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Callaroga shock Media. If you don't like the intersection of
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comedy and politics, then skip today. Otherwise, Hi, I'm Johnny
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Mack with your daily comedy news. Bill Maher, for some reason,
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received the newly unrenamed Kennedy Senators Mark Twain Prize for Comedy.
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Bill Maher said, now the President, when he is in
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attack mode, never fails to say that I'm part of
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the lunatic left. Okay, he's not wrong that there is one.
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I'm just not part of it. And I'm sure there
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is a lunatic right. And when either side gets mad
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at me because I put them in jokes, jokes that work,
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my message to them is simple, you want to not
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get mocked, stop being funny, then the jokes will work.
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When they're ridiculous, they do work. And when people laugh,
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you're caught. Laughter is involuntary. It's people's inescapable truth detector,
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whether they want to believe or not. Before the ceremony,
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Mar talked to reporters about the possibility of Trump himself
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showing up. Mar said, because anything's possible with him, that
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didn't happen, but Matt fra came to the stage and
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imitated Trump. Matt friend, Trump said I get so many
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more laughs than this guy and demanded the award. Bill
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Moore said, just take it. I'm used to losing awards,
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and then noted that he'd received forty one nominations but
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has continuously lost. Bill Moore said, I lost one year
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to the U log Is it something I said? It's
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everything I said. The ceremony featured many clips, including his
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time at ABC with Politically Incorrect, as well as his
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stand up specials and podcasts. Louis c K was there.
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Louis c K said, I am not a political guy.
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I wrote one joke about Trump, but it took me
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about eighteen months. Now. I don't even know if I
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can repeat this joke without getting a visit from people
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of Bill Maher, Louis c K said, he's not a
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guy who gives an f about what people think of him.
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My career took a downturn, but then I heard from
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Bill within it invites a buera on a show. He
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offered me to help me when no one else would.
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And he's a good guy. He has a heart. C
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K said, mar earned the honor by being a constant
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and hilarious force in American comedy. For many years. Whitney
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Cummings said, I actually heard Trump may come tonight, but
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he couldn't make it. He got caught in sex traffic.
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Bill Moore himself called out the left, noting recent efforts
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to censor Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn because it uses racist language.
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Mar said, the silly purists on the left want to
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ban it now, which just shows you if you hang
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around long enough and create something important enough, everyone ates
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you at some point, and that's when you know you're
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doing it right. His point there was that the racist
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language is in the service of mocking racism. Bill Moore
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praised his audience, saying people say they want honesty, they don't.
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They want to live in a bubble. They say they
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want to be challenged, They don't. Except for my audience.
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They love it, and I love it for them, and
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I'm sorry. I think it makes them better. Why because
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I don't ask to please the audience. I ask what's true,
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and they're okay with that. They are a unique group
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of people who do not demand to be pandered too,
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and in fact want me not to do that. And
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has been the honor of a lifetime to try and
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lead a backlash to group think. The event will stream
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on Netflix July twenty first. This is not quite the
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Conan O'Brien event of last year, Woody Harrelson said, people
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generally come up here and talk about how great the
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nominee is. But I've decided to be honest. I've known
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Bill a long time, since back when he was funny.
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I'll say this, he is impeccable tastes and friends. We're
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both outspoken at our beliefs. I not only admire you,
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but you're one of the funniest, smartest, greatest people I know.
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I love you, brother what He also joked about the
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center's temporary name change there. Woody Harrelson said, no award
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for my dear friend, ironically the Trump Kennedy Center. Oh right,
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we fixed that, not say you'd be able to notice.
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In case you don't know, they still have scaffolding out front,
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so you can't see the name at all. Jay Leno
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was there. I'm not seeing much about what jay Leno
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said or didn't, And believe me, I looked because I
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even found that jay Leno stopped by an iconic DC
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Italian restaurant. That's right, jay Leno was at Philamina restaurante.
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The restaurants shared photos of jay Leno's visit as writing,
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look who's dining at Philamina. Jay Leno, the celebrated comedian, writer,
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and former late night host, is scheduled to be a
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guest speaker the Kennedy Center presenting Bill Maher with the
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Esteve Mark Twaine Award for American Humor. He thoroughly enjoyed
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his lunch today and left a sweet note for Joanna Philamina.
