Nov. 6, 2025

The World vs. Jimmy Kimmel - Charlie Kirk's widow's new comments

The World vs. Jimmy Kimmel - Charlie Kirk's widow's new comments
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The focus is on the back-and-forth between Jimmy Kimmel and various critics including Erica Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, and media personalities like Jesse Waters and Bill Maher. The controversy stems from a Trump joke by Kimmel, with Mac emphasizing it's a Trump joke rather than a comment on Charlie Kirk's murder. Mac also covers Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show, Seth Meyers' ongoing feud with Donald Trump, and a contentious segment with Jimmy Fallon. Stephen Colbert shares anecdotes about the power of comedy, and Whitney Cummings announces her engagement to skateboarder Chris Cole, adding more celebrity buzz to the mix. Meanwhile, the Riyadh Comedy Festival and its participants receive criticism for ignoring human rights issues. Overall, it's a feisty episode filled with comedy industry news and personal insights.

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Kalaroga Shark Media.

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I gotta tell you, I'm exhausted just from writing today's script. Hello,

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news from the

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Hollywood Reporter. In a previously unreported element of Jimmy Kimmel's

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brief suspension from ABC, apparently representatives from the Sinclair Broadcasting

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Group reached out to Erica Kirk, who's the widow of

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Charlie Kirk, to see if the Sinclair's could help secure

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an apology from Jimmy Kimmel. Erica Kirk told this on

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Fox News. She was speaking to Jesse Waters. Waters asked Kirk, Now,

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I'm going to editorialize here. I think this is a

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very loaded question. I do not like the way this

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question is phrased. Waters asked Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel lied about

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your husband's murder and didn't really apologize. What would you

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say to Jimmy Kimmel. Let me jump in again. No

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one should be murdered, but Jimmy Kimmel lied about your

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husband's murder. Listen once again to what Jimmy Kimmel actually said.

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This is a Trump joke, Listen to it.

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We hit some new lows over the weekend with the

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Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered

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Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and

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do everything they can to score political points from it.

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In between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday,

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the White House flew the flags at half staff, which

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got some criticism, but on a human level, you can

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see how hard the President is taking this.

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I think don't down a lot of your friend.

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Charlie Kirk asked sir personally, how are you holding up

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for the last day and a half, Sir, I think

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very good. And by the way, right there you see

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all the Trumps. They've just started construction of the new

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ball room for the White House, which is something they've

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been trying to get, as you know, for about one

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hundred and fifty years, and it's going to be a beauty.

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Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief. Construction, there's demolition.

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This Stuck said.

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This is not how an adult grieves the murder of

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somebody called a friend. This is how a four year

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old mourns a goldfish.

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Okay, back to Jesse Waters again, his phrasing Jimmy Kimmel

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lied about your husband's murder and didn't really apologize. What

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would you say to Jimmy Kimmel, Erica Kirk said, same

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thing I told Sinclair. They asked, I haven't really told

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anybody this, So they asked, do you want you to

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give you an apology? Do you want to be on

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a show? How can we make it right through our team?

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I responded, I said, tell them, thank you. We receive

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their note. This is not our issue, not our mess.

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If you want to say I'm sorry to someone who's grieving,

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go right ahead. But if that's not in your heart,

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don't do it. I don't want it, I don't need it,

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you may recall. Kimmel addressed this when he returned to air, saying,

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I do want to make something clear because it's important

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to me as a human that you understand it was

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never my intention to make light of the murder of

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a young man. I don't think there's anything funny about it.

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Johnny Mack will comment again, it's clearly a Trump joke.

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Listen to the President's reaction to someone being murdered. He

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starts bragging about the ballroom.

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My ask sir, personally, now are you holding up over

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the last day and a half, Sir.

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I think good.

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And by the way, right there, you see all the Trumps.

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They've just started construction of the new borrel for the

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White House.

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On Monday, John Stewart's spycam went oh, Johnny Mack recorded

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Tuesday and Wednesday to accommodate his schedule, this would be

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a great time to announce that I'm coming back to

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host the Daily Show for another year. Thanks John Stewart.

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You couldn't have announced that ten minutes earlier. It was like,

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as soon as I hit schedule, I was like, oh, really, dude,

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come on. John Stewart will continue to host the Daily

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Show on Monday. He will remain as executive producer. Ari

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Pierce is head of Comedy Central and said John Stewart

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continues to elevate the game he created. His return is

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an ongoing commitment to the incisive comedy and sharp commentary

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that define the Daily Show. The renewals will win for audiences,

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for Comedy Central and for all our programming partners. We're

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proud to support John and the extraordinary news team. Very cool.

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I mentioned this the other day. If you listen to

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the show even today, you might be like Johnny Mack.

