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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Trevor Noah's new specials aut on Netflix
today. It is called Where Was I?

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He filmed this on his recent off
the record tour, and Where Was

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I? Trevor Noah shares his comical
experiences from his recent travels, which rains

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from foreign national anthems to varying cultural
norms. This one was filmed at the

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Fox Theater in Detroit. It is
Trevor's fourth for Netflix. He had one

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just last year. I'm looking forward
to watching this one. I should be

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able to get to it tonight.
Comedy dot co dot uk reviewed Trevor's recent

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three nights at London's Millennium Dome.
They're right, it's not unusual to encountercomedian

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who's as funny and they're off the
cuff moments as they are in their prepared

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routines. What's more unusual is that
the comedian is funnier and they're off the

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cuff moments. There comes a point
where you think, hang on, if

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you've got funnier things to say,
can't you make sure they're part of the

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show. The tickets are quite expensive
I'd like to hear the best you've got.

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The website writes, the main body
of Trevors show is absolutely fine,

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passable, certainly not anything you'd actively
recommend to friends, or something that justifies

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being staged in one of the country's
biggest comedy venues. He talks about airlines

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and frustrating customer service situations. It's
all roughly the same quality, absolutely fine.

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Towards the back of the show,
he opens up the floor for a

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Q and A session. It's here
that he displays a talent that starts to

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explain the hype. He's great,
funny, interesting company. In those moments.

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You wish you'd more carefully filter his
touring material, though, I wonder

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if it's just not appealing to people
who usually consume British comedy. We'll see.

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Pete Davidson has announced his second Netflix
comedy special, this one with the

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fun title Turbo Fonzarelli. This will
be on Netflix January ninth, so that'll

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immediately be the number one special of
twenty twenty four. In Turbo Fonzarelli,

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Pete Davison reflects on what it means
to grow up in Turn thirty, as

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well as discussing love life and living
in the woods. USA Today caught up

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with Matt Rice's recent show at Off
the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, Florida,

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last Thursday. Matt Rife said,
I did want to make sure I

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mentioned at the top for the show. Though. If anybody has come here

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to a comedy show at a comedy
club with the possibility being offended by a

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joke, We've arranged a safe space
for you. It's located right outside that

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exit door. Go see yourself out. No one's gonna stop you. He

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addressed his controversial joke, which was
I feel like if she could cook,

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she wouldn't have that black eye.
He told the Naples audience. The joke

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is kind of funny because you know
it's a joke. I didn't hit anybody,

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My food was fine, and put
hands on anybody. USA Today says.

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During the set, Rife talked about
the hundreds of comments he got demanding

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an apology. He said he decided
to swallow his pride and post a statement.

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The only reason I did a fake
apology was because in what universe would

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I ever apologize for a joke.
It's a joke. If you don't like

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it, you don't have to listen
to it. You have to come to

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my show to be offended. Some
people thought I was making fun of special

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needs people, and obviously that's not
what I was doing. I was making

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fun of critics for being so stupid
to think I would ever apologize for joke.

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I'm saying, you needed those helmets
way more than they do. Then,

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Matt talked about his alleged beef with
the six year old boy on TikTok.

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He'd tell the audience, no,
you're doing the right thing if you

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are, and just live your life. Everybody wants to be miserable on their

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own. And teach your kid how
many planets have rings around them. USA

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Today writes, with the comedians saying
the awkward part of the show is now

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over. His set turn of the
format. That is, eighteen point two

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million followers on TikTok have come to
know and want to be a part of.

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From finding Grandmother's hot to rebranding certain
negative words to be positive. Rife

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set burned through several topics while riffing
with fans. The more lighthearted bits included

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buying his mother house this year,
experiences with his fan base, and his

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goal to donate all his gifted stuffed
animal bears to charity. He also addressed

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his alleged plastic surgery. Riife said
people were saying I had jaw surgery to

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have a jawline. That's funny to
me, because I'm like, use your

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brain. If I'm going to get
transformedive surgery done to me, you think

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I'm starting with my face. You
would never hear me tell another joke the

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rest of my life. Matt said
he hates the accusations that he does not

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like his female audience. I hated
that because women are the ones who gave

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me the career I have right now, and I'd never be anything less than

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grateful for that. I don't feel
like I've lost any female fans. I

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feel like I lost people who built
an image of me that I did not

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live up to, which is on
them. And we don't happen to have

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the same sense of humor. And
that's fine. You don't have to like

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everybody. Jason Zenniman in The New
York Times asks was a scandal the best

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thing that happened to Haas on Mine. Hassan recently played the Beacon in New

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York. He was telling a story
about a girl cheating on him in eleventh

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grade. Hassan then turned to the
audience and said, don't fact check me.

