Feb. 20, 2025

Was Dave Chappelle pre-censored by SNL? Where was Dana Carvey? George Lopez silence?

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode of the Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac discusses various topics including Dave Chappelle's controversial comments on Gaza and transgender issues, his SNL monologue mentioning Palestine, and his interactions with famous personalities like Kanye West and Jay Z. The episode also covers Dana Carvey's absence from SNL's 50th anniversary, George Lopez’s new Amazon special, and the upcoming Cheech and Chong movie. Additionally, it highlights Tom Hanks' SNL sketch backlash and W. Kamau Bell's perspective on performing at the Kennedy Center amidst political turmoil. The show wraps up with a light discussion on HBO's new dramedy series 'The Band' starring Ben Stiller.

00:00 Introduction and Today's Headlines
00:18 Dave Chappelle's Controversial SNL Appearance
01:39 Chappelle's San Francisco Set and Conspiracy Theories
03:08 Critics and Reactions to Chappelle's Performance
05:19 Dana Carvey's Absence from SNL 50
05:54 George Lopez's New Special and Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
07:50 Tom Hanks' SNL Sketch Controversy
09:54 W. Kamau Bell at the Kennedy Center

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily

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comedy news. Another feisty one today. It's topics this week

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other than SNL have just been different. But let's start

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with Dave Chappelle big intention of getting headline. Dave Chappelle

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says SNL producers forbade him from talking about gaza and

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trans people. The mainstream news reporting SF gates Senior culture

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editor Dan Gentila, who saw the comedian at the beginning

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of some recent appearances in San Francisco. According to Dan,

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Chappelle a ledges he was not allowed to speak about

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Gaza and transgender people.

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That said. On the SNL monologue, Dave did mention Palestine.

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You may recall Chappelle said that the presidency is no

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place for petty people. So, Donald Trump, I know you

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watch the show Man. Remember whether people voted for you

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or not, They're all counting on you, Whether they like

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you or not, They're all counting on you. The whole

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world is counting on you. I mean this when I

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say this, good luck. Please do better next time. Please

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all of us do better next time. Do not forget

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you humanity, and please have empathy for displaced people. Whether

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in the Palisades or Palestine. In the San Francisco sets,

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Dan reports that Chappelle didn't elaborate much more on Gaza

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except to close with give the Jews a break free

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Palestine before literally dropping the mic. So the sf Gate

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article has been around for a few days. I didn't

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catch it prepping the show because of all the SNL

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noise until today when I type the word Chappelle into Google,

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as I tend to do, That's when all this came up.

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I believe Dan has written about Chappelle quite a few

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times in the past, neither here nor there, but I

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think he covers Chappelle closely. In the sf Gate story,

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Dan tells us Chappelle closed the first of the three

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shows with a very long story. Dan writes the anecdote

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began with a warning from Chappelle about conspiracy theories, then

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moved on to Atlanta, where the rapper t I, who

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joined Chappelle on stage in Oakland last November, took him

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on a tour of the city and introduced him to

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slain Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hustle. The story took a

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few choice and turns, touching on the FBI hip hop

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task force that monitored rappers in the nineties, Chappelle's mentor

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Charlie Burnett and his battle with AIDS and a star

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studied Hollywood party coronating Hustle as the new king of

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hip hop just before his tragic murder. About ten minutes

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into the story, writes Dan, Chappelle noticed someone in the

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front row checking their watch Like that front row fan.

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I also felt a little bored at times. I've been

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a vocal critic of Chappelle over the years. Yes, he

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has written about David before, which has led to an

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inbox flooded with hate mail, and even Chappelle calling me

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a snitch of the punchline. Whatever you think of his

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transphobic turn in the early twenty twenties, it's hard to

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argue with the fact that it's one of our greatest

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living comedians. Dan adds, I'm happy to report that Chappello

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has dropped his villain persona and that this time security

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didn't confiscate my notebook, although it hit in a pen

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and paper in my shoe, just a case. He still

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makes a few jokes about San Francisco's gay community, but

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at the Masonic they lacked the punching down vitriol that

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characterized his darker years, and they were always walked back

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with upbeat apologies. He called San Francisco his home away

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from home and softened a now iconic anecdote about how

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San Francisco needs a batman, quoting the Chapelle of the past,

