Sept. 12, 2024

Will Ferrell's regrets about Drag PLUS Should Pete Davidson live with his mom?

Show Notes
Transcript

In today's comedy news, Johnny Mac brings a collection of jokes from comedians about Donald Trump, Will Ferrell's reflections on his past drag performances, and his new Netflix documentary, 'Will and Harper.' Johnny also discusses Pete Davidson's struggles, Whitney Cummings’ fun experience at Buc-ee's, insights from Jeff Foxworthy and Tim Minchin, and mentions about the upcoming cast for the follow-up to 'The Office.'

00:20 Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon's Debate Humor
01:16 Will Ferrell's Reflections on Comedy and Drag
03:14 Andrew Santino's Golfing Circle
03:43 Pete Davidson's Struggles and Rehab
04:33 Whitney Cummings' Buc-ee's Encounter
05:02 Jim Brewer's Venue Preferences
05:38 Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Joke
06:21 Tim Minchin's Life Lessons and New Book
08:52 Vir Das' Sexy Accent and Comedy Opinions
09:19 The Office Follow-Up Series

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack, you with your daily

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comedy news. Mike Capell said, I think Trump should drop

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out and be replaced by Biden. Jimmy Kimmel said, usually

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when Donald Trump gets a spanking from a woman, it's

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with a Forbes magazine. Kimmel added, Here's what I'd like

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you to do right now. I want you to imagine

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we've never heard of Donald Trump before, and the first

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time you've ever seen him was during the debate. What

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would you reaction be. You'd be shocked. The Republican Party

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would have to close their headquarters and turn it into

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a spirit Halloween store. Jimmy Fallon added, Harris was on

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the right, Trump was on the left, and Biden was

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at home wondering where do I know these guys from

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falling again? Just like the previous debate, there was no audience. Yep,

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they were speaking to a totally silent, empty room. Whereas

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JD Vance calls that a rally. I'm honest with you guys, right,

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So sometimes I come down to prep the show and

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there's it takes me like two hours to put together.

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There's so much news, and it's been like that for

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most of September. Today, I got nothing. I'm being honest here.

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I don't like today's script. I really had to dumpster

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dive just to put the show together. The first two

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stories are real, the rest is extreme, a filler with

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me googling every comedian's name I could possibly think of.

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And even these first two stories really should be like

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at the back end of the first half, not the

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lead anyway. Will Ferrell says he's no longer interested in

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performing in drag for laughs. He did an interview on

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the New York Times Interview podcast. He was joined by

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his friend and former SNL head writer Harper Steel. Steele

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came out as transgender thirty years into her friendship with

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Will Ferrell. That's the subject of a documentary Will and

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Harper out on Netflix, so you'll see a lot of

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press from Will coming up. Will express regret over the

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Janet Reno Fantasies sketch from season twenty three of SNL,

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in that Will Ferrell dressed in drag. He said, that's

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something I wouldn't choose to do now. Steele at it

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that kind of bums me out. I understand the laugh

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is a drag laugh, and it's hey it's a guy

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of dress and that's funny. It's absolutely not funny. It's

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absolutely a way that we should be able to live

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in the world. However, with performers and actors, I do

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like a sense of play. Steele continued, It's an interesting

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question to me. Do queer people like the birdcage? Do

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they not? Robin Williams, at least as far as we know,

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was not a gay man, and yet he spent about

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half his comedy career doing a swishy gay guy on camera.

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Do people think that's funny or is it hurtful. I've

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heard from gay men and think it was funny, and

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I've heard from gay men and think it was hurtful.

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I'm a purple haired woke but I wonder if sometimes

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we take away the joy of playing when we take

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away some of the range that performers, especially comedy performers,

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can do. Will tell The Times there's a fair amount

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of sketches from his SNL tenure where he laments the

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choice and then joked, I mean, in a way to cash,

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you're kind of giving the assignment. So I'm gonna blame

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the writers or my new Steele was the head writer,

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and Steele says, yeah, he's not coupable at all. Steele ads,

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I wrote Monica Lewinsky's stuff I wasn't proud of. I

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wrote some good Britney Spears stuff and some stuff that

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I'm not as proud of. I wrote some Clinton things

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I wasn't proud of. I'm just moving on, I have to.

