June 15, 2026

The Top 25 Comedians of the 21st Century? PLUS Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis reportedly shock Comedy Cellar

The Top 25 Comedians of the 21st Century? PLUS Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis reportedly shock Comedy Cellar
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Johnny Mac recounts an online report claiming Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Shane Gillis did impromptu sets at the Comedy Cellar after a Knicks game, then reacts to a “top 25 stand-ups of the 2000s” list that ranks Louis CK #1 and Chappelle #3, calling placements like Colin Quinn at #5 and Norm Macdonald at #2 too high. He shares Us Weekly “fun facts” about David Cross (morning person due to his daughter, signature chili, estimating temperature, phone contact Bob Odenkirk, sports starstruck moment with Chipper Jones, crush Nastassja Kinski, bucket list including space) and tells a Charlton Heston meeting story. He covers Marc Maron’s 1995 Comedy Central pilot and Maron’s criticism of talk-show viability and comics’ free-speech framing, notes Taylor Tomlinson’s essay collection “Actually, Nevermind” out Sept. 22, and highlights Nikki Glaser’s Emmy ballot appearance for “Good Girl.” Mac reviews specials by Josh Johnson, Patton Oswalt, and Tony Hinchcliffe, shares Ryan Davis’s critique of Hinchcliffe, reports late-night ratings boosted by Knicks lead-ins, explains Byron Allen’s CBS economics, and summarizes Early praise for Fox’s “FIFA World Cup After Hours with James Corden,” featuring Sebastian Maniscalco.

00:15 Cellar Surprise Sets with Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis
01:07 Top Comics List React
02:16 Ranking Hot Takes
03:55 David Cross Fun Facts
05:44 Celebrity Encounter Story
07:36 Maron Pilot And Politics
09:12 Taylor Tomlinson Book
10:06 Nikki Glaser Emmy Song
11:41 Specials Watch Recap
14:46 Late Night Ratings Rundown
17:18 Corden After Hours Review


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This is the animal sanctuary mentioned in the February 10 episode.

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Callaroga Shock Media.

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

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Found this one on the internet. This guy said that

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the other night after the knixt game, he went by

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the comedy seller user vodka. Mike three said, well, I

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must have hit the lottery. He caught the eleven to

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thirty comedy seller show. Honestly not even sold out. Place

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was kind of dead due that in the Knicks game, well,

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about four comedians in the host calls up Chris Rock

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the place goes wild in all out of state. Chris said,

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the place electrified with just his presence. He then proceeded

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to bomb recovered the last five. Then Dave Chappelle emerged

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from the stairwell. Place goes wild, the lights of Smoke,

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grabs a drink, hits us with just shy of two

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hours of comedy, just kind of riffing and talking crap.

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He brings up a drunk but funny Shane Gillis for

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the last twenty they totally slayd together. Basically, the three

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were at the next game and just swung in and

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dropped an impromptu set. I still can't believe this happened.

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That is the only mention I have seen of that,

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but if that did happen, that's pretty cool. In the

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Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, Dylan

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shared a thread some dude who's not Dylan made a

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video the top twenty five standups of the two thousands.

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Now.

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Luckily Dylan summarized the list for me, so I don't

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have to watch the video. I'm going to react before

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I even look at the list. I would say here

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in June of twenty twenty six, off the top of

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my head on research, just reacting, I'd have to say

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number one Dave Chappelle, number two Louis c K despite

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all the controversy, and three Dane Cook, who has become

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underrated and everybody forgets what Dane Cook did during the aughts.

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Then there's another tier with like Mulaney and Gaffigan's probably

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in there. But let's see what this list is and

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I will react to it cold. Dylan's recap in the

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Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group tells us twenty

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five Dane cooker right, seems low. Twenty four Jim Jeffries,

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I'd have to see who else is on the list

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before I react. Twenty three Gary Goldman twenty two, Jim

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Norton twenty one, Rory Skolvell twenty, Jesselnick nineteen, Kat Williams eighteen,

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Shane seventeen, Tosh sixteen, Bamford fifteen to eight fourteen Mitch Hedberg.

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If you listen to the show, you know how much

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I love Mitch. The problem is there's just not the

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body of work. Thirteen gaffagain twelve Bo Burnham, that's crazy talk.