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what the f happened to this place is now? I

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love your city, but you've got to admit it needs

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some sprucing up. And when he caught the fan looking

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at his phone, Chappelle let out a self deprecating joke

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and quickened his pace. Dan then writes about the SNL

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story opened up the podcast with continuing there were a

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few other political trends. Chappelle briefly said Trump was wreaking

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havoc and in the Knight's most surprising moment, got more

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cheers than Booze. When polling the audience on who voted

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for Trump, Dave revealed he had voted for Biden and

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twenty and Harrison twenty four, but he didn't have anything

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else to say about the administration's policies, just tired jokes

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about how Trump is a closeted homosexual. Dan editorializes a

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hard argument to make, given that he is legally considered

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a convicted rapist. Chappelle spent more time making fun of

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former President Joe Biden than anything else, with a refrain

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about the Sleepy Joe nickname that just sounded tired. More

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than any other topic. Chappelle spent most of the night

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talking about his famous buddies, mostly Kanye West. Kanye recently

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insulted Chappelle in a series of angry and anti semitic tweets,

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criticism that Chappelle seemed to brush off, emphasizing that they'd

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overcome previous feuds. Dan continues, there's a fun sense of

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voyeurism into hearing Chappelle recount phone conversation with Kanye and

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his experiences rubbing elbows with Jay Z and Snoop Dogg

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at parties. And despite Chappelle's immense celebrity, he's still able

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to sound like a wide eyed outsider to fans. But

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there was an elephant in the room, Elon Musk, who

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Chappelle once brought on stage at the Chase Center, but

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whose name wasn't spoken once. If Chappelle wants to make

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his relationships to stars the centerpiece of the show, well

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there's one who is literally pontificating from the Oval office

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his day cruising Atlanta. T I sounded fun, but I'd

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much rather hear what he has to say about Musk's

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Department of Government efficiency. This is a great piece by Dan,

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who tells us after the show, fans took refuge from

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the rain under the marble columns. I overheard a woman

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remarked that the show felt like story time, that Chappelle's

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anecdotes were lulling her to sleep. Does Dave need to

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go away for a while? Is that what I'm picking

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up here? That the act is getting tired, the materials

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getting tired, and he won what the Grammy three years

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in a row? Maybe he needs to just not be

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in the spotlight for a minute. Maybe, Dan writes for

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a storyteller is gifted and insightful of chappelle show felt

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like he was on autopilot rather than picking up the mantle.

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As one of the world's most incisive cultural critics, what

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are this role as his responsibilities? Up for debate, but

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it'd likely say no, really, really good piece there, Dan,

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Oh my, I just checked the clock. Was there a

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long opening story? Ah? It's been good. A lot of

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content Lately all Right, Dana Carvey's account tweeted to promote

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the podcast. The Twitter account did not address when I

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looked why Dana was not at SNL fifty in Variety.

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They're reporting that Dana had a bad flu, which prevented

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him from participating in the show. That would make sense

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if he wasn't well enough to travel. It would be

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weird if there were another reason, considering Carvey had been

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on the show a lot this fall, so I don't

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want anyone to ever have the flu. But you know,

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I hope that's the reason he missed, as opposed to

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something more nefarious. Yet, Well soon, Dana Carvey. I was

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in a bit of a panic. I was like, did

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I get to George Lopez story wrong? Did George Lopez

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even put out a special on Amazon on Tuesday? Because

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there's no press about it? I once again typed to

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George Lopez into Google. There's nothing I actually went on Amazon.

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I'm like, does this special exist? Or did I get

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the date wrong?

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Oh?

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No, it exists, it's out. I didn't watch it yet.

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Tuesday night, I was watching Paradise on Hulu. I don't

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want to say a word about Paradise other than trust me.

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It's good. When you watch it, then you can email

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me on the side. My email addresses in the show notes,

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so I don't want to ruin it for everybody. Paradise

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is pretty good. Should be a lot more buzz on Paradise.

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I wasn't in the mood to watch Lopez nor Rosebud yet,

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but let me know if you've watched those. In The

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Facebook group is Daily Common New News podcast group. Before

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I saw the spell thing, I thought this would be

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the lead story. Chiach and Chong are putting out a movie. Yeah,

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where did this come from? Chichen Chong's Last Movie will

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be out on four to twenty. If you know, you know.

