April 25, 2025

Nikki Glaser's Border Concerns and John Mulaney's "Controversial" Joke

Show Notes
Transcript

In this poolside edition of Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac covers various topics from the comedy world. Nikki Glaser shares her worries about a Golden Globes joke and comments on the mental struggles she faces and her border concern. John Mulaney sparks "controversy" with a joke about Gene Hackman. The episode also touches on Fortune Feimster's recent split, Katherine Ryan's allegations of sexual misconduct in comedy, and Paul Reiser's standup show in Boston. Additionally, Memphis comedian Benny Elbows attempts to break the world record for the longest solo comedy performance.

00:36 Nikki Glaser
03:02 John Mulaney's "Controversial" Joke
04:01 Mulaney Show Recap
06:05 Jessica Kirson's New Special
09:18 Katherine Ryan on Misconduct in Comedy
11:14 Paul Reiser's Love for Standup
12:18 Benny Elbows' World Record Attempt

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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Daily Comedy News. We're about to find out if Nicki

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Glazer can take a punch. We'll talk about that in

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a second, but let me set the scene here. It's

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seventy five degrees and the humidity's thirty four percent, and

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it's Sonny out for the first time of month. So

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if you're like Johnny Mack, do I hear birds? You do?

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Do I hear planes? I do? Do I hear dogs?

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You might? Because this, to my friends, is our first

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pool side edition of Daily Comedy News this year. It

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is too nice to sit in the basement, all right,

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let's get to it. Nicki Glazer was at the time

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one hundred Summit on Wednesday. She said there was a

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joke she told during the Golden Globes that she worried

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went too far. Niki explains, I didn't say anything that

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was like calling anyone ugly or fat at roast you

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say really cruel things, that's the job. She conceded. She

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was initially concerned about a joke aimed at Emilia Paris

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star Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco that she

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ended up texting Blanco to get his permission to go

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ahead with the joke. Quoting Nicki, I said that Selena

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Gomez is here because of Emilia Perez and Benny Blanco

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is here because of the genie who granted him that wish,

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and looking back, I'm like, that could seem mean, but

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everybody's like he's not attractive enough for her. For me,

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I've never looked at them and thought that. I feel

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like she won too. I think he's really cool. So

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because that joke didn't actually come from a mean place,

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I felt like it was okay for me to say.

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If you pay a lot of attention to these Nicki

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Glazer interviews, there is definitely signs of mental struggles here.

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She's pretty open about it, and you do worry about her.

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Nicki said, I'm happier than I've ever been, but I'm

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not happy by any means. I'm so grateful, but i

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still have a lot of self loathing that's almost getting

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boring to talk about. At this point, she spoke about

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her current hot streak. I know it. I'll get taken

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away at some point because it has to. That's just

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the way things work. And when that part of my

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career happens. I don't want to be sad about that,

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so I just don't put too much worth in it.

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But I'm enjoying it now. None of that is the

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controversy that I alluded to at the beginning. Nicki said

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she was more critical of Trump than usual at a

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recent show in Canada because she usually holds back in

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the US to not alienate fans who might disagree with

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her politics. But she told the audience at the time

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thing she got worried that she could get backlash. Oh

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my gosh, what if I said gets recorded and sent out.

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Maybe I couldn't be let back into the country. There's

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just no scenario where the headline is US government bans

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Nicki Glazer from re entering country. I mean, that would

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just be such a massive scandal story. There's no chance

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of that happening, Nikki said, I'm not trying to be

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an alarmist, but I definitely don't think that I'm immune

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to having some kind of backlash. Look at the other

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places that have dictators. I have a friend Jennif Friedman,

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who posted on Instagram that she was performing in Vancouver

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and when she came back, customs asked her what she did.

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She said she was a comedian, and they asked her

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if she talked about politics had made fun of the president.

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They let her go, but they asked, or I could

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be put on some kind of list because of some

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story I reposted. Look at other places that have dictators.

