June 10, 2025

Top Touring Comedians of 2025 so far PLUS Shane Gillis on Andrew Schulz Flagrant and JD Vance on Theo Von This Past Weekend

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Johnny Mac delivers the latest updates in comedy news, beginning with Billboard's midyear report on the top touring comedians from October 2024 to March 2025, featuring notable earnings and ticket sales for Jeff Dunham, Joe oy, Gabriel Iglesias, Kevin Hart, and Sebastian Maniscalco. Mack then covers anecdotes from Shane Gillis talking about his experience at the Masters and his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. Other segments include a discussion on Shane Gillis’s show 'Tires,' insights from James Austin Johnson on SNL, and legal troubles facing Brazilian comedian Leo Linz for offensive jokes. The episode concludes with commentary on NBA finals viewership and updates on John Mulaney’s family life.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johny match with your daily

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comedy news. Billboard has put out its mid year touring recap.

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We'll take a look at the top touring comedians. In

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twenty twenty two and twenty three it was Kevin Hart

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at the Midway, and twenty four it was Nate Bergatzy

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All right, who do you think are the top five

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touring comedians of twenty twenty five so far? Now, don't

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forget to be on the list. You'd actually have to

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be on tour. The dates covered here are from October first,

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twenty twenty four to March thirty first, twenty twenty five.

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Midyear charts are based on figures reported to Billboard box Score.

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At number five, Jeff Dunham has grossed thirteen point four

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million dollars and sold two hundred and fourteen thousand tickets

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across forty seven shows. At number four, Joe Coy grossing

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fourteen point six million dollars two hundred and four thousand

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tickets across fifty three shows. Maybe, if you ever host

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Golden Globes, don't try and stare him down to ruin

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his career, because it's not gonna work. Joe Coy. Number four,

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he's doing fine. Taylor. Number three Gavi Iglacias twenty million

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dollars two hundred and seventy five thousand tickets fifty shows.

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Number two Kevin Hart twenty eight point three million dollars

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two hundred and sixteen thousand tickets, sixty one shows. Kevin

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likes to work, doesn't he? And number one I'm not

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sure I would have guessed this person, but once you

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say this person's name, I'm like, yeah, okay, I could

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see it. Sebastian Manuscalco thirty five and a half million dollars,

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three hundred and sixty one thousand tickets sold, thirty shows.

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Somebody do the math there? How much as a ticket

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to go see Sebastian Maniscalco seems pricey? But he plays

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two Mainstream America, So I get it from Golf Digest,

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your home for comedy new Shane Gillis was over on

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Andrew Schultz a podcast. He was joined by Steve Gerbin,

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and they were promoting season two of Tires, which I'll

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talk about in a second. The conversation talked to Gerbin

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and Gillis's trip down to the Masters in a browl.

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Gillis told Andrew Schultz, this is what I do for

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this guy. I took him on a private jets of

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the Masters. I don't give an f about golf. So

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we're at the Masters. It was dug crap. It sucked.

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It was awesome. It's like beautiful Augusta National. You know,

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it's the fing Master. So you go in, you walk in,

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You're like, this is awesome, and then after an hour

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you go, ah, sephan golf. You can't see a thing.

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There's no phones, you're not allowed on a phone, so

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you just gotta look at the scoreboard that somebody's like, manually,

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they've got a two on that last one, and you go,

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oh nice. Meanwhile, Shane was on Joe Rogan's podcast and said,

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I pledged a million dollars to Notre Dame's nil. That's

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the licensing thing so that the college players can get paid. Now.

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I haven't done one single thing. I was at the

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FFing Championship game watching Ohio State win, and I was going,

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Notre Dame needs a defensive tackle. I'm gonna give them

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a million bucks, and they were like, hey, you want

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to give us that million bucks. I was like, no,

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Gillis told Schultz he wanted to play football in college,

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but never applied to Notre Dame because they were too

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good for him. So he tried to play for Army

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because Army would play Notre Dame that year. Gillis explains,

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I was like, I would play there in their stadium.

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In fact, my senior year would have been Notre Dame

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Army and Yankee Stadium. That would have been cool. Would

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have gotten killed by Notre Dame and it would have been

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an honor. No turns out, I sucked. Grandpa and cousin

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played for them. It was my old family. I went

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to a Catholic school in Pennsylvania, so everyone that was

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Catholic like Notre Dame. If you're a Protestant, you liked

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penn State. Tire season two is hilarious. Tire season two,

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episode two. I was laughing out loud, which I've talked

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about my Emperor rome syndrome that doesn't happen. That one

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had me guffawing. My son. I watched it separately. He

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came down because I texted him, I'm like, oh my god,

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season two, episode two, you gotta watch it, and he

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had already seen it, and he said something that I

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was thinking but hadn't verbalized it. He said it reminds

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him of the Office's Diversity Day episode, and I don't

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think they're hiding it. I think they're going for that.

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Even if you watch the way the credits for at

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least season two. I don't know what these season one credits,

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I don't remember what they look like, but the season

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two credits, the way it's shot and the music it's

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deafly reminds me of the UK Office anyway. Shane Gillis

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season two of Tires, You should watch it, episode two.

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Highest recommend Welcome to the Era of Establishment. Theovaugh So

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the Establishment. Theovon this past weekend with Theovon podcast had

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on the Vice President, and while the VP was there,

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Elon Musk put out that tweet suggesting that the President

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is in the Epstein files. Vance said, okay, wow, I

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haven't even seen this one. He explained he was on

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a plane when mister Musk and mister Trump were changing

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Barbes Online. Vance said, first of all, absolutely not. Donald

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Trump did not do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein. Whatever

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the Democrats and the media says about him, that's totally bs.