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This is a buddy comedy documentary hybrid chronicling the career

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of Cheech and Chong. The official description Chichen Chong's Last

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Movie great title, by the way, because of what they

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titled their other movies. Chich and Chong's Last Movie defines

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documentary expectations, offering a wildly imaginative take on genre convention.

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A true life tale, It's sold through a mix of

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animation and arcival madness, all underscored by a classic cinematic

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road trip comedy tracing the enduring legacy of pioneering comics

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Cheech Marin and Tommy Chung. The film features interview sketches

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and never before seen footage spanning the duo's five decade career.

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The result is an unlikely story of friendship and fame,

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turmoil and defiance, rebellion, and ultimately redemption. There's a trailer.

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I went to pull the audio, and the mix of

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just overlap clips and naughty language made me say, you

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know what, It's not worth playing the trailer on an

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audio podcast. But in the trailer you would see at

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Cheech and Chong driving through the desert in a black

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Cadillac with a marijuana leaf hood ornament. She says, you

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sure we're going the right way. Cheong says we're in

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the middle of nowhere. She says, no, we're southwest of nowhere.

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We're not in the middle yet, people are upset. Tom Hanks.

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You may have seen Tom Hanks in a comedy sketch

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on Saturday Night Live. Tom Hanks played a Donald Trump supporter.

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In the sketch, the character's body language suggested that the

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character was scared to shake a black man's hand. That

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drew criticism from several Trump supporters online, including former SNL

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cast member Victoria Jackson. You didn't think I was gonna

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say that? Did you know? You didn't? Yes, Victoria Jackson.

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You remember her. She was part of SNL from eighty

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six to ninety two, and she was there on Sunday,

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which is great because I know she's had a lot

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of health problems. She slammed the sketch at an interview

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with TMZ, calling it stupid. She also claims she was

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offended by the show's sexual vulgarity and crude jokes. I'm

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trying to rack my brain about what that could be.

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Maybe that last sketch where Eddie Murphy got a little naughty,

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Victoria Jackson asked TMZ, did anyone make fun of the

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Kamala supporters? Hanks had previously played the character named Doug

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who wears a Make America Great Again hat. Hanks played

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that role on a twenty sixteen Black Jeopardy sketch, which

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I recall being very well received. Victoria Jackson pointed to

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a Twitter post from political commentator Link. Lauren Link wrote,

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this show wonders why they're ratings are in the gutter.

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Trump won the popular vote. SNL is an unfunny show

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for snobbish liberal elites. The current Republican Party is a

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big tent coalition compromised of many former Democrats. Good riddance, SNL.

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I don't know what good riddance means. The show's not

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going anywhere. Variety reports NBC's fiftieth anniversary special for SNL

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had fourteen point eight million viewers, So I'm not sure

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I agree with the link's sentiment that their ratings are

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in the gutter. Megan McCain also criticized Tom Hanks. Megan wrote,

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Tom Hanks always wants to pretend he's the likable every man,

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but he's his hate mongering of regular Americans as any

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host on MSNBC. Good luck becoming less and less culturally

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relevant by the second. Bro, They're coming for you, Tom Hanks.

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All right, it's comedy show, folks. Comedy shows make fun

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of things. Boy, I am stressing about the clock already.

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Let me push this one to tomorrow. If you're curious,

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google Trevor Noah. It'll take me a minute to unpack

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that one. W come out Bell explain to NPR why

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he played the Kennedy Center After several entertainers have severed

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ties with the Kennedy Center. Some folks are upset that

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President Trump has assumed the chairmanship of the Kennedy Center.

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Bell told NPR, I think Joe Biden was still running

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for president when the show was booked, so like this

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wasn't connected to any of this. Trump had already said

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he was going to take over, but nobody knew what

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that meant. So on the flight to Washington, d C.

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I got the Wi Fi as I always do, when

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I started getting emails and text for people about doing

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a show at Kennedy Center, and was like a clear

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sense of like, oh, something's happened. You know, I did

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a show three years ago in one of the smaller room,

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so I have a lot of respect for the Kennedy Center.

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And you can't help but feel like how cool it

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is to be there, even as an audience member. You

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sort of feel like a bonafid winner at the Kennedy Center.

