Nikki Glaser's publicist deserves two raises for this one

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Bob Newhart has passed away at age
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about Bob in today's episode. I
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Bob Newhart. So in the meantime, here's the normal Friday episode. Callaroga

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Shark media really busy again, especially
for a summer Friday. Hi, I'm

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Johnny Mack with your daily Common News. I had pumped that Hank Azarias story

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till tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow
for sure. I'm planning on recording back

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to back here, maybe sneaking a
beach Friday. Nicki Glazer's publicist, you

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have earned your money. Nicki got
one of those wax job articles in Variety.

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Nikki also got a wax job article
in Deadline. Wow, let's start

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with a Variety. They wrote.
It may have only been nine minutes in

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a two decade comedy career, but
it was one that had all eyes on

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Nicki Glazer in a very good pivotal
way her set roasting Tom Brady, etc.

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Et cetera. Yes, it was
a very good moment. Nicki said,

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I knew it was going well,
but ride this way if you can't

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relax, I can't celebrate anything until
it's officially over. That's what her head

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was telling her as she was doing
the roast. You have this really short

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amount of time where you have to
be excellent. There's no room for error

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because it's live and just the amount
of eyes on you, the amount of

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detail that was involved in each joke, it felt like a balance beam routine.

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Honestly, as soon as I stuck
the landing and finished it and walked

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back to my seat, then I
just felt like it was a dream.

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Yeah, she nailed that set for
sure. Varidy's wax Job says her name

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was immediately buzzed about and people became
aware of her who weren't aware of her

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before. As luck would have it, within day she hit the bullseye for

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a second time. Her HBO comedy
special Someday You'll Die was released and was

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another huge hit. I'll push back
on that. I don't have the numbers,

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but I feel culturally nobody talked about
that special at all. And off

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the heat of her roast. That
should have been a huge special, and

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it was on HBO. It wasn't
onlike Johnny Max's basement streaming service should have

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been major. But I don't feel
like anybody saw it. I could be

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wrong, Nicky says. Even though
all I crave and want is attention and

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all those things. When I get
it, I kind of cower need to

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undermine myself and create all the reasons
why I don't deserve this. I must

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have done something snaky to get this. How can I prove myself that I

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don't deserve this? Comedians don't operate
from a place of I'm amazing, look

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at me. It's more like,
am I amazing? Will you look at

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me? And when you do,
do I really deserve it? It just

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never happened to me where something has
been that critically and societally accepted and celebrated

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like this. And I don't ever
want to base only happiness around if people

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are recognizing me at a Starbucks or
not. Now here's where the publicist is

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really going for their money. They
just slipped to Variety that you know Nicky

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would really like to host Saturday Night
Live. Boy, I hope somehow Lauren

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Michael sees this. Do you think
he reads Variety? You think anyone will

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put this in his news clippings package
he probably gets every morning from NBC.

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That's a thing that happens in the
business. You get a news clipping package.

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I don't know if Louren Michael's gets
one every day, but I guarantee

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you the news clipping package exists.
Nicky says, I have loved the show

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forever and admire the cast they have. Now I'm not waiting for the call,

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but when it comes, it'll be
an absolute Yes. It's like you're

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dying for the call. But you're
also like, please don't call me,

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because I know that my life will
be so hard. But you know,

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that's what this career is. It's
just a series of hard things. Variety

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writes Lauren Michaels, Are you listening, so publicist? You earned your money?

