March 27, 2025

Quick Hits: Colin Jost, Bert Krieshcer, Bill Burr and Melbourne Comedy Festival show halted

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode of the Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac covers the chaotic opening night of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the Palace Theater that was disrupted by a medical emergency. The festival, featuring 1000 performers, will continue until April 20th. Johnny discusses notable performers, including Julio Torres and Colin Jost. He delves into Bert Kreischer's insights on the evolution of comedy specials and recounts a Slate article examining Bill Burr's current status in comedy. The episode also features comedy from Trey Crowder, reflections from Mateo Lane and Amy Schumer's weight loss medication update. Additionally, there are updates on various comedy shows and festivals, including standouts at the Great American Comedy Festival and podcast recommendations.

00:12 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Update
01:15 Spotlight on Mitch Hedberg this weekend
01:40 Colin Jost at Cornell
02:04 Married Comedians and Their Jokes
02:43 Bert Kreischer on Comedy Evolution
04:44 Bill Burr's Cultural Impact
06:43 Trae Crowder's Political Comedy
08:05 Sophie Buddle and Matteo Lane's Stories
09:17 Comedy News Roundup
12:39 Upcoming Comedy Events

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi Ley Hoe. I'm Johnny Mack with

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your daily comedy news. Rough start down at the Melbourne

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International Comedy Festival. It was the opening night Comedy All

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Stars super show twenty eight hundred people at the Palace

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Theater in Saint Kilda and it was halted just three

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acts in. One audience member posted on Twitter. According to Chortal,

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something happened in the dress circle at the Palace Theater

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in Saint Kilda during the third Comedians act that the

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Comedy Gala show was paused and now canceled. We're told

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there was a medical emergency within the audience upstairs. The

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festival said they will be in touch with all ticket holders.

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The festival runs from now through April twentieth, over one

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thousand performers, one hundred and thirty international acts and six

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hundred and ninety shows, one hundred and eighty two stages,

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one hundred and thirty three venues. Some folks you may

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have heard of Julio Tore wh Is Danny Boy, Rhys Darby,

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Mark Watson. I've talked about him a few times on

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the show Eliza Slessinger's heading down there. Some of these

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shows include the Annual Great Debate, the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars,

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and the Asian All Stars Gala. I'll start to pick

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away at that a little bit next week. Part of

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that is because this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, I'm

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going to focus on Mitch Hebburg. Mitch Hedberg passed away

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March thirtieth, two thousand and five, and I'm a big

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fan of Mitchell. With the twentieth anniversary, we'll'll talk about

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Mitch this weekend. So the net effect of that from

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putting together show is some stuff that might normally go

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to the weekend is getting pulled up into Thursday and Friday,

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and some other stuff into Monday and Tuesday. But we

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have a month for me to play random auzzie comedians

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that you might not know. A one name you do

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know is Colin Jost. The folks at the Cornell Sun

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caught his show. He told the Cornell students, it's great

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to be at Cornell. Isn't it so great? If someone's like,

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where do you go to school? And you're like Ithaca

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and then you don't have to be like Ithaca College.

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That got a good laugh from the hometown crowd. Joe

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said I'd like to tell you something inspiring for all

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the people majoring in a hotel administration. My aunt came

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here to study hotels, and now she stays in hotels.

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The Atlantic at a lengthy piece about married comedians, and

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we learned about the kraziers, who have two rules when

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it comes to jokes about missus Leanne Kraser. One is

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Bert can talk about her as long as it's not mean,

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and he can talk about Leanne as long as it's

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really funny. Bert says, she's yet to vito a joke.

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Sometimes she eggs him on. One time, Leanne farted during

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sex and said, you're going to talk about this on stage,

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aren't you, to which he replied, can I, And she goes,

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you have to. If it's happened to me, it's happened

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to other people. Bert says, I did it and it murdered.

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In the same piece, Jim Gaffigan suggested that comedians traveling

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is a release valve. Jim said, maybe me traveling is helpful.

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It's like she doesn't have to deal with me. In

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some ways. My stand up is my golf. Back to Bert,

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he spoke to the other times about the evolution of

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comedy They were curious, has anything changed since he started?

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Bert said, oh, f yes, you have no idea. There

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used to be a thing called a closer. A closer

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would be something you'd put at the end of your

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act because you were done, and then Netflix showed up

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and now audience will decide your closer for you. They

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were bored, they were done, and it turned out the

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majority of specials only got about thirty minutes of viewing.

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Oh so it's not just me interesting all right? Yeah,

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I don't make it all the way to the end

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of a lot of specials, Bert said. One comic said

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to me, I actually can still tell my closer because

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no one watched the whole special, So I'm still using

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my closer on the road. I had this great closer

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about ziplining with my wife. It was in my special

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Secret time. It's like my favorite chokee with my whole set.

