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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily comedy news. Today we'll take a look at who
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won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. I decided
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for the weekends in January. I want to try out
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some different things. January tends to be quiet. I've done
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this in the past, especially during the pandemic. I kind
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of spread my wings on the weekends a little bit,
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and I've got some things i want to talk about. Also,
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one of the things I did the other day I
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recorded two and a half hours with Mike from the
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Letterman podcast, and I'll be chopping that up into various conversations.
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And we're hoping to do a lot of that this
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year as it goes along, just trying to mix it
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up a little bit and keep it interesting. But today,
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let's take a look at who won and lost comedy
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in twenty twenty five. The big winner in twenty twenty five.
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If I had recorded this a month ago, this would
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have been slam dunk, hands down, no doubt, nothing to
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talk about. Only great. One hundred out of one hundred
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five stars. Conan O'Brien had a fantastic year. Butt and
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let's start with the butt the horrible murder of the
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Reiner family taking place after the Hiners were at Conan
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O'Brien's party. Now here's what I'm worried about. I assume
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there'll be a trial. I assume the defense attorney will
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try to keep the accused out of jail. And I'm
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not a lawyer. I'm a guy in a basement recording
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a podcast. My fear is that said lawyer will want
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to ask questions about what went down at the party,
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because we've heard there was some shouting. There have also
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been some anecdotes that, as the story goes, some people
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wanted to call nine to one one and Conan said, no, please,
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don't do you know, we're having a party here. It's okay.
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And I could just see Conan getting dragged into a trial.
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And I'm not sure Conan's going to have an awesome
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twenty twenty six. He was having a pretty good twenty
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twenty five, so let's focus on that. His year capped
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with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, putting him
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in some really really good company there. And boy, it
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was just like the industry going, Conan, we love you.
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A listers coming out doing funny stuff. Conan just looking great.
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Multiple generations of comedians and writers, it was just saluting Conan.
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Nobody was like Conan O'Brien, that's crazy. It just consolidated
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his legacy and the respect everyone has for him. And
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he also crushed hosting the Oscars and immediately got invited
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back to do next year. So the back to back
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of the Oscars and the Mark Twain Prize. Just Conan
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O'Brien just was the winner of comedy. I fear rough
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seas ahead, but he was the winner of comedy in
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twenty twenty five until one awful night in December. Nicki
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Glazer had a great year. The year before she was
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part of the Tom Brady Roast and people went, oh,
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who's that? And then she hosted the Golden Globes and
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crushed it. Got invited back to host the Golden Globes
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coming up, you know, about a week, not about a week,
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John in a week. I better write that down before
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I pre tape a weekend and be like, oh, yeah,
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he probably should have mentioned the Golden Globes. A right.
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I just added that to my list here, so we'll see.
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I mean, she had a great twenty twenty five. Now
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are we at peak Nicki Glazer? Or is there more
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to come? And I think we'll find out a lot
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more a week from tonight when she hosts the Golden Globes.
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But congratulations to Nicki Glazer in a year where he
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transitioned from successful stand up to trusted industry utility. Interesting words.
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There another big winner this year, Mark Maren. Congratulations to
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Mark Maren, take that victory lap. He walked away from
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his podcast on his own terms and had the special
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of the year. If you listened to yesterday, Mark Maren's
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special Panicked You'll fund It on HBO was the best
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comedy special of the year. It just put Maren into
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this statesman role. He was one of the critics of
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the Riod Comedy Festival. Other comedians took shots at Maren,
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which put him in the comedy zeitgeist. He took all
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the slings and arrows, kept his honor shifted from a
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commentator to a reference point inside comedy. That puts him
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at the top of the game. So Mark Marin one
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of the winners of comedy in twenty twenty five. Another winner,
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despite some rough seas, was Jimmy Kimmel. You May recalled
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Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air for a little bit,
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but then he came back and just seems to have
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the win into sales right now. The show extended another year.
