Aug. 15, 2025

Taylor Swift Joke Hypocrisy? Plus Comedy Stock Market BUY Maron Stern and Fallon

Johnny Mac calls out Taylor Swift for recycling the same joke she once stone-faced at the Golden Globes.

Plus, Marc Maron talks podcasting’s evolution, Kevin Hart launches a new Netflix comedy competition, and Howard Stern’s latest “cancellation” might be the setup for a big comeback.

We also hit the Comedy Stock Market with buys on Maron, Stern, Jimmy Fallon, Josh Johnson, Sarah Sherman, and Nate Bargatze.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with Today's Daily

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Comedy News, and I'm here to call out Taylor Swift.

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Taylor Swift, how dare you with this clip? I mean

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the idea of somebody making fun of Taylor Swift being

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shown at sports events. You're gonna make fun of that

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now here. Let's listen. I think we all know that

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if there's one thing that male sports fans want to

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see in their space isn't on their screens, it's more

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of me, Taylor. You might remember Joe Coy made a

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totally harmless joke and you didn't laugh at it. You

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didn't smile, You just stonefaced him. Let's listen. The big

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difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the

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Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Taylor,

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you made the same joke. Swifties, feel free to call

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me out. Just make sure you guys download the podcast.

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While I'm getting in trouble with the Swifties. I appreciate it.

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Mark barn was feature piece in The Hollywood Reporter. I

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shared that in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy

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News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us. Conan O'Brien

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said of Maren, sometimes the complete artist is there, they

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just need to find the medium. He was very funny

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on television, but for whatever reason, he needed to be

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in the wilderness for a while. The podcast was the

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perfect place for his freak flag to fly at full mast.

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Maren tells the reporter things are better before everybody had

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a voice. Now there's just hundreds of groups of two

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or three white guys sitting behind Mike's talking about the

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last time they crapped their pants as adults. We live

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in a world of mediocre afternoon drive time radio. He's

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not wrong, I say, as I podcast solo from the basement.

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Bobby leeas Mark became the light showing you where to

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go after Hollywood closed the door. Once Matt CV was canceled,

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things weren't clicking for me, so I followed his footsteps.

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He taught me the ropes that it reinvented in my career,

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Maren says, out of a persistent insecurity or spite, I

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just compare myself to people that are more successful than

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I am, or people I've decided are more successful. I

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don't always understand why I'm not more secus, so I'm

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starting to We also learned that after Obama came to

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the garage, a lot more people asked to be on

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Maren's show, one of them Hillary Clinton, who was turned down.

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Producer Brendan MacDonald recalls telling Maren, you're the guy to

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do this. He adamantly disagreed. Maren said, the success rate

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of getting to a candid place with politicians is very small,

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and I think this is somebody Clinton who's divisive and

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controversial and has a history that's somewhat sortied, not by

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any fault of her own, but I just didn't see

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where I could go with that. As somewhat of a

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podcasting expert, I thought this part was interesting. It says

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the decision to end WTF came in October, as they

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entered the final year of their distribution deal with a cast,

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knowing that taking the podcast further with any partner would

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involve concessions they weren't willing to make. Quote more advertising

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and the pressure for spinoffs or among his reservations, but

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particularly offensive to Maren is the industry wide expectation to

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put everything on camera. Maren says, a lot of yammering

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and makeshift studios. That's lowering the bar for everything. The

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Hollywood Reporter brought up dak sh Shepherd a specific episode

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in twenty nineteen in which Maren suggested podcasting might be

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becoming a cancer. Maren said that was before he sort

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of became me. The Hollow reporters like, what do you

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mean by that, Maren? I have a model that I established.

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There are certain people that work within that model, and

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I think Dax is one of them. I opened up

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his zone within this medium just before it became really viable.

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That's what I think. I'll pick more of that on Sunday.

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This next item is going to be a nightmare for me.

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Kevin Hartz, who's never afraid to work, He's got a

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new gig. He's teaming up with Netflix for a new

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comedy competition series eight episodes. A quotes, Unfiltered, Uncensored, and

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unapologetic comedy Rule of three competition that we'll pull back

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the curtain on the gritty, hilarious, and off an unpredictable

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path comedy Rule of three of a stand up career.

