Nikki Glaser is having a moment, Bill Burr defends Barry Bonds

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Callaroga Shark Media from Poolside. I'm
Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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I cann tell you the side audio
has been coming up pretty well. That

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almost sounds better than me actually using
the studio. The Cut did a big

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profile of Nicki Glazer Nikki having a
moment, but none of it about her

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new special. The headline the Toast
of the Roast. Comedian Nicki Glazer's been

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in the business for decades, but
her set on Tom Brady's Roast seems to

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have shifted something. Yes, it
has. Glazier started doing stand up when

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she was eighteen, had an open
mic at University of Colorado, Boulder.

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She moved to La did veryous stand
up at bars, got an appearance on

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Last Comic Standing. She was invited
to do her first roast of Rob Lowe

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in twenty sixteen by Comedy Central,
who had seen her on Jeff Ross's show

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The Burn. She's had a few
high profile, short lived projects, including

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Not Safe with Nicki Glazer on Comedy
Central I Don't Even Remember That one canceled

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after one season, and f Boy
Island on HBO Max canceled after two seasons.

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She was on Dancing with the Stars
in twenty eighteen, really and first

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one voted off. Okay, she
was on Bruce Willis's roast where she said

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I know you was the star of
every DVD, just kind of fine on

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the street. A year later,
Alec Baldwin was roasted. Nikki says that

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time I was really speaking from what
do I actually think of these people?

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Rather than what's the funniest joke.
She was asked to do her Max special

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Someday You'll Die a year ago.
It came out on May eleventh, six

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days after the roast. She'd planned
to do two weeks of press, but

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then many of the same people who
had said no to her suddenly said yes.

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She was fighted on Kimmel Hoda Howard
Zeth and said she felt like Taylor

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Swift for a day. I'll point
out still no buzz on the special,

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She tells the cut fighting a way
to be yourself on stage is hard.

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When I was four years in a
comedy, it started emerging in little places

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and I'd be like, oh,
what did I just do? But people

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really responded to it. She cite
Sarah Silverman is one of her major inspirations.

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She seems really nice, but she
says crazy things. I like being

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met where people still like me and
are rooting for me, even if I

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could show side of myself that are
cuckoo. She wants people to say about

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her, she was really nice.
I know that sounds crazy, but that's

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my face compliment as opposed to funny. She tells the cut I practiced my

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Tom Brady set like fifty five times, different variations of it, and I

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never once apologized in any of those. When I got up there, I

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literally felt bad, she says.
She understands that things going away is what

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happens in this line of work.
Since the Brady Special, she says,

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everyone's been telling everything's different. I'm
like, mhmm, She says, with

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a skeptical tune. It was fun
being in the bell of the ball,

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but now it's kind of cooled off
and thank god. She'd like to do

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SNL in theory, but when she
thinks about it, she gets nervous,

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some sort of like I just did
a thing that people are happy about.

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Can I just tour now? I'm
comfortable touring. I don't get nervous touring.

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WTTW spoke to Rob Smigel. They
asked him his idea for fun when

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he's in town. He said,
my idea of fun just going to a

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Tredono's and eating an entire pizza by
myself. I would give the same answer,

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except I'd go to lumul Nati's and
the locals were like, why are

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you going to those? I don't
know, man, because it's right there.

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I don't know. Why are you
getting raised pizza in Manhattan? The

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same thing. Back to the pizza, spikel says, I dream about it

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all year long. I still don't
understand why they can't bake them in other

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cities. But I'm grateful because I'd
look like George Went and Chris Farley combined

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if deep Dish pizza was available to
me every day. I grew up in

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Manhattan, and I remember driving to
Chicago just being a mace that you had

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a lake, dude, I did
the same thing. We have the crappy

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Hudson River that nobody could swim in, and you guys at a beach.

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And then I went to Wrigular Field
and I was able to get seats in

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the front row. You can ever
do that At Shay Stadium. I walked

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up to the box office and said
he got any good seats, and they

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said, yeah, we got some
right behind the dugout. That good you

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want that. I got to be
in Chicago the night the Cubs won the

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World Series. Triumph covered it.
I was doing a show for Hulu's Triumph.

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That was a good show and it
was a political show. But I

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was the boss. I was the
producer and star of the show. And

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Game seven was happening, and I
was like, wait a minute. I

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could just say I want Triumph to
go to the World Series and they'll fly

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me there. Then I was like, no, I don't want to be

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in Cleveland for Game seven. I
want the night outside Wrigley because if they

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win, it's gonna be the greatest
thing ever, and if they lose,

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it'll be really funny. He then
went into Triumph. Do I have a

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half ass Triumph? I've never attempted
a half ass Triumph. Let's see what

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happens here. Okay, human beings
are separated from this by only one single

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chromosome. By the way, it's
great to be here, the interviewer says,

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cicadas. Sorry, the correct answer
is what is Marjorie Taylor Green?

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We would have also accepted to Jake
and Logan Paul not the worst half ass

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tryup, I amuse myself. He
did one more In twenty twenty three.

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Sales of bud Light dropped significantly due
to this. The interview room says,

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I give up. What is Ben
Evleck having a try January? Now I'm

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losing it. Luckily, I have
this slushy here. My daughter has brought

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me a slushy. I had it
for a minute. There, all right,

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no more half as triumph. Now
I'm reading the transcript here. It's

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unclear to me of this is Smigel
speaking or a quote unquote triumph. I'll

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just do it flat because it's I've
kind of lost my muse. Now whoever

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it was said, I feel bad
for Trump. I really do. I

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mean the one time he actually pays
someone, they indict him for it.

