The Origins of Adam Sandler's The Chanukah Song PLUS Weird Al throws shade at Spotify

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

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Did you watch the debate last night? It aired on News Nation Rumble in

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the CW seth Meyers joke. So, in other words, look for it

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wherever you get your computer viruses.
Switching topics, Brenda Lee has her first

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number one hit for Rocking Around the
Christmas Tree, recorded in nineteen fifty eight.

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I think Jimmy Fallon said, yeah, Brenda is having a moment.

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Not only does she have the number
one song, today she was seen holding

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hands with Travis Kelsey. By the
way, Taylor Swift named Times Person of

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the Year. You can follow all
the Taylor Swift news on her sister podcast,

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Taylor Swift Today. Spotify put out
there Spotify wrapped lists, and weird

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Al had some commentary on their royalty
system. Here's a statement from weird Al.

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Hey, how you doing hell here? Look, I'll make this really

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quick. I just want to thank
you all for your amazing support. It's

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my understanding that I had over eighty
miss billion streams on Spotify this here,

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So if I'm doing the math right, that means I earned twelve dollars.

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So you know, I'll not have
to give myself a nice sandwich at a

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restaurant. So from the bottom of
my heart, thanks for your support and

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thanks for the sandwich. Meanwhile,
another statement, Ricky Gervas tweeted what he

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called an urgent appeal. Hello Ricky
Gervas here, this is a quick message

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to all supermarkets, off licenses,
coller shops to say please stock Dutch Bom

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vodka. I'm the co owner of
the company, so this could make me

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a lot of money and it's It's
a premium quality vodka made from British apples.

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We're committed to sustainability and the protection
of the ecosystem. It's one hundred

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percent recyclable the bottle, that's why
it's brown. Only one like it as

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well, so it's standout on the
shelves. It's how people will remember it.

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I think it'll be like if you
go in out, granddad, can

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you get me some vodka? What's
all the posh one in the brown bottle?

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Dutch faarn I can't afford that.
We should have worked harder then,

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so Dutch farn I like what Ricky's
doing there. He's running right at it,

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not even pretending the folks at All
Dogs Matter tweeted, we wanted to

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say a huge thank you to our
patron, the one and only Ricky Gervas,

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who has made an incredibly generous donation
to go towards the care of our

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dogs. We cannot be more grateful. Heart's emoji. Your donation will keep

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dogs like Colin happy, healthy and
warm this winter. There's a picture of

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Colin. You can find out about
Ricky Gervay's donations by listening to yesterday's podcast

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Happy Honikah. Adam Sandler recounts how
he wrote the Honkah song. This from

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the Jewish Chronicle, home for Comedy
News. Sandler recently spoke to the crowd

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at the ninety second Street Why in
New York City and said, I am

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so proud of that song. I
love it. He wrote the song at

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the NBC studios of SNL. There
was no Google in nineteen ninety four,

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so he went by what he thought
was correct. The lyrics include Harrison Ford's

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a quarter Jewish. Sandlor later found
out he was off by twenty five percentage

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points. I remember when I met
Harrison Ford, he goes half. Sandler

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said, all my family's Jewish.
Everybody has a kind of funny way about

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them. I definitely after every family
get together, couldn't believe what I saw

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sometimes. Sandler first got into the
stand up comedy at age seventeen and said

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I would bomb every night. Well, good thing that's changed. His stand

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up is hilarious these days now.
If you're wondering about the other people mentioned

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in the song, USA Today under
the headline Adam Sandler's Honaka Song, are

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all those celebs in the song actually
Jewish? Let's take a look. David

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Lee Roth, James Kahn, Kirk
Douglas Dinah Shure Yes, yes, yes

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Yes, Bowser from Shannanhah and Arthur
Fonzarelli. John Beauman is Jewish. Henry

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Winkler is Jewish, Goldie Hawn,
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, as the

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song points out, O J.
Simpson not a jew but Rod Carew Yes,

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Rod cru converted. If you're in
the mood to hear the Hanukkah song.