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That got a good reaction. He
then joked, I had to go

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head to head with one of the
most dangerous organizations in the world. I'm

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talking about a white woman with a
keyboard. He joked his controversy as a

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sign of success. I've made it. I've got a real old scandal,

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a dorky scandal. With regret in
his voice. Minhaj joked, I got

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caught embellishing for dramatic effect. Nikki
Glazer just recorded two shows in Seattle for

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an upcoming HBO special. Glazer told
the Seattle Times, the last time I

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was in Seattle, it was like
something's different. These people get me in

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a way that I've never been gotten. That was like two years ago whatever,

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But I remember remarking everyone around the
time, I have to shoot a

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special here. Glazier said. She
was on stage in Portland recently, and

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she slipped and referenced Seattle, and
the audience is like, you're in Portland,

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and I'm like, what's the difference. It's ringing cold and everybody's kind

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of cool. Her plan for this
special was to warm up the audience herself

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emerging on stage in a bathrobe to
say, Hey, let's just acknowledge this

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is a big deal, but like
oho care, let's just have a blastedeks

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for being here. That's what I
would need as an audience member to feel

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safe diving into this kind of situation. In terms of being on HBO as

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post to those other streaming services,
she says, HBO is some gravitas in

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terms of tastes, not like people
taking these specials just to phillip space on

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their platform. Wonder who. She
means, their approach is pretty much the

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same, but I've got to step
it up. As I often quote Taylor

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Swift, I've never been in natural. All I do is try and try

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and try, which is the ironic
thing because it all looks so natural,

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and it does come natural in a
way, but there's still so much effort

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behind all this trying to make it
look effortless. Congratulations to Whitney Cummings,

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who announced the birth of her first
child on Sunday in a social media post.

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Whitney did not reveal the baby's gender
or name, but joked three D

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printed a human enjoy me, never
having brushed hair again. John Oliver went

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after Elon Musk on Sunday Nights last
week. Tonight, John Oliver went down

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the list of bad guys that he
says Elon Musk resembles. There's Lex Luthor

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posing for the cover of Metropolis Maniacs
Monthly. There's why No, mister bond

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I and my child broad expect you
to die there just brought your media company.

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I'm about to strip you for parts. There's space first, racist sheriff,

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and finally, the less bangable reimagining
of Billy Zane's character in Titanic.

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Truly the Man has ranged. John
also pointed out Musk has the distinction of

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being both the richest person in the
world and the first person ever lose two

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hundred million dollars. John says,
which is even hard to wrap your head

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around. It's like hearing someone run
a marathon after accidentally running two hundred miles

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in the wrong direction. As we
end on the holidays, just want to

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let you know this show will have
episodes every single day, not taking a

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break. Also wanted to turn you
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of Christmas. So it's twelve Christmas
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that, and I've been shoehorning in
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just trying to Christmas it up.
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If you want to check out five
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good News stories, and Taylor Swift
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so let me do a cross plug
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shows. I checked out Leo Reich's
new special on HBO, and I liked

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it just about as much as I
thought I was going to, which was

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not very much. It was quote
unquote better than I thought. I just

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didn't care. I wasn't making a
connection with the comedian. He did have

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one good joke, which was he
says he's bisexual, which means I'm ninety

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percent gay and ten percent absolutely committed
to proving my year seven bullies wrong.

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That got a good chuckle out of
me. I hung in there another five

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or so minutes, and I was
just like, eh, I feel on

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this one. Leo tells the Advocate
that people either leave his shows feeling sorry

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for him or detesting him. He
says, both are fine. I'm not

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here to sort of dictate ho people
should feel. I mean, it's really

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a sponsor the show which has got
such a spectrum of reactions from different people,

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which would I rather have? I
guess pity Pitty's always nice. I've

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always loved being pitied and very competent
about getting sympathy. I didn't come away

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hating him or any of that.
I just was like, eh, what

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else is on? Somewhere? From
that great article and inside hook with the

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title is social media killing stand up
comedy? Trey Gallion says, since the

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pandemic, when I've been on the
road, either done the big clubs or

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hung out of the big clubs,
there have been times where the headliner has

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been somebody that I don't know,
which has never happened in my twenty years

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of doing comedy, you've never heard
of them before, and it's because they

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came from the YouTube world or the
TikTok world. Gallion says such performers tend

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to draw a lot of young kids
at shows, and on stage they tell

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stories as though they're that person at
the party that wants attention. That's pretty

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much what their act is if you
want to call in and act. Numesh

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Patel says he's heard of TikTok and
YouTubers who on stand up comedy stages exhibit

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PowerPoint presentations breaking down the viral videos
they posted a social media and the staff

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will be like that mfor is not
a comedian, but he just sold thre

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hundred tickets. That's not comedy.
But if that's what the fans want,

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that's what the fans want. Pinky
Patel has heard the grumbles from comedians about

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TikTok and YouTube stars taking spots away
from established stand ups. Then she pointed

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out one stand up comedian who she
didn't want a name, who had gained

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a following primarily by posting crowd work
clips to social media. I suspect I

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know who this is and it's the
same person that I heard some comedians taking

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a shot out last week. Pinky
says, from what I've seen on social

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media, what I saw on stage, I was underwhelmed. I'm not as

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happy as I am with their social
media content. Ryan Heffron is the founder

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of the Comedy Zone chain of stand
up clubs, and he says, if

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you sell tickets, I don't care
how you sell them. YouTubers are coming

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through my system on a regular basis, seeing a lot of really happy customers,

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and I'm seeing a lot of really
good talent. Dusty Slay, who

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I'm really into can't wait for his
special in January, said he'd prefer to

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see social media stars with undeveloped acts
get their shot at stage nights on different

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nights of the week, like Monday
and Tuesday, where comedy clubs might otherwise

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struggle to track crowds. Dusty says, if they're taking weekend spots, it's

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a little different. A lot of
times a comic is not really so a

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lot of tickets, but it's very
good in building up a following. We'll

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need Friday and Saturday nights because that's
when people will come out just to see

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comedy, interesting stuff. There not
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