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For many years, Joanna has been a great fan of his.
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But if jay Leno had some jokes, I can't tell
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you what they were. Bill Moore said, this really does
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mean a lot to me. Believe me, when they called
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and said would you accept this? They didn't have to
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ask twice. My speech tonight will be mostly thank yous,
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as it should be, so all the people who believed
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in me supported me, the fans who stood by me,
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because you know, once in a while I did get
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in a spot of trouble. He said he was most
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proud of staying on the air for thirty three years
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without ever pulling a punch on a show mostly without stars.
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Sylvie McNamara wrote for The washingtony and things felt weird
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at the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize. Sylvie writes throughout
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the evening there were some laughs and a smitch of gayety,
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but overall was fairly sedate. Whole swats of balcony seats
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stood empty. Volunteer seat fillers meant to plump up the
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crowd for the TV cameras, were given the option to
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bring up to five guests. Whitney Cummings opened by describing
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how strange it is that Bill Moore would choose to
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be a political comedian as opposed to any other type.
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She compared it to a surgeon choosing corectal specialty. Both
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involved spending one's life examining a holes. Cummings added, if
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that metaphor was too weird, I have another one that
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can help you under sty and how masochistic it is
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to do what Bill Maher does. Being a politicalmedian is
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like being a sports commentator who chooses only to talk
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about the Washington Commanders that got a cheer from the hometown, or,
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as Bill calls them, the Redskins. Oh wait, this does
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have a j leto joke. Jay Leno said, for the
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second time, at our nation's capital, there's a big, beautiful
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Bill in Washington. Boy, that's awful. You know, the Kennedy
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Center was not Bill's first choice, but the Playboy Mansion
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was unavailable. Jay leto everybody a little behind the scenes.
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Johnny Mack has a clogged ear, and I am struggling
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to do the show today because I'm trying to explain.
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I'm kind of in my own head when I'm speaking,
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so I don't sound to myself the way normally sound.
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It's very annoying. Cheryl Hines has shown support for Mega
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comedian Nate Pergatzy. That's right, we're now describing Nate Pergatzy,
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who went to a UFC fight as Mega comedian Natepergatzy.
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So what did Nate do now? Well, he posted a
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short clip of live stand up performance on Instagram on Sunday,
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featuring Nate's alone on stage talking about his experience trying
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to buy a hammock. Cheryl Hines publicly liked the post. However,
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the most liked comment on the video, we are told,
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reads Nate, how is the carnival on the w h lawn.
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The second most liked says, we remember Maga comedian Nate forguests,
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everybody went to a UFC fight once, so did Chane Gillis.
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Michelle Wolfe was talking about her appearance at the twenty
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eighteen White House Correspondents dinner. Trump did not attend that dinner.
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Michelle Wolfe said, if there was anything I could go
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back and do again, I would be meaner. If I'd
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known how mad they were going to get at a
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joke about I makeup, I would have told the meaner
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jokes that I cut so they could get mad at
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something that was actually valid. But also knowing what the
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administration has done and what they continue to do, I
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would have really gone in on them and the press
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more and try to hold them more accountable. Michelle wolf
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is now living in Europe, splitting time between Barcelona and London.
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What she likes about Spain, there's no worry of shooting.
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I feel like that's a big one. Never having to
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do a school shooting drill. That just feels like a
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nice thing to not have to teach her children. Michelle
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believes in poking fun at both sides. She says, you
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could say anything, people are gonna get maybe mad at
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you for saying it. Even if you have a well
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constructed argument, people might still get mad at you. You're
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free to say something and people are free to be
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mad at it. Switching topics, all those podcasts bros I
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had had a Trump on and got them the presidency.
