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<v Speaker 1>Callaroga Shark Media hardly. Oh, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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<v Speaker 1>daily comedy news. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website, a

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<v Speaker 1>fantastic website. Asked to Nick swartzon a Nick Wartson how

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<v Speaker 1>long you spend between your hours? Nick said, the new

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<v Speaker 1>one I wrote pretty quick. He was pretty surprising. I

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't believe it. It came out really fast. I'm already chipping

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<v Speaker 1>away at a new one. I think I have maybe

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<v Speaker 1>ten minutes. I try to write as much as I can.

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<v Speaker 1>I always trying to tell young comedians that they go,

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<v Speaker 1>what device do you have? Write NonStop? Even if the

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<v Speaker 1>joke doesn't make sense now, ten years from now, you

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<v Speaker 1>put it in your notebook or on your phone and

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<v Speaker 1>you'll figure out how to crack a joke. That's happened

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<v Speaker 1>to me several times. The Gorilla said it's amazing how

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<v Speaker 1>people work at different rates, like Jim Gaffigan and has

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<v Speaker 1>a new hour every year. Swartan said, I know, it's

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<v Speaker 1>super annoying. I love Gaffigan, He's an old friend of mine.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just saying it puts so much pressure, like f

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<v Speaker 1>I've got to turn out another one. Gaffick, it's a machine.

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<v Speaker 1>Guys like him, Brian Reagan, Luis c kse at Bash

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<v Speaker 1>and they keep dropping it. Look at somebody like Chris Rock.

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<v Speaker 1>Chris Rock's been doing it forty years and what does

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<v Speaker 1>he have? Four specials? Maybe five and forty years. Gaffigan's

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<v Speaker 1>been doing it as long as I have. He is

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<v Speaker 1>what ten? It's amazing. I plauw them. I'm a fan

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<v Speaker 1>of all of them. I asked David Spade, why don't

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<v Speaker 1>you have more specials? And he was like, because you

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<v Speaker 1>burn that material. I'd rather just tour it for as

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<v Speaker 1>long as I can because it's so hard to write

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<v Speaker 1>a new hour. Vogue interviewed Nikki Glazer. No, when you

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<v Speaker 1>interview Nikki Glazer, what do you ask her about Taylor Swift? Nikki,

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<v Speaker 1>other than meeting Taylor Swift backstage, have you spent much

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<v Speaker 1>time with her in person? Nicki said, we had an

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<v Speaker 1>interaction on Instagram that you're probably familiar with where I

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<v Speaker 1>apologize for talking out of line and then she wrote

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<v Speaker 1>a comment back. But nothing since that, Nicky, how many

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<v Speaker 1>concerts have you been to? The final number, unless she

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<v Speaker 1>adds more shows, will be twenty two. Right now, it's seventeen,

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<v Speaker 1>so I have five more to go, and I'm so excited.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like she's the Beatles in terms of a

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<v Speaker 1>once in lifetime performer artist and songwriter talent. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>have liked to see The Beatles live, so I just

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<v Speaker 1>need to capitalize in this while I can, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>the most fun thing I've ever done. Initially, when she

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<v Speaker 1>announced the tour, I wanted to go as many as possible,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's kind of embarrassed by how much I like her.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been mocked for it by my family and friends,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll add people recording a podcast in their basement.

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<v Speaker 1>My boyfriend was the one who actually said, I've never

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<v Speaker 1>seen you happier than when you're at these Taylor Swift

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<v Speaker 1>sing alongs. I' mean going to a few of the

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<v Speaker 1>Taylor Swift nights at different clubs and music venues when

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<v Speaker 1>they just play Taylor Swift and you dance and sing

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<v Speaker 1>with everyone. And I'd done some Taylor Swift day parties

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<v Speaker 1>on Zoom. He said, you should go to every show

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<v Speaker 1>you possibly can. I'm almost slipping in a triumph here

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<v Speaker 1>for some reason. I might look ridiculous and people can

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<v Speaker 1>make fun of me, but I honestly think anyone who's

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<v Speaker 1>making fun of Swifty's is jealous that they don't like

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<v Speaker 1>something that much. I really think that's at the heart

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<v Speaker 1>of it, like they're too cool to let themselves like

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<v Speaker 1>something that much and they're not even capable of it.

