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Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news, daily
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briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry.
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A sentence The Algorithm loves SNL is coming to the
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UK this Saturday. Your first host on SNL UK will
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be Tina Fay. Pretty good choice. Some people are surprised
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they went with an American host, but I don't think
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you can argue that Tina Fay doesn't know how to
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do SNL. So you know, sometimes the correct move is
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go right down the middle, and why goof around the
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first impressions make a big deal. Tina Fey good at
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SNL knows how to host, Sure, Dna Fay, why not?
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Musical guests, English band wet Leg Season one is only
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six episodes. We know that. On March twenty eighth, Jimmie
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Dornan will host April fourth, Riz Ahmed and we're going
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to talk about him later we'll host. Dornan will be
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joined by musical guest Wolf Alice and Casbian will be
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on the Riz Ahmed Show. SNL UK will air at
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ten pm local time on Sky one and the streaming
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service known as Now. If you're in the US and
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you want to watch, you have to wait until the
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next day. That's fine. I watch SNL on Sunday anyway,
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It'll be on Peacock in the US. SNL UK episodes
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are seventy five minutes. Interesting number, The Guardian wrote, how
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could this be anything other than funny? They profiled the
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behind the scenes. Maybe someday someone will make a movie
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of all this, the Guardian tells us. For the past
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four weeks, eleven performers and twenty writers have been spending
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every weekday together in this very building, which apparently is
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a boardroom in West London's television center. They've been hashing
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out premises for skits. Do we like the word skits?
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I think we like the word sketches over here more
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than skits workshopping each other's material and finding the alchemy.
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Writer Graham Maguire says, since Lockdown, it feels like British
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comedy television has been slowly atrophying. A huge opportunity like
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this is so exciting, The Guardian tells us the SNL
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model seems unthinkably luxurious. On that side of the pond,
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where sitcoms are often written by just one person and
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writer room jobs are pretty much non existent. Is my
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delivery very Colin Jost today. Every time I'm finishing a freeze,
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I feel like I'm putting a Colin Jost's spin on it,
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and I'm not trying to do that, The Guardian says.
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When they ask cast member Al Nash how he's getting
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in the zone, he thuds a copy of Live from
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New York, Tom Shells and James Andrew Miller's eight hundred
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page oral history of SNL down on the table, and
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he says, some of us like to do our research.
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Follow up question was what inside have you gained? The answer,
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I actually haven't started reading it yet. That's hilarious. Showrunner
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James Longman says, Lauren Michaels keeps saying things to me
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like just get it on air. How do they choose
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the cast, he says, we were looking for the funniest people.
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We didn't go in for name recognition. The cast range
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from twenty six to age thirty six. There was not
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an age limit. One element being carried over from the
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US's Weekend update, Good thing Tina Fey is there this weekend.
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I'm looking forward to watching that one. I Meanwhile, in
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the United States, of America. We have our own Saturday
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Night Live at Arizon Saturday Nights Long. I've at eleven
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thirty and on the most recent episode, Marcelo Hernandez busted
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out his Sebastian Maniscalco impression again. Sebastian is campaigning hard
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to get booked on SNL. Man He posted on Twitter,
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I've been on SNL twice now, which sounds impressive until
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I tell you neither time was as the host. At
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this point, Harry Styles and Marcelo Hernandez have locked more
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rehearsal time as me than I have. Both of them
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were hilarious and absolutely nailed it. Maybe the third time
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I come in and do it as myself campaign campaign campaign.
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A lot of people really liked this impression that Marcelo
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Hernandez does. As I said in the past, he does
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one thing, and he does one thing well, and arguably
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he does two things. But I here, let's listen to it.
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I'll talk about the case yourana. Listen to me. For
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my client to get out of that store, he would
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have had the June Collar security Gullar. Then they got
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delases everywhere, so my client would have had the Tom Cruise.
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That okay, and then they got the sensors. You know
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about the censor Jarana, They're about this thought of sensus.
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They tell you you got something you're not supposed to have.
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So Mike Client what I had to grab the shoes
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and the bell and the jack and hold it above
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his head and go like that. So either Mike Client
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is not upid or he belongs in the alumpics. The
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defense rests.
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I agree.
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I mean, it's okay. Now I'm only playing the audio,
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so you're not getting the physical aspects. He does it
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very very animated, which I'm not entirely sure where that's
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coming from. It's a good character, but it's not like
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the most amazing impression. And if you're like Jenny Mack,
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you just don't find Marcello or Hernan is funny. You're
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you're not being fair. Well you might be right, but
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as evidence that the impression is nothing special, let me
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present to you Harry Styles.
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This is crazy.
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You're all just captivated by the way Sebastian Anna Scalco
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is talking like what if I talk like that? Eron,
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This guy took the close and he walked right out
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of school. He got the security footage to lat them,
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so ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Yea, I yes, why.
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Would do that?
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Moving on now, if you want to hear a really
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good impression, Jeremy Colhane broke out Tucker Carlson impression on
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Weekend Update, and it was fantastic. Let's listen, let's all.
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Go to the movies. Huh?
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Really?
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Yes, why don't we grab some popcorn and watch American
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culture collapse? What are we doing?
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What's going on?
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All right?
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Coming in hot? Well, how do you feel about this
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year's nominees? Where to even beacon?
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Oh? I know? Why don't we talk about sinners? That's right, sinners?
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Because of course, leftist, woke America's favorite movie this year
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is about sinning. Huh why does that not surprise me? No? Sorry, kids,
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we don't go to church anymore. We go to sinners.
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That's the rule, that's the goal. Now what are we doing?
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What's going on?
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Okay? All right, so you didn't you didn't like Sinners?
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You didn't like sinners? What about Handnet? Oh? Hamnet?
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Because we're not allowed to say Hamlet anymore.
