Trevor Noah (What Now? with Trevor Noah) drops new trailer, Taylor Swift criticized for attending comedy show

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Kalaroga Shark Media. HEYMN Johnny Mack
with your Daily Comedy News. The second

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half of this podcast. The stories
are quite out there, quite aggressive today,

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but we'll do normal stuff in the
front half. Wanted to catch up

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on some late night jokes that I
liked, one from Jimmy Kimmel. The

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setup here the indictment of Hunter.
Biden accuses Hunter of spending millions on drugs,

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escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels,
rental properties, exotic cars, clothing,

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and other items of a personal nature. In short, everything but his

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tax is Kimmel's joke. Hunter Biden
is like the son Donald Trump. Never

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had a new topic from Jimmy fallon. President Biden hosted Ukrainian President Zelenski at

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the White House. When he asked
for money and support, Zelenski said,

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sorry, Joe, I got my
own problem. That's a great joke.

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Cal Penn talking about the Dodgers signing
at show Hey Otani to a seven hundred

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million dollar contract, cal Penn said, that's one dollar for every minute it

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takes to watch one single baseball game. Trevor no has got a new special

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out December nineteenth. I am psyched
for it. Let's listen to the trailer.

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When I flew to Paris, my
luggage was lost. I had to

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find somebody to help me. It's
an older French gentleman and he was wearing

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a red vest and in French it
read Informacion and then underneath an English said

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information. I said English French English, yeah we I said, okay,

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could you help me? Please?
My my my luggage didn't arrive. I

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would like to know what do I
need to do. He's like, oh,

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the leg easier? Did you come? If you could define? For

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that one, we maybe you're gonna
p do you because if you're in you

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can be put you different want but
you go to that when you can be

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fine for you because you did not
do like them different ones for because I'm

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not in control with the but this
different and controls to maybe you can't see

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you for for that one, I
was like, okay, okay, all

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right, let's try French. Netflix
is gonna have quite a run. Trevor

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on the nineteenth, Ricky Gervai's Christmas
and Dave Chappelle New Year's Eve. That's

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awesome. I was watching Netflix and
they suggested, hey, want to watch

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Kevin Hart and Chris Rock not an
absurd suggestion Netflix, and I was like,

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hmm, I kind of don't.
I don't know why, I just

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I'm not interested in this one.
Jason Zinnemann covers comedy for The New York

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Times, and he only wrote two
paragraphs about it. So maybe his editor

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cut it down. Maybe the assignment
desk was like, Jason, just give

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us two paragraphs, or maybe Jason's
not into it either. He wrote,

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Kevin Hart and Chris Rock headliner's only
as a slick self mythologizing. I don't

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know how to say that word piece
of Netflix conflict. I'm leaving it in

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That follows the two comedians on the
recent arena shows they teamed up on.

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It's aimed to comedy fans, even
if much of it will be familiar to

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them. The story of how Eddie
Murphrey spotted Chris Rock at the comic strip

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and offered him a job on the
sequel to Beverly Hills Cop has been told

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many times in Any stand up fan
on social media or listening to this podcast

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knows that Kevin Hart presented a goat
to Chris Rock at the end of their

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recent MSG show. That doesn't mean
there aren't reasons to watch, says Jason

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Zinneman. Did you see Netflix released
Hey, here's what people are actually watching.

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They finally did that, and I
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see what the top comedy special was. I got one hundred and twenty five

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down on the list before I got
bored looking. So then I went to

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the SEK function and I typed in
the words Chris Rock and I found Chris

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Rock four hundred and ninety seventh.
It was the four hundred and ninety seventh

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most watched thing on Netflix in the
first six months of the year. That

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said, the things that were more
watched have seasons, whereas a Chris Rock

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special was what an hour? So
if you're comparing that to I don't know,

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suits has a lot of hours and
Chris Rock has one hour, that

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makes thirty six million, two hundred
thousand hours viewed much more impressive. So

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that suggests a lazy math here.
If it had thirty six million and change

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hours viewed and the special is about
an hour, that means sort of kind

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of thirty six million people checked out
this special. That's pretty good as a

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random comparison. The one thing that
popped up my mind. I was like,

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how many people watch the Seinfeld finale? That answer seventy six million?

