Sept. 4, 2025

SNL’s new cast, Scrubs reboot, and Jay Leno gave young Taylor Swift dating advice

SNL’s new cast, Scrubs reboot, and Jay Leno gave young Taylor Swift dating advice

SNL returns with five new featured players including Ben Marshall and Cam Patterson. Scrubs officially reboots with the original cast. Jay Leno once gave Taylor Swift dating advice — seriously. Plus: Druski’s whiteface skit sparks debate, Graham Linehan arrested over tweets, The Paper debuts, and Johnny Mac hates binge drops.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, alongside my dog who apparently is

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co hosting today, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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I don't know why the dog's hanging out in the studio,

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but you are very welcome. Saturday Night Live has announced

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five new cast members for season fifty one. They are

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Ben Marshall, Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Colheen, Cam Patterson, and Veronica

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Slow a count some interesting names there are Cam Patterson

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you may know him from Kill Tony. People are gonna

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get very upset about that. Veronica slowa Kowska you may

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not know the name, but you know the face if

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you watched Shane Gillis tires at season two. And Ben

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Marshall you know him as one of the Please Don't

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Destroy guys. He has been up to a feature player.

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Marshall's been with SNL as a writer since twenty twenty one.

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He was part of the Please Don't Destroy. How folks

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will come around to that Martin hurlehe from Please Don't

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Destroy will continue. Writer John Higgins has announced he is

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leaving SNL again. We'll circle back to that. Newcast member

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Tommy Brennan, a stand up comic and named a Just

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for Laughs New Face of Comedy in twenty twenty three.

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Camp Patterson best known for Kill Tony. He's also in

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Kevin Heart's upcoming film seventy two Hours Slowakowska from Tires,

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Poker Face, What We Do in the Shadows. Jeremy Colhayne

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from Upright Citizens Brigade SNL is back on October fourth.

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That is no surprisingly a Saturday. The show will air

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at eleven thirty p m. John Higgins posted on Instagram,

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and my dog was not interested at all on what

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Higgins had to say because she just left the room.

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But Higgins said, I can't believe how lucky it was

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to be part of the show. It was my dream

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and I got to live it, and to do it

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with my two best friends and my dad was an

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unbelievable experience. Thank you to everyone who made my time

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there so special, made this decision that much harder. But

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for now, I'm excited to pursue acting opportunities that I'll

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announce soon, But today I'm just grateful for everything we

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got to do. It is unclear if Please Don't Destroyer

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will continue to perform together when they're not on Saturday

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Night Live. They are currently on tour and of dates

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scheduled over the next two weeks. If you listen to

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yesterday's podcast, I shared my creative concerns about the Beck

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Bennett and Kyle Mooney podcast. The first guest is Mark

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Maren and then I noticed the second guest is Fran Gillespie. Yeah,

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I don't know either exactly. That's what I'm worried about.

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Did they drop a third episode yet? I don't think so.

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Let me check they did drop a third episode. The

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guest on the newest episode is Tim Baltz. Tim Baltz

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is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He appeared as

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a citizen journalist on the Comedy Central series The Opposition

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with Jordan Klepper, also in The Righteous Gemstones. Okay, that's

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guest three. Guest two the famous Fran Gillespie. I know

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you're throwing your phone against the wall right now, going

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How does he not know who Fran Gillespie is? Well, obviously,

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she's a writer and performer originally from Chicago, and her

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credits include SNL, Big Mouth, Killing It and John mulaney

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presents Everybody's in La Writer on SNL. Okay, Well and

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Mark Barrett. Those are your guests, says the guy recording

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podcasts in his basement. It's the other charting today. I

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also can't remember what this thing is called. This has

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a bad title. What is this thing called? Again? What's

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our podcast? Question Mark with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney

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down seventeen spots today, it is the one hundred and

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twenty seventh biggest podcast on Apple Podcast Charts, and it

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is number seventeen in the comedy category. Again, not too

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bad at all. Good news for Scrubs. Corla is coming back.

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Judy Reyis will appear as a special recurring guest star

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as Corla. Scrubs has a series order. Zach Braf, Donald Faison,

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Sarah Chalk All back as j D. Turk and Elliott

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New Scrubs will follow j D and Turk, who scrubbed

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together for the first time in a long time. Medicine

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has changed in terms of change, but their bromance as

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stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate

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the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some

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surprises along the way. Again, I'm curious what they'll do

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for a set. Will they use the sets from scrub

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Season nine? When it was the different hospital because the

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other hospital doesn't exist anymore. Or they could recreate the

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old sets and just pretend season nine didn't happen. We'll

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see The Paper, which debuts tonight. Binge. Did you watch

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all ten episodes yet? Why not? The Internet's gonna spoil

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them for you. Why didn't you get up at three

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in the morning and watch ten episodes of a sitcoms

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before the av club tells you, Hey, here's what happens,

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Here's why that character dies in episode eight. I made

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that up. Johnny Max's from the twentieth century. Johnny Mack

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doesn't like the binge. You get no water cooler when

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you do the binge. Anyway, The Paper has been renewed

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for a second season. All ten episodes out today. I'll

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be watching football minor ish a spoiler for the show.