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Oh here's one triumph. How is
Conan O'Brien. Are you still friends?

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He does a podcast now, and
I'm so proud of him and how he's

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evolved. You know, he used
to be a nervous host. You'd cut

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off his guests. Now in his
podcast, he's an experienced, confident host

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who cut his guests that they said, thank you. Try if police put

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Rob back on the Phoe Joel Kim
Booster sharing why his focus is on not

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being a trailblazer. He spoke to
Variety. Joel says, it's difficult because

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I'm not somebody who went to this
wanting to be an advocate or trailblazer or

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anything. I just wanted to make
people laugh. All the rest of it

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is a byproduct. You can't prioritize
it. You can't be missioned first,

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joke second and be successful. He
says it actually makes him really uncomfortable when

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people call him a trailblazer, and
he feels that term should be used for

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comedians who helped pave the way for
others. Joel says, I started doing

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comedy at a very convenient time for
someone like being wasn't easy, but there

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weren't the same barriers to entry that
I think there were, you know,

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a decade before I started. He
calls Guy Breinham the godfather of gay guy

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comedians and is a big fan of
Margaret Show. As a queer Asian person

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coming up, I devoured everything Margaret
Show did. She's always been such a

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firebrand. She didn't wait around for
someone open the door, She knocked it

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down herself. That appealed to me. Kathy Griffin back on tour, and

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she says, I'm the face of
the one and a half lunged community,

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of which there really isn't a community. She says the hardest part of selling

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tickets is she's a woman in an
inherently male dominant industry. Cathy said,

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misogyny so hardcore would stand up.
I know that sounds like I'm being bitter,

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but I'm not. Washington Post did
a big profile of Paul Sheer.

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He has a new book called Joyful
Recollections of Trauma. Paul says, my

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parents haven't read it. They will
read it. My dad has requested not

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to read it until he gets back
from his trip in Europe because he didn't

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want it to wreck his trip.
My mom will read it. I love

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my parents, and I have a
very good relationship with them. Part of

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the reason I wrote this book in
my own privacy and without involving June,

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his wife, or my parents,
was because I wanted to feel like I

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could tell the stories that I wanted
to tell them the way I wanted to

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tell them, without feeling like I
had somebody watching over me. I felt

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like the minute I added that in
the process, I would start to second

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guess it. So my mantra was
I'm telling my story, I'm not telling

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their story. Paul says, I
was worried at a certain point my publisher

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was going to ask me to write
a chapter about the league. I was

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dreading that because I didn't see I
would fit thematically into the book. And

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a quick anecdote a couple of years
ago at the airport, I'm going through

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TSA and this guy goes, I
know who you are. You're Robin Williams.

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I told him I wasn't Robin,
but he went, don't worry about

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it. I'll keep it cool.
Sheer says, sometimes like scept moments,

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I don't deserve because it's easier.
But in this case, Robin had been

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dead a couple of years, so
it was extra weird. So I said,

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skirt, I'm Robin Williams and thanks
him for the kind words. I

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just took it. If you want
me to beat Robin Williams, I'll do

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it. That's how far I'll go. Bill Burr was on K and BR

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radio and he was sticking up for
Barry Bonds and here's Bill to take us

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out of the break. Barry Bonds
is a victim of the steroid era.

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Barry Bonds was the guy, and
then a bunch of people cheated, and

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then the president was calling them instead
of Barry, and Barry was like,

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all right, here's me on steroids. Here's seventy three. What are we

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doing here? I can do it
with or without steroids. If nobody's doing

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steroids, I can beat you.
If we're all doing steroids, I can

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beat you. My only complaint about
that era is that when the guys would

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go up with that medieval manner like
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down their wrist out over the plate. I'm not a big fan of the

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admiring the home run and pointing at
the dugout and the next guy doesn't get

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beamed in the head. Miss those
days, all right. On Saturday,

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I've got my interview with Mark Malkoff, the host of the Inside Late Night

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podcast and the former host of the
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the nearly four hundred episodes of Carson Talk.

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occasional early release, maybe even some
bonus content. At some point, Greg

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Guttfeld stuck up for Jerry Seinfeld.
Remember Jerry was saying he missed manly men

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or whatever he said. Dominant masculinity
was Jerry's line. Gottfeld said, I

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also missed the days when men were
men and women were not. But think

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about the unbridled masculinity of yesteryear.
You know what I'm talking about, right,

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A guy who could put the Marlborough
a man of shame, a man's

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man if we've ever seen one.
And he held up a picture of Liberaci.

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There's a new Jim Henson biography,
and we learned from this that the

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plan for Fozzy Bear was for Fozzy
Bear to be a great comedian. Jim

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Henson said, we knew we wanted
to have a stand up comedian. We

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hadn't mind a Red Skelton type of
character that was a bundle of anxieties off

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stage and a gung host storyteller up
front. But the idea that Fozzi's insecurities

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would be counter bounced by his on
stage prowess didn't work. Muppet performer Jerry

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Jewel said Fozzy was a disaster.
We said, this is a bad comedian,

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so we put him on stage and
let him be bad. But letting

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Fozzy eat it on stage wasn't great
either, and Statler and Waldorf heckling him

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only made Fozzy seem more pathetic.
Frank Oz knew it was bad, didn't

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know what to do with it.
They changed the puppet. Fozzy's fur became

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a brighter orange and his perpetual grimace
was removed. Fozzy instead became a perpetual

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optimist. Thanks to Frank Oz,
we discovered that Fozzy was just a simple

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guy. He wanted to be funny
and loved. And that is your comedy

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