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When we're done here, go to
the Live One app and play the

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weekly comedy thing that's the show I
host. I played the Hanukkah song this

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week for this very reason. Sandler
recently told Variety that Roseanne Barr almost performed

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the song on SNL in ninety four. Sandler said they were talking about Roseanne

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singing it and she was nice enough
to say, no, let Adam do

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that. That's his He wrote it, That's his song. During Weekend Update,

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Sandler explained that he wrote the song
after noticing the lack of music about

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Hanukkah. Does Sandler still sing the
Hanka song? He says, I sing

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it alone. I sing it without
the kids. I go on a basement,

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I rip it out. I do
the soft shoot to it. If

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it comes on the radio and I
hear it, I get excited. It's

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still awesome. The Canadian Comedy Hall
of Fame has announced the newest round of

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inductees. They include Jim Carrey,
Eugene Levy, Martin Short and the cast

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of SCTV. So are Eugene and
Martin in there twice or how does that

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work? I don't know. It
will be a four day festival in February

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to mark the beginning of a three
year collaboration with Tourism Hamilton. Jerry Seinfeld

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is playing Singapore. Jerry gave some
quotage which was I saw recently that Singapore

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has some of the happiest people on
Earth by scientific study. So I don't

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imagine my comedy will be able to
improve that by too much, but I'm

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really going to try. So excited
for my first visit, I was curious

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how much tickets cost, and I
went to the website that was linked in

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the article, and you have to
register for a pre sale, and I'm

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like, I don't know, I'll
just look it up next week. All

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right, after three days, there's
finally press about Stavros Halkias. Remember his

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Netflix special came out on Tuesday and
there were no articles about it. Well,

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Deadline got around to it Dell's Deadline. He's noticing a difference in those

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attending his shows. Instead of Internet
freaks alone, he says he now sees

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nice older couples in the crowd.
In Fat Rascal on Netflix, Stavros talks

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about everything from nightmare travel days to
experiences at the Big and Tall Store.

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He talked about having a hard time
breaking in. He said, I had

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agents and managers, but you know
how it is, nobody gets an f

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about you when you're not making them
any money. Nobody wanted to buy a

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special for me. In twenty twenty
two, He's self released a self financed

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special on YouTube Live at the Lodge
Room that's gotten over six million views.

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He invested forty thousand dollars of his
own money to get word out about the

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special. Halkias began disseminating online clips
of material didn't make the cut. Additionally,

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he embraced crowd work clips. For
years, had been taping every set

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he did, whether it was at
a comedy club, a brewery, or

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some kind of other lower end venue. He hired a friend with quote no

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editing experience away from his low paying
media job, and they started mining old

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sets for clips to post online.
Those clips took his YouTube. I don't

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want to use the word special if
it's self released an hour, half hour

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and how long it was from twenty
thousand into the hundreds of thousands, which

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in turn resulted in him moving tickets. Quote like never before, every single

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clip was going viral was insane.
I was like, what the F We're

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growing at such an insane rate.
I felt like I just found an audience

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that I had no idea existed,
and I was confused more than anything.

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He attributes his success online a good
timing, saying met in Google saw the

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TikTok was eating their lunch and they
were like, well, anybody that does

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short form video contact, we're boosting
the f out of their algorithm. It

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just so happened that while that was
happening and YouTube shorts was getting boosted and

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Instagram was getting booted, and TikTok
was trying to boost people' stuff, some

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more people would do it. I
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best crowd work interactions, and I
think I just got really lucky. It

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just worked in a way I could
not believe, he says, I don't

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mean to get corny or anything,
but achieved my bleeping goals. I have

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friends who are famous. I don't
want their lives. I don't need to

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be more famous than this. In
fact, I don't want to be.

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The virtual reality stand up series Surrounded
will return for a second season December twenty

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ninth. The six sports series will
debut via the Meta Horizon World's VR online

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video game platform. Episode start on
the twenty ninth, including a holiday festival

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special that drops at ten am Pacific
on that day. These sets were filmed

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at the twenty twenty three Just for
Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, hosted by Lilrel

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Howery the episode's feature Jack Whitehall,
Marlon Wayans, May Martin, Fortune,

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Fimster, Mark Norman, Chris Read, Dan Soder, Jay Farrow, Meg

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Statler, Felipia Sparza, Rosebud Baker, Samuel Joe, Kim Booster, Hannah

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Burner, Nate Jackson, Brad Williams, Preacher Lawson, Seher Zamada, Brian

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Simpson, Steph tolev Annie Liederman,
and Shay Durina. That is no joke

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that list. Lourel Howary called the
show crowd work and freestyling at its best.

