Shane Gillis - is he the devil? Left hates him, right hates him. PLUS John Oliver says The Daily Show didn't want him!

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Callaroga shark media. Man, what
a game, huh? And that halftime

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show wow? And that thing Taylor
did And now I tape this in advance.

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I watched the super Bowl yesterday.
We'll talk about the super Bowl tomorrow.

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Hello. I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. This is the

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week where Shane Gillis will host Saturday
Night Live, and it is being well

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discussed even in the UK. The
Independent, under the headline SNL hosts Shane

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Gillis maybe offensive, but he isn't
the devil. They're right. After his

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initial firing by SNL, Shane Gillis
was championed by many on the American right

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as a victim of cancel culture.
Some have gone further imposing political beliefs onto

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Gillis, such as support of Donald
Trump that he's never personally espoused. In

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twenty nineteen, Gillis clarified he had
not voted for Trump, and he says,

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as soon as they decide you're a
bad guy, you're just all right

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now or something. The Independent Rights
watch Gillis a show, and you can't

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deny his materials. Liable to a
fen. He doesn't shy away from certain

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slurs and mixed crash jokes about sensetive
topics. But in the world of comedy

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this is hardly disqualifying from Bill Bird
or Frankie Boyle. There are plenty of

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precedents, liberal or left wing or
centrist comedians who are more than willing to

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throw around our offensive words or ideas
for the sake of a laugh at a

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provoke a reaction. Louis c.
K the now disgraced to stand up whose

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creative influence is unmissible in Gillis's style, was one's a dept at this taking

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an objectional or distasteful thought and carrying
on stage too. It's natural extreme.

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You may recall a pre canceled Louis
c. K as being compared to George

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Carlin the independent rights. To some
extent, The question comes down to intent,

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to whether or not the comedy is
hateful or simply problematic. Look,

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for instance, at Gillis's routine about
down syndrome. There are things in there

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to object to it. Generalizations,
patronizations, all done with gleeful awareness of

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the taboo, but within the same
material they're also affectionate and seemingly well intentioned.

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To observational jokes about a family member
with down syndrome. To brand it

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outright hate speech would take a black
and white, deeply unpragmatic view of the

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world. Comedy can be hardful without
being hateful, and some jokes are more

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harmful than others. Expect some sparks
to fly during the opening monologue, but

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this is more likely to be a
bearing of a hatchet than a resumption of

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grievances. At the end of the
day. Shane Gillis has always seemed less

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interested in his scoring political points than
it's simply going for the laugh at whatever

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cost. Megan Kelly and I'm just
gonna go first. This is really stupid.

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She took a shot at Shane Gillis
and other celebrities because they bend the

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need of bud Light. He went
from doing slurs that the left finds upsetting

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to issuing one out of his mouth
the right finds upsetting, which is bud

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Light. Really, really, really, I mean just really, you're mad

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that Shane Gillis is selling bud Light. I'll tell you right now, if

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bud Light wants to sponsor the show
for ten years, write the check.

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Megan said, I'm actually not sure
what he's doing either, because not only

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is he going on SNL but he's
partnering with bud Light, which is basically

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a slur in Republican circles on I'll
insult my friend Mike and Cleveland. Hey,

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Mike, I bet you drink bud
Light. Who oh, maybe I

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can get canceled. I bet Taylor
Swift drinks bud Light. Bring it swifty,

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so it's called Daily Comedy News.
Megan Kelly said, well, you

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cope buy bud Light because Shane Gillis
got paid a bunch of money to go

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speak for them. Does that help
your life? Oh? My, find

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something to talk about, Megan,
Actually, don't keep doing this because this

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is great content for me. Media
in Toto asked, is the left trying

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to recancel Shane Gillis on SNL?
Right? So, Shane, the right

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hates you because bud Light, and
now the left hates you too. Everyone

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hates Shane Gillis. He has no
fans whatsoever. I don't know why he's

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hosting SNL because both the left and
the right hate him. I guess centrists

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loves Shane Gillis. Medium Toto Rights
take NBC News the far left outlet publish

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an essay entitled with Shane Gillis return
snl Asians ass when they'll stop being the

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punchline? It covered that, I
think last Friday Toto Rights. Is there

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anything new here? Of course not. Does Gillis make it a habit of

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specifically targeting Asian people, of course
not. Does he spend endless hours in

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front of a podcast Mike squeezing funny
observations from every source possible? Of course?

