Sept. 14, 2026

Sam Morril’s New Netflix Special and Jimmy Kimmel's FCC Concerns

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Sam Morril’s New Netflix Special, Kimmel FCC Concerns, and Comedy News Roundup
Johnny Mac shares comedy news, led by Sam Morril’s Netflix special “Incorrect” premiering September 29, his second for Netflix, covering topics like a disastrous one-night stand, assassinations, and a war against rats. Katt Williams is on a book tour for his memoir “Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines,” about surviving Hollywood while keeping ownership, voice, and peace. Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Rep. James Talarico (running for Senate) won’t air on broadcast due to concerns about FCC threats to ABC station licenses and will be posted on YouTube, echoing a similar Colbert situation. NBC schedules four Sunday editions of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” after Sunday Night Football. Chris Rock discusses keeping expenses low to maintain freedom. John Mulaney’s bookstore visit and Instagram recommendations boosted a selected book’s sales. Seth Meyers was spotted shopping in Manchester, NH. Russell Peters discusses comedy as necessity and humor finding common ground.

00:13 Sam Morril Netflix Special
01:04 Katt Williams Memoir Tour
01:32 Kimmel FCC Censorship Clash
03:45 Fallon Sunday Night Shows
04:15 Chris Rock On Money
05:26 Mulaney Bookstore Buzz
06:26 Seth Meyers New Hampshire
07:51 Russell Peters On Comedy
09:16 Wrap Up And Sign Off

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily

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comedy news. Sam Murill will have a new special on

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Netflix September 29th. It is called Incorrect in Incorrect. Sam

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Murill tackles his worst one night stand gone wrong. The

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dark humor of infamous assassinations, his bizarrely unorthodox war against

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rats and more. Let's listen. You ever watch one of

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these new big budget movies and it just turns into

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a game of like, how long can this last versus

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me checking my phone? It's not long. Some $ 500 million movie.

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I'm like, damn, turns out I'd rather watch a guy

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power wash a sidewalk on TikTok. This cannot bode well

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for the future of entertainment. I like that trailer a lot.

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Incorrect is Sam's second special for Netflix. He did one

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in 2022, same time tomorrow. Before that, You've Changed was

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on Amazon, and the Comedy Central special's Positive Influence and

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I Got This and his self-produced Up on the Roof

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in full capacity. Cat Williams' Book Tour. Did you say

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Book Tour? Yes, Cat Williams' Book Tour. He's got a memoir.

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It is called Nine Lives, No Wives, and Sixty-Nine Concubines.

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That is a title and a half. In Nine Lives,

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No Wives, and 69 Concubines, Cat Williams offers perspective on

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how he survived Hollywood without losing ownership of his money,

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his voice, or his peace. He reflects on the experiences

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behind his refusal to fail, offering a rare look at

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the thoughtful, spiritually grounded, and deeply committed father behind the comedian.

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We've got a kerfuffle with Jimmy Kimmel Live. I'm not

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entirely sure what is happening as I'm recording this, but

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he was supposed to have on Texas State Representative James Tallarico. Now,

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you may remember that name. Tallarico was a guy that

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was supposed to be on Colbert's show, and CBS was like, yeah,

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we're not airing that, and Colbert put it on YouTube. Well,

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guess what happened? On Wednesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live,

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Jimmy Kimmel revealed that his interview with Kimmel revealed that

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his interview with Tallarico... who happens to be running for

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Senate as the Texas Democratic candidate, would not be aired

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on over-the-air broadcast, instead would be shown on YouTube. Kimmel

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explained the decision came out of concerns that a politically

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motivated FCC has continually threatened ABC station licenses. I'm going

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to jump in here. Censorship. Not cool. We need to

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speak about these things. The statement, out of consideration for

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our local stations, especially our ABC affiliates in Texas who

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would have to deal with this nonsense, My interview with

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James Tallarico will not air on television. It will be

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posted on YouTube instead. It will not be on TV.

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So what he is saying is we are afraid to

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let political candidates speak. Not good. In February, Stephen Colbert

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was told that he couldn't run his interview with Tallarico.

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At that time, CBS lawyers had barred Colbert from airing

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the interview in a preemptive bout of FCC pressure over

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the agency's push to apply its equal time rule. Quoting

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Jimmy Kimmel, I'll be interviewing James Tallarico under unusual circumstances.

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You know, for a lot of years, for the whole

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20 plus years of our show, in fact, I've been

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interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem

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at all. Just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, etc., etc.

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I've interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton

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to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself. I interviewed Donald

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Trump when he was running for president in 2015. And

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at that time, when he was the one sitting next

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to me, he seemed to have no problem with the

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idea of talk show hosts interviewing candidates. In fact, he

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was very eager to come back for another interview, which

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he did just before he became the nominee in 2016.

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But for some reason, and I can't seem to figure

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out what the reason is, something has changed now that

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he's president. His FCC threatened me, threatened our show, threatened

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our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations. Based on

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simple traditional editorial decisions, guest bookings, it would seem they

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don't like. Jimmy then added, make sure you're registered to

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vote because that's the most important thing you can do. Meanwhile,

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over at The Tonight Show, NBC has scheduled four special

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Sunday editions of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Those

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will follow Sunday Night Football. The first is September 27th

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after the Rams versus Broncos. Guests include Sylvester Stallone and

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Luke Bryan. That's pretty good guests. Now, I'm not going

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to be up that late on a Sunday night, but sure,

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why not? Then three more, November 8th after Bucks-Bears, November

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15th after Steelers-Bengals, and January 10th after the NFL's final

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regular season game. We won't know that matchup until the

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final week. Chris Rock seems pretty grounded. This is more

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from that Variety cover story from last week. Rock said,

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I've been lucky. I've made some money. I'm not swimming

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in it. I'm not on jets all the time. I

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don't own a boat, but I always tell people, your

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monthly nut, that's your religion. You think you're Catholic? How

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much are your bills? Because if you can keep your

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monthly low enough, you can say no to things. I

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don't own a car. Yeah, I have a place in

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New York and L.A., but I don't even have a doorman.

