Jan. 11, 2025

The Top Earning Comedians

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Johnny Mac presents the top earning comedians of 2024 according to The Daily Mail,

00:00 Top Earning Comedians
02:24 Top Grossing Comedy Tours of 2024
03:51 Gabe Iglesias' New Special and Generational Talent
05:07 Political Commentary in Comedy

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Kalaroga Shark Media Pure Jommy Mac with your daily comedy news.

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The Daily Mail wrote an article about the top earning

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comedians and put some dollar amounts to it. Actually, they

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put pounds amounts to it, and I threw it into

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chat GPT and roughly translated the pounds into US dollars

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in case you're curious. In this case, we used an

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exchange rate of one British pound to one dollar twenty

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seven US dollars. Not crazy off. Your exchange rate may

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differ anyway. According to the Daily Mail, the top earning

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comedians of twenty twenty four, I'll start with number eleven.

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I don't know why they did eleven. Number eleven. They

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have Michael McIntyre at twelve point seven million. Number ten,

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Andrew Schultz sixteen and a half million. Number nine, Jeff

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Dunham quietly going about his business nineteen million dollars shockingly low.

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Where do you hear these next two names? Okay? So

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number eight is Kevin Hart. You know Kevin Hart who

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like starts a new business like twice a day. Kevin

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Hart quote unquote only twenty one point five to nine million. Now,

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why that's interesting to me is number seven Joe Koy.

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You may recall Joe Coy also the Golden Globes over

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a year ago. I'm not going to bring that up,

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Scott back at relaxed. But Joe Coy earned twenty five

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point four million dollars, So according to the Daily Mail,

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Joe Koy is making more money than Kevin Hart. How

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is that possible? Number six Trevor Noah twenty six point

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six five, Bert Kreischer also at twenty six point six.

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Number four, Peter Kay at thirty four point twenty nine million.

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Number three Seinfeld Jerry brought in thirty nine point three million.

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Number two Sebastian Maniscalco big successful tour, okay, forty eight

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point twenty six million, and number one you want to

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take a guess here, and it's a shocking difference. According

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to the Daily Mail again they have Sebastian at forty

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eight point twenty six at number one with seventy one

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point one two million, so that's you know, twenty five

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million more loose math. Number one Nateperghetzi. Wow, yeah, I

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mean Nate had a big tour, but Nate quietly became

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a monster. I think everybody's aware of him. Now, but

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I had no idea he was making that much money.

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Nate is making I don't know, forty percent more. I'm

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doing loose math in my head. Forty percent more than

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Jerry Seinfeld. I still don't see how Joe coy is

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making more than Kevin Hart, but okay. Meanwhile, bill Board

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shared the top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty

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twenty four. They say the top comedy acts collectively grossed

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a record breaking three hundred and ninety six point seven

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million dollars, up fifty two percent from the year before.

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I'll go in the other direction. Here they have a

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number one Nates, grossing eighty two point two million dollars

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one hundred and forty eight shows with one point one

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million people going to see him, Number thirty seven overall

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on the all genre ranks. So I assume that includes

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Taylor Swift, for example, at number two, Number two two,

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where Matt Riiche grossed fifty seven and a half million

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sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand tickets across two

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hundred fifty six shows. Gab Iglesias another one of those

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quiet monsters. Maybe not this week because he's in the news,

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but he grossed forty two point eight million, sold six

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hundred three thousand tickets hundred twenty four shows. Kat Williams

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gross thirty seven and a half million, selling almost four

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hundred thousand tickets sixty shows. Sebastian gross thirty six and

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a half million, selling two hundred ninety three thousand tickets

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in fifty three shows. Krayzier twenty nine point seven million,

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three hundred and eighty eight thousand tickets sixty four shows,

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Trevor twenty nine point seven three hundred ninety two thousand,

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ninety four shows, Jerry twenty seven point eight almost two

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hundred thousand tickets thirty six shows, Adam Sandler twenty seven

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million dollars selling two hundred and sixty one thousand tickets

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and twenty six shows, and number ten Joe Coy Maybe

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he should host the Golden Globes, giveing more than nine

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days to prepare, and don't invite you know who with

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the icy's there. Joe Koy gross twenty six millions, sold

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three hundred and sixty eight thousand tickets in eighty three shows.