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No, no, took.
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The l and gave it to the GBTQ.
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So it's Hamnet.
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Now what are we doing?
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What's going on? Meanwhile? We have a beef? Yeah? Did
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you catch it? On it? I just did the cone
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and yeah. See that's why illustrated that yesterday. Yeah, we
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have a beef. Did you catch the send up of
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the pit they did on usnl MA Hospital, Well, some
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people said the Daily Show did that already. Back on
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November twenty first, The Daily Show aired a promo for
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RFK Hospital, a fast paced medical drama about the only
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hospital brave enough to follow the advice of the medical
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. In that sketch, a
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doctor played by Michael Costa knows that medical science doesn't
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have to be based on anything in particular, and in
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that sketch, the staff prescribed treatments such as raw milk,
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fecal matterbaths, and defluoridated water. In that sketch, Costa's character
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reacts to news of a school bus full of children
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hitting a deer by saying, we can still save that
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deer meat now. The SNL version closes with RFK Junior,
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played by James Austin Johnson, rushing a dead bear into
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the er, hoping to salvage it's meat. Hmmm. Michael Costa
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went on Instagram and Johnny mack loves a good beef.
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He posted, watch the original that we released six months ago.
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He further commented, ridiculous. We are also reminded that on
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January fourteenth, Jimmy Kimmellive aired a sketch called Make America
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Healthy Again, in which Noah Wiley presented himself as not
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a real doctor who gave some medical advice inspired by
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RFK Junior.
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Hmm.
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Mark Norman's special was out on Netflix, and you know
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there were Nicks and USA Baseball last night. You know,
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I kind of wish Netflix would stop putting the comedy
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specials out on Tuesday. You would think Tuesday would be
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like a good night to just kick back and watch
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comedy special and it never is. And maybe it's just
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because I live an old man mountain. Can you just
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put these things out on like Friday? Mark Norman was
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on Fox News and he said, what bothers him about
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comedy today is the presence of any finger wagging in comedy.
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He said, imagine if a musician just came up put
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his guitar down, was like, let me tell you about
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iron in Israel, and you're like, what about the music,
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sant up. Comedy is the only art for him that's
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so subjective. You can kind of slip away from the
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comedy part because you're holding a microphone and have a
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stool with a beer on it. Mark says comedy has
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become weirdly morality based. When I was a kid, you
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watch Blazing Saddles, Ready Murphy or whatever, and it was
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just like, the worst things are what you should lean
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in on. He does not believe in shock for its
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own sake, and explain I think some people do that
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horribly and they just say a word without having a joke.
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I think as long as there's always a joke, you
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can talk about anything. Everything's on the table. And I
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think making horrible things funny is part of the job.
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So I say lean in. But it's got to be funny.
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That's the key. It's gotta have a laugh, and that's
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the art form making it funny and getting away with it.
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I'll pick it that a little bit more tomorrow. Meanwhile,
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Ready Steady Cut gave a Mark Special three and a
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half out of five presumably stars. They right. Mark Norman's
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style has never really evolved, which is kind of the point.
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None too pleased, plays out like in All You Can
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Eat Buffet of Zingers, designed to be equally offensive to everyone,
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just as it should be. Norman isn't quite a one
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liner comic, but he's close, each argument, usually highlighting some
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kind of inherent hipocracy or drawing an out there comparison.
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Examples being an anatomical analogy for the Israel Palestine conflict,
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or OnlyFans being for men with the wnbas for women,
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or how being married is like being in the military
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and using that as an excuse to slip in an
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off color gag about classic taboo topics like Hitler or
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Nine to eleven. They write The reason this works so
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well for Norman are varied, but the biggest one is
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that he's good at it. The punchlines are offering cleverly
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put together and snuck in when you least expect them,
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and some of the core contradictions he highlights are just
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as stude enough to become interesting jumping off points. Cats
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are like Heroin addicts a couple of spoilers in there
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that I will skip, but they conclude with most people
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can laugh not just at others, but also at themselves.
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Bird Kreischer is gonna milk this bus story again. I'm
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glad everyone's okay. But like the whoever roasted him yesterday,
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now bird has two stories. Kreischer was on social media again,
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said all right, here's everything you need to know about
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the bus. Both bus drivers said that never seen anything
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like it in their thirty five years. We waited for
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a couple hours and then we ditched the bus and
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got on the crew buses and drove in a seat
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of rapids. That morning, our bus caught fire on the road.
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Everyone is fine, the bus driver, Dewey. He got out
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in time, he said, literally. The fire started in fifteen seconds.
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The front cabin was in flames. Here's the good thing
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to know. Had we slept on that bus, we've all
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been trapped in the back and be dead today. Yesterday,
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we would have been dead yesterday. God works in mysterious ways.
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So it was a blessing that we had to blow out.
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It was a blessing. So today, as frustrated as you
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may get, everything is a blessing. God works in mysterious ways.
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The bus story pairs up with Netflix announcing that Free
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Bert got a season two renewal Bert will also be
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part of the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival, Kreischer,
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Sigora and Jelly Roll will do the Two Bears five
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K at the Rose Bowl on May ninth. At the festival,
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Bert is hosting Bert and Shak's crowd Work show at
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the Comedy Store May eighth. I promised I would bring
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up this comment left in the Facebook group. Lee has
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shot a nice note. He pointed out nicely, very nicely,
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that the fish that Steve Harvey was going after, even
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though it is spelled like you would pronounce it crappy,
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it's actually pronounced crappy and tells me it's a popular
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menu item for recreational fishermen. Thank you, Lee. I used
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to fish for snapper off Jon's Beach over by the
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Coastguard station on its probably like ten years old. We
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just used worms. No, we didn't use worms. We would
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go get baitfish little bit. I don't know what they're called.