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Caalaroga Shark Media are there. I'm Johnny Mack with your
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daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy,
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comedians and the comedy industry. Frank Calando, there's a name
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you don't hear as much as you did, say twenty
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years ago. He was red hot for a while there
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when I was back at Sirious. He's in Naples, Florida's
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to Night doing a couple shows if you want to
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go see him. Kalando said he heard that John Madden
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never liked Frank Callando's John Madden impression. John Madden might
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be the only person who didn't like it. Calando said,
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I finally met him at a Super Bowl in Dallas.
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They were at a four Seasons hotel, and Kalando said
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it made Madden's grandchildren laugh, but Madden got it somewhat.
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Kaliando says it helps to have a deep voice to
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do impressions, adding that some voices take years to perfect.
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Some voices are similar, like Leonardo DiCaprio and John Malkovich,
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or Kermit the Frog and Fozzy Bear. Calando explains, it's
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just kind of manipulation of those muscles or whatever it is.
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In your throat and having the muscle memory to go
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back to it. He also studies the eyes of celebrities
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because the eyes tell you the way the person thinks.
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For example, Jeff Goldbloom has eyes to dart back and
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forth like a painting in a haunted house. Callando promises
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clean comedy and impressions of famous people from Madden to
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al Pacino to Morgan Freeman. Says, I'm PG at the
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dirt Calliando says, I'm PG at dirtiest. There's no f words.
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I'm real team. If you're in Naples, Florides at the
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Off the Hook Comedy Club tonight and tomorrow speaking with impressionists,
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I just moved the story up. I originally didn't have
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these two period, and I'm like, oh, these go together.
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Hanka'saria says he is contracted to voice characters on the
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Simpsons for three more years. He told USA Today about
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the Simpsons, I'm not announcing the end of it. We
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might go beyond that. That'll make season forty. Every year,
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I think a new crop of tweens discover the show,
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and that keeps us relevant. Back in February of twenty five,
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Frank Azaria till the New York Times. I imagine that
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soon enough artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the
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sounds of the more than one hundred voices I created
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for the characters on The Simpsons over almost four decades.
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It makes me sad to think about it. Oh hey,
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I no doubt could do that. The conversation turned to
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impressionist Matt Friend, who does Howard Stern, Stanley Tucci, and
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Michael Boublay. Matt Friend first did an impression for Hank
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Azaria when Matt was fifteen. Turns out Hank Azaria was
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college roommates with Matt Friend's father, Bill. That's wild. As
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for that first meeting, Azaria said, I had never heard
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anyone at any age be more brilliant vocally than this kid.
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And he asked me for advice, and I give him
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a lot of advice. He really did take it. And
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I think Matthew's so talented he would have made it
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no matter what. But I think I probably said to
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him a lot of time in telling him what to
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do and what not to do. You need to have
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plastic vocal cords, you know how some people like cilantro
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and for some people taste like soap It's kind of
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like that, you can either do it or you can.
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With Matthew, some he got right away and some he's
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developed over the years. Same for me. The Simpsons is
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coming up on its eight hundredth episode next weekend. They've
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announced the guest stars for that episode. They include Quinta Brunson,
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Kevin Bacon, and Questla, also stars of The pitt Noah Wiley,
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Catherine Lanassa, and Taylor Dearden will play medical personnel in
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the episode music by Boys Two Men, Sure Why Not?
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In Irrational Treasure, the Simpsons travel to Pennsylvania, hence all
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the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh icons lending their voices to the episode.
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Boys to Men will sing a new version of the
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Simpsons opening theme. They'll also provide a new version of
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the end to title music. Here's the plot. Marge's crusade
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to get the family dog in better shape leads to
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her entering Santa's Little Helper in canine agility competitions and
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a trip to the National Dog Show in Philadelphia. There,
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Homer suddenly find themselves and the dog mixed up in
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a historical conspiracy adventure worthy of a National Treasure movie.
