Oct. 14, 2026

Shane Gillis backlash PLUS Seinfeld protest interruption

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers reactions to Shane Gillis, noting Michael Che’s joking Instagram stories about press questions, criticism from Phoebe Robinson, and gym “whore” posts from Ego Nwodim and Maren Morris; Flavor Flav and Travis Kelce also engage with a Dan Levy clip. He mocks The Daily Beast’s “MAGA-friendly” framing and discusses unaired footage of Gillis walking offstage before SNL goodnights, likened to Morgan Wallen’s earlier exit. A resurfaced 2011 Dave Chappelle bit is used to compare joke premises. Mac reviews specials from Sam Morril (weak closer), Jamie Foxx (unwatchable), and Louis C.K. (higher level). He cites an LA Times interview where Che says Weekend Update is a character and stand-up is more nuanced. Upcoming SNL host Druski’s past sketch controversies are recapped; Seinfeld is interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters in Chicago; Good+ Foundation’s anniversary lineup is noted; Gabriel Iglesias reports an SUV break-in in Oakland; David Mitchell praises prolific American sitcom output; Vulture lauds It’s Always Sunny season 18; and late-night ratings are summarized for Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, The Daily Show, and Byron Allen.

00:15 Che Jokes About Gillis
00:42 Gym Whore Backlash
01:16 Flav Kelce Swifties React
01:47 Daily Beast Walk Off Clip
02:32 Chappelle Parallel Thinking
04:21 Specials Morill Foxx CK
05:40 Michael Che Real Self
07:24 Druski Hosting Controversy
09:04 Seinfeld Protester Clip
10:44 Gabe Iglesias Oakland Break In
11:07 Linnet Podcast Tool Ad
11:48 David Mitchell on US Comedy
12:35 Always Sunny Season Praise
13:44 Late Night Ratings Rundown

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My, I hope we find something to talk about. Hi,

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I'm Johnny Mac with your daily comedy news. Yeah, we're

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going to talk a little Shane Gillis. And I'm also

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going to have fun with the Daily Beast. They love

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tagging comedians with headlines. So when you hear me saying, like,

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mega comedian Nate Bregazzi, that's what I'm making fun of here.

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They say SNL's Michael Che has called out mega-friendly comedian

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Shane Gillis. In a series of Instagram stories, Michael Che wrote,

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got to do more press this week to promote the special.

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Wonder what every effing question is going to be about.

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Thanks a lot, Shane. People pointed out, if you pay

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attention to Michael Che's work, he's probably not mad at Shane.

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He's just having fun with the whole thing. One social

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media user wrote, if you generally thought he was upset,

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you haven't been following him much at all. I agree.

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More people upset with Shane Gillis include Ego Nuotum. She

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posted a picture of herself at the gym. She wrote,

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Whore reporting for duty. I haven't been to the gym

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in so long. I didn't know women just dress like

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whores now. Look, I'm sorry. There's no other way to

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describe it. Have you seen it? Singer Maren Morris, who

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I'm unfamiliar with, posted a video of herself at the

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gym with the caption, me being a whore at the gym.

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Comedian Phoebe Robinson called Shane Gillis' jokes mediocre BS, adding,

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aren't we sick of this misogynist, lazy-ass, hack, mediocre, straight

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male effing disdain for women that's masked as effing comedy?

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Flavor Flav, you know him from Public Enemy. He shared

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Dan Levy's video that I shared on the podcast yesterday.

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He tagged it with the message, Important Allyship. Meanwhile, Travis

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Kelsey liked the clip. He gave it a thumbs up.

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A Swifty account posted on threads, even the ones you

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think are good ones aren't. This was a poor choice

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for Mr. Swift to make. Does that mean we can

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drag Taylor Swift into this whole thing? That would be amazing.

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It would be really, really good for the show, Taylor,

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if you could comment on Shane Gillis. Can you please,

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please do that for me? Please? Also from the Daily Beast,

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the headline, MAGA-FRIENDLY SNL HOST walks off show early in

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unaired footage. Now, this is interesting. Late Nighter had the clip.

