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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.
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Jenny Mack, you never give any attention to Roywood Junior's
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news show. Have I got news for you on CNN?
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I know, and the CNN publicists put out so many
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articles about it, and I've barely talked about it. The
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La Times spoke to Roywood Junior. They talked about his
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time playing sports in high school. He warmed the bench.
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Roy said, your job as a bench of warmer is
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to come up with the heckles against the other team.
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I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other
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fifteen year olds. If I could get the umpire to laugh,
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that was like an applause break. If I got the
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parents to laugh, that was the standing. Oh. Roy says,
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We're a very interesting piece of real estate with this
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new show. In between say a Jimmy Fallon and a
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daily show, it's an opportunity to talk about the news,
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but we get to season it for taste in terms
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of the depth in which we want to go on
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a particular topic. A sidebar here. The La Times writes,
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as roy Wood said that sentence, he was alternating tips
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of two smoothie. Is one a fruity pink, the other
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a healthy green, fascinating. I might head over to the
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smoothie place after I record this. They have this new
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cinnamon smoothie that's so good. I might have to go
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get one. Where he says, the burden of making the
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argument every single time is not on my shoulders anymore.
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It's a chance to live within the jokes first, the opinions. Second.
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The conversation turned to his time at The Daily Show,
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and he said, the biggest thing I learned from watching
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Trevor Noah's not to let anger pollute your sense of humor.
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It's infuriating what's happening in America, But the moment you
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allow yourself to be consumed by the anger, you lose
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your ability to make fun of everything. I remember Trevor
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allowing not anger, but compassion to drive his segment about
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a police shooting. As I recall, there wasn't a single
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joke in the first act. He just spoke sincerely to
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the camera about where we are as a country. There
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were so many moments where Trevor could have used the
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pulpit to cuss America out, and he never did it,
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but instead he used calmness as a more precise scalpel. Interesting.
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I'm going to use the word spin here. This isn't
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the way I remember it, But the La Times rites.
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When it became clear that one time front runner Hassan
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Minhaj wasn't going to get the Daily Show job, Wood
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started to worry that there was no plan for the
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Daily Show as it headed into an election year. Roy says,
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at that point, John Stewart coming back was not in
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the conversation. For me, it felt like, well, what is
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life going to be for me after the Daily Show?
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If they picked somebody that doesn't want me it as
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a correspondent, then what am I gonna do next year?
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If I'm gonna have to eventually find a place to land,
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I should just start that process now, all right? That
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is fair. I think my point is that the La
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Times left out the part where they weren't obviously not
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considering Roy for the desk either. Amber Ruffin said, Roy
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knows every current news story but also the history of them,
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which is amazing to me. Even when you think, oh,
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he's not gonna have the backstory on this, he does.
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Roy has a kind of gravitas. He feels like he
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belongs in the chair. He just feels like a dude
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you might be hanging with around the grill at a barbecue,
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Whereas on the jerkvase, who's gonna be like, do you
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have impossible burgers? Roy Wood has been preparing for the
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show by watching Steve Harvey host Family Feud. Why because
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he's the king of hearing something ridiculous, pausing and reacting
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to it, and then getting the game back on track.
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He's keeping in open mind about the future and said
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if the Daily Show called, I'm not gonna send them
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a voicemail, but I am dating someone. The CNN press
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team got Vulture to write about the show, Hey, Amber ruffin,
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how did you wind up getting hired as one of
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the team captains? Amber said, they had a bunch of
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us tests for it, and it was just the most
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fun little reunion. It was everybody who's kind of in
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this space, was all the late night people, the funny
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news podcasters, the people who had late night shows. Well,
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should be asking her pals to be on her team.
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No one's asking me who should be on the show.
