March 15, 2026

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Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac delivers a Daily Comedy News roundup: Oscars coverage is coming, and Wanda Sykes told Stephen Colbert to “burn this bitch down” on his final May 21 episode as Colbert joked about trying to book Pope Leo. Jimmy O. Yang’s third special, "Finally Home," taped on a sold-out Hong Kong arena run, will screen in Hong Kong March 20 and open in U.S./Canada theaters March 27, blending English with subtitled Cantonese and immigrant/family material. Tom Segura praised YMH Studios’ staff and said he was reluctant to start podcasting but found it empowering. Theo Von reportedly dropped out of the Baton Rouge Parade. George Lopez discussed including politics without preaching. Ron Funches praised Travis Kelce as a charming game show host. Angela Kinsey would reprise Angela Martin for Peacock’s "The Paper," while Mackenzie Crook discussed moving toward “gentle comedy.” Steve Harvey shared a story about fishing to survive. The episode previews SXSW comedy events and notes Jeff Foxworthy’s talk on biblical manhood and fatherhood.

00:20 Wanda Sykes on Colbert
00:42 Jimmy O Yang Special
01:33 Trailer Clip Highlights
02:10 Tom Segura Podcasting
03:06 Theo Von Parade Update
03:41 George Lopez Politics
04:06 Travis Kelce Praise
04:32 Office Spinoff Talk
05:56 Steve Harvey Fishing Story
06:44 Oscars and SXSW Schedule
07:59 Jeff Foxworthy Faith Talk

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news, daily

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briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry.

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A sentence the algorithms love the oscars are tonight. That

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was well covered yesterday. Meanwhile, Wanda Sykes was on Stephen

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Colbert's program and encouraged him to burn this Bitch Down

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on his final episode scheduled for May twenty first want

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of Sykes told Stephen Colbert, you gotta go to hell

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off the last show, burn this bitch down. You always

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bring the fire every night, but this last show has

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to be destruction. Colbert said, I want to get Pope

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Leo on here. He's ghosting me. He's holy ghosting me.

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Jimmy O Yang has a new special bullet Where's it

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going to be airing nowhere? It's a theatrical release. I

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couldn't believe it when I read this. It is Jimmy

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O Yang's third comedy special, this one called Finally Home.

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He taped it during a sold out arena run in

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Hong Kong. The special screen exclusively in Hong Kong at

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Emperor Cinema, is beginning March twentieth if you can't make

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your way to Hong Kong, wait a week and we'll

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open in theaters across the USA and Canada March twenty seventh.

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Jimmy O Yang, self proclaimed as the Taylor Swift of

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Hong Kong, Love It. In the special, he talks about

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his family fighting for the bill and his experience as

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an immigrant returning to his hometown for the first time

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in twenty five years, weaving together his English set with

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a touch of subtitled Cantonese. There is a trailer. I

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play a little bit of it. I found it to

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be a little noisy, and I like Jimmy O Yang

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a lot, so I am excited about this one. But

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I didn't love the trailer. Let's listen.

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You know why Asian people love gambling. It's our only

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extreme sport. Oh we got. The only thing that gets

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maya adrenaline going is the possibility of losing money to

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a stranger. Of these Chinese karaoke systems. After every song,

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the machine gives you a school is it ai put

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is some old assum in the back judging you through

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the kitchen seventy two? No, they're asking the seal of

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TikTok He's like, are you Chinese, I'm Singaporean, Sir. He's

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Singapore and China. No, it's in Singapore, Sir.

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Tom Sigora was speaking with Forbes about his amazing staff

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at why m H Studios. Sigora, on his podcasting front,

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said they handle everything. They take care of everything from

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the booking to the prepping of the show to the

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technical aspect. There's a post studio there, social media team.

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They do everything, and the idea is we just show up.

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We get to be ourselves and hang out and do

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the show, which I think is the best version of

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the show for us. It's just beyond there but yourself,

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have fun, talk crap, and that's kind of how we

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try to do it. Incredible staff at y MH. Tom

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said he had no idea the podcast would really launch him.

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He said, of course not. I had zero desire to

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do it. I didn't want to start a podcast. I

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got talked into it and reluctantly was doing it. That's

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one of those things where I realized I was having

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fun doing it. I didn't even realize there's an audience listening.

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You couldn't tell it first, but I just realized you

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can put up the show you want to put on.

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It's the same as stand up and stand up. You

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get to say what you want to say. And so

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when I had been a guest on a podcast, I

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was like, I don't do this. But I realized I

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didn't want to do their podcast. I want to do

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my podcast, and figuring that was a really exciting thing.

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On Friday, I told you THEO Vaughan was going to

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be at the Baton Rouge Parade. As I record this.

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Later on Friday, I'm told that THEO Vaughn dropped out

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of the parade, no reason given. At this time, some

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people observed that THEO Vaughn had a Friday night show

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and two Saturday night shows in Florida, neither of which

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are in Louisiana, where Baton Rouge is Now you can't

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travel back and forth, and THEO can probably afford the plane.

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But maybe, perhaps possibly he didn't want to be in

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Florida Friday, Louisiana Saturday and then do two shows last night.

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Who knows. Hope everything's okay there. George Lopez spoke to

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NJ dot Com about doing politics. He said, I tried

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not to cross the line, but in comedy, no one

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else was talking about the inner workings of the family

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or what we mean to America. I was never particularly political,

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but over the past fifteen years I felt there needed

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to be a voice. It didn't matter to me whether

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people agreed or disagreed. I wasn't doing it for approval.

