Dec. 9, 2025

The Golden Globes nominees for Best Standup Performance on TV - PLUS the new BEST Adam Sandler Movie!

The Golden Globes nominees for Best Standup Performance on TV - PLUS the new BEST Adam Sandler Movie!

Johnny Mac delivers his daily comedy news, kicking off with updates about the 83rd Golden Globe ceremony, hosted by Nikki Glaser, and highlighting comedy nominations including Bill Maher, Kevin Hart, and Sarah Silverman. He debates the merits of their performances, leaning towards Kevin Hart as his top pick despite artistic admiration for Silverman. Mac also touches upon TV series nominations, expressing skepticism about 'The Bear' being categorized as a comedy. In other segments, he humorously critiques Adam Sandler's film career, celebrates Marcello Hernandez's upcoming Netflix special, and discusses the acclaim of clean comedy in Nashville featuring comedians Nate Bargatze and Dusty Slay. The script includes updates on Jimmy Kimmel Live's guest David Letterman, a new British version of Saturday Night Live involving Seth Meyers, and tidbits from Ricky Gervais. Wrapping up, Mac notes his personal struggles with a cold studio environment and plugs his Comedy Survivor Selection Show and other comedy releases.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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

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The eighty third Golden Globe Ceremony will air on CBS Sunday,

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January eleventh. You may recall two years ago Joe Coy

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hosted it and told it's just a terrible, mean joke

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about tailor shift, but I don't have time for that today.

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This year's host is Nicky Glazer, and let's take a

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look at some of the comedy nominations will begin with

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Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television. The nominees

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are Bill Maher for is anyone else seeing this? And

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I think the answer there is no. I haven't seen

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anyone talk about that special all year. Also nominated Brett

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Goldstein The Second Best Night of Your Life. I like

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that special lot, Kevin Hart acting My Age, which I

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have as my number two special. And again I'll put

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out my list on Saturday. Kamil nan Gianni's Ninth Thoughtsparently

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people seem to like this one where his press people

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are good. A lot of buzz on that one. It's

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coming out on Hulu later in the month. Rick Gervai's

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Mortality and Sarah Silverman's post Mortem, which was really good,

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or I'd out of Mark Goldstein, Hart, Kamal, Ricky, Sarah.

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So I think artistically I like Sarah's the best, but

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in terms of just my ranking, I have Kevin Hart

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top of this group, I guess would have to give

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it to Kevin Hart. I kind of want to give

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it to Sarah, but that doesn't make sense if I

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have Kevin ranked higher than Sarah. How do you judge that?

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Are we just going by funniest or should I go

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by the art, Because if I go by the art,

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Sarah did it. Of course. The entire thing is madness

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that Mark Maron is not nominated. But maybe he didn't

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submit himself for an award, which seems like a very

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Mark Maron thing to do. I don't know how it works.

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The nominations for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, Abbot Elementary,

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The Bear Hacks and nobody wants this, only Murders the

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Studio The Bear is clearly not a comedy. I'd say

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hacks out of that group. Best Performance by an Actor

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in a TV Series, Music or Comedy Adam Brody, nobody

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wants this. Steve Martin for Murders Glenn Powell, Chad Powers,

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Seth Rogan, The Studio, Martin Short Murders, Jeremale and White Bear,

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which is not a comedy. The industry loves fawning over

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themselves and they really like the very very overrated The Studio.

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Seth Rogen will win there. If I had to give

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it to somebody, I don't even have a pick. Best

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performance by an actress in a TV series Musical comedy,

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Kristen Bell, nobody wants this. I Adebe The Bear, which

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is not a comedy, Selena Gomez Murders, Natasha Leone, Poker Face,

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Jenna Ortega, Wednesday, Jean Smart Hacks. I'd give it to

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Gene Best podcast, Dak Shephard, call Her Daddy, Amy Pohler,

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the Mel Robins podcast, SmartLess, and Up First, And as

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I posted on LinkedIn, hey guys, this is a TV

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show I actually listened to Up First most days. They're

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not gonna like get nine point thirty on CBS, be

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like and here's the guys from NPR. Up First. Amy

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Poehler is gonna win this one. If she doesn't, Dak

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Sheppard will. The Carol Burnett Award will go to Sarah

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Jessica Parker bill Board put out their list of the

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top twenty five comedians of the twenty first century so far.

