Tony Hinchcliffe on Kill Tony and the shift in comedy from LA to Austin

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnie Mack with your daily comedy news.

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John. You never talk about Jerry
Seinfeld. I know, right, it's

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so much press. Jerry was asked
about his debate with Mark Marin. Narren

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believes in bearing his soul on stage. Jerry leaves in fidelity to the joke.

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Jerry said, my attitude, I
think was more talking to comedians.

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I think comedians, if they want
to survive throughout their life doing this,

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they have to pay close attention to
the laughs. There's no less value in

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what Maren's doing, but I would
worry about how long it would last in

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your life. Maren's done, Okay, But yeah, that's a good point.

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We're both right, just different.
Jerry himself wants to do stand up

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to the very end of life.
The only hard part of my life is

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the other things. People do ask
me about slung down and I go.

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The work part of my life is
not stand up, it's all the other

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things. Stand Up is an incredible, pure experience. Surfing is the great

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regret of my life that I never
got good at. I did it for

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two weeks one time, many years
ago, feeling that energy, that natural

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life force, energy under you and
around you. I never get tired of

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that. Will Jerry do another standup
special? Nope. I'd love to think

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of something else if I ever want
to do it, which I don't right

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now, like comedians and cars getting
coffee. The subtext of that is I'm

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really sick of talk shows on TV. That's why I did that. That

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was my anti talk show. So
I'd want to do an anti stand up

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special if I did one. I
envy sometimes these little Italian artisans who don't

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really care if anybody knows who they
are what they do, and stand up

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could be like that. Stand up
in a way is a kind of private,

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lonely world. I'm going to Daton
on Friday. No one's gonna know

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what happened there. I'm very attracted
to that. I'm more attracted to that

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than Hey, everybody, I made
a movie. He then compares that feeling

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to Seinfeld. When it started,
we thought this would be a really fun,

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little batique thing that'll just get our
people, this kind of quirky,

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offbeat thing, and that would be
cool. What a became was never on

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our radar. Then suddenly you're a
big wave surfer. I think it was

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tougher on Larry David than for me, because you feel the pressure. I

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never minded the pressure. Tom Papa
used to open for Jerry Seinfeld. He

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spoke to the Columbus Underground and Tom
said, I think the thing I'm most

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proud of is I've been able to
stay high, positive and talk about the

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things that weren't cynical and be more
hopeful. But also I would be really

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good. You can be naive,
hackey and goofy and serve that hopeful kind

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of thing, but I wanted to
be the standard I hold other comedians too,

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and still not cave into being dirty, cynical and dark. Tom talked

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about getting into comedy and says there
are virtually no gatekeepers now. Like when

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I started, you had to get
on The Tonight's Show or Letterman and then

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ultimately HBO, and that was a
very small group of people that got to

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do that. Now you can do
whatever you want. You can have your

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own podcast, but stuff up on
social media, you can speak directly to

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the audience. I think it's been
great that all these people were able to

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just kind of create your fan base
and go out there and door and do

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your thing. Variety spoke to Tony
Hingecliff about the Wonderful Kill Tony Podcast and

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we're curious of his nuggets of inspiration
for potential performers. Tony said, it's

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a very dark, lonely road.
It's the opposite of TikTok, where your

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content is immediately seen by a ton
of people. You must be able to

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present it in a room and change
your timing not to be taken lightly.

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Someone going from TikTok and expecting to
be a natural stand up comedian is equivalent

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in my mind of someone being a
good papa shot basketball player making as many

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any as you can in thirty seconds
to being in the NBA. How many

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people from TikTok or Instagram reels are
even making it as a stand up comedian.

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People get Matt Rife confused and blocked
in with those people. But my

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take on Matt Rife as I knew
him eleven years ago opening for Ralphie May,

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he was a little star. I
bust all my comedians friends chops when

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they bring him up and speak negatively
about him in the green room. He

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did the work and he started young. He's built for it. Tony,

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do you feel your move from LA
to Austin has hindered any opportunities, Tony

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said, it has hindered nothing.
On the contrary, it's free to know

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we're focused on our stand up comedy
and podcasts instead of being focused on LA

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or New York City cliches like auditions, pitch meetings, voiceover gigs, writing

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jobs, and other distractions that at
best leave you with a boss, a

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lack of creative control, and probably
wanting more money. By having our priorities

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be our own podcasts and doing live
shows regularly, we get better at those

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two things. Regularly can all relate
to one another and do each other's show.

