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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy and he was. Tomorrow on this program, I
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will reveal the top twenty five stand up specials of
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the year, not including the five major ones still to
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come out later in the year. But that's tomorrow's program.
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It is a quiet day at the end of a
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quiet week as the comedy industry seems to have gone
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into hibernation. Let's take a look at the late night jokes.
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Steven Colbert was talking about the cold. He said, it
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was the kind of weather today that makes you wish
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you were someplace tropical, like on a boat in the Caribbean,
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but not near Venezuela, which is a great joke. Jimmy
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Fallon getting very edgy for Jimmy Fallon, he said, yeah.
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First when Trump heard it dipped into the teens, he
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was like, what Epstein file did they release? Now. Kimmel
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joked about how they want us to work out of
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the airport. Now, he said, that's one idea, or hear
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me out, maybe just try to have the planes leave
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on time so we don't need to come up with
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fun ways to hang out at the airport all day.
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Last weekend, Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Awards. Jimmy Kimmel
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said he's been boasting about hosting, saying, we've never had
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a president host the Kennedy Center Honors before, which, yeah,
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why do you think that is? We've also never had
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Neil Patrick Harris order a military strike on a fishing
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boat before. Among the five major specials that are not
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on my list because I haven't seen them tonight, Sarah
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My son did go to the phone store and argued
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with them and successfully lobby to restore my free HBO.
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I was able to catch up on The Chair Company.
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Good show, you should be watching it. I felt like
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a senior citizen last night. I felt like I turned
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to my mom. I was watching the most recent two
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episodes and I was like, I don't even know what's
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going on. How did we get to the scene. But
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it's such a roller coaster ride. Watched The Chair Company.
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I don't know if America is ready for Sarah's squirm.
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The New York Times caught up with Sarah and they said,
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somewhere in Sarah Sherman's apartment is a prosthetic eyeball that
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once peered out of her grandmother's skull. You see when
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Sarah was a child, Grandma liked to remove its iris
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and start off with one milky white orb. Sarah said
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it was terrifying but also really funny. After Graham, I'll
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pass away. Sarah Sherman inherited the eyeball and sometimes wears
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it as a necklace. Sarah Squirm Live Plus in the
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flash HBO Tonight the Time, says Sherman enthusiastically repulses her
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audience while counting on her material to keep them in
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their seats. Sarah says, I like getting screams of terror
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and groans. I like playing with how far I can
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push people and then bring them back with comedy. Sarah
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talked about her heroes Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller talk
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about the same stuff that I talk about. They were
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just funnier and I have images and props. As for
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my concern that America's not ready for her, she said
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she never considered toning it down. Telling the Times, even
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if people hate the special, I'm like, this is what
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I'm really good at. Before in advanced screening in December,
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workers handed out barf Bags. Also out this weekend, Robbie
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Hoffman's special that's on Netflix Sunday Night. And I think
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the Sunday Night football game is a dog, right, so
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this might work out. Well. What's Sunday Night football this week?
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Oh no, it's Cowboys Vikings. That's watchable, all right. I
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often blow off Sunday Night football. It's like too much.
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It's like, all right, I watched seven hours of sports already,
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need to do something else. Plus there's that hour between
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the late games and the eight o'clock Maybe I'll get
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in there. I'm excited for Robbie Hoffman. When I saw
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John mulaney was producing her special, which he did, I
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brushed up on Robbie Hoffman as part of what I
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do for a living, and I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
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I'm excited for this one. Robbie told Gaiety dot Com.
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I've been very slow and steady wins the race. I've
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been working a long time, but steadily chipping and enjoying.
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Congratulations to John Stewart. He will receive the Walter Crunkite Award.
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They have a new category. It is Comedic News and Commentary.
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Stuart will be recognized for his work on The Daily Show,
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well earned, but are there enough people to give out
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that category every year? So you're going to wind up
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giving it to Oliver and Seth Myers and Roywood Junior
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and then who, I guess that's a problem for five
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years from now. Wow, John Stewart's sixty three years old.
