Nick Swardson booed and escorted off stage, JFL Montreal Comedy Festival Canceled! Is Shane Gillis a pariah?

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I gotta tell you, I'm absolutely
stunned at this first story, and the

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second story is a little wacky.
The first story in Hi, I'm Johnny

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Mack with your daily comedy news.
The company that operates the Just for Laughs

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comedy festival in Montreal that I was
looking forward to attending I didn't get to

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go last year has canceled this year's
addition. I was sitting at the lunch

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table eating my salad when I saw
this come in and I was like,

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wow, like absolutely stunned by this. The parent company says they are seeking

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protection from its creditors as they begin
formal restructuring under Canada's Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

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In a statement, they said JPR
that's the French version of Just for

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Laughs. Board of directors, after
having extensively considered all available alternatives, came

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to the conclusion that the financial situation
of the organization left no other choice than

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to initiate formal restructuring proceedings. The
companies laid off seventy percent of its workforce

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about seventy five people, and has
canceled seven shows that were previously scheduled.

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The company hopes that the financial restructuring
will allow the festival to return in twenty

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twenty five. I mean, I
am just stunned by this. It's a

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fantastic festival that takes over the heart
of Montreal. There's always a ton of

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comedians up there. It's a great
event. Wow, I don't even say

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about this, really really stunning.
That took the place of what would have

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been the big news story for me. Nick Schwartson, best known for his

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appearances in Reno nine one one and
Adam Sandler Movies, was escorted off stage

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twenty minutes into a set in Colorado
over the weekend due to quote bizarre belligerent

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behavior. User Sean Guy shared a
clip on social Let's listen, what are

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you saying right now? I'll save
us. Let me just let me ask

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you this. It's a weighted question. What okay, I'll tell you Joy

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all right, here we go.
So one of my favorite days. I

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don't have kids. I don't have
jads. Anybody here have kids? Anybody

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here have jets? What the off? So one of my best friends was

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a guy named nor McDonald. Do
you know who he is? He's one

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of my favorite people. So that
clip abruptly cuts off a witnesses say that

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at that point the spotlights were turned
off and the microphone was cut, so

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maybe that's why it cuts off there. Witnesses told TMZ that while some attendees

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were uncomfortable with Schwartzen's behavior, others
cheered him on. In another clip,

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Nick Swartson can be seen rambling and
struggling through an impersonation of Jason Statham as

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the crowd erupted in booze. A
woman can be heard saying, I can't

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take it. I can't take it, I can't take it, witness to

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say. Before Nick was let off
stage, he gave a brief wave and

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flashed a Shaka sign. After Schwartzen
left the stage, the direction of operations

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came out and apologize to the crowd, telling the show had been officially cut

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short and refunds would be issued to
those who bought tickets. Apparently, there's

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also an email that reads, we
apologize for the negative experience you may have

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had it this evening's performance with Nick
swartz Cent. Unfortunately, this show did

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not meet the Performing Arts Center standards
as a world class presenter of the performing

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arts. Therefore, all tickets will
be refunded, et cetera. Et cetera.

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Please accept our sincere apologies and be
in touch if there's anything you will

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get you to further assist you.
As Swartzon is doing that impression, he

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repeatedly said, here we go.
As audience members bowed and heckled him.

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He said, do you want me
to finish this or no? And people

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are heard shouting back no. Schwartzen
took to Twitter and said, just casually

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woke up on TMZ travel tip don't
drink and take edibles in high altitude brain

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diarrhea. I'll make it up to
Beaver Creek to me, the lesson no

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good comes from peering. In Adam
Saylor movies, Trevor Noah as etis elbaw

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on his podcast and they traded impressions. The setup here is Trevor noahans how

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he uses Nelson Mandela to get to
his Obama impression. I've heard Dana Carvey

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explain impressions in the same way,
and I know for my half ass impressions,

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specifically Jim Brewer, the only way
I could start Jim is by going

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all right, That's the only way
I can get into it. I have

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to do that all right before I
do anything in Jim's voice or the half

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assed Jim voice. Anyway, you
don't want to hear me do half assed

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impressions. Let's listen to Trevor Noah
and Idris Elba trade Nelson Mandela impressions.

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My Nelson Mandela to get to my
Barack Obama. Okay, because I find

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they have the same. My conspiracy
theory is that Mandela taught Obama how to

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do it because they the same.
Yeah, because they got the same thing.

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Because, like you know, because
Mandela has the hyper left, all

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South Africans, all my fact for
this country. He's got that thing right.

