Tim Dillon : Comedy's Controversial Genius

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
shining back with your daily comedy news April

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already. Wow. Tim Dillon is
one of my favorite comedians. And as

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I've said in the past, and
I'll continue to say, he's eventually going

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to step on a landmine, and
I'm going to distance myself from Tim Dillon

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so fast I'll be like I never
said. Tim Dilan was what are you

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crazy? Especially since he said that
thing it's gonna happen. The Guardian asked

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Tim Dilan, howd you get in
a comedy? Tim said, I was

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a child actor and I failed.
It was embarrassing and shameful. I felt

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as if I'd let down my parents, who wanted to retire off my winnings

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as an actor, except there were
none. I took a long break from

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that, eventually got back into comedy
at twenty five. How would you describe

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your style of comedy dark and a
bit silly. That is a good description.

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I think people need to laugh at
the world, and the world is

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crazier than ever. I think I
put that through a filter that helps it

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make more sense. The Guardian was
curious if he has any pre show rituals.

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Dylan said I'm not placating the British
here, but I like tea.

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I'm not being patronized saying, but
I have a couple of Earl Gray before

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every show. He's like Captain Picicord. It's in my writer and it's in

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all of my green rooms. I
have a cup of tea and chill out.

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I like a bit of solitude before
show. Nothing too crazy. His

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best hackle. He was asked about
a couple got up in the middle of

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my show and walked out and said, we're leaving because we're gonna go have

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sex. I can't compete with that. That was in Greenwich Village at a

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bar where I did shows all the
time. I said, well, it's

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probably more productive than what I'm doing. Pet Peeves from the World of Stand

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Up Tim said, I don't like
you want a host. Ask if it's

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anyone's birthday or if anyone's celebrating anything, because I don't care strangers. Fan

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encounter. I had someone follow me
into a hotel I was staying at and

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getting the elevator. Tell me they
were a big fan. They said,

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I followed you for two blocks and
I said, oh, you're not staying

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at the hotel and they said,
no, I'm a fan. It's very

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strange when someone tells you that in
an enclosed space. Best advice don't overestimate

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your worth. Worst advice you can
do anything you put your mind to.

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Tim Dillon, American Royalty in Manchester, Glasgow in London. April fourth through

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the seventh, The Daily Beast wrote
a punchy article with the headline comedians line

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up to help RFK juniors miss in
from campaign. They write from Rogan to

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Bill Maher Kennedy, sos have been
a who's who of comedy's biggest cranks.

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Just so happens that some of them
are also incredibly popular artists with highly engaged

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fan bases. There's Andrew Schultz,
who, in his twenty twenty Netflix special

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blame the pandemic on dirty Chinese people, according from The Daily Beast here,

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and in twenty twenty one, persuaded
in La Theater to waive its vaccine rechoir.

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And for shows, there's Tim Dillon, the former subprime mortgage broker and

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current nine to eleven truther who has
lately embraced the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy

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theory. Hosted Alex Jones praised the
white nationalist writer Steve Saylor stoked the moral

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panic over trans people and questioned the
efficacy of COVID vaccines and masks. I

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listen to Tim's pot every week.
I think the writer here is missing the

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comedy that Tim is doing. Tim
can speak for himself, but I don't

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find him to be a nine to
eleven truther in the least, or I

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would not listen to him. I
also don't find him embracing the white nationalist

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great replacement theory, or I would
not listen to him. Did he have

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Alex Jones on If he did,
I skipped the episode on purpose and stoking

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the moral panic over trans people.
I'm not sure about that either. The

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Daily Beast writs he was also banned
from Airbnb in twenty twenty one for threatening

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to burn down his host home over
a cleaning fee. But that's neither here

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nor there. I have heard Tim
tell that story. I don't know how

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accurate diversion he tells is or not. Back to RFK, The Daily beeastrights,

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there's Dave Smith, the anti vaccine
Libertarian Party activist who has also embraced

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the great Replacement theory, praise Nazis, demonized trans people, argued that drunk

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sex can't be rape, and said
that American Jews should be grateful to the

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United States for allowing him to flourish. There's Theo Vaughn, who recently sat

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down for amiable chats with Tucker Carlson
featuring misinformation about the polio vaccine and a

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former border patrol chief featuring violent anti
immigration rhetoric. Kennedy has even found a

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friendly ear in Whitney Cummings, who
has spent recent years arguing that comedians are

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supposed to be scumbags, and who
lived up to her promise by mocking trans

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women in her latest stand up special. In Kennedy's contation with Tim Dillon or

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if Kay described the anti vax label
as pejorative intended to marginalize and silence him.