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Now I guess I'm fifty six, So I guess. Wow,
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All right, we all got old. Everybody. The Cronkite people
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said John Stewart redefined satire as a student insights based
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on solid research. They lauded Stewart as a master of
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his class, saying he remains relevant, bringing five valuable facts
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to light, advancing public discourse, and using civic action awesome.
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Yusef said, when the revolution in Egypt broke out, I
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did the one thing that made sense to me. I
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left medicine and became a comedian. He was at the
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Bridge submit in Abu Dhabi and said, I'm in this
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very peculiar position where I'm a comedian, but my name
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is associated with wars, revolutions and human tragedy. For some reason,
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people take my jokes more seriously than they should. We
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live in a world where a TikTok video gets more
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engagement than a UN resolution, and where a comedian's Instagram
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post about Gaza gets more traction than a fifty page
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Amnesty International report. I'm invited to political forums, hard talk interviews,
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and serious events, but I don't know if this says
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more about how seriously people take comedians or how much
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of a joke serious discourse has become. Is it because
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comedians are brilliant, absolutely not. Is it because somewhere along
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the way the circus became more trusted than the Senate
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and gestures became more credible than the journalists. People have
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found more truth in comedy clubs than in the outlets
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of the free press. As I mentioned, tomorrow is the
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top twenty five stand up specials of the year, so
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I won't have an opportunity to wish Dick van Dyk
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a happy one hundredth birthday, so I will wish it
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to him in advance. Vandik told People Magazine. I've always
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thought that anger is one thing that eats up a
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person's insides, and hate, and these were things I didn't like,
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people I don't like and disapprove of, But I was
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never able to do a white heat kind of hate.
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He says his brighter outlook is one of the reasons
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he's made it to ninety nine slash one hundred. He
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also credits his wife, or Lean and says, without question
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our ongoing romance it's the most important reason I've not
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withered away into a hermetic rouch. Arlene is half my age,
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and she makes me feel somewhere between two thirds and
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three quarters my age, which is still saying a lot.
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It is less season. Friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann
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in The New York Times put out something on Thursday
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called Best Comedy of twenty twenty five. Jason has Roywood
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Junior's Lonely Flowers as his best special under a category
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called best Auturist Special is Cameron Esposito's Four Pills, and
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says Esposito patient Lean Worf's a swaggering act about dark subjects,
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including divorce, rehab, a relationship with a clown into something fractured,
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emotional and stylish. The best parenting comedy is rosebud Baker's
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The Mother Load and George severest a Sense of Urgency.
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I don't know George's special. Let's say George wonders whether
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he should join his gay friends and having children. Before
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concluding he would like to skip the diaper's phase and
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go right to the port where his daughter's of bohemian playwright.
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Best YouTube special goes to John Marco Serrasie Thief of Joy.
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None of us can argue with that, and people who
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listen to this podcast now, I'm a big fan of
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John Marco. Three time guest Best Range Chris Fleming. Jason
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and I are aligned here. We really like Chris Fleming.
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One of the loudest comedy audiences I heard this year
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was when Fleming performing at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Right
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Zi him In imagined a drawn out fight between the
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Fresh Air host Terry Gross and Adam Driver. What was
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more impressive is two days later at Carnegie Hall, he
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took the same at Ceial below to his fiscality and
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did just as well. He has Mark Marin's special listed
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under Funniest spoof of the Right, quoting the killer line
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from Maren's special, you do realize we annoyed the average
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American into fascism. Best Lineup went to the Mark Twain Awards.
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I will talk about that over the weekend, and Best
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Year and Surprise he gave it to Jim Gaffigan's Bourbon
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Special Live from Old Forrester. According to Zinneman, in a
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fragmented culture where many specials feel padded out, it's a
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savvy move to go deep and narrow, a labor of
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love that comes off as a little holiday gift. Comedy
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stock markets. Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Again, I will remind
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everyone the comedy stock market is where we find value
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to make hypothetical money off comedians who are undervalued, and
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then we try and sell high on comedians who are overvalued.
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This is not saying anyone is good or bad. We're
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just looking at relative value, how they're valued in the
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mainstream media these days, and where we can find some value.
