Oct. 9, 2024

Shane Gillis chooses Skankfest over SNL

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac reports on Shane Gillis turning down an SNL offer to attend Skankfest and explores insights into late night comedy with comments revolving around John Mulaney, Chris Gethard, and comedy legends like Letterman and Conan. The episode touches on Vegas's Skankfest and performers like Dave Attell, and reviews including opinions on Ali Wong's Netflix special and Hannah Gadsby's New York show. Also discussed is Trevor Noah's new illustrated book 'Into the Uncut Grass'.

00:14 Shane Gillis' SNL Offer and Skankfest
01:39 Skankfest Coverage and Dave Attell's Insights
03:39 Chris Gethard on Late Night Comedy
07:00 Ali Wong's New Netflix Special Review
07:55 Hannah Gadsby's Latest Show
09:27 Trevor Noah's New Book
09:49 Conclusion and Subscription Info

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Well, this show is interesting. Hello, I'm

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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Shane Gillis says

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he was asked to come back to SNL for a

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year to play Trump. Shane was at Skankfest, the comedy

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festival in Las Vegas. We'll talk about that in a second.

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Lewis J. Gomez said of Shane, nobody thought he was

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coming to the festival this year. Shane said, explain why?

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Gomez asked, can I explain why Gillis gave him the

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go ahead? Gomez says, because he was offered to play

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Trump on the entire season of SNL and he turned

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it down to effing b Here Shane confirmed the story

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and said, they said, are you serious? You're gonna say no?

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And I said, Lorne, I gotta go to Coke Magic.

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Coke Magic is a show where Gomez performs magic tricks. Now,

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this is all interesting because remember that Hollywood reporter piece

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I was picking away at that suggested that James Austin

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Johnson wouldn't be doing Trump on the show. But wait,

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there's more. Late Nighters said during rehearsal of the Nate

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Berghansey episode, there was a version of the opening sketch

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where Maya Rudolph's Kamala Harris was home watching the debate.

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In the dress rehearsal version, James Austin Johnson's Trump was

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also watching the debate. The Trump character said, this guy's

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doing great, before it was revealed that he's not watching

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the debate. He's actually watching American Ninja Warrior. So really interesting, right,

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I mean, Shane Gillis goes from hey, you're on SNL,

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Sorry you can't be on ESNL to now they're asking

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him to come back for a year. I mean, his

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Trump is really good, probably is better than James Austin

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Johnson's right now. But wow, now, new topic interesting to

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me about skank Fest is again. I'll remind you I

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host this podcast every day and as part of the

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prep I go to several websites and I also type

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in words like comedy and comedian. Nothing about skank Fest

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came up at all this year. I would have mentioned it.

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It didn't come up at all. I came up like

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six months ago when they announced it, and that's the

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last time I saw it came and went. I would

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have told you who was playing. I would have said

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something about it even stranger as I put together the

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show on Tuesday. If you type skank Fest into Google

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and then click on the news tab, as one might

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do when preparing their comedy podcast, here's what comes up.

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The deadline story about Shane. I just told you the

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local patch telling us about the official skank Fest after

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party at Peppermint Hippo. That story from two weeks ago.

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David Tail spoke to the Las Vegas Review Journal. They

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were curious what a sober fellow like Dayton Fettel does

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late nights in Vegas these days. Dave said, it's a blur,

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but the beauty of Vegas is you're always a block

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away from a T shirt shop. You know me, I

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like a good saucy T shirt. And I really like

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Vegas because we're on the same time frame. You can

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get breakfast at two in the morning. Even though I

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don't party, it's perfect for me. And the fear is

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right there as well. I haven't been there, but I've

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been to the BattleBots Arena, which is a couple blocks away.

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It looks bigger in person than it did on TV.