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<v Speaker 1>I do think it's a special kind of personality that

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<v Speaker 1>I have that leads me to be obsessed with things

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<v Speaker 1>this much. But I'm so happy that I have that personality.

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<v Speaker 1>It's brought me so much joy. I make the joke

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<v Speaker 1>that being a swift eye has brought me so much

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<v Speaker 1>joy as being an ant. It's probably brought me more joy.

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<v Speaker 1>To be honest with you, your niece is gonna love

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<v Speaker 1>this article. In about ten years, I'm not gonna have kids,

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<v Speaker 1>and this just felt like the right time and spent

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<v Speaker 1>thousands of dollars in something I love. When all my

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<v Speaker 1>friends were spending thousands of dollars on fertility treatments and kids,

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, let's do something fun with it. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>always impressed by how on point Taylor Swift is and

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<v Speaker 1>how she can just nail everything as well. Listen to this.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm always impressed by how on point she is and

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<v Speaker 1>how she could just nail everything I really find similarities

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<v Speaker 1>between how I do my act sometimes and how she

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<v Speaker 1>does her thing. I'll love a joke written. I like

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<v Speaker 1>to make it fun for myself and to change it

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<v Speaker 1>up for myself, but you still get the essence of

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<v Speaker 1>what it is. So yes, I see differences in Taylor's shows,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's been well documented, but her dancing has just

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<v Speaker 1>become more free. She's become more comfortable within the steps

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<v Speaker 1>that she's learned and memorized. I've seen the comfort level grow.

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<v Speaker 1>There seems to be more easy with her performing, and

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<v Speaker 1>I respect how much fun she's having every time. I've

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<v Speaker 1>really never been able to sense any kind of performativeness

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<v Speaker 1>that makes me think maybe she's hiding something. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think you've ever seen her pretend to root for a

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<v Speaker 1>touchdown talk about performative geez. People always ask how the

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<v Speaker 1>concerts are different, and I'm like, they're really not. She's

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<v Speaker 1>always ten out of ten perfect with the thing she

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<v Speaker 1>says in between songs. You can tell when she likes

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<v Speaker 1>a crowd more than another crowd. Boy, I'm gonna hear

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<v Speaker 1>from the Swifties now, you don't want to make fun

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<v Speaker 1>of Taylor Swift. I mean, one time Joe Koy was

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<v Speaker 1>hosting the Golden Globes and he made a Taylor Swift joke. Here,

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<v Speaker 1>let's listen. As you know, we came on after a

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<v Speaker 1>football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and

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<v Speaker 1>the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber

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<v Speaker 1>shots of Taylor Swift. That did not go over well.

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<v Speaker 1>That joke was so poorly received that Scott Becker right

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<v Speaker 1>now is banging his dashboard because I brought up the

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<v Speaker 1>Taylor Swift recurring joke. Hi. Scott phil Wang spoke to

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<v Speaker 1>the Indie one hundred and said I would not be

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<v Speaker 1>a comedian if I wasn't mixed heritage. Of his new special,

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<v Speaker 1>he says, it's the trifecta of my material Asian ness,

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<v Speaker 1>food and some kind of smut. When I got in

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<v Speaker 1>a comedy at seventeen eighteen, when I first did stand

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<v Speaker 1>up for me, was a way of dealing with my

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<v Speaker 1>alienis of owning it. If putting in front and center,

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<v Speaker 1>in front of everyone, in front of this new country

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<v Speaker 1>I was trying to assimilate into. Without that point of difference,

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<v Speaker 1>I felt like if I fitted in, I felt like

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<v Speaker 1>I was just like most other people. I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>I would have done that. So I think my heritage

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<v Speaker 1>is central to me being a comedian. I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>why I am a comedian. Hassan Minhaj had that big profile.

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<v Speaker 1>In Esquire, his new specials out on October twenty second,

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<v Speaker 1>he tells the story of when he started performing stand

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<v Speaker 1>up twenty years ago. He wouldn't get home until late

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<v Speaker 1>at night. His parents thought he was on drugs or

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<v Speaker 1>dealing drugs. Are both. His dad said, I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>you're pursuing a career in comedy. Hassan said, I wish

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<v Speaker 1>I was cool enough to be dealing drugs. I was

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<v Speaker 1>actually performing at a bar in front of eight people.

