Shane Gillis hosts SNL - breakdown, analysis, clips and why most of the media hot takes are WRONG

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I
am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Funny joke from Kermit Appiois on Twitter, who wrote, be careful when

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you order your Trump sneakers. It
says they weigh two pounds, but they

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actually weigh twenty eight pounds. Also, they have no soul. Hey,

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I know not everybody listens to the
weekend episodes. Saturdays in particular was very

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strong. If you missed that one, I highly recommend you downloads Saturday.

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Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live,
mixed reviews. I thought it was pretty

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good. I seem to be unpopular
of that opinion. Before I get to

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the monologue, since I talked about
Trump sneakers, let's start with a sketch

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about Trump sneakers. The setup here
is that Shane is portraying a regular guy

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who's bad at basketball and stuff,
and then he gets some Trump sneakers good

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at basketball. No, they give
me the power to say I'm good at

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basketball, and they double down on
that until people actually start to believe it.

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No gets whatever he wants, mister
Mitchell. Everybody's saying, I should

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have your office because my cubicle is
a disaster right now? What can I

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have a minute to gather my things? Bye bye? He gets whoever he

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wants. Wow, that was the
most fantastic love making you've ever had.

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How really it only lasted two hours? That was a two hour love session.

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You had a big O in They're
a very big O. But I

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did no want to go again.
I'd love to, but you're too tired,

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all right, So you get the
joke there. Later in the sketch,

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James Austin Johnson shows up as I
guess actual Trump, and we get

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my predicted to dueling Trumps. You
know, in many ways, the real

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magic has been inside of you all
along. Wrong it comes from the shoes,

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and you're coming off as very stupid
and frankly quite rude walking in here

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like this. My work here is
done in terms of basketball movie pastiche,

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and with regard to shoes, I
think we've done wonderful. White Man,

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Kim Trump. Oh, ask for
the monologue. I'm going to make some

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trims here to tighten up crowd and
pacing and stuff. But let's listen to

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Shane Gillis, Ladies and gentlemen,
Shame Giles, thank you, thank you

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very much, it's yeah, I'm
here. Most of you probably have no

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idea who I am. I was, actually I was fired from this show

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a while ago. But if you
know, don't look that up. Please.

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If you don't know who I am, please don't google that. It's

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fine, don't even worry about it. I don't know this is I probably

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shouldn't be up here. Honestly,
I should be home. I should be

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I should be a high school football
coach. That's what I should be,

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Like, God molded me perfectly to
be a high school football coach slash ninth

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grade sex education teacher. Now,
if you watch his body language, he's

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just shucking jokes. It's the same
thing I said about a special He's just

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like, hey, I'm a big
goofy guy, and these are just jokes.

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And I think people are taking this
way too seriously. About two and

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a half minutes into the monologue,
we get our first controversy. He said

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a word ended upset people. My
mom asked me, She's like, when

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did we stop being best friends?
And she's right, we used to be

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best friend. Do you remember that
when you were a little boy and you

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like, you loved your mom and
you thought she was a cool. You

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remember when you were gay? Do
you remember when you were just a gay

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little boy? Every little boy is
just their mom's gay best friend. There's

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literally a zero difference. I was
gay for my mom. She would pick

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me up from school. I'd hop
in the van. I'd be like,

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girl, tell me about your day. I thought she was cool. I

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would listen to her music. I'd
be like, bam bam, badam,

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bam bam bam, let's go girls. I would dance for her. She'd

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be like, look at my little
dance. He heard about the for minute

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ten second mark, he goes into
if you've seen his specials, some familiar

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downs at syndrome material. He gets
criticized over this material a lot. And

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maybe I'm just a jerk face.
This does not sound hateful to me.

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I don't know if you guys,
if you can tell by looking at me,

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but I do have family members with
down syndrome. It almost got me.

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Hu I dodged it, but it
nicked me. It nits me.

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It's funny it Look, I don't
have any material that can be on TV.

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All right, I'll try my best. Also, this place is extremely

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well lit. I can see everyone
not enjoying it. This is uh yeah,

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just the most nervous I've ever bet. Don't clap now, shut up.

