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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news,
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A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the
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comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. Deadline wrote about
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the Netflix is a Joke Festival, and the subheader Who's
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selling and Who's Struggling caught my eye. They point out
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were less than a month out now from the Netflix
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as a Joke Festival, which kicks off May fourth. Deadline
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quotes one high level comedy insider as saying they've been
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underwhelmed and they don't feel a lot of buzz yet
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from the public. Deadline Rights depicting the year is a
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quote story of the haves and the have nots unquote.
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They observed that the comedians who seem to be doing
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the best fall in one of two categories. First, you
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have white heart artists like The Flight of the Concords.
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That was one of the shows. I was considering going
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out to see the shows I'm interested in at the festival,
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and I was willing to go as Civilian Day Tuesday,
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but then not till like Sunday. And you know, eight
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days in la is not cheap anyway, white hottersts like
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a flight of the Concords. We're selling tickets like hotcakes.
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And then you have those who are underplaying, who are
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selling out by jumping down to venues smaller than they
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normally play. Any artist not falling into those two categories
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quote may have a steep hill to climb. The insider says,
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there's still a significant number of tickets to be sold
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in some venues more so than others. There's a lot
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of competition in the marketplace, a lot of shows people
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fighting over the same dollar in a tough economy. I
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don't think gas prices are helping people to be able
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to afford tickets, and people are pulling back a little bit.
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I didn't even think about the gas thing. I mean
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part of my calculation. I already talk about the time.
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I don't trust the airports right now. On any given day,
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you wake up and the airport's are fine. You wake
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up five minutes LA and you're like, oh yeah, there's
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nineteen hour delays. I mean, the world is so chaotic
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right now. It's like, I'll just stay home and my
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kid goes to school in California, so believe me, I'd
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love to go out there. And hang out. But so
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you know everything considered it it is not easy. Deadline
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tells us gaging ticket sales a month from showtime varies,
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but the insider says, but I'd probably feel the most
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comfortable if I had twenty percent of the house or
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less to still sell. Oh, this is cool. I hadn't
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read this ahead. One of the high achievers of the
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moment is friend of the Show John Marco. Siasi has
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sold out a pair of headlining shows as well as
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one of his theater adult shows at the Regent Theater.
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Good for him. John Marco will also participate in a
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show called an Emergency Board Meeting Slumber Party alongside Adam
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McKay and Robbie Hoffman. Jeffer Curry has sold out a
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couple of headlining shows at the Palladium. Robbie Hoffman sold
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out too at Largo. Matt Rife sold out too in
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the main room of the Comedy Store. Jacqueline Novak has
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added a show May ninth of the Masonic Lodge after
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selling out her May fifth show. Joelkomb boosters same thing,
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adding a May fourth Tubidour show after selling out May
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eighth at the Allegion. The sources called all that a
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subgenre of comedy that's really high right now. They also
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say podcasts are doing well. So according to Deadline, some
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of the shows that are sold out. Let's see John Marco,
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Jim Jeffries, Mark normand Riife, Eliza Slessinger and Bert and
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the Show, Jack CrowdWork Show, Natalie Palomides, That's Cool, Rees
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Starby Joel Kimbooster, Jeffery Curry, Bamford, Jeff Hillar, Jackie Novak, Maximini, Nurse,
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John Morgan, Jay and some others there. We'll keep an
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eye on that festival. The Moontower Comedy Festival has kind
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of sort of kicked off. I'll do more of my
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coverage next week. I was looking at the schedule and
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there's scattered shows here and there this week, and then
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you know it's officially kicked off, but it really doesn't
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kick in until the fifteenth. First started fifteen years ago,
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the Moontower Festival. I feel like it's longer than that,
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because I haven't been at serious now since when did
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I leave the beginning kind of of twenty fourteen?
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Was it?