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You're not allowed to say things about them. She then

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joked about being sexually attracted to Trump to get on

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his good side. I don't know where you're laughing about.

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I'm one hundred percent real about this and it'll save

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me when I'm on the gallows. Send your letters to

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Nikki Glazer. John mulaney has come under fire for a

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quote very controversial joke. This from the British tabloids. The

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very controversial joke was about the deaths of Gene Hackman

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and Hackman's wife. The joke in question and told much

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better by John mulaney. Scientists are now like, we believe

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dinosaurs were killed sixty six million years ago by an asteroid.

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Stop you don't know that. We don't even know how

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Gene Hackman and his wife died and we found their

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whole bodies with full clothes on one week after the event.

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How about that? Santa Fe police Hello, Press conference number

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four hundred seventy. We now believe that a rat bit

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Missus Hackman turning her hands into mummy hands. Slow down.

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You don't know what happened that again, told much better

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by John mulaney. Is the very controversial joke? Really okay?

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Very controversial? One Reddit user called the comments sickening and

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posted just me thinking that Gene Hackman bit was just

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a tad sickening. Another redditur wrote only John could get

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away with a Gene Hackman joke this soon really okay, guys.

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Late nighter watched the millenniy show. I didn't. I Wednesday

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night is volleyball night, and I made the mistake of

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I went for a run. Johnny Mack is out of shape,

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and I will cop to being out of shape when

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I'm out of shape. And I'm out of shape. So

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I went for a run Wednesday afternoon because the weather's nice,

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and then I played volleyball and I was so gassed,

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so there was no chance of me watching a show

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from ten to eleven PM. I went to bed. But

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Late Nighter they watch Mullenie's show. They are very positive

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about the show, and it sounds like maybe, perhaps possibly

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Millenia has taken my notes. Late nighter, says Mullani waited

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until halfway through the show to explain that guest Rita

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Marino wasn't there. Apparently Rita wasn't feeling well, but he

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never addressed the other missing panelist, which was to be

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dinosaur expert doctor Luis Chiappe, who had been announced earlier

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this week. Maybe John took my note that having seventy

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five people on it once doesn't work. Who knows. Mllenie

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opened the show announcing the time and temperature sixty two

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degrees in LA while snow went past his studio windows.

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Mulaney explained this is his Christmas show since the show

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won't be on in December, and he felt like it.

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See that's funny, that's like an old style Letterman inspired bit.

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So was the Christmas Show, complete with twinking lights, tinsel,

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and a disheveled white beard. Hobo, one of the guests

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he did have on io at a Berry. She liked

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the craziness. She compared the show to Crack, but in

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a good way. Okay, we all know crack is bad. Yes,

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we can all agree that crack is something bad, But

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consider this Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us

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Tyren Bighams Crackavius Whitney Houston saying, first of all, let's

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get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. The spirit of crack,

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one could argue, has also given us this show. John

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Mulaney Sober and a Father is basically spiritually on crack.

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To be clear, I think this is a good thing.

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This man shows up dressed like a pentecostal deacon son

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headed to the twenty eighteen NBA draft all he'd end

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up a fifth round reject, and yet he puts out

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some of the sharpest comedy happening right now. She described

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Mlaney as a gift to comedy. He's also maybe probably insane.

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But I think this is good and I think crack

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is bad. Now what's interesting is I did several googles

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of the term Malinie Conan. Not much came up. Jessica

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Kerson has a new special out on Hulu today. It

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is called I'm the Man. Now. The Hulu publicist didn't

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send me anything, but I will not be stopped. Hulu publicists,

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you keep your comedy special secret, and I'll keep outing them,

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Jessica told The Daily beast. I've been doing stand up

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for over twenty years, and this special is truly special.

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My stand up has always stood out to the audience

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as I've performed for my fans, had especially in other comics.