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There's talk that Kimmell wants to walk away in May
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of twenty twenty seven. I'll believe it when I see it,
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because I think when Colbert's show ends, that audience is
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going to go somewhere. Some of the audience will just
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go away. Some of the audience will just stare at
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whatever CBS puts on anyway, whether it's a new show
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or the Byron Allen thing. But some of the late
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night people, I think we'll pick Kimmel over fallon. So
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Kimmel's numbers are going to go up. And I had
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a conversation with Mike Chisholm about this, and I'll share
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it on one of the weekend episodes coming up this month.
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You know, Kimmel's my age, and if you're not doing that,
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what are you doing? The oscars are heading to YouTube.
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He's not going to be the YouTube post of the Oscars. So,
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Jimmy Kimmel, you're in your mid to late fifties, you
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could work another twenty years, like a you know, it's
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nice to have money and sit on the beach, but
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you need something to do. What would you do? Tour?
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Stand up? A Netflix show? So I don't see why
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he would walk away. Now might he arrange his schedule?
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He already doesn't work summers? Could you cut down to
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three days? Do the late period Johnny Carson thing? Someone
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else host Monday and Kimmel shows up Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
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and does I don't know, thirty four weeks a year
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and takes the summer off and a long break at Christmas.
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Why not do that Jimmy Kimmel. So I'm not sure
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Jimmy kim was gonna walk away, but he had a
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great year. Other winners of twenty twenty five Adam Sandler,
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despite my personal opinion, happy Gilmore too. People seem to
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like it. Cast a big check, also helping my argument.
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People have come around and realized, oh, Adam Sandler a
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great dramatic actor. He was great and Jay Kelly, what
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a great film. You should watch it. Let's all reward
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Adam Sandler with an Academy Awards. He goes, hey, I'm
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an Academy Award winning actor. I should do more of
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that and less stupid songs. So Adam Sandler had a
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great year. Robbie Hoffman went from who to everybody's talking
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about Robbie Hoffman. If you haven't watched that Netflix special,
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it's fantastic. Another winner of twenty twenty five. As I
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sat down and really thought about this, Roy Wood Junior.
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So just about everybody, including me, liked his comedy special
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a lot. Now it's a year ago now, so it's
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not as fresh in your mind to say Chappelle, but
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people really like that special, and people seem to really
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like the CNN show. I'm not sure Have I Got
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News for you? US version has a massive cultural zeitgeist,
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but it seems a reliable show, and it's regularly picked
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up in the press. And most importantly, Roywood Junior bet
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on himself when he didn't get the Daily Show Cheer.
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He went, Okay, I gotta go do something else and
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figure something out. And he went and did something else
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and he figured out. So good on you, Roywood Junior.
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You're one of the winners of twenty twenty five and
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another winner this year. Now I'm not sure he won
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the year, but he might win twenty twenty six is
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Friend of the Show John Marcos SARRESI three time guest,
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his special really resonated. Critics are noticing, mainstream press is noticing,
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and I think John Marco's going to have a really
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big twenty twenty six and good for him because he's fantastic.
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Those are your winners. Will come back and we'll talk
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about the losers of twenty twenty five. All right, Johnny
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Max who lost comedy in twenty twenty five? I feel
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very strongly about this. The big loser in comedy in
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twenty twenty five. The comedian who lost the year is
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Bill Burr. Bill Burr, you lost the narrative. Let me
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remind everybody a year ago. Early in the year, he
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was doing a lot of media appearances and he was
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getting criticized for his tone. He was defensive and a
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lot of interviews it just wasn't a good look. Some
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people are down on Monday Morning podcast that it's low
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energy and he's just talking about sports. Maybe that was
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always true. And then he played the Reodd Comedy Festival,
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and his defense of playing the Reodd Comedy Festival didn't
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wash with anybody. Pete Davidson, for all my problems with
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Pete david said, at least I can respect Pete Davidson
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going they paid me a lot of money. I can
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at least respect that because it's honest. But Burke came
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away like, yeah, you know, they've got an Applebee's over there,
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and we're all like, can you just admit that they
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paid you? Well? Like stop. Burr kind of changed his
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persona this year. You know, he's letting go of the young,
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angry Bill Burr. We've now got the try and avoid
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a loaded word here, but we've got the more thoughtful
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Bill Burr. And then if you point that out, he
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gets very defensive about it, and it just all spirals
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down into hmm. Maybe Bill Burr and his audience are
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heading in two different directions, and that's fine. But I'm
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not sure Bill Burr had a good twenty twenty five.