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And then Barack, if you take
it, it's a natural it's the

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natural progression of that right, hiper
left where can come pro cover? And

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as Americans, we gotta try to
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it has a lot of but when
whenever I lose, I have to

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go back to Mandela because as Americans, as Americans, we gotta find our

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way. We believe in ourselves.
It's the same. I'm fighting every impulse

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to challenge you to a Baraque and
a Mandela right now. Why don't we

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do it? No? Because because
what what's gonna happen? Because you're just

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gonna murder me. I don't believe
that that's true. I don't believe that

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that's true. Do you do you? I'll even like a harmony. Why

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you're doing Mandela? There's got to
be a very see killing it. This

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guy just pulled it out. But
what it's baroque, there's gotta be No,

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that's terrible. No, but you're
barck. You know why? Because

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I took it up. Yeah,
no, chesty, chesty Barock is also

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he's also throw But that was flawless. I was almost doing like Mandela.

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Like you hear him on the radio. Why you're heading up broadcast? Johnny

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Mack likes when comedians mix up a
little. On Monday Night, Andrew Schultz

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shared a clip on Twitter from a
recent stand up comedy show he was performing

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in Philadelphia. In the clip,
Schultz says, I'll be honest with you,

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I don't think Meek Mill is gay, but he is incredibly bad about

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proving he's straight. He's maybe the
worst in history of doing that. If

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someone accuses you of being gay,
you don't go on Twitter and say I

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love women, cleaning it up,
quite cleaning it up. I love women.

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He uses words like Juicy needs your
imagination. Schultz caption the post Meek

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Mill is not gay, but Philly, I love you. Thank you for

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always holding me down, just like
Meek would hold down puff joking, joking,

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Meek, I love you, brother. Meek heard about the post and

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responded the first time I left at
being gay. That had several crying laughing

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emojis, and then he tagged it
with but don't whit me in real life,

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I may swing lol. Mike Birbiglia
will have a documentary at Peacock.

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It's called Good One, a show
about jokes. At premiere is March twenty

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six. There's a trailer. I
was blown away. I'm not blown away.

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He's a little strong. I I
liked the trailer. I wasn't blown

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away by. It wasn't Star Wars. It's a nice trailer. It made

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me laugh, is what I'm trying
to say. Shut up, John and

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play the trailer. Good evening,
and welcome to the Strange Attic, where

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Mike Verbiglia sometimes performs shows. For
some reason, I love jokes and I

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love storytelling. He loves stories the
process. He takes that idea of what

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a special means literally, you're probably
thinking, how come we just get the

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first draft? I think Providence is
the first draft town. This isn't a

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fully realized show. All I'm doing
right now is just throwing out jokes and

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seeing what's dicks? What's the next
show about? And it's like, I

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don't know. The last show is
all about death, So now I'm trying

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to figure out, like what's more
high stakes than death. I'm happily married,

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which is to say I'm not happy, but I'm happy I'm married.

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Does that make sense? You don't
want it to be pretty good, you

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want it to be great. The
only way you make it great is writing.

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You need more of there. I'm
failing. I got that line failing

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again. That ending works well on
the other show. Eventually you'll arrive at

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something that is yours. The special
follows Mike Berriglia through his process as he

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travels from Providence to Washington, d
C. While developing new comedy material.

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March twenty six, looking forward to
that, Jamie Fox has confirmed he is

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going to do a comedy special.
He says, everyone wants to know what

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happened. Remember he had the mystery
illness, and I'm going to tell you

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what happened. But I got to
do it my own way, going to

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get up on somebody stage somewhere near
you. I got some jokes and a

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story to tell. Jamie talked about
his recovery from a mystery illness and said,

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I'm so thankful and I get emotional
because it's beyond the scope by some

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people in my life that really made
sure I was here, because it was

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dire straits. I want you to
see me laughing, having a good time,

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partying, cracking, doing a movie
television show. I didn't want you

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to see me with the tubes running
out of me and trying to figure out

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if I was going to make it
through By being quiet, Sometimes things get

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out of hand. People say what
I got. Some people say it was

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blind, but if she could see
the eyes at working just fine, said

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I was paralyzed. I'm not paralyzed. I went to Helen back. My

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roads recovery had some potholes as well, but I'm coming back and I'm able

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to work. GQ profiled Hannah Gatsby. Here's the headline. Netflix has made

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transphobia profitable in comedy. GQ writes, when Hannah stays at an Airbnb,

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they like to check out their host
Netflix algorithm looking at a stranger's stand up

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recommendations, Gatsby says, is illuminating. They tell GQ, if I were

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to understand Netflix purely from my own
algorithm, I would say they're even handed,

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if not a little skewed towards the
queer audience. But that's not the

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reality. Gatsby jokes about their new
special, this is the carbon offset show.