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It sounds like you're not totally on board with President Trump.

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But sometimes I am totally on board with President Trump.

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I mentioned this the other day when Trump wrote on

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True Social Seth Myers of NBC may be the least

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talented person to perform live in the history of television.

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In fact, he may be the worst to perform live

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or otherwise. Now. I don't know about that, but I

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think the President and I are a line that we

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want to make the late night franchise the twelve thirty

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NBC thing previously hosted by Letterman. I think the President

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just wants to make NBC's Late Night great again. And

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I agree with the President on this fact. Seth Myers,

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who hosts the show, for some reason, had a problem

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with the president. He said on the show previously hosted

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by David Letterman and Conan O'Brien, you wrote, I watched

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this show the other night for the first time in years.

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But just ten months ago you wrote, I got stuck

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watching marble mouth Myers stuck. I find it hard to

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believe you let the other people decide what to put on.

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Everything about your vibe screams I call the clicker which

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is it, you watched me for the first time in

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years this week or you watch for the first time

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in months in January? Do you not remember? Apparently mister

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Myers and the President have been not getting along since

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in twenty eleven. Seth Myers there at the White House

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Correspondents dinner and joked Donald Trump has been saying that

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he'll run for president as a Republican, which is surprising

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since I assumed he was running as a choke and

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so what we've learned here. But whether it's Seth Myers

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or former President Obama, you don't want to make fun

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of Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents dinner. He

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will remember it. Jimmy Fallon catching grief now. I've seen

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a couple reports of this. On Friday's Tonight Show, Fallon's

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guest was Hunter Schaeffer, Hunter, who was trans was there

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to discuss her role as Tigers Snow in The Hunger

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Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. During the segment,

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Jimmy Fallon showed an old photograph of Schaeffer as a child,

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taken before her transition, in which she wore a costume

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inspired by the Hunger Games. Fallon then showed a clip

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of Schaffer in the new film and commented, congratulations, Bud.

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People on the internet are curious about Jimmy's choice of

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the word bud in that context. I started to poke

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away yesterday at that long, feisty GQ article Stephen Colbert,

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and it'll probably took me a few days to get

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through this. Colbert said, the great thing about comedy, not

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to take anything away from drama, but the great thing

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about comedy is you know when it works. The audience

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makes this noise with their mouth, and that really can't

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be faked, and you get instantly a sense of we're

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here together, and you've hooked up your jumper cables to them.

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I jumped a car on Sunday. By the way, it

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took me a couple tries. I had my portable jumpers

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and that wasn't taking the courts gooning click cick, click,

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click click, and then I dug out my old school.

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You know the long cables where you have a car

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that's working and you jump a car. You know what

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jumping a car is. I did at old school with

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the long wires, not the portable jumpers. I usually can

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get away with it on the portable jumpers. I did

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it old school and I got it to run. Bought

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a new battery two hundred and eighty bucks. But kudos

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to the nice people at the AutoZone. They put it

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in for me, easy peasy. I was done in ten minutes.

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I digress. Colbert was doing that jumper cables analogy and said,

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there's an energy that goes to you, to them and

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them to you. When it's working really well, you walk

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off stage with more energy than when you walked on stage.

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I've never been sick on stage. I've been very sick.

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I did a show where I had a burst appendix

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and I did a double show. I didn't know my

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appendix was burst. Wow. I didn't know what was wrong

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with me. But I was sweating and thought I might

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pass out, and I was in so much While you're laughing, John,

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I don't know, but I thought I might pass out

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and was in so much pain that I was crying

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in commercial breaks. But during the show I could just

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get through it, and I did two shows. I did

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a double show that night. Then afterwards my wife made

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sure that my driver took me straight to the hospital.

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I got there and they said, oh, you have a

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burst appendix. We have to take this out right now

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a lot more to get to there. We have time.

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I do the show three hundred and sixty five days

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a year, plusant bonus episode, so I'll get to it,

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trust me. Bill Mooher ripped Jimmy Kimmel for thanking everybody

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but Bill Maher. Mar said, Look, Jimmy Parry doesn't like

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me too much anymore because he thanked everybody but me.

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And I was adamant about supporting him that week and

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the next week. I can't lie and say I think

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what he said was accurate, but I was adamant he

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shouldn't be thrown off the air. He did a great show.

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I went on and on, Bill, do you need me

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to play the clip again? I don't want to play

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the clip again. Why you just hit rewind like twelve

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times and go back where I just played it. It's

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a Trump joke. It's not a Charlie Kirk joke. It's

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a Trump joke. The president was asked about somebody he's

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supposedly really tight with being murdered, and the guy went, oh, yeah,

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how about the beautiful construction behind me. It's a Trump joke.

