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Callaroga Shark Media Hither. I am Jennie Mack with your
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daily comedy news. The President of the United States and
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I don't agree on all the issues, but one thing
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we probably agree on is neither of us is interested
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in watching Rosie O'Donnell host Jimmy Kimmel live. But we
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might be in the minority. She drew one point eighty
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seven million total viewers on her first night out last Monday.
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That was the biggest audience for any of Jimmy Kimmel's
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guest hosts so far this summer. I've seen nothing but
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great buzz about Rosie. Again, not my cup of tea,
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but people seem to really like the job that she did.
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Last week, she beat out the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
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Rosie also won adults eighteen of forty nine, drawing two
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hundred and eighteen thousand viewers compared to Jimmy's one hundred
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and fifty six thousand. Late Night er tells us all
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this and they point out online Rosie's monologue drew two
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point four million views on YouTube, probably more by the
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time you're hearing this, and that was more than twice
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as many as the most watching monologue from any of
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Kimmel's guest hosts this summer. That said, Kimmel's own monologues
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routinely top three million views on YouTube, and his live
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plus same day audiences regularly surpassed two million viewers. Again,
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Rosie did one point eighty seven, not bad. In the
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middle of the summer, weird Al did an NPR Tiny
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Desk Concert. Now, I was on the Internet and I
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saw somebody surface this and I'm like, Yeah, that's been
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around forever. Why is this a big deal? No, it's
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a new one. NPR's Tiny Desk Concert started in two
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thousand and eight. Al had an episode in twenty ten.
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Back then, the show was had a little more indie cred,
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so Al didn't do parodies. He did some original songs,
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but now as he returned, he did some old parodies.
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The new set, which is on NPR's Various Socials, features
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There's eBay, which is a parody of the Backstreet Boys
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I Want It that Way, and the Saga Begins, which
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is weird Al's Star Wars song set to American Pie.
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It is observed that it is possible this is the
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first time that weird Al has performed the saga Begain
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in regular clothes, not a Jedi robe. Weird All also
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performed Emmy Losing closing credits blues rock Gym from his
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biopic Weird, the Al Yankovic Story, and his Weezer pastiche
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skipper Dan. I think over the years, I've come to
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like the pastiches better than his actual straight up parodies.
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The New Yorker it took a look at It's Always
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Sonny in Philadelphia. I watched the first two episodes of
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the new season. Thought they were pretty good. Episode one's
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better than two, but I did like where they were.
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His table setting in episode two, and I think it's
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going to go somewhere. They looked back to the early
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days when they used Glenn Howarden and Charlie Day's cheap
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digital cam quarders they were making their home demo then
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called It's Always Sonny on tv Fax. Loved the show's humor,
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but were worried at the show took place in LA
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because there were so many shows in LA at that time,
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so they decided to move into Philadelphia, where Rob Mcalenny
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now Rob Mack, had grown up. The characters would change
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from actors to nightlife industry colleagues aka bartenders, and that's
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I never knew this. That's why the show's called It's
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always Sonny in Philadelphia. It's a joke since the show's
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always shot in la except for the occasional episode and
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some b roll. But you notice it's always Sonny in Philadelphia.
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I love it. I never knew that. That's a great
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little tidbit. The New Yorker reminded us. An early episode
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featured a jab that Mac Direxit, Dennis and Charlie, which
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was a commentary about Hollywood's inability to get Sonny. Max
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says in the episode, our problem is that we don't
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stick to the basic format that gets us in a trouble.
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Dennis asked, so, what you're saying is that by breaking
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that format, we're actually limiting our ability to be a
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successful That's hilarious. Another episode. I like this one a lot.
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They were trying to win the award for Best Bar
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that was making fun of the show. Never winning an Emmy,
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it has only received three nominations, all for Outstanding Stunt
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Coordination for Comedy Program, and it didn't win that. A
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few years back, Charlie Day was one of the presenters
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at the MBS and said, wait, hang on, have you
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guys been doing this every single year without us? Good show?