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Episode eight hundred Sunday, February fifteenth. Now that's also the
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day of the Daytona five hundred, which is also on Fox,
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and the daytone of five hundred has a tendency to
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get it either rain delayed or otherwise delayed. So set
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your DVRs carefully. I gotta scroll back up here. I
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did the stories out of order that I originally planned. Hey,
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you know that guy, Jay Leno, Yeah, he's the worst.
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I know, dostn't know what he's doing. Now he's taking
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part in an all star comedy lineup for the In
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the Spirit of the Game charity Awards dinner and auction
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that takes place tomorrow at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood.
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It will benefit youth baseball players. The event is co
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hosted by Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis and MLB Hall of
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Famer Trevor Hoffman. Now you're like, Jay Leno, that guy's
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the worst. Well, you know who else is doing this event?
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Quote unquote breakout superstar Nicki Glazer. Oh yeah, now it's
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cool right now Nicki Glazer is doing it. Now you're like, oh,
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that sounds like a really important thing. It was dumb
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five minutes ago. In the Spirit of the Game, Awards, dinner,
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and auction benefits the Perfect Game Believe In Baseball Foundation,
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which provides financial assistance to deserving young players, helping them
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with costs associated with travel baseball, which could include coaching, training,
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or educational opportunities. There's cocktails on a silent auction at
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five thirty, dinner awards, and comedy performances at seven. It's
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at the Laugh Factory tomorrow. So just another example of
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Jay Leno being the worst person who ever lived. Hey,
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Ted Lasso coming back for season four. The Gang's all back.
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They convinced Jason Sadagas to do it. Hannah Waddingham is back,
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Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift. They're all back.
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In season four, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his
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biggest challenge yet, coaching a second division women's football team.
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The log line is throughout the course of the season,
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Ted and the team learned to leap before they look,
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taking chances they never thought they would. Roywood Junior will
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host these seventy eighth Annual Writers Guild Awards at Manhattan's
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Edison Ballroom on March eighth. Royce Done all right, for himself,
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betting on himself leaving the Daily Show, Royce said, it's
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an honor to again be trusted with leading a night
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of celebration, as we honor one of the most important
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components in creating the content that gives us either an
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opportunity to escape or to learn more about the world
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we all share. Seth Meyers asked Stephen Colbert about running
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for public office. In the past, I would have supported
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a Stephen Colbert candidacy, but now that he's gone out
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of his way to ruin Star Trek as the voice
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of the announcements at Starfleet Academy, I do not support
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anyone who destroys Star Trek, Colbert said. I mean, that's
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something I have discussed with my faith leader and my family.
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Colbert is Catholic, right, I find it atypical I'm Catholic
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that he keeps saying faith leader. I went to Catholic
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grammar school. I went to a Jesuit high school. I
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never really heard the term faith leader. I just find
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that interesting either here nor there. I'll ask Deacon Mike
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about it. Let me text him. Hold on, all right,
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I have texted Deacon Mike. We'll see if he gets
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back to me before we're done recording. Today, Catherine Ryan
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did a one off show in Los Angeles. While she
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was out there, I hooked up with the La Times.
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They asked her about this whole Beckham thing. You saw
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this The Beckham family is all fighting. We talked about
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this the other day. Catherine Ryan said, it's a wonderful
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reprieve from fascism. Ice in Greenland. Finally just some light
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family draw that everyone can kick back and enjoy. I
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feel like Victoria Beckham is such a treasure in the UK,
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and I'm quite good friends with several Spice girls. I
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went to Mailb's wedding earlier last year. I'm not close
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with Victoria Spice, but obviously I'm a woman of that
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generation where I learned to shake my booty to the
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Spice Girls in nineteen ninety six, so I have undying
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loyalties to her. There's this very interesting NEPO conversation to
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be had, and her son, Brooklyn, was one of the
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original ones. He was born at a time when in
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the UK we were obsessed with celebrity. I was a
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posed to now when we really hadn't figured out yet
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how damaging it might be. To take an infant and
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follow his entire life and commodify it as though he
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was our own. But I'm definitely enjoying all the memes
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and jokes. A lot of fans, myself included, have been
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downloading Victoria's single on iTunes. We decided it was a
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national travesty that she never had a number one hit
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because all the other Spice girls have independently had number
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one singles, and just yesterday victoria single Innocent Girl got
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to number one on iTunes. The Eliot Simes said. So
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as the controversy made Posh Spice feel more relatable, Catherine
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Ryan said, I think it actually has been an incredible
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vehicle for her. This is the most relatable she's ever been.
