Jan. 14, 2026

The Case Against Ricky Gervais, Shane Gillis' New Deal and Jerry Seinfeld's Surprising Gym Routine

The Case Against Ricky Gervais, Shane Gillis' New Deal and Jerry Seinfeld's Surprising Gym Routine

Johnny Mac discusses a provoking article by Jason Zinoman from the New York Times, questioning whether the worst Netflix special of the year, Ricky Gervais's 'Mortality,' deserved its Golden Globe win. Other highlights include Trevor Noah returning as the host of the Grammy Awards, Netflix's deal with Shane Gillis for more specials, and Jerry Seinfeld's rigorous workout routine at 71. Additionally, there is news about CBS News revamping with new hires including one named Seinfeld and Amy Schumer's humorous Instagram post. The episode concludes with jokes from late-night shows and news that Dilbert creator Scott Adams has died.

01:23 Ricky Gervias Controversy
04:55 Trevor Noah to Host the Grammys
05:39 Netflix's New Deal with Shane Gillis
07:12 Jerry Seinfeld's Fitness Regimen
08:19 Late Night Jokes and Comedy Survivor
09:01 Craig Ferguson's New Special
09:12 Amy Schumer and Chelsea Handler Updates
09:50 Bill Maher's Emmy Frustrations
10:06 Scott Adams' Passing
 


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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. Friend of the show Jason Zeneman from

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the New York Times stirring it up. He threw down

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the gauntlet, and this is what people in comedy are

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talking about today. The headline from Jason Zenneman in the

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New York Times, did the worst Netflix special of the

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year win the Golden Globe? The premise that Ricky Gervay's

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Mortality won for Best Comedy sends a message about the

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lack of respect given to stand up now. I personally

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don't agree with Jason that it was the worst Netflix

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special of the year. I'm sure if we dove a

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little bit, we could find a special that was worse

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than that one. And I'll stick to my guns here.

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On my personal list, I had Jervas at number eleven.

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Let's hear Jason out here. I respect him a lot.

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Jason sets up his premise, awards are silly, harmless fun

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unless someone gives one to me, and they are solemn

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business deserving of respect. That's been my position. More or less.

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I like to watch the so the Tonys are the Oscars,

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make jokes and enjoy an actorally speech as much as anyone,

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but I don't expend much energy getting upset and justices

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and say the best Supporting Actor category. But on Sunday,

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when the Golden Globe for Best Stand Up Comedy on

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Television went to Ricky Gervais for the second time in

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three years, the wind shook me out of my indifference.

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That his dismal, meandering laundry list of jokes was even

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nominated was absurd that at one perverse. Now I have

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pre read this article, but I'll jump in here so

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that I'm not just like reading you Jason's article. We

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all have to understand what the Golden Globes are. It's

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just celebrities getting drunk. It's a low rent award show.

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Remember the Golden Globes actually went away for a little bit.

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There was a controversy there and then they brought it back.

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So we really can't take this too seriously. And I

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don't think Jason is either. It's the Golden Globes. Like

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people are wigged that Amy Poehler won Best Podcast. There

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was no scenario where they were gonna go on. The

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winner for best Podcast is NPR. Here's some guys who

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record a new show at four in the morning. That

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was never, ever, ever going to happen. I'm on record

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saying that I've probably said it on this show. I

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definitely said it on my substack, which is mcdeepod dot

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substack dot com. It's free. You should subscribe. There's a

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link in the show notes. It's the Golden Globes. The

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only person who takes the Golden Globes seriously is, of

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course Taylor Swift, but I'm not gonna go there today,

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Jason Wrights. Taste is subjective, of course, but how could

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anyone who watched more than a dozen stand with specials

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this year think that Ricky Gervass pretentiously titled Mortality set

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the standard wall. Here's the thing, Jason, and you and

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I both know this, and I think you may have

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even talked about this in your piece. The people are voting,

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they're not watching these things. They're getting a listen and going, oh,

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I've heard of Ricky Gervasi's very funny click. That's all

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they're doing again. That's why Amy Poehler, and I'm not

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saying Peopolar's podcast is bad, but it's a slam dunk.