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Daily Beast writes on Vaughn's This Past
Weekend podcast, he agreed with the

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hosts false claim that the polio vaccine
ended up giving cancer to a lot of

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women. On Howie Mandel's podcast,
he insisted he's not anti vaccine, before

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acknowledging that he never got the COVID
nineteen vaccine and falsely claiming again that vaccines

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cause ostism. He told Mandel,
I'm not saying all autism is caused by

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vaccine. I'm saying that vaccines,
definitely, you know, are largely responsible

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for the epidemic that we saw begin
in nineteen eighty nine. He made the

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same argument to Bill Maher, who
argued that this position is not unreasonable.

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Dave Smith had Kennedy on his podcast
to debate his position on Israel, tailing

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Kennedy, You're so great on your
Craine, You're so great on the vaccine.

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Why can't it be great on this
THEO Vaughn mostly stuck to questions about

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his other campaign positions, while Bobby
Lee mostly asked about his relationship with Cheryl

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Hines. Cummings only touched the vaccine
issue in a rambling pre interview speech that

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concluded with the message, let's be
honest with ourselves. No one knows anything

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interesting stuff. I've listened to a
few RFK interviews. I find him easy

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on ears. Now you're like,
don't you hear what his voice sounds like.

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I understand he has vocal challenges,
but I like a podcast that doesn't

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yell and scream. It's why I
like Rogan. I can just kind of

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zone out to Rogan. I actually
prefer Rogan's interviews more than the comedians,

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because with the comedians sometimes we'll get
a little louder. I often have insomnia

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is a little strong. But like
I'll wake up the middle of night,

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it takes me a full hour and
a half to go back to sleep,

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so I'll wind up listening to podcast
to kind of wind back down, and

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I find Rogan good for that in
middle night. So I've heard a bunch

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of these RFK interviews. I disagree
with a lot of his positions, but

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I enjoy listen to him speak,
if that makes sense. Comedian Brian Simpson

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believes Tom Brady could run for president
and win. I think, yeah,

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here's your choices, Trump, Biden, RFK junior Tom Brady. That Brady

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Button's gonna be pretty attractive there.
Tell me who his VP candidate is and

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I'll look at it. Simpce.
It did caution that the quarterback is likely

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to lose the swing state of Georgia. That's a joke about the Super Bowl.

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Timpson said. The best way to
in sure Tom Brady gets into the

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White Houses by making sure forty nine
Ers coach Kyle Shanahan as his opponent.

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Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the
Falcons in that famous Falcons loss in the

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Super Bowl where Brady brought the Patriots
back. Simpson said he'd only lose in

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Georgia. Brady could run as a
Republican and we could get Kyle Shanahan to

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run as a Democrat, He'll definitely
beat him. He then suggested Vice President

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Lebron James as Brady's running mate,
suggesting they have such a fan falling that

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nobody in America could match. Well, I can think of somebody who could

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match Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift versus
Tom Brady. I think Taylor might take

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that election. You know who made
a joke about Taylor Swift one time,

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Joe Coy. Yeah, it was
vicious. So what was happening was Joe

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Coyle's host thing the goal the gloves
and boy, way do you hear this

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vicious joke he made about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on

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after a football doubleheader. The big
difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL.

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On the Golden Gloves, we have
fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

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I swear Taylor was having none of
that and basically murdered Joe Cooy's career.

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Joe Coy recently spoke to I ninety
five and he was asked if he would

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host the Golden Globes again. He
said, I ain't scared to do anything.

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The risk is the best part of
life. I could say I did

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it. It's a crazy gig,
but who else would do it? Like

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I said, Chris Rock called me
and said the same thing. They offered

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it him and he turned it down. I saw the opportunity. It was

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eighty three years that they've had this
award show. Never, not once did

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they offer it to an Asian comedian
or anybody to host it solo. And

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that was my opportunity and I took
it. You know, when you get

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Seth Meyers, Jamie Fox, she
mc kimel, Steve Martin, they all

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understood the complexity of that gig.
It's like, you know, I bash

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it over the head, and damn
if I do it, Damn if I

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don't mention anything. It's like,
bro, I took the gig in less

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than a week and a half.
You know what I'm saying. Everybody turned

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it down. I want to take
that risk and go for it. I

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saw an opportunity and went for it. You know, That's what happened.

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So if I could explain the situation, you'd understand. If I kept on

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going, it sounds like whatever Joe
said. When you see the cuts,

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you're not really seeing the entire situation. If you want to see it,

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it's like, oh cool, he's
performing in a food court at a mall.