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It's a small part of what my act is, but

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of course it's there. I always try to make people laugh.

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I'm not preaching, and there are ways I can still

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get the message across without dividing the room. Ron Funches

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had nice things to say about Donna Kelcey and about

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meeting Travis Kelcey. This happened when Ron Funches was on

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Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Funch Is called Kelsey

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an amazing game show host. Never met this man in

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my life and honestly was like, all right, football guy

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to come in here and knows the show, the thing

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I want to do. I want to host the show.

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Let me see what you got. And I'm like, damn,

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this man is charming as hell. I get this is

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why you're marrying a billionaire. He's so charming and so

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sweet and so kind. Angela Kinsey, you know her as

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Angela from the Office, revealed she would love to reprise

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her character for the Peacock spin off series, The Paper.

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I don't think i've actually finished The Paper. I was

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kind of sort of into it and got distracted. I

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don't know. I should probably watch the last two episodes

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whatever I have left. But shockingly, Angela would take more

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work no way, she told she'll developer Greg Daniels, Greg,

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if you need Angela Martin to come, you know, if

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Oscar is having an accounting problem and Angela needs to come,

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I'd be more than happy to. We'll see if that happens.

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Mackenzie Crook played Gareth on The UK Office, the Real One,

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no offense. It's not like I don't love the American Office,

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but I don't know. I had to say the UK

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Office because the UK Office is the Office. This one

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with Steve Karel is the American version anyway, I digress.

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Krook told The Guardian after The Office, I wanted to

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write something that wasn't cruel humor, that didn't have a

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cringe factor, and in doing so I stumbled upon my genre,

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gentle comedy. Not wild about the term. It sounds both

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unfunny and as if you're trying not to offend anyone.

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He said, you recently rewatched The Real Office and said,

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in series two, a fire alarm goes off and everyone's evacuated.

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Watching it, I had this real Pavlovian reaction where my

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heart just sank because they knew something awful was coming up.

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I've forgotten all about it. What happens is, David and Gareth,

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you had twenty years start trying to get a disabled

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employee down the stairs, then give up halfway through, saying

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if it was a real fire, that definitely come back

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for her. It's excruciating. Steve Harvey caught up with Hookendbarrel

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dot com You're home for comedy news. He talked about

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his fishing days. He said, I traveled with a rod

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real tackle box, skillet, some charcoal, cornmeal and grease. When

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I caught bass crappier brim, I'd clean them on the bank,

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stop at a rest area, and cook them on those

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cast iron grills. That's how I pretty much survived. Fishing

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wasn't fun for me. He was about staying alive.

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Now.

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One day he stopped at a lake caught some fish.

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The owner of the property showed up and said, hey,

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this ain't your lake. Why fishing over here? Steve Harvey said,

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I apologize and pulled my line out of the water,

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and then he said, those ain't your fish. Throw them

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fish back. Harvey threw all six fish back in the lake.

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He says, that was my dinner. I got in the

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car a little teary eyed, and I told God, one

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day I'm gonna buy me a piece of land with

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a pond on it, and nobody can throw me off,

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and I'm going to fish wherever I want to. Six

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years later, Steve Harvey was on television. Tomorrow will be

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the OSCARS recap in a normal episode, then at noon

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Eastern the results of Comedy Survivor. I've not yet looked

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at the results as I record this, looking forward to

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see what happened. It was a lot of fun in

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the Facebook group this week, a lot of chatter at

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south By Southwest today at four o'clock the ucb Ascat

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Show that is a regular show at festivals. That's at

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Ester's Folly's At six point fifteen, The Creek in the

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Cave hosts Comic Relief and the Moth Present Funny Story.

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The website has things out of time order here because

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fifteen minutes before that at six o'clock and why didn't you?

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I don't know. Gotham Comedy Club presents Jared Freed, Tone Bell,

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Gavin Matt's, Casey Balsham and Sophie Buttle. That's a pretty

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decent show. At seven o'clock at the Creek in the

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Cave at south By Southwest So Everything as a sponsor,

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It's Facebook presents Robert Schultz, Amber Wallin, Chloe Radcliffe, Jazz

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Sainey and Paris Sachet. Eight o'clock at Ester's Follies Britannic

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At ten o'clock back at esther is the Anything but

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Basic Cabaret. Also at eleven at the Creek in the

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Cave Bombing with Eric andre And from Beliefnet, your home

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for Comedy News. I use that joke? Ready, didn't I

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leave it in? Jeff Foxworthy was speaking at the Conversation

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on Biblical Manhood put on by the Church of eleven

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twenty two in Jacksonville. Other speakers included Tim Tebow, you know,

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the football player, and pastor Matt Chandler of Texas. Jeff

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Foxworthy open up about his struggles in becoming a biblical

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father and man, noting how the failings of his own

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father put him behind the mark. I didn't know this

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about Jeff. Jeff's father was married six times, drank, smoked, custed,

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told dirty jokes. Jeff said, I didn't know how to

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be a good husband. I know how to be a

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good dad. But I could see guys that were good husbands,

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and I could see guys that were good dads, and

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I knew enough to pick their brain. Pastor Martin warned

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about the dude phase of manhood. Foxworthy called that phase

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the freedoms of adulthood with the responsibilities of childhood. We've

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got a bunch of guys locked in right there with that,

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and it's not a good combination. And that is your

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comedy news for today. See tomorrow.