Sept. 29, 2026

Springsteen Drops Kimmel, Sam Morril’s Netflix Special, and Dane Cook’s Family Fallou

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac covers comedy news including Bruce Springsteen canceling a scheduled Jimmy Kimmel Brooklyn appearance with Tom Morello (Morello still appears), with Amy Schumer as the replacement guest alongside Howard Stern. He notes Sam Morril’s new Netflix special, Incorrect, and shares a Good Day LA intro and clip about modern attention spans. He highlights the release of Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story and Cook’s comments about his mother warning him about his brother, who allegedly stole from him, and Cook wanting to confront him. Mac summarizes a New York Times piece on SNL’s James Austin Johnson fearing being pigeonholed as Trump, promoting his special Heel Yeah, and discusses pacing in comedy sets. He plugs his new series Is Late Night Dead, reviews Jalen Brunson hosting SNL, recommends SNL UK, proposes a “Team America” comedy lineup, and spotlights Vulture’s profile of comedian Lee Jin-Ho.

00:15 Kimmel Guest Shakeup
00:56 Sam Morril Special Clip
02:16 Dane Cook Doc Drama
03:27 James Austin Johnson Profile
05:19 Late Night Dead Teaser
05:49 SNL Brunson Behind Scenes
06:53 SNL UK Recommendation
07:10 Team America Comedy Draft
08:56 Vulture Spotlight Lee Jin Ho

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily

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comedy news. Boy, talk about a downgrade. Jimmy Kimmel's doing

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his show from Brooklyn this week. The guest was supposed

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to be Bruce Springsteen, who has dropped out for reasons unknown.

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His replacement, Amy Schumer. Not quite the same star power there.

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Springsteen had been scheduled to join Rage Against the Machine

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guitarist Tom Morello for both an interview and musical performance

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on tonight's show, but Bruce has canceled. Morello will still go.

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Nobody knows why. The other guest tonight, the formerly cool

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Howard Stern. People are not not digging this HBO show. Howard,

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we all loved you, but it's over. It's time to go.

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This will be Amy Schumer's first visit with Jimmy Kimmel

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since 2022, when she was slightly more popular than she

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is these days. Sam Morrell's special is out on Netflix today.

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It is called Incorrect. In Incorrect, Sam Morrell tackles his

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worst one-night stand gone wrong, the dark humor of infamous assassinations,

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his bizarrely unorthodox war against rats, and more. Sam was

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on Good Day L.A., where he introduced himself, and I

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pulled the clip and didn't put it in the notes,

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but I remembered. Here it is.

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Our next guest is one of the sharpest, most lethal

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joke-writing comedians in stand-up today. He's built a massive fan

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base through late-night appearances, hit specials, and his wildly popular podcast,

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We Might Be Drunk. Now he's back with a one-hour

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stand-up special, brand new, where no topic from disastrous hookups

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to historical assassinations disappears. is off limits. There was one

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of these new big budget movies and it just turns

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into a game of like, how long can this last

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versus me checking my phone?

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It's not long.

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Some $ 500 million movie. I'm like, damn, turns out I'd

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rather watch a guy power wash a sidewalk on TikTok.

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This cannot bode well for the future of entertainment.

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His new special, Sam Morrell Incorrect, premieres September 29th on Netflix.

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Please welcome me, Sam Morrell.

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Woo-hoo!

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You did a great job.

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How'd that feel? You killed it. How'd that feel?

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Natural.

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Also out today, that Dane Cook documentary. Dane went on

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the Obsessed podcast and shared this anecdote. Dane said, my

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mom said on her deathbed, your brother, you got to

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look out for him. There was a long, wild conversation

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with my mom that ended with her trying to warn me.

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I didn't want to accept that, but it was the

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beginning of me starting to look at things differently. It

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was the last gift my mom gave me before she

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passed away. And lo and behold, I finally uncovered a

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real terrible truth in my family. You can watch Funny Money,

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the Dane Cook story, streaming on video on demand starting today.

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You know the story here. Apparently, Dane's brother stole from Dane. Well,

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Dane is saying he offered to forget about the debt

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under one simple condition. Dane said, quote, I wanted to

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sit with him. That was the one thing I told

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the director. I said, I want to sit with him.

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I want to sit opposite him. And there was a correspondence,

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not between him and me directly, but through our legal team.

