April 27, 2026

Nikki Glaser Soft Campaigning to Host Oscars?, Bad Friends’ Andrew Santino Bobby Lee New Game Show, and Jimmy Fallon’s Survivor Apology

Nikki Glaser Soft Campaigning to Host Oscars?, Bad Friends’ Andrew Santino Bobby Lee New Game Show, and Jimmy Fallon’s Survivor Apology
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Johnny Mac covers comedy news including Nikki Glaser hosting American Idol’s “Taylor Swift Night” and discussing, on Good Morning America, how she’d have to adapt to host the Oscars compared with the Golden Globes. Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino wrapped a 10-episode unscripted series, The Bad Game Show, inspired by Bad Friends and produced for digital distribution with brand-partnership revenue. Jimmy Fallon faced backlash for designing a Survivor 50 challenge that led to contestant Christian voting himself off; Fallon apologized on The Tonight Show and had Christian on as a guest. Other items: Shane Gillis appeared with Flyers mascot Gritty before an NHL playoff game; Patton Oswalt and current wife Meredith Salinger responded to criticism over his post honoring his late wife; Tim Ecker becomes the new on-camera face of the Onion-run Infowars; a report on Josh Johnson’s college set; TMZ notes accusations involving Jelly Roll and Nicole Arbor; the Guardian reports Russell Brand’s comments and allegations; Ben Affleck and Matt Damon receive a Robin Williams legacy award; New Zealand Spy premieres with Bret McKenzie; Chris O’Dowd joins Bill Burr in Bender.

00:17 Nikki Glaser Oscars?
01:45 Bad Friends Game Show
02:23 Fallon Survivor Backlash
03:47 Shane Gillis NHL Hype
04:03 Patton Oswalt Tribute Debate
04:39 Onion Takes Infowars
06:50 Josh Johnson Campus Set
08:06 Jelly Roll Nicole Arbor Feud
09:31 Russell Brand Allegations
11:22 Robin Williams Legacy Award
11:44 New Zealand Spy Preview
12:28 Burr O'Dowd Film Bender
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Callaroga Shark Media.

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

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daily briefing on standup comedy, comedian and the comedy industry.

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A sentence, the algorithm loves America can't get enough of

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Nicki Glazer, although I'm starting to think America is like, yeah,

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enough with Nicki Glazer. Tonight, American Idol, Nicki Glazer will

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host Taylor Swift Night. Of course she will. The top

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seven contestants will perform Taylor Swift Hits on the live

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episode of American Idol. Meanwhile, Nicki was on Good Morning America,

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and pay attention to this. This is some politicking here.

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They ask her if she wants to host the Oscars.

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But listen to her phrasing. She says, I'll have to

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adapt if she's offered it. You haven't been offered it.

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I know you're campaigning for it. I know you're trying

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to resteal your career. I know your agents and your

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PR people are getting it done and we're trying to

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reposition you. But no one has asked you to host

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the Oscars. Would you is it a dream?

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Would you want to do the Oscars?

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Of course?

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I mean I think that there's always just this like, oh,

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what's what's the next thing. I really have to say.

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I enjoyed the Globes though, because it is it is

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set up so perfectly for comedy. It's a looser night,

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there's drinking, everyone's like kind of casual. Everyone's sitting at

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these tables. They're not all in these just like stuffy rows.

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They and it's set up like a comedy club. It's

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the lower ceiling. The Oscars is a harder gig, so

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I'll have to adapt in a different way.

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All the cool is sucking out of the Nicky Glazer room.

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That is all I hear. The more press she does,

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the more I'm like, es, I'm to high out for

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a while, and she's not going to She's knocking on

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Hollywood's door, and I don't know, the media seems to

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want to let her in. I'm not sure Hollywood wants

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to let her in. We will find out. Bobby Lee

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and Andrews Santino have wrapped production on a ten episode

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season of something called The Bad Game Show. The Bad

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Game Show is an unscripted comedy series inspired by their

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podcast Bad Friends, created by Andrews Santino and Nick Krice.

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The Bad Game Show drops celebrities into a chaotic mix

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of trivia and absurd challenges, with surprise guests crashed the

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game and nothing goes as planned, all unfolding inside Bobby

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Lee's mom's basement. The show is being made for digital

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distribution across Talent owned channels and platforms, revenue being driven

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by brand partnerships through custom integrations, sponsored sketches, and host

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red ads. People are mad at Jimmy Fallon. I think

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that's true almost every day of the week. Why are

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they mad at Jimmy Fallon? Now? Are you watching Survivor?

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Now that comedy Survivor's over, you might as well watch

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traditional Survivor. Spoilers for last week's episode. There was this guy, Christian,

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and he was on the island and he took part

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in a challenge and he lost in the challenge. This

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particular challenge in the Survivor fifty which has celebrity stunts.

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This challenge was designed by Jimmy Fallon, who if you

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didn't complete a puzzle in time, you had to vote

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yourself off. You had to cast a vote for yourself. Well,

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Christian went to tribal council and guess who was voted

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off Christian while voting for himself. Christian looked on the

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camera and told Jimmy Fallon, this idea you had it's terrible.