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Contestants from all across the nation will face rigorous tests

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that mirror the real life journey of a comedian from

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Brutal Open Mike's Bomb sets rewrites on the pressure of

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big stage performances. The competition will give viewers an unvarnished

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look behind the curtain of comedy's darkest corners. These are annoying.

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They're comparing it to Last Comic Standing, And when I

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was running serious comedy, Last Comic Standing was a nightmare

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because I'd walk down the hall and they'd be like, Hey,

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did you see so and so, And then'd have to explain,

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if you listen to this podcast, you understand comedy. And

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I would have to explain, yeah, so and so killed.

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But do they have five minutes? They have eight minutes,

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so they have half an hour. Do they have an hour? No,

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they have thirty seconds. And then I would get asked,

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why didn't play these people because they have no material?

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I'd be like, why am I not playing somebody from

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TikTok because they have no material. Late Nighter wrote about

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Devin Walker's special, which is produced by Kevin Hart's production

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company Heartbeat. Walker covers family ex's life at SNL and

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the phenomenon of people expecting him to be funny on command.

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That one's out on Hulu today. This one is at

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thirty minute set. Walker says there's one joke in there

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specifically that was brand new, which is something I like

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to do sometimes I want to do tapings. He won't

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tell us what the joke is, but says for people watching,

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maybe you'll be able to tell what the new one is.

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He also says there's a joke in the special that's

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risky to do. It might ruffle a couple feathers in

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the industry. It may fun of a certain comedy star

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and alumni of SNL. Hmm. He never says the name,

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says Late Nighter, but the contact leaves little doubt. Walker says,

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sometimes you gott have lunch with your hero really kind

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of feel their whole vibe. At the end of that,

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you get to be like, man, I see why will

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Walker says people have asked me if I was hesitant

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to include it. I feel like we're at a time

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where people feel really comfortable saying negative things about groups

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that already have it hard. There's so many people punching

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down on marginalized groups and people who are having an

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ft up existence right now. Why can't we get back

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to our roots, which is making fun of rich and

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famous people, the people who are doing fine ultimately. That

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joke in particular is one that'll probably have a couple

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of people looking at me a little weird at certain parties.

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But to me, stand up is the best when you're

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being as close to the truth as possible. Stand up

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is always gonna have some embellishments, some half truths to

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accentuate the story. To me, the closer you can get

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to who you really are and how you really feel,

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the better the work will be. So I try to

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stay as honest as possible. He also riffs, I'm gonna

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wait for the next white celebrity getting broiled in a

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racial controversy. They're going to need to make it seem

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like they've got a black friend, and for the right price,

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that could be me. This is really funny lol. Live

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with Devin Walker tonight on Hulu. That's Cool Today at

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ten am. John Oliver's tour goes on sale ten am

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local time. I know one of the shows is New

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Year's Even Philadelphia. The CBC caught up with Zarna Garg.

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Zarna said, people like, why are you doing a comedy

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business at all? There's no money in comedy, and I

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realize there's no money in comedy the way American people

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do it. They set it up like an art form.

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We do it like a business. The Indians, I put

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You have to be serious and build your own life.

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I'm a very vocal, outspoken supporter of women, in particular

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using the m word money because somehow women and money

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life they have to be serious. You have to deliver

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value to people if you want to build something real,

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and luckily I learned how to monetize my trauma. Zarn

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has been added to Just for Laughs Toronto this in

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their September twenty first two shows at six and eight thirty.

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as well as thirty second dance parties and promptu challenges, games,

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and so much more. Laugh Sabbath a different show every

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week featuring a rotating ensemble of radical and exciting comedians.

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and English, and Zorna Garg Johnny Mack, you never mentioned

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Howard Stern. I know right. The satellite radio company started

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airing a promo. The Aller reporter says. The text of

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the promo is the tabloids have spoken Howard Stern filed canceled?

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Is it really by by Booie? Chaos is swirling at

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the Howard Stern Show. Did staffers talk to the press

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or writers withholding their best jokes? Nobody knows what's going

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on or who to trust. Howard Stern will speak Tuesday,

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September second. This is what I've been saying, folks. We're

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talking about Howard for the first time in fifteen years.