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Will said he had zero knowledge about the trans community

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before Harper came out to him. Will said, I had

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met trans people, but I didn't have anyone personally in

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my life, so this was all new territory to me,

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which is why I think this film is so exciting

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for us to put out in the world. It's a

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chance for all of us on the CISC community to

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be able to ask questions and also just to listen

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and be there as a friend to discuss this journey.

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Will and Harper on Netflix September twenty seventh. From Golf

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Digest year home for comedy News, Andrew Santino is part

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of a fancy schmancy text chain. Who's on it? Charlie Day,

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Rob Mceleenniy, Michael Pania, and Scott Kahn. Why those guys,

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They're all golfers at the same La Area club. Santino said, well,

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Mac joined somewhere else, so we don't see him anymore.

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He's better than us, and then joked and said, now

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we still see him sometimes. A Santino plays to a

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three handicap and had a career best score of sixty

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nine despite not taking lessons. Santino says, I'll play anytime

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I can. I'm an addict. It's an addiction. It's disgusting,

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it's sick, it's twisted. Pete Davidson's friends are worried about

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him going back into the limeline after his most recent

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stay in rehab, and insider tells Okay Magazine Pete checked

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into a psychiatric facility to focus on his sobriety following

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his split from Mantelin Kline. The source said Pete took

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the break up very hard for just a blank vana.

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He may have thought she was the one. They burned

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so brightly together, and it's so much in common. The

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insider opinion pet should move in with his mom and

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not look back. Life on the Hollywood Fast Line continues

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to chew him up and spin him out, and it's

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not healthy for someone with Pete's problems. The source noted.

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The Limelight's not good for pet and he often felt used,

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especially by Kim Kardashian. According to the Insider, those are

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not people who care deeply for him and want to

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see him at his best. Where's Kim when all this

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stuff goes down? Nowhere? But what do you expect from Hollywood?

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All right, let's start dumpster diving, he'd put together in

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a complete podcast today from My san Antonio. Whitney Cummings

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shared on Instagram that she walked into a Texas BUCkies

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and met fuzzy mascot Bucky himself. In a post, she said,

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look there is I mean, it's definitely like someone that's

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tight on CASHO hast to wear this costume, but I'm

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still starstruck. This is like my Disneyland. Now. My san

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Antonio did some research here. The photo said that she

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was in Austin, but there is no BUCkies in Austin.

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They suspect she may have been in Bastrop, the closest

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BUCkies to Austin. I googled other words Jim Brewer, and

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I found this from c L Tampa and the question

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do you prefer playing the bigger venues like the Stress

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Center or are you like smaller clubs. Jim picked the

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bigger arenas because they're paying to see you and they're

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not drunk wasted vikings. Quite frankly, I put up better

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shows because in the clubs I usually got to do

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like four or five shows in a weekend. I'm conserving

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my energy, and by the third show, it's not that

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I'm not into it, but I start getting pretty exhausted.

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So I was like, oh good, I could pick apart

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this article. And then I saw the next question was, hey, Jim,

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you live in New Jersey and Jim has moved out

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from New Jersey. And then I checked the interview was

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from twenty thirteen. Thanks Google. Not sure why that surfaced

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all of a sudden, but hey, we're dumpster diving today

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and Local News eight spoke to Jeff Foxworthy, and Jeff

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told a story. People always say, where do you come

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up with that stuff? There's no research going on. It's

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my family and friends. So I'll tell you one real quick.

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I had last weekend. I'm in the pool with my

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three year old grandson. He swims over, he goes Grandpa.

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I got a pepe and I said, well, let me

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tell you something, buddy, don't tell anyone, buddy. Everybody beat

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in the pool. They don't talk about it, they don't

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admit it. But everybody peed in the pool. And he

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said really, And I said yeah, And you let go

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of my neck. He swam to the side, climbed out

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of the pool, dropped his bathing suit, and standing on

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the side piece into the pool. And so I wrote

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a redneck joke. If you ever peed in the pool

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without being in the pool, you might be a redneck.

