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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm in a good mood. I'm
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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news, A daily briefing
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on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A
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sentence to the algorithm. Just loves why in a good mood,
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John Well. Pete Holmes I thought was fantastic. If you
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missed yesterday's episode, I just loved talking to Pete Holmes.
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I'm still thinking about it three days later by the
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time you hear this. Pete was just so gracious with
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his time and just what a cool guy to hang
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out with. I also just recorded Comedy Survivor, which will
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come out tomorrow at noon Eastern, and the results are
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incredible and the AI analysis even better. I can't wait
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for you to hear Comedy Survivor. And it was actually
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fifty degrees out yesterday, not fifty below zero, and actual
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fifty like you could go outside and leave your house.
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Can you imagine? The Washington Post profiled Robbie Hoffman. I
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think a lot of us came away was that December
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really impressed with Robbie Hoffman's John Mlaney produced a special.
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The Post writes, Robbie Hoffman is not on TikTok, which
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is surprising for comedian these days until you meet her
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and realize she might be the oldest thirty six year
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old on the planet. Robbie says, my friends, go, are
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you mental? Why don't you do this clip and post
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it on TikTok? I said, I have one of the
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apps I have Instagram. I was born as seventy three
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year old man her origin story. She left accounting for
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a writing gig on the Chris Getherd Ship. For that show,
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she moved back to New York City despite having been
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born in the city. She told the Post, I felt
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like a tourist in many ways. She had only known
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the four square blocks of her religious enclav up until
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that point. She said, this was my first time seeing
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New York too. During the pandemic, she crossed paths with
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Paul W. Downs, the co creator and star of the
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TV show hacks Downs, remembered being struck by how unfiltered
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Robbie Hoffman could be. Robbie eventually guest starred on hacks Down. Said,
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the whole show's about people who are cast aside by
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the industry. We wanted Robbie to fit into that tapestry
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of people on the outside looking in. The post tells
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us though in real life the industry likes Hoffman, she'll
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be back on Hacks. She's also part of Rooster. Now.
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Rooster is interesting. It is a Bill Lawrence project. You
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know Bill Lawrence, the guy from Scrubbs and Ted Lasso.
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He knows what he's doing. Rooster stars Steve Carell, you know,
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the guy from the Office. And the reason John C
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McGinley isn't in many of the Scrubs episodes is because
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he's working on Rooster. All right, So it's HBO, Bill Lawrence,
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Steve Carell and Robbie Hoffman and John C McGinley. That's
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gotta be good, right on paper, that's like amazing, right,
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better be good. I don't think Bill Lawrence is missed yet,
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so looking forward to that one. John mulaney is quoted
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in this article. He said of Robbie Hoffman has not
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taken into consideration any rules or accepted wisdom on show business.
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And to bring it back home, Hoffman said, I've never
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been the overnight success. I've always been the slow and
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stead he wins the race kind. We may have waited
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a little longer, we didn't do the TikTok pop off
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or whatever, but we did it in a way that
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felt good. Meanwhile, Chris Fleming, did you enjoy Chris Flaming
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Special on HBO on Friday Night? Chris Fleming got the
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fancy schmancy New York Times profile. Mike Birbiglia said, Chris
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is one of the most exciting comedians to watch right now,
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and interestingly didn't accuse Chris Fleming of ripping off John Mulaney.
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I don't know why you would do that, but you
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know it's something Berbiglia sometimes does. I don't see it.
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We learned from the Times that Chris Fleming got his
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start doing stand up and finding his exaggerated style at
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a club above a Chinese restaurant in Harvard Square. He
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recalls being at a bookstore next door and looking over
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rockstar photos Mick Jagger, Prince Stevie Nicks, Freddie Mercury, Big
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pictures of these people rocking out, and I was like,
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how do I bring that to one hundred person cap room.
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Since wearing hoodies was out, I gotta wear bird armor.