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That thirty years ago when TV was
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for comedy special, very very impressive. From The Daily Beast, George Santos

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says Jimmy Kimmel short changed him by
more than twenty thousand dollars when Jimmy requested

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cameo videos that were later aired on
late night television without his permission last week,

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and now he wants Jimmy Kimmel to
pay up. Jimmy Kimmel had a

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segment called will Santos Say It?
He played clips of Santos addressing bizarre requests

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he and his staff made using pseudonyms, including one where Santos was asked to

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congratulate a Gary Fortuna on winning a
beefeeding contest in Florida. Santos told The

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Spectator World that Kimmel's stunt may have
violated Cameo's terms of service, adding he

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plans to take Jimmy Kimmel to court
if he doesn't shell out for the clips

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much higher business rates since they weren't
requested for personal use, Santos says,

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His total invoice to Kimmel, not
including the two thousand already paid for the

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four videos, is twenty one eight
hundred dollars and change. That account amounts

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for the videos and a fifty percent
business rush rate, according to the Spectator.

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Kimmel provided the Spectator with a statement
which reads, the idea that mister

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Santos would claim we short changed him
and used credit card purchases improperly, proves

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once and for all that the man's
a comedy genius. Steph Tolev told the

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Toronto Stars she knew when she hadn't
made it. She looked out in the

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crowd. There were eight women.
They were part of a bachelorette party,

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but instead of wearing tierras and sashes, they were dressed in rompers and supporting

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mulletwigs. Steph said that was crazy, as jumpsuits, rompers and curly,

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dark, long in the back hair
are Steph Tolev's signature look. Steph said,

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that was crazy, a kind of
imposter syndrome. So part of me

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was thinking, what are you doing? Why would you want this? But

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it was strange and kind of nice
At times. I still think what's going

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on? Last year, she opened
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Scotiabank Arena. She said Scotiabank felt
like an out of body experience. I

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got there and it felt like a
simulation. I started doing crowd work,

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but it's hard in a plays like
that. And then I looked off to

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the side and saw my dad and
sister just glowing. And then I saw

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Bill Burr watching me and laughing,
and it brought me back to reality.

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For a second. I felt more
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that, she was hanging out on
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media, making fun of New Yorkers, and then Bill Burr shared the video.

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She DMed him and thanked him for
sharing it, and he said thanks

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for being hilarious, and then he
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the road for him. I seriously
thought I was being pranked. About a

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month later, till I was manager
called and said Burr had specifically asked for

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her to be in his new Netflix
special. He had told Netflix the request

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was non negotiable. Wow, that
special as Bill Burr presents Friends Who Kill.

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That changed things. Steph says,
I was already getting some headlining weekends

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at American clubs, but that special
just took things to a whole new level.

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Clubs were banging on my agent's door
trying to get me spots. Nate

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Bergatsy was on the Manning Cast Monday
Night, and people didn't like it.

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Apparently I didn't even realize those in
Manning Cast because for some reason, Monday

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Night football had two simultaneous games.
I YouTube TV and they had a channel

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option that let you watch both games
simultaneously, so I didn't go channel surfing

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at all. I didn't even know
there was a Maning Cast Monday night,

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and I guess Nate brought along his
father, who's a magician. Some of

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the social media comments, I don't
know who magic Man is on the man

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In Cast, but he's truly horrible. Another viewer said, Magic on Maning

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Cast is an all time flop.
Kate mccoochee and now she has lung cancer.

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You may know Kate from The Big
Bang Theory or perhaps Garfunkle and oats.

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She said the diagnosis was pretty weird. I've never smoked a cigarette in

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my life. It was a surprise, but I also guess it happens the

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American Cancer Society says that not everyone
who's diagnosed with lung cancer has a history

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of smoking. Non smokers can develop
lung cancer from exposure to rate on secondhand

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smoke, air pollution, or other
factors. That's scary. I'll tell you

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something I hadn't shared. So I
had a little skin thing removed, and

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I've gotten the biopsy back and everything
is fine. But I've got a big

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scar on my arm now. But
my reaction to it was like, all

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right, this is not crazy talk. If you know me, I'm always

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at the beach. I'm always out
in the sun. So I wasn't like

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what me and the example I was
using. It was like, it wasn't

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like they told me, oh,
you might have lung cancer because I don't

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smoke. I've never smoked, just
like Kate. So it's just interesting me

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that this, Wow, this actually
happened to her. Hope she's doing okay.

