Some comedy specials to check out over July 4

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Calorokas Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack
with your daily comedy news. Sebastian Manuscalco

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shared his go to high protein breakfast
with the folks at Men's Health. He

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showed off his black and white striped
fridge. Men's Health says the fridge itself

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is meticulously organized, filled with every
imaginable fruit, vegetable, meat, cheese,

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pasta, et cetera. Not only
is it visually appealing, but it

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showcases the variety of foods and flavors
he incorporates into his meals. You mean

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he doesn't go to the National donut
chain every morning and eats something that's totally

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unhealthy and a large iced coffee of
caramel and milk. Maniscalco jokes that the

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container of Bell peppers is strictly for
color and equips. We bought it for

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the look. He claims. His
staple ingredient is eggs, and a typical

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breakfast for Sebastian Maniscalco consists of three
or four eggs, smoked salmon, and

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some avocado. When he's on tour. He likes to eat healthier and prioritize

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protein as a way to sustain the
energy and physicality required. For sets.

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One thing you'll never find in his
fridge. Every Friday growing up, my

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mother would make liver with onions and
it was awful. Manuscalco then took Ment

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Health to the gym, where he
showed off his latest edition pickleball courts.

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He jokes, because he's now fifty, it felt necessary. Yeah, I'm

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fifty something and that seems to be
the rage. I'm still out there playing

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beach volleyball with people literally half my
age. Last week a teammate was talking

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to someone on the other team and
she realized, Oh, it's not just

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I could be your mom, I
could be your grandmother. Ha ha.

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Sebagin said, when I was in
my twenties, thirties and early forties,

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it was primarily esthetics. Used to
be a lot about weight training. There's

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no more plates. Now it's more
about nutrition and being flexible. I don't

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really care if I have the biggest
chest, biceps, legs. That's not

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the intention here. The intention now
is about mobility. Entertainment Weekley did a

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big profile of Stephen Colbert. He
pulled out a frame photo of an early

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career Walter cronkite where he used to
discuss the day's headlines with a puppet named

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Charlemagne. Colbert said, this is
my that Walter Cronkite started off as a

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morning anchor who had a puppet lion, so let's not hear about the dignity

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of CBS News. Back at Northwestern
University, he paid his fifty dollars rent

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by building cheap futon frames out of
two by fours and dry wall screws and

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sell them to the broke college students. He recalls dead fall apart. In

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the middle of the night. People
would call me furious, and I'd put

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a handful of screws in my pocket
and grab a cordless drill. I'd ride

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my bike across Evanston, I'd fix
their bed, and I'd go home.

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Eventually he got a job answering phones
and selling souvenirs at Second City, a

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perk of the job free classes.
Perhaps his improv background makes him such a

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good listener, He says, I'm
not setting the tone. My interests are

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eclectic and my tone is malleable.
There's almost nothing that we could talk about

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that I'm not going to find some
interest in. I'm willing to ride your

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pony wherever. The only exception is
when he has politicians on the show.

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With politicians, I feel a different
obligation to ask the questions that I want

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to ask, not the questions that
they want to be asked. It's not

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like I want to be adversarial,
but when you interview a politician, you

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can't edit anything they want you to
edit. He plans to host the late

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show as long as they I'll let
him. Vulture caught up with tignatsorrow and

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asked Tick about the joke she's most
excited to show her kids one day.