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Do those Asian riffs represent his best
work? Of course not nothing.

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He threw some shade and wrote,
Howard Stern has said far, far worse

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than his days, and he's never
been canceled. Well, the media has

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been complicent in the establishment Howard myth
of the last ten years. Howard is

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now. Howard has laid groundwork that
his obituary would be that he was the

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great interviewer. And I haven't enjoyed
late period Howard, loved early period Howard.

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And there are things that I listened
to or I watched on his TV

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show that have been just washed from
the internet. But this idea that Howard

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Stern's career was he interviewed people.
Come on, no, no, no,

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no, wa'tch you google Howard Stern
blackface website them, writes Shane Gillis

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hosting Saturday Night Live as a slap
in the face to queer viewers, even

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as the show court's LGBTQ plus fans. It platforms comics like Gillis and Dave

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Chappelle. They're write in the comedy
world. It was a banner week for

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queer phobia, not that it's ever
gone out of style. Al Dave Chappelle,

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who treats anti transmockery like a holy
crusade, won his fifth Grammy Award

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for Best Comedy Album in six years. Meanwhile, Shane Gillis wrote America's hard

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right word pivot straight into an upcoming
hosting slot on the February twenty fourth edition

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of SNL. I'll chime in,
except we just learned that the right hates

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him because he promotes bud Light them
rights. If Gillis's name means less than

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zero to you, congratulations on your
blissful life, you offline legend went for

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a run, Humble Bragg, I'm
so out of shape, Oh my goodness.

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You can go from marathon ready ish
to completely out of shape in let's

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say it's just in three months,
Oh my goodness. On the run.

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I listened to Mark Maren's fantastic interview
with John Oliver. So much fun and

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it went so quickly. I thought
it was interesting. At the beginning in

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the monologue segment, Maren is self
aware. I had brought up recently that

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sometimes Maren and younger comedians kind of
don't connect. Maybe Maren listens to me,

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because he said sometimes I could be
a little pokey and a little mild

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chap busting going on, some slight
bullying occasionally. In the interview, John

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Oliver talked about not getting the Daily
Show, and I'm going to play the

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actual clip or comment dafter here's John. I didn't state the Daily Show because

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John was still there and no,
but even if you were set up to

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be the next guy, did that
factor into your decision not to follow up

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on that the next guy for to
host their show to Daily Show to the

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Daily Show? They didn't. I
think it was clear when we would do

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because my contract expired at the end
of the year that I hosted for John

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over that summer, and I think
it became clear at the end of that

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they didn't really care about me,
oh really, And because I think our

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idea for me to stay this is
our ideas being just John and I was

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that I would do the summers from
now on and then so he could take

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he could take the summers off,
which he wanted a break. I think

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they could have had him for longer
if they'd allowed that, but they were

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not interested in that at all.
So then it becomes clear, Oh,

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then you really don't care, right, which is fine, but it is

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now painfully obvious. So I should
probably go somewhere okay, And then yeah,

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talking to various commercial outlets, there
was just an innate instinct of I

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don't I could do this. I
don't think it'll go great. Yeah,

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there might be a way that I
can find myself to doing the things that

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I used to love let theman doing
when he's just criticizing his parent company.