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Eleven Doug Stanhope. Love Doug, but that seems too high.

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I'm gonna have to go back and react. Ten Greg

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Giraldo nine Patrese O'Neill. As I've said before, I never

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enjoyed the man's company. I'm biased. I get that people

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like he's funny. Never liked being in a room with

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that dude. Eight John Mulaney seven Brian Reagan. That seems high.

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Six It Tel, Oh yeah, a Tel, yeah, a good call.

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Five Colin Quinn that is absurd. For Bill Burr, Oh yeah,

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you know. I'll be thinking about Bill Burr lately. Boy,

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he out of everybody who did Riodd, I think Bill

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Burr totally goofed up his brand. Like you don't hear

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about burn now, and when you do everybody kind of

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eye rolls him. I really think he screwed up. Three.

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Chappelle two, Norm MacDonald no number one, Louis c K.

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So what did I say? I said, Chappelle c K

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and Dane. All right, let me look at this. Let's

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go in the other direction.

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C K.

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You know you could argue it, but I'll put Chappelle there.

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Norm that's way too high. Colin Quinn is insanity at five.

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Brian Reagan is too high at seven. Laney's probably about right.

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Greg Giraldo at ten is crazy talk. Twelve, Bo Burnham

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is crazy talk. Nate bergatsy at fifteen. You know, if

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we're gonna put Nate on the list, are we gonna

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put Sebastian Manascalco on the list? Because they're kind of

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like doing the same thing tour wise, and I don't

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think either one of them is particularly groundbreaking anyway, if

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my memory suits me, I did some version of this

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list around the end of the year, so you can

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go back in the feed and look at that. Jenny Mack,

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are you serving us leftovers today? No? Why do you ask? Yeah,

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if you've been listening, it's been slow lately. Here's some

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fun facts from David Cross. David Cross fun Facts US Weekly.

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David Cross says, I used to be a night owl

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up until about nine years ago. Now I'm a morning person.

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My nine year old daughter is happy to explain why. Yes,

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I in my friend group, I had children a little

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bit earlier than the others, and you know you have

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a baby. If you've raised children, you understand you need

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to sleep. And my friends would be like, why can't

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you come out on Friday night? Are you whipped? And

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I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, you don't understand. I

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can go out. What I can't do is go out

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and then the next morning be like, oh, sorry, I

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know you had the baby all night because I went out,

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and you still have the baby because I'm hungover. You

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can't do that, So I understand David Cross. We also

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learned that his go to dish that is universally recognized

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as superior in every way is his chili. His family

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requested at least once every couple weeks, and he has

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to make extra for all the neighbors. Interesting, his secret,

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completely useless talent is that David Cross can tell you

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the temperature within one degree. Like if we were outside

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and you said how hot do you think it is?

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I'd go, I'm about seventy one degrees, and I'd be right.

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There are a lot of famous people in my phone list,

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but the most famous is probably Bill Odenkirk, It says,

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I assume he's kidding or the transcription messed up. I

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would have to guess in my phone it's Jimmy Fallon

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would probably be it. Stephen van Zant. Fallon's more well

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known than Van's Ant, right, humble brag. I'd have to

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go through every now and then I'll like, so my

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business partner's name is Mark, and I'll be scrolling down

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and I'll type in Mark, and I almost accidentally text

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Mark Maren things like that. David Cross says, I don't

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get starstruck a whole lot, but I do get sports

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stars struck. I got to hang out with for like

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an hour and a half and drink with Chipper Jones.

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That's the old Breeves player that US Mets fans don't like.

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And I was unforgettable, an absolute legend. We were just

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chilling and shooting the stuff, and I will never forget

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it for me. Now this goes back way way. I

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may have told the story It's one of my favorite

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stories tell so I'm gonna tell it again. It's like

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seven point thirty in the morning. I'm working at wr Radio.

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It's the early nineties. I'm walking down the hallway on

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my way to produce the show at eight o'clock and

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I look up and there's a man and the man

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can see the look on my face that I'm like what,

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And the man sticks out his hand. He goes, Hi,

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Charlton Heston. I will never forget that moment, just because

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I was like, oh wait, that's Tarlton. Doesn't hi Charlton Heston.

