Aug. 15, 2025

The High Stakes of Kill Tony, Sebastian Maniscalco’s Foodie Confession, and Monty Python Stamps

The High Stakes of Kill Tony, Sebastian Maniscalco’s Foodie Confession, and Monty Python Stamps

Johnny Mac unpacks Slate’s deep dive into Kill Tony—where a killer minute can launch a career, and a bomb can haunt you forever. Sebastian Maniscalco shares his hatred of the word “foodie,” Chris Rock offers sage career advice, Josh Johnson explains the evolving comedy marketplace, and Kevin James reveals how Ray Romano taught him to underplay. Plus: Steve Martin hosts the Bluegrass Awards, Monty Python gets its own Royal Mail stamps, Just For Laughs returns in November, and how to stream Fringe shows without flying to Scotland.

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

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daily comedy news. Slate caught my attention with the headline

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the Cults of Kill Tony. Luke Winky writes under the

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headline Tony Hinchcliff's fame skyrocketed after he made a joke

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that spooked even Donald Trump in Texas. I watch how

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he became the most powerful comic in America. Luke writ's

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doing well on the program can be genuinely life changing.

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Kim Patterson, an affable storyteller with a thick Florida accent,

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was working on a golf course when he first passed

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through the Mothership in twenty twenty three. He crushed his

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set two years and five hundred thousand Instagram followers. Later,

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Deadline reported that Kim is part of the upcoming Kevin

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Hart comedy seventy two hours. Meanwhile, Casey Rockett was living

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in his car when he moved to Austin after becoming

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a routine player on Kill Tony. He's now admit a

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nationwide tour. On the other end of the spectrum, bombing

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on Kill Tony can leave a burgeoning comedy career in tatters.

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For every Patterson. There are scores more overmatched stand ups

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who crack under the immense pressure of the moment, punch

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lines or botched pacings, muffed flop, sweat beads on foreheads,

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and those sixty seconds begin to feel like an eternity.

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Hinchcliff smells blood in the water. The post interview morphs

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into a brutal heezing. The subject then SLINKs back through

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the enveloping curtains at the rear of the stage, smarting

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from an uncoverable psychic wound, broadcast for the whole world

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to see. Stephanie Robertson is a comedian who on the

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Dose of Reality podcast said that was the worst moment

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of my life. We all bomb in comedy, but everybody

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has access to my bomb. I was like, my life

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is over. I've humiliated myself. The piece then walks through

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how kill Tony works in the history of Kill Tony.

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I imagine if you listen to this podcast, you are familiar

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with most of that story. Mike Gleeson, a forty five

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year old comedian from Chicago, till slate. He moved to

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Austin with the specific intention of getting on Kill Tony.

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Gleason said I needed to find my audience, and I

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feel like this is my audience. Every other aspect of

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comedy show out edgy voices. It's more mainstream. Everybody wants

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to get on TV. I had no interest in getting

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in the Tonight Show. I think Kill Tony is better

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than the Tonight Show. A good episode of Kill Tony

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is better than the Tonight Show. A bad episode of

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the Tonight Show is better than a bad episode of

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Kill Tony. If that makes sense. That's my opinion there not.

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This late piece, Brian Garr talked about the change in

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the Austin scene. It was night and day after COVID.

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You could immediately tell who was new. They were all young,

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they'd all moved here from Io or whatever, and they

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all had a trans joke, all of them. It was

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like a signifier for them. We could tell immediately it

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was here to get on Kill Tony. It's a bunch

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of kids in their twenties trying to impress a bunch

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of dudes in their forties. Comedy establishment does not like

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that Kill Tony exists. All right, maybe I'll pick it

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that some more tomorrow. Sebastian Maniscalgo, speaking of a billboard

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magazine to discussed whether or not he's a foodie. He

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apparently hates the word foodie. Sebastian said, I wouldn't say

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one of those guys who's like, ah, there's a nineteen

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sixty nine Portel that you gotta have, or this wine

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has notes of cedar. I just know what I like

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when I drink. My wife and I got married in Napa,

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and I was introduced to one about fifteen years ago

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through my father in law, who's a big wine guy.

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When it comes to food, I like to cook. I'm

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not doing any castronomy over here. I'd like to make steak.

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I like to make chicken. We do taco night for

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a kid, so I'm always trying to perfect the taco meat.

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My daughter, who's eight, I made burgers for last night

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and she said, Danny, I like it, but it's got

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too much oil on it. I had put a little

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oil on the bun and then put him down on

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the grid toe him a little bit. I overoiled it,

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which I knew, and she picked it out. I was

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like Jesus, eight years old. Eight years old, I didn't

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care what I was eating. But apparently my daughter is

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Bobby Flay Sebastian, have ever gone back to Sicily to

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see your father's origin? Sebastian said, I took my father

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about twelve years ago. My father and I always wanted

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to go back to his hometown. He never took us

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when we were kids, and then later in life, I said,

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we got to make a trip. Then he goes down

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with quadruple bypass surgery. He comes out of that and

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I go, listen, We're going to Sicily before he died.

