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Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. It
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is a busy one today. George Lopez has a special
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out and his press is not going great. Kevin Hart
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got destroyed for his work at the NBA All Star Game.
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Jerry Seinfeld would have made front page news if not
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for Saturday Night Live. But we will start with SNL
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fifty and I'll do the other stories in the second
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half of the podcast. In case you missed it, Monday
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mid morning, I dropped a bonus episode that was my
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initial reaction to SNL fifty, so if you want to
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check that out, please do. Also, in case you missed
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it Saturday around midday as well, I recapped the music
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show from Friday night, So those are good episodes if
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you're into SNL. Steve Martin did a great job on
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his monologue, reminding us he was one of the top
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stand ups before he went into being more of an actor.
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Steve showed up thirdday night at the Comedy Seller in
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New York to work out his material. TMZ says Martin
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short and John mlaney joined Steve on stage and participated
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in the bit, which makes sense because that's what happened
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on stage on SNL, also doing surprise performances. Listen to
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this listen. They all did about ten to fifteen minutes
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of material. David Spade, Chris Rock, Ray Romano, The Not
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So Canceled Disease. I'm sorry, Colin Quinn, Naperghetzi, Leslie Jones,
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and Marcelo Hernandez. I'd love to know more about the
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Marcelo set because I'm not bashing the guy, but he's
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only shown me one look like if you were a
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baseball pitcher, he throws fastballs. I want to see what
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else you can do, Marcelo. I like you, but you
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do one thing. Sidebar, did you notice on SNL fifty
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that they're setting up Sarah Sherman to be next? She
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got a lot of screen time on a night when
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almost none of the current cast got any daylight. Bowen
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Yang clearly the star in the current group, but they're
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setting Sarah up to be next. Also in attendance Sasha Baron,
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Cohen Beck, and Woody Harrelson. Seller owner Nom Torman tells
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TMZ we've hat legendary nights at the Comedy Seller, but
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as a child of the seventies, have never been a
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starstruck as seeing Steve Martin. The term national Treasures overused,
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but I believe Steve is one. I love how to
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fold soup and everything he's ever done. Vogue had somebody
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at the after party.
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They were right. Keenan Thompson is the first cast member
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to arrive at SNL's fiftieth anniversary after party, or I
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should say the current cast member. Plenty of former SNL
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stars like Alec Baldwin or inside the plaza already, as
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well as mega celebrities like Bad Bunny, Chris Pine and
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Lady Gaga is Crispine and mega celebrity like I like
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Star Trek and all, but yeah, whatever, But Thompson walks
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through just past midnight, ready to take a victory lap
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after a marathon weekend. Blah blah blah. The drunken antics
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that occurrent after party is her legendary. Kristin Wigg admitted
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to Jimmy Found that she chipped her too at the
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after party following her final show in twenty twelve. Adye
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Bryant confessed she once blocked out and fell asleep in
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her apartments hallway. Kate McKinnon said her hair once got
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stuck on a Woody Harrisons sweater button for twenty minutes.
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At the Sunday Night party, Woody Harrison was wearing a
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tied eye that someone has inexplicably and indecipherably signed with
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a shirpie Volks person asked Woody who signed your tie,
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and wood he said, thanks, Perhaps he was well hydrated.
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Who knows Adam Sandler was wearing a succeedo Folks says,
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the person with the most Sandler like outfit is not
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Sandler at all, but Jason Sedakis, who was wearing a
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hoodie in a baseball cap. Vogue then tells us what
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everybody else was wearing doesn't really interest me, as I
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sit here in an oversized sweatshirt. Jj abrams high five's
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Keith Richards, Kim Kardashian and listens to Bow and Yang
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by the bar. Peter Dinklage lounges with Natasha Leon and
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Chris rock. Lorne Michael sits at a table in the
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back room with Alec Baldwin, Olivia Munn and John Mulaney
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hold hands the entire night. Steve Martin and Catherine o'harris
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sit on a couch right by the first floor entrance
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even though most people on a third floor. As the
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band played on and the ballroom at the Plaza became
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even more packed, it was clear that for many people
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here he would be an icky blue light night. Let's
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hope Unlikeadye Bryant, they made it home to their apartment doors.