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And it's twelve year all right? Maybe maybe maybe my
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fifteen years ago fits in that window. First started fifteen
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years ago, the Moontower Festival has grown into one of
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the biggest comedy events in the country, spanning a dozen
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venues and running from April seventh through the eighteenth. This
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year features nationally known acts like Mark Marin, Kathy Griffin,
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and Roy Wood Junior. I keep forgetting Roy I've been
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all into the Artemis mission and I was watching the
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launch and like, for some reason they went to celebrities,
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which was straight out of the serious XM playbook, Oh
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my goodness, anything we ever did there? They're like, can
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we ad a celebrity to it? So I'm sitting there
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and it's like, all right, the astronauts are on the
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pad or about to launch, and let's check in with
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Roywood Junior. And I'm like, oh, big boss in the
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corner would have loved that nonsense. And I'm like, can
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we just not? I love you Roywood Junior, but I
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don't care what you have to say about Artemis. What
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are we doing? Moon Tower also makes an effort to
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highlight non traditional acts and Austin comedians like Angelina Martin,
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who says, I'm super excited. I love moon Tower so much.
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It's always been such a huge part of the Austin
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comedy scene in the national comedy scene in general. Martin
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runs several shows around Austin, and one of them, called
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Slide in the DMS, was added to this year's lineup.
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She explains her show, comedians and local celebrities share strange
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messages they've sent to receive, then a cast of improvisers
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build a scene based on the messages. That's fun, Martin says.
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It's not all really dirty stuff. Sometimes it's weird in
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a different way. One time we had a guy who
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had set the comedian messages that we were showing on screen.
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He was in the audience that he stood up and
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took credit for his weird messages. Love it my former
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co worker Howard Stern In the news, Howard and Beth
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Stern's former personal assistant, Leslie Kuhn, has alleged that she
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was fired by Howard and Beth Stern and experienced a
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quote hostile work environment. Now, if you were a younger
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radio personality, fair being fair, you would go in after
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Howard after this, because forty year old Howard would have
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gone after you. Asked John de Bella, the Philadelphia zookeeper,
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how that goes. So I'm curious. I don't know if
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there are any radio personalities left or who would go
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after Howard, but boy, there was a time, like if
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Opie and Anthony were still around, there was a time.
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Leslie Kuhn says the Stearns presented her with confidentiality and
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non disclosure agreements before and at the time of her firing.
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Her attorney claims those are fraudulent and unenforceable. In the complaint,
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Kuhn says that the Stearns requested the she moved to
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Southampton to work at their mansion. According to court documents
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obtained by Peoplehole magazine, Kuhn claims she was first hired
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as an office manager for the Howard Stern Show in
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September of twenty twenty two. Less than two years later,
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she claims she became Howard's executive assistant. Then, in May
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twenty twenty four, she alleges the couple requested that she
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moved to Southampton to work at their mansion. Kuhn alleges
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she was instructed by Beth Stern, who's fifty three, and
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Howard Stern, who's seventy two, that Kuhn would offer Beth
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quote assistance with such things as managing the staff of
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the mansion, setting staffing schedules, completing staff payroll, and managing
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general household operations, including Beth's extensive at home feline rescue
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and fostering operations. That all, according to the complaint viewed
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by people, were then told. In December of twenty twenty five,
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Kuhn claims that she received a letter from Howard's production
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company one twelve, thanking her for her work, confirming she
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would receive a monetary bonus, and informing her that she
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would receive a raise in twenty twenty six. More back
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and forth there. As you can imagine, the tabloids will
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have fun with this page six as the headline Howard
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Stern's bizarre rules for staff revealed in wrongful termination lawsuit.
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According to the page six, the non disclosure would have
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banned Koon from disclosing the Stern family's daily activities and
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personal habits, even down to their food preferences, sleeping habits,
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and hobbies. She would also be barred from discussing their
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use of consumer products, choice of restaurants, hotels, or other establishments,
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entertainment preferences, political affiliations, and quote any other matters affecting
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or relating to the company and its business, and the
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personal and business affairs of the company page six as.
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Other off limits subjects include the location or contents of
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residences and other properties, as well as their travel arrangements.
