Why Jerry Seinfeld's show was protested PLUS Curb Your Enthusiasm to end

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

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Curb Your Enthusiasm will end with season
twelve. Season twelve from years on HBO,

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HBO, Max, Max whatever.
We're calling in February fourth at ten

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pm. It's a ten episode season
that will conclude with a series finale on

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April seventh. Larry David said,
as Curb comes to an end, I

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will now have the opportunity to finally
shed this Larry David persona and become the

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person God intended me to be,
the thoughtful, kind, caring, considered

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human being I was until I got
derailed by portraying this malignant character. And

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so Larry David, I bid you
farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed.

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And for those of you would like
to get in touch with me,

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you can reach me at Doctors Without
Borders. Curb has been around for twenty

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four years. We'll get twelve seasons
total. By the late oughts, the

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show was starting to do every other
year than It took a break from twenty

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eleven to twenty seventeen, when it
returned. It was back again in twenty

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twenty and twenty twenty one. Expected
to appear Tracy Olman, Jeff Corland,

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Suzi Smond, Cheryl Hines, JB. Smooth, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson,

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and Vince Vaughan. Apparently, at
the end of season eleven there was

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an alternate ending. In the alternate
ending which did not air, Larry died,

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but apparently Larry David was not ready
for Larry David to pass away,

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so we'll get season twelve looking forward
to that weird one involving Jerry Seinfeld.

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Fox News tells US pro Palestinian protesters
marching through downtown Syracuse last week gathered outside

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the Landmark Theater to protest Jerry Seinfeld's
stand up show, accusing Jerry of being

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quote complicit in genocide. According to
The Daily Orange, which is the student

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newspaper for Syracuse University, as people
entered Landmark Theater for Seinfeld's show, protesters

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stood outside. Police placed themselves between
the two groups, forming a pathway for

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those looking to get inside the building, while protesters chanted that Seinfeld was complicit

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in genocide. Apparently the lodge there
is that Jerry and some others had signed

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an open letter to the Writer's Guild
of America condemning that union for being the

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quote to only major Hollywood union unquote
to not provide a statement on the Hamas

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attacks. In happier, Jerry news
he was in Springfield recently and he stopped

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by family owned Panjaba Tatka restaurant.
They specialized in North Indian food. The

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restaurant tour shared a photo of staff
members smiling with Jerry. They captioned it,

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look who stopped by for lunch.
No soup for you. Tiffany Hattish

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has been charged for driving under the
influence. You may recall she had fallen

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asleep behind the wheel of her car
in Beverly Hills. According to court records,

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LA prosecutors charged Tiffany with two misdemeanors. Her arraignment set this week December

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twenty second page six says Tiffany was
recently a last minute no show. She

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was scheduled to perform on Wednesday at
the Ice House in Pasadena alongside several other

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comics. Those at the show say
that after almost two hours of sets,

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the host came out and said Tiffany
quote would not be performing tonight. A

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show attendee as he said she couldn't
make it. That was after five acts

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had already performed and only two comedians
were left. The eyewitness says they could

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feel the air leave the room when
everybody gasp with anger disappointment. Everybody was

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looking at each other like is this
part of the pit or is he serious?

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An insider tells page six, Tiffany
likes to drink and have a good

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time, but her friends are noticing
that she's drinking way more around the holidays.

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We think she may be lonely and
hiding behind a fake smile. Page

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six ads, however, Tiffany was
recently at Paris Hilton's holiday party, and

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a spy said Hattish was quote very
sober and quote not drinking at all.

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The unraveling of Matt Rife continues.
Back in twenty eighteen, Riife decided he

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would pick on a kid known as
the Walmart Yodeling kid. If you don't

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remember who that is, I did
neither, a twelve year old who had

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gained internet fame after singing Love Sick
Blues by Hank Williams at a Walmart store.

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The then twenty two year old Matt
Raife tweeted at the twelve year old

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and wrote, f's on your forehead
some gum so if you look at the

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phone, you can see some skin
raised on the boy's forehead, and the

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then twelve year old wrote back,
it's birthmark. Not all of us are

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perfect. Matt Rife then backpedaled.
He wrote back, you are perfect.

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Bro was genuinely curious. Lol,
I've got your new single on repeat,

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little man, keep doing big things. Uh huh, sure, Matt,

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that's what you meant. Steph Tolev
told The Toronto Star she had a hard

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time breaking in in the late auts
and early twenty tens at the Alternative Club

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comedy bar. She said they treated
me like dog Pooh. One comedy club

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owner criticized me for wearing geene shorts
on stage, even though I killed.

