Oct. 13, 2024

Why is everyone so mad about The Office Australia?

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac discusses the buzz around the new Australian version of The Office, stating it follows a long tradition of various international adaptations. The show, starring Felicity Ward and approved by Ricky Gervais, will air on Prime Video in Australia and the UK. Additionally, Jeff Dunham is releasing a new Christmas comedy special, 'Scrooged Up Holiday Special', on November 19th on Amazon Prime. Nate Bargatze and his wife are contributing to an indoor facility for Donaldson Christian Academy. Roy Wood Junior's comedy touches on college textbook pricing, while Hari Kondabolu reflects on Totally Biased's impact and how it forecasted societal changes. Johnny wraps up with details on accessing ad-free shows and upcoming episodes.

00:00 Australian Office Hype
00:41 Felicity Ward's Role and Release Details
01:43 Jeff Dunham's New Holiday Special
03:18 Nate Bargatze's Generous Donation
03:59 Roy Wood Jr.'s Stand-Up Highlights
04:48 Hari Kondabolu on Comedy and Totally Biased

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Kalaroga Shark media people are really wigged about this Australian

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version of the Office. Calm down, everyone, Hi, I'm Johnny

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Mack with your daily comedy news. They're acting like, oh,

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I can't believe they made an Australian version of the Office.

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Are you paying attention? There's a zillion versions. There's a

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version on Hulu that I watched that's Hindi. It's like

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half Hindi and half English and the dialogue goes back

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and forth and sometimes I read the captions and it's

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the Office. I get it. And I don't know if

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you know this. The Office, as great as it was,

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was originally a British series starring Ricky Gervay's so let's

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stop acting like we can't make a new one. Felicity

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Ward stars in The Australian Office and has told fans

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Ricky Gervaise personally approved her casting. Felicity said, Ricky Gervais

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has approved a female lead. He's very excited about a

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female lead. Just in case anyone is angry. Australian Office

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will be on Prime Video on the Australia and UK

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on October eighteenth. If you're in the US, You're not

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going to get it unless you have one of those VPNs.

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Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. She was asked

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how she's feeling about the show's released on October eighteenth,

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and said, pretty chill. Actually, English people and people love

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the office. They're like, hey, what do you want to do?

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That's fine. Felicity plays Hannah Howard, manager of the Sydney

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based box company Finley Cratick. She says, I did zero

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preparation because I read the script and I'm like, oh

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my god, this is every annoying part of my personality.

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I've been preparing for this my whole life, and I

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don't know if this showrunner, I don't know how much

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she had seen me before, but it was like as

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if she got the tapes and then edited out the

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charm and the bits that people liked about me, and

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then just wrote a character. So it's just there. It's

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very strange playing a character where you're supposed to make

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people cringe. Jeff Dunham has a new Christmas Carol inspired

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comedy special coming out, This one also on Amazon Prime.

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This one you can watch in the States. It'll be

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out November nineteenth. It is titled Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up

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Holiday Special. In Jeff Dunham's Screwed Up In Jeff Dunham's

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So yeah, I'm leaving that in. I did you hear that?

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All right? I misspoke and I said screwed up, and

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then I was going to do the pick up, and

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then I realized screwed up is funny. So I'm leaving

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all that in, including the explanation. This is where I

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start over. Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiering on

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another bust. Leave it in. I'm giving you a little

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behind the scenes here, all right. Take three, Jeff Dunhams

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screwed him. You'd swear I'm doing a bit. Take four

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Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiers November nineteenth. In

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Jeff Dunham's scrooged Up Holiday Special, Jeff Dunham recreates the

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beloved Charles Dickens Holiday story with his iconic characters. In

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the classic roles, Guess who's Scrooge? That's right, Walter. But

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when Jeff assigns Bubba j Peanut, Little Jeff and Ahmed

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to their thespian parts, they don't quite agree and the

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plan spins hilariously out of control during this stand up

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comedy special. It's Jeff Dunham's thirteenth comedy special, his second

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to twenty twenty four. Remember back on Valentine's Day he

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did I'm with Cupid, No Me neither. This is his

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third Christmas Team Special, following completely unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic

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Holiday Special from twenty twenty Great Title and Jeff Dunham's

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Very Special Christmas Special in two thousand and eight. Aperghetzi

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and his wife Laura are helping build an indoor practice