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That was my time I met Trelton Heston. I enjoy

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his movies, enjoy his work, and I enjoyed the one

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time I met him. I thought you, I've been keeping

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this list of celebrities have met over the years. At

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some point I'll read it to you. I did not

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to flexious to I don't know filler one day, but

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not today. Cross says his celebrity crush growing up was

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an Aastasia Kinsky that poster have heard with the snake.

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I mean, come on, what's left on David Cross's bucket list?

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He says, Let's see I hike the Inca Trail and

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dove to the blue Hole and Belieze a couple years ago.

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So I'm gonna say space. Maybe I've been struggling with

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that since I went to Antarctica a year and a

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half ago. Like I don't know what to do now

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because I've I've been very, very fortunate. Please understand as

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I go to this rap, I'm very thankful for all

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the things I've had, and I'm aware that I've been

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able to do something. But I've been to Iceland in

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Alaska and Australia, and like, I don't know, Maybe I

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kind of want to go to Japan. Seems to be

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my new kick. We'll see. I also, and I'm not

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doing a bit. Was thinking about there's a way you

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can climb Kilimanjaro, but it's not like a mountain climb.

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It's like the long way up you walk, and like

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it's not just like a stroll. You got to put

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some effort into it and train. But I kind of

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have that on my list too. I feel like some

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fifty six, I feel like I need another big thing,

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Like I was driving Tantarctica for years and I don't

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know I need a thing. If you're new This isn't

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now the show normally goes. I don't normally do all

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these sidebars, but you know, it's a quiet Monday. Leftover

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is from Variety. Mark Maron talked about his pilot for

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Mark Maren Project back at nineteen ninety five. It was

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a talk show pilot for Comedy Central. That space eventually

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was taken by The Daily Show. Maren said, at that time,

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HBO at a piece on Comedy Central and HBO Downtown

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produced a show that used to do for them short

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attention span theater. They want to do a talk show

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pilot because I was sort of there and I want

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to try. We did a pilot. I felt like we

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did two episodes of The Mark Project. My guess was

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Dave Chappelle on one of them. It must have been

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a kid. Then what does Maren think about the current

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talk show format? I assume they're hinting at Colbert here.

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He says, I'm sad that the format can't live in

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this world we live in, But I don't think they're

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at fault. I think ultimately, as individuals, you better hold

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onto that party of brain that can take in long

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form content, or else you're just gonna have a complete

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mind mode with the tech forces that are guiding your

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brain in life, and you won't really have much of

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an identity or method of choice anymore. I don't feel

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bad that the business is changing, but I don't know

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what you do about it. Maren On was also on

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Kara Swisher's podcast, and he got a little political. Maren said,

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when comics get duped into this idea that because they

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can't say tranny or worse words, and somehow or another,

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that's the Left infringing on their freedom of speech, it's

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so shalt and stupid. Because they fought for it, they

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just become part of the party line of dismantling liberal democracy.

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It was never a freedom of speech issue. It was

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it never constitutional issue. You could say whatever you want,

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You're just gonna have to should in the burden of

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the consequences. Ultimately, what happened because they were used to

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dismantle the entire infrastructure of DEI and everything else, and

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now they don't have to shoulder anything because now they

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can say those words with impunity, and the Left is

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no traction to counter it. Because we're living in two

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separate worlds. Karon said, I hold them responsible for being

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the front line to usher in Trump's second era. Send

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your letters to Mark mare And via Karra Switcher. Taylor

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mind about over the years, which is literally everything, marriage, sex,

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mental health coming out. God, it's my thoughts and feelings

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on all of it. I definitely overshared. Uh, try not

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can pre order it now at the link in my bio,

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Boy, are you excited? I can't wait. Actually never Mind

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will come out September twenty s second of this year,

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the Taylor Tomlinson book. Yeah. You know what else I'm

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really excited about? Listen to this. I had a check

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to make sure this is real. Here's the twenty twenty

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six Emmy ballot for Best Original Music and Lyrics. I

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said Best Original music and Lyrics. I didn't say anything

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about comedy, did I know? I said best Original Music

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and Lyrics. One of the people on the ballot for

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best Original Music and Lyrics is Nicky Glazer. Yeah, it's

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Nicki Glazer's song good Girl from her Hulu Stan Up special.