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I'm going to rip off that idea and do my

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own version. Later in the month, Ricky Gervais posted on

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social media, this is so American centric. I'm generally surprised

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to be on it at all. But to be fair,

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it's a pretty fine listen and I'm a fan of

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most of the people above me, so it's all good.

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In a social media clip, Ricky Gervais talked about his

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tour and his special. He also talked about his vodka.

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But I'll play the Voka part tomorrow. But here's Ricky.

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Hello, Ricky Dumas here. I just want to say a

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huge thank you to everyone who bought a ticket to

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my Mortality tour and everyone who tried. It's probably my

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favorite tour so far. The special drops on Netflix on

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the thirtieth of December. So if you like the show,

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or if you like my previous shows, then you're gonna

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love the special. It's more me than ever. If you

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didn't like my previous shows, you'll hate it. You'll hate

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it more than don't watch it. It'll make you sad

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and angry. Don't even watch the trailers because they're make you. Oh,

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you'll post something about them. No one to care and

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how makes you sadah and angrier? Watch something you do

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like and talk to your little friends. Dr Who you

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love that, Watch Doctor Who.

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David Letterman will be the guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tonight.

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Make twelve thirty great Again. The team behind the British

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version of Saturday Night Live have slightly tapped into Seth

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Myers to help them out. Seth told Graham Norton, I

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doubts about it at first, but having spent a week

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here meeting potential writers and cast, it's very exciting. There

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are so many young, funny people and a great comedic

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skill set here, I think it's going to be great.

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Chortal reports. A transcript of Seth's comments released to journalists

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initially said that Seth Myers had explicitly said quote I

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am involved unquote in the UK project. After several hours after,

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Trotter reported that a publicist for the show said the

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transcript was inaccurate. Interesting. A briefing from the Sky Channel

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has asked cast and writers to be available from mid

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January to early April. That suggests a time table for that.

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The President of the United States, who's doing nothing about

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Star Trek. Have you seen this trailer for Starfleet Academy?

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Oh my god, just mister Trump, you gotta do something

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about this. He's out there hosting TV shows. He was

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hosting the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday night, and he

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compared himself to a previous host of the event, saying,

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Jimmy Kimmel was horrible. If I can't beat out Jimmy

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Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don't think I

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should be president. Interestingly, Jimmy Kimmel has hosted the Kennedy

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Center Awards as many times as I have. We are

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tied at zero. The President told reporters, We've never had

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a president hosting the awards before. This is the first.

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I'm sure they'll give me great reviews, right, you know,

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they'll say he was horrible. He was terrible. It was

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a horrible situation. The President was confident, said, we'll do fine.

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I will take a break from comedy for a second

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to talk about a dramatic movie. Jay Kelly, George Clooney,

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and the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler I absolutely loved

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the movie. Among the reasons I loved it, it's a

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movie movie. It's not what I call The Avengers, where

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everything's a two second fast cut in a lot of

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special effects. This was like a movie, like, you know,

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like v Onenheimer was like a movie. This is a

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movie movie. And here in the middle of the decade,

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it's very refreshing when someone makes an actual movie. Adam Sandler,

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of course really good in it. And as I published

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in my sub stack on Monday, there are now officially

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six good Adam Sandler movies. The best Adam Sandler movie

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J Kelly. That is now the best Adam Sandler movie.

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It is not Adam Sandler's best performance. His best performance

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is the second best Adam Sailor movie, which is Uncut Gems.

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I like J. Kelly even better than Uncut Gems. So

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we have J Kelly, Uncut Gems, Basketball Movie, Space Movie,

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and the two with Drew Barrymore. Those are the six

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good Adam Sandler movies. Every other movie Adam Sandler in

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is complete garbage. But he's good in J. Kelly. Although

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minor spoiler there's a scene where he has to act sad.

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He's not good at sad. He's just good at normal.