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Not just that one. Here's the
one from Deadline. They wrote about

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Nicky's news series and development at Amazon
called Unsettling. She'll play the lead in

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it, opposite fellow comic Jamie Lee. Nicki Glazer said, I just love

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the people involved it. They make
some of the funniest most heartwarming TV there

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is, and I'm so excited to
move forward with it. It's slowly coming

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along, so it seems like something
that will be happening, but you never

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know what is it. It's a
half hour single camera comedy about two childless

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best friends in their thirties who decide
to go in on a baby together,

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navigating their lives as brand new platonic
co parents. Bill Lawrence is behind this

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one. You know him from such
things as Scrubs and ted Lasso. Good

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pedigree there. Nikki received an Emmy
nomination for her special We'll talk about that

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in a second, says, it's
the kind of thing. It's a big

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moment for an artist, just because
I'll always get to be Emmy nominated Nicky

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Glazer. Now, it's like you
have that title for the rest of your

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life, so they can't take that
away from me. I'm just excited to

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go to the Emmys. I love
going to award shows. It's one of

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my favorite things to do as a
person in this business. Publicists laying some

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more groundwork. They got this one
and I are in deadline. I think

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hosting an award show is something I'll
be doing a lot of in my future,

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just because it's something that falls in
the same kind of category as the

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roast ray of this prepared monologue.
And there's a lot of pressure on Nicky,

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dare you host the Golden Globes and
mick a say Taylor Swift joke?

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You know that doesn't go well.
One time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift

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joke. Let's listen the big difference
between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

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On the Golden Globes, we have
fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh,

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Scott beck in front of the show. Who hates that bit? He

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emailed me on the Thursday morning,
So Scott, you're on my mind.

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That one was for you. Scott
Beckett, thank you for listening. Nicky

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says, I really thrive at those
kind of settings when you're an audience some

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people that showpen this and you have
to do a really tight, tonally perfect

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and funny monologue. I'd love to
do it. I think my name is

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being tossed around in those kinds of
conversations, but we'll see. Yes,

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please host the gold Globes. Actually, I want Joe Cooi to come back

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just so I can do the bit
for another year. I run out the

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chance to do things that generally would
scare other people. I think that stand

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up and risting are both categories of
entertainment, and other people in the business

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are like, I wouldn't touch that, and thankfully I don't have that aversion

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to it. Paublos is getting it
more done. They got this in there.

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I'd like to make a movie and
being a round comm at some point,

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I'd like to act alongside Julia Louis
Dreyfus. At one point, I'd

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like to host SNL mentioned again.
I'd like to host an award show.

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I'd like to sit in the VIP
box at a Taylor Swift concert. I

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mean, there's little goals here and
there, but I'm really just happy with

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how things are. And that's been
the greatest realization is I honestly want more

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free time with my family and my
friends and my dog. I love how

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she's thrown out this list. I'll
throw out a list. I want to

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host the Tonight Show on a Friday
night. I want to do The Daily

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Show on a Tuesday. I want
Letterman a guest on my podcast. I

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know those three things are happening,
but I'll throw them out there. I'll

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also host Saturday Night Live. If
Lauren asked, Lauren, are you listening?

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All right, you're me. Hominees
for Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded are

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Billy Jowels Live at Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappelle for The Dreamer, Dick

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Van Dyke's ninety eight Years of Magic, Nicky Glazer Someday You'll Die, Trevor

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Noah. Where was I out of
those five? I would say, well,

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from a comedy standpoint, Trevor was
the best of those five. I

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didn't see the Dick Vandyke. I
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You know, Billy could get a
Lifetime Achievement Award. Dick Van Dyke,

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for sure could get a Lifetime Achievement
Award. I'm not sure Nicky is gonna

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win this one. And award shows
do love giving awards to Dave Chappelle.

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All right, Let's talk about the
intersection of politics and comedy. Alonzo Bowden

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was asked, when can you make
a joke about, say, someone trying

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to assassinate someone. Alonzo said,
it's never too soon unless it's not funny.

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Comedians will always make it funny no
matter what happens. That's what we

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do, it's how we communicate.
In this case, Donald Trump is such

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a character, and the fact that
he wasn't killed the joke started immediately.

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And I don't think he minds.
He's one of those people. As long

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as you're talking about him, it's
a win. Matt Friend wrote in an

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op ed for The Daily Beast,
and he said, I dealt with my

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shock and sadness by posting a graphic
of my social of the instantly iconic image

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of Trump with blood on his face
pumping his fist. Under the photo,

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I wrote, how long before this
becomes merch? Got admit I had the

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same thought As expected, I received
a mix of positive engagement and furious backlash.

