Ricky Gervais Show "Armageddon" Faces Backlash, PLUS is Kevin Hart on par with Chris Rock? AND Jeopardy Seinfeld kerfuffle!

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack
with your daily comedy news. The Daily

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Mail reports that Netflix is under pressure
to cut ablest slurs from the upcoming Ricky

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Gervais show Armageddon that'll be out one
week from today. Spoilers for the special

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I'll give you a second here.
In the special, Ricky says spoiler coming.

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He had been making videos for terminally
ill children at hospitals with a Makeawish

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charity. He joked that the children
were effing our words for not wishing to

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get better. The mother of a
terminally ill child that set up a petition

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to get the skit removed by Netflix, a UK disability charity, has slammed

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the sketch for having able to slurs
in it. In the clip that was

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released to the audience roared with laughter. Really really interesting editorial opinion piece in

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The Grio written by Tore. The
headline are Chris Rock and Kevin Hart on

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the same level. I share this
in the Facebook which is Daily Comedy News

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podcast group, and I commented,
Yeah, I said this recently when Kevin

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Hart got the Mark Twain Ward.
I don't feel like he's on the same

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level as the other people. He
puts out a lot of work like a

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lot, but does any of the
work like actually register How many shows have

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I told you about that we're on
Quibbi or random products he's involved with.

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It's like the man likes to work, but is he on the same level

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comedy wise as Chris Rock. I
agree with Torre, and I'm gonna say

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no. Torre writes, I have
a creeping suspicion. There was one specific

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motive behind Netflix's new fund doc Kevin
Hart and Chris Rock Headliners, Only it's

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about more than taking a look behind
the scenes as two of the world's greatest

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comedians work their way through a historic
run of shows, et cetera, et

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cetera. It's about establishing Kevin Hart
as being on the level of Chris Rock,

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which is a problematic writes Torre.
He writes the doc takes us into

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the comedic roots of both men.
Points out that the Chris Rock was discovered

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by Eddie Murphy when Murphy was the
biggest comic in the world. He saw

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young Rock and instantly believe in him
and gave him a helping hand that led

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in time to Rock becoming the success
Murphy as America's biggest Black comedian. Tory

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writes, Yes, that's a thing. In turn, when Chris Rock was

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ABBC, he saw a young Kevin
Hart and helped him out, leading eventually

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to him becoming one of America's biggest
black comedians. Was he ever the sole

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ABBC? No, Dave Chappelle took
that mantle from Rock, Tory continues.

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The doc even gives us Tony Rock
Chris his brother, saying Heart never missed

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a chance to talk to Rock about
the intricacies of comedy, much like a

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young Kobe asking Michael Jordan questions about
the intricacies of basketball. That suggests Hart

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is the Kobe to Rock's Jordan.
I see Rock as a comedian who's also

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a philosopher and a political thinker.
Many of his jokes are interesting ideas.

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Rock always comes with great material.
I believe there are two kinds of comics.

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Some have meticulously manicured material and some
have a funny vibe about them,

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so much as they could read the
phone book and it would be funny.

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Rock is a material guy. Heart
is a phone book guy. Wow,

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that is really well said. Kevin
Hart is all vibe, Yeah, Tory

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continues, There's nothing wrong with being
a phone book guy. It's a gift.

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The way Heart talks is funny.
The way he moves is funny.

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Heart could do anything and make people
laugh. But do his funny stories lead

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to iconic material. I feel like
any hour of Heart jokes will always be

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fun, but his stories and observations
won't be unforgettable. I can't recall anyone

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ever saying did you hear Kevin hartch
joke about dot dot Dot? As far

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as being able to sell tickets,
they're absolutely on the same level. But

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as far as the quality and depth
and complexity of their material, I don't

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think they're close. As for Rock, Tory writes, I think his approach

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to comedy transform the way many people
view comics. He's never a clown.

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He's never the butt of the joke. He's the smart observer of the world

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who's come to help you see things
the right way, or at least the

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Rock way. Heart is more of
a hilarious entertainer who welcomes you to laugh

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at his pain. He doesn't mind
you looking down on him. He's happy

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being the butt of the joke.
To me, the progression of the ABBC

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crown in my lifetime as this it
was prior than Murphy, than Rock,

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than Chappelle. Heart's an important part
of the comedy universe, but he's never

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held the crown. Great stuff again. I share that in the Facebook group

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on Friday Daily Comedy News podcast group
on Facebook. I love a good non

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controversy. Jeopardy fans are upset with
the show's Seinfeld questions. You see,

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it was the champion's wild game tournaments. I don't know. After the first

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break, Julia led with twenty eight
hundred dollars, which was eight hundred dollars

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more than Henry Ken. Jennings revealed
the categories, one of them was Seinfeld

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before and after apparently Gary crushed the
category, pulled ahead, and Gary advanced.

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Someone on the Jeopardy subreddit said,
speaking as a Seinfeld fan who ran

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that category, it really belonged in
the first round. A single clue that

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requires knowledge of a particular sitcom in
double Jeopardy is fine. An entire category

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referring to one particular sitcom too much, because if a player isn't familiar with

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the show, they're out of luck. Another Jeopardy and Seinfeld fan agreed,

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saying, I agree on keeping those
specific program categories in the first round.

