Nov. 7, 2024

Stavros Halkias on Being Naked PLUS Comedians mysteriously silent after the election

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I'm

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funny it odd putting the show together today. First of all,

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nobody's really announcing anything, you know, news cycle and stuff

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that makes sense to me. But also, as I'm recording this,

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none of the big comedians have said anything like nothing

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at all. Very strange to me. It was a news

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cycle where people were out and about and everybody's hiding

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out today. I don't know what's going on. Very strange.

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I deep dove on threads and Twitter found some stuff,

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but not from the majors. Did you see this fake

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Malania thing? So from time to time a woman appears

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standing next to Donald Trump who is ostensibly Malania Trump,

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and sometimes people on the internet myself included, look at

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the person and are like.

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Is that Milania? Is that a secret service agent in

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big glasses? Is that somebody from Trump's press team? I

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saw some tweet that aim with the person or is

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it actually Milania? On election there were many of us

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I'll raise my hand that thought fake Mulania was out

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and about again. John Marcos Sarresi tweeted or threaded whatever

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it is. What do you do on threads. I guess

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he threaded. Whatever actor that played Malania is texting her

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friends right now, like I got bumped up to a

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recurring comedian. Dan Wilbur threaded, at least we never have

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to vote again. Jim Chews, Oh no, he's gonna make

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skang Fest a national holiday, isn't he someone who goes

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by thick frog leg tweeted, And I haven't seen a

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man beat a woman this bad since the Olympics. Comedian

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Matt Ruby Democrats should figure out how to make a

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podcast that appeals to men who like sports. Michael ian

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Black is not hiding out, he wrote on his very

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good substack Time it Again, people like me have been

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wrong about our fellow Americans. Those Americans have told me

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time it again that I live in a Hollywood bubble,

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despite the fact that I live in Savannah, Georgia, and

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that I don't understand the problems of regular folks like them,

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despite the fact that I come from fairly modest circumstances myself.

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Time and again, I've dis missed these people's opinions of

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me because I didn't want it to be true. Turns

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out it was true. If this is who regular folk

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want to leave them, then I really don't understand it

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at all. Skipping ahead, he wrote, are we more of

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a union today or less? People like me believe one

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way we're wrong about everything else, So I hope we're

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wrong about this one too. Send your letters to Michaeleaan Black.

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What about that weird thing with John Stewart and John Fetterman?

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Apparently Stuart on the show said Fetterman was unable to

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join us. But because we are a professional and venerated

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news show, it's not like I just have to sit

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here with nobody to talk to or nothing to do,

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just because somebody said no thirty seconds before we were

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supposed to have them up as a guest in non

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political news, Bert Kraser will serve as Florida State University's

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homecoming parade Grand Marshall. Krascher is a nineteen ninety eight

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Paul Reiser is not afraid of new cycles. I saw

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this on election night. I was like, what are you doing?

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Really? Now He's got a new special out on comedy dynamics.

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the very meaning of life. Okay. Baltimore Magazine spoke to

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Stavros Halkius. He started out his movie Let's Start a Cults,

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which is already going to be available on video on

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demand starting November twelfth. Stavros said, I'll be honest, it's

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really bizarre. I've never had to be passive and just

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kind of let a movie come out with stand up,

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especially when you're performing you're so in the mix you

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can worry about things because you have to do the show.

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This is the first time I've ever made something and

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it's a finished product and then watch it and not

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been able to change it, make little tweaks. Baltimore Magazine said,

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I don't think this is a spoiler, but your shirtless

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in several scenes and bottomless in one. To worry a

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little bit about being naked, Stavros said, who do you

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think wrote those scenes? Do you think anybody else asked

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for that but me? The director wasn't begging me. I'm

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not Sidney Sweeney. My nudity wasn't going to sell, but

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I didn't know if I was going to get a

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chance to make another movie. I think one class of

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comedy trope is a really over the top kind of

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sex scene that's played for laughs. I do a nude

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calendar every year. It becomes absurd when you swap out

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a hot woman for a fet guy. You see how

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ridiculous how overly sexualized a lot of media is. And

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I thought, putting me in the middle of that is

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going to be funny, So no trepidation. If anything, I

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was the one asking for more nudity. So I'll do

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it straight here. On Thursday. My plan was to teach

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my college class, which means I have pre recorded Friday's episode.

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It's still timely, but I won't talk about the election.

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We'll dive in on Saturday more about the election. I'm

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sure you don't mind the break. The New York Comedy

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Festival kicks off tonight. As I've said in the past,

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it's a fantastic festival. They've been nothing good to me.

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But I do think New York City's too big and

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this thing disappears, and given the current mood, I'm not

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sure this is gonna pop. We'll see Happy to Be

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Wrong tonight six o'clock at NYCC East Village Christa Stefano.

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Then Chris is gonna haul it over to NYCC Grammercy

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for the same show at seven o'clock. At eight o'clock,

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dead funny and all star tribute to Joan Rivers. I'll

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talk about that in a second. That's at the Apollo.