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There's something about like nobody's going to tell me I'm

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not an artice of know ite ever again. You know,

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NPR said, so you and the comedian new open for

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you join Kennedy made jokes about the whole situation. He

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said something like welcome to the last time two black

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guys are going to be at the Kennedy Center. And

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you said something along the lines of my kids like

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to eat every day, so that's why I'm here. But seriously,

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did you ever think about canceling? Belle said, I mean,

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so the people the Kennedy Center reached out because they

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were sort of almost preparing for me to cancel. But

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for me, I'm connected to it as a black to

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all this history and my family of showing up, so

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I knew there was never a point at which I

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thought about not showing up. But let's remember, the Kennedy

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Center is in a city called Washington, d C. So

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as much as MAGA runs the White House, maybe they

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don't run Washington, DC. And Washington d C. Has always

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been a bright blue progressive place. If you want to

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move to the White House to Branson, Missouri, understandably you

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would program the Kennedy Center in a different way. If

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the Kennedy Center called me this week and said you

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want to do a show at the Kennedy Center, that

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might have been a different decision. I might still have

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done it, but it's a different decision. I've been planning

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this for months you know what I mean. And so

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on some level it's like either performer want to do

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the thing I've been looking forward to. There's part of

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me that knows my audience, specifically in times of stress

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and pain and controversy, actually wants to hear from me.

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And some of it is about showing up and being

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my full self, as my mom taught me, as the

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Bay Area raised me to be, as I want my

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kids to see me being in that space at that time.

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Good stuff from Bell here, he says. My whole career,

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at least for the last fifteen years or so, it

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has been about earning a living, but also making sure

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it's easier for the person behind me. He either looks

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like me or is aligned with me. For me, I

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have to be loud and to be clear as possible

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for the people who can't be out and clear, and

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I've got to take care of my family. But that

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does mean that sometimes, and I've done this for years,

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turn down things that were gonna pay me because I

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can't be over there, because I don't think over there

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I can be myself. They'll continue and people say stay

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in your lane, and we go no, no, no, your lane.

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What can you do in that lane that you're already

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in that can help make it easier on somebody who

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can't do the work that you can do. That's where

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it starts. People are like, I'm going to go back

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to law school. No, no, no, no, what are you doing now?

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I'm going to start a nonprofit? No no, no, no,

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what are you doing now? And how can you start

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making that lane more equitable, more inclusive, more diverse where

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you are. One way you could support the show is

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you can go to buy me a coffee dot com

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slash Daily Comedy News. It has been so cold. I

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even got a hot coffee this morning, but I got two.

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my ice coffee that's ninety eight percent filled, but the

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ice is gone because it's five hours old. Now I

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this time last year, I was stretching out for a race,

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and I was in eight mile shape. I was doing

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eight mile training runs. Right now, I'm in eight minute shape.

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Later today, buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily

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Comedy News. Later today, I'm gonna drop a bonus episode.

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I'd bang this out late last week when I did.

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The story was a variety with the top comedy performances

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of the twenty first century, and I grabbed Spruce the

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Ai and Spruce and I kicked around the topic for

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a little bit. So I'll drop that later this afternoon.

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It's a bonus episode, skippable, just fun. People didn't seem

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to mind the last time I did that, and I'm

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not gonna make it a regular thing, but you know,

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it's a toy I can play with now and then,

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and I just wanted to discuss with someone in this case,

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Spruce the Ai Julia Louis dreyfus on VEEP is the

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top TV performance and never one comedy top TV performance

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to the twenty first century. But then Spruce and I

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got into all right, what is the top comedic performance?

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Is it Chappelle's show, Something? Is it Adam Sandler or something?

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Is it Kate McKinnon after the twenty sixteen election. I

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don't know, all right, I just bumped two more stories.

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It looks like I could pre record one of the

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weekend days. I got enough, all right, Ben Stiller, I've

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been bumping this one all week. He's going to return

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to TV in the band The Hour long dramedy will

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be developed and housed at HBO. Deadline tells us the

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band features on Ben Stiller's character Oscar, who is a

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pop music promoter and talent tycoon who's plagued by scandal,

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and he takes on the task of forming a new

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act to save his career and maybe even his own

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soul Boy, there's some copywriting if I've ever seen it.

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A right, I gotta get out here. Bonus episode later

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today and I will see you tomorrow.