April 11, 2025

Tony Hinchcliffe and the Austin Comedy Scene

Show Notes
Transcript

Bert Kreischer shared a memorable personal encounter involving Whitney Houston at a dentist's office. Cameron Esposito and Steven Rogers release new standup specials addressing serious personal themes with humor. Kumail Nanjiani teases his character in the upcoming season of 'Poker Face.' Chelsea Handler shares a humorous anecdote about travel rules with family, and Dennis Leary talks about his dedication to his character in the sitcom 'Going Dutch.' Comedy festival schedules in Moon Tower, Nashville, and Traverse City are discussed, highlighting acts like Jim Jeffries and Natasha Leggero. The Austin comedy scene gets a spotlight with a new show focused on preserving non-offensive humor, and Australian comedian Chris Knight talks about the differences in comedy audiences around the world.

00:13 Bert Kreischer's Hilarious Dentist Story
01:56 Cameron Esposito's New Standup Special
02:23 Steven Rogers' Special with a Twist
03:15 Kumail Nanjiani's Role in Poker Face
04:07 Chelsea Handler's Travel Rules
05:06 Dennis Leary's Serious Approach to Comedy
06:04 Comedy Festival Highlights
07:46 Tony Hinchcliffe and the Austin Comedy Scene
09:34 Chris Knight on Australian Comedy
10:18 John's Browsing History

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. Bert Praiser has been on a little

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bit of good pr run. He appears in People's new

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YouTube series Roast by Life, and he told a story

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about going to a quote very expensive dentist in Beverly Hills. Now,

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sometimes Bert tells a story, and I'm not sure I

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quite believe the story, perhaps possibly maybe exaggerated for comedic effect,

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But as the story goes, Bert was at the dentist

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with his daughter, Georgia. She's now twenty. This story happened

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when Georgia was four and poor Georgia broke her jaw.

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Bert explains, they had to put Georgia under anesthesia, noting,

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and they told me, you know, we can't find a vein.

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We need you to put her under. And I was like,

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I'm thirty five years old. I don't know what I'm doing.

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I'm a brand new dad. I go, baby, we're gonna

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put the gas off your face and you're gonna breathe

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even lee, You're gonna go to sleep. And then Georgia,

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four years old, looks up at me and goes, what

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if I don't wake up? And I was like, great question.

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I look at the doctors and I said to these dentists,

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I go, she dies, do we bring the body home

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with us? And they're like, whoa, what are you talking about?

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Bert says he started panicking. I start crying uncontrollably. I

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go to the waiting room and crying so bad. People

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in the waiting room are freaking out. They're watching a

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grown man's sob. His wife, Leanne's crying. There's a kid

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with his dad who's like, Dad, you said it wasn't

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going to be that bad. Bert remembers a woman trying

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to soothe me and make eye contact. After ten minutes,

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the dentist shows up and says Georgia was fine. Everyone

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celebrated with applause. Leanne's got Georgia in her lap, Georgia's

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got caught. She's still asleep. I'm standing watching. All of

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a sudden, the door opens to that room. It's the

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same woman from earlier in the story. Remember that woman,

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and you know who it is. It's Whitney Houston. And

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Bert says, Whitney paid for the whole thing. This is

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you know, a long time ago. Bert's not a famous comedian.

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She paid for the whole thing. We didn't have the money,

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and Whitney Houston, God Rest her soul took care of us.

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Cameron Asposito has a new stand up special out today

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pills on the streaming platform Dropout That's the former College Humor.

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Cameron guides the audience on a surreal journey through the

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ups and downs of her bipolar disorder diagnosis, with detours

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to talk about marriage, divinity, school, and one extremely unlucky dog. Oh.

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Cameron says, when you do this job, the number one

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thing people say is I don't know how you can

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do the jobs. Man. Stand Up's my biggest fear, and

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I've always said, well, it's not my biggest fear. Stephen

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Rogers' new special is out today as well. Half of

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We will premiere on Nate Berghetzi's YouTube channel. Produced by

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Nate and Brian Reagan, the new hour sees Stephen Rogers

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blend wit and vulnerability as he shares relatable mishaps, personal struggles,

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and stories from his engagement, all building to a shocking twist.