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I'm the Man is me embracing everything I am, the

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crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I'm fearless

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on stage. Michelle Wolf had a surprise release, not really

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a special, a fifteen minute clip where she talked about

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her controversial twenty eighteen set at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

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The clip is called Dinner Time. It has premiered on

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punch Up Live, a digital platform for live comedy. You

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can watch it for free. Wolf explains there might not

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be a comedian at the Correspondent's Dinner this year, but

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the good news is I have some leftovers. I've been

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holding onto the set since twenty twenty two, and with

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everything going on, I felt like it was the right

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moment to share it exclusively on punch Up, a platform

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where comedians can release their own uncensored material without the

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constraints of any network or streamer. Drud Carmichael will have

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another stand up special for HBO. This one is called

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Don't Be Gay. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president

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for HBO Programming. She says in a press release, this

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new special continues to build on the raw, intimate, and

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emotionally honest impact that his last special, Roathaniel and his

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recent series on the network at drud Carmichael Reality Show

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had no quote from Carmichael though. Anyway. Don't Be Gay

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on HBO Saturday, May twenty fourth, at ten pm. At

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Tomorrow's Brett Goldstein Special. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Good

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job by the birds giving me. I hope you can

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hear the birds giving me some atmosphere as we do

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the show poolside today. Now it's so weird putting the

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show together because when I put together Thursday Show, there

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was nothing. Now behind the scenes, I teach a college

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class on Thursday morning, so I often like to pretape Fridays,

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and as the week goes, Friday tends to be one

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of the lesser listen two days. I guess people get

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into weekend mode. So I often, when I'm teaching, will

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pre tape Friday show and I'll you know, I'll squirrel

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stuff away all week. And there was just really nothing

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to fill Thursday show. So I had to pull. Boy,

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these birds are getting done. Thank you birds. I had

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to pull most of what was going to be today's

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and it was a short show as it was now today. Conversely,

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it took me two hours to put this together. There's

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enough for three shows, and I'm probably gonna sit here

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at poolside recording the entire weekend because there's so much.

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Let's head on over to Gossip Corner. This is sad

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TMZ reporting Fortune Femster and her wife Jacqueline Smith recently

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separated and Fortune is planning a file for divorce. According

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to TMZ, it's unclear what caused the split or when

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they separated. TMZ thinks it's pretty fresh. This is sad

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to me because wasn't one of fortune special all about

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getting married to Jack's. Wasn't that like the whole cornerstone

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of it. So that's kind of sad. They were married

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in October of twenty twenty. Also on Gossip Corner, now,

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kids are listening to this with you. For some reason,

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it stopped. We don't want the kids to listen to

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this next section. They're just gonna have questions. So I'll

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give you a second hero bebble. Okay, kids are gone.

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Catherine Ryan has spoken out about more sexual misconduct in

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the comedy industry. She claimed one male comedian showed other

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cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women.

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Catherine explained the incident happened while backstage in the green

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room of a big show. She did not identify the comedian,

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but did say that he isn't British. She explained, I've

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been in green rooms were very famous male comedians. One

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male comedian in particular, I will say it's not British.

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He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he

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was in a room on a big show. I was

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one of the few women on that bill, maybe three women,

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and there was a young female comedian who was starting out.

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It was next to him, and he was with all

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the lads showing pictures and videos on his phone that

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he had taken of himself having sex with women, so

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like really intimate photos, intimate videos, and he was showing them.

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His junk was in a lot of these videos. She

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felt very uncomfortable about that, and she came to my

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dressing room to be like, oh, I didn't like him

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showing me that, and she's about to go on stage.

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She's very new. I was even quite new at the time,

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but yeah, stuff like that, and being a minority in

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that situation which female comedians, especially when I was starting out,

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we're always minorities in every green room, every dressing room.

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There are things we can't do that the boys can do.

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We can't take a night bus, we can't sleep on

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the floor with four other comedians starting out. A lot

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of times we have children that we have to look after,

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and then we get fans who could like kill us.