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Vicky b drunk on the veno, being inappropriate at the wedding.
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We love it. I think that the Beckhams have been
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almost like royalty and quite untouchable. This has made her
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really relatable. Having her son lash out at her like
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this so publicly. I know in LA you really validate
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everyone's mental health. I hope this is the end of
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mental health. I don't want to talk about it anymore.
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And this very privileged little boy claims to have mental
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health problems and anxiety over his mom dancing with him
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at a wedding. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Bert Reynolds.
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Every Friday we take a look at the comedy stock
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market where I make some recommendations about which comedian stock
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we should buy, which comedian stock we should sell. No
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sells this week, but I've got to buy recommendations for you.
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The first one, Buy some Ron Funches. I think that
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Trader's appearance did really well for him, and he picked
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up a lot of new fans. He's fantastic and I
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see nothing but praise for him on social media. So
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buy some Ron Funches stock. And let's buy some Trevor
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Noah stock. Ahead of the Grammys. You know, there's been
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some things in the news this week, and Trevor, I
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think is the right guy to say it. He commented
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last year about deportations, and I don't think Trevor will
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pull his punch now. It's a tough spot because it's
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the Grammys and it's not why anyone's there. But I
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think Trevor is savvy enough to nail the middle there.
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So let's buy some Trevor Noah and let's buy some
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Ron funches and we might have to sell stock in
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Deacon Mike, who has yet to text me back yet.
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I mean, if we were watching football, he would have
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gotten back to me seven times already. TV Insider asked
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Bert Kraser, what does the Kraser family think of how
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their characters are portrayed on Free Bert where it said, listen,
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it's weird when someone uses your name and uses your
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likeness and misrepresents you to the point where it never
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really happened. Then you're like, wait, I'm sure that has
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to be a sensitive area. At the same time, these
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are fictitious takes on nonfiction parts of my life. I'm
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hoping everyone's going to be on the same page and
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see the art for what it is. At the same time,
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it's their names, likeness. If they're not happy, I'll deal
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with it. Then he discussed the opening scene minor spoiler
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where Rob Low appears. It's a little set up for
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the show. Rob Low asks him to just take a
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shirt off again. Bert addressed it's saying, I think we
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wanted to show that some people only see me as
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the guy who takes off his shirt. We tried desperately
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to make sure there was a fair representation of how
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people see me outside looking in, and that's why I
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feel the way I do on the series. That was
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drawn specifically from a period in time in my life
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where I did a corporate gig for Hedge Fund. They said, yo,
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put the shirt back on, take it off, and tell
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the machine, and I was like, Wow, this is what
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I am to people. Then I think the question Rob
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posts is the internal question for me, which is would
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they show up if you didn't take your shirt off.
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Once you get to that question, then what's my worth?
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Was it easy to get Rob Low to do it? Oh?
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It was awesome. Rob is so easy. I sent him
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a text and he asked if we could shoot in
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Santa Barbara and I was like, yep, he was in
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and he gave us so much extra time. He didn't
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need to give us. He was just the man. TV
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Insider asked Bird Krascher, how was it doing scripted as
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opposed to what you do on stage? But it said
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it'd helped that I kind of wrote the script, so
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I'd put it the way I'd say it anyway. There
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were certain scenes where it was hard. I'm obviously not
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an actor, but at one of the podcast companies, I work.
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Sometimes they would ask me to do some lights voice
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acting would be very generous, but they had some script
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and he needed somebody to voice a cop and I
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like struggled trying to stick to the actual printed words
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because I was like, I don't speak this way, and
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I would always ask if I could do an alter
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to take and phrase things the way I phrase them.
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I don't know what they actually wound up using, so
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respect for Bert here who said there were certain scenes