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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy news out today on Hilarious. Now, don't forget
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the Hilarious Comedy brand is where you go when you're
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on your way down. We've got a lot of proof here.
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Sebastian maniscalgoes, it ain't right. This is the trailer that
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radicalized me against Sebastian maniscalgo. Please stop making stupid faces.
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You can't see the faces on an audio podcast, but
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you can almost hear them. Let's listen some edits here.
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I have a mild case of sleep appning. This is
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where I'm at. I'm gonna dum tap my mouth shut
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so I don't pass away in my sleep. If someone
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came to rob my house, they would look at me
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and go, someone was already here. Let's go. I went
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to a drug store today. I took out cash, by
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the way you take out cash nowadays, like kryptonite. This
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kid was in his early twenties. He's like, what is that.
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I said, it's money. It's used for goods and services.
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Some people do venmo. Maybe you went out to dinner,
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somebody paid and then the rest of the group said no, Well,
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Venmo you later, No, you paid me, no deadline, ass
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Abashian Maniscalco. Are you able to enjoy your success? He said,
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And I'm not, mister positivity. It's very fashionable nowadays on
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Instagram to be like, oh, I get up and I
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do my affirmations and I have a vision board. It's
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not really my style. My fear is failing. When I succeed,
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I feel like it's gonna go away. It's hard to
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sustain success. There's an expectation like you're putting out a
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Hulu special. This better be equal or better than the
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last one. It's a lot of pressure. Now. What we've
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learned from the Hulu specials is it's not going to
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be better than the last one. Name one Hulu special
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that was better than the artist's previous special. I'll wait,
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Actually I can't wait, because then they'll be dead air.
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You can email me on the side, or you can
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hit the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I'll
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push all my chips into the middle of the table here.
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In June of this year, BuzzFeed made a list of
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the hilarious specials Jim gaff against the Skinny No Way
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that's his best, Bill Burrs dropped dead years as his
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worst and now Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian were born funny or
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is it something you learned, he told Deadline. This is
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an innate ability. I don't think you can learn to
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be funny. I was funny around my family and friends,
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and I was funny when I had to give a
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book report in front of the class. I was an
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extremely shy kid. People think comedians are going to be
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the center of attention, or they think, oh, you must
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be great at parties and really not. I'm miching to
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get out because I don't want to do the chit chat.
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I was at a kid's museum over the weekend. I
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find myself uncomfortable talking to the parents there because I'm
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just not a chitchat guy. Sebastian, do you regret making
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any past jokes? He said, I don't listen. You're gonna
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offend people. You can't control it. I do a joke
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about my father putting andy freeze on bolognay and killing
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raccoons in the garden. The people labeled him as some
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guy who's killing animals. He never did that. I actually
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heard the story from somebody else. I find it strange
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people take the stuff so seriously. About eighty five percent
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of it is stories that have happened in my life.
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But there are stories that I've heard and taken bits
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and pieces from, or I've over exaggerated things that might
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not have happened but are rooted in truth. What was
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I watching? I was watching some comedy special the other
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night and I felt like none of it was real
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and I just couldn't last with it. I can't remember
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what it was, but yeah, I need my jokes grounded
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in something. Yeah. I understand that the stories are comedy.
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I understand they're exaggerated for effect, but you gotta have
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some semblance of reality in there. This is gonna bother me. Now.
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Who was I watching? I actually had paused. I went
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in my Netflix app. It wasn't Netflix, so I think
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it was something on Amazon Prime. I think I switched
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while watching The Knicks recently and switched over there. So
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whatever they put in front of you on Amazon anyway,
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it wasn't good. Sebastian doing the full Court Press this week.
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He got an US Weekly cover story where he's making
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a stupid face. Why why do you have to make
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a stupid face? You're nice looking man. Just smile. You
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don't have to make a stupid face. Sebastian says, at
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the end of the day, I just want to make
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people laugh. He stays away from current events and politics
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because I've always thought whatever my father's doing is a
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hell of a lot funnier than what the president is doing.