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She then talked about Nicki Glazer. Nicki Glazer, who's doing

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amazing and American hosting the Golden Globes for the second

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year in a row. She'd make a joke of it

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on Instagram. Should write, come kill me in Cincinnati at

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seven pm, Come kill me in San Diego at eight pm.

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We'd have to publish where we are at night, and

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we're always alone. It's a bit different. When I started

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doing television, male audience members could be weird with me.

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I had this following of very strange lone wolf men.

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Before I had a tour manager that'd follow me onto

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the train and keep talking to me. I was trying

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to be polite and boundary, but some of those interactions

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were scary. I've been locking in part, I think because

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of the guys I came up with. Joe lystt, Rob

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Beckett and Ramesher Rag and Aathan are just really really

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good guys. Boy, this is all just terrible switching gears.

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If you're in Boston, Paul Reiser is at the Cabot

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in Beverly tonight. Paul says he doesn't have to do

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stand up. I just love performing. I don't love airports.

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I don't love connecting flights. I just tell my agent's

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got to be direct flight, not too late, because I

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like to be in pajamas at nine to forty five

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if possible. Paul's my kind of guy. I've been on

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Stranger Things, which is big and great to be in,

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but has nothing to do with me being on stage

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for an hour and a half. That's the fun, that's

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the joy. I love the order of stand up. I

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love how ephemeral it is now. The goalposts are always

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moving and you never quite get it, and if you

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do get it, it's gone the next day. It's like, wow,

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what was that? Paul says it has a hard time

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watching his old stuff, but when I do see a

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glimpse of it, there are themes of things I'm still questioning.

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What's also great is the audience now comes to see me.

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It's not nineteen seventy eight years greedy Number eleven Bull Riser.

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If people are coming and they bought a ticket and

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they came to see me, it's because they know me

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from something probably man about you. It really does feel

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like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks, I

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know this guy who grew up together, and we got

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married around the same time, we had kids around the

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same time, and the same warmth that I think they

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bring I feel towards them. And maybe younger people come too,

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and they're confused. Wait, why is the doctor from Stranger

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Things trying to be funny? Save some more of that

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for the weekend. A Memphis comedian is going for a

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world record this weekend. Benny Elbows is working on a

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solo stand up show that could last forty plus hours

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to break the record for longest continuous solo comedy stand

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up routine in history. I think Bob Marley had that.

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The comedian Bob Marlin had that record for a while

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we actually broadcast it live on serious if my memory holds,

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Benny Elbows says, for a while, it's a tour guide.

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It did tours in Memphis. It was a ghost tour guide,

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like a haunted tour, not like a signed up for

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the tour. Never saw me again, that's funny. The plan

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was for him to take the stage at six o'clock

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this morning at the High Tone Cafe on Cleveland Avenue.

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He's aiming to break the current record of forty hours

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eight minutes. His game plan. I think the most important

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thing is going to be caffeine. There are rules according

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to the Guinness World Record. I can repeat jokes, but

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only every four hours. So right now I have a

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word document with like sixteen seventeen thousand words. It's twenty

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six pages. Another big one is that we need ten

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people in the audience at all times. That's hard. How

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will we make sure there are ten people in the audience.

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He's hoping that this press helps. Well, if you're in Memphis,

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go help this guy out. Hopefully you download the podcast

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at three or five am when I dropped it, and

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you ran right over there to hook up that six

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am hour. All right, I know you're curious, what about

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the bathroom, He explains, I can eat and drink on

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stage as long as it doesn't disrupt the flow of

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the show. You get five minutes every hour you can

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use for whatever you want, say a bathroom break. So

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I'm going to try to go as far as i

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can to the show before trying to take a nap

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and then finish strong. If everything goes well, he'll break

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the record around ten thirty on Saturday night. And that

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is your comedy news for today, Poolside Edition. Have an

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awesome day.