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Callaroga shark media man. I went to LA for the weekend,
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and so much happened while I was away. I have
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so much today that I'm bouncing major stuff tomorrow. The
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Sebastian maniscatcoal trailer has me out of my mind. But
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that's gonna be tomorrow's leadoff story. I'll probably tape Tuesday
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and Wednesday back to back because I'm so fired up. Hello,
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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. But we
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got to talk about Nicki Glazer on Saturday Night Live.
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I don't want to lead you with my opinion, so
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I'll do a story or two and then i'll tell
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you what I thought. But I headlined from USA today.
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I believe this was comedian Nicki Glazer calls SNL debut
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a dream a mid monologue backlash. That's right, there is
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monologue backlash. Nicki posted on social media posts to come
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when I fully wake up. But oh my god, I
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can't believe how amazing this cast and crew was. As
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a fan of the show, I just have to tell
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all the other fans that everyone at SNL is just
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as talented, elite, cool and kind as you'd hope it'd
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be literally everyone. It was a dream, all caps. I'll
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never get over it. Now I'll start to play my cards.
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I'll flip one card. So I watched the monologue. I
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didn't have a problem with the monologue's content. I had
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the problem with the monologue being by wrote. I was
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texting on the side with the host of the Letterman podcast,
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Mike Chisholm, and I said, it just felt like she
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was doing jokes like, for example, Mike, who you may remain?
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And I was Canadian. Mike went to the store. He
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was so polite, take a beat because he's Canadian, and
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it just felt like that type of joke where you
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tell a story and then you do the beat and
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then you do the headfake, and I felt like she
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was just doing that. Her sketches, I thought were fantastic.
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I'll come back to that. But as part of this
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monologue controversy, as I started to read this USA Today article,
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they were saying the things the monologue was about, and
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I was like, oh, I don't think I want to
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say that, because they're the type of things that get
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flagged by content services. So maybe some do have a
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point here. Nicki opened up and of course told much
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better by Nicki. She opened up by saying, here I
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am in New York City, Epstein's original island. And I
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may have actually told that better, because when I watched
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it on the DVR after the four PM games on Sunday,
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I think she kind of swallowed the word Epstein, and
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I missed the joke. I had to go back. So
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later in the monologue she started talking about people being
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trafficked and the signs, quoting Nicki Glazer. Here, they're in
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every stall, They're in every language. I mean, English is
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really tiny. It's like you wish men's restrooms don't have
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these signs. I don't know what signs you have. Do
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you have signs that are like want to sleeve? She
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then did make a joke about violent assault on women
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that I don't want to repeat, so you can factor
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that into your evaluation if you didn't see it, that
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it's a joke John's not comfortable repeating. She then went
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on to joke about how she's certain her boyfriend will
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murder me someday, and then did some material that was
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about showering with a younger person, which I probably shouldn't
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get into here either. So again, there may be some
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validity to the controversy. But when I watched the show,
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I wasn't like, oh, outratous. So my take, you know,
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whether or not there's a controversy about the content. I
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just didn't think it was a monologue. I just didn't
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find it funny. But she was great at the sketches.
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Yahoo recapped the entire episode for me, Thank you. The
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opener with President Trump in the Oval office as somebody
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passes out James Louston Johnson boy, I loved him when
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he first started doing Trump on SNL. I'm now all
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the way to the point maybe Lorne Michaels needs to
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consider someone else doing Trump. I know what a major
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move that would be. But James's Trump is just he
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didn't have it this week. It's it's off Mark and
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I don't know if they had a bad crowd or what,
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but the crowd seemed to be with me that that
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opening segment didn't fly all right. Then the monologue already
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discussed a pre record with NICKI doing a commercial for
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a medication that makes you sick enough to credibly cancel
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your appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show. NICKI was very
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good in that. Then a sketch about family karaoke, Sarah
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Sherman crushing as always, NICKI showing she's got some acting
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chops in that one. Beauty and Mister Beast. I thought
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that was pretty funny. American Girl Doll XL was solid.