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Speaking of Gabeglacias, earlier in the week before the fires,

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he was profiled by the La Times. He shared that

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the title of his new special was supposed to be

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hard Rock Fluffy because he shot the special the Hard

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Rock in Miami. Everybody was on board with it. Then

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we got a call from Netflix, who said, there's money

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to be made on this and you can't be promoting

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other brands. They didn't like the fact that I was

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promoting hard Rock and Netflix, and they're like, well, if

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something like that's gonna happen, there needs to be compensation

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for it. I'm like, it's cool, I'm there, I play

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the hard Rocks. It helps me out. And they're like, no,

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he can't do it. So then, to be a jerk,

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I was like, all right, what about rock hard Fluffy,

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you know, to try and open up the audience a little.

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But no, they didn't go with that either. They gave

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you about eight different titles, but they sucked. Finally, we

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landed on Legend of Fluffy because I figured there's a

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lot of pieces in the special that have to do

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with the amount of time we've been doing this. And

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I was a big gamer back in the day. I

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had my Gold cartridge, so I liked Legend of Zelda.

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So I said, let me just play with that a

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little bit. So that's why the special is called Legend

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of Fluffy Switching Gears. Gabe shared that a few years ago,

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a buddy of his has told him your generational talent.

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I said, what's that even mean? He said, you got

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all these different generations coming out to see you. People

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that were kids the first time they saw you, and

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now they're adults and some are bringing their kids. I'm like,

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that sounds weird, and I'm like, oh, I used to

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have hair, so it's really really cool to see that.

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I think it's really beautiful that people come out and

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tell me I grew up watching you. Every time they

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say that, another gray hair comes out of my beard

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and another hair falls out of my head. All right,

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some political stuff here in the second half. If you

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don't want to deal with the politics, you are dismissed.

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I understand. But I've got a bunch of stories that

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pair up nicely. Let's start with Jim Gaffigan, and he

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was on the Last Laugh podcast. He shared, I regret

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that people think I was criticizing people that support Trump.

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That was never the intention. Jim says he doesn't regret

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publicly going against Trump, but acknowledges that he might have

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lost some fans. Jim said, I also do acknowledge that

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there were true, diehard Trump fans who probably enjoyed my comedy,

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but because they feel so passionately, they'll never forgive me.

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According to Jim, the back last year received for criticizing

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Trump was noticeable, but didn't affect him that much. I

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wouldn't say it was measurable, but there were definitely comments

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on social media, and there are still some. Bill Maher

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revealed his issue with the Democrats and revealed the main

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reason he goes after woke liberals more often now. He says,

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you give me more material. I'm a comedian. I'm gonna

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go where the gold is. The Democrats can't stand. I

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have to endure a moment of hearing something they don't

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already agree with. Not that the right doesn't do it too,

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but the left does it worse. Everything with these people

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has to be an opportunity for virtual signaling. Bill says

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some Democrats have cut off their friendship with him because

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he's had on people like Anne Culter, Bill Barr, and

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Ted Cruz, And he says, just think about what this is.

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That's people who hate me. For who I won't hate.

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It's in their psychological profile. They just have this need

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for virtual signaling. And I have their friends, and I

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guess everybody on social media thinking of them as the

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good guys. We're the good people. We know who's good,

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and it's us. He also criticized the youngins, saying they

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have no perspective, quoting mar They've been indoctrinated into this

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idea that they live in the worst country in the

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world at the worst time in history, when actually they

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live in with all our flaws, still probably the best

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with definitely indisputably the best time in history. What America

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needs as a colonic Would Trump be the man I

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choose first to administer it. No, but I'd like to

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see what he and Elon Musker could do. Many Republicans say,

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maybe we can get Bill Maher. Now you can't. What

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you can get is Bill Mooher being honest about the left.

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I'm not going to join your team that doesn't believe

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in democracy. And he has a message for Kamala Harris,

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saying you'll lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person.

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Congratulates Meanwhile, Whitney Cummings commented on the political left. She said,

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I always thought of myself as a pretty liberal person,

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but I don't think the left is as liberal as

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it used to be. It's like the left became the

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party of censorship. It's just wild to me that we're

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in't a time where if you're on the left and

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you don't criticize your party, how much you even care

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about your party? Do you know what I mean? It's

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like what's going on the left? I had to say,

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I just finally broke chants. If you love your party,

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you have to be able to criticize it, you know.

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And I don't really take sides. She then joked about

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some hypocrisy, quoting Whitney, my body, my choice, but you

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have to take this vaccine and also my body my choice,

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pro choice party, but you don't have a choice in

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your candidate. I'm not an expert on politics, which is

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why I've always said I'm not weighing in on it.

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But I am an expert on hypocrisy. Okay. I was

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raised by hypocrites, I've dated them, and I know hypocrisy

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what I see it. And that is your comedy news

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for today. Send your letters to Whitney Cummings, Bill Maher

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or Jim Gaffigan. I'm just here to tell you what's

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going on. See you tomorrow.