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Amy Poehler, who used to host the Golden Globes was

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going to win the Golden Globes for Best Podcast. There

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was no other scenario there. You think John Marco SARRESI

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he had a chance to win a Golden Globe. Nobody

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knows who that is and he's the twenty twenty six

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Comedian of the Year. Yes, I'm correct here next paragraph,

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Jason Rates. Maybe the fact that he hosted the Golden

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Globes five times earned him goodwill me Poler another former

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host who won the first Globe for podcasting on Sunday

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Bingo and Bingo. And yet the celebration of one of

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the worst Netflix specials of the year sends a different

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message about the lack of respect afforded stand up skipping

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ahead mortality. Is Jervas mailing it in getting some of

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his biggest laughs with lines delivered years ago at the

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Golden Globes. I don't disagree with that. So I watched

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the special and it was Ricky doing what Ricky does,

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and I laughed a couple times. No new ground there,

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it was just him doing his I'm gonna say something outrageous.

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You're going to be outraged that I said something outrageous,

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And I'm going to point out to you how outrageous

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your outrage about my outrage is. It's just what he does.

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Zenniman rights, no one plays the victim with more persistence

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than jervas well, maybe Chappelle does. They've tried to cancel

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me for fifteen years, he says in the special. Who

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has not Netflix, which pumps out of specials every couple

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of years. Maybe the Golden Globes. No, he says, not

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a single punch line he wrote for them was cut.

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He can't even commit to his own nonsense, skipping down?

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Why does this matter? Badter, boring art gets rewarded with

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prizes all the time. No one takes the Golden Globe

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seriously right. Part of the issue is that, in a

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culture that pays so much attention to award show, stand

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up comedy doesn't have its own, and the awards that

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do celebrate specials pit comics against other entertainers. The Emmys

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or focus on albums. The Grammys. I wish, Jason, I

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wish the Grammys focused on albums. They don't. The Grammys

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focuses on Netflix specials. Yeah, I get on my soapbox

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about that. Every single year, somebody should put out a

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comedy album, and we could give it a Grammy. Good

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paragraph here from Jason. I mean they're all good. I'd

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like Jason's work, and I don't mean to dig the

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other paragraphs. I just particularly like this one. If you

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were a casual fan using Awards as a guide to

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the best in the field, you might think that Gervais

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is on historic run and that is oblivious, rich guy.

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Observational humor is what passes for excellence. This is not

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a good advertisement for the art form. He's right there.

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But again, it's the Golden Globes. They're going right down

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the middle. They're gonna do the obvious good piece there

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in the New York Times. I encourage you to read

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it in full. Speaking of award show right on time,

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I mentioned this yesterday the Grammy Awards must been listening.

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They announced Trevor Noah we'll be back to host the

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Grammy Awards. It is Trevor Noah's sixth appearance. It will

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also be his quote unquote final time. Now here's why

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Trevor began hosting the Grammys for CBS in the first place.

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You may recall Trevor Noah was a host of the

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Daily Show. That's on Comedy Central, and both Comedy Central

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and CBS owned by paramounts, so there's some synergy there.

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But now the Grammy Awards are leaving CBS. They're heading

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to ABC and they'll be on ABC for ten years.

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Maybe we'll see Jimmy Kimmel hosting the Grammys. Who knows. Anyway,

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I'm a big fan of Trevor and happy to have

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him back. ABC would be smart to grab him if

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he's willing to do it. Netflix announced a deal with

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Shane Gillis. As part of the deal, we learned that

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production on Tires season three is underway and that's part

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of an overall new Netflix deal with Shane Gillis and

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John McKeever. The duo will develop film series and unscripted

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projects for Netflix, and we'll get two more Netflix specials

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out of Shane Gillis. Season three of Tires will be

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twelve episodes. Thomas Hayden Church, who plays Shane's dad, is

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promoted to series regular. Tracy Pecosta's VP comedy series at Netflix,

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and you can tell she feels the vibe with this quote.

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Shane Gillis's unapologetic comedy and neck for finding humor in

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everyday life is what sets him apart. With Tires, he

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and John McKeever have turned that same raw, unfiltered energy

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into a show that feels familiar to many people. Shane,

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giving a much better quote, said, Yeah, working with Netflix

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is great. It'd be cool to shoot season three at

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Tire soon. That's how you do it. I hate the

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corporate quotes. They always just sound so soulless. Now here's

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an interesting note some people on threads talking about this.

