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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack and tonight
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is the season finale of Saturday Night Live's fiftieth season.
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As I've talked about on the podcast before, I think
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if you're gonna get out, this is the time to
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get out. I think season fifty one, well, it'll clearly
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lack the buzz and I think it's gonna be a
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rebuilding year, so it could be time to get out.
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Deadline took a list at who is rumored to perhaps,
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possibly maybe be leaving. They started with Michael Chay, who
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every year says he's leaving, but in February, while performing
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at the University of Rochester, Chase said, this is my
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last season. I'm not coming back. Don't or I'm done.
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It's over for me. It's been so much fun. It's
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a little emotional. It's bittersweet, cause, like I said, he
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says that every year, but this year there were rumors
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that Colin Jost is going to leave. Tonight's guest host
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is Scarlett Johansson, married to Colin Jost but also starring
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in an upcoming Jurassic movie, so it's not absurd that
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she's hosting. But some are taking Scarlett's participation tonight as
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a clue. Jose and Chay are currently fourth and fifth
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most tenured on SNL, behind Seth Meyers three, Darryl Hammond two,
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and Keenan Thompson. Deadline points out if the news desk
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is thinking of leaving now, is a pretty good time
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before the country starts talking about the twenty twenty six
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midterms or the twenty eight presidential election. It was also
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a little rumor a couple weeks back that Colin's doing
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such a good host as pop Culture Jeopardy that they're
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considering him for regular Jeopardy, which is a great gig
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if you can get it, and at Colin's age, you
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could do it for thirty years. Look at Drew Carrey,
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who's already been hosting Prices Right for I think it's
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like fifteen years already. By the way, sidebar I want
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to get my oil change. Jiffy leeu B always has
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Game Show Network on, and they were showing a Bob
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Barker era Price is Right, and Bob Barker still had
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the dark hair. Price Is Right is a lot harder
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when you go back in time and you're like, you
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have to figure out first of all, what year is this?
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And then when they ask you how much things cost
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a new car, I don't know. Eighty three hundred dollars. Sure.
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Mikey Day was asked by Deadline if he would return
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and said, who knows what the future will bring. Or
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Heidi Gardner, who's been on the show for eight seasons.
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Gardner has admitted in some interviews that things have gotten
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a little tough trying to come up with sketches. She
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told Craig Ferguson, I will say the only thing that
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I've started to feel a little bit is just sketch
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fatigue or idea fatigue. At this point, after doing Groundlings
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and SNL for so long, I'm like I've written a
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lot of sketches. Ego Nuotam is wrapping up her seventh
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season on the show. She told Deadline, We'd like to
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keep things mysterious around here. That's part of the allure
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of SNL. We don't know what's going to happen week
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to week, let alone in the fall, so who knows.
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Chloe Fineman finishing up her sixth season, and then Bow
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and Yang, who he gave an interview recently and said
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he wasn't leaving, but everything about his behavior suggests that
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he's leaving. He had told people, especially after the fiftieth,
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them seeing what life after the show is like and
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how beautiful it is, and how so many people in
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the matter how long they were at the show or
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just with their families and loving their lives and not
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letting the years take away any of that experience for them.
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And then with SNL, new people come in, you have
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to sort of make way for them to grow and
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to keep elevating themselves. That inevitably requires me to sort
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of hang it up at some point, but I don't
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know what the vision is yet. He then backpedaled on
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that a couple of weeks later and was like, Nope,
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I'm not leaving. If Josetin Chay Doot leave, if a
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speculation is Michael Longfellow will replace them as one of
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the anchors, I could also see Sarah Sherman at the desk,
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and we're going to talk about that in a second.
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My guess mass exodus, Joe Chay, Bowen Yang and the
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other people I mentioned, I think they're all gone, and
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Season fifty one is going to be a rebuild built
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around Sarah Sherman. And Marcelo Hernandez, who people seem to like,
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and I think he does one thing really well and
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has done it in five different characters that are all
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the same thing to me. But we'll see. Sarah Sherman
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had that big profile and Vanity Fair earlier in the week.
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I had shared it in the Facebook group, which is
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Daily Comedy News podcast group. Sarah talked about the schedule
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writing night. It was Tuesday night, so I stayed up
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until six am writing yesterday was table read. Then you
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get to work at one pm, and then you get
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home at eleven or so and by the end of
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the season, my body shuts down. It's like yelp. I'm
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used to it for being in stand up. I'm a
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nighttime person. I feel like every season has gotten more
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and more busy. Last season, I was being used as
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a straight man a lot, which has increased more this season,
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which is really fun because you feel like the writers
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trust you to deliver a joke concept. Even though the
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wilder character slots take enormous swings and there's a lot
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of crazy stuff that happens, there's something so fun about
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a straight man because sometimes the crazy stuff doesn't work
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unless there is someone immediately grounding it. Another interesting mark
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I've had over the season is I've done a bunch
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of updates that have come about last minute, where they've
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been written off writing schedule or thrown into writing characters
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that weren't my own original idea. So I've been flexing
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a lot of writing muscles too, which is new for me.
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They were like, can you play the squirrel? And I'm like,
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all right, I have to play a squirrel. Can I
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write this in a way that's fun for me that's
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also still the squirrel. I came into the show as
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if everyone's like, she's crazy, and I did this crazy stuff.
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Crazy doesn't go that long of a way. The show's
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an hour and a half. It can't be crazy the
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whole time. So the show has supported me to move
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to places that make me understand comedy better. Even in
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my own stand up. My show's an hour and a half.
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It's playing with texture and pacing and bigness and smallness,
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and this show's taught me just how it works. It
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can't be screaming the whole time, which is something I
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wouldn't have learned from the show. On to weekend update,
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the recurring bit where she roast Colin Josts. She says,
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if I didn't find fun, I wouldn't keep doing it.
