Oct. 10, 2025

Trevor Noah set discusses Riyadh Comedy Festival and a Charlie Kirk Joke

Trevor Noah set discusses Riyadh Comedy Festival and a Charlie Kirk Joke
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Johnny Mac covers Trevor Noah's critical take on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, addressing issues with Saudi Arabia's human rights record and the ethics of performing at such events.

Trevor Noah also draws parallels between restrictions on free speech in Saudi Arabia and concerning trends in the United States.

Additionally, the episode touches on celebrities such as Louis CK and Kevin Hart, and comedian stock market recommendations. The episode concludes with lighter segments featuring late-night jokes and celebrity gossip.


00:13 Trevor Noah on the Riyadh Comedy Festival
02:46 Trevor Noah's Commentary on Free Speech
06:05 Human Rights and Comedians' Responses
08:57 Impact on Comedians' Careers
09:03 Sebastian Maniscalco career seems just fine after Riyadh
11:43 Reflections on the Show's Journey
13:06 Late Night Jokes and Commentary
16:13 Comedy Stock Market: Sell Burr, Aziz, Conan, Maron, Kam
18:08 Gossip Corner and Taylor Swift


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Caalaroga Shark Media.

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Busy One again Helone Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Trevor Noah has weighed in on the Riod Comedy Festival.

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There's a long pause at the top here. I thought

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about taking it out, but I want to leave it

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in to respect Trevor's pacing, as he was performing this

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as part of a comedy set, and pacing, of course

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helps inform the intent here, So I'm going to leave

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the long pause in. This is a lengthy clip and

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there is I think one use of salty language here,

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but here's Trevor Noah.

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I don't know. It's it's it's an interesting one. I'll

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start with this like when you know what what Saudi

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Arabia is all about. It's weird to go to a

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comedy festival that is paid for by Saudi Arabia. You

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know what I mean?

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And this is what I mean.

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There's a there's a difference. I'm all for going anywhere

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to perform for anyone, because there are people who live

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in countries that don't agree with what their countries are doing.

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So I don't assume that everybody who lives in a

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country is the same as the people running the country, Right,

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that's the first thing. But but when the government is

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paying you to come, that's like a direct relationship. That's different.

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Does that make sense? Like it changes up and I

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don't know, man, like Saudi Arabia, You're like, damn, just

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you just do a cursory search. You don't even have

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to like dig do you don't have to go do

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your research or it just the things that Saudi Arabia does,

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you know what I mean, Like you see all the

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comedians who have it's like Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr,

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Louis c k. Like it was like a whole as

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He's I'm sorry, you know, I mean, I'm friends with

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all of these guys. Like I'm just like, but they

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went to Saudi, and I'm like, if you search Saudi,

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you see the things that happened there.

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Right.

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Government is on some like almost dictator level shit. Right,

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Like you you say the wrong thing, you get disappeared

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in a moment. Like it just like one minute your

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family knows where you are, and then they don't. Women

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like don't have control over their own bodies. Oh, free

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speech is limited. Violence is the order of the day.

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I don't know, man, at like, I don't think I'd

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ever perform in Saudi Arabia. I would only perform in

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the United States because that would never happen here. Will

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that would never happen here? Could you imagine what would

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happen if America announced that they were just like like

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scooping people up and just like disappearing their kids.

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Sow out of that, he transitioned into a routine and

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paraphrasing here, And you know, at some point I can't

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just play the guy's entire act, but he transitioned into

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a bit that was some commentary about ICE. If you

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would like to hear the routine, I did share it

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in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group,

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and you'll find it there. But I do want to

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flag that Trevor was both commenting on RIAD and also

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making a larger point. He also made some headlines for

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a Charlie Kirk joke. Trevor Noah was tying his commentary

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about riodd to America's crackdown on free speech and the

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bad taste jokes after Charlie Kirk's assassination. Trevor said, this

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is the same country where hundreds of people have been

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fired for saying anything about Charlie Kirk. This is the

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same country where people make jokes about Ibraham Lincoln being shot,

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which I think like ranks higher. Trevor pushed back on

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the insistence that nothing funny can ever be said about things.

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He said, there's nothing funny about most things in our lives.

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Nothing funny about death, nothing funny about life, nothing funny

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about struggling. The whole point of it is to find

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a moment of solace. Comedians don't have the latitude that

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leaders have. I've seen these comedians will tell a joke

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and people are like, don't you dare And then the

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President of the United States literally said maybe I'll go

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for a third term. Then people said Trump was joking,

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and Trevor said, oh, so he can president jokes. Yeah, comedian, No.