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Some odds and ends from the SNL special. You may
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have noticed in the Good Nights that somebody was holding
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up a picture of Gilda Radner. The people holding up
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Gildo where Loraene Newman and Jeene Curtin. Some people were
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curious who wasn't there, and there was one really really
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suspicious person not there. I'll get to No, it's not
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Dan Ackroyd. Late Nighter points out that Akroid's been laying
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groundwork for this for months. Late Nighter sourced an interview
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with Akroyd last August. Dan was asked about SNL fifty
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and said, for me, it's going to be a great
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night of television because I think it starts at eight thirty.
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I personally would like to be at home watching it
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because if I was there, I'm going to miss a
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great night of television. I'd get a viewing party together
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wherever I am in the world. And watch it. That's
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really what I think I'm going to be doing. Ackroyd
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had said something similar to the av Club several months
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later when asked if he would attend, Well, it depends
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on how and when I'm invited. I guess it depends
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on how I can serve. Let me put it that way.
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How can I serve them best? How can I serve
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Lauren and the whole enterprise best? That'll determine whether I
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go or not. There doesn't seem to be any bad blood.
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Dan tweeted over the weekend, I'm so proud of being
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associated with my comedy Alma mater and it's Dean Lorne Michaels.
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Friday night at the homecoming concert, it was a tribute
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to the Blues Brothers led by Jimmy Fallon Puck News,
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Matthew Baloney had mentioned that Bill Hayter was a quote
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polite decline. Now that notable name who wasn't there Dana Carvey,
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Which is weird because Dana Carvey was in a ton
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of episodes in the first half of the season. It's
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not like he wasn't you know. At thirty Rock Late
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milestone anniversary on any social media platform. I wonder what's
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going on there that's interesting to me. All this SNL media,
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I think did a favor to Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry was
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asked by a social media influencer if he would take
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a selfie. Let's listen to what happened, Jerry, Can I
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get a selfie?
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Sure?
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Free Palestine.
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I don't care about foul plot.
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So you're seeing a couple headlines about that, but I
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think there would have been a lot more if not
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for all the SNL noise. Vulture did an article every
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single thing that happened at SNL fifty. I started to
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read it and then I'm like, let me just do
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this live because I think it's interesting and I want
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to react to it. Because the first thing I saw
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was from Jesse David Fox, who I guess tweeted if
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anyone watching tries to read the tea leaves for who's
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taking over for Lorne. Almost every sketch was from Seth
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Meyers's time as head writer, or was by someone Myers hired,
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say for Debbie Downer and Domingo. That's interesting, Jesse again,
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head writers from the last twenty five years missing from
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the credits Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, Rob Klein, Ana Drezzen,
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Adam McKay, Harper Steele. Vulture points out Tom Schulders Don't
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in full at SNL fifty. That's the one with Belushian
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old age makeup. Bethy Squire's points out no inclusion of
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Trump or Elon in the problematic guest segments. Huh either.
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It was interesting they didn't do any politics. I get
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if you don't want to get into Trump during the
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SNL fifty, totally get it. But like Daryl Hammond doing
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Clinton wouldn't have been the worst thing. Ferrell doing George
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w wouldn't been the worst thing. I don't know herschel
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Pandu wrote, how is it that Lauren doesn't watch this
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musical sketch that's the millenie musical. It'd say this doesn't
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play to all fifty states. I don't think they cared
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my take watching it, I felt like I was at
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the Groundlings in la and they were celebrating themselves. Now
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I say that, having attended the Groundlings thirtieth anniversary show,
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is that math right, maybe it was the twentieth, twenty fifth. Anyway,
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long time ago, I went to one of the anniversary
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shows and they were just paying tribute to themselves, and
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I felt like, that's what SNL did on Sunday night.
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They were celebrating themselves and we were allowed to watch.