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If he's just like a normal dude in a scene,

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he's good, but he has to play sad at one scene,

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not good at that. Marcelo Hernandez does two things really well.

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One is invariance on that character. The other is a

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Sebastian Maniscalco impression. We're gonna find out just how funny

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Marcelo Hernandez is. He's getting a Netflix special. It's titled

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American Boy, to be on Netflix January seventh, so that

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at one point will be the best comedy special of

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twenty twenty six. We'll see if I can hold the title.

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Filmed in Miami, the special seas Marcelo Hernandez musing on

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his experiences growing up as a first generation American. I

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hung around to the end of Saturday Night Live to

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watch the credits. Remember a couple of weeks ago, we're

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talking about how Nicki Glazer kind of got iced by

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the cast during the Good Nights. Well, Melissa McCarthy did

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not get iced. I saw people hugging her. Good episode.

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Colin Jost was really good in it, both as Pete

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Hegseth and during the news. Sarah Sherman also did well,

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and then during the Good Nights I saw Cam Patterson

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standing there and I was like, Oh, I don't think

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you were in anything this week? Are you even on

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the show? I think he's been on the show about

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six minutes more than I have this season. I did

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see a thread on the Threads social media app, which

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is really good for comedy. It's actually better than Twitter

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ACX for comedy these days. But I saw somebody raving

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about Cam Patterson saying he's got superstar talent, and people

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were tagging that, going yes, So I guess that's what

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Lorden Michael sees. But whatever everyone's seeing, it's not appearing

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on SNL. Maybe he's an awesome stand up but it

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ain't happening on Saturday nights. My boilers still not fixed.

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It is freezing here, so I have to cut this

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little short. I've got a space heater in the basement.

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And then the quote unquote studio is a room also

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in the basement, but it's a separate room without a

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space heater, and my feet are freezing, even though I've

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only been talking to you for about ten minutes. If

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you missed it, yesterday around noon Eastern, I dropped the

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Comedy Survivor selection show sixteen comedians one Comedy Survivor. You

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can go back and listen to that one. We'll start

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playing that game in January. Out today on the eight

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hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, it's Nicole Buyer's an evening

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of crowd work. Let's talk about friend of the show.

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Jason Zenneman from The New York Times back to back

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days over the Thanksgiving holiday or so, he had written

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a piece called Ian Comedy is Back, this time without

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the judgment. He focused on comedians like Nate Perghetzy, Lean Morgan,

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and Dusty Sleigh. Jason Wright says an alternative to the coasts,

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the stand up scene that gets the most attention these

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days is Austin. But Nashville, I'd argue, is the more

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important comedy city. It has a large industry footprint. He

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mentions the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, which I mentioned a

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few times a week and is a major destination for

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podcast guests. That's where theol Voon tapes his show. But

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most important, Nashville has emerged as the center of a resurgent,

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clean comedy scene. Zenneman writes the extent of the Nate

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Berghezzy phenomenon may not be entirely clear because he doesn't

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show up in the discourse, he doesn't beef with other stars,

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and steers clear of controversy. His excess stems from the

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insight that audience has still wanted, but weren't getting the

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kind of escapist, broadly likable comedy that was a regular

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part of the cultural diet on network television in the

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nineteen eighties and nineties. So to me, this is Foxworthy theory.

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I've told the story before. I sat in a room

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with Jeff Foxworthy many years ago, and I asked him

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to explain his brand to me. And he was sitting

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across from me, and he held up his hands and

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he said, I realized if I stopped cursing, I picked

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up the kids and the grandma's And then he held

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his hands wider, indicating a larger audience. Now I'll push

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back on this one. Jason wrote about Nate and Dusty.

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They are Southern comics with accents. They were lightly and

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they don't play the country rube the way the stars

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of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour did in the early

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two thousands. Cable Guy, Yes, absolutely Foxworthy, somewhat but I

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think Foxworthy is overshadowed by his trademark you might be

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a redneck bit. Other than that, I don't think Jeff

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really leaned into that too much. Bill Angvall did not,

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and Ron White did not. Anyway, good stuff is always

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from Jason's innam in. I won't go w camal bell

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on you. That's your comedy news for today. I gotta

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go get warp see you