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I would hope that we just learned to focus on

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not the thing that everyone's showing us, but the thing

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that's actually happening. Comedians are not going to make or

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break Saudi Arabian what's happening there, but the thing that's

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making or breaking what comedians can or cannot say in America,

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that's a real thing that's happening At a different point,

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Trevor Noah talked about growing up in South Africa and said,

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you can't just say whatever you wanted. There was no

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stand up comedy in South Africa because you'd go to jail.

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One of the first things you lose, funny enough, in

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an Athloratorian regime is comedy. This crazy trend that you

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can follow throughout time. Go to Russia, South Africa. Know

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it's told the crowd in a weird way. I almost

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feel like Saudi Arabia is moving in the right direction

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by allowing comedy shows. Now, I want to be fair

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to Trevor here again, I can't just endlessly play his clips.

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And I want you to understand this is the difference

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between John reading what Trevor Noah said and Trevor Noah

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actually performed in the material as part of a complete set. Okay,

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so just remember here everything Trevor said was in context

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in a flowing set with the rhythm and the body

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language and the into nation. But I do want to

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from a new standpoint, sure that he did address Charlie Kirk.

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Trevor said, now you tested me. I mean, there's nothing

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funny about it. Don't say that because then I'll be like,

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I'm sure there's something funny about it, quoting Trevor Noah. Here,

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the guy was shot while the funding guns. Do you

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understand I'm not even writing that as a joke. As

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a human, you have to admit that's an incongruous, funny

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thing that happened. That would be like if the captain

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of the Titanic was given an impassionate speech about icebergs

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right before it happened. Trevor was clear, I don't think

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there's anything funny about Kirk's death, but that's literally what

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comedians do. That's the whole point of it. There's nothing

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funny about most things in our lives. Nothing funny about death,

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nothing funny about life, nothing funny about struggling. Nope, the

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whole point of it is to find a moment of solace.

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It's pretty crazy that America's response to the guy getting

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shot was to limit speech instead of limiting the thing

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that ended his life. What happened to Charlie Kirk? He

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got shot? All right, tell people to shut up. We

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got to get some word control out in these streets.

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Let me tell you something, jokes will never kill you,

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never again. The entire set is shared in the Facebook

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group Daily Comedy News podcast group. My apologies to Trevor

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Noah for me buther suuring his material and my intention

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was not to take any of it out of context.

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Hopefully I did that story correctly. The Human Rights Watch

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has posted they wrote during and October sixth appearance on

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Jimmy Kimmel Live as He's I'm Sorry, said that part

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of the fee from the festival should go to support

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causes that support free press and human rights, and that

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he shares the concerns that people have brought up. He

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named Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch. Jessica Kerson,

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another comedian who performed at the festival, said she was

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donating her entire performance fees to a human rights organization.

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Human Rights Watch is unable to accept the donation. They

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add the ri Odd Comedy Festival as part of the

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Saudi government strategy to whitewash its poor human rights record,

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and participating comedians have responsibility to avoid laundering the government's reputation.

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On September nineteenth, Human Rights Watch wrote to the representatives

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and management of a group of announced participating comedians to

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request a meeting about Saudi Arabia's human rights crisis. The

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representatives and management did not reply. Captip to Jason Zinnemann

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for sharing that in his threads feed, which is how

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I sought. Bill Burr continues to get a lot of

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negative reaction to his defensive stance or defiant stance, however

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you want to look at that, but Burr not having

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a good week. Jason Zenniman in The New York Times wrote,

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if the comics used their sets or even their interviews

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back home to look squarely at the critique of the

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Saudi government, that would be one thing. But I see

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zero evidence that they're defending or even showing respect for

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actual dissent. It's giving ahead. Zinneman rights Burr, Luis c

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K and I'm sorry are arguing for the impact of

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comedians and the power of jokes. But that's precisely the opposite.

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Lesson to take away from the comedian Tim Dillon's experience

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with the festival, when he criticized the Saudi government weeks

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before the event, he was disinvited. The comics were made

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on the bill, were paid not just to perform, but

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also to shut up about certain topics, and they complied

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Jason Zinneman in The New York Times points out, imagine

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if similar conditions were put on comics in this country.

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What if a stand up was told they couldn't mock

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the president at the White House Correspondence Association dinner, they

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wouldn't perform. What if Andrew Schultz, who performed in Saudi Arabia,

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was told by an American producer that he couldn't insult

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the government, he would surely exploit this, ending himself as

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the victim of cancel culture. In The Guardian again, Jonathan

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lu this time writes how much of this laughter truly

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escapes the walls of the theater, beyond the brightly elit

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plazas of Boulevard City, into the degradation and exploitation behind.