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It was forty degrees out and I
was biking everywhere because I didn't have the

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money to take the subway. He
told me, I looked like I'd been

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cleaning my house all day. She
looked back at her days as a middle

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act and said, I'd be stuck
in Ottawa with these gross old male comics

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who'd say things like come for a
drink, sweetheart, at two in the

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morning. It was disgusting. Then
when I asked the fucking headline the club

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owner laughed and told me I wasn't
a headliner when she started performing at the

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La Comedy Store. Steph said when
I started performing there in Instagram post,

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I wanted to thank those two Toronto
comedy club owners because if they hadn't told

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me I was crap, probably wouldn't
have worked so hard, am I petty?

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Yeah? Did that make me work
harder? Sure? The gang from

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Letter Kenny. They're doing a stand
up comedy tour featuring comedians from the show

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the final season coming up Christmas,
I think, headlined by the always hilarious

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Mark Ford, who plays Coach.
The show also feature stand up sets by

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Jeff mckenerny, who plays Alexander,
and Letter Kenny writer Ali Pierce. Tickets

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are on sale at Letterkenny dot tv, Slash Live Sketch Fast San Francisco's added

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a few things. A screening of
the IFC feature film Destroy All Neighbors,

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a twisted splatter comedy about a deranged
journey of self discovery full of goofy practical

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effects. Jonah Ray involved with that
one. There'll be a live performance of

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the new D and D Adventure streaming
TV show Faster or Purple Worm, Kill

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Kill also coming back festival favorite Upright
Citizens Brigade Asscats a great show if you've

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never seen it, and you can
solve a crossword puzzle live at the Crossword

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Show with Zach Sherwin. I spent
a lot of time yesterday sharing a wonderful

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article in Inside Hook entitled is social
Media killing stand up comedy? Sim Morrell

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started talking about Instagram. He says, instance is penalizing users who post edgy

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jokes about sensitive topics by pushing them
further down in people's feeds. That has

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led to comedians bleeping out or dropping
curse words from the audio and censoring their

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own captions. Sam said that can
influence maybe the way a comedian writes because

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they want their jokes to be seen. It's very tricky because we've been blessed

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to be able to circumvent the industry. But at the same time, now

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these companies like Instagram, all they
care about is ad sales, and they

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have an easier time making money if
they have clean comedy clips. Yeah,

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that's why I keep this show clean
for that very reason. Actually, no,

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there's two reasons. One the advertisers, and it's not like the advertisers

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told me not to curse, but
I just know from doing this for thirty

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years, if you work clean,
you're not gonna scare anybody off. The

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other thing is if a podcast is
explicit, it doesn't run on Apple podcasts

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in India, and India has a
very large English speaking population, so that's

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why I use words like stuff.
Sam says he remembers a time not long

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ago when a lot of comics would
break on Instagram with the most provocative stuff

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ever. Inside Hook says the new
algorithm may be perfect for comedian like Tony

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Dio, who might strategically inject a
curse word and was set here or there,

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but generally works clean. One of
his jokes, whoever invented the phrase

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slept like a baby, they didn't
have a baby. I don't think they've

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ever seen a baby. I think
that fray should be slept like an adult

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that doesn't have a baby. That
video has nearly one hundred and twenty five

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thousand likes on Instagram, but he
credits the moms on the platform for giving

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his following a big boost. Swarms
of them lip synced and acted out his

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bit while cradling their own kids,
hashtagging their videos with phrases like hashtag sleep

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deprived. Deo says he's also learned
of joke thieves who lifted his material from

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the Internet and incorporated it into their
own sets. All right, now that

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he said that that whole sleep like
a baby thing, I'm not sure that

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was the most original premise there.
I feel like I've heard that before anyway,

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he said, I would still prefer
not to have to do this,

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even though it's helped me out.
I sort of wonder the amount of effort

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that I put into it the last
year and a half didn't translate into all

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that much extra revenue. I still
feel like I'd rather just write jokes and

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tell jokes, and that's all you
ever want to do, and everything else

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is kind of getting in the way
of me doing that. At a higher

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level, Sam said, it's hard
enough for me even to find time to

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approve clips. I'm so busy.
Comedian Tom Ryan said that's the new game.

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The key is through content out there. You never know what's going to

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connect. Max Fin said the recent
release of his comedy album provided him with

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the opportunity to put material on Instagram. Recording all that material meant I wasn't

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going to be able to use it
again on stage. My whole hesitation with

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putting something has always been if I
post a joke and then two months later

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I find a way to make it
another minute longer, with more tax to

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it. I don't want the original
joke being public because it's already going to

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spoil whatever's coming next. Graham Kay
mourns the loss of industry gatekeepers who were

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excellent judges of talent, says of
today's stand up world, nobody cares if

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you're good at live stand up.
The only way we could break out is

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by getting noticed on social media.
What that means though, This is also

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no more quality control as to what
gets big fantastic stuff from in side Hook.

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group which is Daily Comedy News podcast

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group. I'm gonna hold on to
more of this and do more of this

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tomorrow. It's really good stuff.
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