Trevor Noah (What Now? with Trevor Noah) on the risks of hosting the Grammy Awards

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny mag with your daily comedy. He's

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just over a month until Trevor Noah
will host the Grammy Awards once again.

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He told Essence, Can I be
honest, it gets more and more stressful

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every single time because every Grammys is
every artist's most important Grammys. I don't

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want to be the host who screwed
things up when it's Taylor Swift's Grammys or

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when it's Bad Bunnies Grammys. I
would say it's probably one of the most

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stressful jobs I do because the night
is not about me. My job is

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to keep it going and to keep
a connection between the audience and what's happening

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on the night. It's a rewarding
job, but man, it's terrifying esen

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sasas Trevor. A lot of entertainers, when they reach a certain level,

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they get away from stand up a
little bit. And you you're staying sharp,

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you keep doing it. What keeps
pulling you back to doing stand up

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specials? Trevor Noah said, Man, stand up is a blessing. That's

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the simplest answer I can give you. I don't take stand up comedy for

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granted. I don't take it for
granted that I can put on a show

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and thousands of people come out to
join me and laugh together and experience this

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collective feeling of joy. I really, really really don't take that for granted.

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So what's important to me is appreciating
that and remembering what it means.

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Also, I think stand up comedy
is one of the hardest art forms,

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and that it's a really lonesome activity. When you make music, you work

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with a producer, and you work
with other artists, and you write together

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and you collaborate in the studio.
By the time you put the song out

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in the public, you've got a
good sessence of people have given you the

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idea that it's good, and you
have a collective to fall back on.

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When it comes to making a movie, it's the same thing. But stand

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up is a crazy beast that nobody
can team. You can be the funniest

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comedian today and you can tell a
joke tomorrow and it doesn't work the way

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you'd like it to. I think
there's nothing more exciting in the creation of

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art than doing something like that.
It's immediate. Esquire spoke to Gary Golman

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about his first big break Gary did
a tight five minutes it just for laughs

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in Montreal. In July ninety nine, he landed a two hundred and fifty

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thousand dollars development deal with Fox.
He was going to be a sitcom star.

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He moved to LA. The network
paired him with a writer. Gary

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said, we sat around, we
wrote a pilot, and then they said

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no thanks. The next summer he
did another five minutes at a showcase in

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LA. Got a similar deal with
CBS, again turned down. The next

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year, similar deal with show Time, same result. Gary said, it

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was making a really good living,
selling ideas based on my stand up for

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sitcom pilots that never got shot.
It was so frustrating. In two thousand

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and three, Gary finished third on
Last Comic Standing. His last Comic Standing

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twenty years ago, already Wow.
That burst of fame enabled Gary to sell

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out shows around the country for about
six months. Then that died down.

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In twenty fifteen, he put together
what he knew was his strongest set of

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material yet and included the abbreviating the
State's bit. He taped a special called

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It's About Time, with full confidence
it would finally deliver a bigger fan base.

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The producers had a hard time selling
it and wound up on Netflix at

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a discount eight months later. Glad
to see Gary in his sendency right now.

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That last special is fantastic if you
haven't watched it yet, it was

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my number one special of twenty twenty
three. It's also world. Spoke to

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Kathleen Madigan years ago. She tried
to be a flight attendant, but she

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was told she didn't meet a height
requirement. I spent time with Kathleen.

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I never thought of her as particularly
short or anything. Kathleen presumes the height

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requirement is because you have to be
tall enough to reach the overhead bins.

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She said, they didn't tell me
about it until later. He made it

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through two other interview things. I've
worked in restaurants and waited tables. I

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would have been good at it,
but they didn't tell me that until the

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third interview, which I'm like,
why couldn't you have put that in the

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brochure at the beginning. Her current
show, if you go See Your Live,

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includes greatest hits and some new material, and she said, sometimes I'll

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do some throwback stuff only because that's
the kind of show I like to see.

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I like to see maybe a throwback
here or too something from I just

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saw and that a bunch of new
stuff, especially hunting Bigfoot, came out

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last February. Kathleen says there's lots
of bigfoots around. Florida's got one Michigan.

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There's versions of him everywhere. She's
not scared of bigfoots, but she's

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still scared of corporate gigs because a
lot of people didn't pay to be there.

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Kathleen says, a lot of them
don't know anything about stand up comedy,

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and it could go sideways. And
I've had some that did. There's

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nothing you can do about it.
And some of them are great. Some

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of them are like a normal crowd, but any comic would tell you it's

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too dicey. But real life going
on stage and clubs, She's not afraid.