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What kind of social transformation is possible when only a

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proviage few were in on the joke. The American comedian

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Sinbad once famly observed that comedians are funnier when they're

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riding the bus, and perhaps Saudi Arabian it's hired entertainers

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are laboring under a kind of convenient delusion, the naivete

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of the Saudi government imagining that comedy can whitewash its

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many crimes, is matched only by the naivete of the comedians,

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some of whom genuinely believe their presence is kind of

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a cultural bridge, a force for a positive change. Of course,

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art can change minds, change worlds, but only if the

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will to do so truly exists, or as a world

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renowned stand up comic almost put it, I stand up

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for your right to do stand up comedy in a

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medieval autocracy. But please know that you're wrong. You're living

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in a fantasy land. After you leave, nothing happens, So

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you know, stop being an effing child. So I'll ask

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you has anyone else actually hurt their career doing the

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Riod Comedy Festival. Forbes published this on October eighth, Drinking

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Manhattan's with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco. Here's the top aerographs on stage.

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The comedian will make fun of your table manners, wardrobe

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with the way you're raising your kids, But meeting him

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in person, he just wants you to be yourself. The

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judgment comes later between his successful comedy specials has sold

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out five night run at Madison Square Garden and having

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Robert de Niro as his co star in his first

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major film, Sebastian Maniscalco has become one of today's biggest comedians.

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He recently completed an eighth show residency at the Ocean

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City Resort in Atlantic City, where he brought his observations

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about growing up in an Italian family, people's manners and

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life is a father's to Evation hall I met with

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Madiscalco at the hotel's Italian restaurant, Linguini by the Sea.

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We're over some great Manhattans, as well as homemade meatballs,

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eggplant rollatini and chicken Marsella from Chief Ye and Wilson.

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We discussed his favorite drink, why he's much more social

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than he seems on stage, and how Jerry snide Felt

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taught him the best way to end a meal where

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we are That came out on October eighth, today's October tenth.

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So it doesn't seem like Forbes is too upset with

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Sebastian Maniscalco. I'm sure he'll continue to sell plenty of tickets.

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And to be fair, I'm going to cover that article

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that I just skimmed. I'm going to do it next week.

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I'm just as bad. I took a second to think

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about this. What am I to do. Am I to

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take a moral stand and say, you know what, Sebastian Maniscalco,

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he's dead to this program. I'm never going to mention

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him again. And am I never going to mention Burr

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and Chappelle and so like? I don't know, I'm just

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as bad? Or do I pick my spots and I

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only do negative Sebastian Maniscalco, negative Ck, negative Bill Burr,

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And I don't tell you if they do anything fun

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or interesting or non controversial. So I might just be

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as bad as the Forbes article. I don't know. But

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back to my question, has this actually hurt anyone's career?

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The San Francisco Chronicle reports Louis c K has sold

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part of his Ridiculous World tour. In a recent email

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to fans, K described the or is a gargantoin amount

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of shows, with more than seventy five dates. I bet

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they'll mostly sell out, if not completely sell out. Did

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c K hurt his career going to riodd? I don't

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think so. Perhaps related, perhaps not, Probably not, because Kevin

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statement simply stating that tickets would be refunded from point

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or he's got a cold. I don't know, just sharing

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because it's interesting. Let me catch my breath here for

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a second. This show has been going hard. I want

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to make this about me. The show's been going hard.

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bonus episodes and all this red stuff, the show's been

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going hard. I'm having more fun doing this the last

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three weeks than I've had the entire run. The shows

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have been strong, The numbers are up by a full third.

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People are sticking around, new listeners. Appreciate you. Hope you

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continue to stick around. The reason I'm sharing all this,

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especially for the new people. I pre tape this weekend,

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how come he's not talking about. Sometimes I tape the weekend.

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I'm spending some time with my family this weekend, so

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to accommodate my schedule, I tape the weekend. I had

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all these extra stories. That's what happens. You know. You

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think you're going to do one thing every day. I

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bounce stuff, and I'll often pre tape the weekends. I

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have not pre taped the weekends the last few weeks.

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which is not normally how I produce the show. But

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I'm just sharing this. So the people have been around

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for seven years, you get it. You know how the

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weekend shows go. But in case you're relatively new and

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you're like, huh, I thought this show was really good.

