Ricky Gervais says don't watch his special. Gary Gulman gets outstanding reviews (again)!

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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You may have seen that Colorado's top
court rule that former President Donald Trump is

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disqualified from returning to office, et
cetera, et cetera. Jimmy Fallon joked

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Christmas is almost hear and people are
ready returning gifts. In fact, Colorado

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returned Donald Trump found again. The
insurrection clauses the Fourteenth Amendment, which was

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ratified in eighteen sixty eight. Right
now, President Biden's like I supported it,

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then I support it now. A
lot of good buzz on Gary Goleman

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Special at the time of this recording
on Friday at ten am. I haven't

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seen it yet. I was at
a wedding on Thursday night when it came

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out, but I'm hoping to watch
it very shortly. Vulture was ecstatic about

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it, and they said, what's
most exciting about the hour is not just

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the incredible precision of Goldman's material or
his perfectly dialed in persona knowing a little

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cocky, just a hair too self
assured. It's that Goldman has the vision

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and desire to push his work in
this direction. He's so clearly invested in

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and he's the instinct to do it
with no pulled punches and no excuses for

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talking about something that might make his
audience feel bad. It's thrilling to watch,

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and it delivers on the implicit promise
Goleman makes by getting on the stage.

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The politics never undermines the jokes.
It only makes the jokes land harder.

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Speaking of Gary, there's a great
profile of him in Esquire. I've

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shared it in the podcast group,
which is Daily Comedy News podcast group on

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Facebook. If you want to read
that. I'll talk about that in the

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upcoming days. I'm looking forward to
Ricky Gervais's special coming out on Christmas Day,

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A so I can watch it,
and B so I can finish off

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my top specials of the year list. Ricky went on Twitter and said,

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in this show, I talk about
sex, death, pedophilia, race,

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religion, disability, free speech,
global warming, the Holocaust, and Elton

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John. If you don't approve of
jokes about any of these things, then

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please don't watch. You won't enjoy
it and you'll get upset. I've got

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a bunch of these year end review
articles that I haven't gotten to yet,

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which is good, believe me.
I've been doing this for a few years

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now, and it's great to have
a lot of stuff at the end of

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the year. Let's take a look
at Paste magazine's twenty best comedy Specials of

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twenty twenty three. Number twenty,
they have Mark Marin's from Bleak to Dark

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nineteen, Sam Jay's Salute Me or
Shoot Me eighteen is Sasheer Zemadas The First

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Woman, That one I Haven't Seen
seventeen Django Gold's Bag of Tricks. Paste

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writes Jango Gold spent years writing for
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert before focusing

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on stand up, and it's easy
to tell he's a writer when watching his

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self really special Bag of Tricks.
All Right, that one's on YouTube.

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I'm gonna add it to my list. I'm gonna make a list of things

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I need to watch this weekend.
Jengo Gold. His smart jokes are built

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on great ideas that often end with
unexpected punchlines, and you can see the

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thought and carry put into creating many
of them. He also has an ingratiating

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nor mcdonaldish delivery that helps sell the
occasional joke that doesn't land Cool sixteen is

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Heather McMahon's son I never had haven't
seen this one either. That one is

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on Netflix. Netflix hasn't surfaced that
one for me. That's interesting how the

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algorithm works, isn't it. Fifteen
Josh Johnson's up Here Killing Myself Good List,

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Pace Magazine. New York based comedian
Josh Johnson describes growing up poor with

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candor and of course humor. During
the first part of up Here Killing Myself.

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Whether accounting the seamless bag his family
Cereal came from, on the questionable

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quality of their local pharmacy, he
paints an effective picture. That one's on

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Peacock. I have added to my
list. I got a lot of things

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to watch this weekend. That's great. Fourteen Brad Wenzel's Joke Joke Joke,

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Pace Magazine writes, joke joke,
joke, It's just that a succession of

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hilarious bits without any segways. I've
edited to my list of things to watch

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with several things on my list the
comedy snob, I'm gonna have a quick

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hook, so these things better of
good openers are gonna be like, I

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have seven other things to watch.
Brad Wenzel special looks like it's on YouTube.

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Thirteen. John Mulaney, Baby Jay, I'll talk about that during the

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week. Kyle Knane Shocks and Struts
at twelve, criminally underrated. I have

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that one very high. Nate Pergatzy, Hello World. At eleven, I

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have that very high. Mike Berbiglia, the old Man in the Pool.

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As I've said a few times,
I think you guys will like it,

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and I have reasons I didn't Number
nine. I'm seeing a lot of buzz

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on this. I definitely want to
get to this one this week. In

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Dina Hashem's Dark Little Whispers, taped
at the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago in late

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twenty twenty two, Dark Little Whispers
opens it to Dina on stage as metal

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music blair as a song featuring her
on drums and vocals. The juxtaposition is

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clear. Hasham may possess an understated
presence on stage, but that just accentuates

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her electric sense of humor. That
one's on YouTube. I like this list

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a lot because it's not just the
same names that we see over and over

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on the other lists. Very nice. Eight. Mae Morton's sap didn't do

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it for me. Seven Emma Arnold's
myself that specials on YouTube paste rights.

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Arnold finds pleasure in what some people
might call the little things, which are

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not so little after all, and
certainly not to be taken for granted,

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namely thinking of her mentioning dental insurance. Six Chris Fleming's Hell I love that

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special. That's way up on my
list. Five they have Wanda Sykes,

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I'm an entertainer. That one didn't
grab me. Four Harri Condobolu's Vacation Baby.

