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Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark media.

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Speaker 2: Today me a little different because of the stories. I

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didn't go out of my way to do a special episode,

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but there's interesting stuff out there. We'll get a little political, yeah, Shahi.

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I was

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on social media and somebody pointed out about this comedy

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concert coming on September tenth. Told you about this yesterday,

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New York City, still rising after twenty five years, A

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nine to eleven Charities comedy benefit at Madison Square Garden.

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Told you the details yesterday. John Stewart and Pete Davison

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putting this together, and somebody pointed out the lineup. Okay,

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you're ready as he's in. Sorry, who played the re

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Odd Comedy Festival, Bill Burr who played the Reodd Comedy Festival.

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Dave Chappelle who played the Reod Comedy Festival. Ronnie Chan

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who played the Reodd Comedy Festival. Isn't this lineup curious?

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Pete Davidson, whose father Scott Davidson was killed on nine

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to eleven. Pete Davidson played the Rio Odd Comedy Festival.

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Nikki Glazer, who did not play said festival. Josh Johnson

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who did not play said festival and of course John Stewart,

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and we're told plus special guests. But isn't that interesting?

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The first three, four five names on the thing are

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also played. New York City still Rising September tenth, Madison

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Square Garden. It's the twenty fifth anniversary of the terrorist

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attacks on New York City on September eleventh, two thousand

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and one. They say, never forget. I'm now finding people

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are in their mid twenties and have no memory of

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this and don't feel it the same way us older

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people do. I'm wondering if New York City Mayor Mumdani

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will be invited, and will he come, and if he

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does come, what the reaction will be. I don't want

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to get too political today, but that could be an

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interesting situation. Speaking of Mayor Mumdanni, and he's been in

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the news all week. One of his supporters is comedian

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Mary Beth Barone. She had a Netflix special earlier in

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the week and she went on the Not Kidding podcast

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with Mitti, his son. They made a little montage of

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some of the things they talked about. Here's Mary Beth

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barn How did you get involved supporting Mamdani. I felt

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like this was a good person to put in front

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of as many voters as possible.

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Speaker 1: You slid into Zoronsda.

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Speaker 2: I slid into Zoronstian. What do you think of all

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the socialist wins recently. I think they had clear platforms

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and they campaigned well, it's actually not that hard, I

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don't think. Mary Beth Baron was also asked what she

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thinks of the Democratic Party establishment and she said, I

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think they should retire so they can trade stocks to

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reckless abandon go out on your boats and live your

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lives and your mansions. Just get out of politics because

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it's ticking me off. Last week at the JFL Montreal

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Just Relapsed Comedy Festival, it was the annual State of

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the Industry this year, giving the State of the Industry,

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where Jay Jorden and Jermarco Sirraisi. John Marco was going

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to put that out on his YouTube channel. That was

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happening between me recording this and you hearing this. I

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assume it's actually up now if you want to go

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look for it. The folks at Deadline it took some

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notes while they were there in the room with them.

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I'll pick away at this Jay Jorden said, we're two

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of the few comedians who were skinny before Zimpeic. Sarasi said,

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we're like if John Mullaney and Gerrod Carmichael. We're willing

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to do this. Jorden said, we decided to take a

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note from the successive heated rivalry and have one actual

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queer guy and a straight guy who will play gay

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as long as it advances his career. Saisi. Neither of

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our teams wanted us to do this gig. I just

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wish they showed the same restraint around Riod Trenmarco again.

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We're both former Just for Laughs New Faces, which used

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to launch comedy celebrities and now just gets you employed

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by Just for Laughs. Trenmarco again. As we all know,

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JFL went bankrupt and came back as a weaker version

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of what it once was. It should be readamed the

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Dane Cook Comedy Festival. Wow. Trenmarco again, and you could tell.

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love him and these are really funny with me reading them.

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Trenmarco again. Some people judge Tony Hinchcliff for opening a

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Trump rally. I judge him for bombing a Trump rally.

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That's like me bombing at a Tony Awards watch party. Jordan, Oh,

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let me set the record straight. A lot of people

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say that Tony's gay. I know Tony isn't gay because

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he's not funny or interesting. They talked about Tony Hinchcliff's

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new special. John Marco said, did he film the new

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one in Montreal? Because it had just four laughs? That's great.

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They talked about Shane Gillis. John Marco seventy six thousand

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people at one show is insane. Say what you will

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about his politics. Shane's done more than any Democrats to

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get Ice off the streets. We could end the whole

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immigration problem if he co headlined with Gabrielly Glacias. That's hilarious.

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Nate Berghatzy the subject, John Marco crushing here. We gotta

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watch this. I'll pull some clips. When he posted, John

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Marco said, Nateperghatzy where summer now? Calling him Jeff Fox Newsworthy,

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that's awesome, portrayed many fans when he appeared at the

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UFC match on the White House Lawn. But that wasn't

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nearly as bad as when he told his fans to

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see his new movie Breadwinner in theaters. Breadwinner was so

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bad people were praising Colin Joe's performance. John Marco again.

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Theo Vaughn is the only comedian whose haircut is worse

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than Nottscoes. Some other comedians got name checked John Marco again.

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Since this State of the Industry addresses started, Elisa Dick

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has released four new stand up specials. Jay said, and

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at the same time, Joss Johnson has released four specials.

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Explaining those specials to white people and final topic, Carlosmancia

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Jay Jordens said, Carlos Smith see it was charged with

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tax evasion. The irs are the only people who didn't

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forget about him. Great stuff there, guys, all right? The

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AV Club caught this one. It is the Comedy Fee Tracker,

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a new project from comedy journalist and critic Seth Simons

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using public information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

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The Comedy Fee Tracker is a searchable database of talent contracts.

