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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny back with your
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daily comedy news and daily briefing on stand up comedy
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comedians in the comedy industry. You know today you're getting
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somewhere between two and four thousand inches of snow. Hope
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everybody's doing okay out there. I've got some industry stuff
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I want to do in the second half. But let
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me catch up a little more with Jerry Seinfeld's conversation
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with Nate Bergetzy and Pollstar. Jerry was curious, and I'll
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use Jerry's phrasing here, what are you playing with lately?
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It's new and fun? Nate said, I have this ai
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chunk that I'm playing with. I got one thing I
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want to try. My wife always puts the blow dryer
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in the sink. It's like if I grabbed a toaster
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and said in an empty bathtub. It's just waiting to happen.
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It was only that idea and I never had a
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place to put it. And I have this marriage counseling chunk. Now.
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I haven't tried it yet, but I'm excited about it
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because I think I can put that in the show.
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And that's an idea had maybe twelve years ago. When
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comics say, like, when do you stop trying a joke?
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I'm of the belief I never give up on a joke.
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I'll give up on it if it doesn't work. But
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if I know something's there, I always think I'm not
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a good enough comic to figure it out now, But
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it sits in your head and you can have something
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in like twelve years Jerry said, someone was asking me
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about this, and I said, I have this joke about
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Frankenstein's sports jacket. Where did he think he was going
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that he would wear a sports jacket? It's from thirty
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years ago, from nineteen ninety five. Somebody said, how do
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you remember it? I go, we're hoarders. We don't throw
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things away. Why would I throw out anything that might
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have some value? Who knows? When Nate said, with younger comics,
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I wish they knew not to just put anything out
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on social media and weren't like, oh yeah, that could
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be a funny tweet, and you're like, you know, what
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would be better is just let it sit for twenty
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or thirty years and then find a place for it
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later that elevates it into some big memorable thing. Can't
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you do both, Like if we had Twitter thirty years ago,
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you think people would be like, I don't know. Jerry
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Seinfeld did that Frankenstein thing is a tweet a two
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forty two Wood Thursday, October thirteenth, I don't know. Not
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a comedian, Nate said, your act is everything. My act
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is the only reason I can do anything I want
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to do, and I try to protect it. Good follow
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up by Jerry. What do you think about comedians feeling
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like they're ready to do a special? This is the
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thing I've been talking to somebody about Netflix about. It
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seems to be a little bit of an issue of
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undercook specials that could have used a little more time. Wow.
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Imagine being the guy at Netflix who's probably Robbie Prau
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and Jerry Seinfeld is pointing out your specials are undercooked.
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That's really interesting, Jerry says, But of course the platform
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was the content. The comedian wants to check. What's your thinking?
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Nate said, they're going too early. That's where social media
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can work. Well. We had coming up with Comedy Central,
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which is very important. You went through Premium Blend Live
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at Gotham, where you did eight minute sets a couple
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years later you got a Comedy Central half hour and
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then an hour. Hopefully by then you could start touring.
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The Netflix came and all this stuff before I tape
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this special of done one hundred and fifty shows. That's
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not even including the clubs I went to before heading out,
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So one hundred and fifty to two hundred hours before
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I tape it, I get to poll every audience in America.
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I might be opening with something at the beginning I
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end up putting towards the end that fits better. You
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need to take your time to have it flow. I
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don't want to feel like I'm cramming something in. It's
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really good stuff for Nate, then I'll move on. Nate said,
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comedy clubs are like, well, how many followers do you have?
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And they're like, I got to get follows if I
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want to get on stage at a comedy club. It's
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not a bad route. You're trying to create so much content,
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is to create an hour's worth of material. Every time
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you're done, you think I'll never do that again. You
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feel like you just got done with a special and
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you're like, I don't know what to do nothing's funny.