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I imagine we'll hear more about that. Hacks is back today.
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Gene Smart revealed she was shocked when she learned how
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Hacks ends. It is the fifth and final season premiering
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on HBO. You may recall, at the end of last season,
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gave up her late night talk show to stand with
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her head writer and friend Ava Daniels. Geene Smart said,
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I don't remember ever picturing or even imagining an ending.
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I knew there was gonna be pretty much five seasons
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from the beginning, but I didn't ask. I was like,
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I'll be surprised when I did find out. At first,
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I was shocked and unsure about how I felt. It
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was not remotely anything I could have imagined. But then
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I realized, now it don't work out because they're writing
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it and they're amazing, and so I went okay. Lrae
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Newman's daughter Hannah Einbinder, spoke of her character Ava and said,
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I feel like Ava is so committed to realizing Debra's
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dream into contributing to all of the various things that
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she wants to accomplish, whether it's the first Dan Up
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Special or the late Night show or the Madison Square Garden.
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But I do think that through all their trials and tribulations,
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they share this legacy and it's a really beautiful collaboration
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that I feel like they both get to own. Lrae
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Newman's daughter, Hannah Einminder, also is annoyed people who use
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ai Anna apparently said the people who make this stuff
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for losers. They're not artists, they're not creative, and they've
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wanted their whole lives to be special and they're not special.
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They're trying to rob real creative people of our gifts
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and you can't. And even if you've tr you will
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never be cool. You guys suck. No one likes you,
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anyone who's near you is because they crave power and
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access over any ethical standard. You are a loser. You
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will never be cool, and you probably had a roly
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backpack in high school. I want to put your head
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in the toilet and flush. And an Einbinder is the
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daughter of Lorae Newman at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Go
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see Henry yen Henry Show's mama wants a girlfriend for me. Now,
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I want you to play along. As you listen to
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this clip, imagine Mitch Hedburg doing this material. So as
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you listen to Henry do this funny material, imagine Hebburg
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doing it. And it's very easy to imagine. But I
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like Henry. Here is Henry yennepy.
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This is going on TV. I love you, Mama and Papa.
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Any shoutouts man fair enough the biggest gig of my life.
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I thought I'd start off by mucking around. I'm almost
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a pretty big deal. I've got a comedian nickname. People
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call me the Library because I'll make it silent. I
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also feel like moving around. See if I'm bitter over here.
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I'm also a bit of a gangster. But it's hard
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sometimes because you know, if I'm trying to like hustle
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someone on the street, Like if I go up to
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you and I'm like, oh, give me your money, most
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people are just like, oh, what organization are you with?
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My name on the street is UNI see, but you
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know what my name in the sheetsays?
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The library. He's Henry Yann. Now let's check out Jenny
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Tian when Life Gives You Oranges. I think she's really good.
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Listen to this.
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Wow, you guys are such a lovely audience. You are.
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I have to say this because like, not all audiences
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are this kind. Like I did a show once and
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someone came up to me afterward and they went, you know,
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your English is actually quite good. And see, I just
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found this so condescending because it was my mum.
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Full on.
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I'm currently at this stage I'm twenty nine, where I'm
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realizing that my parents were people before they were parents.
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Like I asked my mum what she did before having me,
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and no, lie, she said, she used to be the
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hedge doctor for Chairman Mao. And if you don't know
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who that is, that is the ex dictator of China.
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That's insane. That's like finding out your parent does it
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for Vladimir Putin. And now when I look back on
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my childhood, it makes so much sense because she even
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ran the household like a dictator. And I'm not saying
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that she's censored me or anything, but I will say
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my mom is the best mom.
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She is. That's a praying mother.
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Oh, I just blacked out there. But get this in
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our living room. She's even got this giant picture of
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just herself, a reminder that big mother is watching. And
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I got to warn my friends about this. Every time
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they come over. I'm like, look careful, when you walk in,
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you're gonna see a giant picture of my mum on
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the wall. Even with that warning, they see the picture