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Then Christa Stephano is gonna hop on the subway and

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go to NYCC Upper West Side for another show at

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nine thirty. And we're just getting started. This thing will

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go on for another week. All right. The Joan Rivers

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show at the Apollo is titled Dead Funny. It will

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feature Nicky Glazer, Michelle Buttew and many more. Caroline Hirsch,

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who used to own Caroline's Comedy Club and is the

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festival founder, said the idea was Melissa Rivers idea. Here's

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how it works. Caroline says, they're going to take Joan

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Rivers cards. Joan had a library of written jokes. I

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worked with Joan at w OR Radio two thousand and one.

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Definitely was too thousand and one because I remember we

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were talking about not just nine to eleven, but there

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was that whole Anthrax thing. I remember producing a lot

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of shows with Joan when the anthrax thing was a

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big scary thing, and yep, she worked with cards. Saw

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it with my own eyes. Caroline said, we're going to

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take all of Jones's cards. She wrote everything on index cards,

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and she had a big cabin of them, which she

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gave to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown. But we

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weren't going to do a show with that. Melissa had

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the idea, get Joanes foul mouthed friends, admirers, and fifteen

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hundred fans together for a night of inappropriate laughs. Caroline said,

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it's a lot of comedians who Joan was really close with.

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The lineup includes Sandra Bernhard, Patton Oswalt, Matzel Lane, Jeff Ross,

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Randy Rainbow, and Rachel Brosnahan, who starred in The Marvelous

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Missus Masel. Hmmm. I'm looking at that list in the

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ages of everybody and my personal relationship with Joan Rivers,

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who believe me. We talked about booking people on the show,

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and Joan told me I don't really know anybody. I

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don't really have celebrity friends. So look, Caroline hangs around

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comedians way more than I do. And I'm not here

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to say that these people weren't great friends with Joan Rivers.

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I don't know. I'm just looking at it, going, yeah,

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but who knows. Maybe when I stopped working with Joan,

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she became really tight with Paton Oswalt. I don't know,

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Caroline said, I remember watching her when I was a

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kid on Johnny Carson, and I can't believe what comes

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out of this lady's mouth. No filter, That's what comedians do.

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There was no filter on Joan ever ever. All right, Caroline,

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who else in the festival that you're excited for, she said,

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Zorna garg We gotta call one day because Hillary Clinton

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and Chelsea Clinton were producing a series called Gutsy about

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gutsy women, and the producers called us and said, could

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you suggest some comedians? And we suggested Zorna. Also on

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the festival November eleventh, the annual Stand Up for Heroes

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show with Jerry Seinfeld, John Stewart and Jim Gaffigan. Wonder

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what they'll talk about. Bruce Springsteen will be there with

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the comedians from recent history. Having Bruce Springsteen on stage

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with you doesn't guarantee that you win an event, you

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know what I'm saying. Nudge nudge. Caroline said he's gonna

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leave his tour to play here. That's how good he's been.

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And Patty's going to do it too. I love that

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she tagged with Patty. I'm a Springsteen fan and Springsteen fans.

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I'm sorry, we just make fun of Patty because you

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go see a show and sometimes Patty's there and sometimes

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not there. Sometimes Patty's the fifth guitarist, sometimes there's no

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fifth guitarist. I can't tell the difference between the two shows.

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But Patty's going to do this show too. You're making

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friends today, Jonah, Yeah, I know. I can't help myself.

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And since it's a little bit slow and no one's

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announcing anything, let's look at Vulture's annual list of the

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comedians you should and will know. One of those comedians,

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Raka Shankar. Raka says Tim Robinson is my favorite comedian.

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I love it how he always feels like he's being

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himself and he continues to reinvent the world of sketch

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characters in comedy by just experimenting and not caring if

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it's too weird. I think sometimes mainstream audiences are too

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quick to pass over comics like that, and they never

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get a chance to cook and try more and eventually

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find their niche. And I'm so grateful he has gotten

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to do all that. Sam Richardson too, God, he's so funny.

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I also love Quinton Brunson. I love that she has

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a background and working on the internet has so many

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of us do, and parlay those skills into professional sketchwriting

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and then eventually her own incredible TV show that she

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stars in. All Right, what was your worst show? She said,

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my indie improv team, and I once performed a set

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for a youth group in Long Island at a hotel ballroom.

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There were teenagers who went on this retreat every year

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and on the last day a magician would do a show.

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But this year we replaced the magician. The teens filled

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to the room and saw their beloved magician was not

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there and was replaced by random twenty something year old improvisers,

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and they became sad. They sat down and one of

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the host announce said, now improv. We tried to explain

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what that was, but I don't think they wanted to

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hear it, and maybe we were also nervous and weird.

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All their suggestions were weird sexual slang that we didn't

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understand and would ask what it meant, and they'd laugh

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and didn't explain. Then we started performing. They were either

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talking the whole time we had to shush them, or

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they would imitate our object work from the audience to

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make fun of us. We left the moment the set

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They've been pushing pass don't do that. It sounds like

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a good idea, it's just not good all right. See

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Tomorrow