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Last season there was a category titled
Friends in the first round. It wasn't

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even wordplay, just basic clues,
like it's the coffee shop where the friends

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hang out, which only fans of
the show would know. Well, I

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have found the questions. I didn't
find the answers, but I found the

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questions. So let's take a look. Four hundred dollars. This George Costanda

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portrayer was the first US Treasury Secretary, all right, So they do this

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kind of thing at Trivia Night where
I go on Wednesday, where you have

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to connect things so that this George
Costanza portrayer, that's Jason Alexander the US

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Treasury Secretary's Alexander Hamilton. So who
is Jason Alexander Hamilton? Seinfeld before and

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after for six hundred set on controlling
the Vichy Sauce supply. TV hosts Greg

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kinnear and John Henson are vying for
the role of this fascist all right,

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who is or what is talk soup
Nazi Seinfeld? Before and after for twelve

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hundred, this Wham front man continually
barges into the apartment of the actor who

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plays Kramer, who is George Michael
Richards Seinfeld before and after for sixteen hundred.

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Avuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all the
way through writing Russian fiction like the

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death of Ivan Ilitch. Huh,
I don't know what's the answer there?

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A vuncular Seinfeld relative who covetched all
the way through writing Russian fiction like the

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death of Ivan iliatsch oh okay,
I got it. I'll give you a

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second. I'll come back and tell
you Seinfeld before and after for two thousand.

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This Elaine actress was accused of treason
against the French in this scandal,

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the Luisa Dreyfus affair. All right
back to the one I skipped. Uncle

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Leo Tolstoy. Trevor Noah was recently
in San Francisco. The sf Gate caught

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his show. Trevor said, everyone
told me, O Trivor, you don't

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want to go to San Francisco.
If you've seen it right now, it's

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armageddon, It's chaos on the streets. Trevor said he didn't think it was

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all that different from many other American
cities he visited. He talked about going

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out to Salcelito or enjoyed a meal
from Sushi Wren. He did a bit

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about the hills the cars are holding
on for dear life. He loved Chinatown

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and even expressed appreciation for some of
the Tenderloin. Trevor said, the thing

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I liked about the Tenderloin is that
you're present in a world where we're constantly

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distracted by our phones, thoughts running
through our heads. It was nice to

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be in a place where I was
in the moment, my mind was nowhere

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else. I'm noticing its feel,
its smell, its taste, its touch.

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I'm just there. No skipping down
on the sidewalk. That led to

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a line of jokes complaining about San
Francisco's lack of public bathrooms. He started

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talking with a woman in the front
row who had cheered in response to the

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question. He asked her if she'd
lived in San Francisco her whole life.

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She said she had lived around the
Bay Area, so Trevor said, so,

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not in San Francisco, just around
it. The person responded that they

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grew up in Fremont and Oakland,
but were born in San Francisco and moved

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out of the city at age one. Trevor said, you lived here for

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a year, but you were zero
to one. You were a zero year

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old, you didn't live crap,
your parents lived here. Joe Rogan on

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his podcast said that South Park Survival
is tied to its past, not the

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cancel culture present. Joe Rogan said, they're the only show that Comedy Central

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leaves alone. There's no way you
could make South Park today if you were

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an unknown group of cartoonists. No
chance. They'd never let you. It's

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too crazy. It's the only good
show on the network, so they kind

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of have to let it go.
It's a great show. It's been there

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forever. You get away with wild
stuff you could never get away with otherwise.

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They're a national treasure. They're so
import They're one of the few people

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out there in this day and age, when you can't even make comedy movies

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anymore. You're never gonna see a
traffic thunder today. South Park goes as

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hard, if not harder than ever
before. Without them, we wouldn't have

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Veggie Comedy, not on a television
show. Eddie Murphy is working on another

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movie, this one called to pick
Up, a heist comedy. Also in

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the cast Pete Davidson no details yet. They're gonna start filming in February.

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Macpacker Keegan Michael Key will host the
NFL Honors Show on February eighth. Key

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recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and
upset some Fox News types. Kimmel was

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making fun of the conservative media's annual
freak out over the so called war on

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Christmas. He got some help from
Keegan, Michael Key, and Sean Hayes.

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Part of what people are upset about
is a queer nutcracker holding a Progress

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Pride flag being sold to Target.
On Newsmax, Chrissy Clark moaned about the

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ornament and said, let's be honest, if you're a gay man and you

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have any semblets of taste, you
do not have a gay Pride nutcracker in

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your house, Okay. Sean Hayes
joked, first off, gay nutcrackers redundant.

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All nutcrackers are gay. A bunch
of fit, older men with perfect

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posture wearing Padazza uniforms and knee high
boots. Open your eyes. Later in

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the bit, Sean Hayes's nutcracker character
was joined by his boyfriend Black Santa in

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a wheelchair portrayed Bykeg and Michael Key. Kim Will asked Key how he ended

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up in a wheelchair. The reply, I fought in the War on Christmas,

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Jimmy Kimmel said, I think Fox
just got twelve more nights of programming

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out of this. I was gonna
get back into that Inside Hook article,

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