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No, I talked about I brought
up down Center. You got you

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can always tell who's never been around
down center when you bring it up,

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Like if I to help people,
if I'm like, yeah, I have

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family members with down syndrome, people
that have never been around it are always

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like, oh, Like it's like
it's the end of the world, Like,

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oh, are they okay? Are
they doing it? It's like they're

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doing better than everybody I know.
They're the only ones having a good time

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pretty consistently. They're not worried about
the election. They're having a good time.

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Later in that routine, he does
use the R word as the tag

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and a long story, but again
in context, it just doesn't sound hateful.

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Colleider wrote, the Shane Gillis episode
of Saturday Night Live was rough to

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watch. Picking out the best sketches
of the night was a lot harder than

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you'd think, and it was because
none of them were particularly great. Well,

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that's been true for two plus years, guys. I'm not sure we

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should blame Shane for that. Perhaps
the writers, at every turn, every

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sketch It's something that was just insulting
to people for no reason. From a

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sketch about a sex doll mocking people
with amblyopia to a frankly distasteful Forrest Gump

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sketch, the episode left audience is
wondering, who is this for? People

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who like to laugh at sketch comedy
shows, That's who it's for. An

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episode the felt I was never going
to end. Gillis's grand debut on the

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stage of Studio eight h was beyond
painful to watch. What's the worst possible

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to way to remake Like Mike in
twenty twenty four by using that same premise

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but applying it to Donald Trump's nearly
four hundred dollar sneakers that are bright red,

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blue, and gold. The idea
is that Gillis is playing a man.

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There's really bad a basketball I'm talking
to anyone. When he wears just

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Trump shoes, he can suddenly convince
everyone lady's good at this stuff. Yeah,

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pretty funny. Did he miss the
shot? No, he didn't.

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He thought he did, but he
didn't. He totally made it up.

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Yeah, it was a funny.
Sketcher just played it. The Daily Beast

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wroach She and Gillis bombs on SNL
with dawn syndrome and gay jokes. So

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does this monologue have the same victory
lap vibes of Norm McDonald's nineteen ninety nine

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monologue after he was fired. Not
quite, because it doesn't seem like there

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was any real beef between Gillis and
the people running the show. Perhaps,

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if the criticism hadn't kept growing as
it did, Lauren Michaels would have kept

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Gillis on regardless of whatever racist or
homophobic thing had said in the past.

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This is the same guy who let
Donald Trump post in twenty fifteen, after

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all, despite the casts of discomfort. But my favorite take of the night

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is from Franktouris dot org. Have
you noticed the young lady guitarist in the

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band? You have to watch her
reactions. It's fascinating, and Frank Taurus

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writes, the Saturday Night Love Band
is in a very tough spot. During

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each new episode of the show.
They have to play on the superstar hosts

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and keep a poker face during their
entire monologue. The spotlight landed on guitarist

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Maddie Rice. While Rice makes several
faces during the monologue, the one that

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social media ran with was the one
where she appeared annoyed Gillis's remarks, which

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she upset was she trying to hold
a poker face? Only she knows the

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answer to that. The rest of
the band was more relaxed if you smiled

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and softly chuckled saxophonist Lenny Pickett,
who's usually the thermometer during these show openings.

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So it's mostly neutral with an occasional
smile and polight applause for Gillis's dad.

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Oh and forever It's worth everybody.
At the end of the show,

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in the credits, Bowen Yang hugged
Shane Gillis. I'm sure we'll talk more

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about this tomorrow. The Daily Beast
caught up with Rory Skolvell again. If

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you missed Saturday's pot podcast. I
played a clip from Rory's special Are people

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edding laughter or do comedy specials?
Not saying Rory did, but is that

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a thing that happens in the industry. Listen to Saturday's episode from The Daily

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Beast, Rory says, I don't
appreciate a band that just kind of always

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puts out the same album, even
if they're putting out an album. Then

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I don't end up liking I always
appreciate that at least they try to do

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something slightly different than what they've done
before. In terms of comedy, he

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says he has no interest in seeing
any hour from someone who hasn't learned anything,

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or hasn't grown or revolved or changed
in any way. Chappelle, Sorry,

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I keep coughing during the recordings,
and you know, apologize for that.

