Ricky Gervais'$2,000,000 Charity Donation! PLUS is Jim Gaffigan's Dark Pale really the best special of 2023?

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm
Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Couple quick jokes from Late Night Jimmy
Fallons said, George Santos expelled from the

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house, and I for one feel
better than Congress is now only filled with

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completely honest people. Finally, Charleamine, the God hosting the Daily show this

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week, said Santos put on his
coat before the vote was even over.

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Let me correct myself. He put
on a coat for all we know there's

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another congressman like somebody stole my coat. Pretty good, Fellon. Santos has

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already joined Cameo and is charging two
hundred dollars a video, because that's what

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you want to do. Give your
credit card information to George Santos. Ricky

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Gervais stepping up love this. Ricky
Gervais is donating one point nine hundred and

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ten one thousand pounds to worldwide animal
charities. He has split the cash evenly,

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says Toortal across donations to eleven worldwide
animal charities, including All Dogs Matter,

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Animal Sos, Sri Lanka, Catastrophes, Cat Rescue, Sheldon Animals,

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Sanctuary, Dogs on the Streets Helping
Rhinos. I actually donate to helping rhinos,

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millions of friends, mirror dogs,
Pause to rescue PDSA and wild futures.

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Travai says, I hope the dogs, cats, rhinos, and monkeys

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invest this money wisely, because when
my career goes up, I'll lead it

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back. Jason Zinneman writes for The
New York Times he does a great job

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covering comedy. He's definitely a must
follow. I saw this morning he wrote

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best Comedies of twenty twenty three,
and I was like, I'll mention this

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on the podcast. I have not
looked at this at all because I like

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to react in the moment. Jason
writes, it's time to stop taking Jim

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Graffigan for granted and more surprising takeaways
from special stand up sets and other funny

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moments This year best special. According
to Jason Zinnemann, while he's not flashy,

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each year, he gets a little
better figuring out new challenges that fit

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is every man aesthetic. With his
ten special Dark Pale in Prime Video,

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his comedy has become so skillful,
varied, and pleasingly prickly that it demands

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closer attention. Now I don't have
that on my list. I have it

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in the not on the list category. I won't bog it down with my

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list today, but I have twenty
things in my best of twenty twenty three

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and don't have Gaffikin on there.
So it's interesting that Jason and I don't

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agree on that one. All this
is subjective anyway. Best Breakthrough writes Jason,

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best stilling for if you didn't want
me then, also not on my

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top twenty list. I even have
a note hear to myself that I thought

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the crowd sounded sweetened, meaning they
added some laughter into it. Best story

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Teller went to The Domino Effect Part
two Loss, which is Ali Sadiq's special

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on YouTube. He's telling high stakes, dramatic tales of heartbreak and run ins

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with the police, but with the
lightness and ease of someone just filling you

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in about their day. Also not
on my list. Fascinating here. Best

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bit went to John Early for Now
More Than Ever, a mix of stylish

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satsire, soulful cover songs, and
occasional observational humor. That one I do

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have on my list at number nineteen
because it was quite different. Best New

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Double Act writes Jason's in Him into
the New York times like many funny duos

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April Clark and Grace Freud of Girl
God look and Sound nothing alike. Want

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to like Key Slacker the other more
fiery baritone, but they riffed so effortlessly

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that they seem to merge. I
am unfamiliar with them. Best closer went

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to Mark Marin for From Bleak to
Dark. I also don't have Maren on

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my list, and I've been on
a major Mark Maren kick lately like Big

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Time, and that last special didn't
grab me at all. Jason writes,

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what would suicide by bat look like? Only a comedian would think of that?

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Long and hard on the subject.
Best online roaster, Jason writes the

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arch eladist Dan Rosen has created his
own critical beat on Instagram, doing stylish

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and ruthless insult comedy on tasteless interior
design hacked to Core in shallow architecture and

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not familiar with Dan. Best Canadian
newcomer went to Sophie Buttle, She's solid.

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Best take on crowd work went to
Dion Cole in a Netflix set.

