Aug. 12, 2026

Shane Gillis discusses 76000 person Phily stadium show

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac delivers poolside comedy news, critiquing Jimmy Fallon’s interviewing while replaying Fallon’s chat with Shane Gillis about Gillis selling over 76,000 tickets for a Philadelphia show featuring guests including Meek Mill, Bam Margera, Dave Chappelle and Three 6 Mafia. He highlights a trailer and release date for Conan O’Brien Must Go season three (August 21). John Oliver draws backlash from the Rialto Police Department after an HBO segment about privately owned security cameras and alleged permit pressure. The Hollywood Reporter profiles Jimmy Kimmel, who discusses reactions to his unscheduled vacation, hosting Millionaire, and awards rivals. Other items include Patton Oswalt praising HBO’s The Pitt, Leslie Jones saying Woody Harrelson struggled in SNL rehearsals but excelled on-air, Jeff Dye and Laura Kightlinger disputing a “douche” Tesla windshield incident, Peacock’s Amy Poehler archaeology comedy Dig (Nov. 23), and Eric Andre saying he won’t return to Baltimore as John Cena defends the city.

00:20 Fallon vs Gillis Clip
00:42 Gillis Record Crowd
01:43 Surprise Guests Finale
02:37 Conan Must Go Trailer
03:20 John Oliver Police Spat
04:26 Kimmel THR Interview
06:04 Patton Oswalt Favorites
06:55 Leslie Jones SNL Reveal
07:34 Tesla Windshield Beef
08:57 Peacock Dig Preview
09:22 Eric Andre vs Baltimore

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Pool side once again. We have the entire winter to

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sit in a basement. We got to be outside the pool,

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still green, still looking into the vandal situation there. Shane

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Gillis was on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, and

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I have a premise for you. Jimmy Fallon very talented,

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I stick up from a lot, but he's just not

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a good interviewer. I have some proof here he is

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asking San Gillis about the concert in Philadelphia where Sheen

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Gillis sold seventy six thousand tickets plus. And here's Jimmy

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Fallon doing something bigly resembling an interview.

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Last month, though you broke the Guinness World Record for

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most tickets sold for a comedy show by the solo comedian.

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Over seventy six thousand tickets were sold.

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Talk to me, Uh, yeah, it was crazy.

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Did you did you ever think that that was possible?

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To you have any idea that you could fill that?

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How did you even gamble to think that you could?

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No? I didn't. I don't think anyone should do that again. No, no, no, no, no,

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I know it. It was a great experience. No, it

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was cool. Uh no, I sold. Uh. I did a

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show in Philly like two years before and it sold

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pretty well. And then I was at an Eagles game

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and the guys that work worked the stadium were like,

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you should do a show here, and uh, I thought

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that was crazy. And then they kept pushing it and

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it was funny because they were like, we're gonna have

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to move it around the World Cup. I'm gonna bump

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like going on. But it was a crazy show, right,

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it was crazy. Did you bring out uh?

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Did you bring us any special guests?

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Yeah? It was Uh. Meek Mill came out first and

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saying Dreams the Nightmare, of which I was I was cool.

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Uh.

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We had Ban Margera introduced them. That was awesome. Great.

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Kelsey was up there, then my buddy's Matt and Big Jay,

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and then I brought out Chappelle and then uh, yeah,

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come on, that's all you come on. My favorite was

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there was a surprise musical guest at the end, and

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I know the entire stadium thought it was going to

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be Zach Bryan and it was a very I don't

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know if you can tell, it was a very white audience.

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It's about seventy seven thousand white people. Yes, that's a

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different record. It's a different record. Congratulations. And it ended

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up being I brought out three six Mafia, which, yeah,

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that's an audience. I thought it was very funny. Thank you, rutes.

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Conan O'Brien must go, Season three, August twenty First, there

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is a triller. I have scoped this down for pacing.

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In many places.

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I've seen many things. This is the best travel show.

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The other celebrities, they look like a wax figure. Not me, though,

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Right do you think I should do maybe a little.