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I love it. By the way, you caught on Friday's
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Comedy stock Market, we said buy some Chris Fleming. I
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hope you bought some Chris Fleming, because just minutes later
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the New York Times did a big profile here. I'm
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also sitting on the Chris Fleming press. People earn their
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money on Friday. I kicked it to in the middle
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of the week in case I have the jury duty.
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Have I mentioned that you never know when have to
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pre tape an episode at midnight so you can spend
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the day in Newark? I digress. Conan O'Brien and Chris
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Flemings did a whole interview. We'll get to that in time.
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So if you bought stock and Chris Fleming on Friday,
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per the Comedy Stock Market recommendation, you're doing quite well
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right now. Chris explains he sometimes choreographs his routines by
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drawing them, but doesn't watch himself. He finds the humor
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from the audience. He explains a lot of what I
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put out on social media, I'm doing it for the
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first time. In an improv dance class, he learned, don't
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do something unless you feel the impulse to do it.
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It has to be organic. Good description. Here. Fleming's routines
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are densely layered confections of references, space movies, college life,
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animal encounters, the economy confetied with digressions, and Bonker's turns
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a phrase. One song at dance Routine is about why
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a young professional had a tasteful made well sweater was
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the most terrorizing thing at a haunted house at a
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skyward rechion. People are always laughing. What a great paragraph
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there in New York Times. Fleming also has a competitive
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body fearlessness. We learn from The Times. Fleming said, I
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love putting as much weight as I can on the stool.
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I love drop kicking and flanling different ways. To this day,
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I leave every performance completely bruised. Are you guys listening going?
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What's going on with the show? He's been in a
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good mood for like four days? Did Scrubs completely changed
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my life? Can I get back to being Curmudgeonty? More
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wonderful writing here in the Times? Chris is somewhere between
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six foot one and six foot three, with a long
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legged hips wivel that can make them appear even taller.
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When he frog leaps or tumbles over a chair, flieser
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laps around the stage, there's an element of controlled danger,
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a glam firecracker on the loose. Oh yeah. Vulture also
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profiled Chris Fleming. Let me bounce this as well, because
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we you know, I like to fix up the topics.
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I don't want to do ten minutes like Chris Fleming.
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I love Chris Fleming, but this thing's quite long here.
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It must have been comedian week in the big newspapers.
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Back to the Washington Post, they caught up with Hannah
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Gatsby and we learned that Hannah has broken up with
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the Netflix is. Hannah explains, Netflix was a launching pad
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for me, and I'm very thankful for it. But I'm
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creatively a risk taker, and I like to take things
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apart and rearrange them to do things differently. I don't
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want to go with the flow right now. The flow
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seems quite toxic. But Netflix, being an algorithmic first machine,
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they've worked out what comedy is. Now they've got the formula,
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and that doesn't actually give a lot of space. The
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Post said, Well, the formula is to pump out endless
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specials for which they've paid a lot of money. That's
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the formula you're talking about. Hannah said, I don't want
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to be there. I don't want to live there. It's
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not to say that I can't won't work with them again.
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I just wanted to make a decision and take some
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creative risks, and also a lot of the subjects that
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I talk about in Wolf and the placement of myself,
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I wanted to put myself outside of that particular story.
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Hannah's out promoting Woof. The audio to woof is free
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online with a twenty minute video version that features hannagas
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By speaking through an animated sock puppet. They asked about
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the sock puppet thing. Hanna said, every decision is almost
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like what is the algorithm? Wan, I'll do the opposite. Now,
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this is an interesting show. Today. I've talked about three comedians,
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Hannah Gadsby, Chris Fleming, and Robbie Hoffman. And of the
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three comedians I've talked about, Robbie Hoffman is the most
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mainstream comedian. I like the alty stuff. The Washington Post
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was speaking on Zoom with Hannah Gatsby. Hannah was in Tasmania.
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I love details like that. We learned that Wolf was
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originally going to be about the death of Hannah's father.
