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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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out his show December ninth at the Masonic Theater. It's
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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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Hart often cancels gigs for various reasons. He'll pick up
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other work, but Saturday nights Kevin Hart show at the
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Santa Nez Chumash Casino Resort Somala Showroom has been canceled,
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with no further details provided. Arts team released an official
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statement simply stating that tickets would be refunded from point
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of purchase, so usually those get rescheduled. This is a
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cancel again. It might just be somebody offered him a movie,
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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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Right if we go back to Kimilgate and all the
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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