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He was asked about skank Fest and said, this is

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the third year in Vegas, and I think Vegas and

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skank Fest they're a perfect fit. It's a great town

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for the super fans to fly into. The guys from

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the Legion of Skanks podcast have always cool to me,

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and I love what they've done now they've built this

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fond that really appreciates live stand up. The Journal was

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curious about Lewis Black's retirement, and Etel said, Lewis, of

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course is the road warrior. Nobody tore it harder than him,

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and the guy's a class all the way. He's been

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a role model for the rest of us. I'll be

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doing it thirty seven years now and I'm hoping to

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make it a forty, but that really depends on my bills.

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So if you see me after that, then I got

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to pay these bills. But I do enjoy it. The

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only thing I don't like is the travel, and it's

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a little harder when you're older, but the shows are

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still really will get you going. I know, comedy in

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Vegas is kind of lowered down, somewhere between magic and massage,

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and I'm working on new stuff all the time. He

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was worried about the temperature getting down of the low

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nineties and said he was going to bring a jacket.

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Late Nighter I spoke to Chris Gethard and pointed out

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that when mulaney did his talk show, a lot of

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people were comparing it to the Chris Gethard show. Chris

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told Late Nighter, Mullany is a cornerstone of modern comedy

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to a degree that no one can ignore it now

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and moving forward, you just can't have another boring talk

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show that looks like every talk show since nineteen fifty.

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Mullaney has cracked that open. I mean, yeah, but it

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was Son of Letterman, to which Chris Gether talked about,

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and he said, for me, like a lot of people

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my age, it's the Letterman and Conan. My parents tell

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me I used to fake being asleep as a little kid,

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at like three to four years old. I'd pretend to

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be asleep on the couch. Then they'd realize I was

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sitting there watching Johnny Carson with them. But Letterman was

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the real game changer. Amen high five, says Johnny Mack.

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I remember the first time I stayed up late and

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watched Letterman with my older brother. I was definitely on

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the younger side of it, but someone who was built

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to understand that guy's being kind of a troublemaker. He's

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not Carson. Carson's what it's supposed to look like. This

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guy's not doing that. Amen. On top of that, a

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lot of my favorite stuff was stuff that Letterman platform.

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Do you look at Andy Kaufman, Chris Elliott, Howard Stern.

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Not only did Letterman do a lot of stuff that

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really shook things up, he took the people who were

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really outlandish and gave them a national platform, and then

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Conan felt completely insane. Conan really felt like if you

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took the smartest version of me and my brother and

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our friends and put them on TV and just let

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them do whatever they want. I've often said, if there's

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only one piece of comedy I could ever watch in

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my tire life again, it would be Conan takes mister

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t apple Picking. I think there's a little bit of

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that happens among comedy nerds when you think what's the

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best sketch group of all time and you go, you know, oh,

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kids in the Hall, Monty Python, UCB, the Slade, whoever

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you want to say. But I really think that Conan's

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rying staff from that area. Brian Stack, Brian McCann, Kevin Dwarf,

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Andy Blitz, Alison Silverman, John Glazer. If you just put

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that in a vacuum, that's one of the best sketch

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comedy groups ever assembled. It just happened to exist under

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the umbrella of this larger talk show. That's the best

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of the best sketch comedy of that generation, all under

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one roof, operating at a super high level. As for

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the Chris Gathard Show, there were a lot of things

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I was just chasing, especially with Letterman Conan. If I

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could do anything as funny as Dave dumping ten thousand

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bouncy balls off the roof of the studio onto the

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streets of New York, I'll die happy. If I can

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do anything as interesting or funny as a Conan staring

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contest bit, and I feel like it's worth doing it.

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But there's definitely part of me that was like, these

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guys don't like doing these monologues, these political jokes, especially

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back then, that's just how Carson used to do it.