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It's got to happen. So shortly after he had the surgery,

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me and him took a journey to Sicily, to the

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Amalfi coast and in Rome. I got to see where

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he grew up. It reignited his passion to go back

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to his hometown and reconnect with old friends. It's nice

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to see that he's fallen in love with where he

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came from because he was so worried about work. My

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father came to this country and that's all it was work. Hey,

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this whole mentality. If you left too long, people are

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gonna forget him, which I have too a little bit.

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In comedy nowadays, you feel like you've constantly got to

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be out there touring on on Instagram. Then I talked

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to Chris Rock and he's like, you can't make an

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entrance if you never leave the room. That's great advice,

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Chris Rock. I took that to heart. I think I've

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established a fan base where if it did take some

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time off and wasn't constantly out there, I'd keep them

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when I came back. So I'm trying to take Chris's advice.

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Josh Johnson a lot of buzz on Josh. He spoke

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to the BBC about the Johnny Corson era and how

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things have changed in comedy. Josh shed Now it's sort

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of direct to consumers posed before we had the TV

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networks that worked as sort of the buyer. Back then,

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it was a sort of one size fits all approach.

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That's why so few people could break through and why

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breaking through to the masses was this instant success. But

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there's only a golden era of each thing. There's only

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so long that something gets you something before everyone's trying

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to do it, and then it doesn't do what it

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used to do. I look at trajectories and how to

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advance a career in the same way I look at

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stock tips. By the time I find out it's too late.

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By the time someone can give you a template of

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everything to do to get where you want to go,

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that thing's probably outdated. I can't necessarily speak to what

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everyone's career was like in the Johnny carsoner Jay Leno era,

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but I imagine that audiences stuck with you because of

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the moment they got swept up in when you were

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being created. I think with the Internet that people that

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find you now are staying with you because of who

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you are. Josh continued, there is something to be said

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for old systems continuing to still be good for you.

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There's this idea that being on TV sort of isn't

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what he used to be, right. I think that's just

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because with the Internet, people have more options. But that

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doesn't mean that these platforms that are either legacy names

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or have a very wide reach aren't incredibly influential to

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a person's career. I think there's this idea that independent

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creators and independent media will one day take over everything.

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I don't actually think that'll be what happens. I think

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independence will gain more market share in the future. But

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I also think that you cannot understated when people get

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out of traditional TV, traditional movies, traditional news and everything.

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As much as we like to think they make bad decisions,

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I think we still like the idea that there's a

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big thing a person could do. Kevin James told DW

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he didn't think Ray romano sitcom was gonna work. He said,

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I couldn't believe it. He's such a low energy guy.

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Sitcom guys to me were like big, wacky characters. I'm like,

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this is death. It's not gonna happen. The first few

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years of going with Ray, even when our shows came out,

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would go to CBS functions and things like that red carpet.

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Things were so rough because they knew him. But my

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SHOWO had just come out, so they're taking a thousand

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pictures of Ray. I'm just kind of standing there. Nothing's clicking.

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When he would attempt to get closer to Ray Romano,

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the photographers would ask him, could you move over? He

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says it was tough. Kevin James said he learned everything

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from Ray Ramono on how to do a sitcom. One

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tip was how to underplay a scene. Romano was so

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good on his sitcom and the way through things away.

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I was like, wow, we have to watch him and

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learn from him because I'm going to be too big

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on cameras. So even in the King of Queens when

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I see episodes now, I'm like, throw it away, kid,

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what are you doing? I'm like, gee whiz. I wish

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I could go back and redo it. Steve Martin is

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heading to Chattanooga. He will be co hosting the International

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Bluegrass Music Associations Bluegrass Music Awards It's Complicated September eighteenth

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that Memorial Auditorium. Steve said, I'm thrilled to be hosting

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with Alison Brown and connecting with all my bluegrass friends

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as opposed to my kind of dumb comedy friends and

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now for something completely different. The Briton Royal Mail has

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issued stamps celebrating Monty Python. Ten stamps celebrating things like Nudge, Nudge,

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Know what I Mean and the Lumberjack Song. Other stamps

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include the Spanish Inquisition, I Didn't Expect That, the Ministry

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of Silly Walk's Dead Parent, and the Nude Organist. Four

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more stamps honor the fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python on

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the Holy Grail, including one showing the Black Knight insisting

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it's but a scratch. Michael Palin said he was very

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glad to share a stamp with the nude organist. Boy,

