Nov. 14, 2025

Skankfest has the strongest comedy festival lineup of the year

Skankfest has the strongest comedy festival lineup of the year
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Johnny Mac highlights Skankfest's move from Las Vegas to New Orleans, featuring over 150 comedians on four stages. The festival includes tattoo studios, boxing matches, and unique events like comedian jiujitsu and pillow fights. Skankfest, created by the Legion of Skanks Podcast in New York, showcases talents such as Shane Gillis, Doug Stanhope, Rosebud Baker, and Mark Normand.

Additionally, Nikki Glaser talks about her humorous interactions with Alexa Plus, Stavros Halkias reflects on his podcast career, and South Park creators discuss their take on political culture.

The show also covers Pauly Shore's ban from the Kill Tony show, SNL cast performances, and the New York Comedy Festival lineup, including Pete Holmes and Louis C.K.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mackwick, your daily comedy news.

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After three years in Las Vegas, skank Fest moving to

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New Orleans. There will be more than one hundred and

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fifty comedians performing on four stages, plus podcast tapings, a

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tattoo studio, fights in a custom built boxing ring, and more,

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all inside Marty Gras World Today through the weekend. The

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event was created in New York a decade ago by

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the Legion of Skanks podcast Louis Gomez, Big Jay Okerson,

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and Dave Smith. This year's lineup include Shane Gillis, Doug Stanhope,

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Rosebud Baker, Sam Tallent, Mark Norman, Sean Patten, and many more.

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I will tell you right right there, that's a better

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lineup than the New York Comedy Festival. Co founder and

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organizer Rebecca Trent explains when they were in Vegas, it

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was harder to do the boxing events because boxing is

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controlled as a sanctioned sport. But in New Orleans, apparently

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whatever you want to do there will be comedian jiu

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ju to pillow fights, but slapping fights and more. It

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is called Skangfest, So don't be like what that's outratous.

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It's called s Gangfest. There are scheduled boxing bouts between

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affiliated companies, interns, and a battle Royale on Sunday. Trent explains,

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there's gonna be stun guns involved, and we have all

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these crazy, silly fights. Now, it's kind of an interesting setup.

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The stage will be active from noon until two am

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every day, but they don't announce the lineup until like

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I don't know, like day of so I can't even

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tell you like, oh, go at eight o'clock and go

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see somebody, because there's no schedule. Now, listen to this lineup.

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I am going to read you a million names here

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because again, uh, New York Comedy Festival. I'm not feeling

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it this year. But listen to what Skangfest is put together. Okay,

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I won't read every name, but i'll read you names

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you would know. Aeron Berg, Adrian Appalucci, harryel Elias Big,

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Jay Okerson, Bonnie McFarlane, Brad Williams, Brian Redman, Dan Soder,

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Dan Saint Germain, Dave Attel, I said Dave, and then

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I said Attel. Right there, it's better than the New

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York Comedy Festival. Doug Stanhope Eddie Peppatone, Eric Griffin, Felippia Sparza, Godfrey,

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Greg Fitzimmons, Harlan Williams, Ian Finance, Jeff Die, Jimmy Door,

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Joe List, Josh Adam Myers, Kurt Metzger, Louis Gomez, Mark Normant,

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Matt McCusker, Michael ian Black, Nick Vaderat, Rachel Feinstein, Rich Voz,

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Bobby Kelly Rose, Bud Baker, Sam Jay, Sam Talent, Sam Tripoli,

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Sean Donnelly, Sewn Patton, Shane Gillis, Steve Ranazizi, Tim Dillon,

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Tony Hingecliff and Yaminika Saunders. I mean that is no joke.

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That lineup. This is really good. They have some FAQs

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in case you're curious. Shows run from eleven a m.

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Till this is midnight every day. Maybe it's not till

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two am with overlapping sets, secret shows and late night Manness.

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No reservations. Skang FESTUS general admission. There will be twelve

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live stream shows available through their new live streaming partner VEEPS.