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I got a recommendation from one of the listeners who
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sent me a cover art for Nicki Glazer promoting the
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Golden Globes, and let me open up my phone here
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so I can describe this to you. We are going
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to sell Nicki Glazer. Here. We see Nicki. Now, the
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first thing that draws your attention are her boobs, because
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she's showing a lot of boobs here. Minimal dress on
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the top here covering the extra naughty parts. But we're
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seeing a lot of boobs, your eyes go straight to
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the boobs, and then your eyes are drawn over to
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the phallic ish trophy and Nicki looking longingly after the
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phallic like trophy while her boobs are hanging out. I
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like comedy, I like sex. I like the golden globes.
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I don't need to mix all three. We'll sell Nicki Glazer.
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We're also gonna sell Sarah Sherman. Now. Again, this is
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not good or bad. I'm really excited for Sarah Sherman's special.
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I really like Sarah Sherman. I'm prepared for Sarah squirm.
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I don't think America is I think people are gonna
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be like, oh, it's the nice, weird lady that makes
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fun of Colin Joe's from Saturday Night Live. Let's check
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her out, and they're gonna be horrified by this. So
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let's sell Sarah Sherman right now, while all the press
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is out there, before people actually watch this thing. So
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this is an example of we're getting good value if
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we sell today. Conversely, let's load up on Robbie Hoffman.
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I know last week I told you to buy Robbie Hoffman.
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Let's double down on Robbie Hoffman before that special comes out,
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and especially that'll be on Netflix and people will be like,
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what's this? Let me hit play on this and they'll
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be like, oh, that was really good. So I think
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we're getting really good value on Robbie Hoffman. Looking ahead
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to twenty twenty six, let's sell Marcelo Hernandez stock do
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we even have any Well, maybe we'll short sell it.
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He's got a special on Netflix, and I'm convinced he
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does two things well, one a Sebastian Maniscalco impression, so
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that's good for thirty seconds that you're special, and he
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does Domingo and things that might as well just be
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called Domingo. I don't know if he's got an hour
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in him. We're gonna find out on Netflix in January.
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But I'm gonna sell Marcelo Hernandez and we probably should
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buy some Jimmy Kimmel extended for another year, and you're
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probably like, well, Johnny already extended. So where's the value here?
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Here's the value? When Colbert's show ends? Where are those
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people going to go? Like the people like my mom,
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they're not going to switch over to Jimmy Fallon. I
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think they'll go over to Kimmel. I think Colbert's audience
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is more aligned with Kimmel than Fallon, and the late
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night audience has to go somewhere. Some of them will
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just fade away because like my mom would just leave
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on CBS, and you could put this show on CBS
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and should stare at it. I think Kimmel is going
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to pick up a decent amount of audience. So this
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is long term buy here. Let's buy some Jimmy Kimmel. Right,
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So we're selling Nicki Glazer, we're selling Sarah Sherman, we're
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selling Marcelo Hernandez, we're loading up on Robbie Hoffman, and
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we're buying some Jimmy Kimmel. Let that's your comedy stock
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market for this week. An update on Andy Dick from TMZ.
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TMZ says Andy invited a TMZ photographer into his La
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home on Wednesday to talk about the incident I reported yesterday.
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Andy apparently told the cameraman he's one hundred percent fine,
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and then he changed his answer to one hundred and
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ten percent fine, as TMZ tells it, Our cameraman then
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asked what happened on Tuesday. Andy let one of his
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friends take center stage, the dude starts talking about the
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day and then Andy cuts him off. When the convo
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turns to one of his other down on his luck friends,
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Andy said he sat down next to the guy who
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whipped out some crack, and from that point forward everything
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went downhill. Andy said he need a little bit of
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that meaning crack. And then it's told quote that TMZ
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is calling stunning. I don't mind doing some crack every
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now and then. I hope you're okay, Andy Dick. I'm
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not sure you are. Brad Williams was on Jacksonville Radio.
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He found out about the minor league baseball team and said,
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how am I not a fan of a team that
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are called the Jumbo Shrimp. That's amazing. I'm four foot four.