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It won't ruin it for you. But in case you're curious,

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how did the in show documentarians wind up in Toledo?

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We learned that dunder Mifflin was bought by an Ohio

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based company called Innervate. Innervate sells products made up out

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of paper, and because of that they came to own

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newspaper The Truth Teller. Innervate also sells toilet tissue. Anyway,

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I'll watch and I will tell you tomorrow on Comedy

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stock Marker. Remember last week we loaded up on the

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paper stock. I will tell you tomorrow. Are we gonna

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buy more? Are we gonna sell? That's tomorrow's episode. Fred

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Armizan was asked by The Observer, Hey, Fred Ormison, what

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did you make of Stephen Colbert's show being canceled by CBS.

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Fred said, it's very sad. All I know is that

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Stephen Colbert is beloved and brilliant. He'll do something else great.

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And I don't worry about the future of satire on

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TV because comedy always wins. That's the magic of it.

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Speaking of Late Night, the worst person who ever lived

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possibly Jay Leno. Yeah that guy, listen to this. Thirteen

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years ago, Taylor Swift credited Jay Leno, of all people,

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with offering her some of the most memorable relationship advice

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of her life. Yeah, if you go back and you read.

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A twenty twelve episode of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Taylor Swift, then

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twenty three years old, took the Cosmo Quiz. She was asked,

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what's the best relationship advice you ever got? Taylor Swift said,

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jay Leno told me it's easy. Just marry your conscience.

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Marry the one who makes you want to be a

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better person. Boy, jay Leno is just He's the worst.

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Big day for Ohio. Not only the paper, but the

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Columbus Comedy Festival is back. One hundred plus comedians, four

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days of events. Artists include I Won't Read Them All,

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Jeremiah Watkins, Second City, Sam Tallent, James Doomian, Chad the Bird,

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and many many more. Some of the shows Female af

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an all woman lineup of stand up comedians from New

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York City, LA and Columbus Live Wreck is locals doing

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their best ten minute sets. Those are published on YouTube

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and social media afterwards, and also in Columbus, Ohio The

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Chicago Showcase hosted by Chad the Bird. In the UK,

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Josh Jones kicks off a toury he'll be touring the

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UK and Ireland. His new show is called I Haven't

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Won the Lottery, So here's another tour show. Josh says,

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I've done award shows for plumbers, and I've gigged in

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a barn for farmers. I've had times when older straight

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blokes looked disappointed that a camp. Gay has just walked

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on stage and then by the end they're crying laughing.

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Also in the UK, Graham linehim you may know him

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as the writer of Father Ted, a great series. If

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you've never seen it, seek that out on the internet.

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I don't know where you can watch it these days.

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Let me open up just watch maybe I can tell you.

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Do you know about Just watch? Just watch is great.

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It'll tell you where things are streaming or not. Father

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Ted not streaming right now? That stinks anyway. Graham also

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created the id Crowd. He said he was intercepted by

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five armed officers after flying into the UK from Arizona

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and told he was under arrest on substack. Graham said

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he was taken to a cell and question over some

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posts he published on Twitter back in April. The post

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related to him challenging a quote trans identified male unquote

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in a quote female only space unquote. He was released

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on bail. The Metropolitan Police did not identify him, a

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spokesperson said. On Monday one September, at one pm, officers

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arrested a man at Hethrow Airport after he arrived on

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an inbound American Airlines flight. The man in his fifties

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was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in

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relations to posts on x SO, my fellow Americans enjoy

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your free speech. Yikes, and did you see this? One?

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Comedian Drewski has upset some people. He did a NASCAR skit.

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Drewski showed up at the Southern five hundred NASCAR race

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in whiteface and played a character dubbed white drew Ski.

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The character has what appears to be full body makeup

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really well done, a mullet and a beard, dressed in

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overalls and a cowboy hat. Some fans said the skit

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is harmless and hilarious. Others say it was a satire

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of a specific subculture. Others said it was punching up

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at a stereotype. Others yet condemned the use of whiteface

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as insensitive and hypocritical, drawing parallels to the historical use

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of black face. Those people argue that, regardless of intent,

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the act of whiteface promotes harmful stereotypes. I watched a clip.

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I was not offended. I also didn't find it particularly funny.

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In a similar vein forty something years ago, Eddie Murphy

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did a sketch where he dressed up as a white

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guy and went to the bank and had some laughs

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about how they didn't have to check his credit or

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whatever the joke was. I found that very funny, but

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also I was thirteen. I think it's still funny. Haven't

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watched it in a minute, so for what it's worth,

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I'm not offended by Drewski's sketch. I am impressed by

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his makeup. And that is your comedy news for today.

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See tomorrow.