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There's a vendor village, a hub for food, drinks, tattoos,

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birch and partner activations. Expect everything from custom voodoo dolls

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to late night goodies. Pretty impressive. A friend of the show,

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Scott Beckett, He's good at sending me stories, but not

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so good at football picks. I mean, he's okay, but

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he's not Johnny Mick. He sent me this one about

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Nicki Glazer. I think, is this the one you sent me, Scott?

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I don't know. It was like two weeks ago. I

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know he sent me something about Nicki Glazer. It's a

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lot going on here in the basement, trust me. Anyway.

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Niki Glazer was talking about the Amazon Alexa Plus. Nicki said,

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Alexa Plus basically knows me better than I know myself,

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and she has really stepped her game up. And you'll

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see in the commercial. She even reminds me when I

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have therapy. Do you think my therapist knows how many

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protein bars eight per week? She probably should because it's

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bordering on an addiction, But Alexa Plus reminds me when

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they're running low, so she's aware of my problem and

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she'd better not tell Donna. Well, Nicki Glazer, has your

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Alexa ever made you laugh? Now? The interviewer messed up here.

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They didn't play ball. They just said Alexa they're supposed

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to say, Alexa Plus, pay attention, Nicki's hawking a product here.

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You gotta get this right, Nicki said, Alexa Plus honestly

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makes me laugh all the time. I don't stop talking

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when I get off stage, so it's nice to have

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someone listen. When I'm alone in a hotel at a

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casino in the middle of Iowa. One of my favorite

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things to do is to ask her to be sassy

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that way if I'm missing my family on the road.

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That's as close as she can come to nailing the

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tone of my sister. All Right, Nicki Glazer, what's the weirdest,

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most unexpected question you've ever asked? If you were Alexa Plus,

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come on, interviewer, you're supposed to say plus, Nicki said, Okay,

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I'm being honest. I just looked it up. What does

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it mean when you dream that you crushed a snake's

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head with your bare hands and you feel its skull

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crushing and blood comes out of its ears. Alexa Plus

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told me that this dream could mean I'm trying to

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overcome a fear. Vulture caught up with Stavros Hawkysts, who

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once said that he couldn't be forty and still hosting

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his previous podcast, you know, the one with the vulgar name.

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The second word was town. Stavros said, I'm not going

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to sit here and tell you when we started the show,

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we had some grand theory to be like, oh, oh,

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we're going to get back at these people who were

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trying to get people fired for old tweets. Now we

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were in our mid twenties, broke. We didn't like those people,

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and we were mean spirited comedians about a bad life.

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I thought that was going to be ten episodes of

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the show. I didn't care if we were offensive. I

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had nothing to lose. Then, once the show started making

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me money, I bought my family a house. I would

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have done actually awful stuff at thirty grand I would

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have done a minor crime for that. But I do

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think when you see where we were at the time,

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it was when Trump was first coming up. We weren't

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fans of that. We did have left politics, but we

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never really made that a focal point because I don't

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think that's what comedians should do. But I do think

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it's a natural thing. You get these people who don't

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like what's going on culturally. You would train in open

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mics for a decade. You also have a chip on

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your shoulders. You put all that in a blunder, you

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naturally get this knee jerk rebellion, which I think is important.

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Young people should be able to make fed up jokes

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and have it not ruined their lives and be cast

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out for a specific thing forever. Shane gillis being the

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obvious example, but it's a young person's game. It's kind

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of being like, if you dad, you could argue twenty

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eight was too late. We were just emotionally and mentally

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stunted guys. Even if people our age keep doing that

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style of comedy, it should exist, but it also changes

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with the times. Honestly, I think for some twenty year

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old the equivalent would be me making Charlie Kirk jokes

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at this point, as it's what the dominant culture says

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you're not allowed to do. Instead of making fun of

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people who want to get you canceled, it would be

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making fun of this weird culture where people are taking

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their cues from the president, which is pathetic. That would

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be transgressive in the way that ironic racism. Making fun

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of I'm with Her. During Hillary's campaign was the South

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Park creators talked to The New York Times about their

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decision to do a lot of Trump stuff. Trey Parker said,

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it's not that we got all political. It's that politics

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became pop culture. I feel you hosting this podcast every day.

