Feb. 18, 2025

SNL 50 Recap, Kevn Hart's NBA All-Star Roast, and George Lopez's New Special

SNL 50 Recap, Kevn Hart's NBA All-Star Roast, and George Lopez's New Special

Johnny Mac covers the latest in comedy news, featuring a detailed recap of Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary celebration, including surprise performances and celebrity appearances. He delves into Kevin Hart's poorly received emceeing at the NBA...

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Johnny Mac covers the latest in comedy news, featuring a detailed recap of Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary celebration, including surprise performances and celebrity appearances. He delves into Kevin Hart's poorly received emceeing at the NBA All-Star game and critiques on his comedic relevance. The episode also highlights George Lopez's new special amidst a wave of mixed press, and briefly mentions Rosebud Baker's Netflix special release. Technical issues during the SNL broadcast and notable absences for the celebration are also discussed.

00:28 SNL 50th Anniversary Highlights
00:52 Steve Martin's Surprise Performance at the Cellar
02:12 SNL After Party Antics
03:52 Notable Absences and Reactions: Where was Dana Carvey?
05:26 Jerry Seinfeld's Controversial Moment
11:10 Kevin Hart's NBA All-Star Game Roast
14:43 George Lopez's New Special and Press Issues
16:44 Rosebud Baker's Netflix Special

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Callarogashock Media.

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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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Nighter points out Dana has not spoken out about the

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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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Look Back in Anger is the only retro sketch shown

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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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Kevin Hart special interrupted by sporadic basketball Decider writes, I

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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

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and Kevin Hart was screaming at me. We can't blame

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everything on Kevin Hard here, but we can definitely get

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pretty close. He was installed as the in game mc

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and Heart seemed to be under the impression that because

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he and Lebron James pretended to like each other in commercials,

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he is a rapport with every star player in the NBA.

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The ARENASBA system was turned over to him for portions

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of each game, which he used to attempt what I

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guess you would call NBA themed roast comedy as performed

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by a guy who doesn't seem to watch the NBA.

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He kept complaining about how the big men were shooting

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too many threes and demanding that they get in the box,

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delivering that uncanny collection of words as if they were

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a hilarious punchline. The cider continues. I then watched an

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hour long episode of a TV show and return to

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the broadcast to discover I had only missed the second minigame.

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Then there was more of the second halftime show to come,

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more commercials, and then more of Kevin Hart vamping at

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mid court. Eventually, the final game started, and after a

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few minutes of play, it was paused so that Heart

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could lead a drawn out ceremony honoring the cast of

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Inside the NBA, who aren't dying, but merely moving to

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another network next season. Now if you need a sense

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of how bad this was, I pulled a clip. The

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clip I'm going to play for you is the clip

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that the NBA spotlighted. So this isn't some caddy fan

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going Kevin Hort sucks. So let me pull a clip.

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This is the one the NBA thinks is good. Okay,

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So this is the best one in the opinion of

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the NBA. The first voice you will hear is Ernie Johnson.

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The second deeper voice that you'll hear is Barkley than Shack.

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And the other guy in there is Kevin Hart. If

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you can't recognize Kevin Hart, you're currently listening to the

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wrong podcast.

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Wow inspiring. I couldn't hear what ch'alls said over the

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swellt on his lip. I couldn't hear you. Well, if

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you were taller, you can hear. That's great, Charles, that's

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really good. Come up here, that's original, Charles. Hey, Kevin,

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that's good. That's really original, Charles. That's good. Penny, shake

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hands please.

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Or not? A right? There we go and join the

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name folks, And why you get your outfit of kids

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or us?

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Shut up, man, Focus it's focus, man, It's about basketball, Okay.

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Do be a pair, Hollo, do favors and I.

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Can see them tight eyed slacks on the tight as

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turn around so I can see them.

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Why do you have on nurses? Use with a suit? Listen.

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It's a lot of things that I can say. Hey,

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let's stop playing shot for the focus. How did you

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get your guys ready? And tell me how they prepare?

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From you? From the coaching genis that you are well.

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I just wanted to pick all these legends because at

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some point three four years from now you probably won't

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see these guys because they'll be retired. So I just

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wanted to put all these guys together and show the

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young guys and show the youngsters who runs this league.

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It's actually a beautiful thing. Shaq, thank you, beautiful thing.

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It's a team of bad knees is what we should

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call it. Bad knees and bad backs is what we

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should call it.

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Can you tell if people were to get that trending

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broad tank top?

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Shut up?

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Chat, Poor George Lopez, I think you picked the wrong

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day to put out a special because there's plenty else

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to talk about. Uh, maybe this wasn't the week to

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put one out, and so forth. For George, the press

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not going so well. People seem mostly interested in his appearance,

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and they're digging up some old tea about George low Anyway.

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On Amazon Today, George Lopez Mui Kotaliko premiere is Across

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the Hour. George shares his reflections on aging, Latino family

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dynamics and cultural quirks. As I've said every time I've

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read that line, George Lopez doing George Lopez things. He

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also embraces the challenges of getting older and touches on

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generational clashes and Latino superstitions. George is retiring from comedy

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and said it's the last one I've subjected the American

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people to. Enough of my crap. Seems like the right time.

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It's been the one thing that has never left me

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my whole life, and it's a wonderful place to leave

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it at this particular point now. Last week, George was

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on The Jennifer Hudson Show. People were surprised George in

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the past has worn his hair short. On the Jennifer

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Hudson Show, he was rocking bushy gray hair, and fans

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on Twitter were much funnier than the Kevin Hart NBA appearance.

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One person wrote, he looks like when trees come to

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life and tell stories. Another made a Harry Potter reference,

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he looks like he's about to tell Harry that he's

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a wizard. But my favorite, he looks like if Einstein

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discovered four loco. The Lopez Press has got people talking

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about that time George Lopez got a kidney from his

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now ex wife. George was told by doctors in two

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thousand and four he needed a kidney transplant. In two

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thousand and five, the Lopezes made headlines when it was

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revealed that wife Anne had given George the gift of

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life by donating one of her kidneys. They got divorced

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a couple of years later, So back to George Lopez's

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current look. One person tweeted, George Lopez took that lady's

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kidney and then divorced her. That's why he looks like

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that good. Another rote George Lopez looks awful, but he

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actually deserves to look even more hideous for dumping his

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wife after she donated her kidney to him. Both parties

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say the split was amicable and by mutual agreement, and

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poor Rosebud Baker, She's got a special out today on Netflix.

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Rosebud you are like twenty minutes into daily comedy news.

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Often the special will be the first thing I feel

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bad for you. Hopefully you get some press later in

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the week, but it is crowded today anyway. The Mother

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from Rosebud Baker is this week's Netflix special. Taped months

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apart during two sold out nights at the Comedy Seller,

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New York. The special intercuts between Baker before and after

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giving birth. Her set discusses the indignities of childbirth, the

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pros and cause of losing your identity in motherhood, generational

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divides of upbringings, along with coming to the difficult decision

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to retire from doing nice things for your male friend.

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And I'll leave it at that. That is your comedy

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news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a

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friend about it. They might like it too. I'm here

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See you tomorrow.