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Why would I put it at forty eight minutes? I have

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it closed up my special. Why wouldn't I put it

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at twenty two minutes? So that if you're telling me

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you're only going to watch thirty, then I put it

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at twenty two. If you just watched my closer. This

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is fascinating. Bert says, we got the notes back and

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forth from my twenty eighteen special and Netflix was like,

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your rate of retention was through the roof people that

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started your special, ninety five percent of them watched the

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entire thing, and that had never happened. As somebody who

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looks at completion rates for all sorts of things, from

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podcasts to some of the radio projects I've worked on,

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just seeing YouTube completions ninety five percent is insanely high.

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Burt says, Literally, they brought us in for a meeting.

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They're like, what did you do? And I said, I

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talked to some comics. You did specials here, and no

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one watches their own specials. I just put my clothes

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twenty two minutes. Literally. Netflix said to me, is it

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cool if we give your special to other comics? And

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I was like, yeah, tell them what I did. So

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for this special, I had a really great joke that

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was like that, I think it's the phone sex joke.

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That little chunk was really great and it said four

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minutes and twenty seconds, and I'm like, nice, I knew

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that I had closure. I could go nowhere else but the

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end the story about my dog that had passed away,

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so I was like, dude, that belongs. At the end,

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Bert said, I think I was in Utah and I

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told the story about my dog and I saw dudes

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crying in the audience, and I was like, well that

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was weird. And then I got so much feedback on

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social media. They're like, Birch Show was amazing, but that

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dog story, man, that killed me. Man, it was hilarious.

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We just put our dog down. That kind of stuff

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and stand up. You know, some comics look to the

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edgy of stuff for that stuff's going to be like

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clickbait from me. I look for the stuff that kind

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of brings us together and makes us all feel the

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same or equally as good about our broken parts. And

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I just thought it was a good bit to include

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in the special. Slaves wrote about the Bill burnaissance. I

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don't know where I am with Bill right now. I

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listened to that Terry Gross interview and I came away

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liking Burr less and I'm not on like a Burer

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got woo kick. I don't know if it's the overexposure

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or maybe being exposed to more off stage Burr, but

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I'm not feeling it right now. Slate Road If you're

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looking for a snapshot of Bill Burr's worldview, I recommend

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listening to the interview for NPR's Fresh Air. That's the

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one I was just talking about. Slate writs Burr's current

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renaissance is not the result of a pivot on his part.

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If anything, it's a sign of how much the popular

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culture has shifted around him, taking on a more popular

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sheen sake of both politically correct niceties and billionaire worship.

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Burr's superpowers a comedian has always been his ability to

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concoct a frothy exasperation that, when aimed in the correct direction,

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can have an exfoliating effect on the mind. Somebody had

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the thesaurus out, continuing thesaurus wise. The impact is most

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cathartic when burd employs that ability on the listless bourgeois.

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Can we speak English please? I'm educated. I have a

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master's degree, so it's not like I'm uneducated, but nobody

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actually speaks this way. You think I'm kidding here. Let

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me read verbatim from Slate after his recent MANGIONI apologia

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picked up steam. A twenty seventeen clip from a Burr

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appearance on Conan resurface, driffing on Nesley's attempt to privatize

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America groundwater, Burr, in a Mangionian turn stop. Whether you

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like it or not, a lot of people in America

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relate to Burr's disposition. Can you imagine an American voter

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who holds some shall we say, problematic views on pronoun

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policing or the me too movement while also harboring a

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very material sympathy for a Luigi Mangioni, someone who is

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anti woke but believes the housing crisis has got out

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of hand. Of course you can. They are legion the crowd,

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Facebook walls and Instagram feeds. They're invited into our living

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rooms for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And they're also the exact

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type of citizen that has been legislated out of the

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Democratic Party. Bill Burr is their avatar. And the question

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becomes whether the next phase of liberal culture, for better

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or worse, will be shaped in his image, One primal

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scream at a time, woo all right. Tree Crowder in

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the La Times said, had the election gone the other way,

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he was planning on trying to pivot, not completely away

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from politics, but to doing just general comedy stuff. Online

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that wasn't political. I do some cooking videos and stuff

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like that here and there, but then with the election

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going what it did, it just feels like, what else

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am I going to talk about? All my favorite comics

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talked about real stuff, social cultural issues or whatever. So

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I always want to do some of that without being

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too overtly going completely after just one side or one

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political party. I have a chunk in there about making

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fun of the idea of white supremacy, talking about a

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very serious subject, but in my opinion, it shouldn't offend

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anyone but a white supremacist. If you're conservative but you're

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not a white supremacist, it shouldn't bother you to hear

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me make fun of white supremacy. And so that's kind

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of how I try to think about it. The l

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eight Times was curious about Trey being more liberal than

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most families in the rural South. Tray said, my wife

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and a lot of my friends are liberal people from

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small southern towns. Pretty much every single one of them

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is what I call the blue sheep. They're from a

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typical southern conservative family, and they're like the wacky liberal

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at the table. He discusses how his uncle is gay,

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and how growing up he didn't go to church. My

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dad didn't send us to church because they're very homophobic.