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I'm glad it's still going all the so much like me,
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everybody just looks older now, so you put on an
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episode and it's just during Unlike me, I haven't had
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plastic surgery. I'm not saying anyone on that show has
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had plastic surgery. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying
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when you look at the show, it looks like they
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had plastic surgery. Well done, John, well done. Ricky Gervais
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has vowed he will finally marry his partner of forty
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four years. Ricky is now sixty five. He's been in
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a relationship with Gene Fallon since nineteen eighty two. He
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had previously said there was no reason to marry before
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the eyes of God, as there is no God. Send
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your letters to Ricky Gervais. With that opinion, why would
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he get married now to reduce his inheritance tax Bill
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Ricky spoke to Saga magazine and said, that will be
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the reason I marry. But if it wasn't for that,
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why it's mad? The inheritance tax is horrible, isn't it.
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I got to get around to marrying before I die,
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He said of his own relationship, How more married can
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you be? We share all our money. We've been living
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together for forty years. Some marriages don't last a year.
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The conversation made its way to the notion of Ricky
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Gervas being on Celebrity Traders. Ricky said, no, it's not
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that it's beneath me. I'd love to play Traders, but
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I don't want to be filmed playing What good could
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come of that? I like watching MMA, mix mortial arts. Hey,
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he might want to hang out with a controversial mega
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comedian in Aperghanzy, who also likes mixed martial arts. There's
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a controversial lineup. Ricky Gerva's a Nate Berghansy watching fights,
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possibly on a white house lawn. I digress. Ricky said,
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I like watching MMA. I don't want to do it.
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I don't want to be doing something I'm not in
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control of. I don't want to be away from home
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playing a game with strangers. Will he wind down? No,
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He's said. My dad worked on a building site until
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he was seventy. That's hard work. I just stand there talking.
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He did say that performing catches up with him. Comparing
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it to driving really fast for an hour and heavy traffic.
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I feel you, Ricky. Sometimes I'll drive up from the
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beaches down the Jersey Shore, which is like a two
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hour ride, and I get home and I'm just like toast.
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Jervis said, I know I should be pottering around my
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garden shed, but I don't think I could sit around
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doing nothing. You work, say, have a reason to sit
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on the couch and watch Tilly every night. It was
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an interview with Ricky Gervais, so you had to talk
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about cancel culture, right, he said. Everyone got stressed about
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cancel culture, including me, although I try to beat it
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head on, but it's peaked. It's sick like. Cancel culture
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was never really about the comedians that could sell millions
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of tickets. It was about teachers and nurses who were
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losing their jobs because of an ideology. They discussed the
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concept of assisted dying. Ricky described himself as pro choice
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in that area, but for himself, he said, it would
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take quite a lot to get me there. I'd want
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every last breath. It's only if every breath hurts. Olivia Coleman,
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who appears in an episode of the Office. By the Way,
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She's been announced as the latest star joining the sixth
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season of Only Runners in the Building Martin Freeman, who's
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also in the UK Office. He's in the season as well.
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Robin williams three children, Zach, Zelda and Cody Williams. Did
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he run out of Z's I don't know, just yeah whatever.
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They went on Instagram to share how they planned to
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maintain Robin Williams's Instagram account as a way to keep
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his unique talent and humor alive. In a joint statement,
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the Williams children said, as we recognize what would be
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our dad's seventy fifth year, we're grateful to see new
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generations discovering his work, while longtime fans continue to celebrate
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the joy brought in other lives. As technology evolves, we
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want this to be a safe, trusted place where the stories, photos,
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videos and memories shared reflect his legacy with authenticity, warmth,
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and care. He continues to inspire us and delight people
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all over the world. Robin Williams died by suicide on
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August eleventh, twenty fourteen, in San Francisco. He was sixty three.
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Hey look at me actually putting in the notes on
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a Sunday to remind you, I also host a show
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called The Weekly Comedy Thing. You'll find that on the
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Live one app. The app is free, the show is free.
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What's the Weekly Comedy Thing? It's kind of like this,
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except the way the royalties work. I can actually play
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the bits, So if I tell you a story about
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a comedian, I can play the bid from the comedian
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and they get paid. See, so it works for everybody.
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So it's kind of like this with less me more comedians.