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I bet we'll get one tonight. At first, it started
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out as just me, and then we kept it fresh
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by evolving and having it to be different characters. That's
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how I was able to train myself to play characters too,
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because sketch comedy was so new to me. How did
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this start? It was all Colin's fault. When I first
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joined the show, I'd written a bunch of things down
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for table read. He told me you should come on
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weekend updates yourself, and I was like, oh, that's so presumptuous.
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It felt even funnier after him being so kind, like, hey,
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I want to give you an opportunity to try being
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on the show for once. To repay him by making
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fun of him for living in the Hamptons. I called
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him a groomer or something. But the only reason it's
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fun is because he's sitting there laughing. All right, the
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big question, would you ever consider doing update as host?
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Of course I would love to hear. Are you kidding me?
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I'm obsessed with Norm MacDonald? But that's the thing to
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think for even one second. I can do what Norm
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McDonald did. What am I insane? All right? I had
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saved this one so that I could pre tape today.
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My son graduated from college yesterday, so I didn't want
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to be recording a podcast at four in the morning.
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From MSN dot com, The Best Comedians in History, a
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thirty two page slide show. Let's see who they've got
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on the list. Leslie Nielsen, Okay, interesting choice. We all
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like police Squad, we all like the Naked Gun, we
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all like airplane. Interesting in stake starts on this list,
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all right, Leslie Nielsen is, of course, at one of
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MSN's best comedians in History, Mort Saul before my time.
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I don't have anything to say about Mort. Definitely a
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name that I know. Ricky Gervais, obviously The Office is
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his masterpiece. You know, nice stand up? Sure, okay, Steve Colbert,
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they write David Letterman's replacement on The Late Show proved
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to be as hilarious and intellectual as his legendary predecessor.
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I'm not feeling it in the pop culture. I haven't
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watched any I don't think I've ever seen an episode
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of Late Show with Colbert. I've seen clips, but i've
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never sat down to watch an episode to compare him
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to Letterman. It's hard for me to accept that, but okay,
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and we got an ad from Mattress Charlie Chaplin, believe
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it or not before my time, but sure, who doesn't
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know Charlie Chaplin. I won't push back on that one.
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Rowan Atkinson, mister Bean. Interesting choice. Eddie Murphy. They're mainly
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focusing on his movie comedies here. He's got quite the
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list of movie comedies. As I've pointed out, someone my
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age really likes Eddie Murphy from his time on SNL
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and Ron Delirious, and as I got older and educated
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myself more in comedy, I realized that his stand up
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was a pure cover band version of Richard Pryor. But
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Eddie Murphy, sure, I hope. I hope Richard Pryor's on
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this list at some point. Another ad Jerry lew Us
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for his time in Martin Lewis and also his movies.
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Roberto Gomez Bolognos one of the biggest names on the
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Mexican comedy scene. I'm not familiar with. Roberto Roberto Gomes Bologos,
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better known as Chessperito or Little Shakespeare, was a Mexican actor, comedian, writer, producer,
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director and author. Hey, I like somebody put some effort
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into this list. Jerry Seinfeld, they write this is an
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indisputable choice, obviously the sitcom. You know. I got into
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Seinfeld when he would appear on Letterman in the eighties.
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I've been to big time comedy festivals where you're seeing
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everybody and seeing Jerry. At a comedy festival, and Jerry
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is at the top, I won't argue with you. There
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now an add for teeth implants, a slide show. I
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can't believe this. Peter Sellers. I'm a fan of Peter Sellers.
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I like this list. Somebody puts some effort into this list.
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Any such list, we can nitpick left and right, but
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you know this is good. Jim Carrey not really my
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cup of tea, but they're citing ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber,
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The Mask, Cable Guy, Lira, Liar Me and Myself, Irene Bruce,
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Almighty and more are also his work on in Living
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Color Again, I wouldn't arm Rescue over this. Laurel and
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Hardy before my time. You know, when I was a kid,
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maybe you'd see them on Channel eleven on the Weekend,
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but I never really have consumed any Laurel and Hardy.
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But again, won't arm wrestle you, Lucille Ball, of course,
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the Marx Brothers. Same note, a little before my time,
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Jimmy Carr. If you listen, you know I'm a huge
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fan of Jimmy Carr. But okay, another ad, Mario Moreno
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conting Floss. I am familiar with kantin Floss because there
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was a theater in my neighborhood growing up that would
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show his films. I never saw any of them, but
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I know who he is. The cast of Monty Python. Okay,
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so we just threw in six guys, all right, sure
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I love Monty Python. Ellen Degenerous, Yeah, Ellen Degenerous is
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on this list best comedians of all time. Okay, another ad.
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about found a few times this week. Immensely talented. I
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or you know a lot of names we haven't said yet.
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all time, The Three Stooges. Sure, Melissa McCarthy. The reason
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given the actress is a comedy staple, both in TV
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and on the big screen. Another ad, Abin Costello, Amy
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he also moved on to television. How long is this list?
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of all time Top twenty. See what the AI says.
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Chris Farley, Steinfeld at fifteen, Ck Hebberg, Phyllis Diller, Tina Fey,
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Amy Schumer. The AI says this list is by no
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means definitive, as comedy is subjective. But these names represent
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some of the greatest ever do it. Each one brought
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something unique to the table. Well, looks at Betty. Sorry,
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I'm sorry. Just watch Live of the Sunset strip where
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Richard Pryor is telling jokes and doing voices while wearing
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a red outfit. Just watch that, and then watch Eddie
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Murphy's comedy and tell me I'm wrong. All Right, I'm
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shutting up. See you tomorrow,