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So from both the projects we care
about. Boy, what great advice

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from Tony there. It might just
be I'm at a stage in my own

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career where I don't want a boss. I like doing this podcast every day.

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Is it the biggest podcast in the
world. No, to some people

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think it sucks. Probably do I
care? No? Would I like to

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make a million dollars off it?
Of course? I like money. You

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like money. We all like money. I'd love to be doing this show

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from I don't know Paris right now, but I'm in my basement. But

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creatively, boy, I'm having a
ball doing this at our little podcast network

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project. This is great, Tony
said. Our favorite comedian's from LA and

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New are coming to us. Now
we only go there and we have to

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do big shows. People can have
a career from anywhere now. Tony says,

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comedians should utilize anything that happens with
them from more material. Real comedy

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fans seed through it. They want
the line, they know the line,

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they love the line. I push
it to the limits. I did p

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Diddy jokes last weekend. I told
Nickelodeon jokes at Baltimore Bridge reference. People

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say, but what if somebody's family
on the bridge sees that. Look,

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it's a different little island we've created. It existed in Texas, obviously a

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staple of free speech. But while
LA and New York have virtual signaled their

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way into what's right and wrong,
we go forward here. The CBC spoke

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to Matt Hart and Ali Hassan about
kill Tony. Matt explains, if you've

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never checked out killto only two hundred
three hundred people put their names in a

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hat at a huge comedy club called
The mother Ship. That's Rogan's place in

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Austin, which is quickly becoming what
Seattle was for grunge, but for comedy.

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If you get your name pulled,
you've given one minute uninterrupted on stage

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performed stand up. Alie said of
sixty seconds, it's very, very challenging.

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Sometimes if you have a weird look
and you can lean inside immediately,

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that's a great gift. The CBC
pointed out Mike ber Bigley for examples,

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a storyteller who takes an hour to
unfold his act, not the kind of

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act you'd see big cover, Story
and variety. Amy Schumer can't escape backlash,

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and she's okay with that. Ready
rights, Amy Schumer was in the

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zone. This was in March,
when she was filming on the Street Brooklyn

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for her upcoming movie Kind of Pregnant. In one take, Schumer emerged from

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a subway station while answering a phone
call and was interrupted by a stranger shouting

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in her from the sidewalk. If
you Amy Schumer, you're a Zionist,

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you love genocide? Amy said,
it didn't even raise my heart rate.

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I didn't cry nothing. She says
of her tendency to sound off, I

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can't help it. A lot of
people can help it, but I've never

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been able to. But I also
want to be helpful, do you know

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what I mean? She weighed in
on the Middle East, saying the focus

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is so razor sharp on Jewish people
but not on Hammas. It's very strange.

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I'd recommend people read a book.
It's called Israel, A Simple Guide

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to the most misunderstood country on Earth. As for Kind of Pregnant, Amy

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says, I'm striving it for to
be one of the ten funniest movies of

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my lifetime. I thought she was
going to say her career her lifetime.

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Wow, I think it's gonna be
as funny as train Wreck. While she

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was being interviewed, a woman walked
up to the table and said to Amy

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Schumer while the interviewer happened to be
there, thank you for everything you're doing

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for Israel. I follow you on
social media. I used to live in

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Israel, and thank you. We
support you. Amy said, that moment

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you just saw maybe ten times a
day that happens to me. The article

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goes on to talk about the early
parts of Amy's career. She noticed that

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male comedians did not get as much
hate as she did. She said,

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people get really mad at women.
They save a special kind of vitriol for

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us. It's not new. I
think it's because they fear women. That's

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my guess. She's hoping Life in
Beth will get a third season from Hulu.

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She says it has not been renewed
yet and that life keeps going.

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I'm not worried about running out of
stuff to say. Tonight, ten pm.