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I'll circle back to the News for reasons which will
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become clear in a minute. And then on the News,
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Pete Davidson showed up. Pete Davidson said, in case you're
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wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia,
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we're losing millions on this ferry. I assume that's what
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the article says. I can't spend five dollars on a
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pay wall when I got a kid on the way.
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I'm just excited to be a dad and to give
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it all the energy enthusiasm I never had for this show.
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Pete also got off a good line about Lorne Michaels, saying,
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if Louren Michaels has taught us anything, it's that you
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never ever give up, even if everyone says the time
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has come and Tina Fey is ready to take over.
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Pete talked about the new mayor of New York City.
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If you're not from the New York City area. You
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might want to get yourself familiar with this. Mom, Donnie Fellow,
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I think he's going to be a national figure for
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a few months here. Pete said, I have a message
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for everyone who did not vote for our new mayor,
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Hey statn Islanders, which is an on point joke. If
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you look at the mayoral electoral if you look at
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the voting results, let me pull it up for you.
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As you may know, New York City has five boroughs.
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Manhattan is what most to outsiders would think New York
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City is in Manhattan zoorun Mum. Donnie got fifty two
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point seven percent of the vote. Queen's where I'm from,
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but I did not vote because I'm now a New
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Jersey resident. He got forty seven point three, the Bronx
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fifty one and a half, Brooklyn fifty six point eight,
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Staten Island twenty two point seven, losing to Andrew Combo,
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who ran as an independent and got fifty five point four.
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So hence Pete Davison's joke. Pete said, did you promise
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to move out of New York if Ma'm Donnie one?
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But if too many warrants in New Jersey and not
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enough guns for Florida, Welcome to New Staten Island, and
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showed a picture of the ferry. We can't call it
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the Titanic anymore since the people on this ship will
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actually love running into ice. Good material there, I don't
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think he delivered it that well. I think the writing
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was better than Pete's performance. Pete told people I had
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a great time hosting last time, and anytime you get
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that call, it's an honor and a privilege to return
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to SNL. It's always relevant, it's a hot show. People
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look forward to it, and the cast is great. He
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said of Lorne Michaels. I owe that guy in my life.
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He jump started everything. So I do anything for Lorn
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and he knows that. So I went to Los Angeles
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for five minutes. They decided to announce the Grammy nominees
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Best Comedy Album Quick Time out Here. If you are
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a longtime listener, you've heard this before. If you are
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relatively new, you may not have. Johnny Mack gets annoyed
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that things that Johnny Mack considers to be quote unquote
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Netflix specials get nominated for Grammys. I personally feel that
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a comedy album should be, you know, an album, Bruce
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Springsteen Born in the USA. That's an album, It's not
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a Netflix special. Some of these things, I'm not sure
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they're albums, But the Academy clearly disagrees with me. These
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nominations are horrible. This is just really bad. Okay. The
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nominees for Best Comedy Album, Bill Burr for his worst
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special drop Dead Years, and you could see that going
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to re odd really affected Bill Burr's career. Ali Wong's
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single Lady not her best special. Nate Bergetzi's Your Friend,
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Nate Berghetzi not his best special. But okay, my former
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coworker Jamie Fox, what had happened was I felt like
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Jamie just doing a performance. And I understand that all
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of these are a performance, but I really felt like
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Jamie was pulling out his Academy Award winning chops to
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pull your emotional strings. It just didn't feel like a
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genuine performance to me. I felt like he was acting
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it out to get the crowd going. So no doubt
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out of these five to me, Sarah Silverman's post Mortem,
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which I think i've pretty high up on my list. Yeah,
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I right now have Sarah at seven my list. Really quickly,
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if you want to count it a stand up or not.
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The Conan O'Brien, Mark Twain ward. It is far and
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away the best thing of the year, if you want
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to throw that out. Mark Marin's special now that should
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have been nominated for a Grammy. It's Mark's best special.
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He's at peak Marin. I don't know how that's not nominated.
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Going down my list from there, Jim Jeffrey's, Justin Willman,
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Dusty Slay Krasier, Brett Goldstein's HBO special from April is
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really underrated, Michelle Wolf, Sarah Silverman, matte Ola, and Tim Dillon.