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Something, a little on beforehead?

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Tell me when I get to the right amount.

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Right there, you met the white person in and it's

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I'm not just a white person. I'm the whitest person.

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Let's stop right here.

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Don't make it worse.

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You're talking to the wrong guy, because I love to

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make it worse. The cops are mad at John Oliver.

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Oliver took a swing at a Southern California police department

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on HBO, and the rialto police department blasted John Oliver

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after he criticized the agency's use of privately owned security cameras,

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accusing John Oliver of painting a misleading picture of how

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the technology is actually used. The department said John Oliver

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segment did not accurately reflect how the Rialto Police Department

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utilizes this technology or the safeguards the Governor's use. During

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these segments, apparently Oliver had claimed that the police effectively

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pressured new businesses into giving police access to their cameras

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and exchange for permits, joking the business owners will have

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to decide whether opening an Neil salon is worth being

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a narc on passers by Captain lamontc Worker, a department spokesperson, said,

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no business has ever been denied permission to open because

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it chose not to participate in the program. There's a

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hole back and forth there. I'll let them fight it out,

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but I like this joke from John Oliver, who said,

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and if you worked at the Chick fil A, just

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know that on one Tuesday afternoon, Rialto had five of

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your interior characters open for two hours straight, which feels

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a little weird to me. Oliver also joked that getting

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secretly watched in your swimsuit is not supposed to be

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one of the perks that's staying at a day's end.

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The Hollywood Reporter profile that Jimmy Kimmel and they right

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to say Jimmy Kimmel had an eventful year is to

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utter even more of an understatement than Regis Filbin had

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a bronx accent. I worked with Regis Philbin. I never

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questioned his accent at all. Maybe because I have a

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queen's accent and I'm from New York City. I never

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thought Regis had a bronx accent.

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Did he?

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I'm not sure that's accurate. We digress. DHR said it

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was an intense TV season for you. What we remember most?

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Kimmel said, no question. What I remember most is the

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reactions who are unschedulification, which went so far beyond what

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I could have expected. I'll never forget the sport from friends, strangers,

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and even of those who generally make me throw up.

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I will tell you here that was such a huge story.

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I use AI to analyze the stats on the show

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to help me tweak the contents a little bit. You know,

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I want the show to grow. I like when people

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listen to the show. I try and talk about things

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that people care about, and that whole Kimmel thing actually

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did bigger numbers than the whole Colbert gate and every

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day the AI is like, what were you talking about? Then?

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Why do you do more of that? I'm like, what

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do you want me to do? Should I call the

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President and ask him to take Kimmel Show away? I

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could do that. I could also ask him what to

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do about this green pool I have here? And apparently

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kim Will agreed to this to promote Millionaire, because then

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the conversation went to millionaire. What's the hardest thing about

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hosting millionaire? Kimmel said, pronunciation, even the word pronunciation is

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hard to pronounce. A celebrity he'd like to land on

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the show. The Obamas would be a fun team. Also,

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Hall and Oates. Hall and Oates don't get along anymore.

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One of them sold the publishing rights and the others

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mad at them. They don't get along. THHR. We'd be

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putting up another billboard for the Late Show with Stephen

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Colbert to win the Late Night Emmy, Kimmel said, we're

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hoping this time they'd get one for us. THHR. Does

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John Oliver need to be stopping now that he's back

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in your category? Jimmy said, John Oliver deserves every war

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that gets awarded Star trek Runer Patton Oswald is a

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fan of HBO's at the Pit. Patton was in US

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Weekly's twenty five Things You Don't Know About Me feature.

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Patten said, Season one of the Pit was the last

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thing I binge. The whole show was amazing, but episode twelve.

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Then he spoiled Episode twelve that was a masterclass acting, writing,

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directing all of it. Had to watch that episode twice.

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We also learned that the star trek Runer is a

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night owl who really wants to be a morning person.

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Growing up, he idolized Charles Schultz, you know the guy

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that drew Snoopy, Vincent Brice, and the six million Dollar Man.