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I get it. Trey said, it's like the government is

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just in your face everywhere you look, whether it's the

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actual government or whether it's all the podcasters and the

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tiktoks and the youtubes and all that, and it's all

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political and political. Because it's more than political, it's pop culture.

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Matt Stone said the show always sought out new taboos.

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Trey and I are like attracted to that, like flies

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to honey. Oh that's where the taboo is over there, Okay,

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then we're over there. Barker said, we're just very down

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the middle guys. Any extremists of any kind we make

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fun of. We did it for years with woke thing

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that was hilarious to us, and this is hilarious to us.

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A spoke person for the White House said this show

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hasn't been relevant for over twenty years and is hanging

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on by a thread with uninspired ideas. In a desperate

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attempt for attention, President Trump has delivered on more promises

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in just six months than any other president in our

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country's history, and no fourth rate show can derail President

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Trump's hot streak. South Park's twenty eighth season continues until

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December tenth. Cracked dot com reporting that Polly Shore has

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gotten himself banned from Kill Tony What do you do

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to get banned from Kill Tony Well? According to various accounts,

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Pauli Shore was so irritating that the Kill Tony Gang

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has banned him. Paully Shore posted a video saying I

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thought it was good, but I don't know if you

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guys saw the episode. Tony Hinchcliff basically said I'm going

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to kick your butt if you don't stop effing around.

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Paully Krack says, Sure definitely was effing around. They encourage

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you to check out the twenty one minute thirty second

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mark where Tony asked Paully Shore for a stack of

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note cards full of jokes. Sure offers up one of

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the cards, then another, and then doesn't hand over the pile.

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Tony said, it's not how it works, Paully. I you're

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playing on doing this for the next two hours. You

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could shove that wig in your mouth, buddy, Paullie says

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he was just trying to be funny, but after the show,

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he took me aside. All his security guards took me

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aside and they asked me to never come back now.

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Polly says Joe Rogan's Comedy Mothership is off limits to

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him on Mondays when Kill Tony tapes, but on the

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other nights, Pauli Shore says he's allowed to play little

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Boy the club's smaller room. Here's why. The only reason

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I'm allowed to play the baby room is because it's

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literally above bar Mitzi's at the Mothership. Mitzi's Bar is

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named after Paulie Shore's mother, Mitzi Shore, who ran the

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comedy store in LA for decades. Oh that's all kinds

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of awkward, Pauli Shore continued, Kill Tony, if you're out there,

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I love you. When I understand, I wouldn't put me

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back on the show either, I affed up your whole rhythm.

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good Pete Holmes is on stage. And I'll talk about

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Pete Holmes in a minute. Let's hold on Nicki Glazer.

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I could recommend this either way. Should we buy some

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Nicky Glazer coming off SNL and the Golden Globes is coming,

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or should we sell Nicki Glazier because you know that

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monologue wasn't all that great and maybe she's a good

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roast comedian and the more we expose Niki, the less

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heat they'll be on Nicki. Is that a possibility? I'm

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not sure. And you're walking away in on that in

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the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. So we'll

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hold our Niki Glazer. We'll see how that goes. I

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think we I've already sold our Pete Davidson. Can we

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sell even more Pete Davison Pete's appearances. He's not helping himself.

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None of these projects are happening. THERI odd thing didn't help.

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Making a joke about your father dying doesn't help. None

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of this is a good look. So if we have

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any Pete Davidson left, let's sell it. Let's sell our

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James Austin Johnson stock. I'm very SNL heavy this week

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on the Seals. I just think that Trump impression is

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spiraling down. He needs to reset it. He's basically doing

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an impression of himself doing Trump. It's gone now. He

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needs to start over. So we'll sell. Let's sell Cam

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Patterson stock. If you had any, I don't get it.