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This was not shown live. I don't know where Late

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Nighter got the clip from, but Shane Gillis can be

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seen walking offstage before the good nights are over, exiting

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through the center of the stage. This is reminiscent of

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when Morgan Wallen walked off during the good nights in

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March of 2025, after which he posted to Instagram, Get

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Me to God's Country. I was paying attention to the

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part of The Good Nights that they did televise, and

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it seemed like not too many people were warming up

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to Shane other than Cam Patterson, described here in The

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Daily Beast as Tony Hinchcliffe acolyte Cam Patterson. As I

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put the show together, a clip of Dave Chappelle from

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2011 has surfaced. Now, I'm not playing this to shame

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anyone for what they wear to the gym. I am

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sharing this to demonstrate what the material could be in

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the hands of a better comedian. Here, I think we

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see some parallel thinking. Do you think Shane Gillis is

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ripping off 15-year-old Chappelle jokes? I don't. But hey, more controversy.

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Is Shane Gillis stealing jokes from Dave Chappelle? Let's start

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that controversy while we're at it. But anyway, what might

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a better comedian do with the material? Here's Dave Chappelle

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from 2011. I did make a minor edit. I try

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not to do F-bombs on the show. I know we

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did a couple Monday, but we try not to. So

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I took that word out. But here's Dave Chappelle. The

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girl gets mad at you.

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Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

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Wait a minute.

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Just because I'm dressed this way does not.

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Make me a whore. Which is true.

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Gentlemen, that is true. Just because they dress a certain

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way doesn't mean they are a certain way. Don't ever

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forget it. But ladies, you must understand that that is confusing.

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It just is.

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Now, that would be like me, Dave Chappelle the comedian,

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walking around the streets in a cop uniform.

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Somebody might run up on me.

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Thank God. Officer, help us. Come on, they're over here.

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Help us!

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I'm like, oh, just because I'm dressed this way does

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not make me a police officer. You understand what I'm saying?

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It's like, all right, lady, fine. Fine.

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You are not a whore. But you are wearing a

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whore's uniform. I'll tell you that's the point.

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I watched a couple specials, actually three specials before Monday

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Night Football on Monday. Sam Morrell's special, pretty good. I

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was enjoying it. I was like, this is pretty strong.

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This could be way up the list. And then at

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one point I realized I had kind of checked out

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and I was playing on my phone and it turned

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out that was his closer. The closer was surprisingly weak

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for that pretty good special. Now, I'm wondering if this

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is the was it Bert Kreischer thing where Bert was

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explaining that comedians are moving their better material to the

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front of the special because people don't make it to

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the closer. So maybe Sam structured his set that way.

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I don't know. You'd have to ask Sam. But, you know,

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it's an OK special. Just disappointed with the closer. Then

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I put on the special from my former coworker, Jamie Foxx,

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and I will use the word unwatchable. It started. I'm like, hey, Fox,

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get to it. Can you get to it? Can you

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get to it? And then he got to it. And

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then I hit next. hard pass on the Jamie Foxx special.

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And then I don't know if you saw this. Netflix

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has put up a bunch of the Louis C.K. specials

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from the Louis C.K. You have to buy my specials

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on the website era. So you've got some fresh C.K.

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if you never did that. And I was watching one

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of them. And boy, he's just a better comedian. I'm

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not here to defend Louis's behavior, but just in the

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art of standup, when you watch, say, Jamie Foxx or

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Sam Morrell, And then you put on CK. CK's playing

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at another level. He's just a better comedian. I have

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not yet watched Michael Che. I'm recording pretty early on

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a Tuesday. It's not even 11 a.m., which is early

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for me. But the L.A. Times caught up with Michael Che.

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They asked, hey, what's your real self, the Weekend Update

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guy or your stand-up persona? Che said, the stand-up is

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the most me. Update is a job and it's a character.

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On stage, you get to hear more nuances. On Weekend Update,

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it's a short segment, and I'm splitting time with Colin

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and guests. There are more needs being met than just mine.

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I say that respectfully. There are things we touch on

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that I wouldn't in my personal work, and there are

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other things people write, so it's never all me. Specific

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to stand-up, he said, I can listen, I can build,

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I can take you on a journey, I can make

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you think this is a bad joke, but it's actually

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a good joke. I can make you think it's a

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dirty joke, but it's a clean joke. I miss doing

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stand-up full-time, but maybe that's only because I don't do

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it full-time, and maybe if I did it full-time, I'd

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miss doing it part-time. Getting this hour together, Lorne was

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nice enough to let me go on the road even

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during show weeks, and he didn't ask as much of

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me this past season. It was really kind, and I

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really appreciate it. The LA Times followed up and said,

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Your stand-up persona is definitely more thoughtful and open-minded than

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your weekend update one. It's called comedy, everybody. Even on

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Saturday Night Live, some things are just jokes. I don't

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know why people can't understand this. I'm not shading the L.A. Times.

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I just think in general. Yeah, he's playing a persona.

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He leans into the persona if you watch it every week.

