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American White House Correspondent's Dinner. You're as your host for

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the night, Jimmy Pival.

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All right, by, welcome to the twenty twenty six White

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House Correspondence Dinner. Look at you all dressed up in

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formal wear, dresses, tuxedos. I haven't seen this much black

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since every page of the Trump Epstein files. We're gonna

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have fun tonight on and I'm happy you decided to stay,

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mister President. And don't worry if we bruise your ego,

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it'll only make your hands look less disgusting. That president

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didn't want me to tell any jokes about him tonight,

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but he also didn't want to pay me one hundred

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and thirty thousand dollars to shut up.

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So here we are.

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Sorry, mushroom ice.

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Baby Ice.

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By the way, in the unfortunate event that our president

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has a medical emergency tonight, do we have a doctor

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in the house? I mean sorry, I mean do we

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have a Jesus in the house. I always confuse them too.

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I get why you think you're Jesus this guy. Every

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time he walks into a room, people say, Christ, he's back.

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You're looking good, though, mister President, who did your makeup?

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Craft?

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Singles as the President will tell you repeatedly until you

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beg him to stop. President Trump has accomplished so much

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during his second term. He passed new incentives for oil

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and gas. He put the brakes on solar and wind.

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That will be your legacy, sir, breaking wind and passing gas.

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Deadline's keeping an eye on the Netflix is a joke

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comedy festival. The Festival Los Angeles may fourth through the tenth.

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Deadline's written about this before, but they continue to say

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that the festival will be, according to an insider, a

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story of the haves and the have nuts. Deadline's update

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is one validation of netflix investment in podcasting is the

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Pete Davidson Showline and says after getting to low ticket

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warnings with the show featuring John Mulaney, Pete Davidson has

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booked another at the Wiltrin Theater to feature Nicki Glazer,

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but they say that aside, I'm not seeing many more

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sellouts on the schedule than I did when we last

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checked in. Now this is really interesting, Deadline Rights. Strangely,

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some of the biggest, more key names in comedy are

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those with the most tickets left to sell as of now,

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and this was middle of last week. Shane Gillis, Louis

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c K, and John mulaney are far from selling out

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their shows at the Hollywood Bowl. Kat Williams as a

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good way to go at the Into It Dome, as

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does Nate Berghatzy with his two shows at the venue,

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and in particular the May ninth show. More from Deadline,

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Seinfeld's sales aren't great for a show featuring Leanne Morgan

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and Jim Gaffigan hasn't yet approached selling out the Dolby Wow.

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you consider all the records comics like Burghetzie and Morgan

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are achieving around the world, and as Gillis approaches his

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huge homecoming show at Lincoln Financial Field, and it's striking

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to assess them in relation to the ticket sales of

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younger buzzy common like tren Marco Sarzi and Jeffer Keiy,

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who have sold out multiple shows, albeit at much smaller venues.

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Very very interesting at some point during the week, I

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sat in front of the television and watched Kevin Hartz.

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What is that called comedy competition thing? Funny af that's

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what it's called, right, Yeah, maybe John you host the

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show you tell us Sorry. As I wrote it in

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the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group, it's a

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good version of the comedy competition show. I'm a comedy snob.

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I struggle with these things. Some of my notes. I

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actually ran my Apple watch timer. We're seeing ninety second sets.

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ninety seconds. For a lot of these ninety second sets,

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you're seeing that it's basically one good joke. There was

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one guy, he had a really great joke about bears,

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and that kind of stretched out to ninety seconds, and

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you know, Okay, that doesn't make you George Carlin, doesn't

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make you bad. But like relax, and a lot of

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the ninety second sets are edited off. Somebody will get

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off a good joke and a good laugh and then

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it's just cut to the end, and you could tell

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that the set didn't actually end there, or they just

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kind of wrap it up. One thing that did make

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talk about what I describe as the Emperor of Rome syndrome,

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which means I have heard so much comedy in my

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lifetime that my brain is fried. And I do what

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the comedians do, which is in the back of the room,

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they're going, Oh, that's really good. That's really funny, but

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don't actually laugh. And you'll see that at times, specifically

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with Keegan Michael Key sitting at the table with Kevin

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Hart just saying oh, really good, really good, really good.