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This plays to his strength. He's going to drag this

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out all the way to December, at which point he

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will announce he's staying with serious exam and doing a

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farewell tour. Write it down. I have zero doubt. I

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have listened to Howard for forty years. This is how

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this plays out. And now this place to his strength,

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and he will get his fastball back because he can

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have a straw man enemy in the bosses at serious

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exam and the difficult and renegotiations, and he will play

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this like a fiddle. He's really good at it. Much

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ado about nothing. I'll tell you that Taylor Swift does

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me so upset. I forgot to do the late night

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joke segments. President Trump in Alaska meeting with Vladimir Putin.

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White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt described it as a

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listening exercise. Jimmy Foun said, as we know, listening and

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exercise or Trump's two favorite things. So this should go well.

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Jimmy Fallon joked about Taylor's new album and said, following

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the announcement, Taylor's website immediately crashed and then out of habit,

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so did ticketmasters. That's really good. All right, it's Friday.

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Let's hit the comedy stock market. Comedy stock market. We

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have a bull market today, no sells, no holes. We

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are gonna buy bye bye. We're gonna buy some more.

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Mark Maron, We'll buying a little high. But then in

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about a month We're gonna sell real high. People are

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buzzing about Mark Maron. Buy more Mark Maren stock. We're

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gonna buy low on Howard Stern. Everybody thinks Howard's down

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and out, he's canceled, he's not coming back. But we're

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smarter than that. We're gonna buy low. We'll sell high

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sometime this fall by Howard Stern. Buy Jimmy Fallon stock.

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The cool kids are bashing Jimmy Fallon because he had

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gut felt On and that episode did the best ratings

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in years. Jimmy Fallon plays it safe, he plays it smart.

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You can hate, but the man makes money. Buy Jimmy Fallon.

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We're gonna buy stock. And Josh Johnson Dylan from the

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Facebook group put this idea in my head, and he's right.

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Josh is just crushing it and I don't think he's

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quite broken through yet, so let's get on that early.

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On a similar note, let's buy Sarah Sherman stock just

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a hunch. I feel like she's going to be the

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breakout this year on SNL. Still no word on the

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cast changes yet, but we'll see what happens there. And

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one more by recommendation before the Emmys. On September fourteenth,

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Let's load up on Nateprighatzy stock. I know you know

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about Nate. A lot of people watch SNL know about Nate,

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but I feel like the average American does not. And

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once they get a whiff of Natepergatzy, he's going to

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be at a peak high. And so we'll sell right

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after the Emmys. But let's buy Nyberghazzy stock. And that's

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today's comedy stock market. Josh Johnson, whose stock we are buying,

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was asked by the BBC is social media a blessing

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and a curse for comedy. They were curious about the algorithm.

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Josh said, potentially, but I think that only happens if

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you get obsessed with numbers. I hold two things very

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top of mind when I think about any form of

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audience or influence. One, nobody owes me anything. Just because

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you came to show or watch the video doesn't mean

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you have to watch the next one. I work as

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hard as I can to make it so you would

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want to, but you don't have to. The second thing

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is that if you're focused on the actual practice for

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what you're doing, you'll make better things to put online.

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At the end of the day, and the most important

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thing is the show that I'm doing that night and

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the people that are there. Then I put things up

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online for the people who didn't make it to the show.

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But whether a million people watch it or a thousand

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people watch it, the fact that the people to show

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at the best time possible, that's the most powerful and

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beneficial relationship as far as the audience goes. In San

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Francisco today, the Desi Comedy Fest, America's largest South Asian

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comedy festival, back for its eleventh season. This year features

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a lineup of stand up comedians with roots across the subcontinent,

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offering sharp, honest, and hilarious takes on identity, family, immigration,

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and modern life in America. Founder Abbe and Ned Carney

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says Desi Comedy Fest isn't just about comedy. It's about

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building community. It's about building differences through laughter, breaking stereotypes,

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and reminding people that humor is universal language. Could check

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out the festival tonight at seven thirty the Improv Comedy

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Club sixty two South Second Avenue in San Jose, and

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then Sunday at Cobbs Grade Comedy Club Cobbs nine to

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fifteen Columbus Avenue in San Francisco. That is your comment.

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Any news on a summer Friday, normal episodes all weekend.

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I've got plenty, and I'll see you tomorrow.