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I don't think they tried to hand in the greatest
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episode of SNL at all time. I think there was
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some backslapping there. Well, earned no problem with it, but
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I think that's what we were watching. Jesse David Fox
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points out the American Girls Store cutaway with John Lovetz
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was pre recorded. Lovetz was actually sitting with Sarah Sherman
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in the audience before the show. Kevin Elon caught up
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with Fox News. Kevin said, when I started, comedy was
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totally different. It was a totally different time in generation,
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and it was not as much short attention span. I
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can look back at some of the sketches on SNL
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and they're a lot longer than they are now because
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of the short attention span. I also the comedy may
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have gotten a little more snarkier. People want snippets more
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and more and more as quickly as possible. It's like
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a buffet. He got into these kids today. I think
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without social media, these comics wouldn't be known, they wouldn't
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be selling out arenas. John Lovett's echoed those sentiments, telling
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Fox News Digital he believes stand up comedy is bigger
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than ever. Steve Martin was the first guy to play
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like arenas and stadiums, and then years later was Andrew
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Dice Clay, and then years after that it was Dane Cook.
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Lovetz then talked to Midnight and said, you know, they've
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become way more political than they used to be. I
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know those guys, they're all extremely nice, and they're all very
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talented and very funny, but they're focusing on politics. There
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were some technical snaffoos across the country. The show ran
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long now I saw from late nighter Sunday, I don't know,
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around five PM or so. Late nighter had reported that
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NBC had told the affiliates, we're gonna run over. So
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I'm sitting in the basement watching uh Hulu The Shield
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and giseh're Currius have been rewatching the Shield. Love the Shield.
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Michael Chickliss, founding member of the Macpac We've talked about this,
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so I knew the show was gonna run over. The
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show got cut off in at least Detroit. In Houston,
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Bob Ellis is the general manager of WDIV Channel four, Michigan.
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He put out a statement, Now I need you to
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pay really, really, really really really close attention to the statement.
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You're ready the statement from Bob Ellis of Detroit. I
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know the best way to address the error last night
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with the ending of the Saturday Night Live fiftieth Anniversary
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special was with you directly pay attention. We sincerely apologize
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for cutting short the SNL special. This was not an
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intentional programming decision. It was simply human error, and we
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understand your disappointment. NBC had communicated to us Friday afternoon
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that the live show would run long with the scheduled
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end time of eleven fifteen pm. We had our technical
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teams ready for this planned fifteen minute overrun. When the
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show ran even later, we didn't make the real time adjustments,
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and that's why the final thirteen minutes were missed. Let
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me translate for you. That means we programmed the automation
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to cut off at eleven fifteen because that's what the
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network told us, and it never occurred to us that
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it might go over and nobody was on duty. All
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you had to do is pay a board up. That's
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what happened there. In my humble opinion, Bob Ellis writes,
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well you didn't see included a performance by Sir Paul McCartney,
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who sang a medley of three songs from the Beatles
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Abbey Road album. We all dismissed the on stage goodbye
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led by Martin Short that included former cast members holding
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up a photo of detroiter Gilda Radner. Okay, now let
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me reread the middle of bob Ellis's statement. This is
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Bob Ellis of Detroit. Ready, pay attention. NBC had communicated
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to us Friday afternoon that the live show would run long,
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with the scheduled in time of eleven fifteen pm. We
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had our technical teams ready for this planned fifteen minute overrun.
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Blah blah blah. Okay, you got that, Okay, same thing
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happened in Houston. KPRC general manager Phil Lane put out
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a statement. Here's mister Lane's statement. Pay attention. NBC had
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communicated to us Friday afternoon that the live show would
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run long, with a scheduled in time of ten fifteen pm.
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We had our technical teams ready for this planned fifteen
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minute overrun. When the show ran even later, we didn't
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make the real time adjustments, and that's why the final
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thirteen minutes were missed. Huh, it's almost the exact same statement,
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except for the adjustment for the time zone. That's weird.
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Lawyers in other news, Decider with a wonderful headline abysmal
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thought I was being smart when I turned the NBA
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All Star Game on thirty minutes late NBA tip off
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times a notoriously far afield of what is promised by
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TV listings that I wasn't eager to spend any more
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time than was absolutely necessary watching pregame ceremonies were listening
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to Kevin Hart talk, eight thirty seemed like a good
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time to tune in, even if it meant I might
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end up missing the first few minutes of the first game.
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When the TV flicked on, the game end started yet