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Today seems a little lesser. Are the shows a little lesser? Yeah?

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They probably are. They're not bad, but they're not like,

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like today's show, I'm throwing nothing but fastballs. Right. The

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weekend shows are just more like, hey, this comedian is

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doing this, this comedans doing that, and then I'll jump

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back in Tuesday will go hard. So I just want

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to tell you all that because I did pre tape

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the weekend earlier in the week when I had a minute,

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let's do the late night jokes today the government shut

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down the topic. Jimmy Fallon said, We're almost a week

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into the government shutdown, and airports across the country are

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already starting to report a shortage of air traffic controllers.

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a long line or using the self checkout tarmac. I

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like that joke, Jimmy Kimmel. Soon when we fly, we'll

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have the same number of air traffic controllers the Wright

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brothers had back to Fellon And if you want to

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know how long eight days of a shutdown is, just

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think eight days ago. We had no idea what kind

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of tree. Travis Kelsey was like. Kimmel was at a

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screen time event. He said the night he returned, he

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did not script his monologue. It was something that really

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had to come from inside me and had to be truthful,

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and I had to lay it all out there and

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to be honest with what I was feeling. He said

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he would not invite FCC chairperson car on the show,

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but he would ask Donald Trump to be a guest.

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Kimmel said, low ratings for the shows that air before

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his have cut into his viewership. The availability of clips

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on YouTube has also hurt. He does not believe the

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shows like his and Colbert's are losing tens of millions

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of dollars. He says those numbers don't include other revenues

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the shows generate, such as fees from local stations. David

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Letterman now originally today, So this is an example of

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meat bumping stuff. Today is ten to ten, and I've

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been sitting on this story that Vulture did, the oral

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history of the Top ten list. Top ten has a

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ten in it. I'm like, oh, I'll do that on

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ten ten. We're almost nearly twenty minutes in today's show.

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I don't have time to do the top ten list.

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So that's an example of something that someday will become

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weekend filler. So for the new people, that's what weekend

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filler is like. So if I were to come on tomorrow,

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it's not in tomorrow show, but some weekend and you're like, oh,

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David Letterman, top ten list, this is fun. That's what

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you get on the weekend timely. David Letterman news he

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will induct Warren Zevon into the Rock Hall of Fame. Zevon,

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passed away in two thousand and two, was a recurring

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guest on The Late show. Mark Maron on his Thursday

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podcast said that was the last one recorded in the garage.

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That Monday's show, which is the final episode, is not

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recorded in the garage, so at some point we're going

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to hear there was a big shiny guest on Monday's show.

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Robin Williams daughter Zelda has asked fans to chill out

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with the AI stuff. She asked people to stop sending

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me AI videos of Dad Robin Williams, stop believing I

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want to see it, or that I'll understand. I don't

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and I won't if you're just trying to troll me.

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I've seen way worse. I'll restrict and move on. But please,

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if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to

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him and made and everyone, full stop. It's dumb, it's

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a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's

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not what he'd want. Zelda Williams continued to watch the

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legacies of real people be condensed down to this vaguely

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looks and sounds like them. So that's enough, just so

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other people can turn out horrible TikTok slop is maddening.

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You're not making art, You're making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs

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out of the lives of human beings. I actually saw

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a clip one of Martin Luther King Junior's descendants, it

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might have been one of his kids that may have

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been the next generation, tagged onto the Zelda Williams conversations

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like can you just stop? And in that there was

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an image shared of what sort of kind of look

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like MLK Junior at a UFC event, So yeah, just stop.

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A Zelda said, you're not making art. You're making disgusting

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overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings,

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out of the history of art music, and then shoving

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them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a

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little thumbs up and like it. Gross. Comedy Stock marketsine

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every Friday. We take a look at the comedians. We

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buy some stock, and we sell some stock, and I

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make some recommendations. And honestly, I almost didn't do the

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segment this week because it's been such an angsty period

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and I wish I had some buy recommendations for you,

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but I just don't this week. So here are my

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cells as he's and sorry, let's get the hell out.

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Did you watch the Camel piece. I'm not buying a

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disease and if you listen to the show, I don't

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like disease to begin with.

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I just.

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I have my issues with disease. Sell asease and sorry,

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Bill Burr, he's just digging himself a hole and the

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hole is getting bigger and bigger. So let's sell our

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Bill Burr. And I think we got to sell a

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little on Conan O'Brien. I know set Conan has had

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a great year, but I feel like once the Conan

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O'Brien needs a friend, episode gets out from behind the

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paywall and more people hear it. I'm seeing some conversation

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on Reddit that Conan has sort of let Burr off

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the hook there, and I think Conan gets some slap back.

