Jan. 20, 2026

Ricky Gervais' Security Escapades and Chris D'Elia's Comedy World Fallout

Ricky Gervais' Security Escapades and Chris D'Elia's Comedy World Fallout

Johnny Mac discusses Ricky Gervais' over-the-top security measures during his stand-up performances and the audience's mixed reactions to his controversial material. Chris D'Elia speaks out about feeling deserted by the comedy community after allegations against him. The episode also covers Jon Stewart's potential presidential run, Marcello Hernandez's SNL sketches, and a debate on Tom Segura's latest Netflix special. Additionally, Chris Redd clarifies his past statements about drug issues at SNL, and there's amention of the 'Bob's Burgers hoax.

00:19 Ricky Gervais' Security Concerns
02:50 Chris D'Elia's Comedy World Fallout
04:57 Star Trek and Stephen Colbert Controversy
05:37 Jon Stewart's Presidential Speculation
06:52 Marcello Hernandez on SNL
10:14 Tom Segura's New Netflix Special
14:12 Comedy Album Releases and Events
15:40 Massimo Boldi's Olympic Controversy
 


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

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daily comedy news at daily briefing on stand up comedy

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comedians in the comedy industry. And you might be like, John,

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does that actually goosey Spotify algorithms saying that phrase? It does?

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But I don't have time for that because Ricky Gervais

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is surrounding himself with a security ring of steel. We're

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told as Ricky has been trying out quote unquote offensive

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gags for his next stand up special, including a joke

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about quote unquote mongols. Sources tell Radar Online that Ricky

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Gervais described as a quote spineless stand up that Ricky

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is petrified of getting a Will Smith style smack from

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an outraged audience member. Oh no, Ricky was flanked by

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You'll never guess how many security guards. I'll give you

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a second to guess by x amount of security guards

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as he tried out some new material at a small

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theater in London. Are you ready for the number? You

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guessed too low? Whatever you guessed you gets too low.

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One audience member said there were five security on both

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sides of the theater, and you're like, okay, John, I

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guess five, no, no, no, no, no no. There were five

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security on both sides of the theater, plus more at

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the bar and at the front. There were about fifteen

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bodyguards in there. It looked ridiculous. And the place is

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known as the Comedian's Comedy Theater and there's usually no

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security there no matter how big the act. It was

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all just a bit ridiculous, as this place caters for

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hardcore comedy fans who see all sorts of extreme stand up,

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and there's virtually no chance of him being attacked there

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for an edgy joke. Another source said that the security

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was constantly scanning the audience for signs that they were

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using their phones to record. That person said it was

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like being at some kind of paranoid a list evin.

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These heavies kept looking at everyone and looked ready to

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grab any phones that were out. Ricky should be embarrassed

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over bringing this level of security of this type of gig,

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a source said. Ricky Gervais struggled to get laughs at

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his first gig and filled the show with boasts about

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his career, adding he did a long bit about a

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dwarf woman coming up to him after another of his

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gigs Ricky said that she told me it offended her

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by using the M word. He said, all I could

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think was that I had called her amongoloid when she

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was actually referring to his use of the term. I

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won't use it. The M word that has fallen out

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of fashion. They added, Ricky was basically making fun of

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those people and what he'd joke as spastics, but a

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lot of it wasn't getting laughs. It wasn't funny or clever.

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The crowd here more fans that likes of Stewart Lee

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in comedy with some nuance. Ricky just came across like

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a pratt with his deliberately anti woke material in his

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Hollywood style security that all sounds awful, Like I think, Ricky,

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you need to move on from that just being the

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entire act every time, like you're not really good about

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it on another Netflix special and the whole thing's going

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to be Like I said this, I can't believe people

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are offended. Like it's tired. You gotta do something else now, dude,

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Sore said. Ricky also bragged to the audience he had

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barely prepared for the gig and they were getting cheap tickets.

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Around twenty five dollars to pop in to see him

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try out and material. All right, that's just having fun

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with the whole stitch. Meanwhile, from Fox News, Chris Deliah

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is blasting the comedy world that he says deserted him.

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Chris apparently was on the Trying Not to Die Pop

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podcast and said he was blindsided by how quickly people

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he'd known for years distanced themselves after a scandal in

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twenty twenty. In an article from May sixteenth, twenty twenty three,

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The La Times said multiple women came ford Tuesday to

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accuse Chris Daalia of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, three

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years after the comedian and podcast host was hit with

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a wave of misconduct allegations. The twenty twenty three article

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rights in interviews with Rolling Stone, ten women accused de

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Leia of predatory behavior, and four of the women claimed

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they were teenagers when the comic allegedly preyed on them.