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A best response to a peeping cell
phone went to Joe Parra, who responded,

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in a deadpan you just ruined my
life and then kept moving. Best

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Impression went to John mulaney for doing
a traditional al Pacino. Best buffoon Diane

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Morgan's long running character Philamina, Kunk
four Kunk on Earth, which is I

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think still my favorite thing of the
year. Kunk on Earth is wonderful if

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you should watch it. Best YouTube
Special, Jason writes a highly competitive category.

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Never have been more funny people putting
out specials. Django Gold's folksy screwball

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jokes not familiar, Chase O'Donnell's deliriously
ditzy act, Seaton Smith's Madison Square Garden

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Show, and Joe Lists, but
Nathan Mackintosh's Money Never Wakes stands out for

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its exasperated comic elements about the cocoon
lives of the one percent. I think

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out of all of those, I've
only seen Joe List again. There's just

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so much out there. Best comic
On comic comedy, Gary Golmans Born on

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Third Base, which will be out
December twenty First, all right, we

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can look forward to that, Jason
says. It's filled with intricate language,

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drunk jokes that have built Gary into
a critical darling. This is his most

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political and pointed work focusing on the
inequities of class. Best gen Z Surrealist,

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a cheerful, young Arizona absurdist who's
just getting started. She produces edits

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and stars and cartoonishly bizarre videos featuring
milk spelling from the sky, goofy puns,

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jump scares, and I'll throw this
in the Facebook group. The Facebook

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group is Daily Comedy News podcast group
bj Novak. You know him as Ryan

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from the Office. The Hollo Reporter
covered Bjay's Chain Fest twenty twenty three,

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attending Mindy Kling, John Legend,
Chrissy Teagan, John Mayer, Andy Cohen,

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Chris Pratt and others. Wow,
the Hollowed Reporter tells us the red

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Robin Berger was Mealy. The pizza
hut Crust didn't achieve their Greasy Lacy trademark.

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Only Duncan was able to retain its
sense soorial qualities on site for this

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influencer crowd, and only Jack in
the Box managed to truly complete the assignment.

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It upped its game with slow braised
beef tacos and Chain's original Taco Perfecto

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sauce, which took a menu cornerstone
to a striking new place. Back in

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twenty eighteen, Bja floated the idea
for a single brick and mortar location called

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Chain that would aside from the name
Chain being a joke itself, he said,

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the cool thing about only having one
means zoning wise, you can put

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it in one of these chic neighborhoods
that are all over LA or New York

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that won't allow a Chili's or Fridays
and will only allow one of a kind

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restaurants. You put Chaine there,
then everybody he really just wants to go.

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The concept's next iteration was to sit
down restaurant in a rented home in

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LA and seated about fifty people with
sixty five dollars a ticket. At one

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point had a waiting list reportedly fifteen
thousand names long. The restaurant offered no

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menu and no modifications. Meanwhile,
at Chainfest twenty twenty three, the VIP

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room was called the Postmates Lounge,
and there was a gift shop selling merchandise

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featuring slogans like I Got sauced at
Chain Flat at News was speaking with Patton

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Oswalt. Patton explained that he got
the key to the city of Athens,

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Georgia. They gave me the key
to Athens my first comedy album. I

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recorded it at the forty watt and
Athens in two thousand and three, So

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this year was the twentieth anniversary.
And the mayor, who's a really interesting

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guy and exactly what you think would
be the mayor of Pathens, Georgia.

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You know, he looks like an
early eighties indies store record clerk, That's

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what he looks like. And he's
so chilling, funny, and he gave

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me that I should have brought it. I have a physical key to the

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city. Flat Hat News asked,
what is the key to Williamsburg coming?

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Patton said, you tell me Williamsburg. When do I get my key?

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Oh my god? What if I
get obsessed and start collecting keys to city

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and becomes my thing? Hey,
you just got an offer. Do the

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rhyme in and now is there a
key to the city involved with it?

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Because I'll do it if they give
me a key. That would be insane.