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I don't have any control of who's on the show
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or not, or else it'd be all my friends, which
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I guess it would be fine. I don't even know
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who's going to be on this Friday. They tape Friday
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and at air Saturday. How's the show different than the
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UK version? It's a little more game show. Esk gets
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overflowing with punchlines, the goals to give your fastest answered
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many times that's wrong or silly, and because we're all comedians,
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it's very much like an improvised late night show that's
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out behaves. We're spitting out punch lines at a teams
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and sat down and thought through, which makes it more
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fun and truer than your regular show. It'll be different
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that the segments are way tighter than your run of
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the mill British panel show. I think it's very segment
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heavy and bit heavy, whereas the other panel shows can
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get to yepping. How do you decide who wins? Roy
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is deciding who gets points and he can be bought
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before every show. It's on the whims of Roy. It's
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how he's feeling. So yeah, I'm gonna bring him presents.
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I want to win. Let's stay political for a second.
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The Daily Beast spoke to Samuel Wiles. He does stand
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up comedy in La and resembles jd Vance, and he
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has started doing a jd Vance impression. Wile said, I'm
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always kind of clocking guys with big round heads and
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beards and media, the fact that we both have light
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eyes and kind of high school teacher speaking voices. With
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a bonus coincidence. He started doing his Vance impression on
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TikTok on August seventh, while channeling jd Vance In a
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recent video, he had Vance reading letters from constituents and said,
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dear future VP Van s, a Haitian illegal broke into
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my house and ate my dog between two slices of wonderbread.
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He was wearing nothing but a cape and a sinister
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top hat. He escaped on a skateboard powered by dark magic.
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How does he come up with ideas? He thought about
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how much I don't like JD Vance, but also how
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awful would be to be him. I started writing down
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stuff I thought he would say, because I thought I
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could talk about it as stand up. But then I
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wrote for like ninety minutes straight. It was so easy.
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I read Hillbilly Eligi when it came out. I remember
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liking it while I was reading it, then putting it
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down and going, oh wait, what an a hole. Then
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when he became an outright conservative media figure that it
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seemed really logical. It'll never not be funny to me
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that he's a huge fraud. No one likes him. He
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doesn't even get the benefit of this weird lying. His
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life would be so much easier if he could be honest,
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but there's so many layers that he can't have an
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honest moment. Now part of what makes a good advance
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impression mascara, He says, My fiance works in beauty and
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did my eyeliner for the first round of videos, and
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we both kind of realized it needed to look worse.
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So now I just get the three dollars wet and
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wild from Walgreens and mash it into my eyes on
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my own. Shout out to Walgreens. Nick Swartzon spoke to
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the eight hundred pound Gorilla, and he said, one of
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my favorite stories is I did a performance arts center
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and I show up backstage. It's about two thousand seats.
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I look up the walls and big murals of the
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Lion King and Phantom and Wicked, and I go to
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the manager and I go, do you guys have comedy?
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Here and he goes, oh, yeah, I have comedy. Sometimes
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we had Lewis Black and I go, oh, no, do
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you have security here? And he goes no, but we
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have ushers. And I'm like, you don't understand. There's going
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to be a crapstorm coming in here. My fans are
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gonna be rowdy. And he's like, we'll be fine. And
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it's like, now you don't understand what I'm saying to you.
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The Nick Schwartz and crowd's gonna come in hot. And
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he's like, I'm not worried about it. Okay, whatever we go.
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I do my show. It's chaos. Girls got in a
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fight in a balcony. This brawl. People are being insane.
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It's super fun. I had a blast. And after the show,
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I got back to my green room and the manager goes,
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what the f And I'm like, yeah, I told you.
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People are doing cocaine in the crowd. There's vomit everywhere.
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Usher just didn't know what to do and I'm like, yeah,
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I know, I told you. Literally said that. I called
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my agent. I was like, maybe let's take a break
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from the Performing Arts Center. Like what am I gonna do?
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After the ballet slates has a big article on the
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arts of clowning, a little too deep for me to
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cover on this podcast, but a good read on Slate.
