Should Jerry Seinfeld go political in his comedy?

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Caloroga Shark Media. There's so much
going on. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack

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with your daily comedy news. I'm
recording Friday and Saturday back to back.

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I just finished the Friday episode.
I'm looking at the raw number and it's

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twenty two minutes before I edit out
all my stumbles, but add back in

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the clips and the commercials and all
that, and trying to keep this thing

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tight. But it's just been so
busy. Nikki Glazer had a great week

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thanks to the roast of Tom Brady. She happened to be the guest on

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the Last Laugh podcast who said to
Nikki, your new special Sunday You'll Die

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as the darkest premise that you've put
out there so far. Does that reflect

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your state of mind right now?
NICKI shared, I struggle with self esteem

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and depression. It's not easy.
It's bad for me. I'm sickly going

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through really intense self doubt and imposter
syndrome and immense depression and just defeat.

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And it seems to get worse the
more successful I get. And it's something

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that I'm constantly trying to figure out
and find a cure for because I can't

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really keep going like this, things
will be going good and I'll be cofid

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and feel like, you know what, I don't need more and this is

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enough when I'm talented and I didn't
trick anyone, and then that's gone by

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the next day. Neither feeling lasts
forever. I'm so glad the feeling of

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depression doesn't ever last. But that's
kind of what gets me through it,

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knowing that it will lift at some
point. But the good times don't last

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ever either. Some serious stuff here, she says, So I think somewhere

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in the past couple of years and
he said, okay, you could start

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talking about the thing you were scared
to talk about or ever reveal, which

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is, despite all your success,
despite how great things are going in your

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life, you still think about dying
a lot, and you wish to die

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a lot of times. Oh no, I hope she's okay. There's some

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freedom of just saying that stuff out
loud. I feel like I have some

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control over it when I talk about
it so much, and if I can

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laugh about it, I can own
it a little bit more and control it

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more. And that's a comedy podcast. I'm me just jumping in here right

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Last Laugh asked Nikki if she finds
herself censoring herself on stage. She said

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yes and no. I mean I
don't. I really like to hurt people's

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feelings. So if I said the
R word and there was someone in the

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audience who had suffered because of that
word or felt called out or alienated by

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it, I'd feel really horrible.
When you first start tackling a subject like

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that and you're figuring out the wording
still and making it palatable, that's where

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you have people getting offended and worrying
about getting canceled. But I know I'm

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not a hateful person, and I
don't like making people feel bad about themselves

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are sad, and so if I
ever do get canceled, I think I'll

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be able to forgive myself. This
sounds really good. I'm going to download

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this for my listening over the weekend. This is the Last Laugh podcast.

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NICKI how about turning forty? She
says, I'm really okay about it.

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I kind of do this thing where
I always say I'm the next age.

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So I've been saying I'm forty all
year so I could prepare for it.

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When it does that it's not that
big a deal. It's going to be

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a struggle. But for now,
I feel like forty is young. I

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know it's ahead. I'm really scared
about sixty. I'm fine with forty.

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I had a conversation in my kitchen
this morning. My daughter joked about us

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being forty four, and I said, forty four sounds really great right now.

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Nicki says I've let go of wanting
to look twenty at ay more.

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I really feel that way, but
I also feel very stunted emotionally. I'm

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not married, i's still rent,
I don't know a place, I don't

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have kids. I don't feel forty
in many ways, but I think it's

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cool. Whenever you turn the next
decade, you're the youngest of that decade.

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So I'm like the oldest thirty year
old right now. The New York

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Times earlier the week wrote a piece
about Jerry Seinfeld that I just didn't have

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room for. I thought it was
really interesting. The Times wrote the comedian,

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long beloved for his a political riffs
has been wrestling with what it means

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to be Jewish amid the Israel Hamas
war. Not everyone is pleased since the

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attacks of October seventh. Seinfeld seventy. That looks so weird to see a

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seventy next to Jerry, because in
your mind, he's always I don't know

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how old he was on the show
thirty years ago. It was forty.