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So you're making them do that. I wish the Late

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Night Show didn't have to do the monologue. It seems

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like the part of the hosts like least the Chris

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gathered show was far from perfect. I'm not saying we

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nailed it even the majority, but I think some of

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the reason it developed a cult following was because people

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saw us going, let's see what we could do to

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maybe totally turn down the stuff we don't like about

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talk shows and then pour gasoline on the stuff that

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we do. Back to Mullaney's late night show. I've known

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John for many, many years now, but I saw those

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people going, whoa man, this show has the Chris Gathard

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Show in front of it, and I was really nervous

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about that, because, just to be clear, John mullaney does

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not need to rip me off in any way. He's

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a very brilliant guy. But a lot of it was

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very healthy by seeing a lot of the fans of

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the Gathered show going, this is cool to watch this

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Mullenie show, and seeing old Gathered show fans jump in

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and say, if you like this guy, you might really

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like this thing. I like back when I was in

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high school. Here's a link to the YouTube page, and

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they're all still up there. I emailed Mullanie after the

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first couple nights of a show to say, it's so

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cool to see what you're going for It's bringing back

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a lot of positive feelings for me. You're taking big

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chances on live TV, and I really love it. I

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talked to my old show runner and he was like,

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the cool thing is that Late Night always builds on

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the history of Late Night. Carson built on Steve Allen.

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Letterman was building on Erni Kovax, than Conan built on Letterman,

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and I never ever hide the fact that my show

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was worshiping at the altar of Letterman and Conan. Front

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of the Podcast. Jason Zinnemann reviewed Ali Wong's new Netflix

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special for The New York Times. It's going to take

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me a minute to get to Ali special. The Mets

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are in the playoffs. There's football. I have this life

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outside of doing the comedy podcast, so it's going to

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be a minute before you hear me talk about it.

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Jason writes, Wong always reminds me of Bill Burr, because

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she seems funniest at her most tense, working through anger

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using that machine gun delivery. She pops off with some

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umbrage on light topics, but also displays stream This is

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a show that a time feels undercooked. There are bits

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about dating younger men and Midwesterners that are less than ambitious.

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The show is the feel of someone rushing to tell

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us something. Her main message is that being a divorced

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woman in your forties is better than its cracked up

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to be. It's a promising take, in part because you

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rarely hear it. But the punchlines slow down as she

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zeros in on herself, telling the crowd look at me

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as an alternative example of how it can be. Yikes,

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that doesn't sound great. Hanna Gasby started their live show

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in New York City. The Daily Beast saw it and said,

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in Hannah Gatsby's latest excellent show, prepare for that sweet

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innocence to be left in undignified crumbs thanks to a

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brilliantly disgusting joke involving a discarded packet of Tim Tams

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and something. Tim TAM's seemed to be Australia's favorite chocolate biscuit.

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It consists of two malted biscuits, separated by a light

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hearted chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer

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of textured chocolate. But I digress. You may recall the

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joke involves a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something

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let's say if you're cleaning a hotel room, you never

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want to find on the floor. Gatsby's both a wonderful

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joke and storyteller. A tilt of the head, a side eye,

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a pause can add to moments of extended hilarity while

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attempt at threading stories and jokes with moments of sharp

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self reflection and confession. In this show, at certain moments,

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they insist that these moments are just between us, reflecting

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on Tailor Swift's fame and global predominance. Uh oh, watch out.

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You know one time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift joke.

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I think we all know that went Now I'm not

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doing it. Scot Relex Speed not only confesses to not

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being much of a fan, but also sums up Swift

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as a can of coke masquerading as a sorority cult.

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Oh man, I guess Hannah Gatsby won't be hosting the

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Golden Globes anytime soon. Gasby has previously spoken of their

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own autism. Here, they talk of social media being the

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place where neurotypical people go to experience the worst of

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the condition. They joke, I'm going to be canceled by feminists.

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I don't think there's anything more feminist than being canceled

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by feminists. Sounds like a fun show. Trevor Noah has

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unveiled his latest book. It is called Into the Uncut Grass,

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an illustrated story that invites readers of all ages on

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a journey of connection, imagination, and self discovery. Into the

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Uncut Grass follows a young child's adventure in a magical

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landscape beyond the familiar world of home, discovering the joy

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of sharing connection and finding peace with the people we love.

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