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I'll just leave it at that. The plot thickens. I

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think that the bagel bite slash sauce era is over.

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I missed my brother. I missed him. I missed the

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guy before that call. It was weird because I didn't

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think I missed him anymore. I thought I got past it.

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And it was such a season of my life. And

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I've grown from it. I'm better from it. But man,

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I forgot that I still missed having a brother. In

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case you're curious what happened to the note about play

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the clip from Good Day L.A., apparently someone pasted it

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below the Dane Cook story, but that's neither here nor there.

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The New York Times watched James Austin Johnson's special. That's

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the thing I forgot to watch over the weekend. I

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caught up onâ I finished The Gentleman season two, which is awesome.

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I finished Tires, which was really good. I started watching

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The Paper, which is, you know, something to have on

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while you play with your phone. It's not great. It's

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not awful. It's just, you know, a thing. The Dark

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Matter episode that came out last weekâ Fantastic. And I

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forgot to watch James Austin Johnson. I did watch Nimesh

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Patel for like 10 minutes. I was like, eh, I

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don't care. Anyway, the New York Times caught up with

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James Austin Johnson. He seems worried about being pigeonholed as

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the guy who does Trump impression. I think he's right there.

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They used him in a few more sketches this week,

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and he was pretty good. But he told the Times,

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I fully believed I haven't even started doing the thing

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that is the main thing I'll end up doing. He

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first met Sarah Sherman years ago, and they crossed paths

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again during their SNL auditions. Sarah told the Times, I

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was having a crisis of conscience during the audition because

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I was like, what am I doing here? And he

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was like, dude, it's a live comedy show. That's the

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thing you love most in the world. And that one

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line totally shifted my entire perspective. James thought he would

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only occasionally play Trump. Oops. That's pretty much every week.

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on SNL. He said, it seemed like a way I

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could make myself useful. You quite did. But since Trump

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was reelected and has been around for a long time,

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he feels kind of pigeonholed. He explains his new special,

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Heal Ya. is a showcase for both his range and taste.

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He said he's perfectly happy when a quarter of the

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room is losing their mind at half his jokes while

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the rest of the room is either chuckling or looking

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over at that group, wondering why they're not part of

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the party. Interesting take from James here. I've always been

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a little bit skeptical of the comedian's drive to murder

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every second of a set. When I go to a concert,

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not every song sends me through the rafters. You're given

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peaks and valleys and moments in between and a bathroom song.

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Don't forget a bathroom song. Do you do a bathroom

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chunk in a comedy set? I don't think so. You're

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on a journey with a beginning, middle, and end. Speaking

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of the middle, here's the break. All right, don't forget,

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starting this Sunday, it is the new series, Is a

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Late Night Dead?, in which Johnny Mac will wax poetic

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about late night shows and eventually come to some sort

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of conclusion whether or not late night is dead. You

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will not get that answer in episode one. That's not

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how the podcast works. This week on Sunday, I wax

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poetically about 1230, David Letterman, Late Night with David Letterman,

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which is my North Star. So Check out Is Late

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Night Dead? It's its own separate feed. I will eventually

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use the episodes as bonus episodes in this feed, but

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not yet. Did you watch Saturday Night Live with Nick's

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superstar Jalen Brunson? He's good at basketball, but he's not

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great at Saturday Night Live, which we kind of knew

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going in. You know, they handled him pretty well, kept

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him pretty reined in. He even made a joke in

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the monologue about you can tell how excited he is

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between his voice and his face. You know, not the

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best episode at all. One interesting note. There's a sketch

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in which he plays an office guy who's trying to

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shoot paper wads into a trash basket like one does

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in the office. And Jalen's character not good at it

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at all. SNL writer Dan Bula posted on Instagram and

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explained they had to make sure Jalen Brunson would actually miss.

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Dan explained on Instagram there was a blower in the

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garbage can, making it literally impossible for Jalen to score

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until the final shot. Dan said Brunson and the cast

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members had two sets of cue cards drafted for the ending.

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One if he made the last shot and one if

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he missed. He, of course, made it. He's Jalen Brunson. However,

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we're told he missed it at the dress rehearsal, but

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he hit the shot on air because Jalen Brunson is

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built for the moment. Pretty good. Did you watch SNL UK?