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A clip was posted on Twitter of Van saying he

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hoped Trump and Musk had become friends again. Musk tweeted, cool,

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nobody's watching the NBA Finals because nobody listens to Johnny

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mack hey refs call some fouls. Put the Knicks in

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the finals. You'd have three times the amount of people watching,

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but instead we're getting some of the lowest rated finals

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of decades. And that's a shame because the NBA is cool.

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NBA superstar is Steph Curry is taking on his first

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major acting role in Goat. Goat is a basketball themed

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animated feature. It's set in an all animal world and

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it follows Will, a little goat with big dreams who

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gets a once in a lifetime shot to join the

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pros and play roar ball. Currently, roar ball is a

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high intensity, co ed, full contact sport dominated by the fastest,

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fiercest animals in the world. John, why are you talking

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about this other than being bitter about the Knicks? Well, Batton,

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Oswalt and Nick Kroll are some of the voice actors

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in this thing. Olivia Munn has a big feature piece

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in People magazine. I'll stick to the John Maliney parts,

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and she said, I really had no idea what kind

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of father he would be, what kind of friend he

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would be to me? But the day Malcolm was born,

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John's whole world just lit up. Malcolm looks just like John.

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He's just changed his whole little life. Not to be

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two Sacharine. But looking at John, looking at Malcolm, I

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could see all the healing happening. It occurred to me

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over the weekend, this whole Netflix Malaney thing. Here's how

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they're gonna get out right, write this down so when

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they actually say this and I do my I told

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you so dance, you can go. Okay. Johnny Mack said

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this on the June tenth episode of Daily Comedy News.

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He was right, here's what they're gonna do. They're going

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to announce that everybody's live will come back, but not

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until the Netflix Festival. All right, that's my prediction, because

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during the Netflix Festival, they can knock out six of

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them in a week and they'll have a level guests

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and it'll crush and everyone will be like, oh my god,

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it was amazing. Plus it helps hype the festival. That way,

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both Netflix and Malanie could say, yeah, we always said

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it was coming back, here it is, and then they

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don't have to do the pesky twelve week thing that

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none apparently not too many people were watching, and uh,

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you know, I've said my piece about it. So that's

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my prediction. The next time you see The Malleni Talk

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Show will be d twenty twenty six at Netflix Comedy Festival.

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Write that down. James Austin Johnson said, the cold opens

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in season fifty of SNL, we're pretty crazy. I've done

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a few of those before, but the added pressure of

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the fiftieth and the added pressure of my comedy out

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being up there with some of us on those sketches.

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It was just Bowan and I looking at each other, like,

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look at us with all these stars, and made me

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want to raise my game and match their level. That's

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what the whole season was about for me. I want

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to find the path to be as good as these

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people have looked up to in the end and how

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they're sharing the stage. You know, I mentioned a few

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times I like James, but I feel like his Trump

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impression really drifted this season. It was better when he

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first started doing it, and you know, Shane does a

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better one. James said this season was the first where

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he took out three new cast members, to give them

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a rundown. He said, this was the first year I

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cared about another living soul. I came to SNL with

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my wife, who was pregnant at the time, and I

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was so wrapped up in our internal drama. This season

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was the first one where I thought I could do this.

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I know this, and I want to share that data

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with the new guys. And they're all geniuses. They're also ready.

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I was blown away by all three of them, Ashley Pada,

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Emil Wickim and Jeane Wickline. They're such naturals. That's pretty cool.

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That's good to pay it forward like that. In this

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next story, I had seen buzzing around, but I was

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only finding it from South American new sites that I

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was unfamiliar with, and I couldn't tell if this was

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a hoax or a real thing. But now only Washington

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Post has written about it, so I believe it's real.

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A comedian is facing eight years and three months in prison.

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So here's the story. Leo Linz is doing a set

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in mid twenty twenty two. He warns the audience he's

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not going to hold back. He says, I make jokes

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about everything and everyone. What show could be more inclusive.

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I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be

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able to offend the death mute. That set went viral

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and has over three million views on YouTube. During the set,

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he made fun of black and indigenous people, obese people,

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utterly people, gay people, Jews, Northeastern Brazilians, evangelicals, disabled people,

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and those with HIV and is now facing eight plus

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years in prison. The sal Pallo State Criminal Court last

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week convicted him of practicing or inciting racism and religious prejudice,

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as well as discrimination against people with disabilities. They called

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his comedy bigoted and discriminatory against minority and vulnerable groups.

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The judge wrote in her decision freedom of expression is

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not out solute nor unlimited. When there's a confrontation between

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the fundamental precept of liberty and expression of the principles

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of human dignity and judicial equality, the latter should win out.

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Linz responded on his YouTube page and said this video

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is not a joke. This is Leonardo de Lima Borges Linz,

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not the comedian Leo Lenz, a comedic character created over

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many years that makes a servit jokes. He said Brazil

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was going too far with rulings based on emotion, in

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which no one wants to hear the person next to them,

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but to convince them of their own truth. In twenty

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twenty two, a judge had ordered Linz to pay around

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eight thousand dollars to the mother of an autistic child

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he had offended. He was involved in another controversy by

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joking about a child with hydrocephalus that is a disease

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believed to be associated with ZEKEA virus. The audience laughed

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at one of his jokes, and he said, I like

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this crowd. You're complicit in a crime. I'm going to

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use you all at trial. Very very interesting. We'll keep

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an eye on that one. And that is your comedy

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