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I have that high up on my
list. Three that's Stellings. If

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you didn't want me, then that
one I didn't dig. Two John Early

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is now more than ever. I
have that on my list, but near

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the bottom. And they have a
number one Joe Perez Slow and Steady.

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That one did make my list.
I'll explain my reasons for that later in

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the week. Here's another deep dive. I really like this one from the

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Toronto Star. Ten comedy albums that
make us laugh and think. I did

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skim this one. What was surprising
to me is I was unfamiliar with all

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these people, so I appreciate this
stuff. I also like learning about these

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things now. The Star says these
albums are available to stream. I hunted

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around in the places I use,
and I wasn't able to find them,

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which is part of the reason I'm
not familiar with them. They have Nicky

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Pain, Nikki, p a Y
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The Toronto Star says Niki deals with
her aging parents, mental health issues,

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and her awkward sex life. Next
up is Dian Smith's Cheweeny in a Tank

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Top. The Star rights a couple
of this album's best jokes reference their ties

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here to Toronto. One surreal but
uplifting one is set on a plane from

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Toronto, LA, while another chronicle
their sarcastic inner voice at a dinner party

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thrown by astronaut Chris Hatfield. But
the funniest track involves meeting John Hamm at

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a bar, which caused the comics
Poison Clarity to be momentarily and hilariously put

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on pause. I don't know what
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and I don't know if we're going
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best, or what order they came
out in. But there's a number three

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next to Paul Thompson's album called Horny. Much of the material on this album

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is NSF W, Yeah, no
kidding. From the title, he wishes

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he could be on news events the
same way he does sports outcomes or reverse

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catfish scenario. Thompson is utterly completely
himself. Four Andrew Barr baarr Pursuit of

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Happiness. Bar has passed the one
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in the first half of this double
album, a double comedy album. Wow.

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Five is Kevin Banner's heavy Favorites,
with favorite spelled in the British Canadian

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way. Whether he's weighing in on
bad tattoos or anger issues, joking about

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being a new dad, or trying
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He's got a smooth, effortless delivery
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Six Slogan Brown's black Man, White
Privilege. Most of the songs are

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too raunchy to describe, but one
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described. One involves animals. Let's
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I n G. Greetings from the
Big City. She's from Winnipeg and jokes

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about moving to Toronto and being broke. Eight is Mike Rita's Live in Toronto.

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The bulk of the album draws on
his Portuguese immigrant parents who attempt to

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follow the raptors, take edibles,
and watch porn on their phones, all

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with amusing results. That sounds fun. Chuck Burn b y r N.

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His album is called Pounding Fatties.
It's wearing a cowboy hat and making a

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silly face on the cover here Toronto, Starr says. They say comedy is

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a young person's game, but Burn, the most mature stand up on the

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list, just keeps getting better relationships, fatherhood, visiting the US. Burn

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covers them all with a signature lead
back style number ten. Meg McKay's clown

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baby mc kay, The Star writs, a couple of years ago, I

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reviewed McKay's debut album and concluded she
had and yet found her voice, and

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pleased to say she now has and
it's quirky. Glenn Sumi wrote this and

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I will share it in the Facebook
group which is Daily Comedy News podcast Group.

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Great stuff from the Star. There, Let's do one more for Vulture.

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The Best Comedy Books of twenty twenty
three. Ten. A Guide to

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Midwestern Conversation by Taylor Kay Phillips.
Phillips breaks down the elements of the aggressively

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normal friends, relatives, and acquaintances
who are content to drive around, eat

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lots of cast roles, reluctantly entertained
guests, engage in gift giving one upmanship,

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and never ever say what they're thinking
or feeling. Nine The Time Miaosen

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a Talking Cat's hy two K Quest
to Save the World by Marty Beckerman.

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Vulture writes, what can I tell
you when the book subtitle lays everything out

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so bluntly and hilariously, You're either
going to read this right now or permanently

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rejected with disgust. Doctor Taris Switcher
lives in twenty forty in a hellish post

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climate change world with a robot cat. Eight Funny You Don't Look Funny Judaism

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and Humor from the Silent Generation to
Millennials by Jennifer Kaplan. Seven is Sure

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I'll Join Your Cults by Maria Bamford
her memoir. Six Grief Strike The Ultimate

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Guide to Morning by Jason Roder.
The memoir in the form of a third

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person faux Manual wrote wrote the book
as part of his own process and coming

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to terms with the loss of his
mother. Five Gary Goleman's Misfit, a

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lot of Gary Goleman this week,
Growing Up Awkward in the eighties. Four

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Escape from Hawaii, a tropical sequel
by Jack Handy. Remember Jackie used to

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have stuff on SNL. He's the
Breens behind tuonsis the Driving Cat and Unfrozen

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Caveman Lawyer. Also Deep Thoughts is
where you might know his name from.

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Three Great Falls, Montana, Fast
Times, post Punk, Wirdos, and

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a Tailiff Coming Home Again by Reggie
Watts. Less of a memoir and more

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of a tribute to the people,
places, and things that inspired his art

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and made him whole. Number two, Hi Honey, I'm homo sid that's

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a great title. Sitcom Specials in
the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baum

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and Vulture's number one comedy book of
the Year. Kind of a big deal.

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How Anchorman stayed class and became the
most iconic comedy of the twenty first

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century by Saul Austerlitz. I'll share
that in the Facebook group too. You

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got a lot of reasons to go
over to Facebook today. It's daily comedy

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can put on the podcast or come
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episodes you missed. However you want
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