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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