Taylor Swift vs. Stavros Halkias: The Ultimate Ravens Fan PLUS George Carlin estate sure the A.I.

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

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Pretty robust for a Sunday Late Night
had some good jokes about Trump's testimony on

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Thursday. Stephen Colbert said, we're
smack dab in the heart of primary season

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and Donald Trump is out there trying
to win over the voters that matter most

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his juries. Colbert said that a
judge limiting Donald Trump to yes or no

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answers is fitting because the whole trial
is the result of Trump disregarding everything after

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no. Kimmel said, everything went
smoothly until the judge asked him to tell

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the truth, the whole truth,
and everybody busted out laughing. Fallin said

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Trump only lasted about three minutes.
Then Stormy Daniels was like, wow,

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minute longer than I expected. Love
it. New topic at Jimmy Fallon,

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Well, Nicky Haley is refusing to
drop out of the race and Trump is

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still furious about it. Haley's worried
if she quits, she'll be humiliated or

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worse Trump's VP. Hey, I
want to address my big comments from the

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end of yesterday's show. I casually
dropped that I get bagels from the National

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Donuts Chain, and I was like, bagel snobs are gonna be all over

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me for that. Okay, why
do you do that, Johnny Mack?

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A couple of reasons. There's a
fantastic bagel store in my town, and

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I'm from New York City. I
know a good bagel. I know the

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difference between a good bagel and the
bagels you get in the rest of the

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country. Totally get it. And
the National Donuts Chain bagels are what you

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get in the rest of the country. Totally get it. The bagel store

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in town, especially on a Sunday, the line is quite long. If

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I don't get there before eight am, forget it. And sometimes I like

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to sleep in. The other thing
is I go visit my mom every day,

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and my mom really likes a tea
and a blueberry muffin from the Donuts

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Chain. So I'm like, all
right, I'll just keep this minimum.

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I'm gonna get my coffee anyway,
and I just get the National Don't Chain

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bagel. That's why. So I
feel like Jonny Mack doesn't know what do

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you think about bagels? I know
about bagels. I'm just too lazy.

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I opened up the Spotify app just
to see what Joe Rogan was up to.

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He has had on Jim Norton and
Ron White. I still didn't the

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Jim Brewer episode. I just don't
use the Spotify app. And I really

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wish Rogan was out there on every
other app so I could listen to these

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things. I have to like plan
to have like a Joe Rogan day every

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now and then. But Norton and
Ron Wyite and I guess Brewer, they're

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all there if you want to check
up on that, all right. The

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estate of George Carlin is suing the
makers of the AI George Carlin quote unquote

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special. That whole special verse hour
thing came up on Facebook again. But

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I think we can all agree AI
George Carlin is definitely not a special.

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It's not even a real thing,
so I don't know what we call it.

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The lawsuit calls the release a bastardization
of Carlin's real work in a piece

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of computer generated clickbait, which detracts
from the value of Carlin's comedic works and

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harms his reputation. The lawsuit accuses
the defendants of seeking to capitalize on the

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name, reputation, and likeness of
George Carlin. It says no one had

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permission to use Carlin's likeness or copyrighted
works. Lawsuit adds, in addition to

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the immediate fact of infringement, it's
AI generated George Carland special may also deter

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young audiences who were unfamiliar with George
Carlin from engaging with his real work and

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his legacy. Troto points out that
Dudsey suggested a possible line of defense in

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the introduction to their special, in
which they have the AI say in a

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Carlin voice, I just want to
let you know very clearly that what you're

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about to hear is not George Carlin. It's my impersonation of George Carlin that

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I developed in the exact same way
a human impressionist would. I listened to

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all of George Carland's material. It
did my best to imitate his voice,

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cadence, and attitude, as well
as the subject matter I think would have

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interested him today. So think of
it like Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis, or

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like Will Ferrell impersonating George W.
Bush. So I am no lawyer.

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That makes me wonder if so if
I dressed up like George Carlin and we

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went down on the chuckle hut and
you guys filmed it and I threw up

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on YouTube and it's me going.
You ever noticed the bagels at the National

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Donut Chain ORNT as good as the
ones at the regular store? Can I

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do that? If I do it
for thirty seconds? Is it okay?

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If I do it for eight minutes? Is it okay? If I label

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it Johnny Max George Carlin impression?
Is that better than if I go,

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here's a George Caroland special. I
don't know, very interesting case here.