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But that was but I don't have
the let no, I just like I

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always love that instinct with him,
but I had no standing with hers to

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do that. So a much easier
move that the luxury move to me,

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was to go to HBO, where
there is no corporate commercial pressure from advertisers,

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so you truly can say what you
want, right. So they didn't

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want John Oliver. That's a swing
and a miss. I always wondered did

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Stuart not tell anyone that he was
leaving soon, because wouldn't you want to

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hold on to John Oliver? But
this kind of clears up that Oliver didn't

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feel like they wanted him. They
did a good job that summer, and

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apparently HBO agrees. Tom Poppa hosted
the poll Star Awards didn't even know these

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were going on. Taylor Swift won
major Tour of the Year, and that

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is an understatement well deserved. And
if you want to keep up on Taylor

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Swift, follow the podcast Taylor Swift
Today. I'm sure they're talking about whatever

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happened at the Super Bowl. Taylor
was not in attendance because she was playing

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to Kyo, but Dave Chappelle stop
by he won Comedy Tour of the Year.

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Dave said, I used to take
this stuff for granted, but this

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last tour was hard as if.
I want to thank everyone at Live Nation,

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everyone on that team, everyone at
Netflix. That was a real special

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tour. It was a hard one, but man, this stuff is great.

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The New York Times went to see
Amy Poehler and Tina Fay. They're

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doing some stand up. Apparently Tina
Fey asked, are there any dads in

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the crowd who had either Tina or
Amy As Hall passes two decades ago,

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Many hands shut up. The Times
writes, if the phrase mom jeans makes

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you instantly crack up, you'll love
this show. So this is really emotionally

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confusing to me, because I think
they're targeting people who are exactly my age,

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and I'd like to think I'm slightly
cooler than this. I'm so confused.

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Faye is all sharp edges and slashing
wit, her deadpan unshakeable, keeping

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the audience and her partner at a
distance. Amy Poehler is more vulnerable,

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even a bit fragile. Discussing kids, trauma raging, She jokes, my

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memories like a cat, it will
not come when called. She of course

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told it better, because that is
obviously a hilarious joke. Some Times writes,

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the show itself is to throw everything
at the wall, mess of visually

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in different collection of parts, some
that probably would have been cutter owned by

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a ruthless director. Ouch. There
were sex jokes and mom jokes. Jokes

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A written the day of the show
about President Biden making an appearance on the

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Upper West Side that joke again and
I don't know who told it, and

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obviously told much better than this.
The traffic has in this bad since the

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opening scene of Fame. Yeah,
there's an okay Donald Trump joke that receives

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a big response and a strong OCD
punch line that doesn't. There were jokes

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that only New Yorkers were get.
I'm not sure who told this one.

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I took the four train and I
didn't even have a doctor's appointment. Yeah,

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New Yorkers would get that joke.
That's not a bad New York joke.

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Tina Fay said, this really feels
just like S and L, except

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they were in bed by ten and
I don't have to go to a weird

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Tuesday night dinner with Warren Michaels and
Rudy Giuliani. That's funny. Donnel Rawlings

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will have a new special produced by
Chappelle's Home Team Production Banner. This was

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recorded last fall at the New York
Comedy Festival at the hard Rock. It

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is titled Chappelle's Home Team Donnell Rawlings
A New Day. The log line reads,

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It's a new day and Donnell Rawlings
is feeling good, dressed in a

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blue suit, red sox, and
lotion ankles, easier to discuss, toxic

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relationships, traveling New Zealand, aging, co parting, and much more.

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Chappelle told Variety, I've been doing
this long time. Comedians like Donnell are

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not only friends but have inspired my
own career. Anyone in the comedy community

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who knows these names and knows their
time to shine is long overdue. I'm

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proud to be part of this moment
A new day Netflix, February twenty seventh.

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Fox is hot on Animal Control.
That's the Joel McHale sitcom that you

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probably watched two episodes of and forgot
it existed. It's back for its second

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season on March sixth. They've already
renewed it for a third season. Animal

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Control had Fox's most stream debut in
network history and the most streamed comedy episode

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ever in the network's history. Does
that include the Simpson Nice lineup at the

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Comedy Seller at the Rio tonight for
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Awards, Sophie Buttle, who was
Great, Marshall Warfield, Josh Adam Myers,

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and Mark Cohen seven to nine thirty
at the Comedy Cellar. And that

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is your comedy news for today.
See you tomorrow,