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Who knows, at the end of
the day, you probably end up

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losing some people. He's been getting
a little more political, and he says,

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who knows, at the end of
the day, you probably end up

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losing some people because they just can't
stand jokes about politics, despite the fact

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that they'd spend their free time in
a rally. But I think at some

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point you kind of get pushed to
the point where you want to speak out

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and say what you really think,
and if you could turn it into something

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that entertains people or gets them a
laugh, or who knows, maybe open

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their eyes a little bit to other
people's situations. He jokes about his Carlin

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phaze and says, but then I
walked away from that being like, you

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know, the Corlin thing is kind
of interesting, not you want to go.

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I'm gonna try to be Carlin.
I don't want to do that,

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but he does want to see what
his version of the political rant with a

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message would look like. Tak Nataro
has a new special out today. It

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is called Hello Again on Amazon Prime
Video. I teach a college class on

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Monday nights, so you're gonna have
to give me a couple of days to

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get around to watching that. One. Tig finds humor in situations ranging from

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the every day to the bizarre,
crafting comedy out of hallucinatory text messages,

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a botch of meeting with a Hollywood
heavyweight, and comedy Rule of three,

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a late nine encounter with a mustache
fireman who has her questioning everything. Amy

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Schumer and Will Forte have signed on
for a new Netflix comedy movie, kind

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of Pregnant. Now just there.
I see Netflix movie and I'm like,

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uh ceandlier, here we go again. Well wait for the twist. John.

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The synopsis is jealous of her best
friend's pregnancy, Laney wears a fake

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baby bump and accidentally meets the man
of her dreams. Guess who produces this?

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That's right, Amy Schumer and say
with me Adam Sandler, Oh Good,

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and Amy Schumer. Adam Sandler produced
Thing on Netflix. Looking forward to

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That Little Dicky Dave Bird was on
the Hot Ones podcast and he said,

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I'm not gonna name names, but
there are several instances where episodes have been

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written about a particular celebrity. Oftentimes
it ends up being a rapper and they

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don't show up on the day,
and then I immediately have to totally reimagine

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and rewrite the scene on the spot, call someone else and hope someone else

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is in town. I've had to
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whoever shows up that day. And
then I left the backpack at catering at

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lunch and then I was like shooting
another scene. I'm like, oh my

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god, twenty thousand dollars and I
spread it to go get my backpack.

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It was still there, and then
an artist came and actually didn't even charge

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anything. Anyway. It's always very
stressful. It's much easier as time gets

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on. In season one, I'm
like, trust me. Season three,

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I'm like, Brad Pitt, I
know you've seen it gets easier as time

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goes on the show. Unfortunately,
he's on a hiatus so Bird can focus

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on his music. Hopefully that show
comes back. Also a comedian who's any

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music is Phil Wang, who you
were picturing naked in the shower after yesterday's

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podcast. I know you were,
and you're doing it right now too,

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Phil Wang, naked in the shower. You're thinking about it. He does

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chortle. That's really me singing in
Wonka. Here's a little behind the scenes

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bragging. I was told by someone
on Wanka that, you know, sometimes

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in movies they have to correct a
singer if they're not a professional singer in

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post production, and they didn't have
to correct me at all. I hit

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all the notes, all five notes
I was given. I hit them spot

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on Dusty Slay, speaking to al
as in Alabama dot Com, al dot

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Com said, I was trying to
be a Southern comic. Look at me,

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I'm real Southern, right. I
was wearing overalls and no shoes to

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perform and it wasn't going very well. So I quit doing stand up comedy.

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And then in two thousand and eight
my friend invited me to do a

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show and he was like, why
don't you try comedy again? So we

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write this bit about the letters of
the alphabet. I go out and do

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this bit and it's on YouTube and
on my album Making That Fudge, But

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I do it in front of an
audience people, in front of a bunch

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of comedians that never heard of me, and I crushed every show. Wasn't

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like that. I wasn't crushing every
but that hooked me. I was like,

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I can't wait to get back up
there and do it again. Jim

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Norton spoke to I ninety five Rock
about audiences. Rock was interested. Our

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audience is different now. Now I've
worked with Jim Norton quite a lot.

