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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