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The part I'll highlight here is they spoke to Natalie Palomides,
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who I think is fantastic, and the setup here was
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about how clown performers dress, and they said Natalie, by contrast,
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often isn't dressed in anything. In one of her more
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shocking Bitsmedies takes the stage dressed like the little mermaid
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looking for her true love. An audience member of volunzear
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is to fill that role. Natalie locks them in an
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aggressive tongue and make out, pulling their shirt over their
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head with passionate post nuptial Gusto, writes Slates. Later, Balamedes
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strips down completely and discovers that with the wonders of
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m enjoying yourself, maybe she doesn't need true love after all.
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She says, so much of the clowning in the modern
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scene is naked and horny, and that's not part of
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being a clown. Traditional clowning is supposed to be innocent, childlike,
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and playful, and I'm frustrated that I've become an example
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of this. It's become a creature people. If you're going
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to do nudity, you have to earn it. She's anxious
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that she might be bastardizing the form. She would rather
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say that I was a physical character comedian. I think
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more people on the outside started to refer to me
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as a clown before I called myself one. One of
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her friends made the case that clowning, just like any
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form of art, is subject to reinvention and deconstruction. Deal
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and went electric, Natalie, it might ditch your clothes in
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the middle of a show. Leslie Lao is one of
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Vulture's comedians you should know and will know. Oh. When
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they asked her if she were immortalized as a cartoon character,
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what would her outfit be? Interesting question? Stylish ath leisure,
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high waisted sweatpants, sports brawn a cool baggy vintage jacket,
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sexy clean sneakers. Sounds like, uh, Pouci from The Simpsons,
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didn't Pooci dress like that? What comedian's career trajectory would
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you like to follow? Bill Burr? I want to do
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stand up forever if you known for that first, and
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be competitive with myself and see if it can be
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better than it was there before. I want everything I
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do outside of stand up writing, acting, podcasting, directing, voice over,
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et cetera. Tolign with my voice in comedic style. Worst
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show ever. I recently did a show to college, so
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beforehand I assumed it was for college students. That is
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a good assumption. When I arrived, it was for a
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summer camp of high school students touring the college decide
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whether or not they wanted to apply. The average age
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had to be sixteen. They spent the entire day doing
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activities and were restless. All of them were on their
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phones and either talking to each other, shouting at questions
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that the comics, or trying to make each other laugh.
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The sound was awful. They were too young to grasp
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the concepts of my jokes, loneliness, isolation, agonizing over whether
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or not to have children, et cetera. They were not
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listening or laughing at anything I said, so I started
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doing Q and A. Questions range from what's your favorite movie? Too?
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Does life get worse? To what's your Snapchat? The lineup
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was stacked with amazing and talented comics, and one by
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one we were demolished emotionally by these children, and I
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hated it and it was amazing. All right, what's your
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joke writing process? She says, trying to be funny can
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backfire on me. When I first started, I naturally thought
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of what would make an audience laugh, and work backwards
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and tailoring the premise to it. Now I realize if
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I try to be funny first, my truth will get lost.
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If I start with the truth first, and I rant
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about my honest feelings and experience off in the humor
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On Once he relies on its own organically all right,
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comedy opinion hill that you'll die on, Leslie says, let's
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experiment with earlier show times. Shows that start past nine
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pm are challenge to us all. Everyone's pushing their limits
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to be awake and full of energy when reality we're
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all fighting there to doze off. Amen, preach Johnny Maco's
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to bed at nine point thirty half the time. Let
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me take a crack at a four pm show. We
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can all have a laugh at dinner at a reasonable
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hour and tuck ourselves in by nine pm. Oh, I
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think that's awesome, She says. I also love the no
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phones and shows policy. A stand up show is not
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a concert. It's a time to listen and laugh. When
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you're holding up your phone in front of your face
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and block other people's view and filming our sets, you're
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neither listening or laughing. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best,
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don't try to lead with being relatable. Just focus on
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what's true for yourself and hope that connects with people. Worst.
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When I had my day job at Netflix, a few