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This is fun. Simon saw the AV Club via email

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that the project began with an investigation into SNL's return

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to live audiences during COVID. Five years later, he's amassed

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a nice quote little library of information by requesting receipts

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from public venues. Do you want to know how much

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everyone makes? You? Do? And I do too? All right?

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Louis c. K apparently makes anywhere between one hundred and

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seventeen thousand and two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars

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an hour. According to this report, Adam Devine fifty one

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five hundred for an hour of comedy at the University

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of Florida. His opener Adam Ray spelled r y here,

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in five hundred dollars for an hour. I guess that's

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a different to Adam Ray. Simons writes, maybe this is naive,

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but it shocked me to see that Colin Jost was

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getting paid seventy thousand dollars to do an hour of

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stand up at the University of Illinois, and that his

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openers were getting five thousand dollars apiece. This is going

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to cause a lot of trouble. This is going to

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upset people. Chris de Leiah made one hundred and thirty thousand,

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nine hundred and nine dollars reportedly for a two twenty

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three show at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. Now,

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if you want to check this out yourself, it is

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at Humorism dot xyz Humorism dot xyz. Seth Simons here,

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Let's just do it, he writes. Dave Chappelle two documented

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records and quotes the numbers two hundred and thirty six thousand,

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thirty eight. Kevin Hart two documented records, twenty thousand and

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two thirty four eight oh six. Jim Gaffigan, who won't

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call you back if helped him early in his career,

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com coumented records. Pete Davidson twenty seven thousand, five hundred two,

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and eighteen thousand, one hundred six dollars. Stephen Colbert one

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documented record in twenty twenty one three hundred grand THEO

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seventy seven nine eighty five. In October twenty nineteen, John

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mulaney performed at the University of Rhode Island's annual Family Weekend,

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earning a fee of one hundred forty thousand dollars. A

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few days later, writes Seth Simons, mulaney headlined the homecoming

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show at the University of Maryland, which paid him one

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hundred and seventy five one thousand dollars again humors in

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dot XYZ. So if you're wondering how much your favorite

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comedians make, now you.

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Speaker 1: Know comedy stock Market, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You, Bert Reynolds. Maybe I should do some more homework

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on that comedy. How much everybody made trackery thing I

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just told you about, and see who we should actually

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be investig in. Apparently there's good money in Colin Joe's

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all right, my recommendations this week. Last week I gave

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you eight, I only have three this week. They are

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Mary Beth Barone. Now I'm not digging what she's selling,

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but it seems like they're trying to make her a

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thing and the idea here is to find value in

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the comedian. So let's buy a little bit on Mary

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Beth Barone, but just a bit again, I'm not feeling it.

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Let's buy some Stavrels. Halky Is why John, because of

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the story I bumped from the script. It didn't actually

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we're getting a little log, so you'll have to listen

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over the weekend to see why we're buying some Stavrels. Halkias.

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and let's buy some Jimmy Fallon. Here's why we'll segue here.

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are we. First USA Today tells us Jimmy Fallon can't

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spilled salad dressing on his khaki pants more than a

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at thirty Rock. There are counterbalance to the cookies and

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Tonight Show writers meet regularly. This is quite the fluff piece. Congratulations,

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pr Team Jimmy and his team have been busy. The

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of the Odyssey coming. By all this, Johnny Mack will

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point out why Jimmy Kimmel took the summer off. Jimmy,

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for Fallon to come in. And Jimmy Fallon is a survivor.

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from you. Back to the USA Today article, they're right.

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one adults eighteen forty nine. Now I hadn't seen that

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two minute episodes shot vertically four smartphones. Jimmy said, it

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responsibility to carry Late Night into the next generation. Jimmy says,

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the idea of it is that just someone that you

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can talk to, that's there for you, that you can

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laugh and you know what's going on in pop culture

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in the world. I think that's just needed. They look

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back at Fallon taking over the Tonight Show from Jay

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Leno back in twenty fourteen. I know in your mind

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you think he took over for Conin, but no, remember

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jay Leno came back. Yeah, Fallen said, I remember coming

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out the first night. I wanted to explain everybody who

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hadn't seen the Tonight show what it is. These are

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the Roots, They're the greatest band on earth. This is

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Steve Higgins, he's our announcer. We'll ban her back and forth.

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I read some jokes based on what's going on in

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the news, and then I go sit over there and

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interview celebrities, and then we'll have a musical guest a breakdown.

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Though right out of the gate, Jimmy relied less on

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interviews than his predecessors, with thirty seven percent of his

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show devoted to talk, compared with fifty one percent for

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Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Seth Meyers, and David Letterman and

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forty eight percent for Jimmy Kimmel. As for monologues, Jimmy

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spent twenty three percent of his time on comedy sketches

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and fourteen percent on music. It was a recipe for

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the digital age, says USA Today. In this fluff piece,

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they talked about COVID. Jimmy tells the story when COVID happened,

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I went home and my wife was like, so, what's

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the plan. I go, I think we're off for two weeks.

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She's like, huh, you're not gonna be off. You have

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to get out there. You have to do the show

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from your phone because everyone's going through this right now.

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They need you. This is the way you do what

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you do. People ask Jimmy Fallon for advice. He said,

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I'm like, do it because you like it, don't do

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it for the money. I'm very lucky there's money in

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it for me now, but there's no money in this.

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If you do it because you like it, you can

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do it forever. As a guy recording a podcast in

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the basement, I think those are wise words from Jimmy Fallon.

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And that is your comedy News four today again a

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normal episode tomorrow and Sunday and Monday, and the day

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after that, the day after that. See you then,