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Should you tell the audience there's a shocking twist coming?

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Like can't we just I know, I just ruined it,

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but I'm just reading the press release. They want you

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to know there's a shocking twist, But like, I don't

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know if you want to see one of those m

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night movies back in the day. Now we all know

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the gimmick, but you know when you first went to

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see one, do you want everyone going, Hey, there's a

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shocking twist you're never gonna believe. I don't think you

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want to know. I always loved the phrasing and press

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releases in his career. So far, Rogers has opened for

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comedians such as Reagan, Joe List, Tompapa, Napergetzie, and Taylor Tomlinson,

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such as is such a fun wording. Camil and Gianni

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will be in the upcoming season of poker Face. He

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told the story, I just got a text from Natasha

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Leona on a Friday. Kamil and Natasha were on one

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of those famous people panels, you know, everybody's sitting at

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a table and the reporters asked them questions and then

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Vulture writes about it something like that. Yeah, Camel said,

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I just got a text from Natasha on a Friday,

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and you were like, hey, you want to be in

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poker Face on Thursday? And I was like, how long

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can I wait? So that it doesn't seem too desperate,

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Camille gave us a tease about what we could expect

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his character spoilers. He says, it was this cop and

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the Florida panhandle with tattoos and frosted hair, and his

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name was Gator Joe and his best friend is an alligator.

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I was like, did you send this one to me?

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By mistake? People don't see me and go, hey, that

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looks like a Florida cup. But adds I love playing

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Gator Joe. I love this guy. I had to shave

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my arms and legs to get tato on, and then

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I just walked around with all these tattoos. People were

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scared of me. Poker Face season two returns May eighth

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on Peacock Chelsea Handler, who once dated Joe Coy, who

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once hosted the Golden Globes and made a joke about

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Taylor Swift. But we're not doing that bit today. She says,

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if you travel with her, you better be ready to

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play by her rules. She said she once had to

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send a really severe letter to her entire extended family.

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Chelsea told Kimmel, I was like, listen, you have to

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make eye contact with every person that comes inside the house,

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whether you know them, whether they're cleaning your room, whether

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you have anything in common. You have to make eye

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contact with people and say hello, thank you, and acknowledge

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someone to standing there. And don't leave beer bottles under

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the deck. Don't drink the last margarita's without filling up

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the picture. There's a lot of finishing alcohol without replenishing

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the alcohol, because half of them are underage drinking our alcohol.

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This worked with her family. Chelsea said she sent the

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letter to friends as a template they could use on

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their own vacations. A couple months go by, I get

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the letter from someone. Someone emailed me and goes, hey,

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I just read this letter. This is a great letter

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for you to send to your family. And I'm like,

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it's my letter. I wrote it. That's a fun story.

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Dennis Leary is taking this Going Dutch sitcom very seriously,

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definitely much more seriously than I'm taking it. Remember this one,

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Dennis Leary plays Army Colonel Patrick Quinn who gets reassigned

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to a base on the Netherlands. Larry said, I know

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we're supposed to be funny, but we're also supposed to

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be soldiers. We're all dressed that way. Even if we're

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just in the hair and makeup trailer, generally we're in

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our uniforms. It's a constant reminder. He got seriously into

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his character and explains there are certain props the audience

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will never see that I want my character to have

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with him. In this case, there was a challenge coin

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I wanted made that comes from my character's background, back

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when the character was winning medals in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The audience will never see it, but my character has

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it with him every day. Going Dutch filmed on a

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real Dutch army base, Lary says, there are jet planes,

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cargo planes, tanks, and there's real soldiers advising you off

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in the distance. They're really drooling for something. You feel

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really intimidated. Let's see what's happening at the comedy festivals.