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The Times is curious. Are you conscious of revealing yourself

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on stage or just thinking about what's funny? Chase said

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they tell you in the criminal world that the longer

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you talk to the police, the more chances there are

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you're going to reveal something. And I feel like it's

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true for comedy, too. A lot of the stuff I

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do is just thoughts that we haven't said out loud

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and explored yet. I start with a thought. And if

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I can get a joke, a one liner for the thought.

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Looking ahead a little bit on SNL, Drewski will be

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your host on November 7th. Now, I remembered Drewski controversy

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something something, so I looked it up on Tuesday morning.

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Back in March, Druski posted a sketch to X captioned, quote,

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how conservative women in America act. In the sketch, Druski

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wears prosthetics, including a blonde wig, heavy makeup, a white jacket.

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Some people use the term whiteface. Druski moves through a

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series of scenes as a conservative woman praying for troops

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at a rally. clutching a Bible during a rambling faith testimony,

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and delivering a speech about protecting, quote, all white men

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in America, many people think it was a parody of

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Erica Kirk. The video got 100 million views. Druski, who

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will host Saturday Night Live on November 7th, was also

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profiled by Rolling Stone on February 22nd, 2024. I will

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read two paragraphs verbatim, quoting Rolling Stone. His rise hasn't

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been without controversy. In 2022, he posted a skit called

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That friend that tries to make the girls overly drink,

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where he played a man who encourages women to excessively

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imbibe so he can sexually assault them. Audiences were split.

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Some commended Druski for calling out the behavior, while others

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felt that joking about rape was insensitive. I think I

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displayed the character too well, he says, discussing the subject

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for the first time. After the controversy bubbled up, he

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took the clip down. I didn't want to continue to

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trigger people, he says. It's always coming from a good place.

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But Druski isn't done exposing this kind of behavior. His

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characters often touch on misogynistic standards and the early signs

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of emotional toxicity in relationships. I was like, yo, you

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have to remember, this is the same stuff I've been doing.

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This is my comedic voice. Again, that was Rolling Stone

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in 2024. And he is hosting Saturday Night Live on

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November 7th. We'll see if the social media warriors do

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their homework. Bubbling up on Tuesday morning as I record

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Jerry Seinfeld finding himself in some hot water. There are

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posts being spread on social media. I've seen a few

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of them. They're a little blurry. The audio is not great.

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It appears to be Jerry Seinfeld in Chicago this past

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Friday being interrupted by some pro-Palestinian protesters in the audience. Apparently,

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at one point, Jerry ends a joke by saying, I've

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definitely had enough. Then a protester shouts from the audience, well,

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I've had enough of genocide. Other members of the crowd

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begin to boo. The protester goes on, citing the estimated

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death tolls of Palestinians killed by the war in Gaza.

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As the protester is escorted out of the show, Jerry

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is seen dancing. on the stage, according to some accounts,

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while mocking the protester. Jerry is quoted in an article

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on MSN.com as saying, I'm racist. It's a genocide. I'm

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into it. Jerry then apparently goes on to tell the protester,

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I'm going to find out how much your ticket was

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and I'm sending it to Israel. Jerry then apparently tagged

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that joke with, no, I won't. I'm keeping it. And

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another account tells me that tag got laughter, applause, and

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cheers from the audience. I'll be curious to see how

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much this bubbles up. Meanwhile, the Good Plus Foundation is

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gearing up for another night of stand-up to mark the

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organization's 25th anniversary milestone. The foundation, launched by Jessica Seinfeld,

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has headliner Jerry Seinfeld, so I assume he won't be

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canceled by Jessica. Also appearing Leanne Morgan, Louis C.K., Marcelo Hernandez,

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who does one thing well, and George Wallace. We are

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promised an unforgettable night of laughter and purpose, raising funds

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to support Good Plus's work with families. Gabe Iglesias was

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in Oakland, and apparently they broke into his SUV. He

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was taking a picture at the edge of Lake Merritt.

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Gabe Iglesias posted on Twitter, Hello from Oakland, so beautiful.

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Hard to believe they broke into our SUV only 200

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feet from this pic. One social media user chimed in,

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Not hard to believe it. You're in Oakland. You're only

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five miles away from the closing of the only In-N-Out ever. Hey,

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don't forget to go beta test Linnet for us. What's Linnet, John? Well,

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you can make your own podcast, but I don't know

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how to make a podcast. That's the point. Linnet will

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talk you through it. Go to linnetmedia.com, L-I-N-N-E-T, media.com. Play

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around with it. If you're like, hey, I wanted to

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make a podcast about Shane Gillis, you can just tell

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it what you want to make. It will help you

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make it. You can voice it yourself or you can

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have an AI voice it. If you're like, I don't

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know how to edit, trust me, it will edit for you.