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I think the character is late thirties, right, He's forever frozen at that

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age in my mind. Seinfeld seventy
has emerged as a strikingly public voice against

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anti Semitism and in support of Jews
in Israel in the United States, edging

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warily sort of more forward facing advocacy
role than he ever seemed to seek across

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his decades of fame. I'll jump
in here. I've always felt, if

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you have a platform and you believe
in something strongly use it. Otherwise what

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are we all doing here on our
time on the planet? The times rights.

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As some American cities and college campuses
simmer with conflict over the Middle East

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crisis in Israel's military response, Seinfeld
has faced a measure of public scorn that

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he's rarely courted as a breakfast obsess
comedian, intensified by the more vocal advocacy

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of his wife, Jessica, a
cookbook author. Missus Seinfeld attracted attention she

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promoted on Instagram and said she had
helped bankroll a counter protest at UCLA.

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The shifts in Seinfeld's public bearing after
October seventh have been modest, if still

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perceptible. He remains far less outspoken
on the subject than other celebrities and comedians

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such as Amy Schumer, but for
figure long held up like few others in

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entertainment as a generational narrator of the
American Jewish experience. Even a cautious exploration

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of his identity has been notable.
Jerry told GQ, I don't preach about

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it. I have my personal feelings
about it that discussed privately. It's not

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part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong.

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You could do it comedically. That
would be a major statement. If Jerry

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went out on tour and we somehow
got aggressively political, Jerry Seinfeld, that

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would get noticed, my friend.
Would people get mad at you? Sure,

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some people will get mad at you, But we have so much time

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on this planet, and if you
have a platform, you should use it,

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and you don't need any more money. Why don't you go all in?

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Jerry? And I say that,
I know my voice cracked there and

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made it sound sarcastic. I'm serious, Jerry, go all in. Jerry

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says, it's not part of what
I can do comedically, but my feelings

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are very strong. You could do
it. Another thing I couldn't get to

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this week an oracle from Bloomberg.
Lucas Shaw writes a stand up comedy has

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tripled in size over the last decade. Burt Kraisher, Taylor Thomason, and

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Chelsea Handler discussed the boom and stand
up. Lucas writes, I went to

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see John Stewart perform in front of
a packed crowd at the Greek Theater.

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A day later, more than seventeen
thousand people crowded into the Hollywood Bowl to

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watch John mulaney. Stand up comedy
grosses have nearly tripled over the last decade,

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climbing to where than nine hundred million
dollars last year, according to pollstar.

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Bert Kreischer grossed about thirty three million
dollars on tour between October twenty two

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and twenty three. Second only to
Kevin Hart. Bert Kreischer recently said I

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have a shortlisted person I should think
at my funeral, and Netflix is at

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the top. Robbie Pra, who
runs Netflix Comedy, said stand up was

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very undervalued. Competitors complained that Netflix
was being a rational spending more than the

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specials were worth. Netflix released fifty
or more specials in twenty seventeen, eighteen,

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and nineteen. Taylor Thomlinson had a
choice between a fifteen minute set for

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Netflix is the Comedy Lineup and a
thirty minute special for Comedy Central. She

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picked Netflix. Taylor says it became
clear that Netflix was the best and fastest

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way to find your people and build
up that fan base. Before that,

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yet of a sitcom was so hard
to get and then have it be successful.

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Some of the biggest names touring right
now, including Andrew Schultz at the

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Ovaughn, building an audience using YouTube
or podcasts. Bert Kreischer's first brush with

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fame came when he uploaded a clip
from Especially Made for Showtime on a social

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media The machine went viral. It
was only after that Netflix he gave him

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a special. Vulture interviewed Robbie Pra
Robbie says, something we're seeing more and

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more is the cultivation of fantoms by
individual artists. So that happens sometimes outside

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of Netflix. Your neighbor may not
know who this person is, but they're

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selling out the readA in your town
that night. We just had this discussion

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in the Facebook group. I think
it was Dylan who was pointing out Andrew

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Schultz sold out the garden a few
times. And I said, very very

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respectfully, walk down the street and
ask one hundred people who Andrew Schultz is.