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She shared a video and photo from
her time in the hospital. You

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see her walking around in a medical
gown holding an IV pole while admiring the

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pretty nice artwork on the walls.
At the end of the TikTok, she

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poses on her hospital bed with a
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tray. Really scary. I hope
she's doing okay there. Vulture reviewed ma

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Maria Bamford's new special if you're like
what Maria Bamford new special exactly. Comedy

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Dynamics released it as a thing you
can buy. It's on Apple TV for

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fifteen dollars. We seem to be
in a little moment here where the comedy

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Senti has decided Maria Bamford is awesome. Who was it last week that had

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was a Maren that had Maria Bamford
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Again, Maria is wonderful? Was
seeing her alive? But number two

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all time seems a little high.
But vultures on the train, they said.

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At first glance, Maria Bamford's new
special, Local Act does not look

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much like the artistic statement of purpose
common Special lacks the kind of sweeping statements

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about humor and humanity that tend to
come with this mode. In scope and

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style, it doesn't have pretensions of
grandeur, but Bamford isn't interested in broad

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claims by other comedians about what art
should look like. All of it is

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charming, and all of it is
unmistakably Maria Bamford, full of odd little

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sound effects, swallowed premises, and
startling character voices that arrive into part in

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seconds. Her physical performance is occasionally
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At another point falls into a whole
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being a cliche. Her jokes are
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if they're being told by a one
woman band holding invisible instruments. Towards the

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beginning of the special, she jokes, I'm a comedian as far as I'm

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concerned, but if I have to
make a bunch of ladies at a nonprofit

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luncheon and NAPA Valley laugh who books
this crap? She pauses, then points

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to herself and says, I do
heard from a couple listeners. I always

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enjoy hearing from listeners. So several
ways you can do that. One participate

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in the Facebook group which is Daily
Come News podcast group. You can email

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me directly my emails in the show
notes. I heard from Susannah, who

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wrote a huge comedy fan and I
love your podcast. It's the first thing

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I listened to every morning. I'm
going to circle back to that comment in

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a few minutes. Please please,
please give Michael McIntire some attention. His

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Netflix special show Man is by far
and away the actual funniest like sides hurting,

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tears, streaming, laughing out loud
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I know he's a brit but honestly
so worthy of more recognition on this side

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of the pond. You know,
if you listen to every Day, I'm

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a fan of British comedy on the
podcast, I tend to do that stuff

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in the back half or more on
the weekend because you know it's primarily in

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an American audience. I get it. I love British comedy, so I

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will check out Michael McIntyre. He
is off my radar. Thank you for

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the tip. The Guardian wrote about
Michael McIntyre and said, you want ten

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tight minutes on middle aged wine drinking, McIntire's your man. Interested in a

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riff on yawning, Mcinsire's here for
you. Itemizing the oddity of this universal

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human behavior, the comedy of failing
to press it when in conversation, the

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incongruity of its seeming contagiousness, how
do you catch tretis not for the first

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time you marvel at such an ostensibly
but not observation can feel so fresh and

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deliver in McIntire's expert hands such a
substantial comic payload. Susanna, thank you

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for the note, thank you for
listening, and that special sheet is recommending

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is called Showman on Netflix. Also
heard from PS who said, Hey,

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Johnny, please take a moment to
look at Pat Finnerty's YouTube channel. He

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does a series called what makes This
Song Stink? It's all in fun He

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just released episode eight about Jason Aldeen
and it's insanely funny. I did that.