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Mar called Kimmel's format and the other late night shows

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very predictable. Him and host like that. Quite frankly, they're

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all quite similar in this regard is that they're ideologically

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captured by one side. It's not just what I do,

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what I'm doing. And so there's a reason why half

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the country feels insulted by those hosts and has turned

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off to them because it's just one very predictable point

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of view. And this proves that it's often not completely accurate,

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because that was not a smart thing to say that

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this guy who shot Charlie Kirk was on the Mega team.

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That is not what Kimmel was seeing. Kimmel was pointing out.

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The Republicans were very quick to say, Hey, he's not

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one of us, that's not he gonna listen to the joke, Bill,

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do you need me? I'm gonna play it again, Bill.

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Here it is again, Bill, Listen.

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We hit some new lows over the weekend with the

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Maga gang desperately trying characterize this kid who murdered Charlie

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Kirk as anything other than one of them.

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Mark said, because that's just something the Blue Sky crowd

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told themselves. And if you're that far in the bubble.

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We don't really see both sides, and you don't. You're

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gonna believe that blue sky point of view. Nobody's on

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blue sky. Dude, what are you talking about? John Will

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talk about something else. Okay. Vulture had a cool headline

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caught my eye. It's called Leanne Morgan versus Leanne Morgan.

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They were talking about her new special. Some spoilers here.

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I saw Dylan in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News

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Podcast Group. Please feel encouraged to join us. We've had

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some new members who are participating, which is great. Like

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when you guys start the conversations, that's awesome. To join.

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You'll have to answer a few questions to make sure

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you're not a pornbot. Some light spoilers for Leanne's special

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coming up here. Vulture writes she's blown up. She's on

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Amy Poehler's podcast and a movie playing Reese Witherspoon's sister

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and starring as a version of herself in the new

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Chucklory sitcom called Leanne. She's no longer just Leanne Morgan.

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She's Leanne Morgan gone Hollywood. It's all happened very quickly

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as a result unspeakable thing the new special is an incomplete,

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underdeveloped look at whoever Morgan is now becoming someone famous

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Vulture Rights. Morgan's great gift as a comedian is in

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drawing vivid imagery. Unspeakable Things opens with a recap of

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her life over the last few years, et cetera, et cetera.

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Morgan positions herself throughout the specials opening sections. She may

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find herself hanging out with Will Ferrell on the hair

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and makeup crew of a straight to streaming rom com,

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but they're celebrities. She's the one with big old mama breasts.

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She's the one still grounded, still trapped by all the

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rules of the human bodies and moral standards that keep

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people from losing themselves to fame, and unlike everyone else

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in Hollywood, She's got enough of a footback in the

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real world that she can still see how wild the

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world really is. Skipping ahead Vulture Rights. If all of

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Unspeable Things was built around that premise, or at least

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willing to go deeper into Morgan's ambivalence about Hollywood culture,

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it would be a stronger hour. But after the first

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twenty minutes of Morgan grappling with her current life Unspeakable

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Things pivots backward into a family album of Morgan's past.

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Hey listener checked in with me and ask me, am

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I actually mad about the Riodd Comedy Festival or am

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I doing a bit? And I said I would address

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it on today's show. So I will address this now.

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I did some soul searching. If I had been reached

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out by the Reodd Comedy Festival, say in the spring,

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and they said, hey, we're doing this festival. We'd like

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to sponsor your podcast. Here's some money, I would have

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said yes. I'm not going to sit here and be

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like no, no, no, I would have said yes. If

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they had invited me to the Reodd Comedy Festival, I

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would have said, yes, stay with me. One of the

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things I believe in is life is a journey. You change,

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you get more informed, you get more information. I'm a

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big believer in there's a philosophy that you are the

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average of the five people you spend the most time around.

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Those people do influence your opinions on things. So as

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I believe life is a journey, you revisit positions, you

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reconsider things. For example, in the past, I used language

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I would not use now I've told the story before,

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but I will tell it again. When Jim Brewer had

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the show on Sirious, he had an opening where he

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used a word that rhymed with me, and in the

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opening to the show he would say, Hey, don't be

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a maggot, come hang out. Jim, who I believe is

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two years older than me and from Long Island and

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I'm from Queen's, explained this on the air that there

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was nothing sexual about how he meant it. He described

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it as the kid who couldn't kick the kickball, And

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with my Queen's mentality of in my mid thirties, I

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understood what Jim meant. One day, a friend from the

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radio station called out que the friend is gay. Came

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by my office and was like, what are you doing?

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What is your problem? And I'm like, huh what? And

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the friend explained to me that the term is offensive.

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And I still, twenty years later, fe're terrible. He educated me.