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You're getting in over the head with bad news and politics.
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When people go out for a night of entertainment, they
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want to escape. I'd rather talk about my experiences than
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what's happening with the current administration. Just doesn't sound fun. Hey, look, man,
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President Trump is just trying to make NBC twelve thirty
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grade again. Is that not what we want? We had
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Letterman and Conan and I don't know what Jimmy did
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there for five minutes, But this seth myers. This is
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not the Letterman show we grew up with. What are
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you doing? Let's make NBC twelve thirty grade again? I
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think the President's doing a great job on this issue.
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Sebastian tells us I just wanted to do stand up
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for a living. That was the goal. I never expected
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to be doing these big shows. I concentrated on being
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the best comedian I could possibly be. And everything after
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that was kind of gravy interesting premise from Cracked dot com.
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They floated out there that there's no number one comedian
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right now. I think it's interesting. Is Dave Chappelle not
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the number one comedian right now? Let me know what
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you think. Daily Comedy News podcast group. By the way,
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some of you are getting the questions wrong. Are There
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are a couple questions there to make sure that you're
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not a pornbot. Most people get the one right about
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what do you seek, but you're getting the other ones wrong.
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I'll give you a hint. Ever seen Bob Spurgers. No
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one has. It's a hoax, okay. Crack points out there
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are touring comics like Matt Rife and Nate Pergetzi of
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a tight grip bond ticket sales and TikTok followers, but
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haven't yet crossed over into TV and film. There are
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the folks like stavros Helkis and Caleb Heron who balanced
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comedy podcasts with continued pushes into Hollywood. Plenty of comedians
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right now or finding success without being the number one anything.
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Crack says that's not a bad thing, as we've seen.
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Once a comedian becomes ultra wealthy, they tend to make
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some pretty disappointing choices. Yeah, like a lot of them
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went to the Riod Comedy Festival and played there. Fortunately,
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YouTube videos can subvert the need to perform at the
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Riod Comedy Festival. The Wall Street Journal asked Louis c
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K about performing at the Riod Comedy Festival. Their question, though,
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did you do the same material that the reporter had
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recently saw? C K said, same set. I didn't really
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change anything. I had a really profound experience there. The
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night before in my show, I went to a local
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comedy club called the Comedy Pod. This guy who runs
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it said there was no stand up four years ago.
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Now they do like twelve shows a week and it's
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never not packed. They went from zero comedians to like
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three hundred dedicating their lives to it. The journal was
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curious what the material is. C K said. Most of
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the comics were in Arabic and a few in English.
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They were doing jokes about being married and how life
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is hard, like any other comedians, but without the swagger.
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There's a raspiness to American comedy. It's kind of defensive
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and f everybody I've traded in that, but they didn't
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have that. They were with their audience and the crowds
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were excited. It felt like comedy in the eighties. Here.
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I saw a guy at the club who reminded me
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of a young Richard Pryor doing pantomime and stuff that
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was really funny. When I did the Big eight thousand
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Seed arena, I asked if he could do five minutes
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in Arabic so the audience could see their own comedians.
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But word came back from the powers above the festival,
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absolutely not. He could work in English, but not in Arabic.
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Apparently the interview just glossed over that, because the rest
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of the quote is then I asked for some Arabic
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pop as my walk on song, and they said absolutely not.
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They picked back in Black by ACDC instead, and apparently
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we glossed over that too. The journal's next printed question
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is people will assume a big paycheck was the real
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reason he went there. C K said, I can make
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the same money anywhere I made over there, just might
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take two nights instead of one and go into the
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Saudi Arabian desert for one gig. Is it pain? In
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the next way, to make money. I had to be
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in Montreal the next night. I literally went from the
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stage to a plane to Montreal to the stage. I'm
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not going through that for a paycheck. Variety waxed Jim
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Gaffigan's car pretty well, we'll pick it at this show
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over the next few days. The top here politics, Jim.