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I just want to collect keys.
Flat Hat said, we'll send an

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email to Mayor Doug Ponds on your
behalf. Oswalt said, I will happily

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come back if there's a key to
the city. You're kidding. Flat Hat

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reached out to the mayor. The
mayor responded, while mister Oswalt may be

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deserved of such a recognition, the
city has no such designation. From Gossip

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Corner, Adam Sandler was hanging out
playing basketball with Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith

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and his family during Adam's recent visit
to Salt Lake City. Adam played the

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Delta Center on Sunday night. Smith
shared a video of his son's playing basketball

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at Sandler. Sailor can be heard
saying the video, boys, I can't

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believe we started this friendship. This
is forever. LA Magazine talked to Mark

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Maron about what he's been eating.
Mark is now a vegan, and LA

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mag was curious as to his reasoning, and Mark said, well, you

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know, I've gone through a lot
of different faces for a while there.

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I had a smoker, and I
smoked brisket, ribbi and chicken. I

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got pretty good, but I was
kind of starting to hit a wall,

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and I was eating a lot of
fish too. It all started to turn

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me off. But it really started
as an experiment to see how much my

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cholesterol numbers were based on genetics,
orde and it definitely went down after I

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wasn't missing meat. I was always
sensitive to the plight of animals, but

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it came more so after I went
vegan. I just stuck with it.

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My cholesterol is okay now, but
my sugar went down. I feel overall

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better, but not that different other
than I feel a little lighter and a

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little less crappy waking up. Did
you lose weight, Mark Mirron? I

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did for a while, kind of
leveled off. Some people gain weight.

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You have to be careful. You
can't base your vegan diet on nut butters

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and pasta and bread. You have
to balance it. When I cook it

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home, I generally tried to make
some kind of vegetable and a dinner of

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some sort of green, some sort
of beans, some sort of green like

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keene while or brown rice, and
there's also protein. Air fryers are very

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useful when you're dealing with tofu.
If you want to get that crisp bite

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without frying and oil, the use
the air fryer a lot. Also,

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there should be something pickled on the
plate, some sort of sea vegetable,

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which is, you know, an
acquired taste. I tried to do some

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Indian cooking too. I got a
really good recipe for chana masala that I

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make at home. I started making
this pasta with white beans and tomatoes.

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Is pretty awesome. I like to
cook and it's always exciting to find new

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vegan stuff. Great question here.
You travel a lot for comedy do you

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look for vegan spots? Has that
been hard? Marin? You can find

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one good vegan place in any city, and if you're there for a couple

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of days, you can just eat
there three or four times. It's usually

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what I hope to do in a
place that has what I'm used to or

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different variations of it, or a
lot of things on the menu. New

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topic, Mark, what's your favorite
LA thing or place to go? What's

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your LA spot? Mark said,
this place is more Glendale, but I

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hike up the mountain behind the Brand
Library in Glendale like three times a week.

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I've become pretty attached to it.
And I think my favorite LA thing

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in general is just performing at the
Comedy Store, so a one of a

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kind place. Mark says he does
workouts there once a week and from the

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Star Observer. Mattel Lane gave a
social media tour of his hometown of North

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Halstead aka Boystown, a gighborhood in
Chicago. Lane was standing in front of

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a place called Roscoe's Tavern and said, this is Roscoe's. The floor is

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probably still sticky. Somebody must have
spilled some beer. Looking back in his

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times hanging out Roscoe, he said, I'm so ignorant, Like I guess

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everybody was doing drugs. I didn't
know I was drinking a vaka soda,

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Like, who am I gonna make
out tonight? Everybody was just rolling.

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It just never understood, like how
are they having so much fun? That

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He went by a seven to eleven
and said this seven one to eleven would

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make state filled prison blush. The
amount of stuff that went down drug sex,

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party, complete and utter chaos.
He talked about the first gay club

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you ever went to called Hydrate and
explained, when you go to a gay

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club the first time and you're not
exposed to anything gay, you walk in

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and you're innundated with everything. I
remember the sign above the urinal said no

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