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We took it off the air that day. I still

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feel bad about it. Life is a journey. You change

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your opinions if you listen to the episode with Jason Zinnemann,

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if you listen to the beginning. I asked him about

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Riod and I say something along the lines of, Jason,

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can you help me sort out my feelings here? As

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I dove more in to it, and as the listener

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reached out to me, and as I thought about it

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this morning, here's where I've landed. I think what bugs

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me about it is that the comedians who went their

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vibe just seems to be, Hey, you know what, I

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got paid, so f off. You'll even hear a lot

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of the comedians using the term bag, like yeah, I

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got my bag, as if there's no other nuance to

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the conversation, as if there's nothing to talk about human rights,

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freedom of speech, kushogi. Now along the way, if I

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had been running ads for the comedy Festival and I

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started getting notes from listeners or people whose opinions I

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take seriously, Hypothetically, let's just say, a guy from the

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New York Times who I'm friendly with, shoots me a

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note on the side. This did not happen, but hypothetically,

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if I got a note from this person who I

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respect and had been like, dude, what are you doing,

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then I might have thought about it and I might

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have changed. Now these are all hypotheticals. I don't know.

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I think I would have been like, oh, yeah, I

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shouldn't take that money, you're right, Or I shouldn't go

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cover this comedy festival because of the things I became

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educated on. So that's where I've kind of landed. But

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I think the real thing that's coming out on the

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air when I say this is just from the artists

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who went. They're acting like, yeah, dude, they got a

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Kentucky Fried chicken. Oh okay, they got a Kentucky Fried chicken,

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So I guess everything's good. A guy didn't get chopped

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up and put in a suitcase anyway, did you get

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your bag? That's where I've landed now, Is it a

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bit to say Comedian X, who's just back for the

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Redd Comedy Festival announced a new tour. Is that a bit? Yeah,

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it's a bit. Hopefully the podcast is entertaining. Hope it

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doesn't come across as defensive. I hear some defensiveness in

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my voice right now, and that's not how I mean

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it at all. I'm just trying to explain and hope

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that makes sense to you, and hope that makes sense

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to you all the listeners, not just the one person

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who emailed me on the side, So that's where kind

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of at with it. I got my bag, so few

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who cares out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube

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channel today Chat Daniels for reels. I like chat a lot.

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That should be good to check out. The three to

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one to two Comedy Festival continues seven o'clock at the Theater.

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People are gonna get upset by this show existing it's

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The Killers of Kill Tony. Speaking of which, did you

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watch Saturday night Live Cam Patterson appeared. I don't think

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they know what to do with him. I still think

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he's one and out.

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Unclear to me who's on the bill tonight. If you

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look at the nineteenth the Killers of Kill Tony are

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Ari Monte Hans, Kim, Martin Phillips and David Jolly. Not

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sure who the killers are this evening. Meanwhile, at the

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vic Theater, Justin Willman at seven the show I would

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go to. If you're in Chicago, you should absolutely go

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see Pete Holmes. I've never been disappointed by Pete Holmes.

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He's fantastic live. He's at the Riviera Theater and John

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Goblkin is at seven at Zany's Downtown and at nine

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point fifteen a roast battle at Zany's Downtown. So that's

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a good night at the festival. And congratulations to Whitney

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Cummings who's just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. She

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can use that money to have a fabulous wedding, Whitney Cummings,

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and now she's engaged to professional skateboarder Chris Cole. On

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her podcast, Whitney Cummings said, I got engaged last week.

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I don't have to tell everybody. I'm embarrassed to even

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talk about it and just trying to get it out

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of the way. TMZ says Cole proposed to Whitney during

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their daily hike in Tipanga Canyon, back behind her house.

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TMZ shared a photo of the moment. Is a good

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thing there happened to be a photographer there, showing Cole

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down on one knee and Whitney Cummings kneeling in front

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of him with her hand covering her face, seemingly overwhelmed

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with emotion. Definitely not a stage photo. Just I guess

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TMZ has stalkers in the woods who happen to casture

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a proposal. I don't know it wasn't there, don't know

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what happened. Whitney said it was so awkward. I was like, Okay, cool,

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now what and I was like, should we go to

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dinner or something? Cole had no plan for afterwards. As

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soon as he got the ring on, he was like,

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I never have to try to impress you again. That's funny.

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Cole then suggested dinner at Pizza Hut. Cummings joked he's

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never pitched Pizza Hut before. I haven't spoken to him

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since Pizza Hut's not our thing, Like it's not an

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inside joke. We've never talked about Pizza Hut before. Well,

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congratulations to Whitney and mister Cole and that he's a

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pretty feisty l Comedy News on a Thursday. It's been

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a weird month and a half here at the show,

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but numbers are up, so somebody's enjoying it, and somebody

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is you, and I thank you for listening. To see

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you tomorrow.