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<v Speaker 1>They discussed his YouTube rebuttal to all the back and

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<v Speaker 1>forth about his previous special. Hassan explains why he made

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<v Speaker 1>the choice in the first draft, which he wrote to

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<v Speaker 1>convey how scary the incident was. His comedian friends thought

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<v Speaker 1>that his wife came across as a knack when the

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<v Speaker 1>envelope with the white powder arrived at their home. Being up,

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<v Speaker 1>became upset about what it might have happened. Expressed her

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<v Speaker 1>fear that her husband's career put the family in danger.

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<v Speaker 1>By altering the anecdote to have the white powder land

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<v Speaker 1>on their daughter, he was able to convey faster and

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<v Speaker 1>more sharply how the consequences of his career choices at

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<v Speaker 1>something and they become very real. Plus Minaje, not his wife,

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<v Speaker 1>was now the butt of the joke. He says, it

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<v Speaker 1>was a shortcoming on my part. I could have made

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<v Speaker 1>the exposition better. I didn't need to pull in my daughter.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the one thing where I'm looking back at it

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<v Speaker 1>and like, hey could have changed that, but kept it

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<v Speaker 1>the way it was. Our daughter was right there and

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<v Speaker 1>we had this full on thing. Write the scene, keep

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<v Speaker 1>tweaking it. That's the toughest thing about being a performer

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<v Speaker 1>is that everyone has a character in your life. I

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<v Speaker 1>have to balance that. They have to win and I

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<v Speaker 1>have to lose. You never get it right, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>Taylor Tomlinson was recently in Portland at Helium. She posted

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<v Speaker 1>a video celebrating this girl on National Daughter's Day. In

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<v Speaker 1>the clip, she's talking with a member of the audience

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<v Speaker 1>who says, my dad's a bong. Tomlinson's like, your dad's

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<v Speaker 1>a what? Oh, your dad's ashes are a bong. The

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<v Speaker 1>audience member says no, they're made into a bong. Tomlinson says, God,

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<v Speaker 1>we're in Portland right now. If you'd put me in

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<v Speaker 1>this room right now and we're like, we won't tell you.

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<v Speaker 1>If you'd put a sack over my head, put me

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<v Speaker 1>in a big suitcase, driven me around for three days,

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<v Speaker 1>put me on the stage and been like, guess where

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<v Speaker 1>you are? And I heard they turned my dad's ashes

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<v Speaker 1>into a bong, I'd be like Portland, Oregon. Molly Kearney,

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<v Speaker 1>who's no longer on Saturday Night Live, which, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you know, this is turning fifty

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<v Speaker 1>this year, and we are going to talk about SNL

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<v Speaker 1>every day for the next nine months, including this sentence.

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<v Speaker 1>Molly is joining that sitcom DMV that's the one that

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<v Speaker 1>stars Tim Meadows. DMV's a workplace comedy set at the

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<v Speaker 1>place everyone dreads going. Most the DMV are quirky and

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<v Speaker 1>lovable characters and making minimum wage doing a thankless job

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<v Speaker 1>where customers are annoyed before they even walk in the door.

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<v Speaker 1>Good thing they have each other. Carney will play Barbara,

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<v Speaker 1>the boss, who considers herself one of the gang, even

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<v Speaker 1>though the gang does not. Barbara is a glass half

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<v Speaker 1>full oversharer who's incredibly inappropriate and terrible at reading a room,

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<v Speaker 1>so she's Michelle Scott from the Office. Barbara cares deeply

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<v Speaker 1>and tries very hard but misses the mark, so she's

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<v Speaker 1>Michelle Scott from the Office. Tim Meadows plays a driving examiner. JB.

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<v Speaker 1>Smooth is getting a game show. Apparently Prime Video was

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<v Speaker 1>all about the game shows. They've already announced pop Culture

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<v Speaker 1>Jeopardy with Colin Jost, who's on Saturday Night Life, which

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you know, is turning fifty and

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to talk about it every day for nine months,

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<v Speaker 1>and Wishless Games with Nick Cannon. The JB. Smooth one

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<v Speaker 1>is called Buy It Now. It's a business competition where

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<v Speaker 1>entrepreneurs get ninety seconds to pitch their product to an

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<v Speaker 1>audience of potential customers. They're called the one hundred. If

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<v Speaker 1>the one hundred like the product and price, then the

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<v Speaker 1>entrepreneurs get to a panel of Amazon executives and celebrity entrepreneurs.