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My dad ran the video store in this tiny little

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town and was like, you know, in a David Bowie

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and David Lynch and foreign movies and stuff like that.

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So I'm pretty much just the way I was raised

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to be. It just happened in a very odd place

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for that to happen. I feel bad sometimes because a

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lot of people will ask me for our advice on

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how to deal with it, are crazy, insane maga relatives,

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and like I said, I almost feel guilty about it

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because I'm like, I don't have any of those. Sophie

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Budle told What's Up Newport. It's an interesting time to

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be a Canadian living in the United States. I had

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a gig once in Canada performing for the Canadian Navy,

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and honestly, they didn't really seem tough, and so I've

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been offering that up to Americans they can just invade

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by sea. It's so ridiculous that Americans are siding with Canada,

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which you know, you wouldn't think that would help. I've

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always been really influenced by American comics. I'm on the

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road with Taylor Thomason right now. She's a big influence

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on Mete, Nikki Glazer, Bet Stelling, Sarah Silverman, tons of

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female comics. I've always looked up to them. Mitel Lane

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talked to The Windy City Times about growing up in Chicago.

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What do you remember most? I love this, Mateo said.

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I remember the corner of Clark and Addison, across from

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Wrigley Field. It was just a parking lot with a

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taco bell and maybe an Irish pub, and that was that.

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Then I came back after the Cubs won the World

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Series and was like Woodfield mall, apartments, hotels, restaurants. I'm asking,

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what the hell is this? But I didn't hang out

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off the Red Line until I was twenty one and

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old enough to go to bars. I was hanging out

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in Jefferson Park in places like the Irish American Heritage

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Center because that's where all my friends lived in the city.

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The Windy City Time said, it's interesting when you said

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an Irish bar, because they are about three thousand of

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them in Chicago. Matteo said, I'll never forget my friend Carrie.

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We were driving and it was on Clark and Addison.

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There was a sign reading new Irish Pub coming and

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she said, yeah, that's just what the city needs at

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Irish Pub. Amy Schumer has shared an update on her

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use of weight loss medication. She was singing any praises

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of Manjaro and then commented on the British royal family

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But why don't we have to call Kate Middleton Kate

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of Wales. Random. By the way, if you want to

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podcast Palace Intrigue. We talk about the Royals seven days

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a week. It's a lot of fun boy that Megan

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host the twenty twenty five Webby Awards. It's the twenty

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ninth annual ceremony in New York City. May twelfth. Johnny

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This Year's Great American Comedy Festival is celebrating Johnny and

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who her to honor Johnny Carson with then Yakov Samirnoff

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and Soviet Union Johnny Carson honors you. Yakov will do Saturday,

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Comedy Festival dot com. That new show, The Studio on

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Apple TV Plus is getting amazing reviews. Slate called it

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the best new comedy of twenty twenty five, and they

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The episodes move fast and demand close attention from the viewer,

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frame Simpson style. I will get to that tonight. And

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I watched The Pit that is, the medical drama on

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Apple TV Plus. Last week's episode was amazing. So while

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my wife decides it's one of the we watch this

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together show, in which case I'll get to it. In

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I will recommend Mark Maron. With Chris Fleming, they talked

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was a very good listen, and Chris Fleming is a

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people to know what Chris is up to. As I

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Pound Gorilla. I've noticed since January first, they've kind of

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com is a great source and also von yu Land

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commerce that he would cooperate with the police and courts

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for any lawful action, but will the law be fairly

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and equally deployed against those who have decided that vandalism

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I bounced this from yesterday because it got a little busy.

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The Sprung Comedy Festival has kicked off in Silver Spring.

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If you're in town tonight at seven o'clock. Improbable Comedy

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presents Funnier than Fiction in a partnership with Story District.

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Funnier than Fiction feature storytellers presenting their funny stories about

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real situations that are so ridiculous you just have to laugh.

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Six or seven comedians on that bill. Tomorrow at five

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pm The Originals All Native Comedy, Improbable Comedy has gathered

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Pan Indian talent from New Mexico, New York and the

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DMV to delight and entertain you. Seventy five minute show.

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Friday Night, Daisy Comedy Night, and boy, whoever wrote the

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copy you tried too hard. They listed some comedians that

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wrote they will bring spice and laughter to the stage.

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Just don't. At nine o'clock. Also Friday, Law and Order

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Comedy turns laughter into law as attorneys, former criminals, and

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law enforcement bring hilarity to the often not funny criminal

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justice system. Saturday's Science Comedy Night, I like what these

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guys are doing. These are very different shows hosted by

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science journalists and stand up comedian Kasha Battel, And Sunday

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Is Comedy as a Second Language, a live interactive show

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featuring the stand up comedy as immigrant and first generation performers.

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Nice job there on that one, and that is your

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comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell

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a friend about it. They might like it too. Don't

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forget this weekend doing Hebburg stuff. See you tomorrow,