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Hanna explains, Yeah, and the dead Dad's show is a
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universal show, particularly for people of a certain age when
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you start to think about your mortality. But as I
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realized as I was going through this, I'm the only
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person on earth who hasn't adapted to my fame. I
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was a creature of the Milbourn International Comedy Festival, in
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the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Every year I'd write a show,
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maybe it gets to tour a little bit, then the
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next year I'd set it down right another one. I'm
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pushing forty. I'm not thinking about cracking in the US
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market or having high powered agents in LA And then
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all of a sudden it was more than possible. And
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I was so ill equipped for that good follow up
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by the post who asked what was the biggest challenge
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of all that? And the answer the change in my audience.
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My audience beforehand were definitely people I was talking to
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in the room. I was a live performer that had
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slowly built a solid, sustainable fan base that'd bring a
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new piece of work to every year, maybe every two years.
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I was making a living. Was in the scheme of
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things modest, but I was successful. Then the net happens
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and my agents said, are we going to give up?
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For a stadium tour. I wouldn't survive that. I don't
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want to be in a crowd of thirty thousand people,
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and I don't want to talk to thirty thousand people.
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Music can work it well in a large crowd, but
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that's where comedy goes to die. When you get to
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those big venues. The last don't come back. They disappear
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out the back. I don't want to sell tickets to
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the Apocalypse, and that's what it feels like. It feels gross.
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I don't actually cast judgment, it's just what they're doing.
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They can do it. Power to them. If you want
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to be a court jester to the Saudi regime, go
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for it. Some news news on a Sunday, Jeff Ross
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is one man show. Take a Banana for the Ride.
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We'll be on Netflix. Hanna Gatsby's not gonna like that.
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On March twenty fourth. You can watch you Take a
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Banana for the Ride. We see Jeff Ross sharing personal
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stories about his upbringing, family, loss, resilience, and how humor
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has carried him through tough times. I just made a
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Hannahatsby joke, But isn't that pretty much what Hannah Gatsby does?
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Maybe Hannah and Jeff Ross could be friends. I don't know.
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I was just riffing on the Netflix of it all.
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Hulu still into the Ralph Barbosa business. They announced a
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new project titled swamp Meat, a half hour series created
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by Ralph Barbosa and comedy animation writer Isaac Gonzalez. This
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will be a cartoon. Ralph Barbosa voice stars and serves
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as an executive producer. Swap Meet coming to Hulu. If
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you're in La, go check out the Henson Puppets. They
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are doing improv comedy in puppet Up Uncensored. Puppet Up
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Uncensored combines the style of puppetry originated by Jim Henson
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with improv comedy games fueled by audience prompts. It can
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get raunchy, he said, don't bring your kids. You know.
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There are no official muppets, but we're told the production
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includes recreations of several original Jim Henson puppets from early
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in his career. And it's Brian Henson that created this thing,
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so it's not like this is totally rogue. Brian Henson
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says of the recreations, they're really old. It's super fun
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to rebuild those puppets and actually perform those scenes in
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front of a live audience. That hasn't happened in forty
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to fifty years. Probably. We're told that Henson puppets are
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tailored for the camera, but in Puppet Up, uncensored audience
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members see both the stage for screen performance on video projection,
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and you also get to see the puppeteers work in
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a way that's usually hidden from view. Henson said, it's
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really fun to let people see how we do it
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because it's clever and it's chaotic. It also means our
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audience watches the show in a different kind of way.
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Hanson was asked about the Muppet Show. I haven't gotten
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around to that yet, but people seem to really liked that.
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That was back Henson's take. The AI craze has created
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a backlash of please let me see human craftsmanship, human artistry,
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where I know this is coming from a human artistic mind.
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So I think right now there's just this enormous appreciation
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for artistry that's not computer generated in any way. That'll
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benefit all sorts of arts, but it certainly benefits puppetry
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for sure. That your comedy news on a Sunday catch
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you back in the morning,