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Unless you're driving back from Cleveland,
get in front of your TV.

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You can watch Netflix. Cat Williams
Live. Oh man, I want to

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say, I can't wait, but
I'm gonna have to wait. I'll watch

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that one on Sunday seven point thirty. John Mulaney in concert, All Time

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Specific eight o'clock Shane Gillis, Low
tickets Warning, ten pm Chris Rock's table

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reads, low tickets Warning. Joining
comedy icon Chris Rock as he hosted table

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read of When Harry Met Sally.
That's a Good Time. Seven o'clock Daniel

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Tosh, three o'clock, Leanne Morgan. I hate the way this thing is

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laid out, so you hear me
jumping back and forth on the various times,

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A lot of good stuff. Tonight, seven o'clock Comil onn Jianny Pete

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Holmes at seven, Eliza Selessenger at
seven Roywood Junior at seven and nine forty

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five, Natalie Palamedes at nine forty
five, Howie Mandel and Arsenio Hall two

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show, seven thirty, ten thirty, and a whole bunch of shows I

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didn't read to you, all right, if you and I were there,

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would go see three o'clock Leanne Morgan
five o'clock because we wouldn't be in Cleveland,

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would be at the Netflix is a
tr comedy festival in LA. Would

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have to hit Cat Williams. Wait, five o'clock Pacific? Is eight o'clock?

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Have I been saying ten? At
some point they said this is ten?

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Let me clean this up here.
So the original press release says May

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fourth, seven pm Pacific, which
is ten Eastern, which is why I've

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been saying that. But on the
festival website itself it says five o'clock Pacific.

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Maybe it's not actually live. I
don't know. Sit in front of

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Netflix for four hours tonight and see
what happens. I don't know what to

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tell you. At this I think
I figured it out. I think there

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are openers and Cat goes on at
ten, all right, so we would

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go see Leeann Morgan, then Cat
Williams don't know if I want to see

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Mallani. Let's not do Malani.
Let's do Pete Holmes. This is really

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good. Let's do Pete Holmes.
And then let's do Natalie Palamedes. How

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about that? And let me do
Sydney real quick. I'll do Sidney a

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little more thorough and next week between
the Seinfeld and this Netflix festival to just

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so much to talk about. But
should you find yourself in Sydney on Senko

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Tomayo. Brody Snook's show is called
Villain. I like this title here.

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Let's see every night Rody Snook dreams
of committing murder what Her doctor thinks she

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needs medication. Her best friend thinks
she needs uh I thing that goes you

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know what I'm saying, Yes you
do. Her accountant thinks she needs a

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real job. Brody reckons it's time
to start playing the villain. The Age

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gave it four stars and says a
masterful writer and outrageous form. Elliott Stewart's

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show is called Elliot Stewart sucks.
It's talking to people a crowd work show

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will drop the g there I hear
the Queen's come out sometimes no reviews of

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that one. Okay, let's do
one more. Emma zammitz show is called

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good Grief. We all know the
grief has five stages. Denial, like,

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yeah, I'll be able to watch
Kat Williams. I'm not in Cleveland.

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Anger, Ah, stupid Mike making
me go to Cleveland bargaining. Maybe

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if I leave early, I can
be home and catch Kat Williams. Mike

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will be too mad. Depression,
I can't believe I miss Kat Williams for

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this thing. Finally, acceptance.
I guess I was good, that I

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was a good friend. I can
always watch Kat Williams on Sunday. Hey,

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list of stages. It's not comedian
and mother emma'zem it's scratching her head

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as to where Lasagna drops fit in. Sounds like a good show, or

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maybe I just amuse myself in the
middle of that. Rob Schneider has told

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Catholic media outlet Church Pop, Church
Pop your home for comedy news that Rob

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is working on a script for a
feature film about the Shroud of touring.

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What you think I was gonna say? Yeah, Schneider told Church Pop.

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Hopefully this movie about the Shroud will
happen, because I think it's about faith.

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I think we need that and to
bring more people to it. And

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it's not necessarily to preach to them, but just to show to them the

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actual sacrifice and to talk about what
the core of Christianity is loving others.

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