Feb. 2, 2025

Trevor Noah hosts Grammy's tonight...with little promotion?

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's episode, Johnny Mac discusses the unusual lack of press from Trevor Noah before the Grammys, where Noah also stands as a nominee for Best Comedy Album. Johnny critiques the comedy album category and shares his hopes for Jim Gaffigan's win. He provides updates on the Writers Guild Awards hosted by Joel Kim Booster and Amy Schumer's Netflix movie and personal experiences with Ozempic. Gary Gulman talks about his drinking habits and one-man show 'Grand Delinquent,' while Pete Davidson updates on his ferry-turned-comedy club project. Johnny also covers a controversial event at a brewery involving pamphleteering.

00:00 Introduction and Suspicion about Trevor Noah
00:14 Trevor Noah and the Grammy Awards
01:34 Soapbox on Comedy Albums
03:03 Writers Guild Awards and Joel Kim Booster
03:46 Amy Schumer's Ozempic Experience
04:21 Gary Gulman's Drinking Stories
06:23 Pete Davidson's Comedy Club Ferry
06:52 Controversial Comedy Show Incident

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. I've got my Suspicion hat on today.

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Trevor Noah hosts the Grammys tonight. Now. I am recording

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this on Friday. It is eleven fifty Eastern Time as

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I record this podcast, and as of eleven fifty, Trevor

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Noah hasn't done any press that I've seen about the

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Grammy Awards. Normally, you would expect the host of such

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a big award show that'd be like a splash article

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in the Hollywood Reporter or Variety or one of those,

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and there's been nothing. Now it's possible that you know,

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he had the cover of the Sunday Times this morning

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when you got up, but really strange to me that

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he's not out promoting this thing. The announcement that Trevor

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was hosting came pretty late in the game, only like

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two weeks ago. He is an executive producer now, but

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it's just it's just weird. And I don't know why

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I did see that Trevor was overseas touring, but it's

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just weird to me, especially if he's a producer, that

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he's not out promoting this thing. But they're going to

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get a good number. I will tell you why. One

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of the presenters Taylor Swift. Yeah, Taylor Swift's gonna get

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up and present. Maybe she can make a joke about

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Joe Coy. Wouldn't that be awesome? I doubt it because

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nobody knows who Jokoy is, but boy, that would be amazing.

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So normally I would have an article here where I

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would tell you what Trevor Noah said about the Grammy Awards,

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but it doesn't exist. I will tell you that Trevor

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himself is one of the five comedians nominated for Grammy

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for Best Comedy Album. Now, since we have time, I'm

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gonna get on my soapbox because I'm from the twentieth century.

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When you say to me, comedy album, I picture an

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audio presentation. Right. At one point there was vinyl and

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then cassettes and CDs. You know how technology works. Somewhere

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along the way, the Grammy for Best Comedy Album started

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going to Netflix specials or HBO specials, and it became

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a video thing, and that bothers me. The nominees are

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Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffig and Nikki Glaze and

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Trevor Noah. Jervas is up for Armageddon, Chappelle's up for

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The Dreamer. For both those guys, it's nowhere near the

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top of their game, so I will pass on those.

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Nicki Glazer is up for HBO's Someday You'll Die, which

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I didn't think was all that good. Trevor Noah's special

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I would pick, except Jim Gaffigan is nominated for The Prisoner,

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which is only out on album form. There's no video

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special for the Prisoner. Therefore, I am all in for

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Jim Gaffigan The Prisoner. I hope an album wins Best

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Comedy Album. If we're just going in terms of material,

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I would pick Trevor Noah, but I want an album

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to win. Ricky Gervas Armageddon won the Golden Globe for

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Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy. Someday You'll Die got

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two Emmy nominations. Chappelle's The Dreamer was nominated for two Emmys.

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Chappelle has won five Grammys out of six nominations, including

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last year for Dave Chappelle What's in a Name. Trevor

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Noah has won twice. Jim Gaffigan's been nominated seven times,

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never won a Grammy. Rooting for you, Jim. Speaking of awards,

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the Writers Guild announced that Joelkim Booster will host the

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twenty twenty five Writers Guild Awards in Los Angeles Saturday,

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February fifteenth. Joel said, being a member of the WGA

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is one of my proudest accomplishments. Barn None. After a

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tough couple of years, our union has faced. I'm honitor

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to get to host a celebration of all the incredible

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work our memories have produced. I have bad news for

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Joelkim Booster and the Writers Guild. Here's the you guys

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picked a stupid date. Here's why. I don't know if

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you know this. Saturday Night Live is turning fifty. Yeah,

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we've known this for a while. The big SNL thing

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is that weekend, on the Sunday and on the Friday,

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they're doing the big music concert. So if you're looking

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for press for the Writers Guild on that weekend, you're

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not going to get any. SNL is going to be

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all that people are talking about. Amy Schumer wants us

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to talk about her, So okay, Amy, we'll talk about you.

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Every single day. Amy's got a movie out on Netflix

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on Wednesday, and Amy wants us to know she's no

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longer on ozimpic. She said she had a horrible experience

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on ozempic, despite losing thirty pounds. She told Howard Stern,

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I have this gene GDF fifteen, which makes you extremely

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prone to nausea, which is why I was so sick

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during my pregnancy. I tried ozempic almost three years ago,

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and I was like vomiting and then you have no energy.

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But other people take it and they're all good. God

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bless them. She said. She lost thirty pounds so quick

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and look great, but she couldn't lift her head off

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the pillow from how nauseous she was. Forbes asked Gary Goleman,

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what was Gary Goleman's first drink. Gary said it was

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either a Budweiser Miller lte at a bar in Bosston

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in my freshman year of college. I remember it because

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I had brought eight dollars to the bar. My friend said,

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who brings eight dollars to a bar? I was like this.

