Jan. 30, 2025

Theo Von and Katt Williams talk Illuminati on This Past Weekend

Show Notes
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In today's Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac covers a broad range of topics. Kat Williams appeared on Theo Vaughn's podcast where they discussed various subjects including race, fitness routines, and religion. Kat shared experiences about Harvey Weinstein, the Illuminati, and his views on truth and privacy. In other news, Nikki Glaser signed a multi-year deal with the Golden Globes, although for less than her initial million-dollar demand. We also see Jimmy Fallon's Broadway debut and updates on other comedians like Jason Kelsey, Bobby Moynihan, Bill Engvall, and Tom Ballard. The episode closes with commentary on modern culture and upcoming Just for Laughs productions.
00:00 Introduction and Katt Williams on Theo Von's Podcast
01:03 Katt Williams on Fitness and Harvey Weinstein
01:40 Katt Williams on Truth and the Illuminati
02:29 Katt Williams on Kamala Harris and Politics
03:11 Nikki Glaser's Golden Globes Deal
04:26 Jason Kelce's ESPN Show Ratings
05:30 Bobby Moynihan on SNL and Comedy Influences
06:55 Bill Engvall's Return to Comedy
08:35 Jimmy Fallon on Broadway and Just for Laughs
09:22 Tom Ballard's Controversial Performance

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with Today's daily

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comedy Newskat Williams was the guest on THEO Vaughan's podcast.

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Cat told THEO that black people would be honored to

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have Theo Vaughn reincarnated as a black man. Kat said,

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as a black guy, would be honored to have you

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come through our path. They started talking about everything from

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fitness routines to religion reincarnation. THEO said, I think about

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that a lot, about what it would be like to

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live different ethnicities, Like if I could handle it, if

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I think it was fun. Kat complimented THEO on his

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uniqueness and let THEO know that he does check out

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Theo's podcast. Kat said, you, as a black guy, are

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also not the norm. You're kind of a singular. He

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explained why THEO shouldn't jump to become a black guy,

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reasoning that there's a lot that comes with it. Kat said,

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there's certain things that go along with it. They just

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don't know how you'd handle it until you got a

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big asset and then you got to figure this thing out.

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Everything is different. They discussed fitness. Kat said the secret

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to his fitness regime is the ladies keep me fit.

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I'm heavy into sexual relations. He's got a little more

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to his workouts. I've got a cold plunge at Jacuzzie

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and Asana that they do pretty ritualistically. I've never been

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a gym guy. Kat talked about the time he was

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at a meeting with Harvey Weinstein. Cat claimed that Harvey

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got whatever he wanted. I thought that didn't apply to

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me because I didn't care about anything but ladies and business.

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Then he offered me two actresses like they were playing cards.

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I was just as shocked as anybody about how powerful

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Harvey Weinstein was at the time I was meeting with him,

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how he could not be told no. Last November, Cat

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talked to GQ and said, it's not the year of truth,

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it's the age of truth. It's not that people ain't

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been wanting the truth. E set for the first time ever.

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Whoever them mfors are that would be involved in the Illuminati,

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in the shadow government and all that stuff that really

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exists that really runs the world, all of them is

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eighty to one hundred right now. Kat discussed the potential

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safety risk involved with being candid. Kat said, I'm honored

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to get to say the things I say. When I'm

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saying them, I assume it's gonna work out for the best,

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and I understand if it's for the worst, then I'm

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prepared to handle it as well. Kat has previous claimed

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he was invited to an Illuminati thing with Ludacris. Ludacris

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denied that Kat told THEA what I was attempting to

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do was impossible, So before I do this interview, there

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is no Illuminati. It's just a joke. It's just something

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crazy people talk about. Whatever it is, that's the game.

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If we understood the Internet itself as a government function,

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then how much privacy would you expect. There's also a

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viral video going around where Kat discussed the election currently.

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Kat did this at a tour stop in La on

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January seventeenth. Kat is quoted as saying, it ain't black

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men that like Kamala down. Who was everybody the fls

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Nobody voted for this B word women don't vote for her.

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Indians didn't vote for her. Jews didn't vote for her.