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You don't raise the Amazon and plant
a tree. One of the comedians

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on the show is Chloe Pets.
Chloe rolls her eyes at the way all

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the edgy comedians have got their trans
routine. She thinks that's what Hannah is

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responding to, not just Dave Chappelle, but comedians inspired by his success.

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Why are you pugging your nose into
a discourse that has nothing to do with

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you, Hanna says. Matt Raife
released a special opening with a domestic violence

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joke. He's not inventing anything.
He's not smart enough for that. He's

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reading the algorithm room, and I'm
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it's boring. Gatsby knows that there
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Netflix doesn't get the numbers it wants. It has the power to elevate this.

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Whether or not it chooses to is
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Agenda is out on Netflix now.
The New York Times had an article h

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articles kind of. I don't like
the headline. Here's the headline, verbatim,

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disgraced but embraced pop culture pariahs are
making big comebacks. Subheadline. Shane

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Gillis hosted SNL, the show that
rebuffed him Yay, topped the billboard short

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after making anti Semitic remarks as the
mainstream given up on banishing bad actors.

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So here's what's bothering me. Pop
culture pariah and Shane Gillis. Really First

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of all, the guy just hosted
SNL. I didn't see too much controversy.

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There was a little before, there
wasn't too much after. Pariah is

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a little strong. The guy got
signed by SNL and like, I don't

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know what it was, forty eight
hours later he was off SNL. It's

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not exactly Ojay, you know what
I'm saying. I think pop culture para

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and Shane Gillis in the same headline
and sub headline. It's a little loaded.

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I thought this was interesting Donnie's old
and who I worked with for a

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few years, says some exciting news. After thirty six years in the same

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location, seventy eighth and Broadway,
Stand Up New York Good Club, We'll

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be moving to Times Square. There's
so much history and stories to tell from

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our time on the Upper West Side. I can't even begin to start.

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For now. We look forward to
our grand opening March fourteenth, and can't

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wait to begin the next chapter in
our journey bringing the best stand up comedy

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New York has to offer. Our
new flagship location is in partnership with Bond

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forty five will also be powering the
food menu. I just find that interesting,

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especially with Carolines being gone. Seventy
eighth and Broadway is a little out

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of the way, that's it.
A lot of big comics would drop in

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there because it was off the radar. People like Jerry and Amy would pop

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in and just do sets on the
DL. You know, there are other

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places in the city you can do
that, and I guess you could still

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do it at Stand Up New York, but if you do it in Times

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Square, it's a little bit more
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club. On a side street in
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Donnie's a good guy. Wish him
nothing but success. I keep forgetting.

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I wanted to salute a young woman. I was at the Morristown on Stage

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talent show last week and a young
lady named Naomi Williams got up and everybody

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else on the night, I think
every single other act involved music. Naomi

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got up and did stand up comedy
and she was good. She made me

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laugh. And I've talked about my
psychotic Emperor of Rome thing where I don't

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laugh, and I just go,
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good. She made me laugh.
So Naomi Williams, great job. On

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Gossip Corner, David Kagner was vaping
marijuana on the station Maryland, says DMZ.

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Apparently there was a fan in the
audience who was puffing on a weed

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pen Dave noticed. Dave looked out
into the crowd, said who's smoking?

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Is that weed? The man responded
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The dude walked up to the stage
as TMV and handed the vape to Dave,

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who started bantering with his fans as
they egged him on to take a

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few tokes. Dave finally cave took
two huge drags blowing out the smoke.

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TMZ and their legal department and Johnny
Mack and his legal departments say, quote,

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of course, we can't tell from
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but everyone in the crowd seemed convinced. Unquote clad thing. We cleared that

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up. TMZ says, we're told
everyone had a damn good time. That

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is your comedy news for today.
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participating in the Facebook group Daily Comedy
News Podcast Group. You are very welcome.

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As I mentioned I think yesterday,
the first time you try and post,

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you'll get a time out. We
have to make sure you're not a

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porn bot. But if you're not
a porn bot, we'll let you in,

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and if you're a particularly hot porn
bot, will probably let you in.

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Two See you tomorrow,