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I guess we're starting in Mootower because that's the tab

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that I clicked first. Got all these tabs saved, and

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I just randomly clicked one seven o'clock May Martin's at

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the Paramount. Caitlyn Riley is at the State Theater with

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the wonderfully titled Kitlin Riley Bullies the audience, Paulie Shore

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at nine thirty. Guess my take there would be let's

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go see Kitlyn Riley and then grab some drinks in Nashville.

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Jim Jeffries at the Ryman at seven, Dan Cummins at

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Zany's Proper at seven, Jared Fried's at the Lab at seven,

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Pete Lee and Zanies at nine to fifteen. Caroline Benowitch homeschooled.

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The Freak is at the Lab at Zanie's at nine

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to fifteen, eleven o'clock Connor Larsen's Big Fun Riff Show.

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All right, you want some recommendations for me, gotta go

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see Jim Jeffries, he kills, and then for middle show,

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I guess Pete Lee and then let's see what this

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Connor Larson's thing is. The Riff Show is a show

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of completely improvised stand up comedy on the spot, in

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front of a live audience. Comedians have to be funny

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with whatever comes up. Okay, that could be fun. And

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it's only a sixteen dollars show. And where's my Travers

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City bookmark? Did I not bookmark it? We're going to

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have to use Google. Traver's City Comedy Festival they've got many,

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many shows. Tonight, I'll just read you the bigger ones.

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Six point thirty Jay Farrow seven o'clock a clean comedy showcase.

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At eight o'clock a roast Battle starring Kevin Johnson as

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your host, Brett Haydon as a judge, and Ella Horwdell

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as another judge. I'm not familiar with any of the

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comedians performing in the roast Battle, doesn't mean it's not funny.

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Nine o'clock Natasha lazerro at the Park plays Hotel, and

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at ten pm comedy karaoke. So I think out of

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those three, if you're making me pick, we are hanging

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in Nashville tonight. A lot of talk this week about

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Tony Hinchcliff, boy, who well from theborbedwire dot com we

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learn for a few years now, the Austin comedy scene

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has been dominated by a new ecosystem led by Joe

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Rogan and Tony Hinchcliff. The city's now nationally known as

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a haven for their style of say whatever crappy thing

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you want, It doesn't even need a punchline comedy. For

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these guys and their disciples who move here during the pandemic.

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The slur is the funny part. But that doesn't mean

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the old guard, the people who are doing stand up

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before twenty twenty, has gone away, and veteran Austin comic

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Duncan Carson is taking Austin back. He told The Barbed Wire.

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They just think anybody that laughs is an inherent good,

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and I'm like, not if it's a clan rally. Carson

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is launching a new late night show to showcase the

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city's old school comedy scene, signing off A Comedy Show

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for the End of the World runs Friday's at ten

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pm and Today's a Friday. Carson said, I think if

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you counted, I've hosted the most comedy shows in the

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history of the city. Maybe that means I'll never get famous,

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but it also means I never sold my soul. Carson explains,

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I don't want comedy that's like preachy or always that's

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a sports, social progress or something. Just don't be a monster.

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It's very easy to be funny without being mean. Comedy

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is inherently political, and I'm tired of us acting like

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it's not. The show's head writer Mendoza told The Board Wire,

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We're just trying to do what makes us laugh most

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of the time. I think all of us that work

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on the show have always tried to punch up rather

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than down. But adds Hingecliff is right. It only takes

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a minute to decide you're not a fan of somebody,

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his comedic influences. Chris says, being in Australia, we got

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to dodge of glass bottles. I think humor is universal.

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but the delivery of that humor changes country to country.

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Australians tend to be much rougher and use some very

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foul language. We're all descended from convicts, so that shouldn't

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be a surprise. And that is your comedy news for today.

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going to say things like New York Times. So I'm

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seeing what Jason's Inteman's up to, bear World OnlyFans, the

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Hollywood Reporter. It's a very eclectic mix. Who knows what's

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even going on in the basement. See you tomorrow.