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I think it didn't bother me because
if you're a bart tender, a

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survey, you have to walk up
to strangers, you know, fifty times

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a night and go Hi, I'm
Kathleen. You have to be able to

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be comfortable with that, or you
quit w camout. Bell tells the San

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Francisco Chronicle he plans to get his
act together and return to comedy it's been

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a five year hiatus, but he's
got a new show. W Camal Bell

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gets his act together See what he
did There, an eight show stand up

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residency at the Bakery Studio in Berkeley. Each hour long set will showcase new

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material inspired by current events in his
own life. Delimit Engagement kicks off January

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twentieth, then every Saturday night through
March sixteenth. Howie Mandel spoke to the

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Press Enterprise about how he got into
comedy, and he said it was by

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seeing a show called Candid Camera.
Remember that show. The show is great,

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how he says, I love pranks
and things like that because that's the

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most relatable, real kind of comedy
there is. It's fun to do it,

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to be part of it, and
it's relatable because you can watch it

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and laugh and think what would I
do? Or I'd never believe that,

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or what if I was in that
situation. It's just real. We used

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to watch TV and everything was scripted, and now reality TV, YouTube and

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TikTok are just real people doing real
things, aren't they. Hidden Agenda Prank

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is the reality TV of comedy.
He talks about the things have changed.

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There was only one place to go
to If you were going to make a

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living in comedy, it had to
come to La and get on at the

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comedy store. That's where maybe somebody
was producing TV or film would see you

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and give you an opportunity to change
your life. Today, you could sit

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in your underpants or your bed in
Oklahoma and get one hundred million people seeing

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what it is you do, and
you can actually monitize that and make a

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living and a career out of it. Look at Matt Rife, a very

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funny guy who was having a hard
time, and so we saw him do

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CrowdWork on TikTok. The snow Jam
Comedy Festival will be coming back, but

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it's its final year. That makes
me sad. But there's a reason.

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Snow Jam returns to Sioux Falls,
South Dakota for its eighth and final year

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January eighteenth through the twenty first.
It's mission to celebrate comedy in snow while

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enriching the community by supporting nonprofit organizations
in South Dakota. This year's headliners included

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Timmy Williams from The Whitest Kids You
Know and Sean Jordan from The Late Late

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Show. Dan Booblitz, Junior Friend
of the Show, and Dan and I

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were texting on the side that think
I'm going to do another episode where Dan

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and I just chat about comedy for
an hour or so. That's got to

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clear my schedule and find some time
to spend with Dan. But Dan's said

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Snowjam Comedy Festival started as a joke
and it lasted eight years, which is

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longer than we thought it would.
It's bitter sweet knowing this is our last

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year, but it's better to go
out on a high note and leave the

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crowd wanting more. If you want
to check it out, and I'll talk

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about it as it gets a little
closer Snowjam on comedyfestival dot com. The

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Guardian spoke to propcomics Bill O'Neal has
a solo show called The Amazing Banana Brothers.

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It chronicles the pointian attempt of two
stuntman brothers to slip on the most

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banana peels. Bill says, I
have this illusion that I'm in charge of

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what's going on, but there are
all these bananas on stage and there's sort

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of landmines waiting. I've gotten good
at throwing myself around, but every once

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in a while, one of these
suckers sends me crashing to the ground.

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That reminds me when I did the
marathon in November. They were pretty late

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in the race, like miles sixteen
Ford. They were giving out bananas and

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people were throwing banana peels on the
ground. When you run a race,

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it's normal you grab your water and
then you just throw your cup and the

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volunteers clear it up. So you'd
go through the rest station and it'd be

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a mix of water on the ground
and banana peels. I had a walk

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through these things. I mean I
had to walk through them anyway. It

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was miles sixteen seventeen twenty five and
I was exhausted. But I'm like,

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this is not a good idea.
Bill O'Neil's show requires eighty fresh banana skins

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for each show. He says that
adds up to a lot of peeling and

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cleaning. Weeks after doing the show
at London Soho, theater staff found and

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aaron banana lounched in the ceiling.
In Lucy McCormick's show, the stage is

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so submerged in tomato puret Confettian wine
the audience helps her clean up. In

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the debut show by Sketch duo Grubby
little mits, a thousand ping pong balls

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right down on the audience. Rosie
Nichols is in that sketch dew and says,

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we want our show to be on
the line between theater and comedy.

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Props play a really big part in
that. So for Bill O'Neil's Banana show,

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part of the challenge again, he's
only using the peels. What do

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you do with the banana part of
the banana? He had two thousand bananas?

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What do you do with them?
They contacted the Edinburgh Zoo, they

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couldn't take them. Eventually they found
local businesses making smoothies and deep fried bananas.

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O'Neil said, there were shows where
my shoulder would pop out and I

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was writhing around trying to pop it
back in. Just another thing that keeps

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it exciting, all right. If
you want to go see the Amazing Banana

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Brothers that shows in London at the
Soho Theater starting tomorrow through the thirteenth,

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