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that's a lot of fun. Just for Laugh Sydney is

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coming back in November thirteenth edition. Good to see the

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Just for Lass people are rocking. This year's confirmed performers

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include Eddie Zord, John Bishop, Ashley, Gavin, Rob Beckett. You

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Yanks may have noticed Rob on last one laughing, Reggie Watts,

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dre le Eth Reagan and a bunch of names that

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you may not recognize at this point. Now, I know

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you're listening every day, going Jenny Mack, stop talking about

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the Fringe. I'm not going to Scotland. You keep telling

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me these shows are playing. How do you really expect

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me to go to Scotland and CdSe shows? Well, friend,

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listen to me. I'm here to tell you about fringe

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at home. Shortlist dot Com put together a list of

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the comedians which I would be reading to you now,

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except my browser just froze as I started to scroll

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down the page. Now, why don't you edit this out, John,

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because that's not fun. It's still not responding. Apparently shortlist

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dot Com does not get along with the Safari browser.

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Let me open up Chrome if you're a new listener.

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We're a little more casual on the weekends around here. Ah. Yes,

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on the Chrome Responsive website. Some shows you could watch.

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Patrick Spicer's Pivotal you'll find that on YouTube. Jeff Innocence

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Smart Casual also on YouTube. In his words, he became

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an overnight viral sensation after doing comedy for twenty seven years.

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Sarah Milliken's show Chatterbox is on YouTube as well. Short

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list tells us she's a cornerstone of British comedy for

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a reason. If you want to dissect the world of fashion, exercise,

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cake and relationships, this one is worth the watch. Vittorio

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Angeloni Translations. Okay, he was one of Montreal's new faces.

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He was fantastic. Why don't you watch this? Dylan from

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the Facebook group which is daily comedy news podcast group,

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feelingcouraged to join the group, Dylan, are you listening? Dylan?

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You're gonna watch Vittorio Angelone's Translations full stand up special

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on YouTube? Okay? Because why am I calling out Dylan

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before I even have breakfast? Dylan has watched three comedy

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specials every single day. I don't know if he stays

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up later, I don't know if he gets up earlier,

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but like Jim Jeffries, straps a special on Netflix, Dylan's

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watched it by six thirty am. Anyway, Victoria was really

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good at New Faces. Shortlist tells us we could watch

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joe Lycettz. I'm about to lose control. Tom Houghton's the honorable.

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You'll find that on shortlist dot com if you need

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the list. And now you don't have to go to

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Scotland and complain because they were always complaining about the Fringe.

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Here's a guy, Drew Cripps. He wrote on The Scotsman.

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I truly believe the Fringe used to be like a playground.

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I remember sitting her in a circle listening to Bob's

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Owner of Heroes of the Fringe regale such allegories to

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me and fellow wide eyed alternative comedies of the future.

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We listen to stories of comedians, mishaps and adventures at

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the fringe, tales so wild I can't share them here

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in the print. Just take my word for it. The

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Fringe used to be more punk rock, more of a playground,

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more truly fringe. Now things have changed. I understand when

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a comedian sinks eight grand just for the privilege of

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standing on stage. They need to justify that cost by

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transmuting it into some three and a half star review

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from a student reviewer, The Fringe today is just about

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mucking it up with your mates. It's about awards, recognition

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and careful social maneuvering. The introduction of awards only made

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it feel more competitive, but I'm not doing any of that.

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I've set things up so I can actually enjoy it.

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I'm very lucky I've met someone who could provide me

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with free accommodation. Last year, all my props got destroyed.

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I asked the venue if they had a bag for

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my props. They give me a bin bag and put

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everything inside it stored in the container. Unfortunately, at the

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venue thought it was a garbage can with garbage in it,

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including coconut milk and half eaten sandwiches, which ruined all

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my gear. So I had to improvise a new show.

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People really enjoyed, and I sold out my half run,

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extending it to the full Fringe due to popular demand.

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This year, I'm going in with no props. I'm hoping

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one day the Fringe can return to that legendary playground

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it once was a place where comics can be lose,

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have fun, and truly play until then doing my best

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to keep that spirit alive with a few other idiots.

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That is your comedy news at for today. If you'd

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like to program without commercial interruptions, if you're on Apple Podcast,

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click that manner. It says uninterrupted listening. And then for

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five bucks a month, and the first month is free,

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so why wouldn't you just try it? And then you know,

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day thirty two you forget, and then you're like, ah,

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he accidentally gave Johnny Mack five bucks. He got me

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and even told me he was gonna get me with

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that trick. I know, it's mean thirty days free trial

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and then you know five bucks a month. And I

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did the math here seventeen cents a day. I was

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texting with the friend of the show, Scott Beckett about

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I was like, hey, Scott Beckett, seventeen cents a day

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