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The article is about the revamp of CBS News, and

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not everybody likes what they've done so far. Nicki Glazer

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made fun of it on The Golden Globes her punchline,

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c BS News now deep into this article, but this

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is being talked about on comedy threads. A list of

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some of the people that Barry Weiss, the new boss

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of CBS News, brought from her previous gig at the

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Free Press. One of those folks is Sasha Seinfeld. Now,

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Sasha Seinfeld has a dad named Jerry. I just thought

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that was interesting, would share it. Speaking of Jerry, Radar

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Online reports that Jerry Seinfeld is hitting the gym because Jerry,

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who's seventy one, somehow is paranoid about his health and

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worried that he could develop dementia. An insider tells Radar Online,

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Jerry's in the gym every day and working hard to

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maintain his looks and fitness, probably for different reasons that

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you think. Jerry intends to keep performing live as long

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as he can, and that requires real physical strength, not

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for just being up on stage, but also to handle

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the travel and logistics of being a headlining performer. But

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he's putting in the hours and hitting the weights like

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never before because he wants to be around for his

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wife and kids, and he's deathly afraid of things like dementia, cancer, osteoporosis,

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and Parkinson's disease. He's seen too many of us role

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models struck down by these things to just ignore his

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health or leave it to fate. The same report says

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wife Jessica Seinfeld prides herself a great cook, but it's

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down to Jerry, and Jerry alone put in the hours

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at his home gym, had to stay as sharp as possible.

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He's taken this mission incredibly seriously. It's become a hobby.

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He's as passionate about as he is about his collection

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of exotic cars. He wakes up at the crack of

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dawn for a punishing workout, and he's done by the

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time Jessica has his breakfast hot and ready for him.

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A couple jokes from Late Night Seth Myers said, President

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Trump posted a screenshot of his Wikipedia profile on truth

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Social over the weekend that showed him listed as the

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acting president of Venezuela. Not many people can say they

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were the worst president in the history of two countries.

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John Stewart asked, doesn't your oath of office to America

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have a non compete? Are you playing Comedy Survivor with us?

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If you're not, please go to the Facebook group which

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is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Scroll down there you'll

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find a picture of me extinguishing Amy Schumer's torch. She

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was voted off last week. It looks like this week

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Joe Coy and Adam Sailor could be in a little trouble.

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So if you want to save them, you're gonna have

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to rally some friends and get them to the Facebook

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group to vote somebody else off. But looks like could

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be Coy, could be Sandler. We'll see Outsiday. On the

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eight hundred pound gorilla. Craig Ferguson's I'm So Happy. Craig

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Ferguson is a good stand up You should watch that special.

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Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so she

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goes on Instagram. Last week, on her Instagram Stories, she

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posted herself wearing a baggy, comfortable outfit that was captured

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in photos and reported on by The Daily Mail. Amy

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made fun of The Daily Mail's caption and copied it,

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writing the comedian opted for comfort. Amy added the comment

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line up boys in the photo. Amy Schumer's bundled up

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in an oversized winter coat, layings, a hoodie, and black

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running shoes. Bad news for Tom Brady. Chelsea Handler does

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not want to date him. She told a radio show.

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I have no interest in Tom Brady. I don't find

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him dynamic, hot, interesting or fun. I find him so boring.

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Bill Maher on his podcast said, I've been nominated for

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thirty three Emmys and they would never give it to me.

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That's not a gag number, that's a real number. It's crazy. Obviously,

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it's something I say said. Well, it's everything I said

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because I speak freely, and this woke down effing hates that.

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That's okay. I've made my peace with that and Scott Adams,

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the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, passed away of

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prostate cancer. He was sixty eight. His wife, Shelley, read

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a statement on his livestream channel. Scott wrote it before

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passing away. It read, if you're reading this, things didn't

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go well for me. I have a few things to

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say before I go. My body failed before my brain.

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I'm of sound mind as I write this January first,

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twenty twenty six. Then he got into his estate. I

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had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had.

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Be useful, and please know that I loved you all

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to the very end. At its peak, Dilbert was in

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two thousand newspapers, but in twenty twenty three The Syndicator

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dropped the comic strip following remarks made by Scott Adams.

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The comments I'll personally editorialize are a racist and very hateful,

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and thus I won't repeat them. Scott Adams was sixty eight.

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And that is your daily comedy news for today. See

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tomorrow