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Skipping down. The La Times in twenty twenty three wrote

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de Lea faced allegations of sexual misconduct in twenty twenty

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when a number of women accused the comedian of making

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sexual demands online. In the immediate aftermath, Delia was dropped

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by his talent agents. Some of his famous friends and

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colleagues publicly turned against him. Chris said, it blew my

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mind kind of because like, comedians are so community. I

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thought what was mattered, But comedians are just so Most

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comedians are just pretty spineless, you know, their whole life,

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they've been the outcast and they finally get some recognition

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because of laughter. And it's like, I'm not letting go

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of that and f that I'm not. If that's what

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a comedian is, then I'll do something else. I'll be

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something else. I'll be on stage making people leaf. But

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don't call me that, because that's weird to me. Just

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reading the transcript here, I was surprised by a few people.

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But you know, it's interesting because you really realize that

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people can't effing wait to hate you. It blew my

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mind and it still kind of blows my mind. And

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that's how people are, and particularly you know, I can

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say people at least that I know, like in comedians

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and in the arts, but like you know, everyone else,

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they're cool, Osborne said. And other addictions, whether it's you know,

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gambling or whatever. In sex, you're considered the worst of

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the worst of the worst Deliah said, yeah, it's weird. Look,

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twenty twenty was the craziest time period when it all

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started with COVID and then George Floyd and then everything,

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and then people were afraid to say anything wrong, and

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that's when the whole thing went down, and then everyone's

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afraid to say anything wrong. I was an effing liar

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and I would use sex. Looking back now, I think

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also age has a lot to do with it. Now

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that I'm forty five, thinkuring about how I didn't think

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the other shoe was going to drop. Now that I

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think about that, I'm like, oh, I was crazy. I

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was delusional. What the f why would that not happen? So,

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as you know, yeah, I take my Star Trek very seriously.

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Did you watch this Starfleet Academy show. I had to

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watch it because I need to know about it so

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that I can hate on it appropriately. I just want

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the audience to know I've been radicalized against Stephen Colbert.

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He is complicit in the destruction of Star Trek, along

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with Tig Nataro, Patton Oswald, Genius Year. You're all guilty

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of destroying Star Trek. Stephen Colbert plays like the PA

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announcer he's making witty announcements during Starfleet Academy. So I

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stand with the President when it is time for the

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Late Show with Stephen Colbert to come to an end,

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if for no other reason for destroying Star Trek. Now,

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the President and I don't agree on all the issues,

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you know, but for this one, I think we do.

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John Stewart was asked if he would run for president.

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This happened during a Q and A with the Daily

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Show audience. The clip was posted to YouTube on Sunday.

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Stewart said, I think you should be president as the

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line that comes right after Effitt, because most people go like,

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I'm watching this and doing this. These guys aren't doing that.

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You know what ef it? That guy should he's on TV.

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Stuart added, this is a question that comes up a lot,

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and I think it speaks to if I may and

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I don't, or the motivation. It speaks to this desperation

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and dissatisfaction that we have with the status quo. Stuart said,

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it's because you see somebody on television who's saying some

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of the things that resonate with you. It's almost like

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you're cursing me with like a twilight zone, like make him.

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I so understand the feeling. I think what's happening right

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now with all of us, myself included, because having the

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ability to have a Catharsis or talk about it or

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work with people every day is emotionally sustaining. Some people

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observed none of that was a no no. I previously

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had supported the candidacy of Stephen Colbert, but I can

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no longer do that in good conscious. I cannot have

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a president of the United States who would destroy Star Trek.

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I mean, that is where I draw the line. But

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to John Stuart candidacy, I'll hear you out. Stuart said,

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Trump's policies ain't flying. In a lot of places where

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you might think it might be flying. People keep saying, Oh,

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this guy's Hitler. No he's not. And I'll tell you

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why he's not. Hitler was popular. This guy's not. Wow wow,

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wow wow. Send your letters to John Stuart. I may

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have to send a letter to Jason Zenniman in front

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of the show writer for the New York Times. Tell

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you why in a second a late night er, let

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us know that Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing and

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one thing well, has now been in guess how many

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sketches on Saturday Night Live? Take a guess? Did you guess?

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The answer is two hundred? What Marcelo Hernandez has been

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in two hundred sketches? So what four Domingos and one

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hundred and ninety six where he played guy on the

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couch in the background. There's no way he's been in

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two hundred sketches doing what here? And there was just

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an episode this weekend. Name a sketch other than Domingo

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that Marcelo Hernandez has been in. I'll wait, Should I

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just leave, like an eighteen minute pause here in the file?

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Two hundred? What has he done? Meanwhile? Friend of the

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Show Jason Zinneman in The New York Times, he wrote

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a piece titled SNL hasn't produced a superstar in a while?