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Tim Mention says, I'm just lucky. For every one of me,

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there are in ninety nine people just as talented who

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didn't find the right audience or the right expression of

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their talent. And there's a bunch of people who worked

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harder than me who haven't got what I got. I

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think part of my luck is I'm not great at

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taking advice. I just didn't really listen very much. Tim

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has quit Twitter and said before I got off Twitter,

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which I did many years ago, I looked back recently

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and I'm like, what the F did I think I

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was achieving just by putting my woody opinions into the world.

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It's just another piece of anxiety. He has a new book.

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It's called You don't have to dream. Advice for the

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incrementally ambitious. It's a collection of three commencement speeches he's

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made in the past. One of his speeches has five

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point three million views on YouTube. Him said he had

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no idea was going to be recorded, let alone how

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well it would do. He says that's a pretty good

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argument for not knowing too much. Mentionin says, I'm not

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a person who thinks much about the market. When I

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make a musical or show, I'm not thinking what do

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they want. I don't get caught up and receive wisdom

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about what audiences will or will not take. I go

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what would I be proud of? What would I love

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if I were the audience. My work isn't very condescending.

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Sometimes it's winky, sometimes it's pretentious, and sometimes it might

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not be very good. But I don't say, oh, little audience,

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I'll spoon feed you what you want. I care deeply

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about how people receive my work. I just don't get

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caught up in the idea that I can second guess

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that if I put my heart and soul into something

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and really care about it and believe in it, then

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it usually works out all right. At which point someone

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says you're talentless and then I crumble. But it doesn't

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affect me next time because I've just done a how

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else to do it? I have no instinct and try

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to chase someone else's definition. It's just not in my brain,

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all right. Tim Mention's nine life lessons, one of them

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is you don't have to have a dream encouraging people

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to be micro ambitious, he says it speaks to his worldview.

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I can only speak to what worked for me. It

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does relate to my lack of ability to go. I'm

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going to try and make an Oscar winning thing. I

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know what wins. I'm going to reverse engineer some art

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based on my knowledge of what usually ends up getting

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an Oscar gross. How do you make good art backwards?

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It has to come from story and instinct, and I

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feel the same. You can't make a good life backwards.

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You can't make a good career backwards. If you're a

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tennis player, when you go I want to be a

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number one tennis player, there's actually a really simple thing

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to do, which is get up at five o'clock every

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morning and play tennis. But most of life doesn't work

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like that. If you want to be a star and

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say one day I'm going to be a Hollywood star.

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You're just not going to be a Hollywood star. It's

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a crappy way to think about it, because you're going

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to feel like you let yourself down. You should just think,

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I really want to be good at my school play,

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playing the Third Conquis Door or whatever, like I'm going

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to nail Third Conquis the Door. I think there's a

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lot of mythology around the idea that what you should

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do is set your sights on the top of the

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mountain and not rest until you get there. But maybe

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there's mountain passes that you would have missed. You don't

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have to have a dream. Advice for the incrementally ambitious.

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A book by Tim mentioned Peards said about the way

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he speaks, statistically, this is the sexiest accent in the world.

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At any given moment, more women are having sex with

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this accent than any other accent in the world. In

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your face, France, statistics don't lie. Our accent wins. Before

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the debate. The other night, I put on a here'

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Shas special on Netflix. It just didn't grab me at all.

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I usually like that type of show. I like British

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comedy a lot, but just not one thing was registering.

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My brain didn't last long. Remember, they're making that follow

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up to the Office that really has nothing to do

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with the Office. They've added three cast members. They are

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Melvin Gregg, at Chelsea Frye and Ramona Young. They joined

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Dom Hall Gleeson and Sabrina im Packageatry in the ensemble.

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The World is set in the quote same world as

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The Office and will also be a mockumentary. The show's

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description reads, the documentary crew that immortalized under Mifflin's granted

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Branch is in search of a new subject when they

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discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying

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to revive it with volunteer reporters. Creator Greg Daniel says

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the show's not a reboot, and Steady compared it to

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the way The Mandalorian fits into the Star Wars universe.

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There are no confirmed dates for production or release. Will

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be on NBC, will it be on Peacock or we're

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getting eight episodes, twenty four episodes? Nobody knows nothing. That's

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your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.