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So if you want to know what I talk about

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when I talk about Emperor of Rome syndrome, watch that

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for good illustration of it. Anyway, it's a nice enough

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version of that. Oh and then I got to the

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end episode one and they were like, and the final

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comedian moving on is Cliffhanger, And I'm like, Netflix, I'm

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not hitting play on a second episode to find out

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who's going through to the second round. I don't care

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that much, so I'll probably watch the whole thing, but

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I'm not like obsessed with it. It's fine. It's a

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good version of what it is. I did like Rommy

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Yusef's special. It's a little long, but the front half

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is particularly strong. TV Insider asked Rommy about the special,

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which was filmed in February and is pretty topical. How

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close to the shoot were your fine seating material. Rommy said,

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I think there's the bedrock of the set that are

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things that I know I want to hit, and I

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think for me from a performance perspective, it's really important

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for it to feel like it's happening in a way

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of you, and you're playing for everyone else in their

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living room. I do try to honor the people that

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are in the physical room as much as possible, and

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that is spontaneity. They shot at the way you doing

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a stand up show. When you're doing crowd work, no

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one in the crowds he's who you're talking to unless

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you're sitting next to them. So we didn't even try

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to grab the crowd. It was more we're gonna play

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it as if you were in the room, and by

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the nature kind of walking in the set and knowing

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going to do crowd work and I don't know where

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it's going to go. We also felt like we were

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going to commit as much as possible to one of

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the shows, and that Special is really just the majority

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of one show. Robby said he likes to talk about

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pedestrian things and TV Insider said, you had talked about

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meeting the Pope. That's not a pedestrian thing. Rommy said,

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My feeling is if you can meet people where they are,

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they'll go with you wherever you want to go. And

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the balance is, you know, my life is not that

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crazily different except for every once in a while doing

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something like meeting the Pope, and I think that's just

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letting people in on that feeling as well. David Cross

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sat down with Fox News Digital to discuss David Special

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the end of the beginning of the end, David said

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of his audience, I know this sounds corny, but they're

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really smart and they're mostly like minded people, and they

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know what they're getting. At this point, which he described

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as a balance between silly and political jokes, including some

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personal stories, offensive humor, and topical bits, Cross said he

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doesn't tailor his work for algorithms or soften his material

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for mass appeal. What Cross actually said was, at this point,

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I don't give a hoot. Man, I'm gonna do it,

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And if you want to come down, show up. If not, whatever,

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it's fine. I'm doing my thing. The audience is happy,

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come down if you want. I don't give an f

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I don't want to make it too heavily silly or

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too heavily political. I like to keep a really nice

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balance throughout the whole thing. As for putting together a set,

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he says he considers what flows more than a theme.

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Cross explains if there is kind of a thread or

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theme is something that presents itself. I never sit down

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and go how can I talk about the inhumanity of man?

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Gossip Connor wis Business changed?

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Gossip conn Problem, Gossip Gone Withers with Me?

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John Mactow and the.

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Trees No Pete Today. Gossip Corner features Dave Chappelle. The

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manager of the San Francisco Giants was out and about

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and his night ended with a fist bump from Dave Chappelle.

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Tony Vittello didn't have a game last Monday. He went

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to a downtown restaurant that had been recommended by a friend.

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He said, to hell with it, I'll go to the

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restaurant see. His concern was the Giants were off to

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a bad start and he thought some Giants fans would

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be sad. Sure enough, there were Giants fans there. They

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gave him a hard time and he said, well, what

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do you guys doing? You having fun? And they said, yeah,

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we're getting ready to go see Dave Chappelle. Ptello bartoned

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ways with the fans and called an uber and then

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had a change of heart. He said, it was raining.

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I called an uber, stared at the uber, canceled the uber,

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apologized to the Uber driver and asked myself, why am

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I being so scared? I coach guys and tell them

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to be scared. So he bought a ticket to Dave

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Chappelle's show. At the punchline, Tello said, Dave was Dave,

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so I needed to laugh and it was good to

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do something in the city. Was a lot of fun,

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met some cool people and got some rest to get

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ready for this deal. That deal was an interview with

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MLB Network. At the end of the night, he got

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a fist bump from Dave Chappelle. But I don't know

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how that part works. Is he sitting in section three

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oh nine or did he have VIP tickets? How did

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he get a fist bump from Dave Chappelle? But he

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got a fist bump from Dave Chappelle. Meanwhile, we are

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told Dave Chappelle secured the perfect deal on an art piece.

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Dave was walking around Soho. Dave was on his way

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to Sidell's when he spotted artist Lauren Wilson passing by

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with one of Wilson's original bees wax sculptures in hand.

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Chappelle stopped Wilson and commissioned his work on the spot.

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Wilson said, Chappelle was so engaging. I just gave it

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to him and told him don't worry about it. And

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Star trek ruin Er Patton Oswald has a new gig.

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He will lend his voice to the audiobook edition of

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Other Worlds Than Things. That is the upcoming novel by

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Stephen King. It is the final installment in the Talisman trilogy.

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The series kicked off in nineteen eighty four with The Talisman,

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a story about Jack Sawyer, a twelve year old boy

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searching for a magical item that could save the life

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of his ailing mother, and now the third novel in

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the trilogy, will be voiced by star trek Ruiner paton

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osweald To. That is your comedy news for today. I'll

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see you tomorrow.