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You should get on board with that. It's better than

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SNL US. This week was pretty good. Last week was

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probably better than anything SNL USA has done in a

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year and a half. There was one sketch this week

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that I particularly liked about wax museums. I won't spoil

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it for you, but it's on Peacock if you want

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to watch it. I had shared in the Facebook group,

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which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Trevor Noah did

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an advertisement for the National Team of Comedy. So Trevor

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is the captain, has some various comedians on Team South Africa.

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And I was wondering, and I'll ask you and you

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can answer in the Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group,

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who should be on the Team America national team of comedy?

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I'll give you my list in a second. This is

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all subjective, neither here nor there. But I want to annihilate.

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So I'll tell you my four in stage order. First,

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I'm sending out Jeff Ross because I'm going to roast

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the hell out of your dumb ass country. So Jeff

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Ross is going to open. Now, if we were doing

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some other sort of ranking, some other sort of competition,

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would you pick Jeff Ross? Probably not. But here, I'm

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sending out the roast member to roast you. Then, I

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just want pure laughs. John Mulaney, always reliable. increasingly a

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little out there. So I'll put Mulaney in the two slot.

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Then I'm going to bring Bill Burr, because again, I

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don't want to just win when we play Team South

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Africa or Team England in the comedy competition, whatever this

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thing is. I want to destroy. And I'm going to

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get Bill Burr out there and I'm going to fire

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up Bill Burr as the coach. I'm going to go, hey, Bill,

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didn't you play the Riyadh Comedy Festival? And then he's

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going to get a little, yeah, you know, I played it,

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played it. Yeah, that was like a lame ass mood.

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And I'm going to fire Bill Burr up and get

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the angry Bill Burr out there to just be on

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fire and do something similar to what he did in Philadelphia.

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And then my closer, you got to go with the ace,

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Dave Chappelle, top of the game in comedy these days.

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Some other people suggested, how about Louis C.K.? Not an

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absurd pick. I would put C.K. where I have Mulaney.

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But on my team, Ross, Mulaney, Burr, Chappelle. Who's your team?

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Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. Speaking of Bill Burr,

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he'll be the Saturday's deep dive in this feed. In

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case you missed it, on Saturday we took a look

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at Marc Maron. People did not miss it. That episode

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did pretty well. And let's take a look at one

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of Vulture's comedians you should know and will know, or

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whatever they're called. I told you I wasn't going to

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remember what it's called. Anyway, Lee Jin-Hao tends to deliver

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his stand-up at a soothing, unhurried coup, writes Vulture. With

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his blend of surrealism, wordplay, and philosophical observation, his performances

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can feel like an MFA student's spoken-world recital until he

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flips his affect, unleashing bursts of aggression and machismo. When

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he talks about his debut special Swimming in a Submarine

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about his mandatory service in the Singaporean army, for example,

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he mimes a gun with his fingers and childlessly says

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pew pew. Then a terrifying expression overtakes his face as

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his imaginary gun transforms into an assault rifle and he

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acts out mowing down civilians in violent combat. His quote,

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the first thing they taught us in the army is

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you pull the trigger not to hurt what's in front,

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but to protect what's behind. Yikes. After completing military service

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in 2019, Lee began performing open mics in Singapore before

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moving to Scotland. After graduating in 23, he moved to London,

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where he continued to develop his acting. and reach the

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finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards. Then he did Fringe,

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nominated for Best Newcomer, and they had two quick questions

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with Jin Hal. One, what's the biggest financial investment you've

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made for your comedy? He explains, when I started, my

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mom and stepdad rented out my room back home in

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Singapore to help me. They live with strangers, so I

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could do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Wow. Second, when you

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think about the future of comedy, what concerns you and

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what excites you? He says, I'm super excited that new

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subgenres of comedy are emerging, and from what I see,

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it's no longer a simple binary of traditional versus alternative.

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I think of comedians as animals in a zoo, and

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it concerns me when the owl looks at the lion

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with jealousy and tries to imitate its growls without realizing

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that their specialty is staying up all night and being

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able to turn their head fully. It worries me when

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an artist measures their success Using someone else's ruler. I worry.

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They compromised their voice for this. I'm really sad that

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I've come to the end of the questions. Very philosophical.

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And that is your comedy news for today. I'll see

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you tomorrow.