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I'm terrible, and you're making comics build online audience or
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they do crowd work. If you want to be a
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Matt Rife kin of phenom, you're not. Doesn't mean it
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doesn't work, but it doesn't mean the likelihood of you
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getting to be Eddie Murphy doing two specials out of
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the gate. That's one and a million. It's already one
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in a million to make it as a stand up comedian.
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Good stuff. You'll find this in Pollstar HBO's documentary mel
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Brooks The ninety nine year Old Man Is Out. Dave
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Chappelle recalls spending time with mel Brooks, who directed Chappelle
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and Robin Hood men in tights. Chapelle tells a story
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sometimes take me to lunch and his old friend Carl
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Reiner was directing a movie on the next sound stage,
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and then at some point the two of them started
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doing the two thousand year old Man, the greatest comedy
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routine but two of the greatest comics, and me is
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the audience. I'll never forget it. Then I met his wife.
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She comes and says, o'mel says so many wonderful things
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about you, Dave says, She goes on and on and gush.
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It's about how much he likes me. Chappelle's says, I go, oh,
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you're not trying to seduce me, are you, Missus Robinson silence.
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Chapelle says he hadn't thought that. She's heard that joke
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a million times. Nothing. Silence. Chapelle says, all you could
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hear was Dom Deluize's labored breath. It was really terrible
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and hilarious. That's great. Dusty Slay talk to the Chronicle
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about his look. Dusty talked about the trifecta of an
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old school trucker hat sitting on top of straightened long
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hair and the glasses. Dusty Slay told the Chronicle that's
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exactly what I want. I found the glasses at a
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thrift shop in Toronto and had real enses put in them.
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So yeah, after I found those glasses, I thought, these
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are ridiculous enough but also cool enough that I'm gonna
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rock these. As for the hats, in Nashville, there are
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a lot of guys that wear trucker hats with long hair,
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but it's not the right kind. People give me hats
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all the time and appreciate it, but I'm like this
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hat's too cool for what I'm going for. You gotta
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find legitimately old hats for the eighties or nineties and
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try to step away from the foam. It's the high
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ride trucker hat. That's what I'm into. That's where it's
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just a ridiculous look. Jerry Seinfeld once described to Kathleen
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Madigan as small, practical, and fun. She makes a lot
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of sense, but not too much sense, just enough to
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be hilarious. Psychology Today caught up with Kathleen. She told
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her origin story before stand up. She worked in restaurants
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through college, and her friend Mike and her got off.
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They went to the nearby comedy club. It was open
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mic night. Kathleen said, we said something funnier yesterday. Let's
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try it. We were goofing off. Then a well known
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local TV and radio guy came over and said, you
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could be really good at this, and I thought I
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could do it for extra money. I still hadn't found
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a real job after graduating. I was writing freelance stories
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for seventy five bucks apiece in Saint Louis. I enjoyed it,
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but I didn't enjoy the amount of work it took
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to get that seventy five bucks. I could do stand
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up for extra money. Psychology Today was curious if Kathleen's
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parents mind her stories about them. She said, Amazon was
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concerned about my parents for a recent show. Apparently, if
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I didn't get along with them, my parents could sue Amazon.
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Amazon said, we get them to DocuSign release forms. And
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I said, I'm going to give you their phone number.
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You can call them. You let me know if they
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pick up. Usually they don't. And if you want to
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call their cell phones, they're usually in the glove compartment
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of the car, not charged. Do you get a hold
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of them and then send them the DOCU sign. Then
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you get a call back about how their printer doesn't work.
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And then I won't have anything to do with what
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you're talking about, but they're gonna want you to know
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their printer doesn't work. Finally, Amazon dropped it. My dad said, oh,
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I never thought we could sue you. That's a good idea,
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And Kathleen says, I guess you could. I could pay you.
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Then maybe we could figure out a text loophole. Tomorrow's
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a Monday normal episode of three oh five am Eastern,
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and then if Vidiot Johnny Mack loads everything properly. This
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week on like last Monday, at noon Eastern, you'll get
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the results of week three of Comedy Survivor and we'll
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head onto week four. So normal at three am and
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Survivor at noon Eastern on Monday. A couple industry things
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I wanted to talk about from the Hollywood Reporter. They
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caught up with UTA London's global comedy touring guru, Bjorn Wentland.