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I was playing with it on the weekend while crushing

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mention over and over and over. Yeah, I was having

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it clean up some episodes of this very program. Works

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just fine. So why don't you beta test it? It's

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free for the rest of the month. Linnetmedia.com, L-I-N-N-E-T, media.com.

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The LA Times, for the second time today, makes the podcast.

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They caught up with David Mitchell. You know him from

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Mitchell and Webb. David also stars in Ludwig season two.

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They were curious if he was aware of American TV.

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He said, I suppose the first sitcom that had a

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big impact on me was Cheers, which seemed to be

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in the vanguard of a series of brilliant American sitcoms

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that are both very funny and sort of terrifying in

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the number of episodes they were able to produce. But yes,

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I mean, yeah, can you imagine as a Brit being like,

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they made 200 episodes of something? But yes, I absolutely

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loved American comedy and American comic films as well. There's

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something I quite often rewatch, films from the 80s. I

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remember quite enjoying and you go, I sound like such

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an old person. They don't make them like that anymore.

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He points out that they don't make enough of them

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for there to be the 5% best of them. You

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don't get When Harry Met Sally by making one romantic comedy.

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You get it by making 200, and one of them

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is that. Another show approaching 200 episodes, It's Always Sunny

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in Philadelphia. This new season was really strong. You know,

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some of the seasons in the teens... especially around COVID time.

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We're a little off the mark, but I liked this

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season a lot. Like I found myself laughing out loud

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and I'm a comedy snob. Vulture agrees. They wrote more

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than a victory lap. This 18 season feels like an

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argument that it's always sunny could continue on indefinitely. Even

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if it's become a bobblehead of nods to its past,

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it remains impressive how the series' writers keep coming up

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with new ways to remix these elements, and the actors

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keep finding new shades within the characters. As always, Glenn

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Howarden is the cast MVP, with his elastic, expressive face

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selling all of probable serial killer Dennis' most hyperbolic reactions.

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It's his quiet moments, and the guys have a sleepover

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that's so powerful. The tentative way he says to Charlie,

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that was awesome, dude, maybe we should call it. And

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then his pleasantly surprised expression when he says to Charlie

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the morning after the sleepover, I had a blast. I

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really did. Vulture writes, both lines can be construed metatextually,

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like Dennis is admitting the gang has come to the

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end of the road. I hope not. The show's been great.

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Keep going. Why not? Late Nighter took a look at

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the late night ratings. Kimmel averaged over 3 million viewers

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across 13 first-run episodes in September. We're not really going

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to get rid of that show, are we? Why would

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we do that? Jimmy, why would you walk away at

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the height of your power when you're only a little

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older than me? All you'll wind up doing is being

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a loser in a baseball cap in the basement recording

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a podcast. You don't want that sad ending to your life. No,

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keep hosting the show. You have proper lighting. Kimmel's up

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43% from August. In the 18 to 49s, now 336,000 viewers.

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The Tonight Show, starring Jimmy Fallon for now, averaged 1.5

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million total viewers, down 3%. However, in the 18 to 49s,

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it was up 24%, 230,000 adults watching the show. Make

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1230 great again, Seth Meyers has a show for some reason.

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He's sitting in David Letterman and Conan O'Brien's old chair.

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Don't even start me. That came back, and the new episodes,

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after seven weeks off, averaged 1.04 million total viewers. In

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the 18 to 49s, Late Night with Seth Meyers got 139,000 adults,

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which is a very respectable number for a podcast. The

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Daily Show back, 1.01 million total viewers in the 18

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to 49s, 157,000. That's like Seth Meyers numbers, guys. What's

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going on there? That's terrible. I mean, CBS isn't even trying.

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Byron Allen got 787,000 total viewers. And in the 18 to.

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49s, 106,000.

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Pretty good numbers for a podcast. At 12.05, the second

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half of Byron Allen airs. Got 72,000 18 to 49s.

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Not even good numbers for a podcast, but CBS doesn't care.

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They're being paid. And the other Byron Allen thing at 1230,

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it's called Funny You Should Ask. 528,000 total viewers. And

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then the 18 to 49s, 86,000. Which, what was Seth's

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number again? 139. I don't know, NBC. I don't know.

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And that is your comedy news for today. I hope

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we find something to talk about tomorrow. See you then.