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So let's sell a little Conan stock, not all of it,

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but a little. Let's also sell Cam Patterson. Now this

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is probably unfair, but based on the one appearance on SNL,

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I'm like, hm, I feel like he's going to be

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one and done, So let's sell Cam Patterson stock. And

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we are trying conceptually to make money here. Let's sell

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high on Maren. We're at peak Maren, and you always

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sell high and buy low. This is as high as

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Maren's going to get into this Monday episode. So let's

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cash out on Mark Maren. Good luck to you, sir,

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Thank you for all your service, thank you for what

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you do, thank you for your podcast. But we're going

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to make hypothetical money. Let's sell high on Mark Maren,

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Sell Bill Burr, sell Little Conan, sell Cam Patterson, and

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sell the hell out of disease and sorry, and that's

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your comedy stock market. I'm exhausted. I don't know about you.

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All right, let's do gossip corner. Caitlyn Clark hanging out

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with Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, was in town.

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Adam Sailor posted on what is this? This is Twitter?

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Sandler posted Indiana, Holy cow. Great Monday, Hank can't wait

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for the next one scene there with Caitlyn Clark. Taylor

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Swift was spotted out for dinner on Tuesday night. She

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was there with her longtime friend, comedian Gerrod Carmichael. Jord

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Carmichael and Taylor Swift are longtime friends. Did everyone else

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know this? I didn't know this anyway, that's who she

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went to dinner with. Okay, Tonight's Jimmy Fallon is airing

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the extended cut of Taylor swift Tonight Show appearance from

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earlier in the week. It is called The Tonight Show

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Starring Jimmy Fallon colon Taylor Swift parentheses extended cut now.

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Taylor also went on Seth Meyer's show for some reason.

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And for those of you that think I'm unfair to

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Seth my my premises nobody cares. Here's the degree to

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which nobody cares. Okay, Seth Myers had on Taylor Swift,

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and I went on Latenighter dot com. Dy did it

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even cover it? Seth Myers had Taylor Swift and Late

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Nighter didn't even bother to mention it on Thursday when

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I looked here, I'm gonna look again. It's four twenty

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two pm Eastern up typing in Latenighter dot Com. And

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I love the site. I source it almost every single day.

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It's fantastic. I'm on The main page features SNL's fifty

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greatest episodes, as voted by fans. One hour ago. Suddenly,

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to a viral challenge. News Watch Jimmy Kimmel Talk, Disney News,

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Taylor Swift's Tonight Show visit expands with extended cut airing

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Friday News or Samuel hall Ready's new memoir, News David

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Letterman to induct Warren Zevon News. Amy Poler, Oh, Yeah,

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Amy Polers hosting SNL look at That eventually on Tuesday

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features SNL screen Time Report Use and Tene TV plans

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Tonight Show party for Johnny Carson's one hundredth birthday. None

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of that is Seth Myers who had Taylor Swift. Why

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did she do Late Night with Seth Myers? Why? I

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don't understand. Luckily, people who apparently stayed up later taped

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it or whatever they did. Seth said to Taylor Swift,

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congratulations on your engagement. There are two things I'm worried

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about in your behalf. Taylor Swift said, only two. Seth said,

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I think you've got everything else under control. I'm worried

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about the invitations, just the invitations alone, because I feel

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like everybody you know has an expectation that you're gonna

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put a lot of thought into it, and I feel

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like I just give you permission to send an evite.

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I'm exhausted. Check the run time on this episode. What

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can I not bump? I cannot bump that this week?

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And it's the Because They're Funny DC Comedy Festival. It's

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back for its third year at the Wharf. This year's

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lineup features some More and Jay Farrow. They'll also be

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the Breakout Comedian of the Year competition, hosted by Jay Farrow.

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National finalists compete for a ten thousand dollars grand prize

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and a shot at Hollywood representation. That it's your comedy

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news today, all right, Johnny Max, take it a couple

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of days off. There'll be shows in your feed and

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we'll jump back in live on Tuesday. Thank you to everyone.

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Thank you Clifford. Clifford became a new supporter of the show.

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Appreciate you Clifford who wrote, You're doing great job. Your

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listeners love your content. Keep it going. Thank you, and

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thanks for everybody who buys me a coffee or is

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in the two dollars club. You can check all that

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stuff out on buying mycoffee dot com. My voice is shot,

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I'm out of energy. It's the weekend. Have a good one.