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So this is one of those industry pieces that the
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Hollywood Reporter likes to do, but I thought it was
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pretty interesting. Wentland said. When I joined UTA, the business
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was pronominantly focusing on servicing North American clients in the
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international circuit, but that element and the international talent touring
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element have now flipped. He remembers talking to you an
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artist like Chris Rock who said I could never tour
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the UK because they don't owe me as the stand
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up The only thing of me as an actor. When
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Wentland moved from the US to the UK was in
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part to start exporting British comics around the world. He
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explains the economics were tough. The local offices of the
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big promoters and agencies loved the idea, but neither could
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produce the offer, so I really started noticing there was
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an opportunity neither the agency side or the buyer side
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had figured out, especially when he left the UK and
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hit Australia. Everything between was a bit of the wild West.
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One of the first clients he signed at UTA was
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Russell Peters, who's internationally huge, not so big on the States.
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Said Russell Peters is the OG of international touring. He
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was touring internationally and trying to figure it out long
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before anybody else in the industry really did, and became
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the story of we could do this right and up
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and comer of sorts they're talking about is Victorio Angeloni.
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I've talked about him on this podcast, seen him with
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mine own eyes. He's very funny. Wentland says, Victoria is
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one of the most exciting voices. He's an Italian Irish
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comedian who grew up in Belfast. Traditional agent set up
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here and said it's not what I need, so he
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went for this bespoke model of representation where he came
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to us for live. They also talked about Max Amini.
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Now remember late in twenty five Max's name came up
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and I was like, who is that, and none of
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you called me on it, So I don't think you're
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all behind my back watching Maximini. But apparently Max is
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like quietly super huge. Max was the first Iranian American
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artist to headline Madison Square Garden and sell out the
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Kia Forum in La Wentland. Said we did three shows
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in Sydney last time. Do we do five next time?
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Or do we go to an arena. That's those kind
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of questions, and he now not only does a show
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in English, but in some markets will go in and
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also do a show in forsee. Any other industry piece
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I want to talk about was behind the scenes at
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the Golden Globes Awards. This from Deadline the topic the
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comedy category deadline Rights. Two years in to that category,
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optimism among comics has curdled into something closer to resignation.
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Deadline Rights and conversations with comedy insight, including managers, agents,
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executives and stand ups themselves, a consistent critique emerges. The
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Globes Comedy category simply has a little to do with
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the best of the art form. That's how I felt
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about the podcasting category. That's not a shot at Amy Poehler.
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Amy's wonderful who her podcast is wonderful, but that award
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did not represent podcasting in all its forms. One manager
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told Deadline, people who really know and love comedy think
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the category is a joke. I know. It has little
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or nothing to do with who's actually making great comedy
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right now. Comedy is in this weird place right now
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where everybody thinks it's important what comedians have to say
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really impact society, and yet there seems to be very
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little emphasis on quality or artistic merit, and a lot
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of just heat and attention and buzz and controversy and gossip.
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Deadline says sources largely agree that the eighteen comedians nominated
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so far represent a narrow view of stand up shape
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more by celebrity and familiarity than by the breath of
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the form. Voters seem to have opted to nominate those
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familiar to them from film and television. Same note on
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the Podcasting award, everyone from Trevor Noa and Sarah sulliverman
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Alley Wong, and Brea Goldstein. One comedian compared it to
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the nineteen eighty nine Grammy's when Jethro Tull beat out
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Metallica for the Best Hard Rock Metal Performance Award. One
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insider said, I think comedy people are looking at it like, well,
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they're picking the names of the people they want at
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the ceremony, and that's what it is, so they can
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have cocktails with them at the party and take selfies.
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Same note on the Podcasting award. Sources argue the globes
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are failing stand up on two fronts. First, they're disconnected