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Generally you're not a political comedian, but last year you
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played Tim Walls on SNL, etcetera, etcetera. Jim said, I've
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always liked the fact that at my shows a lesbian
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couple could sit down to a Mormon family and enjoy
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the stand up I'm doing. But I do find politics fascinating.
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We live in an age where you can't really articulate
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anything without being misconstrued. My best friend from childhood was
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furious I did the Al Smith dinner. He said, I
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can't believe you didn't destroy Trump, and I'm like, I
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know it's not going to change anything. And the task
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was to attack both sides in a setting where you're
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surrounded by billionaires. The Tim Walls thing I was within
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the environment of SNL, and there's a cultural interpretation of
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every sketch. I intellectually know this. No one's going to
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listen to me. At the same time, I want to
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be able to look my children in the eyes and
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say I didn't allow some horrible thing to happen. I
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also feel comfortable that people know my views, but I
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don't know if me being an advocate helps. Like with
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the Mamdani thing that ended up being very divisive. I
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remember seeing Stave and all those guys supporting Mundanami, and
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I'm like, I don't know if that's helping him. Maybe
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I'm being naive. Varieady said, you have guys like Andrew
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Schultz and Theo Vaughan interviewing politicians on their podcast. You say,
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no one's listening to you, but maybe people are. Jim said,
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people are coming to a show off a break from
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some of this drama. That's not to say there aren't
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great comedians to talk about social commentary. The spirit of
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George Carlin is very important. I remember when Trump was
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first elected. My opening act had some political jokes. During
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twenty sixteen and seventeen, the audience would kind of look
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at the ceiling. The jokes were well constructed and they
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weren't on one side or the other, but it was
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just too much. People are looking at a break from that.
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They're not ignoring the serious issues, but they're going at
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least I can go see Jim Gaffigan and hear him
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complain about being a parent. That's not to say he
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doesn't care about someone being tackled on the streets. It
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just means maybe people want to break from that. And
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now what's interesting is Jim said all that without promoting
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a burbon. So that's something. Josh Johnson was on Trevor
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Noah's podcast. Trevor said, when I look at you, this
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is the perfect example, Like if you tell me if
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I'm wrong, but I feel like this version of Josh Johnson,
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like the person we know you as today, it wouldn't
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exist the same if the Internet wasn't what it was now.
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Josh said, I know exactly what you mean. And I
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think about that a lot because I had found some
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mainstream and like legacy media success, but not enough to
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live the way that I'm living or make the choices
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that I make. The pair talked about how the benchmarks
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in the industry have changed. Josh said, the ways in
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an industry could elevate a person along the way, add
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a lot of that stuff, and then there was a
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gap in between does he have his own shows, you're
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writing a show, is he's selling shows? Is he a
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touring headline comedian? And so there was a gap there.
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The Internet closed that gap. The people close that gap.
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Comedy stock Markets, Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Now, I feel
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like Comedy stock Market can get kind of negative, and
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that's not the spirit of the show. I'm here to
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be positive. So you know, I'm not going to tell
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you to sell your Sebastian Maniscalco because he makes stupid faces.
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Don't do that. Let positive. This week, Let's buy just Johnson.
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We just talked about him. A lot of good buzz
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on him, a bright career ahead. Let's load up on him.
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Let's buy Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor. There's still
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nothing but good buzz on this Jake Kelly movie. Let's
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get in front of it and buy a little more Sandler.
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And last week I told you to buy Keenan Thompson, right,
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that was just a good vibes and then he announced
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that sports thing with Kevin Hard I told you about
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earlier in the week. So if you have bought some Thompson,
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you made a couple hypothetical bucks on the comedy stock market.
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Why don't we buy some more Keenan Thompson, and let's
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buy some comedy stock in President Trump, he's had a