Aug. 16, 2026

Rory Scovel Talks Politics in New Special; Netflix’s 2026-2027 Comedy Slate, Mike Epps Fest, and More

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac reviews What’s on Netflix’s guide to Netflix comedy series returning in 2026–2027 and beyond, highlighting projects including A Hundred Percent (single-camera ensemble about the “thought leader industrial complex”), adult animated series Dad’s House, Ding, Dealies, Living the Dream, Scooby-Doo Origins (live-action), and an untitled Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo relationship comedy. He notes rumored upcoming stand-up releases listed on Wikipedia: Kelsey Cook’s Happy Hour (Aug. 18) and Stamped Town (Aug. 25), plus specials in development from Bert Kreischer, Gabe, Leanne Morgan, Nate Bargatze, and Nimesh Patel. He summarizes The Hollywood Reporter interview with Rory Scovel about his new special, editing, and navigating political identity and audience reactions. Other items include the third annual Mike Epps festival in Indianapolis (Aug. 28–30), Veronica Słowikowska starring in Stephanie: Bride to Be with Amy Sedaris and Michael Imperioli, and runner Tan Hudson seeking a half-marathon record dressed as a microphone.

00:00 Netflix Comedy Slate Preview
00:33 New Series A Hundred Percent
01:12 Animated Overload Reactions
02:21 Scooby Doo Live Action Groan
02:51 NYC Duo Comedy and Standup Dates
03:51 Rory Scovel Special Buzz
04:46 Politics and Crowd Reactions
06:46 Integrity and Manosphere Money
07:22 Festival and New Movie Casting
08:43 World Record Microphone Run
09:35 Wrap Up and Sign Off

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Callaroga Shark Media Tyler. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news from Netflix dot com. Actually, from What's on

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Netflix dot Com. Netflix comedy series Late for twenty twenty six,

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twenty twenty seven and beyond, What's returning and What's New.

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A comprehensive guide to every returning hit and upcoming comedy

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series heading to Netflix. Thought would take a look at this.

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I'm looking at this for the first time returning Netflix

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comedy series. I'm not going to read everything here, just

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the ones that interest us. Free Birch will be back

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Funny af with Kevin Hart Leanne season two in August

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in twenty twenty seven. Eight hundred Percent cast Vanessa Bear,

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Nick Kroll, Diane Lane, Jason Mazukas, Sam Richardson, Tiffany Booon,

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and Lisa Gilroy. We're told, if you've ever rolled your

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eyes at influencers pushing the perfect five am morning routine,

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this upcoming workplace comedy Staler made for you A hundred

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percent follows a group of friends employed with the Thought

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Leader Industrial Kompleat, while their self help books, podcasts, and

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curated wellness lifestyles are designed to help the rest of

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us live perfectly away from the screens and microphones. Their

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actual lives are complete and utter disaster. Single camera ensemble

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comedy that looks like it could be. Okay, we have

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another adult animated comedy, this one called Dad's House. Set

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in small town suburban Australia. Dad's House follows Sean, who's

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thirteen and spends every second weekend with his laid back

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but incredibly well meaning Dad. Ian not excited about that.

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One more animated comedy, this one called Dang expected later

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this year. This half hour animated comedy follows a brother

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and sister duo living their best, messy lives in New

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York City. However, their kaoto a fun comes to a

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screeching haul when their absolute worst nightmare comes true. Their

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highly successful, high achieving older sister shows up out of

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the blue and actually wants to hang out with them.

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No thanks, more cartoons, What is going on? This one

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is called Deale's a brand new, supernatural workplace comedy that

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follows the bizarre, eclectic staff of a local big box

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store whose roster includes a so vaant salesman, a gentle gladiator,

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a quiet virtuoso, a summiter of the divine, and naturally,

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the poor soul will actually hire them. No thanks, I'm

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scrolling down here. I'm not reading everything, but apparently Stavros

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Algias is in Living the Dream. Another animated series, Geez,

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What Is going On? This one centers on London best

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friend's desen ray, two guys who are deeply convinced they

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should have made a big by now Scooby Doo origins

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Oh no no no, no, no, no no no don't

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no no no no. Mystery Inc. Is heading back to

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live action for Netflix, but this time with a fresh,

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slightly darker modern twist. Just Don't, Just Don't. Set during

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their final summer at camp, this eight episode, half hour

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reimagining follows old friend Shaggy and Daphne as they stumble

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into a haunting mystery involving a lost Great Dane puppy

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who may have just witnessed a supernatural murder. People are

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gonna watch that too. Oh my daughter will like this one.