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So this morning at the National Donuts
Chain, Evil Bill Angvall was back,

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but the Donuts Chain people just did
not have my order together. I

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mean I had ordered online. Took
twelve minutes for somebody to make a nice

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coffee come on Donuts Chain. But
it was good to see Evil Bill back

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in the house. Last week Tonight
with John Oliver has been renewed for three

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more seasons. Yep. But it'll
still be on HBO or Max or HBO

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Max or whatever it is these days. John Oliver said, We're very happy

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to get to keep making the show
without our fantastic staff. Will continue trying

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to stretch the term entertainment to the
breaking point, a Suit said, over

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the past decade, John and his
exceptional team have combined deep research and intelligence

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with cutting humor to tackle a broad
range of subjects, both widely discussed and

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unconventional. With an important election here
on the horizon, we look forward to

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seeing what John has in store for
audiences over the next three years, Thanks

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Suit. Bowsome Usef recently made some
news having a little back and forth with

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Piers Morgan. Yousef showed up at
COP twenty eight. That's the big environmental

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summit. He said to the audience, Let's be honest. The only reason

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I'm here is because I'm trending,
but also because I've been an advocate of

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plant based diets. Someone asked why
stand up comedy and how do you find

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humor during these dark times? Yusef
said, simple, because the fact that

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we still have to meet every year
to decide not to hurt our planet is

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a joke itself. Paste magazine spoke
to ZANEB. Johnson about her special His

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Jobs Off, released on Amazon back
in October. This one recorded in the

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round one cameraman holding a steady cam
for the specials duration Johnson said, I

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think there's something really intimate about recording
in the round. I always say my

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stand up should feel like I've invited
you into my living room. You get

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to hang out with me for a
little while, and hopefully by the end

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of it you leave feeling fulfilled and
good. You want to come back.

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Much like Jim Gaffigan, She's not
considered the jokester in her family. Johnson

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says, they love me, but
they think I'm the most serious person.

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I tried to plan vacations with my
mom. She's like, you know,

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you're no fun. I'm always to
the person trying to keep the family business

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in order. I'm like, what
are the troubles, Let's look for the

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solutions. What are the bills,
what are the things we need to improve?

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And everybody's like, we're trying to
have fun. Celebrate Norman Lear,

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the renowned American television writer, film
producer, and activist, passed away Tuesday

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at age one hundred and one worn
in New Haven, Connecticut. Lear celebrated

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for creating All in the Family,
Mary hart and Mary Hartman, The Jefferson's

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Maud, Good Times, Sandford and
Son Fernwood, Tonight, John Stewart tweeted,

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good night, Norman, love you, thanks for raising me. Jimmy

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Kimmel gave Variety a statement which was
it is obviously silly to want more time

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with a person who outlived a whole
century, but losing Norman Leear, even

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at one hundred and one years old, feels unfair. His bravery, integrity,

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and unmatched moral compass were equaled by
his kindness, empathy and wit.

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Even at one hundred and one,
Norman cared as much about the future,

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our children and planet as much as
anyone have ever known. He was a

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great American, a hero in every
way, and so funny, smart and

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a lovely man you almost couldn't believe
it. Privilege of working alongside Norman,

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and the opportunity he gave me and
my wife to get to know him and

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his beautiful family has been among the
great honors and pleasures of my life.

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We're all very lucky to have him. George Clooney, in a statement,

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said, it's hard to reconcile that
one hundred and one years old Norman Lear

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has gone too soon. The entire
world of reason just lost its greatest advocate,

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and our family lost a dear friend, a giant walked in his shoes.

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Tyler Perry reflected on his experience of
meeting Norman Lear and said, just

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before I left, I asked,
at a hundred years old, are you

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looking forward to without any hesitant?
He said tomorrow with such a simple but

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powerful lesson to live your life fully
one day at a time. Tyler said,

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it that up nice there, because
one of the shows Norman Lear developed

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was One Day at a Time.
Norman Lear, one hundred and one years

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old. That's your comedy news for
today.