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I don't know why Lorne Michael's put him on the show.

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We're four or five episodes in and I don't think

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He's not good at it. Sell Cam Patterson, Let's buy

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the glue. He is holding that show together this season.

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a star, but it's Keenan Thompson who's just reliable in

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sketches and you can always throw him out there and

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he's going to deliver. So let's buy some Keenan Thompson

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all right? At the New York Comedy Festival tonight, Pete Holmes,

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go see Beat Holmes the next chance you get. Perhaps

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tonight at town Hall. He is fantastic. Now the New

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York Comedy Festival, you've heard me and go on and

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on about how the lineup is unimpressive. We do have

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some names. Tonight boy Todd Glass again, is there like

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some crazy demand for Todd Glass that he's playing every

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night of the New York Comedy Festival? Like, what is

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that about? I'm doing this podcast for years and years

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and worked at Serious for a decade before that. His

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name never comes up, and he's every night at the

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New York Comedy Festival. What's going on seven thirty at

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the Beacon Theater back from the ri Odd Comedy Festival.

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Louis c. K is as welcome back as some articles

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would make you believe. Does he have his audience? Can

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he make money? Can he sell out Madison Square Garden? Yes?

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in and he's at the Beacon Theater tonight. Ck far

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and away the biggest name at the festival period. I

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was going to say tonight, but period a second show

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by Todd Glast nine o'clock. I don't know what's going

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on there. It's just so strange. I'm just scrolling down here.

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J McBride. I like j McBride a lot, right. Jane

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to watch at a minute before midnight at the Venue

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on Music Row at the hard Rock. But yeah, not

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a lot of big names again. Our friends at the

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Flyover Comedy Festival at Saint Louis, they have mastered scheduled technology.

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it very easy for podcast hosts to get a feel

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for what's going on. So Beth Stelling's got two shows

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Scollar Brothers that's at nine o'clock, and a bunch of

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other shows at the Flyover Comedy Festival. Greg Proops has

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an album out out today. Can we give him the

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Grammy Award? This one is called Free State of California Today.

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On a special Things Records recorded live at the Punchline

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in San Francisco last New Year's Eve, Proops railed on

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the state of everything, dressed up in his subservic wit, proopism, sarcasm,

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and masterful wordplay. Greg will record another live album at

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the Punchline at San Francisco this New Year's Eve. Also

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on December thirtieth two shows anybody Else's Voice Giving out

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I am. The Toronto Guardian has a good recurring column

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where they talk about comedians who maybe you don't know

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as well. One of them is Sachim Sharma. He was

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asked how he describes his comedy and said, after quick google,

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I've learned I'm an absurdist, satirical, clowning, evangelical, but then

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says I made that when up seeking revenge via comedy.

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have at least one clown per household. Indian wedding functions

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are a great clowning exhibition. I consider myself so lucky

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to have a great circle of friends, family and cousins.

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We love getting in trouble and keep heightening the states

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on purpose. Who's your favorite comedian now? I love Melissa McCarthy.

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I hated Sasha Baron Cohen when I watched him and

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bore out at first, but now I endure him and

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like everything he did and is doing. I also really

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like Michael Keegan Key, which is not the guy's name.

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The guy's name is Keegan Michael Key. Maybe there's a

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different guy who's Michael Keegan Key who's also funny. I

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don't know, maybe I'm wrong. What's your pre show ritual?

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Charma says, Usually I get nervous, and my pre show

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ritual is just to be aware of being in that condition.

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scared mammal would do. I make contense eye contact with

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co performers, be purposely vulnerable, expose my weak spots, and

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that it's your comedy news for today. If you enjoy

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the program, please tell a friend about it. The number

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has been really good. Thank you Jimmy Kimmel and Ri Odd,

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Comedy Festival and the Fascists, everybody that's all been good

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for the show. I'll see tomorrow