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He is on stage persona and his
real life personality are different. When you're

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hanging out with Jim Norton in real
life, he's very thoughtful and not talking

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about hookers in Vegas all day.
So when I read this quote, picture

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a very insightful Jim Norton probably saying
this, soft spoken Jim said. It's

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been happening a lot longer than just
two years. It's not just comedy so

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that everybody's attacking everybody. Everyone's using
everyone else to pretend to be angry so

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they can get a little attention for
themselves. There's been a decent amount of

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pushback on it. But I think
the difference now is that everybody in the

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audience is performing as well. It's
like you have a guy in stage and

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the people in the audience are performing
pretending they're upset, or going on social

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media pretending they're upset. It died
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reason for it. Everybody's their own
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get some credibility by acting like I'm
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me some attention. Everybody's got a
voice, which is fine. Everybody wants

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to let everyone else know how hurt
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it's kind of everywhere being affected by
it. If you enjoy what I do

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here, you can go to buy
me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily

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Comedy News. I will take your
money. And it's Monday, so and

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I teach on Monday nights. Usually
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own chain, I go to that
smoothie place and I'll get a buffalo rap

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and a beach bum. I think
it's called beach bum. I don't know.

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It's like I told people it was
raspberry, but I looked it up.

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Apparently it's strawberry with some dark chocolate
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I get a buffalo rap in one
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so that's like lunch dinner on Mondays. Buy me a coffee. Dot

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com slash daily Comedy News. I've
mentioned this before. Israel Hamas is a

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very touchy subject and a lot there
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feel that comedy should discuss important issues
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but when the topic comes up,
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second half. If you listen every
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first half of the podcast before the
commercial break is usually headlines and hits,

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and then I go a little deeper
in the second half. This from The

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Guardian and they interviewed bossom Yusef,
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really really interesting guy, and they're
right. Usef opens a show with a

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disclaimer to the audience members who know
him as the Egyptian John Stewart. Usef

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says, I know some of you
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the show will be in English,
the language of the Infidels in the show

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frequently refers to Joe Biden as genocide
Joe. By the way, for those

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of you keeping score at home,
that the guide Pylon Trump all the time,

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please note I'm doing this story right
now frequently refers to Joe Biden as

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genocide Joe, but he never directly
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the nickname. He tells The Guardian
that's a deliberate choice. Usef says,

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I don't want to be capitalizing on
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not the story I want to tell. I wanted to tell my story.

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He says he was surprised to be
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Piers Morgan. When people say thank
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being our voice. That's a trigger
sentence for me. I'm a human being

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and I have limitations. I can't
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of a cause. I do what
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my ability. If you've never seen
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Morgan, it is amazing. Here
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called it a roller coaster ride,
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I want his words to speak for
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doing? But you know, we're
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just like it's it's it's very repetitive. We're used to that. We used

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to them being bombed every time and
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You know, it's just like those
Plastinians. They're very dramatic, ah Israel

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killing us, but they never die. I mean they always come back.

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You know. They're very difficult to
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I know because I'm married to one. I tried many times, couldn't kill

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her. I mean there's a dark
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because oh it's not dark human I
really I try to get to her every

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time, but she uses our kids
as human shields. I can never take

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her out. Right. So he's
doing this wonderful mix of very pointed political

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observation with jokes in the middle.
You could see peers like the joke is

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funny, but you know, do
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And I just think this is comedy
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make wonderful, wonderful points. He
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twice before giving in the third time, he said, it's the contradictory expectation

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of his dual audience. If I
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career here in the US. It
was not enough, I lose my career

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in the Arab world. I was
going in knowing it was a lose lose

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situation. So why do it?
I don't know. Until now, I

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don't have a clear answer. And
I'll follow that up with this comedian Matt

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Rife inducted into the Mahegan Sons Walk
of Fame. Wow, what an honor.

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Congratulations to Matt Rife, twenty eight
years old and already in the Mohegan

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Sons Walk of Fame. Who else
is in the Hall of Fame? John

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Well, Taylor Swift, Earth Wind
and Fire, and Rascal Flats. He's

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the forty first inductee into the Mahegan
Sons Arena Walk of Fame. Now I'm

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curious. Now I'm looking it up
and I can't find the fullest. Some

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other names Chris Rock, Toby Keith, New Kids on the Block, bon

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Jovi, and Matt Rife. I'm
bad. That's your comedy news for today.

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See you tomorrow,