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And boy, we know she likes Taylor Swift, but boy

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she did a bad tailor Swift impression. Here. I'm going

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to torture you and make you listen to it. Did

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you share the show? You didn't share the show? Richard?

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Share the show? Richard? Thank you for sharing the show.

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I saw you share the show. Richard hit thirty second

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skip like four times. Okay, because I don't want to

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subject to you to this, but everybody else you didn't

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share the show, and I'm gonna punish you. You now

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have to listen to Nicki Glazer sing good Girl, comment.

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A little strange man poison my day. It's not a

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common it's garn old look in my age. They'll praise

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you for your youthful clue and tiny aways line. She's

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such a natural role, but he was a filter, and

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they'll call you a lie. Oh be a.

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Oh my goodness, we're gonna play some commercials, souse, I

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have to go beat my head against a brick wall

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to give myself brain damage, so I don't remember that

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the song even exists. Here's a shocker. The guy that

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hosts daily Comedy News actually watched some comedy specials the

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other night between Nick's games. It was Thursday night, and

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of these. This was not the order I watched them in,

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but I put on Josh Johnson's Symphony on HBO, and

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I know I'm supposed to like it, and I like

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Josh Johnson. He comes out and the first couple jokes

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are great, and he looks great, and the whole thing

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is great, and then a couple I don't know, fifteen

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kind of bored, so I bailed on it. That was

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actually the third special I watched. The second special I

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watched was Patton Oswalt, And aside from the Star Trek thing,

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which is not a bit I really feel that way,

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but generally I like Patton Oswalt's comedy a lot like

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that George Lucas bit that I played the other day.

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That's a great bit. I love it. Patten's comedy just

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really is in my wheelhouse. But this one, I don't know.

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I was sitting there and I'm like, this isn't registering

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that I talked to Pete Holmes about a while back,

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where we're just suddenly in the middle of a set.

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how's everybody in Cleveland doing? Yeah, yeah, and then you

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go into it. This was one of those new fangled things.

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like that. I live on old Man Mountain, my neighbor's

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Pete Holmes Apparently the best of the three best with

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a lowercase B was Tony Hinchcliff on Netflix, which is

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nothing but empty calories. There's barely any jokes. The crowd

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looks like they want to murder him. If you've seen

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this special, there's this one guy that he's trying to

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engage with. The guy looks like he might just suddenly.

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I didn't want to say. The guy does not look

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like a happy person. Now a couple days later, I'm wondering,

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is the guy a plant to set up the whole thing? Maybe,

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because the guy just doesn't look like he's having a

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good time at Tony Hinchcliffe's show. Tony's just doing like,

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okay crowd work, and the crowd work's not scoring and

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there's not too many jokes. And I've got to comment

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from another comedian that'll share with you in a minute.

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So it's weird. I don't even know why it exists,

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and as part of that package, they were like, yeah,

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we'll do a Tony Hinchcliff comedy special, and Tony doesn't

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have any material. Is that what's happening here? The people

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on Threads are I rate at this special lowercasees And

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it's not an hour either. What should we call it? Show?

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Hinchcliff recording? This Tony Hinchcliff recording. The people in Threads

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are I rate that it even exists? And I get it.

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one that kept my attention. And you know, I was

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playing on my phone, wasn't studying it, but I enjoyed it.

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Is it okay that I enjoyed it? Apparently not? According

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to comedian Ryan Davis, who posted on social media, Tony

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Hinchcliff is so important to comedy in America. Twenty years

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from now, people will swear that our country wasn't the

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way it is today and will try to change history.

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They're going to try to burn the evidence, but Tony's

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recorded sets and sold out arena shows will stand as

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proof of things that millions of Americans were cheering for

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the type of bigotry disguised as comedy that had people

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cheering and clapping instead of laughing. If you need a

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special to watch today, Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership

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out on the eight hundred pound Gorilla late Nighter. Looked

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at the late night ratings. Now Stephen Colbert is gone

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and Jimmy Kimmel's lead in was the New York Knicks

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twice last week. Wednesday's postgame broadcast got three point nine

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to eight million total viewers for Kimmel, making it the

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show second high rated episode of the season. Friday's post

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game two, after that big comeback, drew three point three

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eight million viewers. The eighteen to forty nine numbers are

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just shocking for all these things. Friday got eight hundred

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and forty six thousand in that demo Wednesday seven or

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fifty one thousand in the demo. Meanwhile, Jimmy Fallon, who

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had no basketball, lead and fell back to one point

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three seven million total viewers, and in the eighteen of

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forty nine's one hundred and sixty four thousand adults, which

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in the scheme of things, is not that much more

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than this podcast. That's terrifying. How about Byron Allen? John,

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is everybody watching Byron Allen? Look, everybody needs to calm

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down with the Byron Allen. Byron knows the deal, CBS

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knows the deal. Nobody thinks anyone's going to watch this.