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Could it be Marcelo Hernandez. I'll answer Jason no, But

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I respect Jason. Jason's one of other people that knows

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a lot more about comedy than I do. And I

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just sit in the basement all day and pop off

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where he actually goes to shows. So we should trust

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Jason Zinnim in Front of the Show from the New

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York Times, he writes the comics. New special American Boy

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shows that he is the leading man charisma and hunger.

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His career will be interesting to watch. The guy definitely

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has charisma, Definitely, definitely, Jason writes, you can see a

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fierceness underneath the megawatts smile. Hernandez has just started his

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career outside SNL, and he's flexing different muscles. I've seen

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him perform stand up in New York. That suggests he

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ruthless in getting heart laughs as he is making you

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like him. Will he follow in the footsteps of SNL

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stars like Murphy, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey. Tap the brakes, Jason, Jason,

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Jason love you tap the breaks with that sentence, I

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could see it. But that kind of success requires luck

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as well as talent and drive. One thing I'm sure

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of this, he will be back again. I'm a guy

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in a basement. Jason actually goes and sees the shows,

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so respect him over me. Maybe Marcello Hernandez is a

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great dramatic actor. Now, now that could be if you

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want to make an Adam Sandler comp there, If Marcello

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wants to just stop doing the Domingo thing and be

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a charismatic good looking dramatic actor. I would support that.

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Got another opinion piece for you from Emma Camp and

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the Wall Street Journal. Emma Rights never apologized to the

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mob this about the whole Bowen Yang backlash? Was that

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only a week ago? I guess it's two weeks at

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this point. I was worried there. I thought just times

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were getting insane, or it's two weeks ago at this point.

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You may recall the culturistas had some opinions on donating

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to Jasmin Crockett's campaign. People on the internets did not

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like that. Emma Camp Rights, they should have waited for

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the online charter to pass. It isn't twenty twenty anymore,

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and nonsensical claims of racism no longer have unchecked power

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to unravel reputations. More than a few online progressives even

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defended the pair by pointing out their observations were on

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the mark, skipping ahead. Unsurprisingly, rather than calm the outrage,

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the apologies have driven another cycle of criticism also from

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the Wall Street Journal. They remember last week I said

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Joe Rogan had a cronk Heite moment. The Wall Street

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Journal has a whole article on that premise, and they

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even mentioned the Kronkite piece of the Joe Rogan. Yeah,

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the Wall Street Journal they led with in February nineteen

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sixty eight, p sident Lynda B. Johnson famously lost Walt

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to Cronkite et cetera, et cetera and a Joe Rogan piece.

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You don't suppose somebody at the Wall Street Journal listens

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to the show, do you? I know somebody at the

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New York Times used to until about two minutes ago. Haha,

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he won't get mad at me. Another opinion piece from

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giant Freaking Robot, Robert Scucci writes New thomsigor Netflix special

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is complete trash. I'll come up with an appropriate headline

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once I calm down, But that's my kind of headline.

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I like that. I think Robert's right here he talks

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with the special. He says it points to a larger

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problem and stand up comedy designed for mass consumption through streaming.

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It doesn't feel like a new hour. The most common

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complaint about Teacher That's the Special is that many of

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the anecdotes can be traced back to interviews in podcast episodes.

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That's become standard practice now that most high profile comedians

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rely on podcasting to stay visible and generat income when

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they're not touring. The unintentional side effect is that when

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comedians spend hours casually talking shop with other comedians, they're

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essentially workshopping their next hour in front of millions of listeners.

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By the time those jokes are fined tour and eventually

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filmed for a special, it doesn't feel like fresh material.

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Robert adds, my biggest issue with Teacher is that the

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storytelling element that originally drew me Sigora a stand up

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is almost completely gone. Instead, the special plays like a

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loose collection of unrelated anecdotes, bouncing from family life to

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documentaries about Hitler's stimulant abuse. Teacher feels like an obligation

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rather than a passion project. I don't think any of

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that is crazy, but let me throw out another notion

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to everyone. At some point, a lot of comedians hit

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the wall, and you're like, been there, done that, seen this.

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I think we're about to see Bert Krascher's wall. His

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sitcom is out this week and then he's got the

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Daytona thing. But I feel like Chrayser fatigue is about

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to set in. Maybe Sigourrea fatigue is about to set in.

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I think Burrh's a little past prime, starting to worry

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if we gaff again. We were at the okay, got

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it stage. You get deeper into these careers and it's

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like okay, yep, And like I talked about on the

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Issue Show, then you've got a George Carlin who reinvented

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himself a few times, including that final Act which I

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hate at the time, And as I said yesterday, he's

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the true prof of the twenty first century. So who knows,

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but I don't think this is crazy talk about Tom Sagura.