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The legal papers say the AI special
has quote no comedic or creative value,

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absent its self proclaimed connection with George
Carland. It does not, for example,

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satirize Carlin as a performer or offer
an independent critique of society. In

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short, defenders sought to capitalize on
the name, reputation, likeness of George

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Carlin. Okay, so if I
fall up on that again, I'm not

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a lawyer, me doing my really
terrible BAGELD joke. I think there I

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would be selling my impressionist skills,
and not that I am anywhere as good

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as George Carlin. It's just me
doing the same thing when I do like

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angry Jerry Seinfelder half asked Jeff Foxworthy. Kelly Corlin told the Hollywood Reporter,

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we have to draw a line in
the sand. This is going to be

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a fight on every front, with
entertainment at the center. A lot of

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football today, Go Niners talk about
them in a second. First up,

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it's Chiefs Ravens. Kansas City dot
Com covered the celebrity rivalries between the Chiefs

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and the raven On Ravens dot Com, the Ravens wrote, They've got Taylor

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Swift, We've got Stavey, meaning
Stavros Halkias. As soon as Ravens fans

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knew that the team was facing the
Chiefs in the AFC Championship, the battle

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of the celebrities begin. It's Taylor
Swift versus Stavros Halkias. KC dot Com

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writes who. Ryan Mink is the
editorial director for the Ravens, and he

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wrote, right now, there may
be nobody that personifies Baltimore better than Stavros,

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and with the Swift show coming to
town, fans are holding up stave

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like a badge of honor. Stavros
told Mink, do you want a billionaire

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international pop star or do you want
a fat, balding man who's barely celebrity

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by the most charitable standards, and
lives and dies with his team. Those

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are your options. Here's folks,
Yeah, Taylor seems like you know how,

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Like people say Mark Zuckerberg is a
robot who has studied how to be

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a human, Taylor looks like somebody
who watched other people watching a football game

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and studied what they do. Like
when the chief scorer is she goes way

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over the top. It all seems
to me. Bring it on, Swifties,

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make sure you get the podcast name
right, share it on your message

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boards. I don't care. I
like her music a lot. Her concert

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was probably the best concert I've ever
seen, but her football routing seems a

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little contrived. Sorry. KC dot
com writes, Taylor's a gene coume lately,

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compared to all the celebrities to cheer
for the Chiefs, some for decades.

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That list includes Jason Sedeikis, Eric
stone Street, Heidi Gardner, and

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Brad Pitt. The longer list includes
Henry Winkler, Mackpecker, Backstreet Boy,

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Kevin Richardson, Janelle Money, Miranda
Lambert, and Melissa Etheridge, who recently

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appeared in a parody Hallmark Christmas movie
about the playoffs. Taylor Swift took a

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list friends Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Hugh Jackman of the Chiefs Jets

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game in New Jersey in October.
Yes, see that seems fake. Hugh

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Jackman's not a Chiefs fan. Get
out of here. Jenny Scullen is the

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founder of a Kansas City area Ravens
fan group called the Midwest Nest. As

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she told The Star, the country
might be watching Taylor Swift and we have

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a lot of respect for her,
but her eyes will be on the fet

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this Sunday. Get it back to
comedy. John Okay Ravens dot com.

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Right. Stavros is Ravens threw and
through. He was born in Baltimore and

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grew up in Greektown and Southeast Baltimore. He remembers vividly when the Ravens arrived

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in town in nineteen ninety six,
when they stole the Cleveland Browns. Let's

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not just closs over that, guys. Remembers the process of naming the team

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and attending a passpunt and kick competition
to introduce kids to the players. And

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I know you lost your team to
Indianapolis. Yell at them not me.

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You stole the Browns. When I
take over as commissioner, I'm putting all

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the teams back where they belong,
and I guess the Cleveland will then have

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two teams, both named the Browns. The seven year old Stavros caught passes

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from Vinnie Testa Verdi and got kicking
pointers from Matt Stover. The love grew

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deeper when the Ravens won their first
Super Bowl in two thousand. When Stavros

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was in sixth grade, he was, of course a big Tony Sirah Gusa

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fan, he said, as a
chubby little Greek kid, to see a

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big, fat Italian guy. He's
charismatic at all over the place. He

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was my guy. I was one
of the only white kids at my school.

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If there's a fat white celebrity,
believe me. I got called that

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guy when we were playing pick up
football those years, sixth grade seventh grade.

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Every but he called me goose.
His claim to fame was getting a

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sack in the City Poly High school
football game played at M and T Bank

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Stadium. At least that's what the
PA announcer said, except Stavros wasn't even

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on the field. He said,
it's only recently that I've admitted it.