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Tick said, I'm very curious what
they're going to think about when I take

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my shirt off, and boyish girl
interrupted. It was only from watching Drawn

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did they find out even had cancer. They had no clue that'd see my

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body, and they had no questions
about my scars. But I remember lying

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on the bed the morning after they
watched Drawn, they had a lot of

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questions about what cancer was. They
were pointing out my scars and they were

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like, and this is from cancer. So I guess I'm curious what they'll

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think about that moment. When I
took my shirt off, the first time

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I did it at Largo, I
felt a little insecure because I like my

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son Max am modest. I was
definitely uncomfortable, but I remember Bo Burnham

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was there and after the show he
was like, whoa, my mind is

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blown. This is not just about
women or cancer. This is about body

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image. This is about being comfortable
with the human body. That really gave

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me more strength and power behind what
I was doing. It doesn't matter who

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you are or what's going on.
This is about bodies. The Old Reporter

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had a round table of comedians and
they talked about not wanting to see someone

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you know in the audience. Taylor
Thomlinson said, I've had people, people

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from high school come to sit in
the front row and You're like, no,

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please, not like there. They
think they're being supportive, and they

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are. We appreciate it, but
I'm like, sit halfway back, right

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where the darkness starts. And she
also doesn't like any folded pair of arms

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in the front row, no matter
what they're attached to. You're kind of

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like, let's unfold those over the
course of the night. Mike bur Bigley

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has said people you know are not
who you want in a stand up comedy

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audience. Jackie Novak and I swore
together and we always compared it to being

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an exog dancer a stripper. It's
like you don't really want your friends to

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be there when you're stripping. Vulture
wrote five new comedy specials you should definitely

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watch when you have a moment.
Got a holiday week coming up, we

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probably have some time. They point
out upward of one hundred and fifty stamp

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specials were released in twenty twenty three. Here are some recommendations. Alex Edelman's

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Just for Us. This is the
one about Edemun's story at the time he

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went to a white supremacist meeting in
Queen's and tried to hide that he was

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Jewish. I've not seen that one
yet. Kyle Kanane's Dirt Nap on YouTube.

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I love that one. That has
a nice fifteen minute chunk about fast

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and furious that I think is an
all timer. I don't know how deep

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the ald timer list is, but
I would put this up there with things

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like Eddie Murphy The Barbecue. Nathan
McIntosh is Down with Tech on YouTube.

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I had finally gotten around to that
one. That's pretty good, A focused

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assault on a single topic, tech
companies and the tech nerds, he argues

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who run the world. Macintosh's strength
is his frenzied performance and specifically is constantly

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cracking sky is falling voice. I
will recommend that one to you. You

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should watch that one. Christina Catherine
Martinez her debut special Martinez a shot alone

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in an empty gallery space, surrounded
by a fridge, oven and baking materials,

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wearing an unfinished pink dress will tighten
the back with large steel clamps.

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It's not the first Specials shot without
an audience, but with how to Bake

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a Cake, it underlines the loneliness
of the material and the emptiness of modern

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life that Martinez is commenting on this
one sounds pretty cool. I haven't seen

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this one. When she mentions her
day job at a startup, an ominous

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off camera voice asked her what she
did there. She says, I honestly

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have no idea. As far as
I could tell, my job was every

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day going on office and then I'd
like touch base all day. That's what

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they don't tell you in college.
You can work in any creative industry if

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you know how to touch base,
if you check in and circle back,

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then you have upper management written all
over you. Boy, Now I really

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want to watch that Another one I
haven't seen. They recommend Natasha vain Blands

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We're All Dads Here. This one, also on YouTube. We're All Dads

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Here, they say, feels like
a little Oasis time machine, because,

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unlike many recent specials, she's just
really, really silly. She tells a

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joke about how her old roommate used
to know she was going to the bathroom

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because she'd hear vain Blant say oh
boy to herself, which only gets sillier

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when vain Bland explains that she spilled
water on her laptop after writing that joke,

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so that when the computer repair person
brought it back to life, all

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they saw on the screen was the
phrase, oh boy when I poop.

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What makes the kookiness work is vain
Blad is a deliberate, self aware joke

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writer and precise performer, able to
gracefully slip an out of characters and voices.

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And while most YouTube specials are shot
without much direction beyond just documenting the

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live show, We're All Dads Here
has some nice flourishes. That sounds like

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a really good special. I would
like to check that one out, and

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perhaps this week, when I have
a little more time, I will that

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your comedy news for today. If
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