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I live on a normal block in both places. You

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can ring my bell. It doesn't say rock on the bell,

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but you can ring my bell. And I do this purposely,

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so I don't have to do things I don't want

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to do. There's meetings I don't want to have to

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take because I keep my expenses down. He explains the

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problem with most people in Hollywood. They're spending if-come instead

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of income. If-come will ruin your life. More from the

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grounded Chris Rock. You have your career and you have

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your life. And they intertwine from time to time. Not

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everybody makes it. Some people are just dead who you loved.

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And there's people who didn't make smart decisions who now

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don't get to express themselves, which is really not cool.

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Everybody doesn't get to make the movie they wrote, so

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I don't take it for granted. And I always say

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the worst thing that can happen to an artist is

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not that you're washed up. The worst thing that can

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happen is you're not washed up and no one wants

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to hear you. That you're actually still good and you've

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worn out your welcome. I've seen it happen to other

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people where, and I'm not going to say who, things

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just got so complicated. Look out, Eugene. That's a website

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and your home for comedy news. They talked about John

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Mulaney stopping by a bookstore. Seth is a bookseller at J.

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Michael's Books, and earlier this year, he helped pick out

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a stack of eight books for John Mulaney. Seth said,

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Mulaney didn't receive that degree of attention because he was

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John Mulaney. Celebrity or not, he was one of the

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best readers I've met in this bookstore. In terms of

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interest and curiosity and desire, he was an extraordinary customer,

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and he clearly had read a lot and was really,

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really sharp. Mulaney documented his reviews on Instagram with the

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hashtag MulaneyReads. One of the books, Ethan Rutherford's North Sun reads,

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It was one of the books Seth selected for John Mulaney.

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The author then gave credit to Mulaney for a pop

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in sales. He said it wouldn't have happened if he

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hadn't walked into your shop and somewhere there hadn't taken

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the time to recommend it to him and put it

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in his hand. If someone in the shop hadn't enjoyed

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the book enough to recommend it in the first place,

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it makes me so happy to think about it and

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it's deeply meaningful. More so than whatever strange wave of

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the algorithm poured over the book. On Gossip Corner from WOKQ,

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they tell us about a month after Adam Saylor, the

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great dramatic actor, was spotted grabbing ice cream from Sawyers

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on the Pier, another famous New Hampshire face popped up

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in the Granite State. Who was it? It was Seth Meyers,

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part of his seven-week vacation, I guess, from Late Night

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with Seth Meyers. Make 1230 great again. Please give the

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show to somebody like Chris Fleming. Perhaps Gianmarco Cerezi would

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be a good host at 1230 as well, because Seth

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Meyers isn't, let's just face it. Nice guy, but, you know, Letterman, Conan, Seth.

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And I know Jimmy Fallon was in there for five minutes, too.

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But no, no, no, no. We need somebody. Make 1230

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great again. That's all I'm saying. Anyway, so apparently Sandler

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has been hanging out in New Hampshire and Seth Meyers.

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And I think for the unfunny comedy rule of three,

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Marcelo Hernandez should go up there and just walk around

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doing his. What is the character? I can't even think

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of the you know, the one thing he does well,

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that thing. He can just do that anyway. Why was

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Seth Meyers there? What was he doing? He popped into

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Wicked Joyful, a collectible shop in Manchester at the end

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of August. Wicked Joyful shared a Facebook post showing Seth

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Meyers visiting. Apparently, Seth Meyers got a toy, a Joe

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Montana figure. Go Niners. All right, maybe I do. Maybe

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Seth Meyers is really awesome because I'm also a Joe

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Montana fan. I've got somewhere here in the studio. It's

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kind of buried right now behind all my various equipment,

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but I've got a little Joe Montana statue. Maybe Seth

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and I could be friends. Russell Peters told MetroTimes.com he

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doesn't need comedy right now because the world's funny. He

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needs it because the world is messed up. He says,

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for me, it's necessity. People seem to think as messed

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up as the world is right now. For some people

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think artists are immune to that. For the most part,

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I'm an empath. So I feel everything. And when everything

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else is effed up and I'm feeling effed up, too,

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I got to get it off my chest. If you

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go see him, he won't be that political. But he said,

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I may have some points in there. But the bottom

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line is, I just want you to laugh and forget

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about all that for one minute. Russell, do you think

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humor can make people less prejudiced? He said, I don't

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think it makes them less. I think it makes them go, oh,

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wait a minute. We're laughing at the same thing right now.

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How the F do we have something in common? And

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it makes them stop for a second because their biggest

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fear is having something in common. Or maybe their fear

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is they don't have anything in common. They come to

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that realization. Well, no, we found a middle ground here.

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Let's work from there. Is it going to work for everybody? No,

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but it'll have an effect on someone somewhere. Russell's been

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at this for 30 years now. He said life was

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very different 30 years ago. Was it better? It was simpler,

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that's for sure, but does simple mean better? We're literally

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opened up to the world, so we're taking opinions from

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everybody that shouldn't have an opinion on your own situation.

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We need more critical thinkers. People are looking to be

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led now. People aren't leading anymore. I can see when

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I'll do a joke. I look at the people's reactions.

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They look for somebody else to laugh, and then they laugh.

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They negate their own instincts. My job in my head

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is to make you make a peep, not me. I'm

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going to do whatever I can to make you make

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the sound, and you look guilty when I'm really the

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guilty party here. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Have a great day.