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I feel like now maybe they're walking back on platforming,
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but it's like you knew who this guy was. They
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oftentimes put information out there either don't know if it's
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true or not, or don't care, and they don't realize
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that they have a responsibility millions of people listening to you,
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and whether you want it or not, they believe what
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you say. So many of those guys went to the
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inauguration and they just think it's cool to be up there,
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and I'm like, it's gross for me personally, no matter
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what the side was, I wouldn't want to be piles
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with the president, whether they're a Democrat or Republican. They're
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droning children. George Carlin always did a really good job
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of calling out the political power rather than being piles
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with anybody. Would she returned to the White House Correspondents
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dinner If they did invite me, I'd be happy to go.
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I just think they'd have to know what to expect,
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but sure, give me that platform. I'll do another roast
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Michelle Wolfe living in Europe. I did squeeze some special
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in between the soccer games. We've been watching a lot
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of soccer. Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic. I think I'm
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going to do my updated list on Sunday. At the
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time of this sentence, I haven't seen Louis c k yet,
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but I think Sunday I'll do the midway through the
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year list Holiday weekend and all. You know how the
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show goes. But Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic, and the
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folks in the Facebook group seem to agree with me.
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See if you haven't watched Ryan Hamilton on Netflix, very
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very funny special. I also switched over to Dez Bishop
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on Hulu, and I think you know, Dez was a
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great guest, good guy, want to hang out with them,
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guy from Queens. But I think what we've seen of
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the Hulu specials is the Hulu specials, so just not
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up to the quality of the Netflix specials. Dez's specials fine.
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I didn't stay with it that long because I've been
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doing this long enough that I know the difference between
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a great special and a fine special, and that one's fine.
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Trevor Noah has been praised by his fans after pointing
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out bias towards African and Middle Eastern teams during the
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World Cup. Trevor Noah was sharing his thoughts on World
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Cup Watch Party, which apparently he's on YouTube. I haven't
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checked the numbers, but I haven't seen much buzz about it.
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Let's look, let's see how that's doing, all right. The
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South Africa versus Canada game from Sunday got two hundred
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and ninety eight thousand views. England versus Ghana got two
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hundred and eight thousand views. Germany and Ivory Coast got
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two thirty one. All right, so he's doing, you know,
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mid two thirties while we're here. Let's see how those
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YouTube late night shows are doing. Can't remember what these
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are called. Right outside tonight with Julian Shapiro Brinam. It
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is one twenty six pm on Monday, as I say
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this sentence, Oh boy, he had on Jamarcos Sarasi four
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days ago as I speak the sentence, and that has
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done sixty three hundred views. That is not that is
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not a good number. The premiere, which is eleven days
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ago as I speak the sentence is up to sixteen thousand.
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Those are not good numbers. And what's the other one?
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I can remember what the other one is called Ben Gleeb.
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I'm never gonna remember that. Goodnight with Ben Glebe, an
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episode from thirteen days ago, has seven hundred and eight
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thousand views, so that's three times what Trevor Noah is
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doing sort of kind of in Goodnight episode five, the
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guest Dutton Ranches Natalie Allen Lynde, comedian Drew Lynch sixty
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four thousand. I don't know are these good numbers? They
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don't sound amazing. I digress. Trevor Noah was sharing his
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thoughts about the World Cup and said, why is it
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that African teams in Middle Eastern teams have to answer
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for what their governments and countries are doing, but then
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European teams don't have to do this. I'm not sure
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what his point was there, who he's mad at or
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which country should be answering for what? The specific comment
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here seems to be about Iran having to leave the
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United States after each game. Send your letters to Trevor Noah.
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David Letterman will make his debut at the Montreal Just
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for Laughs Comedy Festival. He will host an evening with
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David Letterman and special guest Will Arnett at the Place
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Day Arts. That is how it is announced in French
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Place Day Arts Concert Hall. July twenty first, that's the Tuesday.
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I don't know what I'm doing yet, so I screwed up.
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You know the big free weird Awl concert that's on Saturday,
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July twenty fifth. Well, my daughter is like, hey, why
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don't you come visit me when July twenty fifth. Sure
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I'll be there because you know your daughter asked you
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to visit, and You're like, yeah, I'll go. And then
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I was like, oh, that's when the weird Al concert is.
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So I don't know. Maybe I'll go up for Letterman
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on the Tuesday night and stay for the Wednesday and
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do New Faces. I'm also considering not going at all.