May 31, 2025

Nikki Glaser reacts to Lana Del Rey

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac discusses Nikki Glaser's recent podcast appearance and her response to Lana Del Rey's feedback on her humor. The segment also covers Tom Segura's controversial Netflix series 'Bad Thoughts,' Kevin Hart's views on the value of rejection, and insights from a comedian round table featuring notable comics like Roy Wood Jr. and Sarah Silverman. Howie Mandel's take on America's Got Talent and Brett Goldstein's thoughts on the challenges of stand-up comedy are also highlighted. The episode ends with a discussion on Jimmy Kimmel's future with 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'

00:00 Nikki Glaser's Podcast Appearance
01:27 Tom Segura's 'Bad Thoughts' Series Review
03:52 Kevin Hart on Rejection and Success
04:30 Comedian Round Table: Unpopular Opinions and Predictions
06:09 Howie Mandel on America's Got Talent
07:00 Brett Goldstein on Standup Challenges
07:24 Jimmy Kimmel's Future on Late Night TV
08:36 Conclusion and How to Support the Show

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jennie Mac with your

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daily comedy news. Nicki Glazer was on Mike Birbiglia's podcast,

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Nicky's Agents Getting It Done. Bir Bigley was the IT

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comic this week. Sure, so she made an appearance there.

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What a coincidence? Nicki told Mike she learned that Lona

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del Rey was not a fan of Nicki Glazer's jokes.

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According to Nicki, a friend of hers was at a

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party and met whom they described as a gorgeous woman.

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They started to share details about their lives, the friend

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writes for Nicki Glazer. The gorgeous woman walked away. Another

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partygoer approached Nicki Glazer's friend and said, what were you

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talking to Lonna Delray about? Apparently the friend heard from

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Hanna del Rey or a friend of Lonna del Rey's.

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I like Nikki, but I wish she wasn't so dirty,

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Glazier said. I was sad because I love Lonna del Rey.

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I thought she would have been into that stuff, and

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now I'm like, oh my god, it was helpful advice.

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At first, I was like, how dare she? And then

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I was like, I've got some notes too for her.

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She's one of the best brilliant artists ever, and yet

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I'm entitled not like things of hers. There are songs

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that I'm like, eh, So she's a lot to be

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eh about me. I took the note and I'm working

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on it. Nicky says she took the criticism seriously, not

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just to appeal to her, but to appeal to people

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who like her, people that I could be sharing my

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message with, but are turned off because I hear she's

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too dirty, and I just don't want to hear that.

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Some people are deeply uncomfortable by it. It's not even

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like they're prude. It's like, ew, it's grosse. Are we

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going to see some sort of major comedic pivot by

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Nicki Glazer? Seems to be a week four angry articles.

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I enjoyed this one from Savingcountry Music dot Com. Apparently

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they didn't find the totally not Garth Brooks segments of

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Tom Sigora's bad Thoughts as hilarious as I did. I

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had commented I could watch Sigura do totally not Garth

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Brooks all day, every day. If Sigura wants to turn

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that into a one hour week series, I'll watch it

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saving country music com long story short toms Agora loves

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to poke fun of Brooks and what many perceive as

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Gortz over the top persona. It's been a favorite topic

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of Sigora going back to twenty eighteen. At this point,

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the whole where are the Body's Garth thing has been

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used for so long it's grown pretty stale. Oh no,

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it hasn't, not at all. No, no, no no, But

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Tom s Agora decided to take the joke to its

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ultimate conclusion by portraying a very Goarth like character in

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the short run Netflix comedy series called Bad Thoughts that

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debuted on May thirteenth. I feel like the short run

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is trying to be a dig there. It was just

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a six episode series. You know, it's not crazy that

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something on Netflix is only six episodes. Is not nineteen

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eighty four anymore. Throughout the six episodes, toms Agora portrays

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multiple dark characters in unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such

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character as a global country music superstar who kidnaps his

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own fans and forces them to live with little food

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in an old Western like town to help inspire him

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to write and hit songs. You can hear me cracking up.

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I'm just thinking back to the sketch I love. Though

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the character's name is Rex Henley, it's clearly a goof

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on Garth Brooks saving country music dot com. Right. So,

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as a country fan, a comedy fan, and maybe even

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as a Garth Brooks fan, you were hoping this could

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result in some fun last But unfortunately Tom Sigora's Bad

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Thoughts doesn't deliver. And forget the time into the country

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music universe and Garth Brooks. The series of six to

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twenty minute or so episodes really just isn't that funny

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at all, except for infleeting moments. Oh I disagree, it

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is hilarious. I can't get enough of Bad Thoughts. It's

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only the first few episodes were the Rex Henley characters seen,

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and despite the insane premise, it might be some of

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the most tame moments of the series. That is true.

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I want to tell my adult son to watch it,

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and I don't have the courage to tell my adult

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son to watch it because it's naughty. Perhaps if you're

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a Tom Sigora fan and get his comedy, it helps,

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But if you're a country fan who loves to poke

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fund at Garth Brooks yourself. Just don't bother Garth Brooks

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offers more comedy inadvertent, okay. Kevin Hart spoke to You

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Fortunate about his rejections over the years and said, I

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can't narrow it down to one not getting into comedy

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clubs early on in my career, and not getting chosen

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for comedy festivals, not getting movie roles that I thought

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were perfect roles for me, not getting SNL and I

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thought SNL was the biggest and best thing for me.