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I had conflicting thoughts. On the
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fun of Trump's habit of turning everything
he does in a merchandise. On the

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other hand, I was trying to
be funny after a former president was nearly

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killed. I ended up taking down
the post, and that caused my head

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to circle with questions, does this
mean I didn't stand up for comedy?

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Where's the lines that I cross it? In order to get closer into answering

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these questions, I've been turning to
comedy's pass for advice. Johnny Carson once

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said, I think one of the
dangers if you were a comedian, if

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you start to take yourself too seriously
and start to comment on social issues,

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your sense of humor suffers. Somewhere
in nineteen eighty one, Carson hosted the

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Oscars one day after Ronald Reagan was
shot. At that time, Johnny said,

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he happens to be in very good
spirits. After all, you must

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remember this as a man who,
yesterday, while he was in the hospital

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unable to speak, wrote on a
sheet of paper, all things considered,

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I'd rather be in Philadelphia. So
tonight the show does go on, my

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friend said, while a delicate joke, Carson managed to gracefully touch on the

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attempted assassination of Reagan. Trey Crowder
apparently knew jd Vance back in the day

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and did a three minute joke field
rant about him. Trey Crowder said,

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you know, if you were to
tell me when I was a kid that

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one day a white trash hillbilly would
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I would have been like, what
with a potato gun? No? No

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is the vice president. Damn,
that's wild. Tell me more about this

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hero. What was he? A
man of the people, civil rights attorney,

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no Ivy League educated venture capitalists who
first rose to fame by selling us

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all out. Oh well, that's
disappointing. From the Guardian, a twenty

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eight year old German comedian got in
trouble with Trump supporters and then Elon Musk

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after a series of tweets. Sebastian
Hats, who posts and performs as el

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Hatso, lost his job as a
broadcaster this week for the tweets. He

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apparently tweeted something along the lines of
that the attempt on Saturday had been like

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the last bus. Unfortunately just missed
those of the words of Hats, not

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me. He also published a post
saying it was absolutely fantastic when fascists die.

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Hatts has seven hundred thousand followers on
Twitter. He deleted the original post,

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but screenshots of them we were published
on social media. He then wrote

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absolutely no one forces anyone to sympathize
with fascists. You can do without it

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without the slightest consequences. The controversy
prompted the Berlin based public broadcaster RBB to

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cancel Hots's involvement with one of its
radio shows, which he had co hosted

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since twenty twenty two. The program
director said his remarks are not compatible with

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the values for which RBB stands.
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that's a various artist album. I'm
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out at least one new track next
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And now I can because I not
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Roywood Junior will put his next stand
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in in September at the Lincoln Theater
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This Falls. So far, they've
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also licensed a bunch of specials from
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a lot about those guys now in
Comedy Dynamics. Netflix will have Matt Riffe's

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next special. This one going to
be all crowd work. Rolling Stone reports

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for a full hour at the Comedy
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Matt Rife alied solely on his audience
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cuff performance was captured for his upcoming
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Matt Riife says that this show is
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you've ever seen live or on Netflix
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guys. There is a trailer.
Let's listen to the beginning of it before

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he gets a little too naughty.
This show is going to be completely different

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from anything you've seen live or on
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work special. This is just me
and you, guys. I don't know

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what you're gonna say. I don't
know what I'm gonna say. I want

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you guys to be aware you are
equally as at fault for how this goes

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as and that istra comedy news for
today tomorrow normal episode. Ran out of

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interviews. That's fine, there's plenty
of news. I bumped a lot of

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stuff from today's show. So tomorrow's
a normal episode. Monday's a normal episode.

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If you enjoy the program, tell
a friend about it. They might

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like it. To see you tomorrow
and I'll have a new hard thing mid

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morning. See you back in a
bit