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She married a Jew and they did not vote for her.

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B words that wanted an abortion didn't vote for her.

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It was sad, sad, sad, They say that Kat Williams

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got more votes and I wasn't even running. They just

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wrote me in. I don't know. I expected more out

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of Kamala. It's one thing to at your butt whooped up.

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You still got to come out. Man. She didn't even

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show the f up for her own She left her

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own sorority out there in the cold. I'll have to

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find an hour to listen to the interview with Kat

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Williams and Theo vaugh from Radar Online. Nicki Glazer has

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been signed to a multi year deal by the Golden Globe,

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but insiders are saying that the contract was only worked

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out after Nicki demanded one million dollars to return his host.

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Radar Online says one million dollars is double what Ricky

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Gervais used to get. A source tells Rader Online Glazer

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initially stunned Hollywood by demanding a jaw dropping one million

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dollars to return next year, but producers ultimately signed her

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to a multi year deal for a much lower figure.

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The deal Nicki originally wanted would have made her the

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highest paid host in Globe's history, surpassing comedy icons Tina

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and Ricky. She's good, but let's be honest. She's not

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vent good, says the insiders. I don't disagree. She was

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asking for more than comedy royalty and that wrote people

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the wrong way. Ricky Gervais has said he would do

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the show for free if organizers held it in London.

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He was asked his price to again, he said free

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if they do it in Hampstead, otherwise two million dollars.

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Ricky hosted in twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty

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sixteen and twenty twenty and says it could be the

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Golden Globes could offer me ten million dollars for ten

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minutes work, you know, and I'd be an idiot. I'd

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be a liar to say I wouldn't consider it. But

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at the moment, given I've done it five times, it

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got better and better for me. I enjoyed them all,

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but it got better and I'm planning never to do

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it again. I've asked them not to ask me because

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I can be persuaded that's true. You know, it's not

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a principle. I'm not sure Jason Kelsey's ESPN late night

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show is doing that well. Late Night of reports had

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hit a new ratings low Friday Night, drawing only one

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hundred and ten thousand total viewers. That's less than a

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third of the audience it drew the week before, and

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eighty seven percent down from its ratings high on January tenth.

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Late Nighter says ratings were down among younger viewers, with

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just fifty one thousand viewers aged eighteen to forty nine.

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Kelsey's guest on Friday's show included Jim Gaffigan. You may

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recall he told a quote hilarious story that I didn't

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find so funny Late Night or is being fair here?

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They point out that a line can be drawn from

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the show's huge rating swings to what the lead in is.

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For example, on January twenty fifth, the lead in was

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the X Games, that had an average of two hundred

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and forty four thousand total viewers. On January tenth, the

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night of Kelsey's ratings high, twenty million viewers watched the

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Cotton Bowl one point six million. Stuck around for his

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lead in, Well, yeah, I mean, you could put this

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podcast on after the super Bowl. It'll get a number.

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I don't know how week two will do, but yeah,

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that's how it works, guys. Vulture has a big piece

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with Bobby moynihan. I'll just pick up the SNL stuff.

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It's lengthy, just nothing there really grabbed me. They were

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curious for Bobby outside of SNL, what were his big

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sketch influences growing up? Moynihan said, I remember feeling cool

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when I found out what mister show was. SNL led

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me to that or the State. Then eventually it was

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the UCBTV show that I loved. I was walking down

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the street one day. I was doing an off Broadway

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show after college, going like I'm going to be an

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actor on stage, and I saw the UCB symbol above

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a door, walked in, bought a ticket, saw the show,

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and never left. They asked him if he wished he

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had stayed on the show longer than his nine seasons.

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I can't believe he was on nine seasons. He says, yes,

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I would have stayed. I would have happily been keenan

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if I had the wherewithal and if I had children earlier, whatever,

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just to look Lord in the face and go, hey man,

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I'll stay here forever. That being said, I'm glad, I'm done.