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There are so many things that if they would have happened,

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my career wouldn't have shaped up into what it was today.

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You later discover those moments were some of the best

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for you, that made you work harder. Kevin Horret's mindset

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is rejection can be an asset. Without it, you don't

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have anything to learn from or anything to adjust too.

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If things were easy, it'd be stupid. It's supposed to

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be hard. You're supposed to understand the reason for hard

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work and putting one hundred percent to a craft is

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because of what you want to get out from it.

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The Hollywood Reporter had a comedian round table. The question

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at hand, what's an unpopular opinion you hold about comedy.

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Roy Wood Junior said, it's hard for me to go, well,

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I don't like this or that. It's probably because I

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can't do it, Like I'm not good at crowd work.

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So yeah, I hate on it, but it's what the

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streets have chosen. Hassan Minhaj said the art form is

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bigger than ever, so when people critique it, I'm like,

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there are more com means doing feeders and arenas that

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ever is. So take the good with the bad. My

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former co worker Jamie Fox said, and it's two worlds.

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There's the two hundred and eighty one comics, so we

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think is the whole world, and then there's Joe Coy

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selling out arenas. Roy Wood Junior said, it's Shane Gillis.

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Chelsea Handler said it's a medium that's been pretty unscathed

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by cancel culture. You get to say whatever you want,

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however you want to say it, and it's up to

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your audience whether they're coming for it. Next question, how

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good are you all at predicting how your comedy will land?

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Sarah Silverman said, I'm always surprised what specials the last

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two I did. The first night we shot. You're just

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excited you got it. The second night feels magical because

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you're not in your head anymore, so you go, we'll

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just use the whole second night, and then the editors like, now,

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I like the first night. Seth Meyer said, same thing

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happened to me. I think it's the precision of being

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in your head. The butterflies actually help you focus. Fox.

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I learned that when I took some enhancements to go

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on stage. I thought, since Richard Pryor did in enhancements.

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Chelsea Handler asked, what are enhancements? Silverman like cocaine? Fox?

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Some people call it cocaine, some people call it enhancements.

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Roy Wood Junior, No one calls it enhancements. Fuck is

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pr instinct kicked in and I've been in the room

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with him when I've seen this happen to him when

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he's having some fun and then realizes that he's Jamie

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Fox and people are going to quote the things he says.

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Jamie says, I want to go on the record to

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say I hate cocaine. I just like how it smells,

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and then laughs. The Saint Pete catalyst asked Howie Mandel.

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Howie Mandel does America indeed have talent. They should have

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said got talent, no whatever, how he said, yes, yes

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it does. I'm trying to sell tickets to my show.

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So if America didn't have talent, why would you buy

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a ticket to see me? I think there's talent everywhere,

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it's just that it's not everybody's taste. But yes, America's

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got talent. That's why you should come see me. Although

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the people who are fans of America's got talent shouldn't

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bring their children in my live show because America doesn't

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always have editing. My show is very improvisational and in

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the moment, anything can happen, and it's not like what

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I do on AGT. Has Howie seen it all in

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his fifteen years on that show. Every time I think

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I've seen it all, I realize I ain't seen nothing yet.

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When people will ask me what I look for, I

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look to be surprised. It's anything and everything and things

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I haven't even thought of. I like the opportunity. In

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my own mind go WTF, Like what are you doing?

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What is that? How'd you even come up with that?

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Brett Goldstein spoke to Interview magazine about the most challenging

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parts of stand up and said a pitying silence is

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the worst. It feels like dying on stage because you

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came to connect with people. When it doesn't work, it's like,

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oh my god, am I even here? Do I exist?

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What's happening? And what's so weird about stand up is

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that it's so objective. If someone were to go you're

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not funny and no one's laughing, it's like, yeah, I

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can't argue. I can't say that last night they laugh loads,

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because right now I'm a ghost that isn't funny. Molly

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mcinnerney is the head writer and executive producer of Jimmy

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Kim Alive, also his wife. She spoke to Late NIGHTERR

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about whether or not Jimmy will stick around. She said,

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I do think we need him. I'd love for him

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to stay, but I also want him to be able

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to relax and fly fish and not listen to Trump

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every day. So I want whatever's best for him. But yeah,

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I selfishly want him to fight the good fight as

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long as he can. When you wake up in the

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morning and it's like Donald Trump wants to put people

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on appuature as you're like, oh, I don't think we

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should do the funny bit on the bull of today.

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We want to deliver these funny bits, and these things

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can take people out of the news. But when you're

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so overwhelmed by the news, you're like, wait, we got

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to call him out on a thing he just said today.

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Jimmy Kimmel's contract runs through next fall, the twenty five

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to twenty six seasons, so we got another year of

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him at least. Might take. Just negotiate now, dude, you

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already got the summer off, stretch out the Christmas break,

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do the permanent guest host thing on Monday and tell

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them you'll host Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and let the Friday

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be a rerun er. I don't even know what's on Friday.

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And that's it. Learn from Shohnny Carson. Let someone else

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hose Mondays stick around. It's a good gig. It pays well,

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it keeps you in the public eye. I understand we're

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all getting older. You want to work a little less.

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Been there, done that, doing it, So yeah, just negotiate.

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ABC will say yes, take a pay cut if you

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have to. It's okay, you got the money. That's your

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