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In fact, he's the big loser of twenty twenty five
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when it comes to comedy. Now, after I made my list,
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I saw this on crack dot com their headline this
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comedian had humor's worst heel turn in twenty twenty five.
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Now again, I saw this after I made my list,
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And if you listen back to previous episodes. I've been
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kind of dropping not even hints, but breadcrumbs about how
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I felt about Burr's here Cracked Rights. Back in February,
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Bill Burr went on Monday Morning podcast and declared that
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the billionaire class who's so division and exploit suffering among
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the masses are rabbit dogs that need to be put down.
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But that was before he talked to their booker. Wow. Wow,
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if this was a boxing match, We're fourteen seconds in
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and Keegankelly and Crack dot Com just hit Bill Burr
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in the chin, unblocked. What a shot at a good one?
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Cracked Rights. In twenty twenty five, Old Billy Blood Money
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went from the top voice of anti billionaire anger in
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America to the court gesture for literal slavers. Considering how
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Burr reveled in the aftermath of the violent death of
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United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shouting his support for the
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accused shooter Luigi on every talk show and podcasts that
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would have him, Burr's fan base was by far the
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most inflamed of any re odd comic upon returning to
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the US, and of course, Burr's imprudent handling out of
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criticism didn't help his relationship with his listeners. Even now,
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months later, the Monday Morning podcast fandom is still an
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open revolt against the host. Every new episode immediately faces
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a barrage of dislikes and negative comments. Just under one
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video that they shared, one of the top comments reads,
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You're just not funny anymore. Selling out to murderers just
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seems to interfere with my laughter. Bill Burr, the big
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loser of twenty twenty five. Some other losers, Pete Davidson,
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not just for Riot. I think Pete had a bad year,
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did a couple movies, not sure anybody cared about them.
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He's out there sort of touring, takes breaks, seems like
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he's okay. Then he seems like he's not okay, seems
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like he's all over the place. So the net of that,
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and again he's open about his mental health challenges, and
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I hope he finds himself in a good place. But
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from an industry standpoint, when you're making a project, you
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look back at him walking away from Bupkis, So you're
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not gonna hand him a show because you'll be afraid
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that he's going to just walk away from it. You
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hire Kevin Hart, because you know, Kevin Hart likes to
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work and is going to show up for work. Kevin
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Hart has made it clear he's going to show up
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for work. But with Pete, you know, you walk away
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once and all the other stuff that surrounds you. It's
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just if you're making a project, let's just pick somebody else.
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I think Pete Davidson's one of the losers of twenty
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twenty five. The other big loser of twenty twenty five. Now,
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the man's not a loser, but he is one of
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the comedy losers of twenty twenty five. Stephen Colbert, And
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I mean it's crazy, right, Hey, my job is to
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host Late Night and I have the number one show,
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and I've kept the Late Show franchise going for a
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decade and everything's great. Well, CBS disagrees, so we can
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all love Stephen Colbert and he does a great job
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and he's a good guy, and I think he's short
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for president. But you lost the show maybe through no
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fault of your own. Hey, I've been fired for no
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fault of my own. But that makes for a lousy year.
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And Stephen Colbert one of the losers in comedy in
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twenty twenty five. He might be one of the winners
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in twenty twenty six. So much like we saw all
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the love for Conan in twenty five, we probably will
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as Colbert takes this not victory lap, but final lap.
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I think we'll see a lot of outpouring of love
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for Stephen Colbert. So he's probably prime for a great year,
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but just as I analyze twenty twenty five, he's one