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All anyone is saying is that Byron Allen has figured

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out a way to buy the time from CBS and

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sell enough commercials that Byron Allen makes money on it.

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CBS gets a guaranteed dollar amount they don't have to stress,

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and Byron's making money on it. Whether or not you watch,

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nobody cares. Five half hour averaged seven hundred and eighty

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six thousand total viewers and eighty thousand adults. Eighteen to

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forty nine. Twelve O five got five hundred twenty thousand

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viewers and fifty seven thousand adults. Did John, did you

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just say the number fifty seven thousand? I did, which

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is why I tripped over it. Fifty seven thousand. Yikes,

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that is a small number. But again, as I just said,

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nobody cares, because let's think about it. Whatever Jimmy Fallon's

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being paid is getting one point three seven million total viewers,

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and then CBS not spending any money getting paid to

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air Byron Allen's thing is getting seven hundred and eighty

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six thousand total little viewers, which is what about half

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little more than half. Now Fallon brings other things to

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the network and it's the Tonight Show, and you know,

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I think there's value to having something like the Tonight

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Show and a Jimmy Fallon hosting it. But at some

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point the accountants are going to look at these things

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to be like, yes, EBS, isn't that crazy? That's twelve

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thirty five CBS is funny, you should ask. That's Byron

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Allen's other other show that average four hundred and forty

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thousand total viewers and fifty three thousand adults eighteen to

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forty nine. That compares to Seth Myers, who has eight

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hundred and ninety seven thousand total viewers and one hundred

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and three adults. So again, you can we can have

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Seth Myers and try really hard, or we cannot try

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at all and do half the number. You gotta look

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at that at some point. Speaking of Late Night, the

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folks at Late Nighter stayed up to watch James Cordon.

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He's hosting whatever that's called, uh show on After Soccer

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with James Cordon. I think that's what it's called. Yeah,

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that's you got it, John. They watched episode one. Late

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Nighter said for a first effort, the new Cordon effort

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had good energy and shaggy charm, which is a fair

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characterization of its host. The show made its strongest case

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as a loose live hang. It was laid back enough

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that the beers consumed by the show's roundtable during the

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hour looked more natural than affected. Cordon did no monologue.

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The show was not joke centric, but some jokes seeped in.

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Cordon played a clip from the opening game that showed

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the Mexican goalkeeper caressing and kissing a soccer ball Cordon

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joke to my wife. Hasn't helped me like that in

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twelve years. FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with

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James Cordon. That's the title, not what I said. What

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did I say? It was a show on after Soccer

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with James Corden, which might actually be a better title. Well,

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I have to look back at this Friday night. The

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guest was Sebastian Maniscalco after the Team USA game. Do

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you think Sebastian came on and made a stupid face?

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Of course he did. And that's your comedy news for today.

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You know, for having nothing, this was pretty good and

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way longer than it had any business being anyway. So

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you're gonna share the show or I'm gonna keep playing

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Nicki Glazer singing. You don't want that, right, Okay, you

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understand we're at the point where I'm threatening you. Now

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you're gonna share the show, Richard, You're excused. U saw

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you did it?

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Thank you?

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Richard? Everybody else share the show or I'm gonna play

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Nicki Glazer singing. Don't think I won't. You know I

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played the Joe Koi bit for like three years, right,

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you know I will play Nicki Glazer singing, So share

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the show or else you've been warned follow the show,

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Spotify turn comments on. I know, chun, you turned the

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comments on. You guys are gonna turn notifications on so

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you never miss a show. That's what you're doing there

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on Spotify. All right, see you tomorrow. As you know,

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we came on after a football doubleheader.

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The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

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On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of

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Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go

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to here