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No more ideas from you. I look forward to your apology.

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Jimmy Fallon did apologize on the tonight show. He even

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had Christian as a guest. Fallon said, now that we're

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all in the same place, so all I have to

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say is Christian, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry about this.

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It wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't supposed

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to be you. I feel so bad because I love you.

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That's an interesting thing for Jimmy Fallon to say.

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Now.

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Apparently in the confessional scene with the vote, some stuff

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was cut out. Christian said. He said something like Jimmy, Jimmy,

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I'm not sure I like this idea. What other ideas

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have been yours? We're looking at the Titanic and you're like,

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you know what, too many life votes were you on

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the Hindenberg? And he said, you know what, this needs

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a smoking section? What other ideas, Jimmy, I don't think

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you need any more ideas. I think you could have

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a seat and let us play Shane Gillis got the

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crowd going at Game three of the Eastern Conference first

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round NHL Playoffs. It was the Philadelphia Flyers taking on

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the Pittsburgh Penguins. Flyers super fan Shane Gillis was joined

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by team mascot Gritty to ignite the orange before the game.

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Puck dropped a stupid controversy last week involving Patton Oswalt.

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It was April twenty first, and Patton Oswalt marked ten

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years since the death of his wife. Patton Oswald posted

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on Instagram ten years gone by miss you baby. People

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thought that was rude to Patton Oswalt's current wife, Meredith Salinger.

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Salinger posted, what a beauty. She was smart and cool

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and brave, clearly smart enough to love you and wonderful

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enough to be adored by you. And she made the

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greatest kid on the planet. Wish I had known her.

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I'm so sorry for the heartbreak you and Alice will

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always hold. I love you both with all my heart,

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hugs forever. Tim Heidecker getting a lot of press. He's

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the new face of Info Wars, the former Alex Jones

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website now being run by The Onion, and they're having

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a good time running it. Hideker's mission. He's asking, can

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you change the way people think about a word like

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info wars? That felt like an interesting question to explore.

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This even got a profile of Tim Hideker in the

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Wall Street Journal, of all places, Hidecker and the team

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are making content for the new Info Wars, including a

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parody of Tucker Carlson's show, Tucker Carlson one of those

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people that is all of a sudden surprised at the

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President of the United States, as if I'm not going there,

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Tucker Cross the surprise. Listen to Tucker Cross's podcast. One

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early episode of the Carlson parody says, the American people

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don't know this, but JFK didn't kill himself. Alex Jones

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is not happy with the parodies. He said, the whole

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thing's about defaming me. Just because you're wearing my shirt

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doesn't mean you're me. Well, Tim Hideker shaved his head

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to look a little more like Alex Jones and walked

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into the new offices. He shared a video on Instagram.

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Let's listen to some of it as we head into

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the break. I've made some edits here for pacing and

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for language.

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Hey, everybody, it's Tim Heidecker checking in here. I'm in

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the Onion headquarters. Here Jamie Brew eating a sandwich, a

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bunch of guys trying to come up with funny ideas.

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How that goes? You know, they got all the posters

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of all their dumb ideas, women's bath room, gender identity whatever. Uh.

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Just you don't have to stop because I'm walking around.

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Go back to business. Are you doing this or what

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we taking over in for wars? Mister Collins? Is that

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that what's gonna happen? What are we gonna donna disrupt? Right?

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That's correct, that's exactly.

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We're gonna do. Well, you're my leader. I'm gonna follow

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you into battle. We're gonna we're gonna storm the gates,

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trial by combat, whatever it takes. Matt Carlin thinks he

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knows what's going on. He doesn't know anything. Whoever you are.

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And then they got cambucha. Now they're making everybody here

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drink cambucha and it's making everybody turn into little lizards,

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turn into little lizards running around Anyhow, it's been a

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great launch. We're excited. Onion his own fire. I couldn't

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be happier.

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The folks at the Cavalier went to see Josh Johnson.

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It was a free performance at a college, We're told.

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Before Johnson took the stage too, other commie is performed

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Clay Dickerson, the outgoing student council president and a fourth

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year student. Dickerson did some local material about local elections.

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Then the second opener was Rammind Mustafity. We're told he's

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known for his writing ability and acting chops and did

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some gen Z related comedy. Okay, and that makes sense.

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Probably wondering how could Josh Johnson possibly follow those openers

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Josh had set and included judging people based on how

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to eat fruit, to broader commentary on politics, technology, and

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social behavior. A college student went to see the show

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and said, I really liked the main act. You think

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I could tell everything He was joking about all of

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his stories. He put a lot of thought into it.

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A different student, a freshman, said, I feel like his

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bits in comparison to the openers. He had a softer

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delivery and a lot more commentary on the world in

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a way that wasn't always trying to be edgy. He

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wasn't trying to use shock humor the whole time. Now

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I don't want to shade the up and coming comedians,

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although I may have accidentally done that already. We're comparing

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a guy that does like a fresh hour every week

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to two college students opening for him. Yeah, I'm pretty

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sure Josh Johnson's going to be better at it. All Right,

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I got a couple of awful things to talk about

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from TMZ. Jelly Roll is facing accusations from comedian Nicole Arber.