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All I have was the guys from my football team.

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They were generous and wound up buying me drinks. My

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big hang up was I was an athlete, and I

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was concerned it was going to make me less powerful

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on the basketball court and football field. Gary, what do

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you drink these days? He says, I'm not a big drinker. Occasionally,

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I'll have a glass of champagne at a wedding, and

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I bought a bottle of McKellen after Neil Pert, the

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drummer from Rush, died, I'll have a shot in honor

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of him on his birthday or the day he passed away.

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Forbes was curious how that tradition started. Gary Goleman said,

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I was listening to Getty Lee's biography. He reads it

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and he does such great voices and accents. He said.

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Out a memorial for Neil. He and Alex Liifsen had

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a glass of McKellen, and they also put one out

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for him. The band used to drink it together on

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important occasions. So I thought that was very lovely and

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wanted to add that tradition to my life. They also

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to ask Gary about his current one man show Grand Delinquent.

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Gary explained, with stand up, the basic formulas try to

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get as many laughs as close together as possible. A

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one man's show is definitely more challenging format. I don't

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know how to put it in an arithmetic but it's

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about twenty percent more challenging. You need a narrative arc

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and a stronger ending than thank you and good night.

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I welcome a reasonable challenge. A musical would be way

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over my head. That's something that's close to my stand

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up but draws more in my acting training and writing skills.

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I think I've conditioned my audience that I'm willing to

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share things that aren't necessarily funny but are meaningful to me.

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I'm lucky that I have this patient, encouraging, reassuring audience there,

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and they don't bristle at this. I hear loud laughs

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and to faws, and then I hear people who are

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openly weeping. It's not what I intended. I didn't think

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it would go to that level, but it's a heartwarming surprise,

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he told an anecdote involving Chris Elliott. You feel listen

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to this podcast regularly. You know I'm quite the eighties

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letterman fan Gary explained when the Great Depression came out,

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a friend of mine reached out to Chris Elliott and

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asked him to watch it one time Chris invited me

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up to his house in Maine and cooked barbecue at

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night and stayed up late and told stories and then

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made breakfast in the morning. I was giddy. I wasn't

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able to tell him how crazy it was about his work,

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because I knew would make him uncomfortable, But it was

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a dream come true. Favorite Rush song Subdivisions. Pete Davidson

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gave an update on the ferry he's trying to turn

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into a comedy club. He said, the John F. Kennedy

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sanctioned ferry. It's the biggest one. It's like a five

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thousand seater. Believe it or not. Not many people bid

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on it. A lot of people joke about it. But

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we have a very extensive plan and we're a lot

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closer than people seem to think. The plans include a

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hotel on the top floor, a movie theater, an entertainment theater,

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and a shopping center. Pete explained it's only been two

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years and people are like, I guess it's dead, and

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it's like, we need like one hundred million dollars. Give

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us a second and a story caught my eye from

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the Phoenix New Times. The New Times wrote, after a

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racist comedy act did hosted drew pamphleteering neo Nazis to

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its front door. A particular brewery has a few regrets.

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Since I don't know what's really going on here, I'm

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going to pull my punches on the specific nouns, but

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I'll give you the gist of the story. The brewery

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went on Facebook and posted that they didn't do their

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due diligence to verify concerns about one of the comedians.

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According to the brewery statements via The New Times, the

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comedian was brought along by the headliner. The statement reads

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headliner informed us he was providing his opening acts, as

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is very common in the industry. A few days before

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the event, we received concerns about one of the performers,

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who we weren't aware of being on the show. We

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were assured by headliner that this wouldn't be an issue.

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A mistakenly didn't do our due diligence to verify these concerns. Apparently,

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the New Times dms with the comedian in question, not

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the headliner, the other one who wrote I did two

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shows that went off with no issues. I went back

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to the venue of the following night. No one mentioned

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anything about neo Nazis handing out flyers or them having

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a locked the gates. I had a diverse audience, including

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Mexicans and Jewish people. If this was a neo Nazi event,

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I'm pretty sure those people wouldn't have been there, nor

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would they have hung around after the show to talk

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to me by my merch and tell me how much

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they enjoyed the show. So seeing this post seems like

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a load of horse hockey, and honestly, I'm disappointed in

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the venue. The New Time sources an employee of the

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brewery who worked the event, who said, as for the

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questionable material, there were more shouts of agreement and cheering

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than it was laughter. It felt more like a rally

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than a comedy show. The staffer had trouble recalling specifics

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of the controversial act, but they remembered a bit about

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the comedian being highly attracted to old school Nazis because

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they actually have testosterone and will smack you around every

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once in a while. The staffer said management was complaining

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right along with us. We all shot each other painful

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looks from across the bar, specifically nasty lines. There's been

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a nightmare for them and they're even arguably more frustrated

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and upset than the hourly staff, simply because of the

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intense damage control they're expected to do. Oh there is more.

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According to this, On Friday, members of some neo Nazi

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groups I'm not going to promote the particular groups posted

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photos and videos of themselves on a social media platform,

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masked and handing out flyers outside the show. The flyers

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promoted some of their ideas which I choose not to promote.

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The brewery said, the views of the performers do not

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reflect the views of the Brewery, and in no way

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do we support the presence of any sort of neo

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Nazi groups around our business. We absolutely do not support

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neo Nazis, hate speech, white supremacy, misogyny, anti LGBTQ plus

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or racism of any kind. That's it. I don't even

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know how to wrap up here. Awkward, But like, I

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just found that whole thing interesting, Like how did the

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show get booked? What was said? Why did the guys

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come by with pamphlets? Seems like there's a lot more

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to unpack here. We'll keep an eye on that one. Uh,

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that's your comedy news for today. Awkward, all right, see

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to worrow,