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You might go zero for one hundred
that said he's selling out the garden.

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He's super popular. So Robbie pra
is saying the same thing here.

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Robbie says, I think the big
change, and we're part of this fly

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wheel, is how people speak directly
to audiences. Oftentimes, now they're coming

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to Netflix with diehard fans that are
excited to get to watch their favorite person,

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which otherwise could be very expensive night
out. We think it's a pretty

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good proposition that you get to see
the person on Netflix. One more Quickie

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article comedy podcast led by the Joe
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twenty twenty three. This one was
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US after seven years of double digit
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however, comedy podcast led by Joe
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is the biggest content genre by spending. Comedy represented seventeen percent of US podcast

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AD revenue, up from fourteen percent
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seven stories. That's how busy it
is this week. So that'll be busy

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next week too, so I have
at least seven leftovers. Remember the Mark

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Twain Prize for American Humor that they
gave to Kevin Hart, Well, it's

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on TV. If you want to
see Kevin Hart honored by Little Dickie,

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Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea
Handler, the Plastic Cup Boys, Chris

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Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, you might
want to watch this thing. It used

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to air on PBS, I thinks
span I don't even remember, but now

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it's on Netflix, which means it's
going to be a lot more visible.

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That's today. Let's take a look
at the festivals. I'll do Sidney casually,

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as I've been saying. I'll get
more into that next week. Once

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Netflix Clears Cam James show is called
Mixtape. This is a show about music,

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love and the summer in two thousand
and nine, that I worked as

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a singing Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator at
a suburban dinner theater restaurant. He wants

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us to press play and turn the
volume up loud. There appears to be

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a clip here. It wasn't planning
on playing a clip, but a right,

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if you really want me to,
let's listen. I have no idea

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what's about to happen. Here's what
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getting worked out better for me?
All right, Netflix Comedy Festival. We're

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almost done here. Saturday night should
be a big night right outside joke at

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the Hollywood Palladium. All this outside
one o'clock Adam Raised, Doctor Phil two

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fifteen, middle aged Dad jam Band
three thirty, Mortgage A four forty five,

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Regie Watts five point thirty. That
ninety show hosted by Kevin Smith.

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Seven pm. Roast Battle. That's
the thing I told you about yesterday Judges

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Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff eight thirty
the drop In, hosted by Tim Dillon.

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Maybe we just hang outside the Hollywood
Palladium and see that's seven and eight

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thirty shows. Those are great,
but then we'd miss Trevor Noah at the

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Hollywood Bowl at seven thirty, Brut
Krasier at the Forum at eight, Chelsea

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Handler, Fortune Fimester, Mattel Laine, Sam Jay, Vanessa Gonzalez all on

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One show at seven late night at
the Hollywood Palladium, Nicki Glazer at ten

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thirty, Brett Goldstein at seven two
more. Alley Wongs added, she's either

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super popular or we're having trouble recording
as special. I'll guess she's just super

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popular at this point for some reason. The Purple Reen fortieth anniversary screening,

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Why is that part of the comedy
festival? Tom Barry at four pm at

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Dynasty Typewriter, and a whole bunch
of other things. As usual. As

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I scroll down, it gets more
obscure. All right, let's make a

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day of it. Let's get up
early. Well, let me rephrase that.

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Let's go see Todd Burry at four
o'clock. Hopefully you're normally up by

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three thirty when I want to meet
you, so we'll go see Todd Barry

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at four. I don't know,
maybe just hang outside and watch the roast

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battle judge Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff
and then stick around for Tim Dillon and

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then uh maybe do ten thirty Nicki
Glazer. She's just hosting, but you

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know that could be a good night, right, Yes, that's enough for

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