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A rep for the Nashville PD tells TMZ, as you're

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probably where, there appears to be an ongoing online back

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and forth between the two. No charge has been filed.

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There's no current investigation underway. TMZ reports that Arbor has

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escalated her feud, accusing his team of sending her alleged

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hush money. Nicole Orber has been blasting jelly Roll on

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social media. Now, I'm unfamiliar with Nicole Arber, so I

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went to the internet and I'm told Nicole Arber is

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a Canadian multi hyphenate who works as a comedian, speaker, choreographer, singer, actress,

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and YouTuber. She's released several albums and singles. Then as

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I was doing that, the autocomplete came up and people

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have searched the phrase why is Nicole Arbor famous? I'll

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push back on the word famous, but let's accept the

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premise why is Nicole Arber famous? Here is the description

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from the interwebs. Nicole Arber, the five to nine comedic

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blonde bombshell who began her time in the public guy

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working as a choreographer and a cheerleader for the Toronto

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Raptors before becoming known worldwide for her viral comedy and music,

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has officially solidified herself as a commanding voice in modern entertainment.

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That update was of February twenty seventh, twenty twenty five.

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So again, one of the commanding voices in modern entertainment.

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Nicole Arber in some sort of whistling match with Jelly Roll.

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I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile, really really horrible here. I

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at first I didn't have the story in this in

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the you hear me stumbling. I'm not gonna make that

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edit there. I didn't have it in the script at all.

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And then I'm like, let me at least mention it.

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Let me read it verbatim and flat. From the Guardian,

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Russell Brand said he had exploitative consensual sex with a

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sixteen year old girl. At the height of his fame.

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Speaking about his past actions and appearance on the YouTube

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show of the US journalist Megan Kelly, Brand described himself

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selfish and a quote exploiter of women. He said, quote

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I did sleep with a sixteen year old when I

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was thirty. I was a very different person. I was

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a lot younger and I was an immature thirty year old.

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He added, consensual sex with a lot of people when

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there was a strong power differential, as there is when

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your famous man was the ability to attract women than

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I had at the time. I think that involves exploitation.

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I think it's exploitative. I recognized that my sexual conduct

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in the past was selfish and I did not apply

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enough consideration barely any I suppose, really to how that

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sex was affecting other people. The Guardian mentions the age

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of consent in the UK is sixteen, unless it's with

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an adult in a quote position of trust unquote, such

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as a teacher, social worker, sports coach or doctor, in

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which case the age of consent is eighteen. Guardian reminds

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us a court has previously heard that Brand is accused

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of raping a woman in a hotel room while she

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attended a Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, grabbing a TV

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worker's breast and orally raping her after dragging her into

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a male toilet, and kissing and groping a radio worker

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after pushing her against a wall. I've met Russell brand

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once in my life. We were at a studio. We

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did a recording session. In that one session, he was

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super cool and personable. But as I've shared on the

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show before, I've also worked with Bill Cosby, and when

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I worked with Bill Cosby, he was the very professional

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public Bill Cosby. And as I've said on the show before,

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someday Bill Cosby will pass away and I will tell

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you a story. Let's not go out on that. Ben

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Affleck and Matt Damon will receive an award in honor

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of Robin Williams. Affleck and Damon starred along with Robin

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Williams and Goodwill Hunting. Today they will be in San

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Francisco to receive the ninth Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award,

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presented to them by Glenn Closes nonprofit Bring Change to Mind,

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as a fundraiser today at the Fort Mason Center. Aaron

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sent this over from the New Zealand Herald. Aaron noticed

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that I was on a Flight of the Concords kick

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and she wanted to know about New Zealand Spy, a

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six part comedy series. This follows Michael Brown, a spy

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who struggles with his real name his cover identity. That's

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not important. What's important is that he and his colleagues

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at the New Zealand Intelligence Agency or all that's protecting

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New Zealand from the Great Enemy of Australia. Now you

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know who's in this Brett Mackenzie. He from the six

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hundred and ten dollars Flight of the Concords tickets. Mackenzie

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plays Michael's boss. New Zealand Spy begins on TV n

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Z two on Wednesday eight thirty in a lossol stream

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on TV and Z Plus and on Johnny Max's Pirate Chip.

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If you know what I mean. Chris O'Dowd you know

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him from the IT crowd. He will join Bill Burr

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in Bender. Bender is the coming of age comedy that's

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shooting in Ireland this summer. Chris O'Dowd will play a

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self made family man trying to put on a brave

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face while his business is marriage and his faith begin

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to crumble amid a brutal economic recession. Bill Burr plays

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a gruff American record store owner who convinces the RegTech

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gain of teenage misfits that they're best and possibly only

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chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Is

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at a massive open air mass for the visiting Pope.

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That is your comedy news for today. I'll see you tomorrow.