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<v Speaker 1>The panel selects which products join Amazon's exclusive Buy It

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<v Speaker 1>Now store and award one entrepreneur twenty thousand dollars whoa

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Bezos Way to open up the wallet. There twenty

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<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars. Woo, big spender wy Gred al Roker was

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<v Speaker 1>on Instagram and he announced his comedy crush. It's Kate McKinnon,

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<v Speaker 1>who was on Saturday Night Live. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>you know this SNL's turning fifty. We're going to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about it every day for the next nine months. In

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<v Speaker 1>the picture, al Roker is smiling at Kate McKinnon, seemingly

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<v Speaker 1>listening to her as she spoke to him during a break.

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<v Speaker 1>He captured the post I had here Kate mckinn and

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<v Speaker 1>she is my hashtag comedy crash. One word. Her inventive

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<v Speaker 1>goofiness and goodness shines through and is genuinely nice. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>doing their own version of Cheers. You may recall Cheers

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<v Speaker 1>Ted Danson played Sam Malone. Now some of you were like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>was a sitcom in a bar Ran for eleven seasons

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<v Speaker 1>and two hundred and seventy five episodes on NBCC. Back

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<v Speaker 1>in the twentieth century they made more than six episodes

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<v Speaker 1>years Kelsey Grammer was on this show Cheers. He played

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<v Speaker 1>A quick overview of some shows that have crossed the pond,

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<v Speaker 1>as they call it. You may have heard of The Office. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>that was a British show. Originally Ghosts was a British

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<v Speaker 1>show heading the other way. They tried to make a

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<v Speaker 1>British version of The Golden Girls called The Brighton Bells

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<v Speaker 1>didn't work. The seventies show called Days Like These didn't work,

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<v Speaker 1>and Married with Children called Married for Life didn't work.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the suits over there said the British pub

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<v Speaker 1>The daughter of one of Australia's most famous comedians claims

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<v Speaker 1>her stand up gig was canceled because she makes jokes

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<v Speaker 1>about trans people. Biddy O'Laughlin, who was due to perform

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<v Speaker 1>at the Cranker Comedy Show on October fifteenth in Adelaide.

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<v Speaker 1>trans exclusionary, radical feminist, but I don't consider myself a feminist.

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<v Speaker 1>Biddy's Instagram involves clips of her making jokes about trans women,

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<v Speaker 1>along with photos of her and a red cap with

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<v Speaker 1>ladies and for your daughters, she continued. Even if you

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<v Speaker 1>Adelaide comedy scene. There's put that on a poster, which

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<v Speaker 1>is weird because I've never written a book. She also

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let's wash that off with this from The

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<v Speaker 1>Toronto Sun. Comedian Ben McKay, a rising star on the

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<v Speaker 1>comedy scene, blend's lighthearted fun and punchline heavy humor with

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<v Speaker 1>and The Toronto Sun's done this before. He is a

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<v Speaker 1>comedian who blends stories, spontaneous moments and punchlines hmm, innovative.

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<v Speaker 1>He's influenced by Sean Mlandy, Gary Goldman, Hannibal Burris. How

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<v Speaker 1>would you describe your comedy series, Ben McKay, Ben says,

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<v Speaker 1>Imagine growing up to Mullaney. I saw it like Mulany's

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<v Speaker 1>Now specials just for laugh galas and anything i'd get

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<v Speaker 1>Canadians Alex Wood, Andrew Barr, Nigel Grinstead, Adam Christy and

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<v Speaker 1>Jarrett Campbell. They're all fantastic and I feel fortunate to

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<v Speaker 1>of American comedians that I really like from the Don't

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<v Speaker 1>Tell Comedy tapings on YouTube. We're hearing only great things

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<v Speaker 1>about Don't Tell Comedy. I might have to get out

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<v Speaker 1>to one of those shows, but then I would have

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<v Speaker 1>to leave the house. That's your comedy news for today.

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<v Speaker 1>If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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