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If you like daily comedy news, you'll love the ad

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Five bucks a month, you get this and a bunch

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Why not if you like it. It's a good way

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a cut, My business partner, Mark takes a cut, and

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any commercials, So that's not bad, right, Thirty day free Trial.

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If you forget to cancel. That's on you. Some stuff

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to listen to. Trevor Noah is a podcast episode with

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John Oliver, very very very good. It's long and it's

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very good. Also Joe Rogan with Matt Damon and Ben

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Affleck that got a lot of pick up over the weekend.

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Did you watch the movie on Netflix with Matt and Ben?

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What's it called? The Rip? The Rip was very good.

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Not to be confused with The Pit, which is a

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TV show on HBO Max. Also very good. Forty nine

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ers came this weekend. Not very good anyway, Listen to

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check out Rogan, check out Trevor Noah. Voting is open

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for Week three of Comedy Survivor. A couple early votes

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for Joe Coy there. He could be in trouble. You know.

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Joe Cooy hosts the Golden Globes before Nicki Glazer, But

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don't have time for that today. Feel eight Nighter. Chris

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Redd has cleaned up some statements. Remember he kind of

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sore to imply that he was maybe dealing at SNL.

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Chris Red had in a six minute video said, while

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I was at SNL, I had some pill issues. I

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had some pill problems. I was even selling some to

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some of my cast mates. Seems pretty clear. While TMZ

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caught up with Chris Red Who's like, oh no, no, no, no,

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no no. He cleared it up and said, I was

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on adderall on xen X, and I was getting it

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the illegal way because I was scared to go to

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the doctor and have them sam crazy. I was being

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facetious about the drug dealing thing. I wasn't drug dealing

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to my cast I wasn't Walter Whiting. I was trying

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to make light of it because I felt super vulnerable

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and raw at the time. I was not selling. I

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had a full time job as a comic. Okay, So

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when he said I was even selling some to some

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of my cast mates, he was not. I don't know

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how you got confused there and thought he was. We're

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long today. I thought I had nothing. All right, good

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fun show out today on the eight hundred pound Gerriilla

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Michael Blaustein's Silly Goose Eugene Merman, who claims to star

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in something called Bob's Burger's two quick questions. Have you

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ever seen bobs Burgers? No, of course not. Have you

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ever met anyone who's seen bobs Burgers? Of course not

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one of the great hoaxes of our time. And prankster

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Eugene Merman will release his sixth comedy album, Here Comes

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the Whimsy, on February fifth. That same day premiere as

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a special on VEEPS. Recorded live in Somerville, Massachusetts, Eugene

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Merman took the stage with his trademark Playful Spirit to

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reveal a series of mild grievances through anecdotes from fatherhood,

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insights from travel, dress code trauma, rental car disputes, and more.

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Can also catch Eugene Memerman its sketch fest on the

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twenty third and twenty fourth comedy debate show Abolish Everything

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got a season two. The trailers out in the new

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season will be available on the twenty ninth. New York

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Times called it the silliest verbal sporing you'll likely ever hear.

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Unabolish Everything, comedian abolitionists roast a pet peeve they want

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banned from society, while hilarious panel dubbed the political establishment

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improvides counter arguments on behalf of the status quo. That's fun.

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The audience crowns and abolitionists. The champion of each episode,

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Chandler Dean is your ringleader here and the season two

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will premiere on Nebula. I was unfamiliar with Nebula. Good

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thing they put out a purse release, says here, Premium

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streaming from independent creators. Enjoy exclusive originals, bonus materials and

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early releases. Let's explore. Let's see what's on here. This

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is fun. Oh, the riff tracks guys are on here.

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You know, rifftracks, Mystery Science Theater three thousand, kind disorder.

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And we got some news coming out of the Milan

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Courtina Winter Olympics. If you are a fan of Italian

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comedian Massimo Boldie, well, Masimo has been removed from the

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list of torch bearers. The Milano Quartino twenty twenty six

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organizing committee decided to ban Massimo Boldie after he boasted

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being a champion of I can't even say it, a

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vulgar Italian slang term for female Genitalia. He's the champion

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of that, at least he says he is. The organizing

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committee deemed Boldie's remarks incompatible with Olympic values, noting that

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carrying the Olympic flame represents a privilege and a responsibility,

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and requires that those selected embody and promote the values

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of respect, unity and inclusion. Boldie has apologized and said

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I made a joke that was meant to be lighthearted

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and ironic, but it turned out to be inappropriate and

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offensive towards women and not in line with the principles

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of respect and inclusion that inspire the Olympic movement. Extended

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an apology to the organizing committee and to all those

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who felt hurt. And that is your comedy news for today.

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See you tomorrow.