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I don't get a vote, but I would vote for
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Sarah Silverman over It's a no brainer. While I left
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down for five minutes, Variety and the New York Comedy
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Festival announced that Jim Gaffigan will receive Variety's inaugural Comedy
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Vanguard Award that was going to be presented on Sunday night.
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I've not seen any post mortem on Jim winning the award.
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There is leading into that, a big shiny fluff piece
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wax job in Variety, but too busy today to get
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to that. Maybe tomorrow. The inaugural Vanguard Award recognizes Jim
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Gaffigan's trailblazing contributions to comedy and his remarkable career milestones.
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Time out, trailblazing? Is Jim Gaffigan one of the top comedians? Absolutely?
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Is he funny more often than not? Trailblazing? Why? Based
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on what what has Jim done that nobody has done before? Anyway,
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The award recognizes Jim Gaffigan's trailblazing contributions to comedy and
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his remarkable career milestones. Caroline Hirsch said, Jim Gaffigan has
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been making us laugh since the very beginning of his career,
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and I've had the pleasure of watching him grow into
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one of the most expected and beloved voices and comedy today.
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His originality, consistency, and sheer brilliance on stage make him
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the perfect recipient of this inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award. You
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know that John Stewart is at your event, Caroline right,
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No one is more deserving, and Jim truly represents the
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spirit of innovation and excellence that this honor celebrates. There
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was a mystery with Jimmy Kimmel's show. Jimmy Kimmel's Show
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did not air Thursday. Well, a rerun air, but there
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was supposed to be a new episode. It was unexpectedly
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pulled just hours before airing, reportedly over quotes a personal matter,
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So I don't want to make light of it. I
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don't know what the personal matter is. I hope everything's
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okay in the Kimmel household and friends and family and
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all that's good, But of course a Jimmy Kimmel episode
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not airing is going to be major news. These scheduled
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guests included David Ducovney, Joe Keery from Stranger Things, and
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singer Madison Beer. It was Madison Beer who broke the
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news on social media at six thirty three pm Eastern
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Time on Thursday, as Johnny Mack was on a plane.
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Madison Beer tweeted, due to unforeseen circumstances, Jimmy Kimmel Alive
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needed to reschedule my performance that was originally scheduled to
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air tonight to a later date. There's also a story
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going around that Jimmy Kimmel's wife, Molly, admitted she fired
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off many emails to Trump supporting family members begging them
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not to vote for Trump in last year's election, and
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has since cut ties with her right wing relatives. This
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is not hearsay. She said this on the We Can
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Do Hard Things podcast. Molly said, I've spent many emails
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to my family, like right before the election, saying I'm
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begging you, here's the ten reasons not to vote for
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this guy, Please don't and either got ignored by ninety
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percent of them or got truly insane responses from a few.
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It hurts me so much because of the personal relationships
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I now have where my husband is out there fighting
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this man and me. Them voting for Trump is them
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not voting for my husband and me and our family,
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and I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people
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and my family because of it. Molly said she was
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angry all the time at certain aunt's, uncles and cousins
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for helpings to elect Trump, yet says she feels sympathy
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for them, calling them deliberately misinformed. On a related note,
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Oscar Isaac, you may know him from Star Wars movies.
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He did an interview with g Q. Would he return
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to Star Wars because you know, Star Wars is owned
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by ABC and Disney and the you know, the support
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is a fascism. You know those guys well, Oscar Isaac said,
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I mean, I'd be open to it, although right now
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I'm not open to working with Disney, but if they
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can kind of figure it out, you know, not to
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succumb to fascism, that would be great. If that happens,
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then yeah, I'd be open having a conversation about a
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galaxy far away or any number of other things. You see.
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Oscar Isaac is not one of those guys who'd be like,
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you know, this chair is really comfortable. I've got a
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Roku in my hand. All I have to do is
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push the Hulu button and I can watch Scrubs. No,
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Oscar Isaac is not one of those people. He goes
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upstairs to the main level and then one more level
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to the DVD closet, and he pulls out the Scrubs DVDs,
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walks all the way back downstairs, fires up the PlayStation five,
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puts in a disc, and then hits play. He doesn't