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Sounds pretty awesome, doesn't it. Yes, it's the Weekly Comedy
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Thing on the Live one app. And I also host
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a show called Five Good News Stories that comes out
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four days a week. One of the four days is Sunday.
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It's five stories. They're all good news. So check out
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five Good News Stories wherever you found this show. If
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you're relatively new and by the way, a lot of
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new people jumped on board this week, welcome. Thank you.
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Often on the weekend, specifically on Sunday, I tend to
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do some international stuff. I do it in the second
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half of the show. I know not everyone's into the
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international stuff, but I am. But if British comedy does
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not interest you, you can check out for the day
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and I'll catch you tomorrow. The New York Times wrote
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a piece about the use of AI at this year's
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Has it always been Edinburgh Festival Fringe?
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I always knew it as the Fringe Festival, but I
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don't know. The words seemed to have flipped this year.
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I don't know Mendela effect. Maybe I'm from a parallel universe.
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Who knows? The Times tells us Garrett Millerck created a
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digital replica of himself by talking at an AI for
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four months so he could take on his character and
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comic sensibility. His show We Tried It Your Way runs
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at Pleasant Courtyard through the thirtieth The avatar appears on
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screen as a shifty looking three D avatar. The Times
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caused it unervingly dead eyed, a computer version of the
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man himself, and proceeds to tell jokes. Millerrick has named
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the bot g Dog two point zero, he imagines sending
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in on comedy podcasts instead of himself. He has generated
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a clip of the avatar performing at the Hammersmith Apollo.
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Millrek himself has not played there, but he points out
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a plausible looking Instagram reels worth almost as much as
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the real thing. Love it. Millerrek asks his avatar to
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generate a monologue on a theme chosen by the audience,
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and it falls flat. Audience members connected to a computer
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via QR code can register the reactions in real time.
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said he felt jealous. A couple quick reviews from website
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entertainment dash now dot com, John Conahan has been hitting
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some shows. One of the shows he hit was Zoe
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Woolfield's Dog Funeral. John writes, I needed ten minutes to
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calm down after feeling uncomfortably exhausted by the show. I
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enjoyed it, believe it or not. He says. Zoe is
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completely unhinged in this performance, inviting the audience to her
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dog's funeral while arriving in a Victorian morning gown paired
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with the ego of an entitled, psychotic three year old girl.
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The show starts with a slideshow of different activities she
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would do with her dog before it died, and she
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would later quizz you on it by aiming in your
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face a water gun. I'm leaving that laugh and stumble
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in because that was natural. As I read this sentence.
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Zoe relies on the energy and heckling from the audience
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to keep the narrative flowing. Ian an audience member had
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to comfort her as she wept on the floor crying
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that her dog has died. She makes the audience members
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moan and weep for her dog, Otherwise she'll throw a
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tantrum and leave the show, only returning when everyone shouts
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for her to come back. How is this fun? Doesn't
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sound fun? He gave it three stars, three stars out
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of how many, John, I don't know either four or five.
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I can't tell. There's just three stars and no grading
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measurement thing. There's probably a term for what I'm looking for,
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but grading measurement thing. But it's at least four because
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the same guy, John Conahan gave four stars to Lou Wall.
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Lou Wall's Show is where all the tall Grandma's John writes,
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The show is exactly what it said. From the first moment,
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you were fully captivated by the confidence and madness of
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Lou Wall, and furthermore stunned by her amazing impressive height
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of six'. FIVE i didn't Know Lou wall was six.'
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five lou takes us on a detailed journey to find
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the one and. Only truth where are all The? Tall
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grandmas that is an. Interesting point she has carried out,
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investigative journalism interviewing, the public emailing, health organizations and Even
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Contacted joe. Rogan spoiler she then breaks in, a song
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rapping to a beat almost as Fast, as eminem explaining
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how and what she has done to find. The answer
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that sounds like a. Good time that was a Pretty strong. Sunday,
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episode again a lot of. NEW listeners i often pretape
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of the, weekend episodes including, this One which i'm Recording
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on thursday because it's pouring Out and, i'm like let
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me get a jump on. The weekend but this was
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pretty strong For, a sunday, All right and that is