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Untitled Hannah Burner and Page Disorbo comedy series' set New

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York City, the single camera relationship comedy will star Hannah

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Burner in page two. Sorbo is fictionalized versions of themselves.

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The series follows the two ultimate Wrider dies as they

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navigate city life, help each other, share their emotional baggage,

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and emerges the people they've always wanted to be. That

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reminds me so. My daughter's in her mid twenties, and

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she obviously knows I host the podcast. She went out

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her way to tell me how much she like Mary

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Beth Baron's special, and I'm like, yeah, that totally tracks.

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It's not for me, it's for you. And since it's

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for her, woman in her mid twenties, she liked it.

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I forgot to tell you that all week now, Netflix,

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is it really close to the vest with the stand

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up specials on Wikipedia? Here we are expecting Kelsey Cooks

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Happy Hour on August eighteenth and stamp Town on August

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twenty fifth. Nothing else actually on the schedule. They've announced

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in development untitled Bert Krascher Special, Gabe Leanne Morgan Magga,

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comedian Nateperghatzy, and Nimesh Patel. No dates or any information

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on any of those. Earlier in the week, Rory Scolvel's

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special came out. He got the big fancy interview with

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the Hollywood Reporter. That means his agent's got it done

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and it means someone in high only what has decided

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it is Rory Scovell's turn, which is why we bought

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Rory Scovell stock in the Comedy stock Market on Friday.

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We are told by the Hollood reporter the Mary, Dad

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and Sissy's never come up with new material as swiftly

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and easily as he did in this special. Rory says,

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it just kind of came together. He said, there was

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one brief period in the process where we watched the special,

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and of course I hated it, but that was before

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the edit. In the end, he's proud of what he

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was able to pull off because it's tighter and in

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his estimation punch here that is prior work. Rory says,

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it's insane that it took me twenty years to learn

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how to edit, but better late than never. I am

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trying to avoid spoilers for the special. Yeah, I'll just

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stop talking there some I'm skipping some stuff. I don't

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want to ruin it for you. I've read a few

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articles that have ruined it for me, so we'll skip

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parts about the content. The Holid reporter asked Rory Scovell

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about the era of stand up where now Rory said,

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I think political identity is such a thing now in

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what we do, and I don't know, it's kind of

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like everybody's got to pick a side to play to.

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I don't necessarily love that people would go, oh, this

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is a liberal comic, or this guy, well it's liberally

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so these will be his opinions or his takes. I'd

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rather be me going, well, no, these are my takes,

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and whatever category they fall into is what they fall into.

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But I don't want anyone to think I'm intentionally playing

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the left. It's almost impossible for me to intentionally play

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to the right. It's just not my soul to do it.

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But it isn't like I sit here going I think

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the left is great, there's nothing wrong with it. I'd

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rather be like red and blue or all under a spell.

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So with this hour, it feels like I tiptoed in

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that a little bit to figure out how to do

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it in a bigger way in the future. There's some

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political stuff in the special, Rory says. I know there's

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gonna be a lot of people who turn it off,

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and there'll be a lot of people that give me

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crap about it. But it's like, well, if you can't

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indle that you have no curiosity about what led me

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to that, I'm probably not your flavor anyway. Minor spoiler.

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In the special, Rory jokes it's good to be in

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a blue state, Washington, even if red states are more fun.

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Hother reporter guests, that's a joke rooted in some truth.

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Rory said, I should maybe rephrase what I said. It's

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not like I want to go in and be contentious.

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What it meant is I didn't want people to think, oh,

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you do it in a blue state because that feels safe.