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I went back a couple of years later to do

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David pumpkins and drunk uncle, and it was flipping a

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switch on that hadn't been turned on for years. I

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realized what I went through those nine years, and I

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was like, whoa, you realize what it was like and

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how harted just to do that show. We're not fireman,

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but we're still working hard. By the way, Tom Poppa's

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podcast is getting some really good guests. Now I have

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to catch up on I have downloaded but not listened

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to yet. I'm busy. David tell Gaff again, Paul Reiser,

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Anthony Justin, and Henry Winkler I have not downloaded yet,

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but also cool guest Leanne Morgan or Shafir, Ronnie Chang,

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Lisa Kudro and I know I ended on an up

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inflection there, but I got to the bottom of my list.

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I thought it was gonna scroll some warp. Anyway, Tom

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Papa's podcast is breaking a bread. I was correct. Bill

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Ngvall has unretired. Bill had planned to retire to golf

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with his wife. She got better and got three holes

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in one during his retirement. Bill said, after the third one,

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I called my maiden and said, let's book some dates.

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I missed it. I missed the performances, and you can

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only play golf so much. In hindsight, I should have

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just taken a break instead of making a big announcement.

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I don't think anybody would have known the difference, but

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it is what it is. I've decided to come back,

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but on a more limited scale. Before I retired, I

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was doing sixty to seventy shows a year. Now I'm

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going back to twenty to thirty. That's what Larry the

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Cable Guy said. Recently. Bill talked about the heyday of

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Blue Collar. We weren't doing one hundred and twenty dates

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a year, but when you add that tour to your

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individual touring schedules, it became a lot. Ron bailed early.

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He wanted to do his own stuff, and we get that,

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but I don't think we ever got tired of it.

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I was always open to coming back, especially for the

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twenty year reunion. We had a great time. It was

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during that period. Bill was in three films, launched a

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serious satellite radio station. I was in charge of that.

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I loved working with those guys. That's me Hi, and

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he was in the WB comedy sketch series Blue Collar TV.

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Bill says he's uneasy about modern culture. I worry about

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us as a humanity. It seems like we can't buy

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anything unless it salts us by some cartoon character. We

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have a lizard that tries to sell us insurance in

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a talking box that tells me when I get my

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colon checked. That's one of the things that scares me.

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Bill also shared when he was on Dancing with the

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Stars in twenty thirteen, he got engaged in an argument

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on Twitter with a viewer who accused him of advancing unfairly.

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Bill tweeted him back and said, look, I'm not sure

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you know how this show business thing works, but this

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is not how it works. I don't walk in on

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Monday and say, hey, I don't know who's getting kicked

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off this week, but it's not me, and the TV

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executives go okay, Bill, you're still good. Let it go, man.

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It's a dance show. It's not like I'm affecting your income.

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Jimmy Fallon made his Broadway debut. He's in the current

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cast of All In Comedy About Love. That's the thing

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that mulaney had been. In the current cast, Lynn Manuel, Miranda,

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Adie Bryant, Jimmy Fallon, and Nick Kroll. That group will

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be together until February second. Lynn is going to stick

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around with the next cast until February sixteenth. Speaking of

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Broadway just for laughs and sign on as the co

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producer of the Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves that'll

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begin previews on April first. They're building up a company there.

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There's just for laughs and just for entertainment, and now

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they're doing this Broadway thing. I'll keep an eye on

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that and things you shouldn't say out loud. Where did

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the story about the Nazi guy go? I knew something

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was gonna be the last story here and it has

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disappeared from my notes. Where'd it go? Ah? Here it is.

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Australian comedian Tom Ballard has been slammed after performing what

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appeared to be a Nazi salute during a stand up show.

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There is a still image of comedian Tom Ballard with

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his hand outstretched. And I heard somebody else say, I

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forget who said this. You can hold out your hand

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with one finger or two fingers, but you can't hold

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out your whole hand. Well, he's got his whole hand out.

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He was at the Basement Comedy Club in Melbourne's Saturday

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Night Some members of the audience shared the footage with

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the media. His bit apparently started with him saying you

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can't do anything in Australia and the position of a

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person's hand when they waved a greeting it someone was

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central to whether they were breaking the law. Nazi symbols

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and gestures were banned by the Victorian government in October

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twenty twenty three to quote send a clear message that

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Nazi ideology and the hate it represents is not tolerated

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