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What a gig. He's in front
of basket and robins. There's a

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sale on pepper and an ice cream, Like legit. It was pure chaos.

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It's literally the Award Show where they're
eating lobster and drinking wine. You

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know what I'm saying. It's the
craziest thing, but no one knows that.

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You see the oscars and you're like, I don't understand what's happening.

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It's like, Okay, put a
lobster tail in every single lap, in

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six bottles of them away, you
know what I mean. You hear clinging

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forks at butterfalling and it's like,
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Month, that's right. The eight
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That month is April, and Clown
Jewels has joined Comedy Month. They'll

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be releasing material from Red Fox,
The Mothers Brothers, Gilbert Godfreed, Jonathan

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Winters and Jackie Gleason, The Best
of Red Fox Show Volumes one and two

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April twelfth, the Best of the
Jackie Gleason Show Volumes one and two April

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nineteenth, and a newly curated album
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on April thirtieth. That's awesome.
Meanwhile, the eight hundred Pound Gorilla has

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fleshed out their release calendar. Let's
take a look. You got a pen

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lot going here today. David Cross
Worst Daddy in the World tomorrow Kyle Kanaane

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Dirt Napp, who loves Kyle Kanaan? I do On the third, Michael

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Yo's I never thought On the fourth, Angela Johnson Reyes say, I won't

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On the fifth, Evil Graham Live
from the blooms Very Theater on the sixth,

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Kurt Brauneller perfectly stupid. On the
seventh, you get to rest.

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I mean, there's only so much
comedy you can do. On the eighth,

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Eric Delessandro's I Don't understand on the
ninth, Monty Franklin Live from Sydney.

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On the tenth, I hope you
rested on the seventh, because on

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the tenth you get Dina Archie's Soxic
but Safe and Jimmy Shin's Upcoming Space on

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the eleventh, Matt Rife. On
the twelfth, Dan raths, I'm not

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doing well, folks. Also The
Red Fox Show Volume one and two on

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the thirteenth, Ben Roy's Hyena fourteenth, Matt Broners Doug fifteenth, Adam Clayton

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Holland's Wallpaper sixteenth, Mark Ford Presents, seventeenth, Harry Connoboulus Vacation Baby,

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eighteenth, Mody Know Your Audience,
nineteenth Kelsey Cook The Hustler. Also the

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release of The Jackie Gleason Show,
Volume one and two, the twentieth vadera

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by armand Soon Season, the twenty
first Mike Britz Checked the Mic, the

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twenty second Greg Warren The Salesman,
the twenty third Moe Welch Dad Jokes,

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the twenty fourth Joe Zimmerman's Cult Classic, the twenty fifth Mike Veckie Owns the

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Attractives, the twenty sixth The Nick
Offerman American Ham, the twenty seventh Jake

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Rush Overwhelmingly Neutral, the twentieth Sam
Campbell Companion, twenty ninth Sasheerze Matta Is

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the First Woman, and the thirtieth
Tom Allen's Absolutely Live. Johnny Mack,

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Why need you read thirty days of
stuff to us? Because I was away

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all weekend and I wanted to pretape
today. It's cool, all right,

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let's see who's in Melbourne today.
Now I really have to do some math.

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Okay, it's whatever day I recorded
this, and then you're listening April

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first, except somebody's in Melbourne where
it's tomorrow, so April second. This

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it's so confusing. Plus the Aussies
they do their calendars Monday to Sunday.

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You know us Americans, we do
Sunday to Saturday on a calendar. It's

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a Tuesday's not even where Tuesday's supposed
to be. Alright, let's see what

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we got here, trash test dummy
circus. Here are three guys in construction

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hats. Everybody put your bins out. Tonight's midnight and the trash test dummies

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are on duty. With side slipping, slapstick comedy, daring acrobatics and dexterous

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juggling. These dummies are off on
an imaginative adventure that's anything but garbage,

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with ballet and balloons thrown in for
good measure. This fast paced hour of

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adept unadulterated mischief delivers a dump truck
full of hilarity. All right, that's

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fun, Hannah Gatsby, we know
who that is. It's even a clip.

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Let's listen. I'm genuinely to be
here. It's been a minute for

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me to be at the festival.
Happy to be back. When they phone

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me to ask me the host.
I said, yes, of course,

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what an honor. But it is
also very confusing, like I'm not a

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natural host, like I've killed the
vibe already. I am aware of this,

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don't worry. Like a host is
supposed to be warm and like naturally

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buoyant. This is me trying.
That was fun. Let's get out there,

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and that's your comedy needs for today. If you enjoy the program and

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tell a friend about it, they
might like it too. And I'll see you tomorrow