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I've accomplished enough that I don't have
to use that to fuel my ego anymore.

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I can admit I didn't actually get
that sack. A couple of years

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ago, he started posting occasional YouTube
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It took off, and for the
past two seasons he's done a reaction

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after every game. He said,
that wasn't my end game. I was

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basically just blowing off a little steam
making the videos. I never thought when

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I made an ignorant character sure of
a Baltimore Radios fan, that that would

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be the thing that was like,
Yeah, the organization's gonna love this.

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Their credit. All the Ravens people
have talked to you. They have such

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a great sense of humor. It'd
have been so cool to work with.

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Obviously, I can't do the completely
uncensored version, but it's not like they're

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trying to change the character. It's
like, how can we find a nice

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middle ground here that works for us
while still being really funny. Sabby wants

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to challenge Jason Kelsey to a beard
checking contest. He was scheduled to perform

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last night, but was catching a
six am flight to Baltimore to make today's

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game jokes. You know how elections
from the TV station have to offer equal

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time to each political party. All
I want is CBS to let me get

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a shot, and then you have
to go to Taylor. Meanwhile, from

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the Monterey County Weekly, Kathleen Madigan
heading up to Monterey. She too,

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wighed in on the NFL postseason.
She has the forty nine ers going all

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the way in her bracket, but
wouldn't mind a Detroit win. She knows

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a lot of people there. She
says, the forty nine ers for my

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gambling, Detroit for my friends,
the Chiefs from Missouri, but everybody forgets

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about Baltimore. John mulaney had to
cancel a show. This one was at

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the thunder Valley Casino Report near Lincoln, Nebraska, and he said, after

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hours of trying, I'm stranded one
plane ride away and I'm not going to

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make it. My apologiz to everyone
who had tickets. M'lani rescheduled the show

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for Friday, April nineteenth at sketch
Fest. Today. We can start at

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eleven am with Moe Williams in the
Storytime All Stars that's sold out, Weird

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al w Camel Bell, Joela Trigli, Don't s Sloan pretty good. I

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won't read all the shows. One
o'clock Amber Ruffin, Three o'clock Doug Loves

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Movies. Five o'clock Dave Hill's Caveman
in a Spaceship. Seven o'clock Stupid Songs

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and Stories with Kevin McDonald, Benson, Movie Interruption, Fast X, and

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Triumph. At eight o'clock. We'll
talk about Triumph tomorrow. Sketch Fest has

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a day off, and I like
a good fight. I like this headline.

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Stand up comedian split the Internet after
beefing on TikTok over a rude headliner,

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Katie Goes by Katie k Comedy.
She was upset that the headliner,

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Mojo Brooks, roasted her. According
to Katie, she had a perfectly wonderful

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set, then went overtime when Mojo
Brooks arrived late to his own show.

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She said, I didn't bomb.
I'm self aware person. I've been doing

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stand up for over eight years.
If I bombed, I think I'd know.

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But according to Katie, she was
unfairly ripped into by Mojo Brooks.

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She said, he comes out,
he doesn't look me in the eye,

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doesn't shake my hand, starts ripping
me to shred, saying I'm so sorry

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that she was on the show.
You didn't rock up to the wrong building,

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and I'm sorry if you wanted a
refund. Katie captioned her video,

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people like this give stand up comics
a bad name. Yeah, that's a

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bad look. Don't trash her opener. Brooks responded with his own video in

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which he denied arriving late to the
show and claimed Katie did not bring the

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energy to his show. He included
messages he'd received from fans to question where

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they were at the wrong show during
her act, as well as clips to

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compare both sets. He said,
for the record, I'm the biggest female

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comedy supporter. I've taken several on
the road with me over my ten year

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career. I requested a female feature
that night. Just wasn't her night that

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night, but I couldn't ignore the
elephant in the room. I even had

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the crowd clap it up for her. Wish are the best of your career,

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but ma'am be honest. Katie has
responded, claiming that Brooks specifically used

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clips that would showcase him in a
positive light to put them out at arrest.

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Brooks posted a full clip from Katie
Set to prove that he wasn't using

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clips in his favor. I like
a good fight. If you enjoy the

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show, tell afraid about it.
They might like it to thank you so

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much for listening. The numbers were
pretty big this week, which was real

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nice. It's fun doing this every
day. I like talking to you guys.

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See you tomorrow.