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I do the same show wherever I am, and my

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expectation is that they should laugh at it because I

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think it's really funny. But other people who do get

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offended or hate the show because of the politics, because

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they can't look pass certain topics and opinions. And that's

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why I addressed it in the show. I say, you're

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gonna act like liberals, and I can't tell jokes because

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that's who we all say can't take a joke. I

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could tell you what it feels like when parts of

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the room don't like it, and I tend to look

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in that direction a little more just to see maybe

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my energy needs to play to them, but what does

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it look like. Well, some people would get up and leave,

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which I get. I did the show in Wilmington, North Carolina,

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at a comedy club before I really started the tour,

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and I got ackled. I said something about Trump, and

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this guy goes, you really think Biden was better for us?

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And the whole audience goes, yes, he just got to

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watch this. One guy be like, wait, everyone really does

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think that, and then the table got up and left

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on their own accord. Afterwards, someone was like, yeah, it

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was a convicted jan sixer at that table for real.

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I was like, that's just proof that anyone will come

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to a show. They don't need research. They'm gonna be like, Oh,

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what's the comedy flavor? It's so baffling to me. Another

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minor spoiler, Rory jokes in the special comics we have

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to go red to make a little green, which is

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clearly a reference to the manosphere, says the Holly Reporter.

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Rory said, I don't know if I have a relationship

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to it, and I think it was like, oh, there's

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a lot of comics. I didn't know we're so politically

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on the rightabouts up until the atmosphere shifted, and I

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think that's why it seems like a lot of them

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shifted towards that, because there was money to be had

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in it. Whether that's true or not, I couldn't tell you.

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But if it is true, there's just no integrity in that.

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I think I'd rather not gain some sort of massive

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audience and not make millions of dollars and retain my integrity,

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mainly because the rather my kids see that version of

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me a lot more Rory Skolhl stuff. I think we'll

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save all that for at least tomorrow. The Mike Apps

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Festival is back for a third year. Hosted by Mike Abbs,

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the three day festival promises to bring live music, comedy,

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health and wellness to Indianapolis August twenty through the thirtieth.

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Epp said in a statement, Indianapolis has supported me throughout

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my entire career. This festival is my opportunity to give

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back to the city that made me. It's about bringing

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people together through comedy, music, culture, and community while creating

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opportunities that can make a lasting difference. Baranka Slowkowska, you

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know her from SNL and Shane Gillis Tires. She is

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going to start in Stephanie Bride to Be. In Stephanie

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Bride to Be, Stephanie played by Slowakowska, is at her

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proposal party, which becomes a slow motion melt down while

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she waits for her boyfriend to arrive and pop the question.

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As Stephanie scrambles to keep the night for falling apart,

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she must gettend with her flighty parents played by Amy

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Sedaris and Michael Imperioli, which when I first read that,

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I was like, Wow, Michael Imperioli is playing a dad,

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And then I realized, oh, I'm a dad. Like, I

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don't know why I feel like Michael Imperioli is too

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old to play a dad. I'm a dad. I have

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children in their mid twenties. How was Imperioli now he's sixty.

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Michael Imperioli is sixty. Do you feel old now because

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I just told you Michael Imperioli is sixty? Goes fast, people, Boy,

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it is really hot in the basement today. I gotta

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get a fan in here. It's a summer Sunday. Let's

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do one more and go outside or something here will

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do this. When a stand up comedian says he's confident

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he has a second world record. He's trying to be

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verified for running the fastest half marathon while dressed as

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a microphone. Tan Hudson ran thirteen point one miles. He

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already holds the record for fastest marathon by a man

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dressed as a microphone, but for the half he did

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it in one hour forty eight minutes. Not bad, he joked.

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I actually had the world record for fastest marathon dressed

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as a microphone, and I had to take that record

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off someone as well. I saw the half marathon on

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the calendar, I thought, eh, let's do that to be

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a great one to try and get the world record,

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to be really crazy, not to take the double and

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get the fastest half marathon. The costume was made by

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a fellow comedian for him. The run was documented by

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a friend who rang alongside him. Hudson said, sometimes someone

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will be running next to you for like twenty seconds

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trying to get my attention. I'd be like, oh, Hi,

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what do you want? He admits, my legs are always

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a bit sore after race like that, but I'm kind

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of used to it. It's I can't complain. That is

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your comedy News on a summer Sunday. I'll see tomorrow