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His first car was a nineteen eighty five Nissan CenTra,

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which he called a death box with a tape player.

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His go to karaoke song is not three Times by

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Tony Orlando and Dawn. Patten says, I love banging the

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MIC's stand on the ground or in the Knock Knocknock

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part A great drunk belter. Celebrity crush growing up was

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either Joy Harmon from Village of the Giants or Josie

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from Josie and the Pussycats. Leslie Jones has revealed the

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SNL host who was effing up so badring rehearsals. The

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entire cast thought it would be one of the worst

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shows ever. So who was it? It was Woody Harrelson,

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who was not good, but once the camera started rolling,

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Leslie said the man became a whole different person. Jones

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was on a recent episode of First We Feasts Slice

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Joint and said when wood he came at the time,

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I think he was smoking weed and he was not

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good in rehearsal. He was effing up so bad. We

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were like, this is gonna be one of the worst

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shows ever. Once the camera started rolling, that man became

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a whole different person. We were quick changing. We're like, Woody,

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you're killing it. He was like, did you guys think

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I was going to do bad or something? And we

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were like, yes, em Murpher, you are efving up. Yes,

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Johnny Macluk's a good comedian.

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Beefle.

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Jeff Dye said he caught fellow stand up performer Laura

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Kitlinger scrolling an insult across jeff DiY's Tesla windshield after

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the two performed on the same comedy show That's Not Cool.

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Don't do that?

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Die?

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Says the moment was caught on his cars built in

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security cameras. Di went on Gutfeld and posted images from

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a video he said was captured by his Tesla security cameras,

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and said he had never met Laura before the sho

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show and that she'd seemed friendly enough beforehand, though that

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you didn't speak and she left before he went on.

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He said he assumed she hadn't realized who car was

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when she wrote douche in the fog on the windshield,

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calling it strange behavior for a sixty year old adult.

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I wonder in his theory whose car he thinks she

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thought it was that she would write douche in the

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fog on the windshield. Well, it turns out Laura confirmed

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writing the word and posted her own account of the exchange,

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along with screenshots of messages she said she later sent

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mister Dye. She said she'd been bothered watching him criticize

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a comic who had just performed, and argued the reaction

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to her post should be embarrassing to tough guy misogynists.

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She apologized and called her decision impulsive, saying she should

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have raised her concerns with mister Dye directly rather than

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writing it on his car. DIY pushed back on Twitter,

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denying that he was crying out and insisting he was

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simply holding her accountable. His management later gave Fox News

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Digital statement asserting that his car wasn't otherwise vandalized. Peacock

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has dropped a first look at its upcoming arc cheological

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comedy called Dig Dig. Stars Amy Poehler as a lease,

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a member of a dedicated group of archaeologists and less

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dedicated college students who spend their summer working at a

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dig site in Greece. All ten episodes will debut Monday,

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November twenty third. On Peacock, we're told their discovery of

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a rare artifact sends them on the adventure of a lifetime.

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I can't wait. The Baltimore banner is mad at Eric Andre.

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Currently on a round table, eric Andre said I'm never

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going to Baltimore again. Made that city burn to the

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ground for what they do to me. He did not

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explain what it is that Baltimore does to him. John Cena,

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on the round table jumped to Baltimore's defense and said,

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don't do that. That's the birthplace of National Bohemian Beer.

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It says from the land of pleasant living on the can.

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Don't do that to Baltimore now. The Baltimore Banner points out,

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while National Bohemian famously got its start in Baltimore in

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the late eighteen hundreds, the now Paps Brewing Company owned

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beer is no longer brewed in Baltimore. Sena kept going,

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he said, Brooks and Frank Robinson, come on. He then

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named to Hall of famers calaribicin Junior and Jim Palmer.

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But it remains unclear why Eric Andre does not like

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Baltimore other than experiencing quote a trauma there. But he

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did not elaborate. That is your comedy needs for today

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see tomorrow