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I checked one out about Weezer's Beverly
Hills. I'm a big Weezer fan,

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and in that video, Pat Trinerty
mentions Duncan. I was like,

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all right, I could do this. Good tip there. Thank you for

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reaching out. Back to Susanna's comment
about it's the first thing I listened to

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every morning. That pleases me,
a couple thoughts about the show here as

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I put it together, That's exactly
what I'm going for. You can listen

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any time of the day, but
I'm just trying to do a ten to

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fifteen. Today's going to be more
like twenty casual listen in the morning,

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easy on the years, I keep
it clean, trying to have a little

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fun. I was listening to another
podcast and it's hosted by comedian, and

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two comedians were the guests, and
they were going after somebody who I regularly

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quote on this podcast, who reviews
comedy, and they were just going after

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the guy, making fun of the
idea of reviewing comedy. I thought it

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was a little unfair, and you
know, maybe I got a little sensitive

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to it. I'm like, oh, will they think I'm stupid? But

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here's my deal. Some of you
are gonna be like, yeah, yeah,

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we know. But for the newer
listeners, I ran Serious XM Comedy

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for ten years. After that,
I started running the comedy properties for Slacker

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Radio, which is now called Live
one Radio. As part of that,

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I started hosting a weekly show called
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that. I'll talk about that on
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week and off that I wound up
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turned it into this podcast that you're
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comedian, I'm not a performer.
I'm not trying to be funny, you

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know. I'll throw in some dry
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you might think I'm stupid, that's
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take on this. You know,
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especially at the series, people were
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You're not And I'm like, well, I'm not a guitarist, but

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I can understand that a Rolling Stones
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master and play it on the rock
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whether or not I can play bass
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think I know more about comedy than
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a half percent of the population of
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that know more than me know way
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fun of the critic, they know
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knows way more than I do.
Jason Zinnemann knows way more than I do.

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That guy Cliff that wrote the book
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do. I am not claiming to
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dude in the basement who likes talking
about this stuff. I thank you all

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for listening. While I'm doing all
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They are Tommy and Andrew and Gary
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always trying to get me to switch
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too wired on that green cup one. I can't do it. And some

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All right, the rest of the
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today, but just some awkward stuff. Let's start on gossip Corner. Taylor

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Swift. Happy birthday yesterday, Taylor, Hope, Taylor at a nice day.

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If you want to keep up on
Taylor, We've got a sister podcast

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called Taylor Swift Today. It's like
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It only talks about Taylor Swift.
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Swift attended a comedy show that featured
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And here's where the controversy is going
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night Taylor is with Selena Gomez.
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of Music in New York City.
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girls' night out. Both Swift and
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booze combo for their evening out at
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Anara is the American Near East Refugee
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to refugees and vulnerable communities in Palestine
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that one percent of the proceeds for
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to Anara. Megan Kelly has chimed
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Taylor Swift. Megan Kelly on her
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Americans in apology for attending the event. Megan says, I hope they boycott

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Taylor Swiss events until she issues it
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some googling see what they do in
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gaza. Taylor otherwise do this and
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to talking about those issues again.
You clearly know nothing. This isn't a

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political show, and I'm a little
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a comedy show, and this has
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on the entire issue. This next
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out. Then when I went for
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I see it's the number one story
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A US comedian an activist was abducted
and killed after trying to meet a

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woman he found on social media and
Colombia. To Geer Jong Hope, I

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said your name right, an Asian
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in Colombia. The plan was to
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came into contact with a woman he
met on social media. He planned to

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meet her on December tenth, but
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men around seven pm local time.
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saying that these men had demanded two
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He told his friend, who filed
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held at gunpoint. Hours earlier,
police were at the apartment Jean had been

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staying at because a woman was taking
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police could arrest her. Jong's body
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a dozen stab wounds and multiple bruises, caused by an apparent fall from over

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sixty feet. Horrible. My favorite
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sixty one. I'm fifty four.
I can't believe when he was on Homicide

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Life in the Street he was only
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was playing Pembleton. I mean always
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but I think I was a teenager
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Actor. Andre Brower passed away on
Monday, age sixty one. Terry

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Cruz, who co starred with him
in Brooklyn ninety nine, said, can't

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believe you're gone so soon. I'm
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you, worked with you, and
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This hurts you left us too soon. Joe la Truglio from that same

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show said, so many wonderful stories
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but all my love goes to his
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very much and flew back every weekend
from the show to be with. Well

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you probably didn't know is that Andre
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lunch, building basic vocals from his
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At first, it was odd because
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at full lying behind closed doors.
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sense in the world because the man
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why the world took notice. I
miss him so much already. If you're

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under familiar with Andre's work, go
on social media and type his name in

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and add the word homicide and watch
some of the clips. He was just

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fantastic. S your comedy needs for
today see tomorrow