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facility for the Donaldson Christian Academy. They've donated a gift

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of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars with an additional

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matching gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to

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help the DCA with the project. Nate is an alumni

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of DCA, graduating with the class of ninety seven. The

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DCA said, we're excited to announce the potential edition of

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an indoor practice facility. Facility allows to better serve all

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of our wildcats by creating a space that can be

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used for multiple purposes during all our seasons. The indoor

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space will feature competitive athletic facilities, state of the art

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strength training, multipurpose space for band and early learning, and

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new locker rooms and office spaces. Junior did some crowd

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work and bonded with an audience member over catching her

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boyfriend cheating on Facebook. He bonded by saying he was

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caught on AOL instant Messenger. The Stanford Daily says Wood's

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joke about AOL wasn't the only one that aged him,

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but he maintained relevance to the college student audience by

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highlighting the twisted nature of the textbook sale industry. Would

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have joked about a process called book buy back. The

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program allows students to sell used textbooks at the school

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bookstore or a quote unquote sketchy online company for around

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one tenth through the original price. Yeah, if you've got

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any kids in college, the textbook game is insane. I

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actually teach you college classes. I don't use a textbook.

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I use my own knowledge. I teach a radio class

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in a podcasting class so I can write the notes

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off the top of my head. Roy said, I know

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a scam when I see one. How much new Calculus

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came out in the past few months, Smile Politely dot

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Com caught up with the ever so serious Ari Condobolu.

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Smile asked Hari, what's it like being a smart comedian?

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Harry said, what it means is you get described as

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smart and brilliant and what did Time Out New York say,

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deals in commonly reasoned polemics. But the word funny isn't

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used nearly enough. The only thing I want to see

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is funny. He's really funny, hysterical. I'm a comedian at

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the end of the day. All the other things smart,

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well spoken, thoughtful, and I'll throw in ever so serious.

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I'd be part of it. Is your interview Persoda, dude,

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I'd like that to be the garnish around the funny.

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I do think, certainly there's a reason that I bring

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an NPR audience. I use big words and reference things

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that might not be in pop culture and maybe more

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about world affairs and about historical things, while still attempting

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to be relatable to any mainstream audience. I guess that's

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what it means, or maybe I just wear glasses. I

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don't know. Smile asked him about his show Totally Biased

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already said, first of all, it's a show. It's been

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canceled since twenty thirteen. To the fact that it still

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gets its flowers, it's really nice. I wish I got more.

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I feel like the fact that the clips aren't readily

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available online. When FX bowl the clips after the show

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got canceled, I felt that was a really bad decision.

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They put the episodes up. The episodes aren't going to

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be evergreen, but some of the clips will be. It's

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just annoying watch things. It'd be like, yeah, we cover

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this a decade ago, and that's the same angle we took,

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and there's no record of it. I've seen things since

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and it's like, Okay, that's literally almost verbatim. When I

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said three years later the same joke. It taught me

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that there were more people appreciated the point of view

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that I had, that Camal had, that the voice of

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the show had. It made me feel like maybe I

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wasn't out on a limb the same way I thought

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it was at the same time, and also taught me

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that we were still on the cutting edge because the

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stuff we were talking about in twenty twelve about trans

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rights and police brutality and the angles we took then

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became mainstream angles a few years later, all of a sudden,

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you even see late night shows covering those issues that

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started with us. That a Pooh documentary I did comes

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from totally biased. I was thinking of a pool uh

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last week or the week before, and I was watching

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the quote unquote serious finale of The Simpsons, and I

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don't think up Poo appeared in it at all, Like

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not even in the background or in the audience. Maybe

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I just missed him, or I said, that's the thing

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that spurred me to write a piece about it. Things

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that a community know where feel have been discussed for

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years are new when you've been ignored by mainstream society.

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So all of a sudden, all our old stuff becomes

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new to everybody else. It helped me calibrate where we

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were as a society and perform in real time. When

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you're doing stand up, you're doing it in real time,

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but you're also releasing things of the masses. It's every

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few years in a special or set. It's totally biased.

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Every night, we kind of got a sense of where

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people were. People still bring up that spelling bee thing

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I did, or the Apu thing, or how I covered

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Columbus Day. Stuff that was forever go to me, and

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somehow it's still relevant people. It also says that the

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stuff we were doing was ahead of its time. And

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